CBS affiliate in Spokane, Washington
This article is about the CBS affiliate in Spokane, Washington. For the cable television station in Belize, see
Krem Television
.
KREM
(channel 2) is a
television station
in
Spokane, Washington
, United States, affiliated with
CBS
. It is owned by
Tegna Inc.
alongside
CW
affiliate
KSKN
(channel 22). The two stations share studios on South Regal Street in the
Southgate
neighborhood of Spokane; KREM's transmitter is on
Krell Hill
to the southeast.
The station is carried on cable systems in
Calgary
and
Edmonton, Alberta
, Canada, both of which are double the size of KREM's American coverage area. One result of this is that stations in Calgary and Edmonton air American shows on
Pacific Time
, even though Calgary and Edmonton are both on
Mountain Time
. It is one of five local Spokane area television stations seen in Canada on the
Shaw Direct
satellite service. It can also been seen on local cable systems in southeastern
British Columbia
.
KREM is one of two CBS affiliates based in the Spokane television market; KREM is typically considered the primary CBS affiliate for the market. However,
Sinclair Broadcast Group
?owned
KLEW-TV
(channel 3), based in
Lewiston, Idaho
, focuses on the southern portion of the market including the
Lewis?Clark Valley
and the
Palouse
. Both KREM and KLEW are available on
Dish Network
and
DirecTV
throughout the Spokane market.
History
[
edit
]
KREM-TV signed on October 31, 1954, with an "inaugural program" at 6:30 pm,
[2]
followed by a showing of the 1933
movie
The Private Life of Henry VIII
.
[3]
It was originally owned by Cole Wylie alongside KREM radio (AM 970, now
KTTO
; and FM 92.9, now
KZZU-FM
). The King Broadcasting Company, run by Seattle businesswoman
Dorothy Bullitt
, bought the KREM stations from Wylie in 1957; the radio stations were sold off in 1984. (Coincidentally, the former KREM-FM is now a sister station to KXLY-TV.) However, channel 2 retained the -TV suffix in its callsign until 2009.
KREM-TV initially had a dual affiliation with
ABC
and the
DuMont
Network, the latter shared with cross-town competitor
KXLY-TV
because of its then-CBS affiliation at the time. After DuMont dissolved, KREM continued as an exclusive ABC affiliate. In the late 1950s, the station was briefly affiliated with the
NTA Film Network
.
[4]
KREM-TV was affiliated with ABC until August 8, 1976, when it swapped affiliations with KXLY-TV, whom CBS announced would be dropped in February for constantly preempting or delaying its network shows; however, CBS did not announce initially who would become their new affiliate in the market.
[5]
On August 8, the affiliation switch went into full effect,
[6]
with CBS programming moving to KREM (KREM wanted to wait until ABC finished airing the network's coverage of the
1976 Summer Olympics
to make the switch).
[7]
KXLY then picked up KREM's old ABC affiliation,
[8]
[9]
KREM thus became Spokane's new CBS affiliate. Initially, CBS had approached KHQ-TV, while KREM was considered for a possible NBC affiliation because of the
King Broadcasting Company
's sister stations in
Seattle
and
Portland
also being NBC affiliates, but KREM elected to take the CBS affiliation instead. It was the only non-NBC affiliated station in the King Broadcasting portfolio.
King Broadcasting was sold in 1992 to the
Providence Journal Company
, which merged with
Belo Corporation
five years later. On June 13, 2013, the
Gannett Company
announced that it would acquire Belo.
[10]
The sale was completed on December 23.
[11]
On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. KREM and KSKN were retained by the latter company, named
Tegna
.
[12]
KREM and KSKN are a part of a cluster of television stations in the Northwestern United States owned by Tegna, which includes
KING-TV
and its sister station
KONG
in
Seattle
;
KGW
in
Portland, Oregon
; and
KTVB
in
Boise
. All four stations had provided material to co-owned
Northwest Cable News
, a regional
24-hour
cable news
service based in Seattle that served much of the region. KREM was the only non-
NBC
affiliate to be a primary contributor to NWCN, with the exception of KSKN and Seattle
independent station
KONG. The channel, which started in 1995, shut down on January 6, 2017.
Programming
[
edit
]
In 1987, KREM was one of numerous CBS affiliates that declined to carry an adaptation of
Garbage Pail Kids
, owing to concerns about it being a promotion for the
then-popular trading card line of that name
and about its heavy violence and ridiculing of the disabled; because of these decisions, CBS opted to remove the cartoon from its Saturday morning lineup and the series, to date, has never aired in the United States.
