Television
The San Francisco Bay Area is currently the sixth-largest television market in the United States, with all of the major U.S. television networks having affiliates serving the region, and it is host to various local, national, and international programming. With a large, diverse population spread throughout the region, the Bay Area provides channels specific to their needs, including Asian and Hispanic television stations, as well as foreign programming on digital sub-channels.
When television channels broadcast their identities, they would usually identify their channel in this order (it can be altered depending on the network's city of license, but always include San Francisco in the list): (channel/station ID), San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose. This also happens when radio stations (listed below) identify themselves on the top of each hour.
Currently, television stations that primarily serve the San Francisco Bay Area include: (Note: list does not include the stations' digital sub-channels)
| Station | Channel | Network Affiliation | City of License | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KAXT | 1 | Independent | Santa Clara | Owned and operated by KAXT |
| KTVU† | 2 | Fox | Oakland | Owned by Cox Communications |
| KRON | 4 | MyNetworkTV | San Francisco | Owned by New Young Broadcasting |
| KPIX† | 5 | CBS | San Francisco | Owned and operated by network |
| KBKF | 6 | Independent | San Jose | Simulcast of 87.7 FM |
| KGO | 7 | ABC | San Francisco | Owned and operated by network |
| KQED | 9 | PBS | San Francisco | Public broadcasting |
| KNTV† | 11 | NBC | San Jose | Owned and operated by network |
| KDTV† | 14 | Univision | San Francisco | Owned and operated by network |
| KOFY | 20 | Independent | San Francisco | Owned by Granite Broadcasting |
| KTSF | 26 | Independent | San Francisco | Ethnic (Asian) broadcasting |
| KFTL | 28 | HSN | San Francisco | Owned by Family Radio |
| KMTP | 32 | Independent | San Francisco | Ethnic broadcasting |
| KICU† | 36 | Independent | San Jose | Owned by Cox Communications |
| KCNS | 38 | RTV | San Francisco | Ethnic (Asian) broadcasting |
| KMMC | 40 | Tr3s | San Francisco | Ethnic (Hispanic) broadcasting |
| KTNC | 42 | Estrella TV | Concord | Owned by Titan Broadcasting |
| KBCW† | 44 | The CW | San Francisco | Owned and operated by CBS |
| KSTS† | 48 | Telemundo | San Jose | Owned and operated by NBC |
| KEMO | 50 | Azteca America | Santa Rosa | Owned by Una Vez Mas Holdings, LLC |
| KQEH | 54 | PBS | San Jose | Public broadcasting |
| KCSM | 60 | PBS | San Mateo | Public broadcasting |
| KKPX | 65 | ION | San Jose | Owned and operated affiliate of network |
| KFSF† | 66 | Telefutura | Vallejo | Owned and operated by Univision |
| KTLN | 68 | TLN | San Rafael | Christian broadcasting |
Note: † - channel involved in a duopoly with another channel, owned by the same company or network.
In addition to local television channels, several television networks have regional news bureaus in the San Francisco Bay Area, including BBC, CNN, ESPN, MSNBC, and PBS. The Bay Area will also have its own news channel as well, NBC California Nonstop, which will be broadcast along with sister NBC O&O stations, KNBC-TV and KNSD-TV, on KNTV's secondary digital subchannel.
Read more about this topic: Media In The San Francisco Bay Area
Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Photographs may be more memorable than moving images because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“So by all means let’s have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn’t it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)