Kptv

Throughout the 1970s, KPTV continued to focus on local personalities and programming. Jimmy Jones calls a Trail Blazers basketball game from Portland's Memorial Coliseum. The station offered live coverage of the Portland Trailblazers basketball, Buckeroo hockey, Timbers soccer, Beavers baseball, and college football and basketball games. KPTV also became the first station in Oregon to offer a nightly 10:00pm newscast, designed especially to fit the schedules of busy Northwest workers, The 10 O'Clock News . In the 1980s, KPTV told viewers "The Entertainment's on Us," with nightly blockbuster movies, off-network hits like Cheers, and Family Ties, and the highly anticipated Star Trek: The Next Generation. The 10 O'Clock News also extended its reach, signing with the Cable News Network to offer global coverage of news and events. The accolades followed, as "View" magazine named KPTV one of the top 25 television stations in the nation.