KIRO-TV

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KIRO-TV

Seattle–Tacoma, Washington United States
City	Seattle, Washington
Channels	Digital: 23 (UHF) Virtual: 7
Branding	KIRO 7 Telemundo Seattle (DT4)
Programming
Affiliations	7.1: CBS 7.4: Telemundo for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Cox Media Group (KIRO-TV, Inc.)
History
Founded	April 1955
First air date	February 8, 1958 (66 years ago) (1958-02-08)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 7 (VHF, 1958–2009) Digital: 39 (UHF, 1999–2019)
Former affiliations	Primary: UPN (March 1995–June 1997) Secondary: UPN (January–March 1995)
Call sign meaning	Derived from former sister station KIRO; pronounced like the word "Cairo"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	66781
ERP	715 kW
HAAT	257 m (843 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	47°37′58.9″N 122°21′23.9″W / 47.633028°N 122.356639°W / 47.633028; -122.356639
Translator(s)	see § Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.kiro7.com telemundoseattle.com

KIRO-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Seattle, Washington, United States, affiliated with CBS and Telemundo. Owned by Cox Media Group, the station maintains studios on Third Avenue in the Belltown section of Downtown Seattle, and its transmitter is located in the city's Queen Anne neighborhood, adjacent to the station's original studios.

KIRO-TV signed on in 1958 as the last commercial VHF television station for the Seattle metropolitan area; owing to its status as the television extension to KIRO (710 AM), the station immediately took the CBS affiliation from Tacoma-licensed KTNT-TV (now KSTW), but they were forced to share the affiliation for two years after the owners of both stations settled a lawsuit over the affiliation switch. Subsequently owned for more than three decades by the broadcasting division of the LDS Church, KIRO-TV briefly became a UPN affiliate when KSTW reaffiliated with CBS in 1995 during a nationwide affiliation shuffle, but rejoined the network in 1997 via a three-way trade that involved the two stations.