KPTV (channel 12) is a television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.

The two stations share studios on NW Greenbrier Parkway in Beaverton; KPTV's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands section of Portland.

CBS programming was dropped from KPTV's schedule when Portland's first VHF station, KOIN (channel 6), signed on the air on October 15, 1953.

[10] KPTV was the home of the two top children's TV hosts in Portland's history: Rusty Nails, a quiet-natured clown who was the rough inspiration for The Simpsons creator Matt Groening's Krusty the Klown; and "Ramblin' Rod" Anders.

Frank Bonnema, news reporter and afternoon movie host, served as the voice of Portland Wrestling until shortly before his death on October 5, 1982.

KPTV had originated telecasts of professional wrestling in 1953, with commentator Bob Abernathy, but lost the franchise to rival KOIN two years later.

Later wrestling commentators were KISN radio DJ Don Coss and former wrestlers Dutch Savage and Stan Stasiak.

In 1970, KPTV became the first television station in the market to broadcast Portland Trail Blazers basketball games, with sports director Jimmy Jones serving as the team's first play-by-play television announcer; KPTV maintained the broadcast rights to Blazers games until the end of the 1977–78 season.

In 1977, Chris-Craft placed its self-named television subsidiary underneath a holding company called BHC, Inc.[11] KPTV carried Operation Prime Time programming at least in 1978.

By 1988, KPTV was one of several Fox affiliates nationwide (along with its Minneapolis–Saint Paul sister station, KMSP-TV) that were underwhelmed by the network's programming and low ratings in its first two seasons.

However, instead of keeping the station, Fox traded KPTV to the Meredith Corporation, owner of KPDX, in exchange for WOFL in Orlando and its Gainesville semi-satellite WOGX in a deal which was finalized on June 17, 2002.

The Fox affiliation switch coincided with a realignment of the National Football League that brought the market's most popular NFL team, the Seattle Seahawks, into the NFC West division.

The program had returned with the help of Rowdy Roddy Piper; Don Coss was back to announce the matches along with special guests.

In 1970, KPTV moved Perry Mason to a new time, weekdays at noon (replacing the long-running children's show, Rusty Nails).

It was the start of a longtime Portland television tradition, as Perry Mason would continue to be broadcast in the 12 p.m. timeslot each weekday until 2012 (save for a 10-month period from 1974 to 1975, when it moved to 12:30 p.m.).

By the late 2000s, KPTV audience research indicated that one out of eleven people in the entire Portland market who were watching television at 12 p.m. weekdays, were tuned in to Perry Mason on channel 12.

The Perry Mason at noon tradition was so solid that when Meredith Corporation named Patrick McCreery as the new general manager of KPTV in August 2008, McCreery was granted the power to make any local programming changes he saw fit with one exception: he could not drop Perry Mason from the schedule nor move it from the 12 p.m.

[20] The tradition finally ended in August 2012 when KPTV moved Perry Mason to sister station KPDX channel 49, on September 4, 2012, in an earlier 8 a.m. timeslot (Rachael Ray replaced Mason in the noon timeslot on KPTV); the program's relocation from the noon slot—and displacement from KPTV—was cited as the result of decreased viewership of Perry Mason in recent years on channel 12 and programming shifts in daytime television towards more first-run syndicated talk and court programs.

By September 2014, Perry Mason had left KPDX and was replaced with variable programming, ending a 48-year long Portland tradition.

Accordingly, the MeTV subchannel on KATU began showing Perry Mason in pattern with the national schedule until the station replaced the network with Charge!

McCall left KPTV in late 1956 for KGW-TV, where he was a member of the original news team for seven years before leaving to run for Oregon's secretary of state.

On June 5, 2007, KPTV became the second Portland television station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen standard definition.