KRCB,

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22 ( VHF digital channel 5), is a Public Broadcasting Service (

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)

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Cotati, California Cotati (; Miwok: ''Kota’ti'') is an incorporated city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located approximately north of San Francisco in the 101 corridor between Rohnert Park and Petaluma. Cotati's population as of the 2020 Censu ...

, United States, and serving the

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. Owned by

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, it is a

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to National Public Radio (

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) members

KRCG-FM KRCG-FM is a non-commercial public broadcasting radio station licensed to Santa Rosa, California, serving Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Cloverdale, Geyserville, Windsor, Sebastopol, Forestville, Calistoga and surrounding areas in California. KRCG-F ...

(91.1) and

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(104.9). The two stations share studios on Labath Avenue in

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; the TV station's transmitter is located at

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History

KRCB first went on the air in 1984. The station was founded by Nancy Dobbs, president and CEO of KRCB North Bay Public Media, along with other volunteers in the North Bay, including Dobbs' husband, John Kramer (a professor at

Sonoma State University Sonoma State University (SSU, Sonoma State, or Sonoma) is a public university in Rohnert Park in Sonoma County, California, US. It is one of the smallest members of the California State University (CSU) system. Sonoma State offers 92 Bachelor's d ...

). KRCB agreed to move frequencies, while retaining its display channel number, in the FCC auction for $72 million on February 10, 2017. The proceeds were used to start an endowment. On September 7, 2017, KRCB announced that it would acquire KCSM-TV in San Mateo from the

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for $12 million, using some of the money earned in the auction; the acquisition allows KRCB to expand its reach into the Bay Area, as KCSM-TV's transmitter is located at the

. KRCB relaunched KCSM-TV as

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on July 31, 2018; the station was named in honor of John Kramer, who had died in 2014. Concurrently with the launch of KPJK, the stations came under the Northern California Public Media banner.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

KRCB shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.List of Digital Full-Power Stations
The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 23 to channel 22.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Krcb Mass media in Sonoma County, California Television channels and stations established in 1983 1983 establishments in California RCB Rohnert Park, California