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KTSF

January 01, 1970

KTSF (channel 26) is an independent television station in San Francisco, California, United States, broadcasting in a variety of languages, most notably Chinese. The station is owned by the Lincoln Broadcasting Company and maintains studios on Valley Drive in south suburban Brisbane. It shares a channel and transmitter with KDTV-DT (channel 14), owned by Univision, broadcasting from atop Mount Allison.

KTSF
CitySan Francisco, California
Channels
BrandingKTSF 26
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerLincoln Broadcasting Company, a California LP
History
First air date
September 4, 1976 (47 years ago) (1976-09-04)
Former call signs
KTSF-TV (1976–1981)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 26 (UHF, 1976–2009)
  • Digital: 27 (UHF, 2002–2018), 51 (UHF, 2018–2020)
Call sign meaning
Television San Francisco
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID37511
ERP475 kW
HAAT701.3 m (2,301 ft)
Transmitter coordinates37°29′57″N 121°52′20″W / 37.49917°N 121.87222°W / 37.49917; -121.87222
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitektsf.com

Channel 26 was approved in 1965 but did not begin broadcasting until September 1976. It was owned by Lillian Lincoln Howell and, aside from a short-lived daily business show at launch and four years of prime time subscription television programming in the early 1980s, primarily broadcast alternative English-language syndicated and local programs as well as brokered programs in languages other than English, primarily serving the Bay Area's growing Asian community.

In 1989, KTSF began producing the first Chinese-language television newscast in the United States, airing in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. In addition to local news, KTSF produces other local programs in Chinese and English and airs Chinese-language entertainment programming, several independently produced shows catering to the Indian and Iranian communities, paid programs, and religious broadcasting.

History edit

 
Former logo of KTSF, used until December 2016

Construction edit

Interest in San Francisco's ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 26 had been sporadic in the late 1950s. Plaza Radio and Television Company applied for the channel and received a construction permit in 1956.[2][3] No station emerged, and in 1962, another group filed for the channel: Automated Electronics, Inc.[4] The company, based in Dallas, attempted to start stations in Dallas, San Francisco, and other cities carrying business news information, but its assets were purchased in late 1963.[5]

Television San Francisco, a venture of Lillian Lincoln Banta and Deane Devere Banta, applied for channel 26 on February 13, 1964.[6] Deane Banta had worked in front of and behind the cameras at KOVR in Stockton.[7] The application was granted on November 29, 1966.[6] When Lincoln, a daughter of Arizona multimillionaire John C. Lincoln, divorced Deane Banta, she kept the rights to channel 26 and changed her name back to Lillian Lincoln Howell. In 1973, Lincoln applied for subscription television (STV) authority for channel 26.[8] Meanwhile, the channel lay fallow, and KTSF-TV continued to exist only on paper,[9] holding rights to begin broadcasting from the new Sutro Tower.[10] However, the new station was instead built on San Bruno Mountain;[6] Howell had been pushed out in the process of setting up the new facility.[11]

Early years and subscription television edit

KTSF began broadcasting on September 4, 1976.[12] The station offered business news programming during the day;[13] the show, Your Business World, was underpromoted and had no ratings surveys, and it was canceled before the end of the year.[14] In February 1977, after paying KEMO-TV (channel 20) to withdraw its application, KTSF won the right to broadcast subscription programming in the Bay Area.[15] However, it was the station's diverse programs in languages other than English that comprised most of channel 26's broadcast day. In 1978, these included a Japanese cooking program; the Bay Area's only weekly hour of Korean-language programming; shows in Chinese curated by Leo Chen a professor at San Francisco State University, who later headed KWBB (channel 38); and Italian first-division soccer. KEMO and KTSF, along with KDTV of the Spanish International Network, offered most of the region's non-English television programming.[16] In 1980, Fuji TV of Japan moved its programming from KEMO-TV, where it had debuted in 1972, when James Gabbert acquired channel 20 and changed it to a general-entertainment independent station; on channel 26, Fuji TV joined Tokyo TV.[17][18] In English, channel 26 offered such programs as Videowest, a weekly magazine-type program focusing on niche subcultures;[19] professional wrestling;[20] classic movies and reruns; and a weekday women's program, Top of the Town, which was broadcast from the top of the Union Square Hyatt.[21] In 1977, Sam Speer began doing daily horse racing reports on channel 26.[22] One local program, The World of Gems, was canceled when a federal judge sentenced its two hosts—both convicted felons—for illegally possessing weapons.[23]

