KNSD
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San Diego, California United States |
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| Branding | NBC 7 San Diego (general; cable channel) NBC 7 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Coverage you count on |
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Digital: 40 (UHF) Virtual: 39 () |
| Subchannels | 39.1 NBC 39.2 Cozi TV |
| Affiliations | NBC (O&O) |
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NBCUniversal (Station Venture Operations L.P.) |
| First air date | November 14, 1965 |
| Call letters' meaning | NBC San Diego |
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| Transmitter power | 370 kW |
| Height | 566 m (1,857 ft) |
| Facility ID | 35277 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°41′48″N 116°56′6″W / 32.69667°N 116.93500°WCoordinates: 32°41′48″N 116°56′6″W / 32.69667°N 116.93500°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KNSD, virtual channel 39 (UHF digital channel 40), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station located in San Diego, California, United States. The station is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal. KNSD maintains office and studio facilities located at Granite Ridge Drive in Kearny Mesa, and its transmitter is located southeast of Spring Valley. The station's on-air branding, NBC 7 San Diego, is derived from KNSD's cable channel position in the market on Spectrum, Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse.
The station first signed on the air on November 14, 1965 as KAAR. It was the first television station in the San Diego market to operate on the UHF band and was the market's first independent station. The station originally operated from a building that was once occupied by the National Pen Company, located in the neighborhood of Kearny Mesa, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of downtown San Diego. The station signed off on June 12, 1967; Channel 39 was then sold to Western Telecasters Inc., controlled by the Texas-based Bass family, and returned to the air on February 2, 1968 as KCST (standing for "California San Diego Television").
For a four-year period from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, Western Telecasters tried to take the ABC affiliation from XETV (channel 6) – a station licensed across the Mexican border in Tijuana but which broadcast exclusively in English, with a studio facility based in San Diego. XETV had been San Diego's ABC affiliate since 1956 under a special arrangement between the Federal Communications Commission and Mexican authorities, subject to renewal by the Commission every year. Upon the FCC granting its annual renewal to ABC/XETV in late 1968, Western Telecasters countered, claiming that the presence of KCST made it no longer necessary for an American television network to affiliate with a Mexican television station.
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