[13]
[14]
KREM aired the
Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball
team's
NCAA tournament
championship game appearances in
2017
and
2021
.
News operation
[
edit
]
In 1997, KREM, with its reporter Tom Grant, won an
Alfred I. duPont?Columbia University Award
"for Investigative Reporting on the
Wenatchee Child Sex Ring
."
[15]
[16]
[17]
In April 2010, KREM and KSKN began broadcasting its local newscasts in
16:9
enhanced definition
widescreen
, and KREM became the third station in Spokane to switch in either HD or widescreen.
[18]
[19]
[20]
From September 15, 2014, to January 2, 2015, KREM was the only station to air their newscasts from 7 to 9 a.m. on its sister station KSKN.
[21]
KREM switched to Gannett's "This is Home" music and graphics package on October 25, 2014, at the 5 p.m. newscast.
[22]
KREM became the last station in the Spokane market to switch their newscasts to HD.
On October 17, 2021, the station had to apologize for showing a moving image from a pornographic video on a weather center monitor during that evening's 6 p.m. newscast, and the origin of the video's appearance on an internal station monitor, be it internally or from another source, is under police and corporate investigation.
[23]
Notable former on-air staff
[
edit
]
Technical information
[
edit
]
Subchannels
[
edit
]
The station's signal is
multiplexed
:
Analog-to-digital conversion
[
edit
]
KREM discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
VHF
channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States
transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts
under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition
UHF
channel 20,
[32]
[33]
using
virtual channel
2.
Translators
[
edit
]
Notes
[
edit
]
- ^
The
Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook
says October 31, while the
Television and Cable Factbook
says October 29.
References
[
edit
]
- ^
"Facility Technical Data for KREM"
.
Licensing and Management System
.
Federal Communications Commission
.
- ^
"New TV Station Plans Inaugural on Sunday Night"
.
Spokane Television History
. October 29, 1954
. Retrieved
February 5,
2023
.
- ^
Spokane Daily Chronicle
- "Announcing the Telecast Premiere of KREM-TV" (advertisement) - October 30, 1954
- ^
"Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films"
,
Boxoffice
: 13, November 10, 1956
- ^
"KREM-TV to Join CBS Chain"
.
Spokane Television History
. March 29, 1976
. Retrieved
February 5,
2023
.
- ^
"On Sunday: TV Stations Switching"
.
Spokane Television History
. August 6, 1976
. Retrieved
February 5,
2023
.
- ^
"Timing decided for TV shift"
.
Spokane Television History
. March 30, 1976
. Retrieved
February 5,
2023
.
- ^
"
"Early Summer" ? KXLY Set to Join ABC"
.
Spokane Television History
. May 6, 1976
. Retrieved
February 5,
2023
.
- ^
"CBS Plans to Terminate KXLY-TV Affiliation"
.
Spokane Television History
. March 3, 1976
. Retrieved
February 5,
2023
.
- ^
"Gannett to buy KREM-TV owner Belo for $1.5 billion"
.
KREM.com
.
Associated Press
. June 13, 2013
. Retrieved
June 13,
2013
.
- ^
"Gannett Completes Its Acquisition Of Belo"
.
TV News Check
. December 23, 2013
. Retrieved
February 5,
2023
.
- ^
"Separation of Gannett into two public companies completed | TEGNA"
. Tegna. June 29, 2015
. Retrieved
June 29,
2015
.
- ^
"Spokane Chronicle ? Google News Archive Search"
. Retrieved
December 18,
2014
.
- ^
"WebCite query result"
. Geocities.com. Archived from
the original
on October 21, 2009
. Retrieved
December 18,
2014
.
- ^
"Silver Batons: Medium Market Television"
.
Columbia University News
(Press release). 1997. Archived from
the original
on December 7, 2005.
- ^
"Grant Wins 'Pulitzer of Broadcasting' | the Spokesman-Review"
.
- ^
"KREM-TV, Investigative Reporting on the Wenatchee Child Sex Ring | 1997 duPont-Columbia Award Winner in 1997 duPont Winners on Vimeo"
. April 1, 2013
. Retrieved
May 18,
2020
– via Vimeo.
- ^
"Is Your local news in HD?"
. Avsforum.com. February 17, 2011
. Retrieved
August 23,
2012
.
- ^
"KXLY 4 HD"
. August 1, 2008.
Archived
from the original on December 21, 2021
. Retrieved
August 23,
2012
– via YouTube.
