Fisher Communications

Fisher Communications Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: FSCI
Industry	Broadcasting, Television, Radio
Founded	1910
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington.
Area served	Northwestern United States
Key people	Colleen Brown (President) & (CEO) Joseph L. Lovejoy (CFO) & (Senior Vice President)
Employees	882
Website	fsci.com

Before they were in broadcasting, the Fisher fortune rested on the Fisher Flour Mill on Seattle's Harbor Island, founded 1910.

Fisher Plaza, the company's headquarters.

Fisher Communications (NASDAQ: FSCI) is a media company in the United States. Based in Seattle, Washington, the company owns a number of radio and television stations in the Western United States.

History

Also see KOMO (AM)

Broadcast Stations

Radio Stations

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Current ARM Rank	Market	Station	Format
14.	Seattle - Tacoma	KVI 570	Hot Talk
		KOMO 1000 **	News
		KPLZ-FM 101.5	Hot Adult Contemporary
296.	Great Falls	KXGF 1400	Oldies
		KQDI 1450	News / Talk / Sports
		KAAK 98.9	Hot AC
		KIKF 104.9	Country
		KQDI-FM 106.1	Classic Rock
		KIMO 107.3	Active Rock

Television Stations

(From 2001-2008, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho ABC and CBS stations used a logo having a blue rectangle with the TV number in the rectangle and lowercase call signs on the top.)

Current DMA Rank	Market	Station ... Channel (DT)	Network Affiliation	Founded	Acquired
13.	Seattle - Tacoma - Olympia - Bellingham	KOMO-TV 4 (38) **	ABC This TV (DT2)	1953	1953
		KUNS-TV 51 (50)	Univision	1988	2006
22.	Portland - Vancouver - Salem	KATU 2 (43) **	ABC This TV (DT2)	1962	1962
		KUNP 16	Univision	1999	2006
75.	Spokane - Coeur d'Alene - Lewiston - Clarkston - Pullman - Moscow	KLEW-TV 3 (32) ++	CBS	1955	1999
112.	Boise	KBOI-TV 2 (28) ++	CBS	1953	1999
		KYUU-LP 35	The CW	2004	2006
119.	Eugene - Coos Bay - Roseburg	KVAL-TV 13 (25) ++ / KCBY-TV 11 (21) ++ / KPIC 4 (19) ++	CBS This TV (DT2)	1954 / 1956 / 1960	1999
125.	Bakersfield	KBAK-TV 29 (33)	CBS	1953	2008
		KBFX-CA 58 (29)	Fox This TV (DT2)	1990	2008
126.	Yakima - Walla Walla - Pasco - Richland - Kennewick	KUNW-CA 2 / KVVK-CA 15 / KORX-CA 16	Univision	1996 / 1996 / 2001	2007
		KIMA-TV 29 (33) ++ / KEPR-TV 19 (18) ++	CBS The CW (DT2)	1953 / 1954	1999
162.	Idaho Falls - Pocatello	KIDK 3 (36) ++1	CBS	1953	1999
		KXPI-LD 341	MyNetworkTV	2001	2006
189.	Bend	KABH-CA 15	Univision	1993	N/A (Operated by Fisher under an LMA)

• ¹: Fisher holds the licenses to KIDK and KXPI-LD; however, they are operated by the News-Press & Gazette Company through shared services agreements with Idaho Falls' ABC affiliate KIFI-TV.

Former Fisher Stations

Current DMA Rank	Market	Station	Years Owned	Currently
55.	Fresno - Visalia	KJEO 47 ++	1999–2000	CBS network affiliate KGPE, owned by High Plains Broadcasting and operated by Newport Television
115.	Augusta	WFXG 54 ++	1999–2003	Fox network affiliate, owned by Raycom Media
126.	Yakima - Walla Walla - Pasco - Richland - Kennewick	KWWA-CA 49	2007–2008	Ceased operations April 17, 2008 due to antenna failure.
128.	Columbus - Opelika - Auburn	WXTX 54 ++	1999–2003	Dual Fox-MyNetworkTV affiliate, owned by Southeastern Media Holdings and operated by Raycom Media

Notes:

1) ** indicates a station built and signed-on by Fisher;

2) ++ indicates a station acquired as part of the merger with Retlaw Broadcasting.

Contract Dispute

On December 17, 2008 Fisher Communications' contract expired with DISH Network. As a result of this contract dispute stations owned by Fisher Communications are no longer available to DISH Network subscribers. DISH Network claims that Fisher is asking for over an 80% increase. The Fisher stations that returned to DISH Network are: KOMO and KUNS in Seattle, Wash.; KATU and KUNP in Portland, Ore.; KIMA in Yakima, Wash.; KVAL in Eugene, Ore.; KBCI (now KBOI) in Boise, Idaho; KIDK in Idaho Falls, Idaho; and KBAK and KBFX in Bakersfield, Calif. DISH Network restored the service to their customers at 10:25 p.m. PST on June 10.

External links

• Fisher Communications, Inc. - official website