Subscription Television of America acquired the rights to broadcast subscription service on KTSF in May 1979 by purchasing 90 percent of KTSF's STV franchisee from the original holder, Pay Television Corporation.[24] The long-promised and planned subscription television programming came to channel 26 on August 12, 1980,[25] in the form of Super Time, Subscription Television of America's local service. From 7 p.m. until early morning hours, the station would broadcast a lineup consisting primarily of movies only to paying Super Time subscribers.[26] Despite little promotion, Super Time had signed up 2,500 subscribers by the end of August.[25] However, subscription TV on KTSF had a rocky and short history. In September 1981, Super Time was purchased by Satellite Television and Associated Resources (STAR), which had been operating the STV system on the new-to-air KSTS in San Jose;[27][28] by June 1982, the San Francisco system, rebranded Star TV, had 24,000 subscribers.[29] STAR soon faced financial difficulties of its own, having previously exhausted its bank lines.[28] On January 4, 1983, the general manager of Star TV in San Francisco informed his 70 employees that it would be acquired by Willamette Subscription Television of Portland, Oregon, which had been operating an ON TV–branded service on KECH-TV serving that city; at the time, the company was losing 750 customers a month, and the general manager reported that a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing was imminent.[30] However, by March, the company was still trying to sell the operation;[31] in April, STAR filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and was liquidated.[32]

Growing Asian programming edit

By 1983, KTSF's program lineup outside of STV hours consisted of paid religious programs in the morning, some syndicated programs, and foreign-language programming during daytime and weekend hours.[33] External producers continued to provide the latter: in 1982, KTSF had three Chinese-language producers and two Japanese-language producers on its air.[34] The subscription service, rebranded Select TV, collapsed during the course of 1984; its owner, Vision Entertainment, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 1984; KTSF was allowed to take the service off the air by a bankruptcy judge that November.[35] The end of subscription television on channel 26 allowed for the return of prime time Chinese-language telecasting, with Haihua TV and Chunghwa TV programming in prime time and three other companies offering other programs. Haihua had previously been on channel 26 prior to the launch of Super Time, moving to KEMO and then to KSTS before returning.[36]

During the decade, KTSF adjusted its mix of Asian programming to reflect changing dynamics in the Bay Area. In 1982, it introduced its first Filipino-language programs, followed three years later by Vietnamese-language programming.[37] Asian Journal, a weekly public affairs series rotating between issues of concern to different Asian-American communities in the Bay Area, debuted in 1985.[38] The station also continued to offer brokered programming in other languages, such as Italian; Silvana Marzetti, who programmed two hours a week in Italian on channel 26, noted that her programming lacked the strong corporate sponsorship that was characterizing the shows in Japanese and Chinese as well as their growing audience base.[39]

As revenues soared for KTSF's foreign-language programming beginning in 1985, some of the shows became profitable,[40] as did the station itself. The money was used to consolidate offices split between China Basin and San Bruno Mountain at a new site in Brisbane, a southern suburb.[41] Alternative programming in English also continued. In 1987, Sam Speer's horse racing reports, which had aired for a time on KCSM-TV, moved from KSTS back to KTSF after many Bay Area cable systems dropped the former station.[42][22] The station also broadcast programming from the California Music Channel music video service.[43]

A significant step in the station's history came in 1987 when it hired a research firm to detail the consumer habits of the Chinese-American community in the Bay Area. At the time, Lincoln Howell, was still the primary funder of channel 26's operations.[44] The study demonstrated to mainstream U.S. companies that the market behaved like most other groups. For instance, the major grocery store chains were patronized by 92 percent of Chinese-Americans on a weekly basis. This ran counter to the prevailing attitude from advertisers, which was summarized by station manager Mike Sherman: "Why should I advertise my supermarket on TV when all the Chinese are going to do is go down to Chinatown and buy a chicken on a string?" The study also noted that KTSF was Chinese Americans' primary source of news and information.[45][46] Moves like these to dispel stereotypes, as well as the launch of Chinese-language local newscasts in 1989, helped increase the station's ability to attract major advertisers: in 1994, KTSF earned 60 percent of its revenue from advertising compared to 35 percent from brokering airtime.[47]: 63, 69  This came as channel 26 received competition from KCNS (channel 38) and KPST-TV (channel 66), which both offered large lineups of Asian programming and, in the case of KPST, locally produced Chinese news.[47]