- ^
"KHQ Local News 11@11 HD Open - 2008"
. October 18, 2008.
Archived
from the original on December 21, 2021
. Retrieved
August 23,
2012
– via YouTube.
- ^
"For the first time, 7:00-9:00 a.m. morning news in Spokane"
. changingnewscasts.wordpress.com. August 31, 2014
. Retrieved
October 15,
2014
.
- ^
"New design coming to KREM 2 newscasts"
. krem.com. October 23, 2014
. Retrieved
October 23,
2014
.
- ^
Epperly, Emma (October 18, 2021).
"Pornographic video shown on KREM's evening newscast; police investigating"
.
The Spokesman Review
. Retrieved
October 19,
2021
.
- ^
"KPIX's Paul Deanno, two others leaving station"
. EastBayTimes.com. September 27, 2019
. Retrieved
October 18,
2019
.
- ^
"Eric Johnson"
.
KOMOnews.com
. November 20, 2015
. Retrieved
April 15,
2020
.
- ^
"Sports Anchor Tim Lewis Leaving Spokane to Join His Dad at Seattle's KOMO"
.
Adweek
. April 19, 2012
. Retrieved
July 3,
2019
.
- ^
"Dan Lewis, Tim Lewis share anchor desk for first time"
. KOMONews.com. July 18, 2012
. Retrieved
July 3,
2019
.
- ^
Shanks, Adam.
"Spokane's Next Mayor"
. The Spokesman-Review
. Retrieved
November 20,
2019
.
- ^
"Woodward claims victory in race for mayor | The Spokesman-Review"
.
www.spokesman.com
. Retrieved
November 20,
2019
.
- ^
"RabbitEars.Info"
.
RabbitEars.info
.
- ^
"Get Cozi TV"
.
- ^
"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on August 29, 2013
. Retrieved
March 24,
2012
.
- ^
"CDBS Print"
.
External links
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]
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Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with
cable television
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Spokane
/
Spokane Valley
(
Spokane County
)
|
- KREM
(2.1
CBS
, 2.2
Crime
, 2.3
Court
, 2.4
Nest
, 2.5
LC
, 2.6
Get
, 2.7
Outlaw
, 2.8
Comet
, 2.9
Cozi
)
- KXLY-TV
/
KXMN-LD
(4.1
ABC
, 4.2
MeTV
, 4.3
H&I
, 4.4
Start
, 4.5
Dabl
, 4.6
QVC
, 4.7
HSN
)
- KHQ-TV
(6.1
NBC
, 6.2
SWX
)
- KSPS-TV
(7.1
PBS
, 7.2
World
, 7.3
Create
, 7.4
PBS Kids
)
- KWSU-TV
translator (10.1
PBS
/NWPB, 10.2
Create
)
- KQUP-LD
(14.1
Daystar
)
- KSKN
(22.1
CW
, 22.2
Laff
, 22.3
Quest
, 22.4
The365
, 22.5
Grio
)
- KAYU-TV
(28.1
Fox
, 28.2
MNTV
/
ANT
)
- KDYS-LD
(32.1
Daystar
HD, 32.2 Daystar SD)
- KGPX-TV
(34.1
Ion
, 34.2
Bounce
, 34.3
Grit
, 34.4
Mystery
, 34.5
Defy
, 34.6
Scripps
, 34.7
JTV
, 34.8
QVC2
)
- KHBA-LD
(35.1
Hope
, 35.2
3ABN
, 35.3 Open Book, 35.4 D2D)
- K29NM-D
(43.1
HSN
, 43.2
QVC
, 43.3
HSN2
, 43.4
QVC2
, 43.5
QVC3
, 43.6
Dabl
)
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North Idaho
?(
Coeur d'Alene
/
Dalton Gardens
/
Post Falls
)
|
- K41FJ-D
(2.1
CBS
, 2.2
Crime
, 2.3
Court
, 2.4
Nest
, 2.5
LC
, 2.6
Get
, 2.7
Outlaw
, 2.8
Comet
, 2.9
Cozi
)
- KMNZ-LD
(4.1
ABC
, 4.2
MeTV
, 4.3
H&I
, 4.4
Start
, 4.5
Dabl
, 4.6
QVC
, 4.7
HSN
)
- K18DT-D
(6.1
NBC
, 6.2
SWX
)
- K26LJ-D
(7.1
PBS
, 7.2
World
, 7.3
Create
, 7.4
PBS Kids
)
- KUID
translator (12.1
PBS
/IPTV, 12.2 IPTV Plus, 12.3 Learn/
Create
, 12.4
World
, 12.5
PBS Kids
)
- KCDT
(26.1
PBS
/IPTV, 26.2 IPTV Plus, 26.3 Learn/
Create
, 26.4
World
, 26.5
PBS Kids
)
- K27NC-D
(28.1
Fox
, 28.2
MNTV
/
ANT
)
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Quad Cities
(
Lewiston
/
Clarkston
/
Pullman
/
Moscow
)
|
- K21CC-D
(2.1
CBS
, 2.2
Crime
, 2.3
Court
, 2.4
Nest
, 2.5
LC
, 2.6
Get
, 2.7
Outlaw
, 2.8
Comet
, 2.9
Cozi
)
- KLEW-TV
(3.1
CBS
, 3.2
Charge!
