KTVZ (channel 21) is a television station in Bend, Oregon, United States, serving Central Oregon as an affiliate of NBC and The CW. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside low-power, Class A dual Fox/Telemundo affiliate KFXO-CD (channel 39). The two stations share studios on Northwest O. B. Riley Road in Bend; KTVZ's transmitter is located on Awbrey Butte west of US 97.
History
KTVZ went on-the-air November 6, 1977, at 12 p.m.[1] It was started by former owners Ray Johnson of KMED-AM-TV (now KTVL) in Medford and C. Howard Lane from KOIN-TV in Portland who formed Ponderosa Broadcasting, Inc. The station has always been an NBC affiliate but also began to carry CBS