In 1997, KTSF's programming efforts in Filipino and Vietnamese experienced turmoil. In February, the station cut back the air time of the Filipino-language Filipino Report after less than two years to replace it with the ABS-CBN current affairs magazine Balitang K, which had a tabloid format; two journalists at KTSF resigned in protest,[48] and community leaders threatened a boycott.[49] The fired reporters then started a 30-minute program airing on KMTP-TV (channel 32).[50] Later that year, after a 10-year run, KTSF discontinued its airing of the independently produced local program Vietnamese Liberty Television after it claimed the producer had breached confidentiality in business negotiations and defamed channel 26's management.[51] Beginning by 1997, the Japanese TV show Iron Chef, produced by Fuji TV, gained a cult following in the Bay Area during its broadcasts on KTSF.[52][53] When Fuji TV stopped subtitling the program into English in August 1998, an uproar ensued, and the program—dubbed into English—ended up on the Food Network the next year.[54] The series continued airing on KTSF until the station exhausted the remaining new episodes of the program, which was canceled in 1999.[55]

KTSF's efforts to broaden its advertiser appeal continued in the 1990s and 2000s, as the Asian-American population in the Bay Area experienced further growth. In 2000, the station had total revenue of $12.5 million, more than doubling from four years prior. Channel 26's major advertisers included such blue-chip names as AT&T, Bank of America, Disney, JCPenney, Nissan, and United Airlines.[56] In 2005, KTSF became the first Asian-language station to be rated by Nielsen Media Research.[44]

Lillian Lincoln Howell continued to be involved in the station well into her 80s, still attending weekly meetings in spite of slowly losing her hearing.[41] She died in 2014 at the age of 93.[57]

In the 2000s, KTSF experimented with several new types of local productions. Talk Tonight, a call-in program originally hosted by Orlando Shih, debuted in 2000.[58] KTSF also trialed several series aimed at younger audiences. In 2003, it marketed Road Trip USA, a Mandarin-language reality game show in which four Chinese teams would race from Boston to Miami;[59] a year later, channel 26 debuted Stir, an English-language program.[60]

KTSF lost its Japanese-language programming between 2011 and 2014. In April 2011, Tokyo TV left KTSF and moved to a subchannel of KCNS[61] and later KEXT-CD (channel 27).[18] In March 2014, Fuji TV discontinued its relationship with KTSF after more than 33 years; KTSF's programming director cited the increased availability of streaming content as well as a shrinking Japanese market in the Bay Area and declining advertising revenue that prevented Fuji TV from continuing on channel 26.[18]

Digital TV, channel-sharing, and streaming edit

KTSF's digital signal launched on May 1, 2002, broadcast on UHF channel 27.[62] The station shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 26, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 27, using virtual channel 26.[63] Despite converting to digital, KTSF only began broadcasting high-definition programming on February 1, 2016.[64]

In 2014, KTSF launched a local TV app in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, using the Syncbak platform as well as Nielsen measurement.[65] The original app was discontinued on February 1, 2021, and replaced with the VUit platform.[66] VUit was the successor to Syncbak, which had been acquired by Gray Television.[67] In 2021, KTSF was the most-viewed station on VUit, attracting out-of-market viewership in a number of other West Coast media markets.[68] The station launched a promotional campaign in 2023 to raise awareness of its availability among Chinese-Americans in the Sacramento area.[69]

Lincoln Broadcasting took a payment of more than $90.1 million to surrender its channel in the reverse portion of the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction. This was the third-highest payment to any San Francisco–market TV station.[70] In the wake of the auction, KTSF entered into a channel-sharing agreement with Univision-owned KDTV-DT (channel 14), which broadcasts from Mount Allison. KDTV began broadcasting KTSF's subchannels on May 7, 2018.[71] The KDTV–KTSF multiplex was then repacked from physical channel 51 to channel 20 on April 29, 2020.[72]

