List of television stations in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Further information: Media in the San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area is currently defined by Nielsen Media Research as the tenth-largest television market in the United States,[1] with all of the major U.S. television networks having affiliates serving the region. All but one of the major U.S. television networks are directly owned by the networks; the one exception is secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate KRON-TV (now The CW), which is owned by Nexstar Media Group.

Television stations that primarily serve the San Francisco Bay Area include:[2]

Callsign Owner City of license VC RF Cable Antenna Network Notes
KAXT-CD Weigel Broadcasting (KAXT-TV LLC) Santa Clara 1 22 — Monument Peak Catchy Comedy —
KTVU Fox Television Stations, LLC Oakland 2 31 2 Sutro Tower FOX Owned-and-operated station since 2014 along with KICU-TV 36
KRON-TV Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Media Inc.) San Francisco 4 7 4 The CW [primary]/MyNetworkTV [secondary] Owned-and-operated station since September 1, 2023, after the move of The CW network.
KPIX-TV CBS News and Stations (Paramount Global) 5 29 5 CBS Owned-and-operated station of CBS.
KBKF-LD Venture Technologies Group (Venture Technologies Group, LLC) San Jose 6 — — Air1 A Low-powered television station.
KGO-TV ABC Owned Television Stations (The Walt Disney Company) San Francisco 7 12 7 Sutro Tower ABC The longest owned-and-operated station affiliated with ABC and owned by the Walt Disney Company.
KQSL One Ministries, Inc. Cloverdale 8 — TLN West —
KQED KQED Inc. San Francisco 9 30 9 PBS The major PBS member station in the Bay Area.
KNTV NBC Owned Television Stations (Comcast / NBCUniversal) (NBC Telemundo License LLC) San Jose 11 13 3 San Bruno Mountain NBC Owned-and-operated station since 2001 when NBC bought KNTV.

Bold indicates channel is a network owned-and-operated station and a PBS major member station.

KBKF-LD additionally transmits with an experimental analog FM radio subcarrier that is accessible at 87.7 MHz.[3]

Defunct stations

SF/SJ Cable Stations

Logos of former callsigns

KTEH (now KQEH)

References

  1. ^ "2022-2023 Nielsen DMA Ranking". October 27, 2022.
  2. ^ "Station Index – San Francisco – Oakland – San Jose". Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  3. ^ "Re: Request for Special Temporary Authority: KBKF-LD, San Jose, CA" (correspondence from Barbara A. Kreisman, Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau), June 10, 2021 (FCC.gov)
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