News Operation
KPTV broadcasts a total of 50 hours of local news a week (8½ hours on weekdays, and five hours each on Saturdays and Sundays), more than any other television station in the state of Oregon (however as is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, KPTV's Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m. newscasts are subject to preemption or delay due to sports coverage from Fox); in addition the station produces a half-hour sports wrap-up show called Oregon Sports Final on Sundays at 11 p.m., and KPTV produces an additional 10 hours of local news for sister station KPDX; KPTV is one of the few Fox affiliates to produce a newscast for another television station in the same market.
Throughout its entire history, as a network affiliate and as an independent station, KPTV has always operated a local news department. The station's long-running primetime newscast, The 10 O'Clock News, first aired in 1970. KPTV was also one of the first television stations in the country to run a mid-afternoon newscast, with a 3 p.m. bulletin airing from 1974 to 1978. Since then (especially after switching to Fox), KPTV has begun to go head-to-head with competitors KGW, KATU and KOIN by taking on a more news-intensive format, which took years to take effect.
The station launched its morning program, Good Day Oregon, in 1996 as a three-hour broadcast. The program has since been extended, and currently runs from 5 a.m. until 9 a.m., KPTV was one of a growing number stations in the country with a morning newscast beginning before 5 a.m. until April 19, 2010, when the 4:30-5 a.m. portion of Good Day Oregon was cut. KPTV is also one of the few local stations and one of a handful of Fox stations to offer a three-hour newscast on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
In 2007, KPTV became the second Portland television station to broadcast its newscasts in widescreen. A year later on March 4, 2008, it expanded its newscast schedule to include a weekday 4 p.m. newscast (which was cancelled in 2011), as well as a weekday 8 p.m. newscast on KPDX, with MyNetworkTV programming on KPDX airing from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. as a result. On June 5, 2007, KPTV became the second Portland TV station to broadcast its daily newscasts in 16:9 standard definition widescreen. The station expanded its 5 p.m. newscast (which had been airing only on Sundays, except when Fox sports programming was scheduled to preempt it) to seven nights a week, now airing on weeknights after its existing 4 p.m. program on September 8, 2008.
On April 19, 2010 KPTV began producing a fifth hour of Good Day Oregon for KPDX called More Good Day Oregon, running from 9-10 a.m. The show features various entertainment and lifestyles topics from a seasoned panel of experts.
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