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KNTV channel 11 , branded as NBC Bay Area , is a television station licensed to San Jose, California , United States, broadcasting NBC programming to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Telemundo outlet KSTS channel 48 ; it is also sister to regional sports networks NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California.
KNTV and KSTS share studios on North 1st Street in the North San Jose Innovation District ; KNTV's transmitter is located on San Bruno Mountain. KNTV was established as an independent station in ; in , it became an affiliate of ABC as the affiliate of record for Salinas and Monterey , otherwise a separate market.
Even though San Francisco had its own ABC television station, KGO-TV , KNTV focused its news and other programming on the Santa Clara Valley. In , ABC paid KNTV to end its affiliation in in order to allow KGO-TV to serve as the only source of ABC programming in the San Jose area.
The station operated as an independent for a year and a half before securing a year affiliation with NBC and then being sold to the network outright. Local news covering the entire Bay Area is produced from the San Jose studios. KNTV [2] signed on the air on September 12, , originally operating as an independent station covering the entire north-central California coast from Monterey to San Francisco. It was the first television station in San Jose and was originally operated by Standard Radio and Television Corporation, which was owned by Allen T.
Its antenna was originally located on Loma Prieta , some 60 miles 97 km south of San Francisco. Channel 11 often aired shows from CBS , DuMont and NBC that were respectively turned down by San Francisco's KPIX-TV channel 5 and KRON-TV channel 4 , as well as some ABC shows that also aired on KGO-TV channel 7. The station was not viable as an independent, despite the Bay Area's size.
The going got even more difficult when Oakland -based KTVU channel 2 signed on in , and it soon became apparent that the Bay Area was not large enough at the time to support two independent stations. However, due to KNTV's transmitter and antenna location, its signal could be received fairly well in the nearby areas of Monterey and Salinas ; the transmitter was located approximately halfway between San Jose and Monterey. Taking advantage of this, KNTV sought and was granted the ABC affiliation for the Monterey Bay area in , [4] on the condition that the station reduced its transmitter power so as not to overlap with network-owned KGO-TV's signal.
Previously, all three networks had been shoehorned onto Salinas-based KSBW-TV channel 8. KNTV, therefore, became one of the few stations located outside the market it served. Following the death of Allen T. Gilliland in , ownership of KNTV was held by the executors of his estate, which included son Allen T. Gilliland Jr. Even as an ABC affiliate, KNTV occasionally preempted a few ABC programs.
KGO-TV, meanwhile as a network-owned outlet aired ABC's entire programming schedule, so this often gave San Jose and Silicon Valley also known as the "South Bay" area residents a second choice for viewing preempted ABC programming although reception of KGO in the South Bay tended to have some static without a roof-mounted antenna, because of the relatively far distance from Sutro Tower.
KNTV was highly regarded locally by viewers and seen as a "hometown" station for the South Bay, with news coverage and local commercials reflecting its South Bay roots, rather than focusing almost solely on San Francisco as the other network outlets did [ citation needed ]. Gill Industries sold KNTV to Norfolk, Virginia -based Landmark Communications in In , KGO-TV agreed to pay Granite a substantial fee to stop channel 11 from running ABC programming once the station's affiliation contract expired.
ABC's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company , saw the need to expand KGO-TV's exclusive advertising market share into San Jose for this reason, and it felt that KNTV was taking away from the share. That same year, the deYoung family, owners of KRON-TV and the San Francisco Chronicle , put all of its media properties up for sale. NBC, which had been in the midst of renewing its affiliation agreement with KRON-TV, jumped into the bidding.
It had been one of the bidders for the channel 4 license in the late s when it wanted a sister television station to complement West Coast flagship KNBC AM , now KNBR , but lost out to Chronicle. The deYoungs had built KRON into one of NBC's strongest affiliates, though NBC had long felt chagrin at KRON's frequent preemptions of network programming. NBC was thought to be the favorite to buy KRON-TV, but in a move that shocked the broadcasting industry, lost a bidding war for the station to Young Broadcasting in November Young refused and announced that it would end KRON-TV's year relationship with NBC once its affiliation contract ended in December This agreement was groundbreaking and notable, as KNTV became the first major market affiliate to pay a network for programming, reversing a long-standing model where networks paid affiliates to carry their programming.
NBC accepted the deal, which was due to take effect in January On July 3, , KNTV terminated its ABC affiliation after 40 years with the network; it then temporarily carried programming from The WB Television Network in a part-time simulcast with then co-owned KBWB-TV channel 20, now KOFY-TV , which was the full-time WB affiliate for the Bay Area. To compensate for the loss, KGO-TV was then added on cable providers in that market, with certain syndicated programs carried by the station replaced due to syndication exclusivity rules.
This did not pose as much of a problem as it may seem due to the very high penetration of cable and satellite in the Monterey Bay area. ABC would not return over-the-air to the area until KSBW began carrying ABC programming on the station's second digital subchannel on April 18, In September , Nielsen Media Research reclassified KNTV to the Bay Area DMA.
In an attempt to reduce debts, Granite started looking for a buyer for Detroit WB affiliate WDWB now WMYD in October ; [20] that station would not be sold until The network was already in the process of acquiring San Jose-based Telemundo station KSTS and wanted to create a duopoly in the Bay Area.
KNTV officially joined NBC at p. Pacific Time on December 31 , With NBC's move to channel 11, it became the only major network in the Bay Area to switch from one station to another. KNTV is the third Bay Area station to affiliate with NBC, as primary CBS affiliate KPIX-TV had carried the network as a secondary affiliation upon its sign-on in until KRON debuted the following year.
NBC formally took control of KNTV in April This was not NBC's first attempt at purchasing a station in the Bay Area; a plan to purchase KTVU in was canceled following antitrust objections from KRON-TV, along with an FCC hearing designation surrounding all applications related to NBC's ownership of radio and television stations in Philadelphia.
After the affiliation switch to NBC, Granite switched the station's on-air numerical branding to "NBC 3" to reflect its position on cable channel 3 on nearly every cable provider in the Bay Area.
Initially as the station built up its newsgathering resources in San Francisco and the East Bay, KNTV newscasts were perceived to be infotainment due to the focus on much more accessible crime and entertainment news, but by late the newscasts began focusing on Bay Area affairs.
During the Summer Olympics , the station heavily promoted channel 11 through its "illuminating" marketing campaign stylized as "I11uminating," with the number "11" used in place of the "L" letters. Even in its early years as the new NBC affiliate, KNTV aired NBC's soap opera lineup much later in the afternoon than most affiliates; KRON had done this for years as an NBC affiliate. Soon enough by August , KNTV fell in line with the network's recommended time slot and aired Days of Our Lives NBC's remaining afternoon daytime drama at 1 p.
In , NBC converted a vacant office space in northern San Jose into a state-of-the-art, all-digital facility for KNTV and KSTS. On December 13 of that year, KNTV moved from its original studios on Park Avenue to the new location.
As part of a company-wide environmental initiative known today as "Green is Universal" , the facility is entirely powered by wind energy. That all changed on September 12, , when KNTV was able to finally move its transmitter 52 miles 84 km northwest to San Bruno Mountain, giving it a signal comparable to the Bay Area's other major stations.
The move came after years of objection from KRON's owner Young Broadcasting. KRON made numerous filings with the FCC, alleging that thousands of San Jose residents would lose over-the-air coverage of KNTV if it moved closer to San Francisco. Some San Francisco residents, especially in the Sunset and Richmond districts of the city, still found it difficult to receive an adequate over-the-air signal, because they are shielded from San Bruno Mountain.
Most of the other Bay Area stations operate from Sutro Tower, which has a better overall view of San Francisco proper, although at the expense of those in northern San Mateo County, where San Bruno Mountain acts as a shield.
However, most of the Bay Area is covered with a strong signal from all of the stations. The year closed, however, with a devastating wildfire at the retired transmitting facility on Loma Prieta. The fire was quickly extinguished on the afternoon of December 31; however, the fire reignited after firefighters had left the scene, and destroyed the former primary analog and digital transmitters, which had only been retired a few months earlier and were in backup status, as well as a variety of other communications equipment.
Former KNTV and KRON reporter Jim Goldman is the bureau chief, and the main CNBC reporter covering business stories concerning the Silicon Valley; the set used for daily broadcasts on CNBC occupies part of KNTV's newsroom.
