KPEC

KPEC is an UPN affiliate serving Vancouver, WA, and the Vancouver area. Broadcasting on channel 38, KPEC is owned and operated by Gannett Communications. The station was launched in 1975 as a PBS affiliate by the Clover Park Corporation. After years of being a PBS affiliate and owned by Clover Park, the company announced that they're getting out of the broadcasting business and sold the station to Oakhurst Broadcasting, effectively ending their affiliation with PBS. Oakhurst Broadcasting preceded to run the station as an independent until a year later when KOUR-LD (now KMVN-LD) left UPN to join MyNetworkTV. KPEC immediately took the UPN affiliation, where they remain to this day. On Jan. 30, 2016, it was announced that Island Television, as well as Higgins Broadcasting, and Oakhurst Broadcasting, were merging into Adelphia Communications. So Oakhurst Broadcasting had to sell the station, and the station was sold to Evans Communications. On May 17, 2017, Evans Communications sold KPEC to Gannett Communications.
Category:Channel 38
Category:Vancouver, Washington
Category:United Paramount Network affiliates
Category:Former PBS member stations
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1975
Category:Gannett Communications