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*KOIN Television’s signal hit the airwaves on October 15, 1953 as Portland's first VHF TV station.
KOIN-TV began broadcasting on October 15, 1953, as Portland's first VHF television station.
KOIN's first color television broadcast was made on August 14, 1954, only three days after then-NBC-affiliate KPTV (channel 12) had made Portland's first such broadcast.
During the days of live television, it was Betty Davis that dropped the turkey, live on KOIN KITCHEN after the show debuted in 1954, a decade before Julia Child made her debut.
In 1958, Frank Kinkaid auditioned at KOIN TV to produce a children’s show.
On February 27, 1971, both transmitter towers used by KOIN-FM and KOIN-TV—the 1,000-foot (300 m) main tower and the 700-foot (210 m) auxiliary tower—collapsed during an ice and wind storm.
In 1976, KOIN-TV became the second television station in the Portland market (after KPTV) to broadcast Portland Trail Blazers basketball games.
Lee Enterprises purchased KOIN-TV in April 1977 from the Mount Hood-Newhouse group.
In 1984 the station aired the Japanese program. "From Oregon With Love".
The "-TV" suffix was dropped on August 31, 1992, fifteen years after KOIN radio was sold off.
In October, 2000 the Lee Enterprises television group, including KOIN, was purchased by Emmis Communications.
On January 27, 2006, Emmis sold KOIN (along with KHON/Honolulu, KSNT/Topeka, and KSNW/Wichita) to Montecito Broadcast Group for $259 million.
KOIN updated its website in September 2006 as part of a partnership with WorldNow.
On February 1, 2007, KOIN began to broadcast its daily newscasts in widescreen.
On July 24, 2007, Montecito announced the sale of all of its stations (KOIN, plus KHON-TV and its satellites, KSNW and its satellites, and KSNT) to New Vision Television.
In March 2008, KOIN relaunched its website through Newport Television subsidiary Inergize Digital, replacing the old WorldNow-powered site.
In August 2008, KOIN's HD feed began to be carried on DirecTV.
On May 7, 2012, LIN Media announced that it would acquire KOIN and the other New Vision stations for $330.4 million and the assumption of $12 million in debt.
The FCC approved the sale on October 2, and it was completed ten days later on October 12, 2012.
On March 21, 2014, Media General announced that it would purchase LIN Media and its stations, including KOIN, in a $1.6 billion merger.
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Company Name  | Founded Date | Revenue | Employee Size | Job Openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KUTV | - | $27.0M | 375 | - |
| KCTS 9 | 1954 | $20.6M | 128 | - |
| 12 News | 1953 | $12.0M | 171 | - |
| KING 5 | 1948 | $26.0M | 350 | - |
| Fox10 Phoenix | - | $10.0M | 63 | - |
| KPTV Fox 12 Oregon | - | - | - | - |
| KGW | 1956 | $2.9B | 6,883 | - |
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | 1922 | $48.5M | 302 | - |
| First Coast News | - | $1.7M | 126 | - |
| WTKR News 3 | 1950 | $25.0M | 350 | - |
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