KDTV-DT

KDTV-DT
San Francisco/Oakland/
San Jose, California
United States
City San Francisco, California
Branding Univision 14 (general)
Noticias Univision 14 (news)
Slogan A Su Lado
(By Your Side)
Channels Digital: 51 (UHF)
Virtual: 14 (PSIP)
Subchannels 14.1 KDTV
14.2 KFSF (UniMás)
Translators KDTV-CD 28 (UHF) Santa Rosa, California
Affiliations Univision
Owner Univision Communications
(KDTV License Partnership, GP)
First air date August 13, 1975
Call letters' meaning Digital TeleVision
Sister station(s) KFSF-DT
Former channel number(s) Analog:
60 (UHF, 1975–1979)
14 (UHF, 1979–2009)
Former affiliations SIN (1975–1987)
Transmitter power 476.3 kW
Height 701.0 meters (2,299.9 ft)
Facility ID 33778
Transmitter coordinates 37°29′57″N 121°52′16″W / 37.49917°N 121.87111°W / 37.49917; -121.87111
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.univision14.com

KDTV-DT, virtual channel 14 (UHF digital channel 51), is a Univision owned-and-operated television station located in San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with UniMás owned-and-operated station KFSF-DT (channel 66). The two stations share studios located at the 50 Fremont Center building in San Francisco's Financial District, KDTV's transmitter is located on Mission Peak in Fremont. The station's signal is relayed on Class A digital translator KDTV-CD (channel 28) in Santa Rosa.

History

Former logo, used until December 31, 2012.

The station first signed on the air on August 13, 1975 as an affiliate of the Spanish International Network (the predecessor of Univision), broadcasting on UHF channel 60; it was the Bay Area's first exclusively Spanish-language television station. It was originally owned by a local group headed by Reynold Anselmo.

In 1979, KDTV reached a deal with San Mateo-based PBS member station KCSM-TV to transfer its full-power color facilities to that station; on March 5 of that year, KCSM and KDTV swapped transmitting facilities and channel assignments: KCSM moved to channel 60 and began transmitting from atop San Bruno Mountain's Radio Peak, while KDTV moved to UHF channel 14 and began transmitting from Mission Peak.

In 1986, the Spanish International Network relaunched as Univision. The station was acquired by Univision outright in 1992, turning KDTV into the market's third owned-and-operated station (behind KGO-TV channel 7, which has been owned by ABC since it signed on in 1949, and KSTS channel 48, which has been owned by Telemundo since 1987). In 2015/2016, the station announced it will move to a new state-of-the-art building in San Jose. It will move out of its old building, an office building in San Francisco, to a building that close to its Hispanic community.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
14.1 1080i 16:9 KDTV-DT Main KDTV programming / Univision
14.2 480i 4:3 KFSF-DT Standard-definition simulcast of KFSF-DT
14.3 getTV GetTV
14.4 Escape Escape

Analog-to-digital conversion

KDTV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 14, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[2] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using PSIP to display KDTV's virtual channel as 14 on digital television receivers.

News operation

KDTV presently broadcasts seven hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with one hour each on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays). Enrique Gratas, former anchor of Univision's late night newscast Noticiero Univision Última Hora, was the original anchor of KDTV's newscasts when the station launched. In November 2007, KDTV had the highest-rated newscast in the Bay Area among adults 25 to 54 in the 6 p.m. timeslot. This was the first occurrence in the market in which a Spanish-language news program earned higher ratings than those of its English-language counterparts.[3]

In November 2011, KDTV introduced a new set, as well as standardized graphics package used by its Univision-owned news-producing sister stations. With the change, KDTV began broadcasting its local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen standard definition.[4] On August 8, 2014 the station struck a news partnership with KGO-TV to share news content and cross-promote its newscasts. KDTV is the second station to have a partnership with ABC since its sister station WUVP-TV in Philadelphia partnered with WPVI-TV.

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KDTV
  2. ↑ List of Digital Full-Power Stations
  3. ↑ Garofoli, Joe (December 1, 2007). "Spanish-language KDTV celebrates top rating for 6 p.m. newscast". San Francisco Chronicle. p. A-1. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
  4. ↑

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