KIRO-TV

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 (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Bellingham, Washington, United States, serving as the Central Television Network outlet for the Seattle area. Owned and operated by the network's Central Networks Corporation, 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.
KIRO first broadcast on UHF channel 24, signing on September 23, 1952, licensed at Seattle, making it the nation's first commercial TV station to broadcast on UHF. As the FCC would not require television sets to include UHF tuners until 1961, in 1956, KIRO moved to VHF channel 5; the channel 24 position was later given to upstart independent KLAW-TV (now an XYZ station) that same year.
==News operation==
KIRO-TV presently broadcasts 57 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 11½ hours each weekday, five hours on Saturdays and 4½ hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in Seattle. The station produced a half-hour sports wrap-up show called Seatle Sports Extra that aired on Sundays at 11 p.m. (the program ended on September 10, 2017 and was replaced by the Sunday edition of the 11 p.m. newscast on September 17).
===Theme history===
*News ticker (196?-1978)
*KSL 1975 News Theme (1978-1981)
*KSL 1981 News Theme (1981-1985)
*The Spirit of Oklahoma (1985-1990)
*WJLA 1987 News Theme (1990-1996)
*Allegro - Gari Media Group (1996-2000)
*This Is Your News - Gari Media Group (2000-)
**This Is Your News (KBTX Version) (2010–present)
==Logos==
KIRO 5 1974.svg|Logo from 1974-1978
KIRO-TV 5 Coming On.png|TV-5 is Comin' On in 1977 station ID (1977); the colors were in greenish hues due to tape detonation
KIRO KSL-esque Circle 5.svg|Circle 5 logo similar to KSL-TV, used since 1978
KUTV circle laser 5.svg|Inverted variant of the Circle 5, primarily used from 1978-1989
KSL-TV ID (1980s).png|Station ID (mid-1980s)
KIRO 24 news open.png|News open since 2018
Category:Bellingham, Washington
Category:Seattle
Category:Washington (state)
Category:Channel 5
Category:Central Television Network
Category:Central owned and operated stations
Category:Central affiliates
Category:The Pierre Péladeau Company
Category:NewsWorld network affiliates
Category:Avant Garde Network affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1952