KMTP-TV
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| San Francisco, California | |
| Branding | KMTP |
| Channels | 32 (UHF) analog, 33 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | Ind |
| Owner | Minority Television Project Inc. |
| Founded | 1958 |
| Call letters meaning | K Minority Television Project |
| Former callsigns | KSAN-TV (1958-1968) KNEW-TV (1968-1970) KQEC-TV (1970-1991) |
| Former affiliations | PBS (1970-1991) |
KMTP, the San Francisco non-commercial station operated by the Minority Television Project, airs programming in several non-English languages, including several Asian languages and German. It also broadcasts programming from Deutsche Welle TV (DW-TV), Russia Today TV, and the Classic Arts Showcase.
[edit] History
The station on channel 32 began commercially as one of the first UHF TV stations in the United States in 1958 as KSAN-TV, owned by the Patterson family, operators of KSAN (AM) radio, showing an amalgam of boxing and wrestling matches, medical conferences, and old movies.
The TV station was purchased by Metromedia in 1968, when the call sign was moved to an FM station and the station re-christened KNEW-TV, to match its co-owned KNEW AM station. KNEW-TV ran the syndicated Metromedia talkshows and variety programming of such stars as shock-talker Joe Pyne, Merv Griffin, and others.
This format was unsuccessful, and by 1970 Channel 32 was given to leading public broadcaster KQED and re-christened once again, this time as KQEC, a member station of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). KQED held onto the station until 1988 when the FCC revoked the license, ruling that it had been off the air too much to remain in the hands of the KQED ownership (KQED kept KQEC off the air for most of 1972 through 1977, and then again for several months in 1979-80), and reassigned the license to Minority Television Project, one of the challengers of the KQEC license.[1]
[edit] Controversy
In 2004, the FCC levied a $10,000 fine against KMTP for showing paid commercials on a station with an educational license.[2] While it is commonplace for PBS and similar stations to show underwriters' messages that resemble commercials, it is illegal for educationally-licensed stations, like KMTP, to show advertisements that do not meet the standards for underwriting announcements.[3],[4] KMTP appealed the decision in 2005, but the fine was upheld.
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| Ukiah-Mendocino County: KUNO 8 (AZA) - K17CG 17 (Ind) - K21CD 21 (TEL) - K27EE 27 (PBS) - K29DF 29 (Ind) - K39AG 39 (Fox) - K41AF 41 (MNTV) - K43AF 43 (CBS) - K45AH 45 (ABC) - K51AQ 51 (The CW) - K55GX 55 (PBS) - K67BV 67 (Ind) - K69DF 69 (PBS) |
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| Defunct television stations KQEC 32 (PBS) |
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| Local cable television channels FSN Bay Area - Comcast SportsNet West - Tri-Valley Community Television |
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KBTV-CA 8 (Sacramento) - KCAL 9 (Los Angeles) - KSCI 18 (Long Beach) - KBBV-CA 19 (Bakersfield) - KBWB 20 (San Francisco) - KWHY 22 (Los Angeles) - KBSV 23 (Ceres) - KVMD 23 (Twentynine Palms) - KTSF 26 (San Francisco) - KNLA-LP 27 (Los Angeles) - KMTP 32 (San Francisco) - KICU 36 (San Jose) - KCNS 38 (San Francisco) - KBOP-CA 43 (San Diego) - KXLA 44 (Rancho Palos Verdes) - KFTY 50 (Santa Rosa) - KUSI 51 (San Diego) - KDOC 56 (Anaheim) - KJLA 57 (Ventura) - KRCA 62 (Riverside) - KBEH 63 (Oxnard) |
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