KTVZ
Encyclopedia
KTVZ is the NBC
-affiliated television station
for Central Oregon
that is licensed to Bend
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 21 from a transmitter in the city on Awbrey Butte west of U.S. 97
. Owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company
, the station is sister to low-powered Fox affiliate KFXO-LP
and low-powered Telemundo
affiliate KQRE-LP
. All three share studios on Northwest O.B. Riley Road in Bend. Syndicated
programming on KTVZ includes: Wheel of Fortune
, Jeopardy!
, Oprah
, Live with Regis and Kelly
, and Dr. Phil
.
from a transmitter on Finley Butte and digital K22IL-D channel 22 in Prineville
from a transmitter on Grizzly Mountain. KTVZ-DT2 gets all of its programming from The CW Plus
. Although KFXO airs a digital signal of its own, it can be viewed on KTVZ's third digital subchannel.
-AM-TV (now KTVL
) in Medford
and C. Howard Lane from KOIN-TV in Portland
who formed Ponderosa Broadcasting, Inc. The station has always been an NBC affiliate but also began to carry CBS programming on a secondary basis. Efforts to carve out Deschutes County
from the Portland television market
began in 1980. By Fall 1981, Nielsen formed the newly created Bend DMA. In 1986, the station was sold to Stainless Broadcasting Company
which later became known as Northwest Broadcasting, Inc. based in Spokane, Washington
.
By 1997, KTVZ discontinued CBS programing since KOIN in Portland (now seen through semi-satellite KBNZ-LD
) already had full translator and cable coverage in the Bend area. Later in 2002, Northwest Broadcasting sold KTVZ to the News-Press & Gazette Company. By 2006, they added more network affiliations to the growing Central Oregon
area when The CW was added as a second digital channel. In late 2006, it was announced that Meredith would sell KFXO to the News-Press & Gazette Company which occurred on May 24, 2007. BendBroadband filed a petition with Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) to block the proposed sale but it still went through. KQRE-LP was originally a repeater of KTVZ. In January 2007, that station completed a transmitter move that brought it closer to Bend making the rebroadcast redundant. The station then began airing Telemundo's schedule.
widescreen
format. It broadcasts four and a half hours of local news every weekday. It produces a two-hour weekday morning show and nightly thirty minute newscast for KFXO. Like all CW Plus affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone
, KTVZ-DT2 airs the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz
on weekdays from 6 to 9 a.m. There is no weekend sports anchor.
NewsChannel 21 Local Alert Meteorologists
Reporters
Notable former staff
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...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for Central Oregon
Central Oregon
Central Oregon is a geographic region in the U.S. state of Oregon and is traditionally considered to be made up of Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook counties. Other definitions include larger areas, often encompassing areas to the north towards the Columbia River, eastward towards Burns, or south...
that is licensed to Bend
Bend, Oregon
Bend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, and the principal city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, and, despite its modest size, is the de facto metropolis of the region, owing to the low population...
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 21 from a transmitter in the city on Awbrey Butte west of U.S. 97
U.S. Route 97 in Oregon
In the U.S. state of Oregon, U.S. Route 97 is a major north–south United States highway which runs through the state of Oregon . In Oregon, it runs from the Oregon-California border, south of Klamath Falls, to the Oregon-Washington border on the Columbia River, between Biggs Junction, Oregon and...
. Owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company
News-Press & Gazette Company
The News Press & Gazette Company is a media company based in St. Joseph, Missouri, wholly owned and operated by the Bradley family. It is presided by Brian Bradley and David R. Bradley, with Hank Bradley , Eric Bradley and Kit Bradley serving on its Board of Directors. All are descendants of...
, the station is sister to low-powered Fox affiliate KFXO-LP
KFXO-LP
KFXO-LD is the Fox-affiliated television station for Central Oregon that is licensed to Bend. It broadcasts a Class A digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter in the city on Awbrey Butte west of U.S. 97. The station can also be seen on BendBroadband channel 10 and in high definition on...
and low-powered Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
affiliate KQRE-LP
KQRE-LP
KQRE-LP, channel 19, is a low-power station serving the Bend, Oregon television market, licensed to nearby Riley, Oregon. Owned by News-Press & Gazette Company, it serves as the market's Telemundo affiliate....
. All three share studios on Northwest O.B. Riley Road in Bend. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on KTVZ includes: Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, which premiered in 1975. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a large wheel. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that...
, Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
, Oprah
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, Live with Regis and Kelly
Live with Regis and Kelly
Live! with Kelly is a syndicated American television morning talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa. The show has aired since 1983 in New York City and 1988 nationwide. Tony Pigg has been the show's announcer since its inception...
, and Dr. Phil
Dr. Phil (TV series)
Dr. Phil is a reality/talk television show hosted by Phil McGraw. After McGraw's success with his segments on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil debuted on September 16, 2002...
.
Digital programming
It operates the area's CW affiliate on a second digital subchannel that is known on-air as Bend CW which can also be seen on BendBroadband digital channel 12. Over-the-air, this is available on analog K13JF channel 13 in La PineLa Pine, Oregon
La Pine is a city in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, incorporated on December 7, 2006.La Pine is part of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,799 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a census-designated place . La Pine is in an isolated area of Central...
from a transmitter on Finley Butte and digital K22IL-D channel 22 in Prineville
Prineville, Oregon
Prineville is a city in and the county seat of Crook County, Oregon, United States. It was named for the first merchant located in the present location, Barney Prine. The population was 9,253 at the 2010 census.- History :...
from a transmitter on Grizzly Mountain. KTVZ-DT2 gets all of its programming from The CW Plus
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
. Although KFXO airs a digital signal of its own, it can be viewed on KTVZ's third digital subchannel.
| Channel | Programming |
|---|---|
| 21.1 | main KTVZ programming / NBC HD |
| 21.2 | KTVZ-DT2 "Bend CW" |
| 21.3 | KFXO-LP "Fox Central Oregon" |
Rebroadcasters
KTVZ is rebroadcast on the following translator stations.| Call sign | Channel | City of license | Transmitter location |
|---|---|---|---|
| K04HK | 4 | Black Butte Ranch Black Butte Ranch, Oregon Black Butte Ranch is a resort community in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is located in the Cascade Range, eight miles northwest of Sisters. Black Butte Ranch is unicorporated and classed by the USGS as a populated place... |
northwest of city |
| K05JV | 5 | La Pine La Pine, Oregon La Pine is a city in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, incorporated on December 7, 2006.La Pine is part of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,799 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a census-designated place . La Pine is in an isolated area of Central... |
southeast of city |
| K06JN | 6 | Severance Ranch | southeast of Post Post, Oregon Post is an unincorporated community in Crook County, Oregon, United States. It has a post office assigned the ZIP code of 97752. Post lies along Oregon Route 380 southeast of Prineville at at an elevation of .... |
| K06LI | 6 | Chemult Chemult, Oregon Chemult is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States, on U.S. Route 97. Chemult has a population of about 300 people. Chemult's elevation is .... |
north of community |
| K38DT | 38 | North La Pine | west of Sunriver Sunriver, Oregon Sunriver, Oregon is a private planned resort community in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area... |
| K41HZ | 41 | Burns Burns, Oregon Burns is a city in and the county seat of Harney County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 2,806.-History:Burns was established in the early 1880s and incorporated upon Harney county's creation in 1889... |
northwest of Hines Hines, Oregon Hines is a city in Harney County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,563 at the 2010 census.-History:A community named Herrick was formed just southwest of Burns when railroad promoter and sawmill operator Fred Herrick founded a lumber company there... |
| K66AZ | 66 | Prineville | Grizzly Mountain |
| K66BC | 66 | Madras Madras, Oregon Madras is a city in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. Originally called The Basin after the circular valley the city is located in, it is unclear as to whether Madras was named in 1903 for the cotton fabric called "Madras" that originated in the Madras area in India, or from the city of... / Culver Culver, Oregon Culver is a city in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. The population was 802 at the 2000 census, with an estimated population of 1,315 in 2007.- History :... |
southeast of Metolius Metolius, Oregon Metolius is a city in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. The city is named for the Metolius River, a nearby tributary of the Deschutes River. The name for both comes from the Warm Springs word for "white fish", referring to a light colored salmon and not a whitefish... along U.S. 97 |
History
KTVZ went on-the-air November 6, 1977. It was started by former owners Ray Johnson of KMEDKMED
KMED is a radio station broadcasting a News/Talk format. Licensed to Medford, Oregon, USA, the station serves the Medford-Ashland area. The station is currently owned by Bicoastal Media Licenses Vi, LLC....
-AM-TV (now KTVL
KTVL
KTVL, channel 10 is a CBS television affiliate based in Medford, Oregon and broadcasts from a transmitter high atop Mount Ashland, 15 miles south of the city. The station covers eight counties in southern Oregon and northern California. The studios are located on Rossanley Drive in northwest...
