KCPQ (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Tacoma,
Washington, U.S., broadcasting the Fox network in the Seattle area. It
is owned and operated by the network and shares its studios in Seattle
with KZJO. Built in 1953, it signed on as KMO-TV and was soon acquired
by Seattle broadcaster J. Elroy McCaw, who ran it as KTVW cheaply. His
estate sold the station in 1972; it fell into court-appointed
receivership in 1974 and was taken off the air. The Clover Park School
District acquired the station, which it used to replace KPEC-TV, and
operated it as public television station KCPQ between 1976 and 1980. Due
to financial exigencies, the school district sold the station to
commercial interest Kelly Broadcasting in 1980. KCPQ became a successful
independent station, affiliated with Fox in 1986, and started producing
local newscasts. Tribune Broadcasting acquired the station in 1999; Fox
purchased it in 2020 from Nexstar Media Group after multiple attempts to
own a station in the market.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCPQ>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1871:
José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, began a four-year
premiership as Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, the longest in
the state's history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Paranhos,_Viscount_of_Rio_Branco>
1941:
The German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats
of World War II, disappeared with 45 men on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-47_%281938%29>
1965:
Unarmed civil rights activists marching from Selma to
Montgomery, Alabama, were attacked by police on "Bloody Sunday".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches>
2021:
A series of four explosions at a military barracks in Bata,
Equatorial Guinea caused at least 107 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Bata_explosions>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
green fingers:
(idiomatic, informal) A seemingly natural gardening ability.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/green_fingers>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are striving to forge our union with purpose. To compose a
country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of
man.
--Amanda Gorman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amanda_Gorman>
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