KING-TV
KING-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Seattle, Washington, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Everett-licensed independent station KONG (channel 16). The two stations share studios at the Home Plate Center in the SoDo district of Seattle; KING-TV's transmitter is located in the city's Queen Anne neighborhood.
- Seattle–Tacoma–Everett, Washington
- United States
- Seattle–Tacoma–Everett, Washington
- United States
Seattle, Washington
KING 5
- 5.1: NBC
- for others, see § Subchannels
November 25, 1948
KRSC-TV (1948–1949)
- Analog: 5 (VHF, 1948–2009)
- Digital: 48 (UHF, 1999–2019)
King Broadcasting Company
34847
715 kW
232.1 m (761 ft)
Debuting as the first television station in the Pacific Northwest, channel 5 was purchased by and became the flagship station of Dorothy Bullitt's King Broadcasting Company eight months into broadcasting; the company still exists as a license holder for its properties under Tegna ownership. The station became an NBC affiliate in 1959 and has generally led the Seattle television market since.
Technical information[edit]
Subchannels[edit]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Canadian and out-of-market coverage[edit]
KING-TV is one of five Seattle television stations that are available in Canada on satellite providers Bell Satellite TV and Shaw Direct, and is available to most cable subscribers in the Vancouver–Victoria, British Columbia, area as the NBC affiliate. The station is also carried on several cable providers in southeastern Alaska and northwestern Oregon, as well as in the Yakima DMA cities of Cle Elum[53] and Ellensburg,[54] with NBC programming and some syndicated shows blacked out due to FCC regulations. KING-TV is also carried in The Bahamas on REV TV.[55]