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KMST-TV
KION-TV (channel 46) is a television station licensed to Monterey, California, United States, affiliated with CBS, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox, and Telemundo. Owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company, it serves the Monterey Bay area from studios located on Moffett Street in Salinas, California, Salinas, immediately south of Salinas Municipal Airport, and a transmitter on Mount Toro (Monterey County, California), Mount Toro, about south of Salinas. The station is rebroadcast on broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators, translator KMUV-LD (channel 21), with transmitter on Fremont Peak (California), Fremont Peak. This station was the second established in the Salinas–Monterey area proper, beginning broadcasts in 1969; it has been affiliated with CBS since it signed on. Traditionally a second- or even third-place operation in the market, its operations were merged with KCBA (channel 35), then the region's Fox affiliate, between 1996 and 2013. The Fox subchannel on KION-TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Toro (Monterey County, California)
Mount Toro is a mountain peak in the Santa Lucia range in Monterey County, California. Mount Torosa Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated February 19, 2010; database download sa February 28, 2017 It is located within the boundaries of Los Padres National Forest. The name comes from the word "Toro," which in Spanish means "Bull". The highest point in the area is the Sierra de Salinas mountain range, above sea level, southeast of Mount Toro and above the surrounding terrain. There are about 16 people per square kilometer around Mount Toro. The land around Mount Toro is mountainous. The nearest town is Salinas, north of Mount Toro. The area around Mount Toro is covered with dirt and mud. Mount Toro is not accessible to the public. In the past, it had been used for winter recreational activities during rare events of snowfall. Magnificent views can be seen of the entire shoreline of Monterey Bay, the Corral de Tierra basin, Monterey, Watsonville, Castroville, Salinas, Santa Rita, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPIX-TV
KPIX-TV (channel 5), branded on-air as CBS Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the CBS network outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside KPYX (channel 44), an independent station. The two stations share studios at Broadway and Battery Street, just north of San Francisco's Financial District; KPIX's transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower. In addition to KPYX, KPIX shares its building with formerly co-owned radio stations KCBS, KFRC-FM, KITS, KLLC, KRBQ and KZDG (all now owned by Audacy, Inc.), although they use a different address number for Battery Street (865 as opposed to 855). History KPIX signed on the air on December 22, 1948, the first television station in Northern California as well as the 49th in the United States. It was originally owned by Associated Broadcasters, owners of KSFO (560 AM). Initially, channel 5's signa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the City of San José ( ; ), is a cultural, commercial, and political center within Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. With a city population of 997,368 and a metropolitan area population of 1.95 million, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and Northern California and the List of United States cities by population, 12th-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of and is the county seat, seat of Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County. Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was long inhabited by the Tamyen people, Tamien nation of the Ohlone people San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as the ''Pueblo de San José de Our Lady of Guadalupe, Guadalupe'', the first city founded in the Californias. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 after the Mexican Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KNTV
KNTV (channel 11), branded NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by the NBC television network through its 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, and two of its subchannels are also broadcast from the KSTS tower on Mount Allison. KNTV was established as an independent station in 1955; in 1960, 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 1999, ABC paid KNTV to end its affiliat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSBW
KSBW (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Salinas, California, United States, serving the Monterey Bay area as an affiliate of NBC and ABC. Owned by Hearst Television, the station has studios on John Street ( Highway 68) in downtown Salinas, and its transmitter is located on Fremont Peak in the Gabilan Mountains. KSBW-TV began broadcasting on September 11, 1953. It was originally a shared-time operation with KMBY-TV, which operated from Monterey; the stations were outgrowths of radio stations KSBW and KMBY and shared programs from all four major television networks. KSBW bought out KMBY in 1955, becoming the sole station on channel 8. In 1957, its owners began operating KSBY in San Luis Obispo as a semi-satellite; the two stations remained commonly owned for more than three decades, and KSBW became the dominant local news outlet in the area. It retained this status despite a series of ownership transfers in the 1980s and 1990s, during which time Elisabeth Murd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Radio Stations/History Cards
