KBCW
San Francisco, California
Branding	The CW Bay Area
Slogan	Welcome To The CW Bay Area
Channels	44 (UHF) analog, 45 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	UPN/(to be The CW in Sept. 2006)/CBS (secondary)
Owner	CBS Corporation
Founded	January 2, 1968
Call letters meaning	K Bay Area CW -or- Kaiser Broadcasting (former owners) CW
Former callsigns	KBHK-TV (1968-2006)
Former affiliations	Independent (1968-1995) UPN (1995-2006)
Transmitter Power	5000 kW/491 m (analog) 400 kW/446 m (digital)
Website	www.cwbayarea.com

KBCW "CW Bay Area" is currently a UPN-owned and operated television station based in San Francisco, California. Like UPN, KBCW is owned by the CBS Corporation, and is part of a duopoly with KPIX (channel 5). The station's signal is transmitted from Sutro Tower. Prior to being affiliated with UPN, the station was an independent station known on-air as KBHK: TV 44, Cable 12. Image File history File links Kbcw. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The City by the Bay; The City That Knows How; Golden Mountain (historic Chinese name) Location Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: , Government City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Geographical characteristics Area     City 600. ... A brand is a collection of feelings toward an economic producer; more specifically, it refers to the concrete symbols for the brand, such as a name and design scheme. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or, equivalently, wavelengths) assigned by a government for the operation of a particular broadcast station. ... This article is about the radio frequency. ... Analog television (or analogue television) encodes television picture and sound information as an analog signal, that is, by varying the amplitude and/or frequencies of the signal. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Digital television. ... An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) is a television network in the United States, owned by CBS Corporation, which also owns the more widespread CBS network. ... The Crimson White, known colloquially as The CW, is the student-run newspaper of the University of Alabama. ... CBS (formerly an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is a media conglomerate focused largely on the United States market, specifically broadcasting, publishing, billboards, and television production. ... January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) is a television network in the United States, owned by CBS Corporation, which also owns the more widespread CBS network. ... In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ... The kilowatt (symbol: kW) is a unit for measuring power, equal to one thousand watts. ... metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) A metre or meter[1] (symbol: m) is a unit of length and the current base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) is a television network in the United States, owned by CBS Corporation, which also owns the more widespread CBS network. ... In the television industry (especially in North America), an owned and operated station (frequently abbreviated as O&O) is a television station that is owned by the network with which it is associated. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The City by the Bay; The City That Knows How; Golden Mountain (historic Chinese name) Location Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: , Government City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Geographical characteristics Area     City 600. ... CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is a media conglomerate focused largely on the United States market, specifically broadcasting, publishing, billboards, and television production. ... KPIX (channel 5) is Viacoms CBS-owned and operated television station based in San Francisco, California. ... The Sutro Tower as viewed from the east Sutro Tower is a three-pronged antenna tower on Mount Sutro in the western part of San Francisco, California at 37°4519. ...

The station currently airs an 8:30am weekend morning newscast titled Eyewitness News on CW Bay Area, produced by KPIX-TV's news staff. Eyewitness News is a local television newscast format, widely used in different markets across the United States. ...

History

KBCW has been on the air since January 2, 1968, making it the second commercial UHF station in the San Francisco Bay area after KICU, channel 36 San Jose (originally KGSC-TV). Originally transmitting under the call sign KBHK-TV (Kaiser Broadcasting/Henry Kaiser), it was originally owned by Kaiser Broadcasting, which owned other UHF stations in Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, and Cleveland. Kaiser later merged with Chicago's Field Communications in 1973. In 1977, Kaiser sold its interest in the stations to Field, making Field the sole owner of KBHK. The stations studio for a long time was located at 650 California Street. January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... KICU-TV, known as Action 36 Cable 6, is a television station in San José, California that broadcasts on analog channel 36. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Capital of Silicon Valley Location Location of San Jose within Santa Clara County, California. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... Henry J. Kaiser perches above Hawaii Kai in April 1963, his suburban development in Honolulu. ... Kaiser Broadcasting was short lived but very popular entity of broadcast television stations. ... KVEA, Telemundo 52 is an NBC owned and operated television station in the Los Angeles area, and is the West Coast flagship station of the Telemundo network. ... WKBD-TV, UPN Detroit is an owned-and-operated station of the United Paramount Network, broadcasting on analog channel 50 in Detroit, Michigan. ... WGTW-TV Channel 48 is a Trinity Broadcasting Network-owned and operated television station serving the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area and licensed to Burlington, New Jersey. ... WLVI-TV, channel 56, is currently the WB television network affiliate serving Boston, Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, owned by the Tribune Company. ... WQHS-TV is a Spanish-language television station owned by and affiliated with Univision. ... Field Communications was a division of Marshall Fields Department Store. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

KBHK had a typical independent program schedule consisting of a morning and afternoon children's block, off network sitcoms, feature films and public affairs programming. At one point KBHK was known as the Bay Area's Movie Station since the station aired a movie in prime time six nights a week. KBHK also aired hit first run programming including the popular "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "The Arsenio Hall Show". Several local programs produced at KBHK were syndicated nationally including "Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek Memories" (Paramount) and "The Twilight Zone Special" (Viacom). Bay Area kids were introduced to Japanese anime such as Speed Racer, Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. Arsenio Hall (born on February 12, 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comedian, talk show host, and actor. ... A scene from the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime ) is an abbreviation of the Japanese word アニメーション (animēshon), which is based on the English word animation. ... Speed Racer is the title of an English adaptation of the Japanese anime Mach Go Go Go which centered around automobile racing. ... Astro Boy is the American title for the Japanese animated series Tetsuwan Atomu (鉄腕アトム), which roughly translates to Mighty Atom (literally Iron-arm Atom); or Atom boy first broadcast on Japanese television from 1963 to 1966. ... Kimba the White Lion (Japanese: ジャングル大帝/Janguru Taitei Jungle Emperor) is a Japanese animated series from the 1960s, created by Osamu Tezuka, the creator of another beloved anime star, Atomu (Astro Boy), based on his manga of the same title which started in 1950. ...