In April , KNTV entered into an arrangement with former NBC affiliate KRON-TV to broadcast network programs during instances in which KNTV has to preempt them for special programming such as telecasts of San Francisco Giants games. Incidentally, KRON's owner, Young Broadcasting discussed entering KRON into a shared services agreement with KNTV's owner NBCUniversal , [34] which ultimately never materialized.
KRON's default carriage of preempted NBC shows ended in , when KICU-TV then owned by Cox Media Group as a sister station to KTVU resumed those duties until the sale of both KICU and KTVU to Fox Television Stations in ; preemptions are now handled in-house with a move of NBC programming to KNTV's Cozi TV subchannel. On April 13, , KNTV became the subject of Stephen Colbert 's program, The Colbert Report , where Colbert played a clip read by weekend anchor Diane Dwyer on the issue of "unpaid internships".
Colbert would eventually use that given clip to set the stage for laughs based on unpaid interns. In April , a five-alarm fire destroyed the former KNTV complex on Park Avenue; the vacant property had been purchased by the San Jose Redevelopment Agency along with adjacent parcels in the eventually ill-fated hopes of attracting a new downtown stadium for the Oakland A's. Syndicated programming on KNTV as of September [update] includes Access Hollywood including its afternoon counterpart , [38] [39] The Kelly Clarkson Show and Rachael Ray.
The first two are distributed by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios and Rachael Ray is distributed by CBS Media Ventures. KNTV also serves as the San Francisco Bay Area affiliate for Hearst Television 's Sunday morning talk show Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien , alongside sister stations WNBC in New York City and WVIT in Hartford. Since being purchased by NBCUniversal, KNTV has produced its own programs for both local broadcast and for distribution nationally on the NBC television network and in syndication.
Two of KNTV's national and regional programs that are distributed to NBC stations are Tech Now! a weekly show that debuted on September 19, under Granite Broadcasting ownership that covers the latest in technology and gadgets, and is hosted by Scott Budman and produced by Scott McGrew [40] and was at one time popular in Ghana [41] and In Wine Country a weekly series focusing on the Napa Valley wine community. The station is also the local broadcaster of the San Jose Holiday Parade each December.
On October 12, , KNTV hosted its first political debate since becoming owned by NBCUniversal. Its 5, 6, and 11 p. newscast was broadcast live at San Rafael 's Dominican University of California, [42] [43] though the latter newscast were used as a wrap-up of the debate. The debate between California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown was moderated by NBC News special correspondent Tom Brokaw.
On November 1, , KNTV entered into a three-year broadcast contract with the San Francisco Giants through , replacing the team's longtime broadcaster KTVU, which had carried Giants games since , three years after the team moved to the Bay Area and KTVU first began broadcasting.
The team's first game broadcast on KNTV aired on April 1, KNTV broadcasts 20 to 40 Giants baseball games a year, which are produced by sister network NBC Sports Bay Area. Also, KNTV airs Giants Clubhouse each weekend during the MLB season. All of the Giants broadcasts are carried in high definition. The station has preempted Giants telecasts during the Summer Olympics due to NBC currently holding the television rights to the Olympics.
The Giants' contract with KNTV concluded at the end of the season , however, the broadcast rights were renewed before the season. Despite this, it does not offer any live over-the-air broadcasts of the American League's Oakland Athletics, which are broadcast exclusively by NBC Sports California on cable.
KNTV also occasionally runs special editions of its newscasts or Sports Sunday , to cover San Francisco 49ers NFL games that are broadcast as part of NBC Sunday Night Football.
On January 23, , NBCUniversal, Comcast , and the San Francisco 49ers announced a year partnership that included new additions to Levi's Stadium. The partnership spans multiple business units that iinclude KNTV, NBC Sports Bay Area, its VoiceEdge, ethernet, and Xfinity services, as well as building a new studio only four miles 6 km from where KNTV is based. It also produced hours of programming on KNTV and NBC Sports Bay Area.
From to , KNTV aired San Jose Sharks games shown via the NHL on NBC ; this included the team's appearance in the Stanley Cup Final. The station also produces a local sports highlight and discussion program on Sunday nights called Xfinity Sports Sunday Primetime , which is hosted by sports anchor Dave Feldman during the fall, when NBC provides football coverage in prime time. In September , KNTV began producing an hour-long 10 p.
newscast for then-WB affiliate KBWB-TV now KOFY-TV. newscast and a simulcast of the KBWB 10 p.
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