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)
- 4.1: The CW (primary)[1], MyNetworkTV (secondary)
- for others, see § Subchannels
- Nexstar Media Group
- (Nexstar Media Inc.)
November 15, 1949
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)
65526
50 kW
507.2 m (1,664.0 ft)
Technical information[edit]
Subchannels[edit]
The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the multiplexed signals of other Bay Area television stations: