KRCR-TV (channel 7) is a
television station
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licensed to
Redding, California, United States, serving as the
ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
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affiliate for the
Chico–Redding
market
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*Market economy
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Geography
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. It is owned by
Sinclair Broadcast Group
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alongside five
low-power stations: Chico-licensed
Antenna TV
Antenna TV is an American digital television network owned by Nexstar Media Group. The network's programming consists of classic television series, primarily sitcoms, from the 1950s to the 1990s. Antenna TV's programming and advertising operati ...
affiliate
KXVU-LD
KXVU-LD, virtual channel 17 (VHF digital channel 3), is a low-powered Antenna TV- affiliated television station licensed to Chico, California, United States. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, it is a sister station to ABC affiliate KRCR-TV ...
(channel 17);
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its ...
affiliates Redding-licensed
KRVU-LD
KRVU-LD (channel 21) is a low-power television station in Redding, California, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside ABC affiliate KRCR-TV (channel 7, also licensed to Redding) and three ot ...
(channel 21) and Chico-licensed KZVU-LD (channel 22); Chico-licensed
Univision
Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...
affiliate
KUCO-LD
KUCO-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 27, is a low-powered Univision- affiliated television station licensed to Chico, California, United States. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, it is sister to Redding-licensed ABC affiliate KRCR- ...
(channel 27); and Chico-licensed
UniMás
UniMás (, stylized as ''UNIMÁS'', and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The network's programming, which i ...
affiliate
KKTF-LD
KKTF-LD (channel 30) is a low-power television station licensed to Chico, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Redding-licensed ABC affiliate KRCR-TV ...
(channel 30). Sinclair also provides certain services to
Paradise
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-licensed
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
affiliate
KCVU
KCVU (channel 20) is a television station licensed to Paradise, California, United States, serving the Chico– Redding market as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreem ...
(channel 20) under a
local marketing agreement (LMA) with
Cunningham Broadcasting; however, Sinclair effectively owns KCVU as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The stations share studios on Auditorium Drive east of downtown Redding and maintain a news bureau and sales office at the former
Sainte Television Group Sainte Partners II, L.P. (also known as Sainte Television Group) was a broadcast company based in Modesto, California. The company's founder was country-western performer Chester Smith and his wife Naomi.
Stations previously owned by Sainte
* KCS ...
facilities on Main Street in downtown Chico (for
FCC
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and other legal purposes, the Chico/Paradise-licensed stations still use the Chico address and Redding-licensed stations use the Redding address). KRCR's transmitter is located atop Shasta Bally, west of Redding.
KAEF-TV
KAEF-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Arcata, California, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Eureka area. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside two low-power stations: dual CW/MyNetworkTV affilia ...
(channel 23) in
Arcata
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operates as a
semi-satellite
A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or tran ...
of KRCR, serving the
Eureka
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market. As such, it clears all network programming as provided through KRCR but airs a separate offering of
syndicated programming; there are also separate local newscasts, commercial inserts and legal
station identification
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s. Although KAEF maintains its own studios (shared with LMA partner
KBVU) on Sixth Street in downtown Eureka,
master control
Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and television networks. It is distinct from a production control room (PCR) in television studios where the activities such as sw ...
and some internal operations are based at KRCR's facilities.
History
The station was founded in 1956 as KVIP (adding the -TV suffix to its callsign on August 15, 1957) by William B. Smullin of
California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. (COBI), owners of
KOBI in
Medford, Oregon
Medford is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Oregon, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census on April 1, 2020, the city had a total population of 85,824 and a metropolitan area population of 223,259, making the M ...
, and
satellite station
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KOTI in
Klamath Falls
Klamath Falls ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Klamath County, Oregon, United States. The city was originally called ''Linkville'' when George Nurse founded the town in 1867. It was named after the Link River, on whose falls the city was ...
, as a primary NBC affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. By 1963, network emphasis had shifted towards ABC, as only the Saturday morning and Sunday night prime time schedules, a few daytime
game show
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s and ''
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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'' were carried in NBC's schedule pattern. The full ABC schedule was available by way of translators of
Stockton's
KOVR
KOVR (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Stockton, California, United States, broadcasting the CBS network to the Sacramento area. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside CW affiliate ...
in Chico and Redding. Channel 7 became KRCR in 1963.
It dropped NBC and took on a full-time ABC affiliation in 1978, which in turn started the seven-year process for building KCPM (channel 24, now
KNVN
KNVN (channel 24) is a dual television station licensed to Chico, California, United States, serving the Chico– Redding market as an affiliate of NBC and Telemundo. It is owned by Maxair Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) ...
). This was an unusual arrangement for a two-station market especially one of the size of Chico–Redding, but after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts the area was served by a local ABC affiliate.
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Under COBI ownership, KRCR used a logo consisting of an
Interstate shield sign like its sister stations, placing "7R" where the number would be. 7R was adapted as branding for the station at that time, as the Northern California ''
TV Guide
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The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008.
Corpora ...
