| San Francisco, California | |
|---|---|
| Channels | Digital: 28 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | xx.1 Religious xx.2 HSN |
| Affiliations | HSN, Religious |
| Owner | Family Radio (Polar Broadcasting Inc.) |
| Founded | April 25, 1986 |
| Call letters' meaning | K-Family TeLevision |
| Former callsigns | K30BI, KBIT-LP, KBIT-CA |
| Former affiliations | The Box |
| Transmitter power | 15 KW digital |
| Class | Class A |
| Website | http://www.kftl.com |
KFTL-CA is a low-power digital Class A television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It broadcasts in ATSC on UHF channel 28 and is owned by Family Radio.
KFTL airs Home Shopping Network during most of its programming day Monday through Saturday; KFTL also airs a mix of Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese programming during the evening hours. Family Radio's religious television programming is seen during the evening hours Monday through Saturday and all day Sunday, presented in the same fashion as its sister station in New York City, WFME-TV (which shows Family Radio programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week).
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KFTL was founded on April 25, 1986 with an original construction permit granted to National Innovative Programming Network. Initially assigned to Palo Alto and Los Altos, California, and given callsign K30BI, the station's construction permit was modified and extended several times. In August 1990, Channel America acquired the station, but sold it again in July 1992 to Polar Broadcasting, who finally licensed the station on May 3, 1994. By this time, the station had been assigned to San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.
K30BI (referred to as "KBI-TV"), was formerly affiliated with The Box, a 24-hour-a-day music network, and aired classic television during the day. Eventually, the station changed affiliations to HSN. Its call letters were changed to KBIT-LP shortly after. The station also relocated to channel 28 to make way for KQED's digital signal on channel 30.
KBIT received Class A status on August 27, 2001, and received its current call sign in February 2004. after being taken over by Family Radio. Family Radio formerly used the call letters KFTL on analog channel 64 licensed to Stockton, which is now Telefutura network affiliate KTFK-DT.
KFTL flash cut to digital on June 27. Currently their analog programming is being transmitted on 1 sub-channel and a 2nd has a Home Shopping Network feed. The KRDT translator has switched to digital, while it is unknown if the other translators are still in analog, or if they too have switched to digital.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Digital channels
| Channel | Programming |
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| xx.1 | Family Radio TV |
| xx.2 | Home Shopping Network |
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