KTSF

KTSF

San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose, California United States
City	San Francisco, California
Channels	Digital: 20 (UHF), shared with KDTV-DT Virtual: 26
Branding	KTSF 26
Programming
Affiliations	26.1: Multicultural Independent for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Lincoln Broadcasting Company, a California LP
History
First air date	September 4, 1976 (47 years ago) (1976-09-04)
Former call signs	KTSF-TV (1976–1981)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 26 (UHF, 1976–2009) Digital: 27 (UHF, 2002–2018), 51 (UHF, 2018–2020)
Call sign meaning	Television San Francisco
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	37511
ERP	475 kW
HAAT	701.3 m (2,301 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	37°29′57″N 121°52′20″W / 37.49917°N 121.87222°W / 37.49917; -121.87222
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	ktsf.com

KTSF (channel 26) is an independent television station in San Francisco, California, United States, broadcasting in a variety of languages, most notably Chinese. The station is owned by the Lincoln Broadcasting Company and maintains studios on Valley Drive in south suburban Brisbane. It shares a channel and transmitter with KDTV-DT (channel 14), owned by Univision, broadcasting from atop Mount Allison.

Channel 26 was approved in 1965 but did not begin broadcasting until September 1976. It was owned by Lillian Lincoln Howell and, aside from a short-lived daily business show at launch and four years of prime time subscription television programming in the early 1980s, primarily broadcast alternative English-language syndicated and local programs as well as brokered programs in languages other than English, primarily serving the Bay Area's growing Asian community.

In 1989, KTSF began producing the first Chinese-language television newscast in the United States, airing in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. In addition to local news, KTSF produces other local programs in Chinese and English and airs Chinese-language entertainment programming, several independently produced shows catering to the Indian and Iranian communities, paid programs, and religious broadcasting.