List of television stations in the San Francisco Bay Area

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The San Francisco Bay Area is currently defined by Nielsen Media Research as the tenth-largest television market in the United States,[1] with all of the major U.S. television networks having affiliates serving the region. All but one of the major U.S. television networks are directly owned by the networks; the one exception is secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate KRON-TV (now The CW), which is owned by Nexstar Media Group.

Television stations whose terrestrial broadcast signals can be received in the San Francisco Bay Area include:[2]

Callsign Owner City of License VC RF Power (kW ERP) Antenna Location & Height (ft. HAAT) Network Notes
KAXT-CD Weigel Broadcasting (KAXT-TV LLC) Santa Clara 1.2 22.8 15 Monument Peak, 1928 Catchy Comedy —
KTVU Fox Television Stations, LLC Oakland 2.1 31.3 1000 Sutro Tower, 1680 FOX Owned-and-operated station since 2014 along with KICU-TV 36
KRON-TV Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Media Inc.) San Francisco 4 Sutro Tower, 1664 The CW [primary]/MyNetworkTV [secondary] Owned-and-operated station since September 1, 2023, after the move of The CW network.
KPIX-TV CBS News and Stations (Paramount Global) San Francisco 5.1 29.1 1000 Sutro Tower, 1679 CBS Owned-and-operated station since 1995, when CBS brought Westinghouse Broadcasting.
KBKF-LD Venture Technologies Group (Venture Technologies Group, LLC) San Jose 6.1 6.1 — Air1 A Low-powered television station.
KGO-TV ABC Owned Television Stations (The Walt Disney Company) San Francisco 7.1 12.3 47 Sutro Tower, 1708 ABC The longest owned-and-operated station affiliated with ABC and owned by the Walt Disney Company.
KQSL One Ministries, Inc. Cloverdale 8.1 8.1 TLN West —
KQED KQED Inc. San Francisco 9.1 30.1 1000 Sutro Tower, 1679 PBS The major PBS member station in the Bay Area.
KNTV NBC Owned Television Stations (Comcast / NBCUniversal) (NBC Telemundo License LLC) San Jose 11.1 13.3 103 San Bruno Mountain, 1236 NBC Owned-and-operated station since 2001 when NBC bought KNTV.

Bold indicates channel is a network owned-and-operated station and a PBS major member station.

KBKF-LD additionally transmits with an experimental analog FM radio subcarrier that is accessible at 87.7 MHz.[3]

Defunct stations[edit]

SF/SJ Cable Stations[edit]

Logos of former callsigns[edit]

KTEH (now KQEH)[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2022-2023 Nielsen DMA Ranking". October 27, 2022.
  2. ^ "Station Index – San Francisco – Oakland – San Jose". Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  3. ^ "Re: Request for Special Temporary Authority: KBKF-LD, San Jose, CA" (correspondence from Barbara A. Kreisman, Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau), June 10, 2021 (FCC.gov)
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