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KCBA

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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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

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KCBA

Nodes57
Edges56
Triples138
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035088
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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

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

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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

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