KING-TV, channel 48, is a television station in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is affiliated with the NBC network, and broadcasts on digital UHF channel 48. Its offices and broadcasting center are located just east of Seattle Center. The station's transmitter is located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. Sometimes, the same television programming that is on KING-TV appears on its sister station, KONG-TV, an Independent station. Such program...
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KING-TV, channel 48, is a television station in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is affiliated with the NBC network, and broadcasts on digital UHF channel 48. Its offices and broadcasting center are located just east of Seattle Center. The station's transmitter is located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. Sometimes, the same television programming that is on KING-TV appears on its sister station, KONG-TV, an Independent station. Such programming includes local news and some syndicated programming. The chief newscasters for KING 5 news are Jean Enersen and Dennis Bounds.
When Channel 5 came on the air as KRSC-TV for the first time on November 25, 1948, it became the first television station north of San Francisco and west of the Mississippi River. The first broadcast, a live remote of a Thanksgiving day high school football game, was plagued with technical difficulties but local viewers were said to be impressed nonetheless. After eight months on the air under the ownership of P.K...
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