Field later put its stations up for sale in 1982, and KBHK was sold to United Television, Inc.Industries in 1983. The station continued with its format and in 1995 United Television partnered with Paramount to create the UPN (United Paramount Network) and KBHK became the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose affiliate. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Over the years at various times, KBHK was the television home of the Oakland A's, Golden State Warriors, California Golden Seals (NHL) and San Francisco 49ers preseason football. Oakland Athletics American League AAA Sacramento River Cats AA Midland RockHounds A Stockton Ports Kane County Cougars Vancouver Canadians R Phoenix Athletics The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. ... The Golden State Warriors are a professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. ... The Oakland Seals were a team in the National Hockey League. ... City San Francisco, California Other nicknames Niners Team colors Cardinal Red, Metallic Gold and Black Head Coach Mike Nolan Owner Denise DeBartolo York and John York General manager none Mascot Sourdough Sam League/Conference affiliations All-America Football Conference (1946-1949) Western Division (1946-1948) National Football League (1950-present...

Several key scenes from the Robert Redford movie "The Candidate" were filmed in KBHK's studio at 420 Taylor Street. Many of KBHK's technicians appeared in the movie as themselves.

The old sitcoms and cartoons were replaced with more recent sitcoms, talk shows, game shows, court shows, and reality shows.

When News Corporation purchased the Chris-Craft station group in 2001, it traded KBHK-TV to Viacom in exchange for KTXH in Houston and WDCA in Washington, D.C., creating a duopoly in San Francisco with KPIX. Since News Corp. also owned the Fox television network, the station trade-off also protected Cox Enterprises-owned KTVU as the Bay Area's Fox affiliate -- given the long-term commitment to the affiliation. By the time Viacom was also by then the owner of Detroit's WKBD, KBHK was effectively reunited with WKBD. Not only that, under new ownership, KBHK did relocate from its original long-time studios on California Street in the Nob Hill area to share facilities with KPIX on Battery Street. News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Viacom is a media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), video gaming (part of Sega of America), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures movie studio and DreamWorks). ... KTXH (My20) is the My Network TV (former UPN) affiliate in Houston, Texas. ... Houston redirects here. ... WDCA is the Washington, D.C. areas UPN affiliate station, broadcasting on channel 20 (digital channel 35), with transmitter facilities located in Bethesda, Maryland. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. ... KTVU (Channel 2) is the San Francisco Bay Areas FOX affiliate. ...

On January 24th, 2006, it was announced that UPN and WB would be combining to form a new fifth television network, The CW, in September and that KBHK will become one of the first affiliates of The CW, while current WB station KBWB will go back to being an independent station, with KRON acquiring the My Network TV affiliation. The station is also considered an alternate CBS affiliate, and as such KBHK can air CBS programs if KPIX should preempt it in a news-related emergency. The CW Television Network, or more casually The CW, is a new television network in the United States set to launch for the 2006-07 television season. ... KBWB is the WB television affiliate in San Francisco, California. ... KRON is an independent television station in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...

To reflect the new affiliation, KBHK officially changed its call sign to KBCW on July 1 of 2006. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ...

Trivia

• Once KBCW becomes the new affiliate of The CW, the station will hold the distinction of being the Bay Area's only "Big Six" network station on the UHF dial.
• KBCW will be the first station in the Bay Area to be owned and operated by two different networks under CBS Corporation: UPN and the new The CW. In the case of UPN, then-KBHK has always been O&O by UPN on behalf on United Television Industries CBS Corporation.
• KBCW began serving the Monterey Bay market with UPN programming since 2003 after KCBA and KION dropped it in their respective area due to the inconvenience of jointly carrying UPN programs while they're both primary full-time affiliates for Fox and CBS.

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Previous logos

Classic Kaiser "44" logo, used from the 1960s, through the late-1970s Image File history File links Kbhk44-1. ...	KBHK 44 Logo under the Field Communications ownership from 1978 to the late 80s. Image File history File links KBHK_1978. ... Field Communications was a division of Marshall Fields Department Store. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...	Early-1990s KBHK logo, before the advent of UPN Image File history File links Kbhk44-2. ...	1995-2000 - for the launch of UPN Image File history File links Kbhk44-3. ...
2000-2002 - when the station wanted to emphasize its new DTV signal Image File history File links Kbhk44-4. ...	2002-2004 - after the UPN logo change Image File history File links Kbhk44-5. ...	2004-2005 - Rebrand with CBS 5 Bay Area for the CBS Mandate Image File history File links KBHK-TV logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...	2005-2006 - Same as to the left, minus the "44" Image File history File links Upnba. ...
2006-present - Current logo, introduced on August 1st. Image File history File links Kbcw. ...

External links

• KBCW website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KBCW