11 Facts About KGO-TV

KGO-TV is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, broadcasting the ABC network to the San Francisco Bay Area.

KGO-TV first signed on the air on May 5, 1949, as the San Francisco Bay Area's second-oldest television station, signing on five months after KPIX and the 50th in the United States.

In 1954, KGO-TV moved to one of the most modern broadcasting facilities on the West Coast at the time at 277 Golden Gate Avenue, formerly known as the Eagle Building.

In 1985, KGO-TV began broadcasting from its current studios at 900 Front Street, sharing the facility with radio stations KGO, KSFO and KMKY (the former two are now owned by Cumulus Media).

In 1999, KGO-TV—seeking to gain advertising revenue in the South Bay—reached an agreement with the Granite Broadcasting Corporation, then-owner of San Jose's ABC affiliate KNTV to pay Granite to drop KNTV's ABC affiliation, resulting in KGO-TV becoming the network's exclusive Bay Area outlet.

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KGO-TV was the first station to produce documentaries of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake on April 8, 2006.

KGO-TV has aired the Warriors' championship victories in the 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2022 NBA Finals.

KGO-TV had followed the lead of its New York City sister station, WABC-TV, and adopted the Eyewitness News format for its newscasts in the late 1960s; however, the Eyewitness News title had already been used on KPIX-TV at that time until 2013, which inherited its version of the format from its Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV.

From January 8, 2007, until March 11, 2022, KGO-TV produced an hour-long 9 p m newscast for independent station KOFY-TV.

KGO-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.

KGO-TV has a construction permit for a fill-in translator on UHF Channel 35, serving the southern portion of the viewing area, including San Jose, for UHF antenna viewers, until the digital transition.