KMTP-TV
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San Francisco/Oakland/ San Jose, California United States |
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| Branding | KMTP |
| Channels |
Digital: 33 (UHF) Virtual: 32 () |
| Subchannels | 32.1 KMTP Digital 32.2 Blank 32.4 Blank 32.5 Classic Arts Showcase 32.6 24HR KPOP |
| Affiliations | Non-commercial Independent |
| Owner | Minority Television Project |
| First air date | August 31, 1991 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Minority Television Project |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 32 (UHF, 1991-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 500 kW |
| Height | 496 m |
| Facility ID | 43095 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°45′19″N 122°27′6″W / 37.75528°N 122.45167°W |
| Website | www.kmtp.tv |
KMTP-TV, channel 32, is an independent, noncommercial television station located in San Francisco, California. Owned and operated by the Minority Television Project, KMTP has its main studio and offices in Palo Alto, California, and transmitter situated atop Mount Sutro.
KMTP airs a large amount of multilingual, ethnic programming. The station produces and broadcasts a daily news show, 5 Day News, and also broadcasts programming from Deutsche Welle TV, RT (Russia Today), and the Classic Arts Showcase. KMTP is one of the few non-PBS-affiliated public television stations in the United States, and one of two such stations in the San Francisco Bay Area (The other is KCSM-TV in San Mateo).
The station on channel 32 began commercially as one of the first UHF TV stations in the United States in 1954 as KSAN-TV, owned by the Patterson family, operators of KSAN radio, showing an amalgam of boxing and wrestling matches, medical conferences, and old movies. KSAN-TV operated a small production studio and broadcast operation housed in the renovated Sutro Mansion in San Francisco. The station went off the air in 1958.
The TV station was purchased by Metromedia in 1968, when the call sign was moved to an FM station and the station rechristened KNEW-TV, to match its co-owned KNEW radio and to compliment Metromedia's flagship station in New York, WNEW-TV (now Fox-owned WNYW). KNEW-TV ran the syndicated Metromedia talk shows and variety programming of such stars as shock-talker Joe Pyne, and others.
This format was unsuccessful, and by 1970, channel 32 was given to leading public broadcaster KQED (channel 9) and rechristened, this time as KQEC, a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). KQED held onto the station until 1988 when the FCC revoked the license, ruling that it had been off the air too much to remain in the hands of the KQED ownership (KQED kept KQEC off the air for most of 1972 through 1977, and then again for several months in 1979-80), and reassigned the license to Minority Television Project, one of the challengers of the KQEC license.[1]
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