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| City | San Francisco, California |
| Channels | |
| Branding | KTSF 26 |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Lincoln Broadcasting Company, a California LP |
| History | |
First air date | September 4, 1976 |
Former call signs | KTSF-TV (1976–1981) |
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Call sign meaning | Television San Francisco |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 37511 |
| ERP | 475 kW |
| HAAT | 701.3 m (2,301 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°29′57″N 121°52′20″W / 37.49917°N 121.87222°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | ktsf |
KTSF (channel 26) is an independent television station in San Francisco, California, United States, broadcasting in a variety of languages, most notably Chinese. The station is owned by the Lincoln Broadcasting Company and maintains studios on Valley Drive in south suburban Brisbane. It shares a channel and transmitter with KDTV-DT (channel 14), owned by Univision, broadcasting from atop Mount Allison.
Channel 26 was approved in 1965 but did not begin broadcasting until September 1976. It was owned by Lillian Lincoln Howell and, aside from a short-lived daily business show at launch and four years of prime time subscription television programming in the early 1980s, primarily broadcast alternative English-language syndicated and local programs as well as brokered programs in languages other than English, primarily serving the Bay Area's growing Asian community.
In 1989, KTSF began producing the first Chinese-language television newscast in the United States, airing in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. In addition to local news, KTSF produces other local programs in Chinese and English and airs Chinese-language entertainment programming, several independently produced shows catering to the Indian and Iranian communities, paid programs, and religious broadcasting.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTSF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.