'' edition identified it with a "7R" 'channel bullet' to differentiate it from
KGO-TV
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. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, KGO-TV ma ...
/
San Francisco
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and its similar network schedule.
KRCR, KAEF, and KFWU in
Fort Bragg (now
KQSL
KQSL (channel 8) is a religious television station in Cloverdale, California, United States, which is a broadcast partner of the Total Living Network. The station is owned by One Ministries, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in S ...
in
Cloverdale, part of the San Francisco TV market), aired
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
full-time on off-network hours from the network's launch in 1986 until 1994 when now-sister station
KCVU
KCVU (channel 20) is a television station licensed to Paradise, California, United States, serving the Chico– Redding market as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreem ...
switched to Fox and
KBVU signed on.
KRCR was purchased by Lamco Communications of Texas in 1995 and was rebranded ''News Channel 7'', which remains the branding for the newscasts. The station was operated by California Broadcasting, Inc., and run by general manager Bob Wise until 2004 when the station was sold to
Bluestone Television. In December 2006, the station was sold (along with 12 other Bluestone stations) to
Diamond Castle Holdings
Diamond Castle Holdings is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in middle-market companies across a range of industries including the media, healthcare, financial services, power and industrial sectors. ...
, a New York-based private equity firm, which later became
Bonten Media Group
Bonten Media Group was a New York City-based owner of television broadcast stations in the United States. It was formed by Randall D. Bongarten and Diamond Castle Holdings in November 2006. Its first acquisition was 14 stations from Bluestone T ...
.
The station also operates a semi-satellite in
Eureka
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, KAEF-TV (channel 23). It operated a local cable-only
WB affiliate
KIWB, but that station was sold to
Catamount Broadcasting
KHSL-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Chico, California, United States, serving the Chico– Redding market as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus. It is owned by Allen Media Broadcasting, which provides certain services to ...
following the merger between the WB and
UPN
The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that launched on January 16, 1995. It was originally owned by Chris-Craft Industries' United Television. Viacom (through its Paramount Television unit, which pr ...
to form the new
CW Network
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* CW complex, a type of topological space
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.
KRVU-LD
KRVU-LD (channel 21) is a low-power television station in Redding, California, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside ABC affiliate KRCR-TV (channel 7, also licensed to Redding) and three ot ...
was previously a UPN affiliate but is now a
MyNetworkTV
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affiliate.
KRCR was one of a select few ABC affiliates that broadcasts on channel 7, but chose not license the network's
Circle 7 logo
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, until April 11, 2006, when the station rebranded and introduced its new set, along with the digital age allowing clear differentiation of both KRCR and KGO's signals via
PSIP
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data if a viewer was in position to receive both stations.
Merger with KCVU and KBVU
In December 2012, KRCR/KAEF took over sales operations of KCVU in Chico, as well as
KVIQ and KBVU in Eureka. They still maintain separate operations.
In August 2012, Bonten Media announced that KCVU and KBVU would be sold to Esteem Broadcasting, effectively merging both the ABC and Fox affiliates' operations to create a media powerhouse north of Sacramento and south of the Oregon border.
On April 21, 2017,
Sinclair Broadcast Group
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announced its intent to purchase the Bonten stations (including KRCR) for $240 million.
Sinclair's sidecar
Cunningham Broadcasting acquired the Esteem stations (including KCVU). The sale was completed September 1.
News operation
''What Makes News Channel 7?''
In the fall of 1995,
Continental Cablevision
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of Mt. Shasta (now part of Vyve Broadband) filmed, produced and broadcast a 30-minute documentary special called ''What Makes News Channel 7?'' as part of its newsmagazine series ''In Focus: Siskiyou Magazine''. It took a look behind the scenes at what went on at the station and focused mainly on the news team featuring a behind-the-scenes look at how a newscast is produced as well as interviews with key personalities such as Mike Mangas,
Rich Eisen
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, Sandra Geist, Warren Wright, Gary Gunter and Katy Brown. The program aired on Mt. Shasta cable channel 3 in the winter and spring of 1996 and starting showing on YouTube and MySpace in February 2010. It was rebroadcast over Mt. Shasta cable airwaves again on MCTV 15 in 2010 leading to that program's relaunch.
Notable former on-air staff
*
Rich Eisen
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– sports anchor/reporter (now of
NFL Network
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and ''
The Rich Eisen Show'', formerly of
ESPN
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)
*
Mark Eubank
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Career
Eubank joined the KSL-TV channel 5 Television news team in 1990 as their chief meteor ...
– meteorologist
*
Sandra Maas
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Early life and education ...
– news anchor/reporter (formerly of
KSBY-TV
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and
KFMB-TV
KFMB-TV (channel 8) is a television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with CBS, The CW, and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Tegna Inc., it has studios on Engineer Road in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego, and its transmitt ...
