22 Facts About KNTV

KNTV, branded as NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, broadcasting NBC programming to the San Francisco Bay Area.

KNTV was established as an independent station in 1955; in 1960, it became an affiliate of ABC as the affiliate of record for Salinas and Monterey, otherwise a separate market.

KNTV signed on the air on September 12, 1955, originally operating as an independent station covering the entire north-central California coast from Monterey to San Francisco.

KNTV, therefore, became one of the few stations located outside the market it served.

KNTV was highly regarded locally by viewers and seen as a "hometown" station for the South Bay, with news coverage and local commercials reflecting its South Bay roots, rather than focusing almost solely on San Francisco as the other network outlets did.

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On July 3, 2000, KNTV terminated its ABC affiliation after 40 years with the network; it then temporarily carried programming from The WB Television Network in a part-time simulcast with then co-owned KBWB-TV, which was the full-time WB affiliate for the Bay Area.

KNTV is the third Bay Area station to affiliate with NBC, as primary CBS affiliate KPIX-TV had carried the network as a secondary affiliation upon its sign-on in 1948 until KRON debuted the following year.

Soon enough by August 2004, KNTV fell in line with the network's recommended time slot and aired Days of Our Lives at 1 p m, before the soap opera moved to NBC's streaming service Peacock in September 2022.

All changed on September 12, 2005, when KNTV was able to finally move its transmitter 52 miles northwest to San Bruno Mountain, giving it a signal comparable to the Bay Area's other major stations.

KNTV serves as the San Francisco Bay Area affiliate for Hearst Television's Sunday morning talk show Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, alongside sister stations WNBC in New York City and WVIT in Hartford.

Since being purchased by NBCUniversal, KNTV has produced its own programs for both local broadcast and for distribution nationally on the NBC television network and in syndication.

On October 12, 2010, KNTV hosted its first political debate since becoming owned by NBCUniversal.

On November 1, 2007, KNTV entered into a three-year broadcast contract with the San Francisco Giants through 2010, replacing the team's longtime broadcaster KTVU, which had carried Giants games since 1961, three years after the team moved to the Bay Area and KTVU first began broadcasting.

The Giants' contract with KNTV concluded at the end of the 2010 season, however, the broadcast rights were renewed before the 2011 season.

From 2006 to 2021, KNTV aired San Jose Sharks games shown via the NHL on NBC; this included the team's appearance in the 2016 Stanley Cup Final.

In September 1998, KNTV began producing an hour-long 10 p m newscast for then-WB affiliate KBWB-TV.

On July 21, 2008, KNTV became the third station in the Bay Area to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.

Several rounds of layoffs occurred, forcing KNTV to shed some well-known personalities, including chief weather anchor John Farley, who left the station in March 2009; after Farley's departure, weekend weather segments originated from the studios of Los Angeles sister station KNBC.

On December 21, 2010, KNTV's newscasts moved to a temporary set while the main news set underwent renovations, traffic and sports reports were done in the newsroom.

On July 16, 2016, KNTV became the eighth NBC-owned station and the first station on the West Coast to begin using "Look N" graphics following seven NBC-owned stations on the East Coast which began using the new graphics in the summer of 2016.

On July 5, 2021, KNTV began using "Look S" graphics following their sister station KNBC began using it a week prior to their switch and other stations in Chicago and Dallas both debuting it on June 21 and 29 respectively.

KNTV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.