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KCNZ-CD (channel 28) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Owned by CNZ Communications, LLC, it is sister to Merit Street affiliate KOFY-TV (channel 20) and low-power station KQRM-LD. The three stations share transmitter facilities atop San Bruno Mountain.

History

KCNZ-CD was founded on April 25, 1986, with an original construction permit granted to National Innovative Programming Network. Initially assigned to Palo Alto and Los Altos, California, and given callsign K30BI, the station's construction permit was modified and extended several times. In August 1990, Channel America acquired the station, but sold it again in July 1992 to Polar Broadcasting, who finally licensed the station on May 3, 1994. By this time, the station had been assigned to San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.

According to listings from 1997, K30BI (referred to as "KBI-TV") was formerly affiliated with The Box, a 24-hour-a-day music network, and aired classic television during the day. It offered a Korean-language local newscast and a Spanish-language call-in show, as well as Spanish-language preseason broadcasts of San Francisco 49ers football. It was the only Korean-language TV station in San Francisco and its only independent Spanish-language outlet.

In 1999, the station relocated to channel 28 to make way for KQED's digital signal on channel 30 and rebranded as "Tu Vision" (Spanish for "Your Vision"). Its studios were originally located in the Cannery on Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco. In 2000, KBI moved its studios to San Jose, a bid to move the station closer to the locus of the Hispanic community in the Bay Area.

Eventually, the station changed affiliations to HSN; its call letters were changed to KBIT-LP shortly after. KBIT received Class A status on August 27, 2001, and assumed the call sign KFTL-CA in February 2004 after being taken over by Family Stations, Inc. Family Stations previously used the KFTL call sign on analog channel 64, licensed to Stockton, which is now UniMás owned-and-operated station KTFK-DT.

KFTL-CA flash cut to digital on June 27, 2009; its call sign was changed to KFTL-CD.

Family Stations sold KFTL-CD to LocusPoint Networks in November 2012.

The station was purchased by CNZ Communications subsidiary Poquito Más Communications in mid-2017 and changed the call sign to KCNZ-CD on August 7, 2017.

Subchannels

See also

• KEAR (AM)
• KEBR (FM)

References

1. "Facility Technical Data for KCNZ-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. "Program Guide for KBI-TV Channel 30". KBI-TV. Archived from the original on July 2, 1998. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
3. Marshall, Jonathan (April 28, 1998). "Digital TV Threatens Ethnic Shows". San Francisco Chronicle. p. D1. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
4. Davidson, Paul (September 9, 1998). "Tiny TV stations on Americana's endangered list". USA Today. p. 12B.
5. "Our Mission". KBI-TV. Archived from the original on July 11, 2000. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
6. Martinez, Anne (May 21, 2000). "Culture channel: Broadcasts will come from the heart of Silicon Valley's Latino community". San Jose Mercury News. p. 1B. Retrieved June 18, 2024 – via Newsbank.
7. "Station Trading Roundup: 4 Deals, $16 Million". TVNewsCheck. November 6, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
8. RabbitEars TV Query for KCNZ-CD

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