KVDO-TV

KVDO-TV was a television station broadcasting on channel 3 in Salem, Oregon, United States, that operated between 1970 and 1983. Originally intended as a local independent station serving the Willamette Valley, financial considerations resulted in a contested sale to Liberty Television, owner of KEZI in Eugene, Oregon, in 1972. However, for media concentration reasons, the Federal Communications Commission ordered KVDO-TV sold within three years. As a result, the Oregon Educational and Public Broadcasting Service (OEPBS) acquired KVDO-TV in 1976, resulting in a station that often—and controversially—duplicated OEPBS's transmitters at Portland and Corvallis.

For channel 22 in Corpus Christi, Texas, from 1954 to 1957, see KIII.
KVDO-TV
Moved to Bend as KOAB-TV
Logo in the early 1970s, when channel 3 was a private commercial station
  • Salem, Oregon
  • United States
Channels
Ownership
Owner
  • Oregon Educational and Public Broadcasting Service
  • (The State of Oregon, Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education, For and On Behalf of the Oregon Commission on Public Broadcasting)
History
First air date
February 24, 1970 (1970-02-24)
Last air date
July 31, 1983 (1983-07-31)
Call sign meaning
"K-Video"
Technical information
ERP19.5 kW
HAAT1,070 ft (330 m)
Transmitter coordinates44°51′17″N 123°07′17″W

In 1981, OEPBS applied to move channel 3, and KVDO-TV, from Salem to Bend, which at the time did not have public television service. The move was made in 1983, and the station was renamed KOAB-TV.

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