KONG (TV)

KONG (TV)

KONG, virtual channel 16, is a television station based in Seattle, Washington. Owned by the Belo Corp., KONG's city of license is Everett, Washington. It is a sister station to KING-TV, and is run out of KING's studios just east of Seattle Center.

KONG broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 31, transmitted with 1MW of power from Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, and can be received over much of the Puget Sound area. Western Washington cable TV systems usually carry KONG on cable channel 6, next to its sister station KING-TV channel 5. Local-area cable companies, Comcast and Wave Broadband also carry the high-definition simulcast on channel 106.

The call letters were retained as a tongue-in-cheek reference to King Kong, which made both stations easily marketable together.