KOFY-TV
 
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San Francisco/Oakland/ San Jose, California United States |
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| City | San Francisco, California |
| Branding | KOFY TV20 |
| Slogan | Local Just Like You |
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Digital: 19 (UHF) Virtual: 20 () |
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Granite Broadcasting (KBWB License, LLC) |
| First air date | April 1, 1968 |
| Call letters' meaning | Named after former sister radio station KOFY radio (pronounced as "Coffee") |
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| Transmitter power | 568 kW |
| Height | 418 m |
| Facility ID | 51189 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°45′18.8″N 122°27′10.4″W / 37.755222°N 122.452889°WCoordinates: 37°45′18.8″N 122°27′10.4″W / 37.755222°N 122.452889°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KOFY-TV, virtual channel 20 (UHF digital channel 19), is an independent television station located in San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by Granite Broadcasting. KOFY maintains studios located on Marin Street in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, and its transmitter is located atop the Sutro Tower. The station's signal is relayed on low-power translator station K29DF in Ukiah.
Originally designated as KBAY-TV, the construction permit for the station went through many owners from the 1950s onward. The KEMO call letters were originally assigned to U.S. Communications, a broadcaster owned by Daniel H. Overmyer, owner of the short-lived Overmyer Network (later called the United Network); Overmyer used his initials as the last three letters of the Toledo, Ohio station (WDHO-TV, now WNWO-TV), which was already on the air, and his children's initials for the remaining five stations in his network, whose licenses were not granted until December 12, 1967, after his network folded.
KEMO-TV (pronounced "Key-Mo") signed on the air less than four months later, on April 1, 1968. It was seemingly off the air more than it was on. At the time, the station showed conventional independent fare, along with The Adults Only Movie, a series of art films, not featuring sex or nudity – it was named "Adults Only" merely due to the films' lack of appeal to children.
With a mixture of locally produced and syndicated programming, KEMO-TV remained on the air for three years to the day, powering down its transmitter at midnight on March 31, 1971 to avoid paying the following month's PG&E electricity bill. Leon Crosby bought it later that year and it returned to the air in 1972 with an eclectic type of programming – featuring shows such as Solesvida and Amapola Presents Show co-hosted by Amapola and Ness Aquino, to name a few. KEMO offered Japanese live-action and cartoons dubbed into English including Speed Racer, Ultraman, 8 Man, Prince Planet, Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero and The King Kong Show.
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