This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of
California
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Full-power stations
VC refers to the station's
PSIP virtual channel
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. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel.
Defunct full-power stations
*Channel 8:
KMBY-TV -
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NBC - Monterey (8/17/1953-2/2/1955; shared time with
KSBW-TV
KSBW (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Salinas, California, United States, serving the Monterey Bay area as an affiliate of NBC and ABC. Owned by Hearst Television, the station has studios on John Street ( Highway 68) in down ...
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*Channel 16:
KKOG-TV
KKOG-TV, UHF analog channel 16, was an independent television station licensed to Ventura, California, United States. It was the first full power broadcast station in Ventura County. The station had a brief history, lasting only nine months. Starti ...
- Ind. - Ventura (12/14/1968-9/13/1969)
*Channel 18:
KCHU
KCHU (770 AM) is a non-commercial radio station in Valdez, Alaska, United States. Through its main transmitter, two full-service FM stations, and two translators,
the station covers an area the size of the state of Ohio, but with a population j ...
- Ind - San Bernardino (8/1/1962-6/25/1964)
*Channel 21:
KDAS - Ind. - Hanford/Fresno (2/27/1962-12/22/1964)
*Channel 21:
KSJV-TV - Ind. - Hanford/Fresno (2/10/1966-5/13/1966)
*Channel 27:
KVVG - Ind. - Tulare/Fresno (11/16/1953-8/6/1957)
*Channel 28:
KTHE - ETV - Los Angeles (8/3/1953-9/10/1954)
*Channel 30:
KHOF-TV
KPXN-TV (channel 30) is a television station licensed to San Bernardino, California, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Los Angeles area. It is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Compan ...
- Ind. - Glendale (10/12/1969-5/23/1983)
*Channel 32:
KSAN-TV - Ind. - San Francisco (3/9/1954-6/21/1958)
*Channel 32:
KNEW-TV - Ind. - San Francisco (7/1/1968-4/15/1971)
*Channel 32:
KQEC - PBS - San Francisco (6/28/1971-8/23/1972 and 1/?/1977-1988)
*Channel 36:
KTVU
KTVU (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Oakland, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside San Jose†...
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NBC - Stockton (12/18/1953-4/30/1955)
*Channel 38:
KUDO - Ind. - San Francisco (12/28/1968-4/15/1971)
*Channel 38:
KVOF-TV
KVOF-TV was a television station that broadcast on channel 38 in San Francisco from 1968 to 1985. It was last owned by the Faith Broadcasting Network, controlled by pastor W. Eugene Scott, and was one of three television stations he owned; prio ...
- Ind. - San Francisco (8/4/1974-10/18/1985)
*Channel 40:
KCCC-TV - Sacramento (9/30/1953-5/31/1957)
*Channel 40:
KVUE
KVUE (channel 24) is a television station in Austin, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on Steck Avenue just east of Loop 1 in northwest Austin, and its transmitter is located ...
- Sacramento (11/1/1959-3/21/1960)
*Channel 42:
KCFT-TV
KCFT-TV was an independent television station operating on channel 42 at Concord, California, United States. The station was owned by Jerry Bassett, Inc., and broadcast for seven months in 1966.
History
Jerry Bassett, Inc., filed in 1965 to mov ...
- Ind. - Concord (2/5/1966-9/19/1966)
*Channel 43:
KICU-TV - Ind. - Visalia/Fresno (12/23/1961-10/18/1968)
*Channel 53:
KBID-TV - Ind. - Fresno (2/8/1954-7/15/1954)
*Channel 68:
KVST-TV
KVST-TV was a television station on channel 68 in Los Angeles, California, owned by the Viewer Sponsored Television Foundation. Broadcasting from May 5, 1974, through December 23, 1975, KVST-TV was an early experiment in public-access and communi ...
- ETV - Los Angeles (5/5/1974-12/23/1975)
*Channel 68:
KEEF-TV
KEEF-TV, channel 68, was a short-lived public television station in Los Angeles, California. It operated briefly in 1987, but was shut down after only a few months of operation and its non-commercial educational broadcast construction permit ult ...
- ETV - Los Angeles (3/15/1987-8/8/1987)
LPTV stations
Translators
See also
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Bally Sports San Diego
Bally Sports San Diego is an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between Diamond Sports Group (itself a 50-50 joint venture between the Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios) (which owns a controlling 80% stake) ...
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Bally Sports West
Bally Sports West is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios, and operated as part of Bally Sports, along with its sister network Bally Sports ...
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List of Spanish-language television networks in the United States
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List of television stations in the San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is currently defined by Nielsen Media Research as the sixth-largest television market in the United States, with all of the major U.S. television networks having affiliates serving the region. All but two of the major ...
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NBC Sports Bay Area
NBC Sports Bay Area (sometimes abbreviated as NBCS Bay Area) is an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and the San Francisco Giants, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. Headquart ...
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NBC Sports California
NBC Sports California (sometimes abbreviated as NBCS California) is an American regional sports network owned by the NBC Sports Group unit of NBCUniversal, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. The channel broadcasts regio ...
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Spectrum SportsNet
Spectrum Sports (abbreviated as SPECTSN), also known under the corporate names Spectrum Networks, or Charter Sports Regional Networks, is the collective name for a group of regional sports networks in the United States that are primarily owned a ...
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Spectrum SportsNet LA
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Television stations in Baja California for stations across the Mexican border serving
San Diego
San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the List of United States cities by population, eigh ...
and
El Centro
El Centro (Spanish for "The Center") is a city and county seat of Imperial County, California, United States. El Centro is the largest city in the Imperial Valley, the east anchor of the Southern California Border Region, and the core urban are ...
References
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California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
Television stations
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth ...