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KRCW-TV

CW affiliate in Salem, Oregon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ14709004
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KRCW-TV (channel 32) is a television station licensed to Salem, Oregon, United States, serving as the Portland area's outlet for The CW. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside CBS affiliate KOIN (channel 6); Nexstar's Tegna subsidiary owns NBC affiliate KGW (channel 8). KRCW-TV and KOIN share studios in the basement of the KOIN Tower skyscraper on Southwest Columbia Street in downtown Portland; KRCW-TV's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands neighborhood of the city.

Channel 32 began broadcasting as Christian station KUTF on May 8, 1989, from studios in Salem and a transmitter near Molalla. It was constructed by South Carolina–based Dove Broadcasting but never received adequate financial support from its viewers or coverage on local cable systems; it was off the air for six days in 1990, and Dove sold the station to Communications Programming Agency in 1991. The new owners relaunched the station as KEBN, a secular independent station known as "Oregon's New Eagle 32", in 1992. Amid moving the studio operation from Salem to Beaverton, the station went off the air in October 1992 and was later placed into receivership. Channel 32, Inc., purchased the station out of bankruptcy and returned it to the air in July 1994.

KEBN affiliated with The WB at its January 1995 launch and became known as KWBP later that year. The station was sold twice during The WB's existence, first to ACME Television in 1997 and then to Tribune Broadcasting in 2003. KWBP and 15 other Tribune stations became charter affiliates of The CW upon its creation in September 2006.

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The public source identifies “KRCW-TV” as cW affiliate in Salem, Oregon. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around KRCW-TV, affiliate and Salem.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1990, 1991, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with KRCW-TV, affiliate and Salem providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14709004. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from KRCW-TV” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.