The two stations share studios and a transmitter site at the Bet-Nahrain Assyrian Cultural Center on South Central Avenue in Ceres.
Though holding a full-service station license, KBSV broadcasts at low power to a limited area.
[3] It was founded by Bet-Nahrain Inc., the organization of Sargon Dadesho, an Assyrian-American activist originally from Iraq;[4] prior to the advent of channel 23, Bet-Nahrain offered an hour a day of Assyrian programming on local public-access television.
[6] AssyriaSat was primarily used to transmit news and other information to the Assyrian community in both the homeland and diaspora, and it as well as Dadesho gained media traction after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
[8] KBSV was previously broadcast from Mount Oso in Stanislaus County, but it was forced to move after the property owner terminated their lease for the site and has since operated on a temporary facility basis from the KBES tower, the intended permanent location.