KCNZ-CD,
virtual channel 28 (
UHF
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digital
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channel 21), is a
low-powered,
Class A LATV-
affiliated television station licensed to
San Francisco, California, United States and serving the
San Francisco Bay Area. Owned by CNZ Communications,
LLC
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, it is
sister to
Grit affiliate
KOFY-TV (channel 20) and low-power station
KQRM-LD. The three stations share transmitter facilities atop
San Bruno Mountain
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.
History
KCNZ-CD was founded on April 25, 1986, with an original
construction permit
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granted to National Innovative Programming Network. Initially assigned to
Palo Alto and
Los Altos, California, and given callsign K30BI, the station's construction permit was modified and extended several times. In August 1990,
Channel America acquired the station, but sold it again in July 1992 to Polar Broadcasting, who finally licensed the station on May 3, 1994. By this time, the station had been assigned to San Francisco,
Oakland
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and
San Jose.
K30BI (referred to as "KBI-TV"), was formerly affiliated with
The Box, a 24-hour-a-day music network, and aired classic television during the day. Eventually, the station changed affiliations to
HSN. Its
call letters were changed to KBIT-LP shortly after. The station also relocated to channel 28 to make way for
KQED KQED may refer to:
* KQED (TV), a PBS member station in San Francisco
* KQED-FM
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's digital signal on channel 30.
KBIT received Class A status on August 27, 2001, and assumed the call sign KFTL-CA in February 2004 after being taken over by Family Stations, Inc. Family Stations previously used the KFTL call sign on analog channel 64, licensed to
Stockton Stockton may refer to:
Places Australia
* Stockton, New South Wales
* Stockton, Queensland, a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region
New Zealand
*Stockton, New Zealand
United Kingdom
*Stockton, Cheshire
*Stockton, Norfolk
*Stockton, Chirbu ...
, which is now
UniMás
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owned-and-operated station
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KTFK-DT
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.
KFTL-CA
flash cut to digital on June 27, 2009; its call sign was changed to KFTL-CD.
Family Stations sold KFTL-CD to LocusPoint Networks in November 2012.
The station was purchased by CNZ Communications subsidiary Poquito Mas Communications in mid-2017 and changed the call sign to KCNZ-CD on August 7, 2017.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed:
See also
*
KEAR (AM)
*
KEBR (FM)
References
Low-power television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1994
CNZ-CD
1994 establishments in California
LocusPoint Networks
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