KOIN | Logopedia

This article is about the TV station in Portland, Oregon. For the AM radio station formerly known as KOIN, see KUFO. For the FM radio station formerly known as KOIN-FM, see KXL-FM.



1953–1961	1961–1967	1967–1973	1973–1976	1976–1985	1985–1994	1994–1995


1995–2008	2008–2011	2011–2014	2014–2017	2017–2019	2019–present

1953–1961[]

KOIN-TV began broadcasting on October 15, 1953, as Portland's first VHF television station and a CBS affiliate on channel 6. At the time, it was jointly owned by Mount Hood Radio and Television Broadcasting Corporation; Newhouse Broadcasting Corporation (now Advance Publications), owner and publisher of The (Portland) Oregonian; local investors and Marshall Field's department stores. The station took its calls from KOIN radio (AM 970 and 101.1 FM), which was a joint venture of Mount Hood Broadcasting and Newhouse.

1961–1967[]

1967–1973[]

1973–1976[]

1976–1994[]

1976–1985[]

Lee Enterprises purchased channel 6 in April 1977 from the Mount Hood-Newhouse group.

1985–1994[]

The "-TV" suffix was dropped on August 31, 1992, fifteen years after KOIN radio was sold off.

1994–1995[]

1995–2008[]

In October 2000, the Lee Enterprises television group, including KOIN was purchased by Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications. On January 27, 2006, Emmis sold KOIN (along with KHON-TV in Honolulu, KSNT in Topeka, Kansas and KSNW in Wichita, Kansas) to the Montecito Broadcast Group for $259 million, only to later announce its sale of all of its stations to New Vision Television on July 24, 2007, which was completed on November 1.

2008–2014[]

2008–2011[]

On May 7, 2012, LIN Media announced that it would acquire KOIN and the other New Vision stations for $330.4 million and the assumption of $12 million in debt.

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2011–2014[]

On March 21, 2014, Richmond, Virginia-based Media General announced that it would purchase LIN Media and its stations, including KOIN, in a $1.6 billion merger, which was completed on December 19.

2014–2019[]

2014–2017[]

On January 27, 2016, it was announced that the Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. KOIN became part of "Nexstar Media Group" and is the company's first station in Oregon.

2017–2019[]

The CBS eye was added for the first time in its logos aside from the slogan now enlargened and set in Montserrat.

2019–present[]

External links[]

Official website

V • T • E

Nexstar Media Group

Predecessors:

Other assets:
The Hill | Nexstar Advertising | WGN

¹Owns a 75% stake of the network, the other 12.5% stake is co-owned between Paramount Skydance Corporation and Warner Bros. Discovery.
²Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, in which Nexstar owns 31% while Warner Bros. Discovery owns the remaining 69%.
³Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting.
⁴Nexstar operates this station owned by Cunningham Broadcasting.
⁵Nexstar operates this station owned by White Knight Broadcasting through an SSA.
⁶Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media.
⁷Predecessor company of LIN Media.
⁸Nexstar operates this station owned by Londen Media Group.

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