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1955–1959 [ ]
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Originally, the station was assigned call letters KQXI; calls were changed to KNTV in May 1955, and signed on the air on September 12 of same year. At that time, it was operating as an independent station covering the entire north-central California coast from Monterey to San Francisco on VHF channel 11. It was the first television station in San Jose and was originally operated by Standard Radio and Television Corporation, which was owned by Allen T. Gilliland.
1959–1962 [ ]
Due to channel 11's transmitter and antenna location, its signal could be received fairly well in the nearby areas of Monterey and Salinas; the transmitter was located approximately halfway between San Jose and Monterey. Taking advantage of this, KNTV sought and was granted the ABC affiliation for the Monterey Bay area in 1960, on the condition that the station reduced its transmitter power so as not to overlap with network-owned KGO-TV 's signal. Previously, all three networks had been shoehorned onto Salinas–based KSBW-TV (channel 8). KNTV, therefore, became one of the few stations located outside the market it served.
Following the death of Allen T. Gilliland in 1960, KNTV was held by the executors of his estate, including his son Allen T. Gilliland Jr.
1963–1966 [ ]
1966–1983 [ ]
In August 1966, Gilliland Jr. acquired majority of KNTV's ownership, and later operated by Gill Industries, which also controlled San Jose's cable television system.
Even as an ABC affiliate, the station occasionally transmitted few ABC programs, while KGO-TV transmitted as an ABC O&O station. This often gave the South Bay viewers a second choice for viewing preempted ABC programming (although KGO in the South Bay tended to have well recepted signal from Sutro Tower in San Francisco).
Twelve years later, Gill Industries sold KNTV to Norfolk, Virginia-based Landmark Communications .
1983–1998 [ ]
Landmark sold channel 11 to minority-owned Granite Broadcasting Corporation in 1990.
1995–1998 [ ]
1998–2000 [ ]
2000–2001 [ ]
In 1999, KGO-TV agreed to pay Granite a substantial fee to stop channel 11 from running ABC programming once the station's affiliation contract expired. ABC's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company , saw the need to expand channel 7's exclusive advertising market share into San Jose for this reason, and it felt that KNTV was taking away from the share. Channel 11 switched its affiliation from ABC to The WB on July 3, 2000, becoming one of two affiliates of that network in the San Francisco Bay Area, alongside with then-sister station KBWB (now known as KOFY-TV ), taking place of network-owned KGO-TV.
2001–2002 [ ]
At 11:35 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on December 31, 2001, KNTV became an NBC affiliate after a disagreement over reverse compensation to carry NBC programming led KRON-TV to end its affiliation with NBC after 52 years, becoming an independent station. Later on April 30, 2002, Granite sold KNTV to the network (the WB affiliation remained with channel 20) and utilized its standardized graphics package. NBC had just purchased Telemundo , which owns nearby station KSTS (UHF channel 48), and NBC wanted a duopoly in the Bay Area. The name "NBC 3" refers to the station's cable channel placement.
2002–2008 [ ]
Typography:
NBC Futura Trade Gothic
KNTV restored its branding TV channel as NBC 11 in September 2002, due to possible confusion with Sacramento-licensed fellow affiliate KCRA-TV on VHF channel 3.
2008–present [ ]
Typography:
NBC Futura ("NBC" wordmark) Trade Gothic ("Bay Area" wordmark)
In 2008, KNTV changed its on-air branding from "NBC 11" to "NBC Bay Area."
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Notes
1
Co-owned with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation .
2
Co-owned with Hearst Corporation .
3
Owns a minority share, InterMedia Partners owns a majority share.
4
Co-owned with Corus Entertainment .
5
NBCUniversal acquired some of ITC's assets when Universal Pictures merged with PolyGram , but ITV plc still owns ITC's films and shows.
6
NBCUniversal has some of AFD's assets, but Vivendi now owns EMI's films and ITV plc owns ITC's films.
7
Co-owned with Paramount Pictures .
8
Joint venture with Ion Media Networks , DreamWorks Classics , Corus Entertainment and Scholastic .
9
Joint venture with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment .
10
Joint venture with Sony Pictures Entertainment.
11
Owned by Discovery Networks Latin America under brand license
12
Co-owned with Participant , Entertainment One , Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group , and Alibaba Group .
13
Co-owned with the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee .
14
Co-owned with TV18 .
15
Co-owned with Trans Corp .
16
Co-owned with The Walt Disney Company .
17
Co-owned with Major League Baseball .
18
Previously owned by Walmart .
19
Sold its stake to Ion Media .
20
Joint venture with Pioneer Corporation .
21
Co-owned with Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand .
22
Co-owned with Seven West Media .
23
GE sold to Westwood One .
24
In partnership with IHeartMedia, Inc.
25
Joint-venture with Nikkei and TV Tokyo .
26
Joint-venture with Class Editori and Mediaset .
27
Co-owned with Mediawan Thematics .
28
Owned by Times Brasil under brand license.
29
Co-owned with the National Geographic Society and Fox International Channels , stake acquired by the News Corporation in 2009.
Owned Television Stations :
KNBC (Los Angeles, CA) | KNSD (San Diego, CA) | KNTV (San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA) | KXAS (Dallas–Fort Worth, TX) | WBTS (Boston, MA) | WCAU (Philadelphia, PA) | WMAQ (Chicago, IL) | WNBC (New York City, NY) | WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.) | WTVJ (Miami–Ft. Lauderdale, FL) | WVIT (New Britain-Hartford-New Haven, CT) | WKAQ-DT3 (San Juan, PR)
Affiliates
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Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and territory, and based on the station's city of license or Designated Market Area.