KTSF
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| San Francisco, California | |
| City of license | San Francisco |
| Branding | KTSF |
| Slogan | The Face of the Bay Area |
| Channels | Digital: 27 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 26.1 SD |
| Affiliations | Independent |
| Owner | Lincoln Broadcasting Company, a California LP |
| First air date | September 4, 1976 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Television San Francisco |
| Former callsigns | KTSF-TV (September 4, 1976 to December 31, 1981) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 26 (September 4, 1976 to June 12, 2009) |
| Transmitter Power | 500 kW |
| Height | 403.4 m |
| Facility ID | 37511 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 37°41′12″N 122°26′3″W / 37.68667°N 122.43417°W |
| Website | www.ktsf.com |
KTSF is an independent television station in San Francisco, California. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 27. It is owned by the Lincoln Broadcasting Company.
Positioning itself as a multilingual outlet, the station broadcasts many non-English programs (the majority of which are in Mandarin and Cantonese, with some in Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Malay and Vietnamese), usually with (non-English) subtitles. The bulk of this programming is during prime time; the daytime hours are mostly English-language infomercials. KTSF is the only station in the United States broadcasting nightly, live local and international news programming in both Cantonese and Mandarin. Cantonese News and Mandarin News it airs Monday to Friday at 7:00pm to 8:00pm and 10:00pm to 11:00pm. Weekend News it airs Saturday and Sunday at 6:00pm to 6:30pm.
Iron Chef gained much of its initial American following from subtitled broadcasts on KTSF; the show's popularity on KTSF and similar stations led to the creation of a dubbed version for the Food Network.
KTSF was a part-time subscription station of ON-TV in the 1980, airing movies in the evening with a scrambled signal viewable with rented de-scrambling equipment. Non-subscribers saw a scrambled picture with an audio message telling them how to subscribe.
The station's studio building is located in Brisbane, California. Its transmitter is located on San Bruno Mountain.
[edit] Digital television
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Digital channels
| Ch | Programming |
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| 26.1 | Main KTSF programming |
| 26.2 | NHK World |
| 26.3 | KBS World |
| 26.4 | Mirror of 26.1 |
[edit] External links
- KTSF Homepage: English Version
- KTSF Homepage: Chinese Version
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KTSF
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTSF-TV
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