KEMO-TV

KEMO-TV (channel 50) is a television station licensed to Fremont, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area with programming from ShopHQ.

[6] The station is owned by Innovate Corp. KEMO-TV's transmitter is located at San Francisco's Sutro Tower, and is shared with KMTP-TV, KCNS, and KTNC-TV.

Among the Channel 50 pioneers were Jon Miller, now the longtime play-by-play voice of the San Francisco Giants, and Stan Atkinson, who would become one of the Sacramento area's best-known TV reporters and anchors.

This much anticipated effort to establish a local North Bay TV station in Santa Rosa, led by Atkinson and partner Kit Spier (formerly an executive at KNBC in Los Angeles), was under-financed and lasted only a year.

Nothing more happened until 1981, when Wishard Brown, who had owned the Marin Independent Journal newspaper and San Rafael radio station KTIM, revived Channel 50 with an eye to making it a local news authority.

The second incarnation of KFTY went live in a former furniture store on Mendocino Avenue in May 1981 with broadcaster Jim Johnson (now an independent insurance and investment broker in Santa Rosa) as general manager.

[13] On March 29, 2021, KEMO flipped its main .1 channel to Estrella TV and moved Azteca programming to its .2 subchannel where it remained until the network's demise.

KFTY formed a news department in the late 1980s and began producing two half-hour local newscasts, airing at 7 and 10 p.m. each weeknight (these were promoted under the slogan, "We do it twice, every night.").