Programming edit

KTSF's broadcast day, outside of hours when it airs infomercials and other paid programming (which dominate on weekends), predominantly consists of Chinese-language news and entertainment programs, from China and locally produced. It also airs international newscasts and several specialty programs in languages other than Chinese. KTSF's non-multicultural broadcasting is limited to several religious programs, including Shepherd's Chapel and two weekly Catholic Masses.[73]

KTSF's local non-news programs in Chinese include Talk Finance with Sau Wing Lam, Wok Around the Bay, KTSF Music, and Bay Area Focus with Lily Chao. The station also airs several independently produced local shows: Showbiz India, an English-language show on the Indian entertainment scene; India Waves TV, in English and Hindi; and Nima TV, in Farsi.[74]

News operation edit

KTSF launched its news department on February 6, 1989, with the debut of Chinese News at Nine as the first live local Chinese-language TV newscast in the United States. The program was originally presented by Mei-Ling Sze, formerly of TVB in Hong Kong, and Philip Choi, also of Hong Kong. Sze, who had recently emigrated from Hong Kong, was working as a bank teller when she was approached to help start KTSF's newsroom.[44] The entire news department consisted of ten employees; content for the news program came from Asian TV channels, CNN, and KRON-TV, which also sold one of its newsgathering vehicles to channel 26.[75][76] It replaced programming from programmer Overseas Chinese Communication (OCTV), which moved to KWBB (channel 38).[77] The first edition was later selected for inclusion in the Paley Center for Media catalog.[58] In March, the station added a live audio simulcast in Mandarin on local radio station KEST.[78]

We got people calling up in tears, they were so upset. And they wouldn't hang up. They just wanted to talk to someone and express their feelings. They hoped we understood, and we did. For them, we aren't just a television station; we are part of the community.

Mei-Ling Sze, anchor for KTSF's Cantonese news, on the viewer reaction to Tiananmen Square[47]: 106 

The newscast proved its value quickly. During the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre later in 1989, the station was able to track down Fang Lizhi, an activist, before he sought asylum; news outlets around the world picked up the story.[44] By early 1990, the newscast had 240,000 viewers a night.[79] The Cantonese newscast was extended to an hour in duration in October 1993.[47]: 117  The next year,[41] the station launched a separate Mandarin news program; over the course of the 1990s, KTSF's research found the number of Mandarin speakers slowly pulling even with the Cantonese-speaking population,[80] largely driven by the technology sector fueling immigration to San Jose.[81] By 1993, the newscasts had moved to the 8 p.m. hour.[82] Weekend editions of the Mandarin and Cantonese broadcasts debuted in early 2006.[41]

In 2016, KTSF launched a Cantonese-language morning news program;[83] by 2023, this had been replaced with reruns of the previous evening's 7 and 10 p.m. newscasts.[73] The Mandarin news at 10 p.m. was revamped in 2023 with the inclusion of several new segments and a weekly sports segment.[84] In addition to the Cantonese and Mandarin newscasts, KTSF produces Hong Kong Weekly, a weekend roundup of the week's news from Hong Kong.[74]

In addition to its own Chinese-language newscasts, KTSF airs international newscasts from or covering Asian countries including China News (China Central Television), ETTV News (Taiwan), Saigon TV News (Vietnamese), and TV Patrol (Philippines).[73]

Subchannels edit

KTSF offers four subchannels on the multiplex shared with KDTV-DT:

Subchannels of KTSF on the KDTV-DT multiplex[85]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
26.1 720p 16:9 KTSF Main KTSF programming
26.3 480i 26-3 Sino TV
26.5 Vietday Viet Today TV
26.6 VSTV

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External links edit

  • Official website (in Chinese)

