KBAK-TV
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Bakersfield, California United States |
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| Branding | KBAK (general) Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 33 (UHF) Virtual: 29 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 29.1 CBS 29.3 Charge! 58.2 Fox |
| Affiliations | CBS (1953–1974 and since 1996) |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (Sinclair Bakersfield Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | August 20, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | BAKersfield |
| Sister station(s) |
KBFX-CD, KMPH-TV, KFRE-TV |
| Former callsigns | KAFY-TV (1953–1954) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 29 (UHF, 1953–2009) |
| Former affiliations | ABC (1974–1996) |
| Transmitter power | 110 kW |
| Height | 1128 m |
| Facility ID | 4148 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°27′10.1″N 118°35′28.1″W / 35.452806°N 118.591139°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | bakersfieldnow.com |
KBAK-TV, virtual channel 29 (UHF digital channel 33), is a CBS-affiliate television station located in Bakersfield, California, United States. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group as part of a duopoly with low-power Fox affiliate KBFX-CD (channel 58). The two stations share studios on Westwind Drive west of downtown Bakersfield and its transmitter is located atop Breckenridge Mountain.
The station signed on the air on August 20, 1953 as KAFY-TV. It was originally owned by Sheldon Anderson along with KAFY radio (AM 550, now AM 1100). The station originally operated from studios located on Chester Avenue in Bakersfield. It is Bakersfield's oldest television station; KERO-TV followed a month later. Four months later, Anderson sold the station to Chronicle Publishing Company of San Francisco. KAFY-TV was initially an affiliate of the Dumont television network, later becoming a primary CBS affiliate, sharing ABC programming with KERO-TV until KLYD-TV (channel 17, now KGET-TV) signed on in 1959.
In February 1954, shortly after becoming a full CBS affiliate, channel 29 changed its calls to the current KBAK-TV.[1]. The Chronicle sold the station to Reeves Telecom in 1960. As a CBS and later ABC affiliate, KBAK had aired all of its color programs in color, and went to full color in 1967. In 1974, KBAK swapped affiliations with channel 17, then known as KJTV, and became an ABC affiliate. [2] [3]
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