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City | San Jose, California |
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KNTV, NBC Sports Bay Area, NBC Sports California | |
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First air date | May 31, 1981 |
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Independent (1981–1989) | |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 64987 |
ERP | 500 kW |
HAAT | 703 m (2,306 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°29′57″N 121°52′20″W / 37.49917°N 121.87222°W |
Translator(s) | KNTV-DT 48.3 (11.3 VHF) San Jose |
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Website | www |
KSTS (channel 48) is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside NBC outlet KNTV (channel 11); it is also sister to regional sports networks NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California. KSTS and KNTV share studios on North 1st Street in the North San Jose Innovation District; KSTS's transmitter is located on Mount Allison, and two of its subchannels are also broadcast from the KNTV tower on San Bruno Mountain.
KSTS was established in 1981 to provide subscription television service in the South Bay and Santa Clara Valley. The STV programming ended in 1983, and the station mostly became noted for specialty programming about business and computers as well as some ethnic programs. Telemundo purchased the station in 1987, giving the Bay Area a second station focusing on Spanish-language programming and a second choice for Spanish-language local news.