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City | Stockton, California |
Branding | My 58 (general) KCRA 3 News on My 58 (newscasts) |
Channels |
Digital: 46 (UHF) Virtual: 58 () |
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Owner |
Hearst Television (Hearst Stations, Inc.) |
First air date | April 13, 1986 |
Call letters' meaning | Quality Television in CAlifornia |
Sister station(s) | KCRA-TV |
Former callsigns | KSCH-TV (1986–1995) |
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Transmitter power | 600 kW |
Height | 580 m |
Facility ID | 10242 |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°15′54″N 121°29′24″W / 38.26500°N 121.49000°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | www.my58.com |
KQCA, virtual channel 58 (UHF digital channel 46), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station serving Sacramento, California, United States that is licensed to . The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, as part of a duopoly with NBC affiliate KCRA-TV (channel 3). The two stations share studio facilities located on Television Circle in Downtown Sacramento, KQCA's transmitter is located northeast of Walnut Grove.
The station first signed on the air on April 13, 1986 as KSCH. It was owned by the Schyuler Broadcasting Co.. It originally operated as an independent station and aired classic television series from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The station originally operated from studios located on West Weber Avenue in Stockton. Some programs that were aired on the station had not been seen since their original network/syndication runs. On August 9 of that year, SFN sold the station to Pegasus Broadcasting. In 1988, the station moved its studios to a new building located on Gold Canal Drive in Rancho Cordova. KSCH was also the first station in the Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto area to provide stereo sound from its sign-on. In December 1994, KSCH entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Kelly Broadcasting, then-owner of KCRA. That station then took over the operations of KSCH.