KLSR-TV

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Hatnote". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". KLSR-TV (channel 34) is a television station in Eugene, Oregon, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Cox Media Group alongside MyNetworkTV 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 CBS 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 call sign K25AS but known as KLSR, the station was owned by Metrocom of Oregon and initially programmed a format that on weekdays primarily consisted of music videos. 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.[1] During midday, it aired a live bingo program with prizes.[2] It also had a morning show; Christopher Judge, a former University of Oregon football player, won the contest to host it, launching his acting career.[3] 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 Fox network.[4] 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.Template:R That same year, the station added a translator to serve Corvallis.[5]

Originally operating from studios on 18th Street,Template:R 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 Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, wished to exit broadcasting; COBI owned KOBI-TV in Medford,[6] and expanded into Eugene in response to Eugene-based Chambers Communications expanding into the Medford market.Template:R 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 independent station.[7][8] COBI initially promised that the Fox affiliation would move to KEVU upon approval of the transaction,[9] but KEVU continued on channel 34 and affiliated with UPN when it launched in January 1995.[10]

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.[11] That year, the station began construction on a new studio facility on Chad Drive, designed to house a news department.[12]

COBI was fined $13,000 by the Federal Communications Commission (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.[13]

In 2022, California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. sold KLSR-TV and KEVU-CD to Atlanta-based Cox Media Group for $7,222,000.[14][15] Under a local marketing agreement first signed in 2021, KLSR–KEVU's sales force markets the advertising time on Eugene radio station KORE (1050 AM).[16]

Newscasts

Template:See As early as 1989, KLSR offered a 10 p.m. newscast,[17] known as Prime Time News. In October 1991, KLSR entered into a deal with Eugene CBS affiliate KVAL-TV (channel 13) to produce a 10 p.m. newscast for at least six months.[18] It lasted two years before KVAL opted to exit the partnership, citing low ratings.[19] In the mid-1990s, KLSR aired a half-hour of Northwest Cable News at 10 p.m.Template:R

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.[20]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KLSR-TV[21]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
34.1 720p 16:9 KLSR-HD Fox
34.2 KEVU-DT MyNetworkTV (KEVU-CD)

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Analog-to-digital conversion

KLSR-TV, along with KEZI, opted to shut down its analog signal on the original digital television transition date of February 17, 2009.[22] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31, using virtual channel 34.[23]

Translators

KLSR-TV's signal is rebroadcast by translators to communities throughout southern and south-central Oregon:[24]

Notes

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References

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External links

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