KRON-TV

KRON-TV (branded as "KRON 4", or during MyNetworkTV programming, "MyKRON 4") is a television station in San Francisco, California, serving as the Bay Area affiliate of the MyNetworkTV programming service. Owned by Young Broadcasting, it broadcasts on virtual channel 4.1 (UHF digital channel 38) from a transmitter atop Sutro Tower. The station maintains studios in the Western Addition section of downtown San Francisco. Its signal is relayed on low-powered K41AF (channel 41) in Ukiah.

From its November 1949 sign-on until December 2001, KRON was a full-time affiliate of NBC, and was one of that network's strongest affiliates. The station had an informal secondary affiliation with the network from 2010 to 2011, carrying programming normally seen on NBC's present-day San Jose-licensed O&O station KNTV during sports programming and breaking news events (NBC programming preempted by KNTV moved to KICU in 2012). KRON-TV is a news-intensive station with around 60 hours a week of locally-produced newscasts, it has the distinction of being the only affiliate of the MyNetworkTV programming service with a newscast schedule similar to a major network affiliate (as it carries morning, 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts).