List of television stations in the San Francisco Bay Area

KPIX, California's first television station, started broadcasts in 1948, with KRON and KGO soon following suit.

By 1956, the Sacramento area had KCRA, KBET KOVR, and KCCC on the air, the San Jose area had KSBW and KNTV, and San Francisco had KRON, KPIX, KGO, KQED, and KSAN broadcasting.

The ownership and programming of these stations has changed significantly over the decades, but most of these channel assignments and call signs remain the same.

Thanks to the sub-channels that are enabled by ATSC modulation, over 350 channels broadcast on the 33 RF frequencies allocated for digital television may be received within the Bay Area (UHF channels 16 and 17 are allocated for T-band business radio).

Television stations whose terrestrial broadcast signals can be received in the San Francisco Bay Area include:[3] [4] [5] KBKF-LD additionally transmits with an experimental analog FM radio subcarrier that is accessible at 87.7 MHz.