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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, covering eastern Washington state and northern Idaho.
KSKN (channel 22) is a television station in Spokane, Washington, United States, affiliated with The CW.It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside CBS affiliate KREM (channel 2). The two stations share studios on South Regal Street in the Southgate neighborhood of Spokane; KSKN's transmitter is on Krell Hill to the southeast.
Spokane: Spokane: 2 20 KREM: CBS: True Crime Network on 2.2, Court TV on 2.3, True Crime Network on 2.4, Shop LC on 2.5, Get on 2.6 Spokane - Coeur d'Alene: Spokane: 4 13/22 KXLY-TV: ABC: MeTV on 4.2, H&I on 4.3, Start TV on 4.4, Dabl on 4.5, QVC on 4.6, HSN on 4.7 Spokane: Spokane: 6 15 KHQ-TV: NBC: SWX Right Now on 6.2 Spokane: Spokane: 7 7 ...
KXLY-TV logo (1966) Although KHQ and KXLY were both granted authorization by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build television stations on July 11, 1952, [3] KXLY was the second to sign on, going on the air with broadcast tests on January 16, 1953, [4] with regular programming beginning on February 22. [5]
In the 1950s and 1960s, when few people owned FM radios, KREM-FM simulcast the AM station's programming. In 1957, KREM-AM-FM-TV were acquired by Seattle-based King Broadcasting Company. In the 1960s, KREM became a Top 40 station, vying with KJRB for Spokane's young radio listeners. KREM-FM switched to a progressive rock sound in the late 1960s.
In a 1977 interview with radio broadcaster historian Richard Dunning, KREM was described as the "first non-network, independent, all music station" in Spokane. [6] KREM had also put a television station on the air in 1954, a year before KREM-FM signed on. KREM-TV carried ABC and DuMont Television Network programming at first, but today is a CBS ...
From 1987 to 1989, he served in the same capacity at Spokane's KREM 2, then he moved to sister station KGW 8 in Portland, Oregon, where he remained until 1993. [ 2 ] In 1993, Johnson initially started out as the KOMO 4 station's weekend sports anchor, replacing longtime KOMO sportscaster Rick Meeder and fill-in sports anchor Bob Rondeau .
Until 2008, KXLY was the only news station in Spokane to produce a segment of the news in HD. On May 16, 2008, KHQ produced a live, on-the-air report in HD. It was officially announced on this date that KHQ was slated to become the first station in Spokane to broadcast its entire newscasts in HD, debuting on August 8, 2008, to coincide with the ...