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KOIN
KOIN (channel 6) is a television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Salem, Oregon, Salem–licensed The CW, CW owned-and-operated station KRCW-TV (channel 32). The two stations share studios in the basement of the KOIN Center skyscraper on Southwest Columbia Street in downtown Portland; KOIN's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands Neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon, neighborhood of the city. History Radio origins KOIN began as a radio station at 970 AM that went on the air November 9, 1925, as KQP; the station changed its call sign to KOIN on April 12, 1926.KOIN History from the station's website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOIN Center
KOIN Tower (formerly KOIN Center) is a , 35-storey, story, skyscraper in Portland, Oregon, United States. The building, the third-tallest in the city, was designed by the firm of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership and opened in 1984 at a cost of . History The building was originally named Fountain Plaza, but it quickly came to be known as the KOIN Center reflecting the name of its highest-profile occupant, KOIN, KOIN television, the CBS affiliate in Portland. The building was controversial while being constructed because its location blocked the view of Mount Hood that had long been seen by drivers emerging from the Vista Ridge Tunnels under Portland's West Hills going eastbound on U.S. Route 26 (Oregon), U.S. Route 26. KOIN Center was the first building completed in a projected three-block development sponsored by the Portland Development Commission (PDC) that also included the city blocks immediately to the north and east. The latter was the long-time location of the KOIN broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRCW-TV
KRCW-TV (channel 32) is a television station licensed to Salem, Oregon, United States, serving as the Portland-area outlet for The CW. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside CBS affiliate KOIN (channel 6). The two stations share studios in the basement of the KOIN Tower skyscraper on Southwest Columbia Street in downtown Portland; KRCW-TV's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands neighborhood of the city. Channel 32 began broadcasting as Christian station KUTF on May 8, 1989, from studios in Salem and a transmitter near Molalla. It was constructed by South Carolina–based Dove Broadcasting but never received adequate financial support from its viewers or coverage on local cable systems; it was off the air for six days in 1990, and Dove sold the station to Communications Programming Agency in 1991. The new owners relaunched the station as KEBN, a secular independent station known as "Oregon's New Eagle 32", in 1992. Amid movi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KUFO
KUFO (970 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Portland, Oregon. The station, owned by Alpha Media, calls itself "Freedom 970" and airs a conservative talk radio format. KUFO's offices and studios are on Southwest 5th Avenue in Portland, while the transmitter is located in Portland's Tualatin Mountains, West Hills. Programming KUFO features mostly Broadcast syndication, nationally syndicated talk shows, including Brian Kilmeade, Dave Ramsey, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Dana Loesch and Lars Larson, who is also heard on co-owned 101.1 KXL-FM. Weekends feature shows on money, health, cars and guns. Syndicated weekend hosts include Guy Benson, Ben Ferguson, Jason Chaffetz and Bret Baier. Some weekend shows are paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio. The station previously aired Portland State Vikings college football and college basketball, basketball games and Portland Steel Arena Football League games. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon, Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county. Portland's population was 652,503, making it the List of United States cities by population, 28th most populous city in the United States, the sixth most populous on the West Coast of the United States, West Coast, and the third most populous in the Pacific Northwest after Seattle and Vancouver. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan area, Oregon, Portland metropolitan area, making it the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 26th most populous in the United States. Almost half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metro area. Named after Portland, Maine, which is itself named aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oregonian
''The Oregonian'' is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the West Coast of the United States, U.S. West Coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850, and published daily since 1861. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation. It is one of the few newspapers with a statewide focus in the United States. The Sunday edition is published under the title ''The Sunday Oregonian''. The regular edition was published under the title ''The Morning Oregonian'' from 1861 until 1937. ''The Oregonian'' received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the only gold medal annually awarded by the organization. The paper's staff or individual writers have received seven other Pulitzer Prizes, most recently the award for Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, Editorial Writing in 2014. In late 2013, home deliver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oregon Journal
''The Oregon Journal'' was Portland, Oregon's daily afternoon newspaper from 1902 to 1982. The ''Journal'' was founded in Portland by C. S. "Sam" Jackson, publisher of Pendleton, Oregon's ''East Oregonian'' newspaper, after a group of Portlanders convinced Jackson to help in the reorganization of the ''Portland Evening Journal.'' The firm owned several radio stations in the Portland area. In 1961, the ''Journal'' was purchased by S.I. Newhouse and Advance Publications, owners also of '' The Oregonian'', the city's morning newspaper. Founding The Portland ''Evening Journal'' was first published on March 10, 1902.Corning, Howard M. ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956. This newspaper began as a campaign paper owned by A. D. Bowen, with William Wasson as the first editor. However, within a few months the paper had floundered and was being liquidated. In July 1902, the ''Evening Journal'', was taken over by C.S. "Sam" Jackson, who had been the pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtown Portland