, now at
KUSI-TV)
*
Kurtis Ming Kurtis may refer to:
People
*Bill Kurtis, American television journalist
*Frank Kurtis (1908–1987), American car-builder and founder of Kurtis Kraft
*Mesut Kurtis, Macedonian Islamic singer of Turkish descent
*Kurtis Conner, American comedian and ...
, Emmy Award winning anchor for CBS News Sacramento
*
Craig Padilla – chief creative services editor and production manager (now full-time self-employed professional musician & video editor)
*
Kristen Welker
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– NBC White House correspondent and the first black woman since 1992 to moderate a Presidential debate.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
On August 23, 2011,
Disney-ABC Television Group
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Corporate
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Live-action production
Animated production
Disney Studio Services
Disney Theatrica ...
announced that KRCR would carry
Live Well Network
Localish (formerly Live Well Network, stylized as LOCALISH) is a lifestyle TV network owned by ABC Owned Television Stations, part of Walt Disney Television, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
Localish's 24/7 channel streams on Hulu Li ...
as part of an affiliation agreement with Bonten Media Group; the network was added to a new third subchannel. Live Well Network was replaced by
Movies!
Movies! (also known as simply M!) is an American free-to-air television network, owned by Popcorn Entertainment, LLC, a joint venture between Weigel Broadcasting and the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation. The network's prog ...
on November 18, 2013, only for it to be replaced by
Comet
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on September 1, 2022.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KRCR-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, the official date when full-power television stations in the United States
transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from
UHF channel 34 to VHF channel 7. The station's pre-transition channel position on channel 34 was later converted to a translator.
Translators
Former translators
In the early 1990s, KRCR operated a satellite, KFWU (channel 8), in Fort Bragg; originally serving as an ABC affiliate for the
Mendocino County
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Mendocino County consists whol ...
portion of the
San Francisco Bay Area
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television market; the station would be sold in 1996. It is currently
independent station KQSL.
KRCR was formerly broadcast on translators channel 2 in
Lakehead; channel 3 in
Lewiston and
Mountain Gate; channel 4 in
Big Bend, etc.,
Hayfork and
Covelo; channel 5 in
Mineral
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and
Trinity Center; channel 20 in
Yuba City
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, part of the
Sacramento
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television market (KRCR no longer broadcasts at all in Yuba City) and channel 21 in
Susanville, part of the
Reno
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television market.
Cable and satellite availability
Carriage disputes
Mt. Shasta cable dispute
Since its inception in the mid-1980s, the Mt. Shasta cable system owned by Northland Communications (now Vyve Broadband) had carried KRCR on its cable channel 7. However, in January 2012, Northland dropped KRCR from its cable lineup after the station's current ownership and the cable company failed to come to a mutual agreement to continue the station's coverage on the system and severed ties after a near-30-year working relationship between the two. As a result, Northland replaced KRCR on cable channel 7 with Medford, Oregon's ABC affiliate,
KDRV
KDRV (channel 12) is a television station in Medford, Oregon, United States, affiliated with ABC. The station is owned by Allen Media Broadcasting, and maintains studios on Knutson Avenue (near Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport) in no ...
(channel 12).
Despite being in California,
Siskiyou County
Siskiyou County (, ) is a county in the northernmost part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,076. Its county seat is Yreka and its highest point is Mount Shasta. It falls within the Cascadia bioregion ...
is technically part of the Medford
DMA according to the FCC. Both KRCR and Northland made several attempts to get the DMA changed but were unsuccessful each time.
KHSL-TV
KHSL-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Chico, California, United States, serving the Chico–Redding, California, Redding media market, market as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus. It is owned by Entertainment Studios, Alle ...
,
KNVN-TV
KNVN (channel 24) is a dual television station licensed to Chico, California, United States, serving the Chico– Redding market as an affiliate of NBC and Telemundo. It is owned by Maxair Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA ...
and
KIXE-TV
KIXE-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 9, is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Redding, California, United States, and also serving Chico. The station is owned by the Northern California Educationa ...
were the ''only'' Chico–Redding market stations airing on the Northland system in Mt. Shasta; however, certain programs on KHSL and KNVN are subject to
blackout due to the FCC's network non-duplication and
syndication exclusivity rules.
In 2021, KRCR returned to the Vyve Broadband cable line-up on channel 12 (replacing KHSL-TV) and its sister station KRVU returned to cable channel 2. (KIXE-TV remains on channel 9.)
Disputes with Dish Network
Under its former Bonten ownership, the company and
Dish Network had two
retransmission consent
Retransmission consent is a provision of the 1992 United States Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act that requires cable operators and other multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) to obtain permission from commer ...
issues that led to Bonten stations (including KRCR) to be removed from the provider. As a result, on December 8, 2013, Dish stopped carrying KRCR on their system before a later restoration. On January 17, 2017, KRCR and KCVU were once again removed from Dish's lineup as part of a new dispute, returning on February 13.
References
External links
KRCR-TV HomepageMeTv Homepage
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ABC network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1956
1956 establishments in California
RCR-TV
Sinclair Broadcast Group
MeTV affiliates
Movies! affiliates