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KRON-TV

KRON-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's outlet for The CW.[4] The station also maintains a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV (which airs its programming during overnight hours[5]). Owned and operated by The CW's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, KRON-TV has studios on Front Street in the city's historic Northeast Waterfront,[6] in the same building as ABC owned-and-operated station KGO-TV, channel 7 (but with completely separate operations from that station).[7] The transmitting antenna is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco.

For the matrix operation abbreviated "kron", see Kronecker product.

ATSC 3.0 station

San Francisco, California

KRON 4 (pronounced "chron") KRON 4 CW (for CW programming)

November 15, 1949 (1949-11-15)

KCPR (CP, 1946–1948)[2]

  • Analog: 4 (VHF, 1949–2009)
  • Digital: 57 (UHF, 1998–2009), 38 (UHF, 2009–2020)

  • NBC (primary 1949–2001, secondary 2010–2011)
  • Independent (2001–2006)
  • MyNetworkTV (primary, 2006–2023)

San Francisco Chronicle
(former co-owned newspaper)

FCC

65526

50 kW

507.2 m (1,664.0 ft)

– anchor / reporter

Catherine Heenan

– anchor; formerly with KTVU

Ken Wayne

Technical information[edit]

Subchannels[edit]

The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the multiplexed signals of other Bay Area television stations:

Official website

Photos of KRON's news set

FCC History Cards for KRON-TV