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Until 1952, the FCC had allocated only 6 television channels to the Bay Area, but in 1954 KSAN [2] began transmitting on UHF channel 32 and KQED began educational programming on channel 9. By 1956, the Sacramento area had KCRA , KBET KOVR , and KCCC on the air, the San Jose area had KSBW and KNTV , and San Francisco had KRON , KPIX , KGO , KQED ...
KTVU, along with Cox-owned WKBD-TV in Detroit and KDNL-TV in St. Louis, agreed to become charter affiliates of Fox upon their October 9, 1986, launch. [15] KTVU was a rarity among the new network's affiliate base as it broadcast on VHF and had an established news department; general manager Kevin O'Brien saw Fox's backing with the 20th Century Fox studio as an advantage, providing the station ...
While working in radio at KCBS, McElhatton (along with Friendly Clyde) hosted TV Bingo, a daytime show on KTVU Channel 2. McElhatton became a television news anchor for KPIX-TV Channel 5, the first television station in San Francisco, [5] starting in 1977 upon leaving KCBS radio. The hiring of McElhatton, a radio broadcaster, was noted by some ...
In 1954, the station began commercially as KSAN-TV on UHF channel 32; [3] it was one of the first UHF TV stations in California. [4] Owned by the Patterson family, operators of KSAN radio, the station was a small production studio and broadcast operation housed in the renovated Sutro Mansion in San Francisco and showed an amalgam of boxing and wrestling matches, medical conferences, and old ...
KEMO-TV (channel 50) is a television station licensed to Fremont, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area with programming from ShopHQ. [6] The station is owned by Innovate Corp. KEMO-TV's transmitter is located at San Francisco 's Sutro Tower , and is shared with KMTP-TV , KCNS , and KTNC-TV .
Current and former television news anchors broadcasting in San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California. Pages in category "Television anchors from San Francisco" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
The TV Archive curates approximately 100 hours of archival footage donated by local film makers and politicians from Northern California. These include the Willie Brown (politician) Collection, which features news reports and programs relating to the former State Assembly Speaker and Mayor of San Francisco's career and the Dorothy Goldner Collection, which features silent, color film of the ...
Bob Wilkins (born Robert Gene Wilkins; [1] April 11, 1932 – January 7, 2009) was a television personality. [2]Wilkins was the creator and host of the popular television show Creature Features that ran on KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1971 to 1984.