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is currently defined by

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as the sixth-largest television market in the United States, with all of the major U.S.

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having affiliates serving the region. All but two of the major U.S. television networks are directly owned by the networks; the two exceptions are

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 ...

affiliate

KRON-TV KRON-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, KRON-TV maintains studios on Front Street in the c ...

, which is owned by

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and

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affiliate KBCW, which is owned by

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in a duopoly with

KPIX-TV KPIX-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's CBS network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside ...

. Television stations that primarily serve the San Francisco Bay Area include: *1

KAXT-CD KAXT-CD (channel 1) is a low-power, Class A Decades owned-and-operated television station licensed to both San Francisco and San Jose, California, United States, and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcast ...

Santa Clara (

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)* (transmit channel 22) *2 KTVU

Oakland Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay ...

( Fox)* (transmit channel 26) *4

San Francisco (

) (transmit channel 7) *5

San Francisco (

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...

)* (transmit channel 29) *6

KBKF-LD KBKF-LD, virtual and VHF digital channel 6, is a low-powered television station (LPTV) licensed to San Jose, California, United States. The station is owned by Venture Technologies Group, LLC. Its transmitter site is located on Loma Prieta Pe ...

San Jose (

Air1 Air1 is an American Christian radio network. Owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), it primarily broadcasts contemporary worship music, and is a sister to the EMF's K-Love network. History In 1986, KLRD began broadcasting Christian ...

) (transmit channel 6) *7

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 ( ABC)* (transmit channel 12) *8

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 ...

Cloverdale ( TLN West) (transmit channel 8) *9 KQED San Francisco ( PBS) (transmit channel 30) *11

KNTV KNTV (channel 11), branded as NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's NBC network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television ...

San Jose (

NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...

)* (transmit channel 13) *14 KDTV-DT San Francisco (

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 include ...

)* (transmit channel 20) *16

KSCZ-LD KSCZ-LD, virtual channel 16 (UHF digital channel 23), is a low-powered television station licensed to San Jose and San Francisco, California, United States. It broadcasts mostly Vietnamese-language programming from atop Mount Allison in uninc ...

San Jose (Hải Lê/

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) (transmit channel 23) *18 KQRM-LD San Francisco (Crossings TV) *20

KOFY-TV KOFY-TV (channel 20) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as an affiliate of the Grit network. It is owned by CNZ Communications, LLC, alongside Class A station KCNZ ...

San Francisco ( Grit) (transmit channel 21) *22 KRCB Cotati ( PBS) (transmit channel 5) *26

KTSF KTSF (channel 26) is a multicultural independent television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by the Lincoln Broadcasting Company, and maintains studios on Va ...

San Francisco (

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independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independe ...

) (transmit channel 20) *28 KCNZ-CD San Francisco (

LATV LATV (; originally pronounced on-air as from 2007 to 2014 and, since 2014, serving as a backronym for its on-air slogan, "Latino Alternative Television") is an American bilingual broadcast television network, digital publisher and media company ...

) (transmit channel 21) *32 KMTP-TV San Francisco (

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) (transmit channel 21) *36

KICU-TV KICU-TV (channel 36), branded on-air as KTVU Plus, is an independent television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned by Fox Television Stations alongside Oakland-licensed Fox ...

San Jose (

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) (transmit channel 36) *38 KCNS San Francisco ( ShopHQ) (transmit channel 32) *42 KTNC-TV

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( TCT)* (transmit channel 32) *44 KBCW San Francisco (

) (transmit channel 28) *48

KSTS KSTS (channel 48) is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is Owned-and-operated station, owned and operated by NBCUniversal' ...

San Jose (

Telemundo Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast. It provides content nationally with pr ...

)* (transmit channel 19) *50 KEMO-TV Fremont (

Estrella TV Estrella TV () is an American Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by the Estrella Media subsidiary of HPS Investment Partners, LLC. The network primarily features programs, the vast majority of which are produced by the network ...

) (transmit channel 32) *54 KQEH San Jose ( PBS) (transmit channel 30) *60 KPJK San Mateo (

) (transmit channel 27) *65

KKPX-TV KKPX-TV (channel 65) is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area with programming from the Ion Television network. The station is owned by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scrip ...

San Jose (

Ion Television Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented en ...

)* (transmit channel 33) *66

KFSF-DT KFSF-DT (channel 66) is a television station licensed to Vallejo, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside San Francisco� ...

Vallejo (

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 ...

)* *68 KTLN-TV

Palo Alto Palo Alto (; Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city was es ...

(

Heroes & Icons Heroes & Icons (H&I) is an American digital broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting. Usually carried on the digital subchannels of its affiliated television station in most markets, the network airs classic television series fr ...

)* (transmit channel 22) Asterisk (*) indicates channel is a network

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. KBKF-LD additionally transmits with an experimental

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that is accessible at {{Frequency, 87.7, MHz."Re: Request for Special Temporary Authority: KBKF-LD, San Jose, CA"
(correspondence from Barbara A. Kreisman, Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau), June 10, 2021 (FCC.gov)

Defunct stations

* 42 KCFT-TV/Concord (1966) * 27 KEXT-CD/San Jose (1994–2017) * 32 KSAN-TV–KNEW-TV–KQEC/San Francisco (1954–1972, 1977–1979, 1980–1988) * 38 KUDO–KVOF-TV/San Francisco (1968–1985)

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Defunct stations

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