KDO-TV

KDO-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 3, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to, United States, serving Northwest Washington and the Northern Olympic Peninsula. The station is owned by, and is a sister station to the company's sole radio properties, KDO (1290 AM) and KDO-FM (101.5 FM; along with KDO's hot adult contemporary-formatted translator K258AC on 99.5 FM). Together, the four outlets are also known as the KDO Media Group. The four outlets share studios on West Illinois Street in Bellingham; KDO-TV's transmitter is located on on.

Like with many other Bellingham TV stations, KDO-TV has a large audience in, Canada. This includes, a city that is ten times more populous than all of KDO-TV's entire American viewing area combined.

History
KDO-TV, founded in 1949 by KDO owner Hubert Saint-Yves, signed-on for the first time on August 1, 1951. It was the first television station in Northwest Washington and the first VHF station in the state outside of.

Saint-Yves' estate sold KDO-TV-AM-FM to in 1989. After the sale of WOI-DT, WHBF-TV and KCAU-TV to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group was completed on March 13, 2014, KDO-TV and fellow ABC affiliates WAKC-TV in Akron, Ohio, KLKN in Lincoln, Nebraska and WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island would become the only stations with a major network affiliation still owned by Citadel; the company also owns a news-intensive independent station, WSNN-LD/Suncoast News Network in Sarasota, Florida.

On May 16, 2019, it was announced that Standard Media would acquire KDO-TV-AM-FM, K258AC, WAKC, KLKN and WLNE for $83 million. The sale was completed on September 5.

Syndicated programming
In addition to the ABC network schedule, syndicated programming on KDO-TV includes Caught in Providence (which originated on sister station WLNE-TV), TMZ on TV (a rarity for an ABC station), The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Dr. Oz Show, and Dr. Phil.

News operation
KDO-TV presently broadcasts 27 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).

For most of its history, KDO-TV has been the far-and-away ratings leader in the Bellingham-Blaine-San Juan Islands market.

Notable current on-air staff

 * Dominick Rader - news anchor
 * Jessica Gold - news anchor
 * Thomas L. Vingoe Jr. - news anchor/reporter
 * Almesha Kitt - reporter
 * Thomas L. Vingoe - veteran meteorologist

Notable former on-air staff

 * Al Zelikovitch - news anchor, 1966-2013, now retired
 * Frank Hutchinson - news anchor/reporter, 1997-2015, now with KMON-TV
 * Chuck Elphicke - investigative reporter, 2010-2016, now back in at KLMD-TV