Media in The San Francisco Bay Area - Television

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.

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