KCNS

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KCNS

San Francisco, California
Channels	38 (UHF) analog, 39 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Independent (Infomercials)
Owner	Multicultural Television (MTB San Francisco Licensee LLC)
Founded	1968 (KUDO/KVOF) August 19, 1985 (current license/incarnation)
Call letters meaning	K California's Network for Shopping
Former callsigns	KWBB (1987-88)
Former affiliations	Independent (general) (1968-71, 1987-88) Independent (religious) (1970s-80s) Chinese (1988-98) Shop at Home/Jewelry Television (1998-2007)
Transmitter Power	5,000 kW Analog LIC 1,000 kW Digital LIC 468 kW Digital STA

KCNS is also the call letters for the closed-circuit student run TV station at Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland, Washington.

KCNS is a home shopping television station in San Francisco, California, in the United States. It is owned by Multicultural Broadcasting, and carries infomercials all day for every day of the week, except E/I programming on Wednesday mornings. The station operates on Channel 38 analog and 39 digital, covering the entire San Francisco Bay Area.

[edit] History

Channel 38 originally signed on the air in December 1968 as KUDO-TV. The station initially broadcast financial programming in the mornings and early afternoons. The station also aired movies at night, most of them black and white from the 1930s and 1940s. The station went dark in 1971. In the early 1970's, the Faith Center (owned by Eugene Scott) acquired the station for a cheap price and retruned it to the air as KVOF-TV. However, the station, along with sister stations KHOF-FM (now KKLA) in Los Angeles and KHOF-TV (now KPXN) in San Bernardino, California, lost its FCC license after Faith Center refused to give financial records to the FCC. KVOF-TV thus went off the air on or around December 30, 1985.

The current KCNS license began broadcasting in January of 1986 as KWBB (its call letters were assigned on August 19, 1985), and was located on San Bruno Mountain. It shared a building on Radio Road with KTSF, and commenced operations by entering into an agreement with televangelist Dr. Gene Scott and the successors to Faith Center to use the lease the existing broadcast facitities owned by Faith Center. In effect allowing West Coast United Broadcasting to have a transmitter site for "free" by simply selling some air-time back to Dr. Gene Scott! Thus it ran infomercials and other programming during the day, retaining Dr. Gene Scott's programming from the old channel 38 at night.

In May of 1988, the station was sold to Global Broadcasting Systems and changed its call sign to KCNS. The station switched to Chinese & Filipino programming, with studios at the Hamms Building in San Francisco. In addition, the power was increased to 5 megawatts and the transmitter moved to Sutro Tower in August 1989, becoming the last analog television station to move there.

In 1998, Global Broadcasting went into bankruptcy and sold KCNS to Shop at Home, who switched the station to their home shopping programming.

On May 16, 2006, parent company E.W. Scripps announced that Shop at Home would be suspending operations, effective June 22, 2006. [1] However, the network temporarily ceased operations on June 21, and KCNS switched to Jewelry Television (and, on June 23, a mixture of both networks), which will remain on the station until a buyer for the station is found.

On September 26, 2006, Scripps announced that it was selling its Shop at Home stations, including KCNS, to Multicultural Television of New York City for $170 million. [2] Multicultural closed on KCNS and the Cleveland and Raleigh stations on December 20, 2006. On January 14, 2007, KCNS ended its simulcast of Shop at Home television, switching to 24/7 broadcast of infomercials every day of the week. The only regular programming currently airing on the station is educational and informational programming, from 7:00-8:00 AM Mondays through Wednesdays.

According to Ming Pao (San Francisco edition), Multicultural plans to start daily Chinese programming from 5:30 PM to 12:00 midnight on April 21, 2007. Both Cantonese and Mandarin local news programs are expected to be offered. Some are speculating that Multicultural would utilize existing programming in New York City as well.

[edit] See also

Eugene Scott

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Broadcast television in the San Francisco Bay Area market (Nielsen DMA #5)

Greater San Francisco Bay Area KTVU 2 (Fox) - KRON 4 (MNTV) - KPIX 5 (CBS) - KGO 7 (ABC, AccuWX TV on DT2) - KQED 9 (PBS) - KNTV 11 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - KDTV 14 (UNI) - KBWB 20 (Ind) - KRCB 22 (PBS) - KAXT 22 (TBN) - KTSF 26 (Ind) - KFTL 28 (HSN) - KMTP 32 (Ind) - KICU 36 (Ind) - KTVJ 36 (Ind) - KCNS 38 (Ind) - KTNC 42 (AZA) - KBCW 44 (The CW) - KSTS 48 (TEL) - KFTY 50 (Ind) - KTEH 54 (PBS) - KCSM 60 (PBS, MHz Worldview on DT2) - KKPX 65 (ION, qubo on DT2, ION Life on DT3, Worship on DT4) - KFSF 66 (TFT) - KTLN 68 (TLN)
Ukiah-Mendocino County: KUNO 8 (AZA) - K17CG 17 (Ind) - K21CD 21 (TEL) - K27EE 27 (PBS) - K29DF 29 (Ind) - K39AG 39 (Fox) - K41AF 41 (MNTV) - K43AF 43 (CBS) - K45AH 45 (ABC) - K51AQ 51 (The CW) - K55GX 55 (PBS) - K67BV 67 (Ind) - K69DF 69 (PBS)
Defunct television stations KQEC 32 (PBS)
Local cable television channels FSN Bay Area - Comcast SportsNet West - Tri-Valley Community Television

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Independent Television Stations in the state of California

KBTV-CA 8 (Sacramento) - KCAL 9 (Los Angeles) - KSCI 18 (Long Beach) - KBBV-CA 19 (Bakersfield) - KBWB 20 (San Francisco) - KWHY 22 (Los Angeles) - KBSV 23 (Ceres) - KVMD 23 (Twentynine Palms) - KTSF 26 (San Francisco) - KNLA-LP 27 (Los Angeles) - KMTP 32 (San Francisco) - KICU 36 (San Jose) - KCNS 38 (San Francisco) - KBOP-CA 43 (San Diego) - KXLA 44 (Rancho Palos Verdes) - KFTY 50 (Santa Rosa) - KUSI 51 (San Diego) - KDOC 56 (Anaheim) - KJLA 57 (Ventura) - KRCA 62 (Riverside) - KBEH 63 (Oxnard)

See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California