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Seattle, Washington, USA
KING-TV (channel 5) is an NBC-affiliated television station in Seattle, Washington. It shares studios at the Home Plate Center in Seattle's SoDo district with sister independent station KONG (channel 16).
Channel 5 first signed on November 25, 1948, as KRSC-TV, the first television station in the Pacific Northwest. Dorothy Bullitt's King Broadcasting Company purchased the station eight months later for $375,000 and renamed it KING-TV. The station became an exclusive NBC affiliate on September 27, 1959. The Bullitt family sold King Broadcasting to the Providence Journal Company in 1997 (finalized following a 1991 announcement); Providence Journal was acquired by Belo Corporation the same year, and Belo was acquired by Gannett in 2013. Gannett split its print and broadcast divisions in 2015, with the broadcast side becoming Tegna Inc. Nexstar Media Group announced its acquisition of Tegna in August 2025, completing the merger in March 2026, making KING-TV a Tegna subsidiary of Nexstar.
Website
https://www.king5.com
Sources
KING5. About KING5
Seattle Times. KING 5 Owner Tegna Poised to Sell to Private Equity Firm