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KMAX-TV
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Sacramento//Modesto, California
United States
City Sacramento, California
Branding CW 31 (general)
Good Day (morning newscast)
CBS 13 News on CW 31 (evening newscasts)
Channels Digital: 21 (UHF)
(to move to 24 (UHF))
Virtual: 31 ()
Affiliations The CW
Owner CBS Corporation
(Sacramento Television Stations, Inc.)
First air date October 5, 1974; 42 years ago (1974-10-05)
Call letters' meaning MAXimum Entertainment
(per old station advertisement)
Sister station(s) KOVR, KHTK, KNCI, KSFM, KYMX, KZZO
Former callsigns
  • KMUV-TV (1974–1981)
  • KRBK-TV (1981–1995)
  • KPWB-TV (1995–1998)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 31 (UHF, 1974–2009)
Former affiliations
Transmitter power 1000 kW
Height 614 m (2,014 ft)
Facility ID 51499
Transmitter coordinates 38°14′24″N 121°30′3″W / 38.24000°N 121.50083°W / 38.24000; -121.50083
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website sacramento.cbslocal.com

KMAX-TV, virtual channel 31 (UHF digital channel 21), is a CW owned-and-operated television station licensed to Sacramento, California, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CBS owned-and-operated station KOVR (channel 13). The two stations share studio facilities located on KOVR Drive in West Sacramento; KMAX's transmitter is located in Locke.

The station first signed on the air on October 5, 1974 as KMUV-TV, operating as an independent station. It originally operated from studio facilities located on Media Place in Sacramento. The station was originally owned by Sid Grayson and had carried an all-movie format to counter-program against the area's other established stations, particularly then-independent KTXL (channel 40, now a Fox affiliate). However on May 1, 1976, KMUV abandoned its all-movie format and largely began to air Spanish-language programming, along with some English-language religious programs (such as The PTL Club). On April 2, 1981, Koplar Broadcasting (then-owner and founder of St. Louis' KPLR-TV) purchased channel 31 and relaunched it on April 6 of that year under the callsign KRBK-TV (the callsign was named for company founder Harold Koplar's son, Robert "Bob" Koplar), formatted as an English-language general entertainment independent to compete directly with KTXL.


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