, 3.3
Comet
, 3.4
TBD
)
- K16LS-D/K26NM-D
(4.1
ABC
, 4.2
MeTV
, 4.3
H&I
, 4.4
Start
, 4.5
Dabl
, 4.6
QVC
, 4.7
HSN
)
- K35BW-D
(6.1
NBC
, 6.2
SWX
)
- K26CK-D/K24JN-D
(7.1
PBS
, 7.2
World
, 7.3
Create
, 7.4
PBS Kids
)
- KWSU-TV/K34QC-D
(10.1
PBS
/NWPB, 10.2
Create
)
- K19BY-D
(11.1
Fox
, 11.2
TMD
, 11.3
Ion
)
- KUID
(12.1
PBS
/IPTV, 12.2 IPTV Plus, 12.3 Learn/
Create
, 12.4
World
, 12.5
Kids
)
- KQUP
(24.1
Daystar
)
- K18LH-D
(28.1
Fox
, 28.2
MNTV
/
ANT
)
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Defunct
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ABC
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CBS
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Fox
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NBC
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The CW
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MyNetworkTV
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Ion Television
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PBS
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Other
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- KUNW-CD 2 / KVVK-CA 15 / KORK-CA 16
(
UNI
,
Yakima/Kennewick/Walla Walla
)
- KIRO-DT 7.4
(
TMD
,
Seattle
)
- KSTW 11
(
Ind.
,
Tacoma
)
- KFFX-DT 11.2
/
KCYU-LD 41.2
(
TMD
,
Pendleton, OR/Yakima
)
- KVOS-TV 12
(
UNI
,
Bellingham
)
- KONG 16
ATSC 3.0
(
Ind.
,
Everett
)
- KTBW-TV 20
(
TBN
,
Tacoma
)
- KBCB 24
(
Sonlife
,
Bellingham
)
- KNMT 24
(
TBN
,
Portland, OR
)
- KQUP 24
/
KDYS-LD 32
/
KQUP-LD 47
(
Daystar
,
Pullman/Spokane
)
- KWDK 42
(
Daystar
,
Tacoma
)
- KFFV 44
(
MeTV
,
Seattle
)
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ABC
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CBS
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Fox
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NBC
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The CW
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MyNetworkTV
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Ion Television
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PBS
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Other
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- KIDK 3
(
Dabl
,
Idaho Falls
)
- KBYU-TV 11
(
BYUtv
,
Provo, UT
)
- KUTF 12
(
Daystar
,
Logan, UT
)
- KJZZ-TV 14
ATSC 3.0
(
Ind.
,
Salt Lake City, UT
)
- KPIF 15
(
MeTV
,
Pocatello
)
- KUPX-TV 16
(
Ind.
,
Provo, UT
)
- K17ED-D 17
(
3ABN
,
Payette
)
- KCLP-CA 18
(
Rel.
,
Boise
)
- KTMW 20
(
TMD
,
Salt Lake City, UT
)
- KZTN-LD 20 (
TBN
,
Boise
)
- KPNZ 24
(
TCT
,
Ogden, UT
)
- KQUP 24
(
Daystar
,
Pullman, WA
)
- K31FD-D 31
(
3ABN
,
Boise
)
- KUTH-DT 32
(
UNI
,
Provo, UT
)
- KXTF 35
(
TCT
,
Twin Falls
)
- KKJB 39
(
TMD
,
Boise
)
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Other asset
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Acquisitions
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- 1
Owned by Tegna,
Gray Television
operates KMSB & KTTU through a
SSA
.
- 2
Owned by
American Spirit Media
, Tegna operates WUPW through a SSA.
- 3
These stations broadcast these networks on their digital subchannels.
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