January 01, 1970
ktsf, channel, independent, television, station, francisco, california, united, states, broadcasting, variety, languages, most, notably, chinese, station, owned, lincoln, broadcasting, company, maintains, studios, valley, drive, south, suburban, brisbane, shar. KTSF channel 26 is an independent television station in San Francisco California United States broadcasting in a variety of languages most notably Chinese The station is owned by the Lincoln Broadcasting Company and maintains studios on Valley Drive in south suburban Brisbane It shares a channel and transmitter with KDTV DT channel 14 owned by Univision broadcasting from atop Mount Allison KTSFSan Francisco Oakland San Jose CaliforniaUnited StatesCitySan Francisco CaliforniaChannelsDigital 20 UHF shared with KDTV DTVirtual 26BrandingKTSF 26ProgrammingAffiliations26 1 Multicultural Independentfor others see SubchannelsOwnershipOwnerLincoln Broadcasting Company a California LPHistoryFirst air dateSeptember 4 1976 47 years ago 1976 09 04 Former call signsKTSF TV 1976 1981 Former channel number s Analog 26 UHF 1976 2009 Digital 27 UHF 2002 2018 51 UHF 2018 2020 Call sign meaningTelevision San FranciscoTechnical information 1 Licensing authorityFCCFacility ID37511ERP475 kWHAAT701 3 m 2 301 ft Transmitter coordinates37 29 57 N 121 52 20 W 37 49917 N 121 87222 W 37 49917 121 87222LinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitektsf wbr com Channel 26 was approved in 1965 but did not begin broadcasting until September 1976 It was owned by Lillian Lincoln Howell and aside from a short lived daily business show at launch and four years of prime time subscription television programming in the early 1980s primarily broadcast alternative English language syndicated and local programs as well as brokered programs in languages other than English primarily serving the Bay Area s growing Asian community In 1989 KTSF began producing the first Chinese language television newscast in the United States airing in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese In addition to local news KTSF produces other local programs in Chinese and English and airs Chinese language entertainment programming several independently produced shows catering to the Indian and Iranian communities paid programs and religious broadcasting Contents 1 History 1 1 Construction 1 2 Early years and subscription television 1 3 Growing Asian programming 1 4 Digital TV channel sharing and streaming 2 Programming 2 1 News operation 3 Subchannels 4 References 5 External linksHistory edit nbsp Former logo of KTSF used until December 2016 Construction edit Interest in San Francisco s ultra high frequency UHF channel 26 had been sporadic in the late 1950s Plaza Radio and Television Company applied for the channel and received a construction permit in 1956 2 3 No station emerged and in 1962 another group filed for the channel Automated Electronics Inc 4 The company based in Dallas attempted to start stations in Dallas San Francisco and other cities carrying business news information but its assets were purchased in late 1963 5 Television San Francisco a venture of Lillian Lincoln Banta and Deane Devere Banta applied for channel 26 on February 13 1964 6 Deane Banta had worked in front of and behind the cameras at KOVR in Stockton 7 The application was granted on November 29 1966 6 When Lincoln a daughter of Arizona multimillionaire John C Lincoln divorced Deane Banta she kept the rights to channel 26 and changed her name back to Lillian Lincoln Howell In 1973 Lincoln applied for subscription television STV authority for channel 26 8 Meanwhile the channel lay fallow and KTSF TV continued to exist only on paper 9 holding rights to begin broadcasting from the new Sutro Tower 10 However the new station was instead built on San Bruno Mountain 6 Howell had been pushed out in the process of setting up the new facility 11 Early years and subscription television edit KTSF began broadcasting on September 4 1976 12 The station offered business news programming during the day 13 the show Your Business World was underpromoted and had no ratings surveys and it was canceled before the end of the year 14 In February 1977 after paying KEMO TV channel 20 to withdraw its application KTSF won the right to broadcast subscription programming in the Bay Area 15 However it was the station s diverse programs in languages other than English that comprised most of channel 26 s broadcast day In 1978 these included a Japanese cooking program the Bay Area s only weekly hour of Korean language programming shows in Chinese curated by Leo Chen a professor at San Francisco State University who later headed KWBB channel 38 and Italian first division soccer KEMO and KTSF along with KDTV of the Spanish International Network offered most of the region s non English television programming 16 In 1980 Fuji TV of Japan moved its programming from KEMO TV where it had debuted in 1972 when James Gabbert acquired channel 20 and changed it to a general entertainment independent station on channel 26 Fuji TV joined Tokyo TV 17 18 In English