KCCC-TV was a television station on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 40 in Sacramento, California, United States.
[9] The group promised to have a test pattern on the air within a month,[10] but construction delays caused by soil conditions on the site set the project back.
[14] When the station went on, its studios were not completed, but KCCC-TV's offices and facilities for the first local programs were in the Hotel Senator downtown.
[16] In March 1955, Sacramento's second television station began broadcasting, VHF outlet KBET-TV (channel 10), but KCCC-TV continued to enjoy network service from NBC and ABC, as well as a series of new local programs.
This location gave it a coverage area that included Stockton and San Francisco, which in turn raised its prices for syndicated programming and effectively blocked it from obtaining a network affiliation.
The Sacramento Bee noted that its president, Lincoln Dellar, had "been assured of a long-range continuing affiliation with NBC".
[28] After the FCC approved the KOVR move to Butte Mountain in November 1956,[29] KCCC-TV management appealed, protesting the decision as a Stockton station encroaching on the Sacramento market.
On May 1, the news that management would decline to confirm rumors that KCCC-TV would fold at month's end made the front page of The Bee.
[35] In the merger, KOVR acquired the KCCC-TV studios in Sacramento, which it reopened the next year and made available to new educational station KVIE.
The Capitol Television Corporation consisted of former KCCC-TV account executive Melvyn Lucas, chief engineer Harry Bartolomei, and announcer Clarence Holten.
By the mid-1980s, however, it was in inadequate condition with power and water issues; KVIE had grown to the point where the temporary structure was "bursting at the seams"[48] and was renting additional office space to house its staff.