Downtown Portland is the central business district of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is on the west bank of the Willamette River in the northeastern corner of the southwest section of the city and where most of the city's high-rise buildings are found. The downtown neighborhood extends west from the Willamette to Interstate 405 and south from Burnside Street to just south of the Portland State University campus (also bounded by I-405), except for a part of northeastern portion north of SW Harvey Milk Street and east of SW 3rd Ave that belongs to the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood. High-density business and residential districts near downtown include the Lloyd District, across the river from the northern part of downtown, and the South Waterfront area, just south of downtown in the South Portland neighborhood. Portland's downtown features narrow streets— wide—and square, compact blocks on a side, to create more corner lots that were expected to be more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KGDD (AM)
KGDD (1520 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format. Licensed to Oregon City, Oregon, United States, it serves the Portland, Oregon area. The station is currently owned by Bustos Media of Oregon License, LLC. History The station signed on the air on July 4, 1947 as KGON at 1230 kHz. On July 30, 1956, KGON moved to its current 1520 kHz frequency. On August 1, 1964, KGON changed its call sign to KYMN and aired a top 40 format as "Kim Radio". On February 1, 1965, KYMN changed its format to "Good Music" as "Fine Kim Music". On September 18, 1967, KYMN changed its call sign to KYXI and aired a beautiful music format. In September 1973, KYXI shifted its format to MOR (middle-the-road). On July 12, 1976, KYXI switched to an all-news and talk format as "News 15", with programming from NBC's NIS (News and Information Service), which lasted until May 29, 1977 after which KYXI became a CBS affiliate and continued its all-news/talk format until 1984. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaylord Broadcasting Company
Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. is a hotel, resort, entertainment, and media company named for one of its assets: the Ryman Auditorium, a National Historic Landmark in Nashville, Tennessee. The company's legal lineage can be traced back to its time as a subsidiary of Edward Gaylord's Oklahoma Publishing Company; however, the backbone of the modern entity was formed with the company's acquisition of WSM, Inc. in 1983. This purchase resulted in the ownership of the ''Grand Ole Opry'' and associated businesses, including the company's flagship resort property, then known as Opryland Hotel. As such, Ryman Hospitality cites 1925 (the founding of WSM Radio and the ''Opry'') as its origin year. From its corporate spin-off from Oklahoma Publishing in 1991 until 2012, the organization was known as Gaylord Entertainment Company. Most of its media and entertainment ventures were closed or divested over time as the company was refocused into a hospitality-based business by the early-2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field Enterprises
Field Enterprises, Inc. was a private holding company that operated from the 1940s to the 1980s, founded by Marshall Field III and others, whose main assets were the '' Chicago Sun'' and '' Parade'' magazine. For various periods of time, Field Enterprises also owned publishers Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books, broadcaster Field Communications, and the ''World Book Encyclopedia''. It also operated a syndication service, Field Newspaper Syndicate, whose most popular offering was the comic strip '' Steve Canyon''. History Field had founded the '' Chicago Sun'' and the Chicago Sun Syndicate in late 1941. Comic-strip historian Allan Holtz has written regarding the origins of the Field Syndicate and its relationship to the rest of the company: In 1944, soon after its establishment, Field Enterprises acquired the book publishers Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books. The next year, the company acquired ''World Book Encyclopedia''. In 1948, Field merged the ''Chicago Sun'' with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Launched for public access in 2001, the service allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat developed the Wayback Machine to provide "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages. The Wayback Machine's earliest archives go back at least to 1995, and by the end of 2009, more than 38.2 billion webpages had been saved. As of November 2024, the Wayback Machine has archived more than 916 billion web pages and well over 100 petabytes of data. History The Internet Archive has been archiving cached web pages since at least 1995. One of the earliest known pages was archived on May 8, 1995. Internet Archive founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat launched the Wayback Machine in San Francisco, California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspense (radio Program)
''Suspense'' is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the Old-time radio, Golden Age of Radio, it was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on Suspense (genre), suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 still exist. ''Suspense'' went through several major phases, characterized by different hosts, sponsors, and director/producers. Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation; solutions were "withheld until the last possible second"; and evildoers were usually punished in the end. In its early years, the program made only occasional forays into science fiction and fantasy. Notable exceptions include adaptations of Curt Siodmak's ''Donovan's Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