channel 26 offered such programs as Videowest a weekly magazine type program focusing on niche subcultures 19 professional wrestling 20 classic movies and reruns and a weekday women s program Top of the Town which was broadcast from the top of the Union Square Hyatt 21 In 1977 Sam Speer began doing daily horse racing reports on channel 26 22 One local program The World of Gems was canceled when a federal judge sentenced its two hosts both convicted felons for illegally possessing weapons 23 Subscription Television of America acquired the rights to broadcast subscription service on KTSF in May 1979 by purchasing 90 percent of KTSF s STV franchisee from the original holder Pay Television Corporation 24 The long promised and planned subscription television programming came to channel 26 on August 12 1980 25 in the form of Super Time Subscription Television of America s local service From 7 p m until early morning hours the station would broadcast a lineup consisting primarily of movies only to paying Super Time subscribers 26 Despite little promotion Super Time had signed up 2 500 subscribers by the end of August 25 However subscription TV on KTSF had a rocky and short history In September 1981 Super Time was purchased by Satellite Television and Associated Resources STAR which had been operating the STV system on the new to air KSTS in San Jose 27 28 by June 1982 the San Francisco system rebranded Star TV had 24 000 subscribers 29 STAR soon faced financial difficulties of its own having previously exhausted its bank lines 28 On January 4 1983 the general manager of Star TV in San Francisco informed his 70 employees that it would be acquired by Willamette Subscription Television of Portland Oregon which had been operating an ON TV branded service on KECH TV serving that city at the time the company was losing 750 customers a month and the general manager reported that a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing was imminent 30 However by March the company was still trying to sell the operation 31 in April STAR filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and was liquidated 32 Growing Asian programming edit By 1983 KTSF s program lineup outside of STV hours consisted of paid religious programs in the morning some syndicated programs and foreign language programming during daytime and weekend hours 33 External producers continued to provide the latter in 1982 KTSF had three Chinese language producers and two Japanese language producers on its air 34 The subscription service rebranded Select TV collapsed during the course of 1984 its owner Vision Entertainment filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 1984 KTSF was allowed to take the service off the air by a bankruptcy judge that November 35 The end of subscription television on channel 26 allowed for the return of prime time Chinese language telecasting with Haihua TV and Chunghwa TV programming in prime time and three other companies offering other programs Haihua had previously been on channel 26 prior to the launch of Super Time moving to KEMO and then to KSTS before returning 36 During the decade KTSF adjusted its mix of Asian programming to reflect changing dynamics in the Bay Area In 1982 it introduced its first Filipino language programs followed three years later by Vietnamese language programming 37 Asian Journal a weekly public affairs series rotating between issues of concern to different Asian American communities in the Bay Area debuted in 1985 38 The station also continued to offer brokered programming in other languages such as Italian Silvana Marzetti who programmed two hours a week in Italian on channel 26 noted that her programming lacked the strong corporate sponsorship that was characterizing the shows in Japanese and Chinese as well as their growing audience base 39 As revenues soared for KTSF s foreign language programming beginning in 1985 some of the shows became profitable 40 as did the station itself The money was used to consolidate offices split between China Basin and San Bruno Mountain at a new site in Brisbane a southern suburb 41 Alternative programming in English also continued In 1987 Sam Speer s horse racing reports which had aired for a time on KCSM TV moved from KSTS back to KTSF after many Bay Area cable systems dropped the former station 42 22 The station also broadcast programming from the California Music Channel music video service 43 A significant step in the station s history came in 1987 when it hired a research firm to detail the consumer habits of the Chinese American community in the Bay Area At the time Lincoln Howell was still the primary funder of channel 26 s operations 44 The study demonstrated to mainstream U S companies that the market behaved like most other groups For instance the major grocery store chains were patronized by 92 percent of Chinese Americans on a weekly basis This ran counter to the prevailing attitude from advertisers which was summarized by station manager Mike Sherman Why should I advertise my supermarket on TV when all the Chinese are going to do is go down to Chinatown