KFMB-TV
 
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San Diego, California United States |
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| Branding | CBS 8 (general) CBS News 8 (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Hello San Diego! San Diego's number-one choice for news |
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Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8 () |
| Affiliations | 8.1 CBS 8.2 MeTV 8.3 Grit→The CW (June 1, 2017) 8.4 Grit (June 1, 2017) |
| Owner | Midwest Television, Inc. |
| First air date | May 16, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | derived from sister station KFMB radio |
| Sister station(s) | KFMB, KFMB-FM |
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| Transmitter power | 19.8 kW |
| Height | 227.0 meters (744.8 ft) |
| Facility ID | 42122 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°50′16.8″N 117°14′56.9″W / 32.838000°N 117.249139°WCoordinates: 32°50′16.8″N 117°14′56.9″W / 32.838000°N 117.249139°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KFMB-TV, channel 8, is a CBS-affiliated television station located in San Diego, California, United States. The station is owned by Midwest Television, Inc., and is a sister station to radio stations KFMB (760 AM) and KFMB-FM (100.7 FM). The television and radio stations shares studio facilities located on Engineer Road in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego; KFMB-TV maintains transmitter facilities located on Mount Soledad in La Jolla.
The station first signed on the air on May 16, 1949; it was the first television station to sign on in the San Diego market. The station was founded by Jack O. Gross, who also owned local radio station KFMB (760 AM). San Diego Mayor Harley E. Knox was present at the station's first broadcast. The station cost Gross $300,000 to build. KFMB-TV has been a primary CBS affiliate since its sign-on (and is the only television station in the market that has never changed its network affiliation), however in its early years, channel 8 also maintained secondary affiliations with ABC, NBC and the DuMont Television Network.
In October 1949, KFMB-TV signed an affiliation agreement with the short-lived Paramount Television Network; upon affiliating with Paramount, channel 8 quickly became that network's strongest affiliate. The station received a network feed of Paramount programs that included among others, Hollywood Opportunity,Meet Me in Hollywood,Magazine of the Week,Time For Beany and Your Old Buddy; the station aired six hours of Paramount programs each week. Since there was no technical transmission network to distribute Paramount programs to its affiliates, KFMB instead carried the network's programming via a transmitter link from the broadcast tower of Paramount's Los Angeles affiliate KTLA atop Mount Wilson, 90 miles (140 km) from the KFMB-TV transmitter site on Mount Soledad.
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