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KLSR-TV (channel 34) is a
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in
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, United States, affiliated with the
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network. It is owned by
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alongside
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affiliate KEVU-CD (channel 23), a low-power Class A station. The two stations share studios on Chad Drive in Eugene; KLSR's transmitter is located on South Ridge. KLSR began as a low-power station (officially K25AS) on June 12, 1987, with a format consisting primarily of music videos. Though it lacked cable carriage until 1989, it had strong enough viewership within months of launching to obtain an affiliation with Fox. Despite being a low-power station, it produced its own prime time newscast for several years. It remained the Eugene Fox affiliate even though a full-power station, KEVU, began on channel 34 in 1991. California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. acquired KLSR in 1993 and KEVU in 1994; though it stated its intention to move the Fox programming to the full-power channel 34 at the time, it did not do so until April 1, 1997. Cox Media Group acquired KLSR in 2022. Eugene
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affiliate KVAL-TV produces 7 and 10 p.m. newscasts for KLSR-TV on weeknights.


History

On June 12, 1987, a low-power television station began broadcasting in Eugene. Bearing the
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K25AS but known as KLSR, the station was owned by Metrocom of Oregon and initially programmed a format that on weekdays primarily consisted of
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s. Three Eugene-area radio personalities as well as the general manager and others held down on-air shifts during the week, and the station also presented on-the-hour newscasts and more traditional syndicated programming on the weekends. During midday, it aired a live bingo program with prizes. It also had a morning show;
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, a former University of Oregon football player, won the contest to host it, launching his acting career. Despite lacking coverage on cable, KLSR was successful enough to garner a one-percent share of the audience later in 1987, a feat that earned it affiliation with the
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network. Even after affiliating with Fox, KLSR struggled to secure a slot on the Tele-Communications Inc. cable system in Eugene and did not do so until 1989. That same year, the station added a translator to serve Corvallis. Originally operating from studios on 18th Street, it had relocated to Goodpasture Island Road by October 1992, when Metrocom agreed to sell it to California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. (COBI) for $3.15 million. Metrocom sold because its primary stakeholder, the
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, wished to exit broadcasting; COBI owned KOBI-TV in Medford, and expanded into Eugene in response to Eugene-based Chambers Communications expanding into the Medford market. After closing on KLSR, COBI acquired a Eugene full-power station in 1994. KEVU (channel 34) was built by Raul Palazuelos and began broadcasting September 30, 1991, as a low-budget
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. COBI initially promised that the Fox affiliation would move to KEVU upon approval of the transaction, but KEVU continued on channel 34 and affiliated with
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when it launched in January 1995. On April 1, 1997, COBI moved KLSR to channel 34, which became KLSR-TV, and KEVU to the low-power channel 25 as KEVU-LP; the stations retained their existing cable numbers, only exchanging transmission facilities. That year, the station began construction on a new studio facility on Chad Drive, designed to house a news department. COBI was fined $13,000 by the
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(FCC) in November 2012. The company had failed to file paperwork for children's E/I programming for KLSR-TV's Eugene translator, K19GH-D, in the previous four years, even though it was filed for the main station. In 2022, California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. sold KLSR-TV and KEVU-CD to
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-based Cox Media Group for $7,222,000. Under a
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first signed in 2021, KLSR–KEVU's sales force markets the advertising time on Eugene radio station KORE (1050 AM).


Newscasts

As early as 1989, KLSR offered a 10 p.m. newscast, known as ''Prime Time News''. In October 1991, KLSR entered into a deal with Eugene
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affiliate KVAL-TV (channel 13) to produce a 10 p.m. newscast for at least six months. It lasted two years before KVAL opted to exit the partnership, citing low ratings. In the mid-1990s, KLSR aired a half-hour of
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at 10 p.m. Under a news share arrangement, KVAL-TV currently produces 7 and 10 p.m. newscasts for KLSR-TV on weeknights, plus rebroadcasts of KVAL's weekend evening newscasts and a weekday half-hour at 7 a.m. The 10 p.m. news was a half-hour except between 2016 and 2017, when it was broadcast as a full hour.


Technical information


Subchannels

The station's signal is
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Analog-to-digital conversion

KLSR-TV, along with KEZI, opted to shut down its analog signal on the original
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date of February 17, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31, using
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34.


Translators

KLSR-TV's signal is rebroadcast by translators to communities throughout southern and south-central Oregon: * Canyonville, etc.: K35MS-D *
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: K30BN-D * Corvallis: K14GW-D * Cottage Grove: K32LW-D * Eugene: K19GH-D *
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: K28NZ-D * London Springs: K23OS-D * Powers: K32LJ-D * Roseburg: K33NY-D * Yoncalla: K32FI-D


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Klsr-Tv 1987 establishments in Oregon Cox Media Group Fox Broadcasting Company affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1987 LSR-TV