and buy a chicken on a string The study also noted that KTSF was Chinese Americans primary source of news and information 45 46 Moves like these to dispel stereotypes as well as the launch of Chinese language local newscasts in 1989 helped increase the station s ability to attract major advertisers in 1994 KTSF earned 60 percent of its revenue from advertising compared to 35 percent from brokering airtime 47 63 69 This came as channel 26 received competition from KCNS channel 38 and KPST TV channel 66 which both offered large lineups of Asian programming and in the case of KPST locally produced Chinese news 47 In 1997 KTSF s programming efforts in Filipino and Vietnamese experienced turmoil In February the station cut back the air time of the Filipino language Filipino Report after less than two years to replace it with the ABS CBN current affairs magazine Balitang K which had a tabloid format two journalists at KTSF resigned in protest 48 and community leaders threatened a boycott 49 The fired reporters then started a 30 minute program airing on KMTP TV channel 32 50 Later that year after a 10 year run KTSF discontinued its airing of the independently produced local program Vietnamese Liberty Television after it claimed the producer had breached confidentiality in business negotiations and defamed channel 26 s management 51 Beginning by 1997 the Japanese TV show Iron Chef produced by Fuji TV gained a cult following in the Bay Area during its broadcasts on KTSF 52 53 When Fuji TV stopped subtitling the program into English in August 1998 an uproar ensued and the program dubbed into English ended up on the Food Network the next year 54 The series continued airing on KTSF until the station exhausted the remaining new episodes of the program which was canceled in 1999 55 KTSF s efforts to broaden its advertiser appeal continued in the 1990s and 2000s as the Asian American population in the Bay Area experienced further growth In 2000 the station had total revenue of 12 5 million more than doubling from four years prior Channel 26 s major advertisers included such blue chip names as AT amp T Bank of America Disney JCPenney Nissan and United Airlines 56 In 2005 KTSF became the first Asian language station to be rated by Nielsen Media Research 44 Lillian Lincoln Howell continued to be involved in the station well into her 80s still attending weekly meetings in spite of slowly losing her hearing 41 She died in 2014 at the age of 93 57 In the 2000s KTSF experimented with several new types of local productions Talk Tonight a call in program originally hosted by Orlando Shih debuted in 2000 58 KTSF also trialed several series aimed at younger audiences In 2003 it marketed Road Trip USA a Mandarin language reality game show in which four Chinese teams would race from Boston to Miami 59 a year later channel 26 debuted Stir an English language program 60 KTSF lost its Japanese language programming between 2011 and 2014 In April 2011 Tokyo TV left KTSF and moved to a subchannel of KCNS 61 and later KEXT CD channel 27 18 In March 2014 Fuji TV discontinued its relationship with KTSF after more than 33 years KTSF s programming director cited the increased availability of streaming content as well as a shrinking Japanese market in the Bay Area and declining advertising revenue that prevented Fuji TV from continuing on channel 26 18 Digital TV channel sharing and streaming edit KTSF s digital signal launched on May 1 2002 broadcast on UHF channel 27 62 The station shut down its analog signal over UHF channel 26 on June 12 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television The station s digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 27 using virtual channel 26 63 Despite converting to digital KTSF only began broadcasting high definition programming on February 1 2016 64 In 2014 KTSF launched a local TV app in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store using the Syncbak platform as well as Nielsen measurement 65 The original app was discontinued on February 1 2021 and replaced with the VUit platform 66 VUit was the successor to Syncbak which had been acquired by Gray Television 67 In 2021 KTSF was the most viewed station on VUit attracting out of market viewership in a number of other West Coast media markets 68 The station launched a promotional campaign in 2023 to raise awareness of its availability among Chinese Americans in the Sacramento area 69 Lincoln Broadcasting took a payment of more than 90 1 million to surrender its channel in the reverse portion of the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction This was the third highest payment to any San Francisco market TV station 70 In the wake of the auction KTSF entered into a channel sharing agreement with Univision owned KDTV DT channel 14 which broadcasts from Mount Allison KDTV began broadcasting KTSF s subchannels on May 7 2018 71 The KDTV KTSF multiplex was then repacked from physical channel 51 to channel 20 on April 29 2020 72 Programming editKTSF s broadcast day outside of hours when it airs infomercials and other paid programming which