KOHD

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KOHD
KOHD51.png
Channels
BrandingKOHD; Central Oregon Daily
Programming
Affiliations18.1: ABC
18.2: CBS
Ownership
Owner
KBNZ-LD
History
First air date
September 9, 2006(17 years ago) (2006-09-09)
Former channel number(s)
Digital:
51 (UHF, 2006–2015)
51 (PSIP, 2006–2019)
Call sign meaning
Oregon's High Desert
(formerly "Oregon High Definition")
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 166534
ERP 84.1 kW
HAAT 221 m (725 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 44°4′40.6″N121°19′56.9″W / 44.077944°N 121.332472°W / 44.077944; -121.332472
Translator(s) K09YE-D La Pine
Links
Public license information
Website centraloregondaily.com/kohd-abc/

KOHD (channel 18) is a television station in Bend, Oregon, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for Central Oregon. It is owned by local cable company BendBroadband alongside low-power CBS affiliate KBNZ-LD (channel 7). Both stations share studios on Lower Meadow Drive in Bend, while KOHD's transmitter is located in the city on Awbrey Butte west of US 97.

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History

The station was started by Chambers Communications and signed on as a digital-only station on September 9, 2006; it never broadcast a full-power analog signal prior to the June 12, 2009, analog shutdown for broadcast television stations. KOHD is the first primary digital station to carry a major network affiliation. The station replaced co-owned KEZI in Eugene as well as KATU from Portland on area cable systems.

For its first year on-the-air, KOHD simulcasted weeknight newscasts from KEZI while building their own local news department. Chambers Communications completed their 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) facility at Brinson Business Park on the north side of Bend in August 2007. KOHD originally had an in-city translator, K53JV (channel 53), from a transmitter on Awbrey Butte. It had a construction permit to air a low-powered digital signal on channel 18 from the same location. The FCC cancelled the translator's license on February 15, 2013. [2]

On July 26, 2013, Chambers sold KOHD to Zolo Media, owners of KBNZ-LD, the CBS affiliate. Zolo is a division of BendBroadband. [3] BendBroadband in turn announced on May 1, 2014, that the company, including Zolo Media, would be purchased by TDS for $261 million, a company mainly involved in local telephone and broadband services. [4]

On June 24, 2015, KOHD-DT relocated the station's primary over-the-air broadcast channel, from channel 51 to channel 18. The FCC licensed the station to operate on channel 18 on July 6, 2015.

Dispute with Dish Network

On December 10, 2010, KOHD announced that their owners Chambers Communications (who also own KEZI in Eugene, KDRV in Medford, and KDKF in Klamath Falls) and Dish Network could not come to a long-term agreement to keep the station on the air in the Medford market and were in danger of losing local ABC programming as a result. Viewers were encouraged to read a special Q&A page regarding this matter. Despite their best efforts, their previous agreement expired on December 15 and the stations were removed from the Dish Network local line-ups. Chambers and Dish finally came to an agreement to resume service and as of December 30, 2010, the stations returned on Dish Network. [5]

Programming

Syndicated programming

Syndicated programming on KOHD (as of November 2021) includes Rachael Ray , The Doctors , Hot Bench , Judge Judy , Inside Edition , Jeopardy! , Wheel of Fortune , and Entertainment Tonight .

News operation

On September 26, 2007, KOHD began airing local newscasts (which were broadcast in high definition) from 5:30 to 7 a.m. as well as 5, 6, 6:30, and 11 p.m. Weekend newscasts were canceled in July 2009, replaced by House on Saturday nights at 11 and Inside Edition Weekend on Sunday nights at 5 and 11. Following the March 5, 2010, 11 p.m. show, KOHD's news operation was scaled back to three reporters and fourteen staffers were laid off. Long form newscasts were canceled with news and weather updates replacing them. [6] [7] In September 2010, half-hour newscasts returned to KOHD at 6 and 11 p.m. Monday-Friday. In September 2011, KOHD began simulcasting all of KEZI's weekday newscasts (except the 5 a.m. hour of the morning newscast) as well as the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. on weekends.

As of August 2015, KOHD has stopped simulcasting KEZI's newscasts. Most time slots have since been replaced by syndicated programming, though KOHD has only one locally produced program left: myWindow, seen weeknights at 6 p.m. (half-hour). Before the discontinuation of simulcasts, KOHD was last simulcasting the weekday 6 a.m. hour, the weeknight 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts from KEZI, as well as weekends at 5 and 11, plus Saturday newscasts at 6 and 6:30 p.m.

In April 2016, Zolo Media announced the debut of a local news program to air on both KOHD and KBNZ starting on May 2, 2016, called Central Oregon Daily. [8] KOHD currently airs newscasts weeknights at 5 and 11 p.m., Saturdays at 11 p.m., and Sundays at 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. [9]

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect Short nameProgramming [10]
18.1 1080i 16:9 KOHD-DTMain KOHD programming / ABC
18.2 KBNZ LDSimulcast of KBNZ-LD / CBS

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KOHD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "Station Search Details".
  3. ↑ Bend’s KOHD Sold to Zolo Media, Media Bistro, July 29, 2013
  4. ↑ Spencer, Malia (May 2, 2014). "BendBroadband sells to Chicago cable firm for $261M". Portland Business Journal . Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ Chambers Communications Announces Retransmission with Dish Network to Expire December 15, 2010 [ permanent dead link ], KOHD.com
  6. ↑ http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/449742-UPDATED_KOHD_Bend_Outlines_Streamlined_News_Strategy.php [ dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Oregonmediacentral - Business".
  8. ↑ "Zolo Media Announces Debut of News Program for Central Oregon". April 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Kohd – ABC".
  10. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KOHD
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