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KSAT-TV (channel 12) is a television station in San Antonio, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC.Owned by Graham Media Group, the station maintains studios on North St. Mary's Street on the northern edge of downtown, and its transmitter is located off Route 181 in northwest Wilson County (northeast of Elmendorf).
This is a list of full-power television stations in the United States having call signs which begin with the letter K. Stations licensed to transmit under low-power specifications—ex., KAJN-CD, K35OY-D and KXJB-LD—have not been included.
TV and DT: Commercial television was introduced in the United States in July 1941, and initially TV stations were assigned standard unique four-letter call signs. In August 1946 the "-TV" suffix was introduced, [ 11 ] which, like "-FM", included the restriction that paired stations had to have the same owners and be in the same community.
As of January 2025, there are a total of 101 AM, FM and TV stations in the United States that are assigned three-letter call signs. This is divided between only 67 different three-letter calls, because in many cases the same call sign is used by more than one station, although a given call sign is never assigned to more than one AM, FM or TV ...
In South America call signs have been a traditional way of identifying radio and TV stations. Some stations still broadcast their call signs a few times a day, but this practice is becoming very rare. Argentinian broadcast call signs consist of two or three letters followed by multiple numbers, the second and third letters indicating region.
The FM station later took the call sign KITY and is currently KROM.) Eugene Roth served as the president of Mission Broadcasting, while Jack was the station's general manager. In the 1950s, KONO's format was country & western music. In 1957, Mission Broadcasting put KONO-TV (now KSAT-TV) on the air.
Examples of pre-1920 stations include 8XK in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which became KDKA in November 1920, and Charles Herrold's series of identifiers from 1909 in San Jose, California: first "This is the Herrold Station" or "San Jose calling", [3] then the call signs FN, SJN, 6XF, and 6XE, then, with the advent of modern call signs, KQW in ...
The call sign changed from WCAR to KTSA in early 1927, [8] reflecting the slogan "Kum To San Antonio", [1] and later that year the station was assigned to 1130 kHz. [9] On November 11, 1928, with the implementation of the Federal Radio Commission 's (FRC) General Order 40 , KTSA was assigned to 1290 kHz on a time-sharing basis with KFUL in ...