KEMO-TV
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San Francisco Bay Area, California United States |
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| City | Santa Rosa, California |
| Branding | Azteca América 50 SF |
| Channels |
Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 50 () |
| Translators | K17CG-D 17 (UHF) Ukiah/Mendocino County, California |
| Affiliations | Azteca |
| Owner | Northstar Media, LLC (Northstar San Francisco License, LLC) |
| First air date | April 1981 |
| Call letters' meaning | Previous calls of KOFY-TV; named after one of the children of that station's founder, Daniel H. Overmyer |
| Former callsigns | KFTY (1981–2011) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 50 (UHF, 1981–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1981–2011) Me-TV (2011) |
| Transmitter power | 19.9 kW |
| Height | 928 m |
| Facility ID | 34440 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°40′8.5″N 122°37′53.5″W / 38.669028°N 122.631528°WCoordinates: 38°40′8.5″N 122°37′53.5″W / 38.669028°N 122.631528°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | Azteca San Francisco |
KEMO-TV, virtual channel 50 (UHF digital channel 32), is an Azteca-affiliated television station, licensed to Santa Rosa, California, USA and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. KEMO-TV is owned by Northstar Media, LLC, and maintains studios and offices in Emeryville, California. The station is available on cable via AT&T, Dish, & DirecTV channel 50 and Comcast channels 31 and 719 (HD).
The station first went on the air in 1972 and quickly attracted eager young broadcasters who honed their craft and went on to bigger markets. Among the Channel 50 pioneers were Jon Miller, now the longtime play-by-play voice of the San Francisco Giants, and Stan Atkinson, who would become one of the Sacramento area's best-known TV reporters and anchors.
This much anticipated effort to establish a local North Bay TV station in Santa Rosa, led by Atkinson and partner Kit Spier, (formerly a KNBC Los Angeles executive), was under-financed and lasted only a year. The station was off the air more than it was on, and after the novelty of a new TV station wore off, viewers had little confidence and the station went dark.
Nothing more happened until 1981, when Wishard Brown, who had owned the Marin Independent Journal newspaper and San Rafael radio station KTIM, revived Channel 50 with an eye on making it a local news authority.
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