KNTV
NBC TV station in San Jose, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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KNTV (channel 11), branded NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the NBC outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Telemundo outlet KSTS (channel 48); it is also sister to regional sports networks NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California. KNTV and KSTS share studios on North 1st Street in the North San Jose Innovation District; KNTV's transmitter is located on San Bruno Mountain, and two of its subchannels are also broadcast from the KSTS tower on Mount Allison.
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| City | San Jose, California |
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| Branding | NBC Bay Area |
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| KSTS, NBC Sports Bay Area, NBC Sports California | |
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| Founded | April 16, 1954 (1954-04-16)[1] |
First air date | September 12, 1955 (68 years ago) (1955-09-12) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 35280 |
| ERP | 95 kW |
| HAAT | 419 m (1,375 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°41′6.5″N 122°26′4.6″W |
| Translator(s) | KSTS-DT 11.3 (19.3 UHF) San Jose |
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| Website | www |
KNTV was established as an independent station in 1955; in 1960, it became an affiliate of ABC as the affiliate of record for Salinas and Monterey, otherwise a separate market. Even though San Francisco had its own ABC television station, KGO-TV, KNTV focused its news and other programming on the Santa Clara Valley. In 1999, ABC paid KNTV to end its affiliation in 2000 in order to allow KGO-TV to serve as the only source of ABC programming in the San Jose area. The station operated as an independent for a year and a half before securing a 10-year affiliation with NBC and then being sold to the network outright. Local news covering the entire Bay Area is produced from the San Jose studios.