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KCBA: History, Measurement & Companies

KCBA (channel 35) is a television station licensed to Salinas, California, United States, serving the Monterey Bay area as an affiliate of The CW Plus. It is owned by VistaWest Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG), owner of CBS/Fox/Telemundo affiliate KION-TV (channel 46), for the provision…

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KCBA topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Measurement and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around KCBA.

Related topics
52
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
56
Extracted relationships
138
Concept neighborhoods
23
Bridge connections
56

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 24 topics
Overview · 14 topics
Newscasts · 9 topics
Technical information · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Owner
VistaWest Media · (VistaWest of Monterey, LLC)
Affiliations
35.1: The CW Plus · for others, see § Subchannels
Branding
Central Coast CW
Call sign meaning
reverse order of the first three letters of the English alphabet
Channels
Digital: 11 (VHF) · Virtual: 35
City
Salinas, California

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Newscasts

Technical information

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How KCBA connects Entity context

The extracted context around KCBA shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, KCBA → Ackerley, Ackerley Communications, Another, Central Coast, English-language, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, In March, June, KCBA's, KDTV, KLOC, KLOC Broadcasting Corporation, KLOC-TV, KSMS-TV, League, Leejon Broadcasting, May, Modesto, November Another extracted example is KCBA → After Entravision, CW, Entravision's, Fox, Gazette Company, Idaho, Idaho Falls, January, June, KCBA's, KCOY-TV, KIDK, KION's, Lyle Leimkuhler, Monterey, News-Press, NPG, NPG's, On June, Salinas. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

KCBA

Top relations

related to Early years · 32
KCBA → Ackerley, Ackerley Communications, Another, Central Coast, English-language, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, In March, June, KCBA's, KDTV, KLOC, KLOC Broadcasting Corporation, KLOC-TV, KSMS-TV, League, Leejon Broadcasting, May, Modesto, November
related to Switch to The CW · 27
KCBA → After Entravision, CW, Entravision's, Fox, Gazette Company, Idaho, Idaho Falls, January, June, KCBA's, KCOY-TV, KIDK, KION's, Lyle Leimkuhler, Monterey, News-Press, NPG, NPG's, On June, Salinas
related to Joint management with KION-TV · 26
KCBA → Ackerley, Ackerley Group, CBS, Clear Channel, Clear Channel Communications, Cowles Publishing Company, Harron, Harron Corporation, In April, June, KCBA's, KCCN, KCCN's, KCCN-TV, KION, KION-TV, Late, LMA, Monterey, Newport Television
related to Newscasts · 21
KCBA → Ackerley, Alex Witt, By, Central Coast, Craig Kilborn, December, In, Jeremy Slate, KCBA LMA, KION, KION's, KMST, KTVU, KTVU's, MSNBC, Oakland, Romney Dunbar, Santa Cruz, SportsCenter, The
related to Analog-to-digital conversion · 6
KCBA → February, June, The, UHF, United States, VHF
Former affiliations · 3
KCBA → Fox (1987–2022), Independent (1986–1987), SIN/Univision (1981–1986)
Affiliations · 2
KCBA → 35.1: The CW Plus, for others, see § Subchannels
Channels · 2
KCBA → Digital: 11 (VHF), Virtual: 35
Former channel numbers · 2
KCBA → Analog: 35 (UHF, 1981–2009), Digital: 13 (VHF, until 2020)
Owner · 2
KCBA → (VistaWest of Monterey, LLC), VistaWest Media

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

station kion-tv channel salinas affiliate fox 35 ackerley agreement new 10 owner june programming broadcasting local news monterey cw stations

KCBA relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 138 structured relationships around KCBA. Examples in this analysis include KCBA → Affiliations → 35.1: The CW Plus and KCBA → Affiliations → for others, see § Subchannels. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
KCBAAffiliations35.1: The CW Plus1.00infobox
KCBAAffiliationsfor others, see § Subchannels1.00infobox
KCBABrandingCentral Coast CW1.00infobox
KCBACall sign meaningreverse order of the first three letters of the English alphabet1.00infobox
KCBAChannelsDigital: 11 (VHF)1.00infobox
KCBAChannelsVirtual: 351.00infobox
KCBACitySalinas, California1.00infobox
KCBAERP19.75 kW1.00infobox
KCBAFacility ID148671.00infobox
KCBAFirst air dateNovember 1, 1981 (1981-11-01)1.00infobox
KCBAFormer affiliationsSIN/Univision (1981–1986)1.00infobox
KCBAFormer affiliationsIndependent (1986–1987)1.00infobox
KCBAFormer affiliationsFox (1987–2022)1.00infobox
KCBAFormer channel numbersAnalog: 35 (UHF, 1981–2009)1.00infobox
KCBAFormer channel numbersDigital: 13 (VHF, until 2020)1.00infobox
KCBAHAAT726 m (2,382 ft)1.00infobox
KCBALicensing authorityFCC1.00infobox
KCBAOperatorNews-Press & Gazette Company1.00infobox
KCBAOwnerVistaWest Media1.00infobox
KCBAOwner(VistaWest of Monterey, LLC)1.00infobox
KCBAPublic license informationPublic file1.00infobox
KCBAPublic license informationLMS1.00infobox
KCBASister stationsKION-TV1.00infobox
KCBATransmitter coordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around KCBA bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Television, Station and Fox. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • KCBA
    • Television
    • Station
    • Fox
    • Vistawest
    • Stations
    • Ackerley
    • Cw
    • Digital
    • Network
    • United
    • Communications
    • Company
  • kcba
    • Television
    • Station
    • Fox
    • Vistawest
    • Stations
    • Ackerley
    • Cw
    • Digital
    • Network
    • United
    • Communications
    • Company
  • television station
    • United
    • Stations
    • Digital
    • Broadcasting
    • Communications
    • Company
    • Monterey
    • New
    • Kion-tv
    • Spanish-language
    • Television
    • Ackerley
  • salinas, california
    • Monterey
    • United
    • Company
    • Fox
    • Operations
    • Television
    • Kion-tv
    • New
    • News
    • Cbs
    • Digital
    • Network
  • monterey bay
    • Salinas
    • Company
    • United
    • Operations
    • Rock
    • Seal
    • Television
    • Vistawest
    • New
    • June
    • Cbs
    • Digital
  • kloc broadcasting corporation
    • Kion-tv
    • Channel
    • Station
    • Communications
    • Company
    • Television
    • Programming
    • Stations
    • Kcba
    • Cw
    • Digital
    • English-language
  • ackerley communications
    • Owner
    • Kion-tv
    • Stations
    • Ksms-tv
    • Local
    • Company
    • Television
    • Cbs
    • New
    • Channel
    • Ackerley
    • Communications
  • local marketing agreement
    • Owner
    • Npg
    • Operations
    • Rock
    • Seal
    • News
    • Cbs
    • Ksms-tv
    • Ackerley
    • Communications
    • Company
    • Fox

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For KCBA, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects KCBA with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
KCBA — History · splits 32 ⟂ 25
KCBA — Overview · splits 42 ⟂ 15
KCBA — Newscasts · splits 47 ⟂ 10
KCBA — Technical information · splits 51 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

KCBA

Nodes57
Edges56
Triples138
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035088
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around KCBA to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Measurement & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — KCBA · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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