KLSR-TV

KLSR-TV

Eugene, Oregon
United States
Branding Oregon's Fox
Channels Digital: 31 (UHF)
Virtual: 34 (PSIP)
Subchannels 34.1 Fox
34.2 MyNetworkTV
Translators (see article)
Affiliations Fox
Owner California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc.
Founded September 4, 1987
First air date October 31, 1991 (1991-10-31)
Call letters' meaning Kinetic
Light and
Sound
Reproduction
Sister station(s) KEVU-CD
Former callsigns KEVU (1991–1997)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
34 (UHF, 1991–2009)
Transmitter power 88 kW
Height 372 m (1,220 ft)
Facility ID 8322
Transmitter coordinates 44°0′4″N 123°6′45″W / 44.00111°N 123.11250°W / 44.00111; -123.11250
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.OregonsFox.com

KLSR-TV, virtual channel 34 (UHF digital channel 31), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Eugene, Oregon, United States. The station is owned by California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. of Medford, Oregon, and is sister to low-powered, Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate KEVU-CD, channel 23 (which is simulcast on KLSR's second digital subchannel). The two stations share studios on Chad Drive in Eugene; KLSR's transmitter is located on South Ridge.

History

KLSR signed on the air on Halloween in 1991 as KEVU, and was Eugene's second UHF station to sign on the air. Fox programming was seen on K25AS from the network's launch in 1986 until the arrival of KLSR in 1991.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
34.1720p16:9KLSR-HDMain KLSR-TV programming / Fox
34.2480i4:3KEVU-DTSimulcast of KEVU-CD / MyNetworkTV

Analog-to-digital conversion

KLSR-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 34, at 12:01 a.m. on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 34.

Translators

KLSR's main signal is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

Controversy

In November 2012, the Federal Communications Commission fined KLSR $13,000 for not filing paperwork for children's E/I programming for its Eugene translator, K19GH-D, in the previous four years. While the station has since caught up on its paperwork, the FCC has said that it is no excuse for not doing it in the first place.[3]

Newscasts

KVAL-TV produces live 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts for KLSR entitled Fox News @ 7 and Fox News @ 10, on weekdays and KVAL News @10 on Fox, a repeat of the evening news on weekends. In September 2010, KVAL started producing a live morning newscast for KLSR called Fox News Mornings, which was later dropped and replaced by a replay of KVAL's 6am hour of morning news.

KVAL's newscasts on KLSR started broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen in late September 2010.

See also

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KLSR
  2. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  3. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable: "Oregon Broadcaster Fined for Kids TV Reporting Error", November 9, 2012. (The article in error gave its calls as "KSLR".)
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