KSTS

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KSTS
Image:Ksts48_sanfrancisco.jpg
San Jose/San Francisco/Oakland, California
Branding Telemundo 48
Slogan Mejorando Su Vida
(Improving Your Life)
Channels Analog: 48 (UHF)

Digital: 49 (UHF)

Translators K15CU 15/K47LC-D 47 Salinas
Affiliations Telemundo
Owner NBC Universal, Inc.
(NBC Telemundo License Company)
First air date May 31, 1981
Sister station(s) KNTV
Former affiliations independent (1981-198?)
Transmitter Power 2510 kW (analog)
257 kW (digital)
Height 688 m (both)
Facility ID 64987
Transmitter Coordinates 37°29′57.7″N, 121°52′20.9″W
Website www.ksts.com
For the airport with the same ICAO airport code, see Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport.

KSTS is the NBC Universal owned and operated Telemundo television station in the San Francisco Bay Area market. The station is located in San Jose, California and broadcasts on analog channel 48, digital 49. KSTS shares facilities with NBC sister operation KNTV. The new all-digital broadcast center was opened in 2004. The master control center and local commercial insertion for KSTS is at the NBC West Coast headquarters in Burbank, California.

KSTS operates a repeater station, K15CU in Salinas.

Before becoming a Telemundo station in the mid 1980s, it was known as KSTS-TV 48 San Jose with a slogan "Your computer connection". KSTS was the only station to broadcast the introduction of Apple Computer's Macintosh personal computer at Apple's 1984 Annual Shareholders Meeting.

KSTS also carried ON-TV subscription TV in the 1980s.

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[edit] Former Personalities

  • Dante Betteo
  • Celina Rodriguez
  • Ramon Diaz
  • Ramon Adame
  • Sal Morales
  • Monica Mesones
  • Claudia Forestieri
  • Joaquin Cano
  • Gilberto Leon
  • Cesar Bayona
  • Monika Diaz, (1997-2003 Now at KXTV in Sacramento, Califronia)

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