KOVR
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| - Sacramento - Modesto, California United States |
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| City | Stockton, California |
| Branding | CBS 13 (general) CBS 13 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Getting Answers. |
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Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 13 () |
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| Owner |
CBS Corporation (Sacramento Television Stations, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 6, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | KOVR = covering all of Northern California |
| Sister station(s) | KHTK, KMAX-TV, KNCI, KSFM, KYMX, KZZO |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 593.0 meters (1,945.5 ft) |
| Facility ID | 56550 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°14′24″N 121°30′3″W / 38.24000°N 121.50083°WCoordinates: 38°14′24″N 121°30′3″W / 38.24000°N 121.50083°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | sacramento |
KOVR, channel 13, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to , USA. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CW owned-and-operated station KMAX-TV (channel 31). The two stations share offices and studio facilities located on KOVR Drive in West Sacramento; KOVR's transmitter is located in Walnut Grove.
The station first signed on the air on September 6, 1954, with its first broadcast originating from the California State Fair. KOVR is the oldest continuously-operating television station in the Sacramento market. Originally serving as an independent station with its transmitter located on Mount Diablo, its signal reached the San Francisco Bay Area, lending to the KOVR call letters ("covering" all of Northern California). The station originally operated from studio facilities located on Miner Avenue in . Art Finley hosted an afternoon children's program, Toonytown, on the station for several years, before moving to San Francisco's KRON-TV.
In May 1957, KOVR merged its operations with Sacramento's original ABC affiliate, KCCC-TV (channel 40, which signed on eleven months before KOVR in September 1953). KCCC shut down, with KOVR acquiring the ABC affiliation. At the network's request, the station moved its transmitter facilities to a temporary site near Jackson to avoid competition with KGO-TV in San Francisco. By this time, it was obvious that Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto were going to be a single television market. In 1960, KOVR teamed up with KCRA-TV (channel 3) and KXTV (channel 10) to build a new 1,549-foot (472 m) tower in Walnut Grove. In 1985, KOVR and KXTV moved to their current 2,049-foot (625 m) tower while KCRA moved to its own 2,000-foot (610 m) tower; KCRA still uses the old tower as an auxiliary facility.
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