KSTS

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KSTS
San Jose / San Francisco / Oakland, California
BrandingTelemundo 48
SloganMejorando Su Vida
(Improving Your Life)
Channels Analog: 48 (UHF)
Digital: 49 (UHF)
TranslatorsKMUV-LP 23 Monterey (semi-satellite)
K15CU 15/K47LC-D 47 Salinas
K46GF 46 Santa Maria
K47GD 47 San Luis Obispo
Affiliations Telemundo
Owner NBC Universal
FoundedMay 31, 1981
Sister station(s)KNTV
Former affiliationsIndependent
Transmitter Power2510 kW (analog)
257 kW (digital)
Height688 m (both)
Facility ID64987
Transmitter Coordinates 37°29′57.7″N, 121°52′20.9″W
Websitewww.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. It is also simulcast on Clear Channel's KMUV in the Monterey area, with local commercials inserted; that station is in the process of being sold to Cowles Publishing Company.

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, Ca)

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