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Branding | KSEE 24 |
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KGPE | |
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First air date | May 31, 1953 |
Former call signs | KMJ-TV (1953–1981) |
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Call sign meaning | pronounced "K-SEE" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 35594 |
ERP | 221 kW |
HAAT | 601.1 m (1,972 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°4′14″N 119°25′34″W / 37.07056°N 119.42611°W |
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Website | www |
KSEE (channel 24) is a television station in Fresno, California, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside CBS affiliate KGPE (channel 47). The two stations share studios on McKinley Avenue in eastern Fresno; KSEE's transmitter is located on Bear Mountain (near Meadow Lakes).
KSEE began broadcasting as KMJ-TV, the first television station in Fresno, on May 31, 1953. It was owned by McClatchy Newspapers, alongside The Fresno Bee and KMJ radio, and was the market's leading station for most of McClatchy's ownership. However, the company owning the major daily newspaper in Fresno, its leading radio station, and its leading television station led to legal scrutiny in the 1970s and a five-year battle by local investors known as San Joaquin Communications Corporation to attempt to wrest the license from McClatchy. McClatchy opted to sell to the investors in 1979, a deal completed in 1981, but they soon sold the station for financial reasons. Nexstar acquired KSEE in 2013, shortly after purchasing KGPE, and moved the latter station's operations into the former's studio building. KSEE produces daily newscasts as well as other local programs.