dominate on weekends predominantly consists of Chinese language news and entertainment programs from China and locally produced It also airs international newscasts and several specialty programs in languages other than Chinese KTSF s non multicultural broadcasting is limited to several religious programs including Shepherd s Chapel and two weekly Catholic Masses 73 KTSF s local non news programs in Chinese include Talk Finance with Sau Wing Lam Wok Around the Bay KTSF Music and Bay Area Focus with Lily Chao The station also airs several independently produced local shows Showbiz India an English language show on the Indian entertainment scene India Waves TV in English and Hindi and Nima TV in Farsi 74 News operation edit KTSF launched its news department on February 6 1989 with the debut of Chinese News at Nine as the first live local Chinese language TV newscast in the United States The program was originally presented by Mei Ling Sze formerly of TVB in Hong Kong and Philip Choi also of Hong Kong Sze who had recently emigrated from Hong Kong was working as a bank teller when she was approached to help start KTSF s newsroom 44 The entire news department consisted of ten employees content for the news program came from Asian TV channels CNN and KRON TV which also sold one of its newsgathering vehicles to channel 26 75 76 It replaced programming from programmer Overseas Chinese Communication OCTV which moved to KWBB channel 38 77 The first edition was later selected for inclusion in the Paley Center for Media catalog 58 In March the station added a live audio simulcast in Mandarin on local radio station KEST 78 We got people calling up in tears they were so upset And they wouldn t hang up They just wanted to talk to someone and express their feelings They hoped we understood and we did For them we aren t just a television station we are part of the community Mei Ling Sze anchor for KTSF s Cantonese news on the viewer reaction to Tiananmen Square 47 106 The newscast proved its value quickly During the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre later in 1989 the station was able to track down Fang Lizhi an activist before he sought asylum news outlets around the world picked up the story 44 By early 1990 the newscast had 240 000 viewers a night 79 The Cantonese newscast was extended to an hour in duration in October 1993 47 117 The next year 41 the station launched a separate Mandarin news program over the course of the 1990s KTSF s research found the number of Mandarin speakers slowly pulling even with the Cantonese speaking population 80 largely driven by the technology sector fueling immigration to San Jose 81 By 1993 the newscasts had moved to the 8 p m hour 82 Weekend editions of the Mandarin and Cantonese broadcasts debuted in early 2006 41 In 2016 KTSF launched a Cantonese language morning news program 83 by 2023 this had been replaced with reruns of the previous evening s 7 and 10 p m newscasts 73 The Mandarin news at 10 p m was revamped in 2023 with the inclusion of several new segments and a weekly sports segment 84 In addition to the Cantonese and Mandarin newscasts KTSF produces Hong Kong Weekly a weekend roundup of the week s news from Hong Kong 74 In addition to its own Chinese language newscasts KTSF airs international newscasts from or covering Asian countries including China News China Central Television ETTV News Taiwan Saigon TV News Vietnamese and TV Patrol Philippines 73 Subchannels editKTSF offers four subchannels on the multiplex shared with KDTV DT Subchannels of KTSF on the KDTV DT multiplex 85 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming 26 1 720p 16 9 KTSF Main KTSF programming 26 3 480i 26 3 Sino TV 26 5 Vietday Viet Today TV 26 6 VSTV Viet Shopping TVReferences edit Facility Technical Data for KTSF Licensing and Management System Federal Communications Commission Newton Dwight October 20 1956 Channel Chatter The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco California p 15 Archived from the 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2023 Retrieved November 16 2023 Bessman Jim September 5 1987 California Clip Channel Is A Survivor Billboard p 57 ProQuest 1438659953 a b c d Brevetti Francine September 13 2006 It s been a 30 year ride for KTSF p 1 ProQuest 352145727 Chinese Need Bilingual Services Study Indicates AsianWeek April 24 1987 p 13 ProQuest 371348172 Chung L A April 24 1987 Bay Area Chinese Have American Buying Habits The San Francisco Chronicle p 20 a b c d Li Chiao Chu 1994 The role of Chinese language broadcasting media in the San Francisco Bay Area MS thesis San Jose State University ProQuest 304191302 Pimentel Benjamin February 11 1997 Journalists Quit Over Filipino News Cuts KTSF plans to trim local program San Francisco Chronicle p A18 Archived from the original on November 17 2023 Retrieved November 17 2023 Espinosa Solis Suzanne March 1 1997 Filipino Report Cut Leads to Boycott Threat The San Francisco Chronicle pp A19 A25 Archived from the original on November 17 2023 Retrieved November 17 2023 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