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Oakland–San Francisco– San Jose, California United States |
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| City | Oakland, California |
| Branding | KTVU Fox 2 or Fox 2 (general) KTVU Fox 2 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Only one 2 (general) Complete Bay Area news coverage (news) |
| Channels |
Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 2 () |
| Translators | Analog: K39AG 39 Ukiah Digital: 48 (UHF) San Jose |
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| Owner |
Fox Television Stations (Fox Television Stations, Inc.) |
| Founded | June 1957 |
| First air date | March 3, 1958 |
| Call letters' meaning | TeleVision for YoU |
| Sister station(s) | KICU-TV |
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| Former affiliations | Independent (1958–1986) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 433 m (1,421 ft) |
| Facility ID | 35703 |
| 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 |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KTVU, channel 2, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Fox Broadcasting Company, licensed to Oakland, California, USA and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. KTVU is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, and operates as part of a duopoly with independent station KICU-TV (channel 36). The two stations share studio facilities at Jack London Square in downtown Oakland; KTVU maintains transmitter facilities at Sutro Tower in San Francisco.
In the few areas of the western United States where a Fox station is not receivable over-the-air or through cable television, KTVU is carried on the Dish Network satellite service as part of All American Direct's distant network package to qualifying subscribers (All American Direct began to lease space from Dish Network to distribute distant network signals following a court ruling that said Dish itself could not distribute the programming).
The station first signed on the air on March 3, 1958, originally operating as an independent station. The station was originally owned by San Francisco-Oakland Television, Inc., a local firm whose principals were William D. Pabst and Ward D. Ingrim, former executives at the Don Lee Network and KFRC radio; and Edwin W. Pauley, a Bay Area businessman who had led a separate group which competed against Pabst and Ingrim for the station's construction permit. KTVU's operations were inaugurated with a special live telecast from its temporary studio facility at the former Paris Theatre in downtown Oakland. That June, the station moved into a permanent facility at Jack London Square in western Oakland, which was constructed using material gathered by the Port of Oakland and repurposed from a demolished pier.
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