KRON-TV is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV.
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12 Facts About KRON-TV
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On February 10,2014, Media General announced that KRON-TV would move into leased space on the third floor of KGO-TV's building at 900 Front Street, in space formerly occupied by radio stations KGO and KSFO.
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Until the late 1970s, KRON-TV was known for being very San Francisco-centric in its news coverage and audience targeting, an approach that would become costly to the station as population growth in areas outside San Francisco soared.
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The game show pair would move to ABC-owned KGO-TV permanently in 1992 after KRON-TV experimented with its "early prime time" schedule that year, while ET moved to KGO in 1988, before returning to KRON in 1992 .
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Similar to fellow NBC station KCRA-TV in neighboring Sacramento, KRON-TV stopped airing the Saturday morning TNBC lineup in the early 1990s.
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In 1965, KRON-TV began broadcasting most Oakland Raiders games, which were at first part of the American Football League, which had a contract with NBC from 1965 to 1969, and then the National Football League's American Football Conference, which inherited the AFL's deal with NBC from 1970 to 1997 .
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Since KRON-TV was contractually obligated to show the baseball game live, it rebroadcast the trials at midnight.
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KRON-TV eventually branded its newscasts as Newswatch 4 in the early 1970s.
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On September 17,2007, KRON-TV became the third station in the Bay Area to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen—albeit in standard definition.
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KRON-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12,2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.
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