KSMS-TV

KSMS-TV is a Spanish-language television station in Monterey, California, broadcasting locally on digital channel 31 as an affiliate of Univision. KSMS shares its facilities with sister-station KDJT-CD, its Telefutura affiliate. KSMS has their studios on Garden Court in Monterey. Founded September 1, 1986, the station is owned by Entravision. In June 2010, KSMS began broadcasting in 16:9 HDTV ratio in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, however, its newscasts remains in 4:3 ratio.

History

KSMS-TV was founded by Bill Schuyler in 1986. In the same year, KCBA, the only television station broadcasting in Spanish in the area, was sold to the Ackerley Group. Ackerley decided to make KCBA an English-language station affiliated with the then-emerging Fox network, which would have left the Salinas/Monterey/Santa Cruz television market without a Spanish-language television station. Knowing that Schuyler had a permit to build a station in the Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz ADI market, a former manager of KCBA encouraged Schuyler to seize the opportunity to create a new station to serve the Spanish language community as the new Univision affiliate for the market.