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| City | Arcata, California |
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| Branding | KAEF ABC 23; The Northstate's News |
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| KBVU, KECA-LD, KEUV-LD | |
| History | |
First air date | August 1, 1987 |
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Call sign meaning | Arcata, Eureka, Fortuna |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 8263 |
| ERP | 45 kW |
| HAAT | 549.9 m (1,804 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°43′38.3″N 123°58′21.1″W / 40.727306°N 123.972528°W |
| Translator(s) | see § Translators |
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Public license information | |
| Website | krcrtv |
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 affiliate KECA-LD (channel 29) and Univision affiliate KEUV-LD (channel 35). Sinclair also provides certain services to Eureka-licensed Fox affiliate KBVU (channel 28) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Cunningham Broadcasting; however, Sinclair effectively owns KBVU as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The four stations share studios on Sixth Street in downtown Eureka; KAEF-TV's transmitter is located along Barry Road southeast of the city.
Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, KAEF is actually considered a semi-satellite of KRCR-TV (channel 7) in Redding–Chico. As such, it clears all network programming as provided through its parent station but airs a separate offering of syndicated programming; there are also separate local newscasts, commercial inserts and legal station identifications. Master control and most internal operations are based at the studios for KRCR-TV and KCVU in Redding.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KAEF-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.