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KLSR-TV

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This article covers KLSR before and after the 1997 facility swap. For information on KEVU on channel 34 from 1991 to 1997, see KEVU-CD.

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Former call signs
K25AS (1987–1997)
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Analog: 25 (UHF, 1987–1997); 34 (UHF, 1997–2009)
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Station branded as "Laser 25" at launch[1]
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ERP88 kW
HAAT372 m (1,220 ft)
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KLSR-TV (channel 34) is a television station in Eugene, Oregon, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Cox Media Group alongside KEVU-CD (channel 23), an independent station with MyNetworkTV. The two stations share studios on Chad Drive in Eugene; KLSR's transmitter is located on Blanton Heights.

KLSR began as a low-power station (officially K25AS) on June 12, 1987, with a format consisting primarily of music videos. Although it lacked cable carriage until 1989, its strong viewership within months of launching allowed it to secure a Fox affiliation. Despite being a low-power station, it produced its own prime time newscast for several years. It remained the Eugene Fox affiliate even though a full-power station, KEVU, began on channel 34 in 1991. California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. acquired KLSR in 1993 and KEVU in 1994; though it stated its intention to move the Fox programming to the full-power channel 34 at the time, it did not do so until April 1, 1997. Cox Media Group acquired KLSR in 2022. Eugene CBS affiliate KVAL-TV produces 7 and 10 p.m. newscasts for KLSR-TV on weeknights.

History

On June 12, 1987,[3]Template:R/superscript a low-power[4] television station began broadcasting in Eugene.[3]Template:R/superscript Bearing the call sign K25AS[5] but known as KLSR, the station was owned by Metrocom of Oregon and initially featured music videos on weekdays.[6]Template:R/superscript Three Eugene-area radio personalities as well as the general manager and others held down on-air shifts during the week, and the station also presented on-the-hour newscasts and more traditional syndicated programming on the weekends.[3] During midday, it aired a bingo program that gave out prizes to participants.[6] It also had a morning show; Christopher Judge, a former University of Oregon football player, won the contest to host it, launching his acting career.[7] Despite lacking coverage on cable, KLSR was successful enough to garner a one-percent share of the audience later in 1987, a feat that earned it an affiliation with the Fox network in January 1988. KLSR was the first low-power station to affiliate with Fox.[5]Template:R/superscript[8] In 1989, the station added a translator to serve Corvallis.[9] KLSR struggled to secure a slot on the Tele-Communications Inc. cable system in Eugene and did not do so until 1989,[10]Template:R/superscript first on a shared-time basis with KTVU from Oakland, California,[11] and then on a full-time basis beginning in 1990.[12] That year, KLSR signed a three-year deal with the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team to carry games that in other parts of the state were distributed on cable systems.[13]

Originally operating from studios on 18th Avenue,[3]Template:R/superscript it had relocated to Goodpasture Island Road by October 1992, when Metrocom agreed to sell it to California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. (COBI) for $3.15 million. Metrocom sold because its primary stakeholder, the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, wished to exit broadcasting; COBI owned KOBI-TV in Medford[14] and expanded into Eugene in response to Eugene-based Chambers Communications expanding into the Medford market.[15]Template:R/superscript After closing on KLSR, COBI acquired a Eugene full-power station in 1994. KEVU (channel 34) was built by Raul Palazuelos and began broadcasting on September 30, 1991, as a low-budget independent station.[16][15] COBI initially promised that the Fox affiliation would move to KEVU upon approval of the transaction,[10] but KEVU continued on channel 34 and affiliated with UPN when it launched in January 1995.[17]

On April 1, 1997, COBI moved KLSR to channel 34—which became KLSR-TV—and KEVU to the low-power channel 25 as KEVU-LP; the stations retained their existing cable numbers, only exchanging transmission facilities.[18] That year, the station began construction on a new studio facility on Chad Drive, designed to house a news department.[19] COBI was fined $13,000 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in November 2012. The company had failed to file paperwork for children's E/I programming for KLSR-TV's Eugene translator, K19GH-D, in the previous four years, even though it was filed for the main station.[20]

In 2022, California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. sold KLSR-TV and KEVU-CD to Atlanta-based Cox Media Group for $7,222,000.[21][22] Under a local marketing agreement first signed in 2021, KLSR–KEVU's sales force markets the advertising time on Eugene radio station KORE (1050 AM).[23]

Newscasts

Script error: No such module "labelled list hatnote". As early as 1989, KLSR produced its own 10 p.m. newscast,[24] known as Prime Time News. In October 1991, KLSR entered into a deal with Eugene CBS affiliate KVAL-TV (channel 13) to produce the 10 p.m. newscast on its behalf for at least six months;[25] it lasted two years before KVAL opted to exit the partnership, citing low ratings.[26] In the mid-1990s, KLSR aired a half-hour of Northwest Cable News at 10 p.m.[19]Template:R/superscript

