KGTV
 
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San Diego, California United States |
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| Branding |
ABC 10 (general) 10 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Stories that Matter |
| Channels |
Digital: 10 (VHF) Virtual: 10 () |
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| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | September 13, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | disambiguation of former KOGO-TV call letters |
| Sister station(s) | KZSD-LP |
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| Former affiliations | NBC (1953–1977) |
| Transmitter power | 20.7 kW |
| Height | 227 m (745 ft) |
| Facility ID | 40876 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°50′20″N 117°14′56″W / 32.83889°N 117.24889°WCoordinates: 32°50′20″N 117°14′56″W / 32.83889°N 117.24889°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | 10news |
KGTV, channel 10, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in San Diego, California, United States. KGTV is owned by the broadcasting division of the E. W. Scripps Company, and is a sister station to Azteca América affiliate KZSD-LP. The station's studios are located on Air Way in the Jennifer-Jessica section of San Diego, and its transmitter is based on Mount Soledad in La Jolla, California.
The San Diego area's third-oldest television station first went on the air on September 13, 1953 as NBC affiliate KFSD-TV. The station's original owner was Airfan Radio Corporation, which also owned NBC Radio Network affiliate KFSD (600 AM, now KOGO). Under terms of the initial construction permit award, Airfan sold one-third ownership of the stations to two other firms who competed separately for channel 10. In 1954 the KFSD stations were purchased by investment firm, Fox, Wells & Rogers. The publishers of Newsweek magazine took a minority (about 46 percent) share of the stations in 1957, four years before the periodical was itself sold to the Washington Post Company. In 1961, channel 10 changed its call letters to KOGO-TV; the radio stations also adopted the KOGO callsign.
The broadcasting division of Time-Life purchased KOGO-TV and its sister radio stations in 1962. This deal was reached after failed attempts to sell the properties to Triangle Publications and United Artists among others; and after the Washington Post Company's Post-Newsweek Stations division disclosed it was not interested in acquiring full ownership.
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