History
The KONG call sign was first granted on April 6, 1984. When it was applied for, it immediately drew a legal complaint from King Broadcasting against Carl Washington's KONG TV, Inc., the first broadcaster to apply for a license for Everett's channel 16. They had planned to go on the air on June 1 of that year, with studios in Everett and a sales office in Seattle, but kept getting bogged down by years of legal challenges from residents on Cougar Mountain who objected to the Electromagnetic radiation from an additional broadcaster. After the legal challenges to the transmitter, KONG lay dormant until broadcasters came up with innovative ways to program additional stations in their area.
KONG signed on the air on July 8, 1997. It was locally owned, but managed by KING-TV (which Belo had just acquired) through a local marketing agreement. Belo bought Channel 16 outright in 2000, when the Federal Communications Commission began to permit duopolies.
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