KTSF

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KTSF
San Francisco, California
Branding	KTSF
Slogan	The Face of the Bay Area
Channels	26 (UHF) analog, 27 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Independent
Owner	Lincoln Broadcasting
Founded	1976
Call letters meaning	Television San Francisco
Website	www.ktsf.com

KTSF is an independent television station in Brisbane, California. It broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 26, and its digital signal on UHF channel 27. It is owned by the Lincoln Broadcasting Company.

Positioning itself as a multilingual outlet, the station broadcasts many non-English programs (the majority of which are in Mandarin and Cantonese, with some in Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese), usually with (non-English) subtitles. The bulk of this programming is during prime time; the daytime hours are mostly English-language infomercials. KTSF is the only station in the United States broadcasting nightly, live local and international news programming in both Cantonese and Mandarin.

Iron Chef gained much of its initial American following from subtitled broadcasts on KTSF; the show's popularity on KTSF and similar stations led to the creation of a dubbed version for the Food Network.

KTSF was a part-time subscription station of ON-TV in the 1980s, airing movies in the evening with a scrambled signal viewable with rented de-scrambling equipment. Non-subscribers saw a scrambled picture with an audio message telling them how to subscribe.

[edit] External links

• KTSF Homepage: English Version
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KTSF

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Broadcast television in the San Francisco Bay Area market (Nielsen DMA #5)

Greater San Francisco Bay Area KTVU 2 (Fox) - KRON 4 (MNTV) - KPIX 5 (CBS) - KGO 7 (ABC, AccuWX TV on DT2) - KQED 9 (PBS) - KNTV 11 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - KDTV 14 (UNI) - KBWB 20 (Ind) - KRCB 22 (PBS) - KAXT 22 (TBN) - KTSF 26 (Ind) - KFTL 28 (HSN) - KMTP 32 (Ind) - KICU 36 (Ind) - KTVJ 36 (Ind) - KCNS 38 (Ind) - KTNC 42 (AZA) - KBCW 44 (The CW) - KSTS 48 (TEL) - KFTY 50 (Ind) - KTEH 54 (PBS) - KCSM 60 (PBS, MHz Worldview on DT2) - KKPX 65 (ION, qubo on DT2, ION Life on DT3, Worship on DT4) - KFSF 66 (TFT) - KTLN 68 (TLN)
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)
Defunct television stations KQEC 32 (PBS)
Local cable television channels FSN Bay Area - Comcast SportsNet West - Tri-Valley Community Television

v • d • e Independent Television Stations in the state of California
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)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California