KONG (channel 16) is an independent television station licensed to Everett, Washington, United States, serving the Seattle area.

The two stations share studios at the Home Plate Center in the SoDo district of Seattle; KONG's transmitter is located in the city's Queen Anne neighborhood.

Plans for KONG dated as far back as the early 1980s, when a San Francisco–based investor group obtained the construction permit for a new station in Everett.

This triggered opposition from Seattle's KING-TV and its owner, King Broadcasting, which believed that the two stations could cause confusion; KONG hoped that the original 1933 film King Kong could be its first program[6] and planned to operate as an independent station with sports, movies, and reruns, from a main studio near Paine Field.

[10] For years, KONG promised it would be on the air, but continued appeals of the tower siting decision and delays in securing financing held the station back.

[26] KONG began airing local newscasts on February 1, 1999, with the debut of the half-hour KING 5 News at 10, originally anchored by Lori Matsukawa.

The SuperSonics and Storm departed for FSN Northwest in 2004, when the NBA team opted to move all its games to cable and get out of the production business.

[34][35] In 2009–2010, after the SuperSonics left for Oklahoma City, KONG and one of KING-TV's subchannels aired a package of Portland Trail Blazers basketball games.

[36] KING and KONG were the first broadcast partner for Seattle Sounders FC when the club debuted in Major League Soccer in 2009.

One deal made KONG the home of Seattle Reign FC women's soccer, with a local TV schedule of 11 matches.

[40] The second made KONG the home of all non-nationally televised Seattle Kraken hockey games starting in the 2024–25 season, replacing Root Sports Northwest.