KGO-TV
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San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose, California United States |
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| Branding |
ABC 7 (general) ABC 7 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | News Where You Live |
| Channels |
Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 7 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | 35 (UHF) San Jose, CA |
| Affiliations | ABC (O&O) |
| Owner |
Disney/ABC (KGO Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | May 5, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning |
General Electric Oakland (original owner and location of KGO radio) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 7 (VHF, 1949–2009) Digital: 24 (UHF, 1999–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 23.8 kW |
| Height | 519 m (1,703 ft) |
| Facility ID | 34470 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°45′18.8″N 122°27′10.4″W / 37.755222°N 122.452889°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | abc7news |
KGO-TV, channel 7, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. KGO-TV's studios are located at the ABC Broadcast Center in downtown San Francisco north of the city's Financial District, and its transmitter is based at Sutro Tower.
KGO-TV first signed on the air on May 5, 1949 as the San Francisco Bay Area's second-oldest television station, signing on five months after KPIX (channel 5). In fact, KPIX had a hand in getting KGO-TV on the air, as the CBS-affiliated (and now CBS-owned) station produced informational programming on how to receive and view ABC's channel 7. KGO-TV's original studios were located in the renovated Sutro Mansion near Mount Sutro in San Francisco, next to the transmitter tower it shared with KPIX.
Channel 7 was the fourth of ABC's five original owned-and-operated stations to sign-on, after outlets in New York City, Chicago and Detroit, and before Los Angeles. In addition, it is the only ABC station to keep its original call letters, which were inherited from KGO radio (810 AM). In addition to airing ABC programming, KGO-TV also aired syndicated programs from the Paramount Television Network; among the Paramount programs aired were Time For Beany,Hollywood Reel,Sandy Dreams,Hollywood Wrestling, and Cowboy G-Men.
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