KSEE

KSEE, virtual channel 24 (UHF digital channel 38), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Fresno, California, United States. The station is owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, as part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate KGPE (channel 47). The two stations share studio facilities located on East McKinley Avenue in East Fresno (several blocks from Fresno Yosemite International Airport); KSEE maintains transmitter facilities located on Bear Mountain (near Meadow Lakes).

History

The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1953, as KMJ-TV. It was the first television station in the Fresno market; the station was originally owned by the McClatchy family, whose assets included local radio station KMJ (580 AM) and three Californian newspapers using The Bee as its title, in Fresno, Sacramento and Modesto. The station has been an NBC affiliate since its sign-on, due to KMJ radio's longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network. Channel 24 is one of two commercial television stations in the Fresno market that has never changed its network affiliation (alongside KMPH-TV (channel 26), which has been affiliated with Fox since October 1986). KMJ-TV was the first station in the market to use color film and the first to transmit network programming in color in 1954.