KCBA

KCBA

Salinas–Monterey–Santa Cruz, California United States
City	Salinas, California
Channels	Digital: 11 (VHF) Virtual: 35
Branding	Central Coast CW
Programming
Affiliations	35.1: The CW Plus for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	VistaWest Media (VistaWest of Monterey, LLC)
Operator	News-Press & Gazette Company
Sister stations	KION-TV
History
First air date	November 1, 1981 (42 years ago) (1981-11-01)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 35 (UHF, 1981–2009) Digital: 13 (VHF, until 2020)
Former affiliations	SIN/Univision (1981–1986) Independent (1986–1987) Fox (1987–2022)
Call sign meaning	reverse order of the first three letters of the English alphabet
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	14867
ERP	19.75 kW
HAAT	726 m (2,382 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	36°45′22″N 121°30′10″W / 36.75611°N 121.50278°W / 36.75611; -121.50278
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	Central Coast CW

KCBA (channel 35) is a television station in Salinas, California, United States, serving the Monterey Bay area as an affiliate of The CW Plus. It is owned by VistaWest Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG), owner of CBS/Fox/Telemundo affiliate KION-TV (channel 46), for the provision of certain services. Programming originates from the KION-TV studio facilities on Moffett Street in Salinas and is broadcast from a transmitter located on Fremont Peak.

Established as a Spanish-language station in 1981, KCBA became an English-language station in 1986 and affiliated with the new Fox network the next year. The station started broadcasting local news in 1990 and acquired most of the operations of KION-TV, then known as KCCN-TV, in 1996. In 2013, Seal Rock changed service providers from KION-TV to Entravision Communications, owner of Univision affiliate KSMS-TV; this deal ended in 2021, and a new agreement was signed with KION. On January 1, 2022, KCBA and KION's second digital subchannel exchanged affiliations.