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| City | San Luis Obispo, California |
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First air date | May 25, 1953 |
Former call signs | KVEC-TV (1953–1957) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 6 (VHF, 1953–2009) |
Call sign meaning | a disambiguation of former sister station KSBW |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 19654 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 515 m (1,690 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°21′37″N 120°39′22″W / 35.36028°N 120.65611°W |
| Translator(s) | K10PV-D Santa Barbara |
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| Website | www |
KSBY (channel 6) is a television station licensed to San Luis Obispo, California, United States, serving the southern Central Coast of California as an affiliate of NBC. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company and maintains studios on Calle Joaquin in southern San Luis Obispo, with an additional studio on Carmen Lane in Santa Maria.[2] Its main transmitter is located atop Cuesta Peak; the station also has a translator, K10PV-D, in Santa Barbara.
Channel 6 was the first station to go on the air in the market; it launched on May 25, 1953, as KVEC-TV, the radio sister station to KVEC. Originally affiliated with the DuMont Television Network, it gained access to additional network programming in 1955. The station became linked to KSBW-TV in Salinas in 1957, changing its call sign to KSBY-TV; they continued to share programming into the 1970s, and the two outlets were co-owned for the next 38 years. In 1969, the station became a primary affiliate of NBC.
After being owned by Elisabeth Murdoch and her husband from 1994 to 1995, the station was acquired by Montecito–based SJL Broadcasting in 1996. SJL moved KSBY from its original studios in a residential area on Hill Street to the present hilltop site on Calle Joaquin; the station also began broadcasting a digital signal under its ownership. Scripps acquired KSBY in 2018 from Cordillera Communications. The station has generally been the news leader in the southern Central Coast market.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KSBY". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Contact Us". KSBY News. Retrieved October 17, 2023.