KRON
 
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San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose, California United States |
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| City | San Francisco, California |
| Branding | KRON 4 (general) MyKRON 4 (MyNetworkTV promos) KRON 4 News (newscasts) (callsign pronounced as "Chron" as in "Chronicle") |
| Slogan | The Bay Area's News Station |
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Digital: 38 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
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| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | November 15, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning |
San Francisco CHRONicle [sic] (former co-owned newspaper) |
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| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 511.7 m (1,679 ft) |
| Facility ID | 65526 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°45′19″N 122°27′6″W / 37.75528°N 122.45167°WCoordinates: 37°45′19″N 122°27′6″W / 37.75528°N 122.45167°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | kron4 |
KRON-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 38), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. KRON maintains studios in the same building as KGO-TV (yet as a separate television station) in the Financial District, and its transmitting antenna is located atop Sutro Tower. KRON-TV is the largest MyNetworkTV affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the network (which is Fox).
In the 1940s, when the channel 4 allocation in the Bay Area came open for bidding, it soon became obvious that the license would go to either NBC or the deYoung family, publishers of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. NBC wanted an owned-and-operated station (O&O) in the Bay Area alongside its West Coast flagship radio station, KNBC (680 AM, now KNBR). However, in an upset, the deYoungs won the license. They brought KRON-TV on the air on November 15, 1949 as a full-time NBC affiliate, and was operated alongside co-owned radio station KRON-FM (96.5, now KOIT-FM). The station's call letters come from a modification of the Chronicle's nickname, "The Chron". It was the third television outlet in the Bay Area behind KGO-TV (channel 7) and KPIX-TV (channel 5) within a year, and the last license before the FCC placed a moratorium on new television station licenses that would last the next four years. For most of its run as an NBC station, KRON-TV was that network's second-largest affiliate (behind only Philadelphia's KYW-TV, now a CBS O&O), and its largest affiliate on the West Coast.
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