) in Medford
Medford, Oregon
Medford is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 US Census, the city had a total population of 74,907 and a metropolitan area population of 207,010, making the Medford MSA the 4th largest metro area in Oregon...
and C. Howard Lane from KOIN-TV in Portland
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
who formed Ponderosa Broadcasting, Inc. The station has always been an NBC affiliate but also began to carry CBS programming on a secondary basis. Efforts to carve out Deschutes County
Deschutes County, Oregon
-National protected areas:* Deschutes National Forest * Newberry National Volcanic Monument-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 115,367 people, 45,595 households, and 31,962 families residing in the county. The population density was 38 people per square mile . There were 54,583...
from the Portland television market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
began in 1980. By Fall 1981, Nielsen formed the newly created Bend DMA. In 1986, the station was sold to Stainless Broadcasting Company
Stainless Broadcasting Company
Stainless Broadcasting Company is a television broadcasting company based in Okemos, Michigan, a suburb of Lansing. The company also goes by the name Northwest Broadcasting, Inc....
which later became known as Northwest Broadcasting, Inc. based in Spokane, Washington
Spokane, Washington
Spokane is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city of Spokane County of which it is also the county seat, and the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region...
.
By 1997, KTVZ discontinued CBS programing since KOIN in Portland (now seen through semi-satellite KBNZ-LD
KBNZ-LD
KBNZ-LD is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central Oregon that is licensed to Bend. It broadcasts a low-powered digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter in the city on Awbrey Butte west of U.S. 97. The station can also be seen on Bend Broadband channel 6 and in high definition...
) already had full translator and cable coverage in the Bend area. Later in 2002, Northwest Broadcasting sold KTVZ to the News-Press & Gazette Company. By 2006, they added more network affiliations to the growing Central Oregon
Central Oregon
Central Oregon is a geographic region in the U.S. state of Oregon and is traditionally considered to be made up of Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook counties. Other definitions include larger areas, often encompassing areas to the north towards the Columbia River, eastward towards Burns, or south...
area when The CW was added as a second digital channel. In late 2006, it was announced that Meredith would sell KFXO to the News-Press & Gazette Company which occurred on May 24, 2007. BendBroadband filed a petition with Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) to block the proposed sale but it still went through. KQRE-LP was originally a repeater of KTVZ. In January 2007, that station completed a transmitter move that brought it closer to Bend making the rebroadcast redundant. The station then began airing Telemundo's schedule.
Newscasts
On June 22, 2007, KFXO's own prime time news at 10 pm was replaced by one produced by KTVZ. In September of that year, this station began to air its newscasts in 16:916:9
16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...
widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
format. It broadcasts four and a half hours of local news every weekday. It produces a two-hour weekday morning show and nightly thirty minute newscast for KFXO. Like all CW Plus affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone
Pacific Time Zone
The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. During daylight saving time, its time offset is UTC-7.In the United States...
, KTVZ-DT2 airs the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz
The Daily Buzz
The Daily Buzz is a nationally syndicated breakfast television news and infotainment program. The show is produced by Fisher Communications and is owned and distributed by ACME Communications; it is broadcast every weekday morning from studios at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida...
on weekdays from 6 to 9 a.m. There is no weekend sports anchor.
Newscast titles
- TV-21 News (1977–1984)
- NewsCentral 21 (1984-1990s)
- Z-21 News (1990s-2005)
- NewsChannel 21 (2005–present)
Station slogans
- "Your Hometown News" (1999–2005)
- "Central Oregon's News Leader" (2005–present)
News team
Anchors- Matt McDonald - weekday mornings and reporter
- Kelsey Watts - weekday mornings and reporter
- Nina Melhaf - weeknights
- Adam Aaro - weeknights and reporter
- Jim Murray - Sports Director seen weeknights at 6, 6:30, 10, and 11
NewsChannel 21 Local Alert Meteorologists
- Ben Burkel - weeknights
- Bob Shaw - weekday mornings and Community Affairs Director
- Shanna Mendiola - weekends and news reporter
Reporters
- Barney Lerten - Digital Content Director and Assignment Manager
- "Leave it to Barney" segment producer
- Alicia Inns
- Kim Tobin
- Joe Burns
- Mackenzie Wilson
Notable former staff
- Lisa Verch FletcherLisa FletcherLisa Fletcher is an award winning American television journalist. She is an investigative reporter and news anchor who has covered stories around the world - both for ABC News as a correspondent and various major-market television stations, including most currently WJLA in Washington, DC.While...