KBCW (TV)

KBCW, channel 44, is a CW owned-and-operated television station located in San Francisco, California, United States which serves as the West Coast flagship of the network. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CBS owned-and-operated station KPIX-TV (channel 5). The two stations share studios located on Battery Street in San Francisco; KBCW's transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower. The station is available on channel 12 on most cable providers in the Bay Area.

History

As an independent station

The station first signed on the air on January 2, 1968 as KBHK-TV (standing for Kaiser Broadcasting/Henry Kaiser), it was originally owned by Kaiser Broadcasting, (established by steel/aluminum and ship-building industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. 1882-1967) and which owned other UHF independent stations in Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland. KBHK-TV was the third independent station in the San Francisco Bay area behind San Jose-based KGSC-TV (channel 36, now KICU-TV) and KTVU (channel 2), licensed to Oakland.

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