KRCW-TV

KRCW-TV (channel 32) is a television station licensed to Salem, Oregon, United States, serving as the Portland-area outlet for The CW. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside CBS affiliate KOIN (channel 6). The two stations share studios in the basement of the KOIN Tower skyscraper on Southwest Columbia Street in downtown Portland; KRCW-TV's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands neighborhood of the city.

Channel 32 began broadcasting as Christian station KUTF on May 8, 1989, from studios in Salem and a transmitter near Molalla. It was constructed by South Carolina–based Dove Broadcasting but never received adequate financial support from its viewers or coverage on local cable systems; it was off the air for six days in 1990, and Dove sold the station to Communications Programming Agency in 1991. The new owners relaunched the station as KEBN, a secular independent station known as "Oregon's New Eagle 32", in 1992. Amid moving the studio operation from Salem to Beaverton, the station went off the air in October 1992 and was later placed into receivership. Channel 32, Inc., purchased the station out of bankruptcy and returned it to the air in July 1994.

KEBN affiliated with The WB at its January 1995 launch and became known as KWBP later that year. The station was sold twice during The WB's existence, first to ACME Television in 1997 and then to Tribune Broadcasting in 2003. KWBP and 15 other Tribune stations became charter affiliates of The CW upon its creation in September 2006. In 2019, Nexstar acquired Tribune, bringing KOIN and KRCW under the same ownership. Immediately, KOIN debuted expanded local newscasts on KRCW. KRCW-TV is one of two ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) host stations for the Portland market; in turn, other stations broadcast its subchannels on its behalf.