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George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst business dynasty.After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations, and is known for developing and expanding the Homestake Mine in the late 1870s in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
CBS News and Stations: San Francisco: 5-2 29.2 1000 Sutro Tower @ 1679 ft. Start TV KPIX: CBS News and Stations: San Francisco: 5-3 29.3 1000 Sutro Tower @ 1679 ft. DABL KPIX: CBS News and Stations: San Francisco: 5-4 29.4 1000 Sutro Tower @ 1679 ft. FAVE TV KPIX: CBS News and Stations: San Francisco: 5-5 29.5 1000 Sutro Tower @ 1679 ft. Comet ...
KPYX (channel 44), branded as KPIX+, is an independent television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside KPIX-TV (channel 5), the market's CBS owned-and-operated station.
San Francisco had been a tiny settlement before the rush began. When residents learned about the discovery, it at first became a ghost town of abandoned ships and businesses, [19] but then boomed as merchants and new people arrived. The population of San Francisco increased quickly from about 1,000 [20] in 1848 to 25,000 full-time residents by ...
Major gold mining in California began during the California Gold Rush. Gold was found by James Marshall at Sutters Mill, property of John Sutter, in present-day Coloma. In 1849, people started hearing about the gold and after just a few years San Francisco's population increased to thousands.
KGO-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's ABC network outlet. It has been owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division since the station's inception.
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The three stations share studios on Mariposa Street in San Francisco's Mission District and transmitter facilities at Sutro Tower. KQET (channel 25) in Watsonville operates as a full-time satellite of KQED, serving the Santa Cruz–Salinas–Monterey market. This station's transmitter is located at Fremont Peak, near San Juan Bautista.