Independent Stations
Several independent television stations also operate in the area, including
- KAXT1 America's most Diverse TV station
- KCSM 60 (based in San Mateo)
- KICU 36 (operated by KTVU Television)
- KOFY 20
- KTSF 26 is the primary Asian TV channel.
- KCNS 38 infomercials, Asian programming
- KMTP 32
- KBKF 6
- W6JDI-TV, Burlingame, was on the air in 1948, six months before the first commercial TV station in San Francisco came on the air. The amateur station was operated by Clarence Wolfe Jr. W6JDI, and broadcast a still image of a woman, later dubbed "Gweldolyn", using home-built and Army Surplus equipment, on 429 MHz at 50 watts. The signal was received by local hams using Army Air Force surplus radio altimeters, rigging them into the reception terminals of television sets.
There were amateur television stations in the U.S. before 1940.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/1940_home_camera.html
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