KVOS-TV (fictional)

KVOS-TV, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 14), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to, United States, serving Northwest Washington and the Northern Olympic Peninsula. The station is owned by -based as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KCWW-TV (channel 68). The two stations share studios on Ellis Street in Bellingham; their shared transmitter is situated atop on  in the, at an altitude of 2,621 feet (799 m) above the adjacent terrain. The station's signal is very well received throughout the British Columbia Lower Mainland, southern Vancouver Island, and much of northwest Washington.

Like with many other Bellingham TV stations, KVOS-TV has a large audience in, Canada. This includes, a city that is ten times more populous than all of KVOS' entire American viewing area combined. For many years, station promos and IDs have read "Bellingham/Vancouver/" to acknowledge its large cross-border viewership in Canada.

More ownership changes
The station came under the ownership of Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 2003, following that company's purchase of Ackerley. On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced that it would be selling half of it's television stations, including KVOS-TV, after being bought by private equity firms. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell several of its television stations to Providence Equity Partners' Newport Television. Providence Equity initially announced that it would not keep KVOS or KFTY in Santa Rosa, California; instead, those stations were to be resold to LK Station Group. However, LK could not obtain financing, so KVOS was instead sold to (KFTY was eventually sold to High Plains Broadcasting, with Newport operating the station, it is now owned today by HC2 Holdings as KEMO-TV.)

Sale to Weigel Broadcasting
Nexstar announced on June 13, 2016, that it would sell KVOS to for $4 million. The sale was required as part of Nexstar's planned merger with to comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership caps. The sale was completed on January 14, 2017.

On September 1, 2018, after a security guard denied him entry into KVOS/KCWW's studio/offices, 19-year-old Joshua Fischbacher crashed a pickup truck into a street-level window of the station's Ellis Street studios - which was stolen around 11:30 a.m. from a subcontractor. All of the duopoly's approximately 120 employees were evacuated and the building was placed on lockdown as troopers searched for the suspect. KVOS ran an automated feed of CBS programming for four hours, then switched to a time-shifted satellite relay of sister station  until KVOS/KCWW master control operators were able to resume broadcasting from the studio (this resulted in most of KVOS' syndicated programming being replaced with reruns of NCIS: Los Angeles and paid programming, and advertisements were replaced with direct response national advertising). Police officers captured the man just after 4:30 p.m. that afternoon, as he was watching news coverage of the incident in one of the facility's offices. Officers found weapons in the truck, but there were no reports of gunshots being fired. No staffers inside the building were injured. No motive for the attack was declared besides a desire to share pro-animal rights content with the station (a USB drive with videos was confiscated by another security guard). Fischbacher was taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation, and was later declared insane and sentenced to 12 months in rehab.

Syndicated programming
Syndicated programming on KVOS-TV includes The Drew Barrymore Show, Judge Judy, Divorce Court, and Judge Mathis, along with 2 Broke Girls and The Goldbergs on weekday evenings.

News operation
KVOS presently broadcasts 34 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday and 4½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays).

On the morning of May 21, 1990, NewsView began broadcasts, originally starting as a half-hour show. NewsView featured a variety of local and regional news, sports, and weather for northwest Washington and the border communities of British Columbia. The first anchor was Cyndy Glenn, followed by Michele Higgins, Susan Cowden, Crystal King, Cara Buckingham, and Ty Ray. Reporters included Jeff Wyngaert, Amy Cloud, Dave Sienko and Joe Bates, while weather duties were covered (in the early years) by Jeff Kelly and Dave George, then Dan Leniczek, Dave Sienko, and Greg Otterholt. The newscast debuted at 6:30 a.m., and eventually expanded to a 90-minute show from 6:30 to 8 a.m.

The station has a high turnover rate among its on-air anchoring and reporting staff, with most eventually moving on to larger markets after a few years. Some staff have been with the station for a longer time, such as weekday evening anchor Grace Folwell, who joined in 1997 as a fill-in anchor.