Under a news share arrangement, KVAL-TV currently produces 7 and 10 p.m. newscasts for KLSR-TV on weeknights, as well as rebroadcasts of KVAL's weekend evening newscasts and a weekday half-hour at 7 a.m. The 10 p.m. news was a half-hour except between 2016 and 2017, when it was broadcast as a full hour.[27]

Technical information

Subchannels

KLSR-TV's transmitter is located on Blanton Heights.[2]Template:R/superscript The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KLSR-TV[28]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
34.1 720p 16:9 KLSR-HD Fox
34.2 KEVU-DT KEVU-CD (Independent with MyNetworkTV)

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  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

KLSR-TV, along with KEZI, opted to shut down its analog signal on the original digital television transition date of February 17, 2009.[29] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31, using virtual channel 34.[30]

Translators

KLSR-TV's signal is rebroadcast by translators to communities throughout southern and south-central Oregon:[31]

Notes

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  1. ^ Of KLSR, as K25AS, a low-power station. This technical facility is now KEVU-CD. The full-service channel 34 facility began September 30, 1991.

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."KLSR Laser 25". The Register-Guard (Advertisement). July 11, 1987. p. TV Week 11. Retrieved December 25, 2025.
  2. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for KLSR-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."KLSR-TV goes on the air Friday night". The Register-Guard. Eugene, Oregon. June 6, 1987. p. TV and Radio Week 3. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bishop, Bill (January 8, 1987). "New Eugene TV station to go on air". The Register-Guard. pp. 1C, 2C. Retrieved December 25, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fox on LPTV". Broadcasting. August 22, 1988. p. 64. Template:Pq.
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Westlund, Chuck (September 4, 1987). "New station offers alternative to cable". Corvallis Gazette-Times. Corvallis, Oregon. p. B2. Retrieved April 28, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Welch, Bob (March 14, 2002). "Curious minds want to know". The Register-Guard. p. 1C. Template:ProQuest.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Couzens, Michael (December 1988). "Putting Down Roots: Low-power television stations are finding programming games they can afford to play" (PDF). Channels. p. 113.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."KLSR-TV to beef up local signal". Corvallis Gazette-Times. Corvallis, Oregon. February 10, 1989. p. Entertainer 18. Retrieved April 28, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hymen, Michelle (March 29, 1994). "Sale could shuffle affiliations". The Register-Guard. pp. 1B, 2B.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Boyd, Jim (May 3, 1989). "KLSR to share cable Channel 29 with KTVU". The Register-Guard. p. 13D. Retrieved December 14, 2025.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Changes planned on 4 cable channels". The Register-Guard. March 31, 1990. p. TV Week 3. Retrieved December 14, 2025.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Blazer games to be shown". The Register-Guard. Eugene, Oregon. March 28, 1990. p. 8B. Retrieved November 24, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shannon, Tad (October 16, 1992). "Broadcast Chain Agrees to Buy KLSR". The Register-Guard. p. 7D. Template:ProQuest.
  15. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hymen, Michelle (March 29, 1994). "Prime time: A big-money deal rewrites the script for little KEVU". The Register-Guard. pp. 1B, 2B. Template:ProQuest.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New channel to start Sept. 30". The Register-Guard. September 14, 1991. p. TV Week 2.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kidd, Joe (December 21, 1995). "Prime Timing: KEVU-TV makes a breakthrough". The Register-Guard. pp. 1B, 6B.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2 stations trade spots on the dial". The Register-Guard. March 29, 1997. p. TV Week 4.
  19. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wihtol, Christian (June 10, 1997). "Fox affiliate to move into local news market". The Register-Guard. p. 1B.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eggerton, John (November 9, 2012). "Oregon Broadcaster Fined for Kids TV Reporting Error". Broadcasting & Cable. Archived from the original on October 6, 2022. Retrieved April 28, 2025. The article in error gave its call sign as "KSLR".
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Miller, Mark K. (February 24, 2022). "Cox Media Buying KLSR-KEVU Eugene, Ore". TVNewsCheck. Archived from the original on February 25, 2022. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Miller, Mark K. (May 3, 2022). "Cox Media Closes On Two Eugene, Ore., Stations". TVNewsCheck. Archived from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Local Marketing Agreement" (PDF). Public Inspection File. Federal Communications Commission. August 11, 2021.
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Biel, Jacquelyn (January 1989). "Eugene's KLSR-TV 25 A Lesson In Style" (PDF). The LPTV Report. pp. 1, 8–11. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 20, 2024. Retrieved April 28, 2025.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wright, Jeff (August 27, 1991). "KVAL, KLSR to attempt joint news broadcast". The Register-Guard. pp. 1C, 3C.
  26. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.James, Joni (July 9, 1993). "TV stations pull 10 p.m. newscast". The Register-Guard. pp. 1B, 2B.
  27. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."News Share Agreement (and Amendments)" (PDF). Public Inspection File. Federal Communications Commission. November 3, 2014.
  28. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."RabbitEars TV Query for KLSR". RabbitEars. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  29. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wright, Jeff (February 13, 2009). "Two local television stations delay switch to all-digital broadcasting". The Register-Guard. p. B13. Template:ProQuest.
  30. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. May 23, 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
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