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is an affinity group for contributors with shared goals within the Wikimedia movement. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sibling projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cox Broadcasting
CMG Media Corporation (doing business as Cox Media Group) is an American media conglomerate principally owned by Apollo Global Management in conjunction with Cox Enterprises, which maintains a 29% minority stake in the company. The company primarily owns radio and television stations—many of which are located in the South, Pacific Northwest, Eastern Midwest, and Northeast, and the regional cable news network Pittsburgh Cable News Channel (PCNC). Originally founded in December 2008 by Cox Enterprises through a consolidation of its existing publishing and broadcasting subsidiaries, the current incarnation of Cox Media Group was formed on December 17, 2019, through the acquisition by Apollo of the original Cox Media Group (along with Cox Enterprises' advertising subsidiary, Gamut) from Cox Enterprises, which transferred a controlling interest in the company to Apollo, and Northwest Broadcasting from Brian Brady. History In December 2008, Cox Enterprises created Cox Media Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the most populous city in the East Bay, the third most populous city in the Bay Area, and the eighth most populous city in California. It serves as the Bay Area's trade center: the Port of Oakland is the busiest port in Northern California, and the fifth- or sixth-busiest in the United States. A charter city, Oakland was municipal corporation, incorporated on May 4, 1852, in the wake of the state's increasing population due to the California gold rush. Oakland's territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal prairie, California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. In the late 18th century, it became part of a large ''rancho'' grant in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTVU
KTVU (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Oakland, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network through its Fox Television Stations division alongside San Jose, California, San Jose–licensed KICU-TV (channel 36). The two stations share studios at Jack London Square in Oakland; KTVU's transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. History As an independent station The station first signed on the air on March 3, 1958, originally operating as an independent station. The station was originally owned by San Francisco–Oakland Television, Inc., a local firm whose principals were William D. Pabst and Ward D. Ingrim, former executives at the Don Lee (broadcaster), Don Lee Network and KEAR (AM), KFRC (610 AM); and Edwin W. Pauley, a Bay Area businessman who had led a separate group which competed against Pabst and Ingrim for the station's construction permit. The call sign was or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KWAV
KWAV (96.9 FM "K-Wave 96.9") is a commercial radio station in Monterey, California, broadcasting to the Salinas - Monterey - Santa Cruz region of Central California. It is owned by Stephens Media Group and it broadcasts an adult contemporary radio format. For much of November and December, it switches to Christmas music. The radio studios and offices are on Garden Court in Monterey. In the evening, KWAV carries the nationally syndicated ''Delilah'' call-in and request show. KWAV has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 18,000 watts. The transmitter is located on Rana Creek Road, atop Mount Toro, in Carmel Valley, California. KWAV is a Class B FM station with a higher power than would be granted under the present U.S. Federal Communications Commission rules. It is often referred as a "Superpower" Grandfathered Class B. History On October 14, 1961, the station signed on as KHFR. The call sign stood for "Ken's Hi Fi Radio". From 1966 to 1968, the station held the ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMBY (AM)
KMBY (1240 AM) is a radio station licensed to Monterey, California and serving the Monterey, Salinas and Santa Cruz areas. The station is owned by Hanford Youth Services Inc and broadcasts a classic hits format. It simulcasts via FM Translator K240EV on 95.9 MHz. History The station went on the air in 1935 as KDON. It moved from 1210 to 1240 kHz in 1941 when NARBA took effect. Saul Levine's Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters, Inc., bought KNRY from IHR Educational Broadcasting in December 2013. The format was changed to jazz in early January 2014. In May 2014, KNRY dropped the jazz format and began stunting, first with a simulcast of Los Angeles classical station KMZT-FM ("K-Mozart") and then with a loop of 25 alternative rock songs. On June 9, KNRY-FM ( K294CA) became alternative rock "Alt 106.7." KNRY simulcast KMZT-FM. On March 30, 2015, KNRY changed their format from a simulcast of classical-formatted KMZT-FM to adult standards, branded as "K-SURF 1240". The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
