KING-TV, virtual channel

Virtual channel

In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....

 5, is a television station

Television station

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 in Seattle, Washington, affiliated with the NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 network. Owned by Belo Corporation, it broadcasts on UHF

Ultra high frequency

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 digital channel 48. Its offices and broadcasting center are located just east of Seattle Center

Seattle Center

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. The station's transmitter is located in the Queen Anne

Queen Anne, Seattle, Washington

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 neighborhood of Seattle.

The station is operated in a duopoly with independent station KONG-TV

KONG-TV

KONG, virtual channel 16, is a television station based in Seattle, Washington. Owned by the Belo Corporation, KONG's city of license is Everett, Washington...

, which features syndicated programs and news programming some produced by KING-TV; KONG is available on UHF channel 16, but on most Seattle cable systems is given the Channel 6 channel slot to compliment KING-TV.