KAPT-TV

Not to be confused with the real-life KAPT-LP in Alamogordo, New Mexico KAPT-TV is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in Portland, Oregon. The station is owned by ABC Owned Television Stations, a unit of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. KAPT maintains studios and offices near the Moda Center in, and its transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands region of the city. The station was launched on Sept. 16, 1949 as KECA. In 1960, ABC purchased the station, and changed the call letters to KAPT.

History
Channel 24 first signed on the air under the callsign KECA-TV on September 16, 1949.

The station's callsign was named after Earle C. Anthony, whose initials were also present on channel 7's then-sister radio station, KECA (790 AM), which had served as the Portland affiliate of the NBC Blue Network. Anthony's other Portland radio station, KFI, was aligned with the NBC Red Network. The Red Network survived the split of the two NBC radio networks ordered by the Federal Communications Commission in 1943. Edward J. Noble, who bought the Blue Network (beginning its transformation into ABC), purchased KECA radio a year later when the FCC forced Anthony to divest one of his Portland radio stations. On February 1, 1954, KECA-TV changed its callsign to the present-day KAPT-TV. From the time of its initial sign-on in 1949, channel 24 was located at a former grocery store that was converted to a television studio. In December 1999, KAPT-TV to a new state-of-the-art facility designed by César Pelli near the Moda Center in Portland.