KONG is a television station based in Seattle, Washington. Owned by the Belo Corporation, KONG's city of license is Everett, Washington. It is a sister station to KING-TV, and is run out of KING's studios just east of Seattle Center.
KONG signed on the air July 8, 1997. The call letters were chosen because of the marketability of King Kong.
KONG broadcasts over-the-air on digital, high-definition UHF channel 31. KONG's powerful over-the-air UHF s...
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KONG is a television station based in Seattle, Washington. Owned by the Belo Corporation, KONG's city of license is Everett, Washington. It is a sister station to KING-TV, and is run out of KING's studios just east of Seattle Center.
KONG signed on the air July 8, 1997. The call letters were chosen because of the marketability of King Kong.
KONG broadcasts over-the-air on digital, high-definition UHF channel 31. KONG's powerful over-the-air UHF signal is transmitted with 1MW of power from Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, and can be received over much of the Puget Sound area. Western Washington cable TV systems usually carry KONG on cable channel 6, next to its sister station KING-TV channel 5. Local area cable companies, Comcast and Wave Broadband also carry the High-Definition simulcast on channel 106.
KING-TV and KONG-TV ceased analog broadcasting, effective June 12, 2009, and go digital only.
KONG is independent of any network affiliation. Initially, the station ran a general...
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