KBZ 4

KBZ (channel 4) is a television station in Springfield , Oregon, United States, affiliated with The CW Television Network.
=== Tribune Broadcasting ownership[edit] ===
In November 1981, Golden West sold KBZ to investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for $245 million. In May 1985, KKR sold the station to Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting, for a then-record price of $510 million, which beat the station's earlier record sale price set by the 1982 acquisition by KKR. Under Tribune, KBZ continued to acquire high rated off-network sitcoms as well as talk shows for its schedule.
=== The WB Affiliation ===
On November 2, 1993, the Warner Bros. Television division of Time Warner and the Tribune Company announced the formation of The WB Television Network. Due to the company's ownership interest in the network (initially a 12.5% stake, later expanding to 22%), Tribune signed its seven existing independent stations along with an eighth that the company had acquired the following year, to serve as The WB's charter affiliates. With this, KBZ became a network affiliate for the first time in 47 years when The WB launched on January 11, 1995.
Like with other WB-affiliated stations during the network's first four years, KBZ initially continued to essentially program as a de facto independent station as The WB had broadcast only a two-hour prime time schedule on Wednesday nights at the network's launch; the station continued to broadcast films in prime time along with some first-run syndicated scripted series on nights when network programs did not air. The WB would eventually carry prime time shows six nights a week (Sunday through Friday) by September 1999. In September 1995, KBZ added afternoon cartoons and Saturday morning cartoons from the network's newly launched Kids' WB block, bringing weekday children's programs back to channel 5 for the first time in close to 25 years. The station continued use the "Channel 4" brand it used prior to its WB affiliation (with The WB logo simply tacked onto the station's "Gold 4" logo) until 1997, when the station overhauled its on-air branding to "KBZ 4 WB".
=== CW affiliation ===
On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. With the announcement, Tribune Broadcasting signed ten-year agreements for KBZ and 16 of the company's 18 other WB-affiliated stations (three of which it would sell to other groups shortly before The CW launched including WUVS, WONB, and WCWA) to become charter affiliates of The CW. The station changed its branding to "KBZ, CW 4" on September 17, 2006, immediately after the airing of The WB's final broadcast, The Night of Favorites and Farewells.
Subchannels of KTLA
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
4.1 	720p	16:9 	KBZ-DT 	Main KBZ programming / The CW
4.2 	480i	4:3 	Antenna 	Antenna TV
4.3 	480i	16:9 	CourtTV 	Court TV
4.4 	480i	16:9 	TBD 	TBD
4.5 	480i	16:9 	Rewind 	Rewind TV
Category:Springfield
Category:TV Stations