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#SEAHAWKS TV STATION TACOMA TV#

McCaw tried to make several moves in the late 1950s. The station picked up Seattle Americans minor-league hockey: the president of the team for two seasons was also KTVW's general manager, and when he resigned for a television job in Los Angeles, McCaw became the team's sole owner. With KMO-TV separated from KMO radio, the television station changed its call sign to KTVW in October 1954 it also announced plans to open auxiliary offices in Seattle. Elroy McCaw, a colorful and eccentric radio and television station owner and father of cellular phone magnate Craig McCaw. Two months later, Haymond sold KMO-TV for $300,000 to J. He first attempted to sell KMO radio and television together to the owners of Seattle radio station KAYO (1150 AM), but the FCC designated the deal for hearing over then-impermissible overlap of the Seattle and Tacoma stations, prompting the deal to be scrapped.

#SEAHAWKS TV STATION TACOMA TV#

Within a year of starting the TV station, after 27 years of broadcasting dating to the launch of KMO radio, owner Carl E. However, beyond the temporary NBC hookup, KMO-TV's output would primarily consist of local and syndicated programs. KMO-TV briefly carried NBC programs until Seattle's KOMO-TV began broadcasting on December 11. The station began broadcasting as KMO-TV on August 2, 1953. In December 1952, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) simultaneously granted applications for VHF channels 11 and 13 in Tacoma Channel 13 was awarded to radio station KMO (1360 AM).

1.7 Aborted sale to Sinclair Broadcast Group.

1.2 Blaidon ownership and financial woes.

Fox acquired the station in 2019 after more than two decades of overtures and other attempts to own a station in the Seattle market. It was sold back to commercial interests in 1980 and rebuilt itself as a competitive independent and Fox affiliate. Both stations share studios on Westlake Avenue in Seattle's Westlake neighborhood, while KCPQ's main transmitter is located on Gold Mountain in Bremerton.Ī hard-luck independent station for its first two decades of broadcasting as KMO-TV and KTVW, the station was bought out of bankruptcy by the Clover Park School District in 1975, became KCPQ, and operated noncommercially for four years. Owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation, it is part of a duopoly with Seattle-licensed MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station KZJO (channel 22). KCPQ, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, is a Fox owned-and-operated television station serving Seattle, Washington, United States, that is licensed to Tacoma.