Ramblin' Rod was the longest-running kid's show in Portland TV history, airing from 1964 to 1997. While Rusty Nails ran Three Stooges shorts, Ramblin' Rod ran Popeye cartoons. KPTV can boast being the home of the two top children's TV hosts in Portland's history: Rusty Nails, a sweet-natured clown who was the rough inspiration for The Simpsons creator Matt Groening's Krusty the Klown and "Ramblin' Rod" Anders. Color broadcasting by KPTV ended when NBC changed affiliations to KGW, in 1959, but returned in 1962, when ABC began color broadcasting. Later that year, KPTV was sold to the NAFI Corporation, which then purchased Chris-Craft Boats in early 1960 and changed its name to Chris-Craft Industries. On April 17, 1959, KPTV swapped affiliations with KGW and became an ABC affiliate. On May 1, the two stations merged under KPTV's license, but using the stronger channel 12 signal (channel 27 was later used by independent station KHTV, which was on the air for less than four months in 1959 more recently, the channel 27 frequency was used by the digital signal of PBS member station KOPB-TV, which returned to its original channel 10 assignment following the analog shutdown the KHTV call letters were later used to sign on channel 39 in Houston in 1967, that station used the callsign from its launch until 1999 it is now KIAH). On April 17, 1957, Detroit businessman George Haggerty purchased KPTV from Storer and KLOR from its local owners. In 1956, KLOR lost its affiliations with both networks as the DuMont Television Network ceased operations, and the ABC affiliation moved to KGW-TV (channel 8) when that station signed on the air in December. However, KLOR's network affiliations were short-lived. The VHF channel 12 allocation in Portland was first occupied by KLOR-TV, which signed on March 8, 1955, as a primary ABC affiliate with a secondary DuMont affiliation. On August 11, 1954, KPTV became the first television station in Portland to broadcast in color, three days before KOIN achieved the same milestone. Empire Coil sold KPTV and its other broadcast property, WXEL (now WJW-TV) in Cleveland, to Storer Broadcasting on November 17, 1954. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. KPTV also aired programs from the short-lived Paramount Television Network during the early 1950s in fact, it was one of that network's strongest affiliates, carrying Paramount programs such as Time For Beany, Hollywood Wrestling, and Bandstand Revue. KPTV then became a primary NBC affiliate, and also continued to air some ABC and DuMont programming. CBS programming was dropped from KPTV's schedule when Portland's first VHF station, KOIN-TV (channel 6), signed on the air on October 15, 1953. As Portland's only television station at the time, it carried programming from all four networks of the time: ABC, CBS, NBC and the DuMont Television Network. The station was originally owned by Empire Coil. (the first experimental UHF station was Bridgeport, Connecticut's KC2XAK on channel 24). KPTV originally broadcast on channel 27, making it also the nation's first commercial television station to broadcast on the UHF band. KPTV signed on the air on September 20, 1952, as Oregon's first television station.
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