For the airport with the same ICAO airport code

ICAO airport code

The ICAO airport code or location indicator is a four-character alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. These codes are defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization, and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators.The ICAO codes are used by air traffic...

, see Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport

Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport

Charles M. Schulz – Sonoma County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located 6 nautical miles northwest of downtown Santa Rosa, a city in Sonoma County, California, United States. It serves the county and surrounding areas of Wine Country in California.The airport is named after Charles M...

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KSTS is the NBCUniversal owned and operated Telemundo

Telemundo

Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

 television station

Television station

A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 in the San Francisco Bay Area market. The station is located in San Jose, California

San Jose, California

San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

 and broadcasts on digital channel 49. KSTS shares facilities with NBC sister operation KNTV

KNTV

KNTV, channel 11, is the NBC owned-and-operated television station in the Bay Area market. It is licensed to San Jose, with its transmitter located on San Bruno Mountain, just south of San Francisco. It shares facilities in San Jose with NBC Universal sister station KSTS and CNBC's Silicon...

. The new all-digital broadcast center was opened in 2004.

History

KSTS began operation on May 31, 1981. The station was owned by National Group Television and headed by N.J. Douglas. The station offered various brokered types of programming during the day on weekdays and mornings on weekends. Some of the brokered programming foreign language shows, religious programming, and a lot of programming pertaining to new technologies. The station used the slogan "Your computer connection". KSTS was also the only station to broadcast the introduction of Apple Computer's Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 personal computer at Apple's 1984 Annual Shareholders Meeting. From the evening on on weekdays and from about noon on during weekends, KSTS offered ON-TV

ON-TV

ON-TV, also known as National Subscription Television, was a subscription television service launched in 1977 by Oak Industries, Norman Lear's Chartwell Enterprises and Jerry Perenchio. Oak was a manufacturer of satellite and pay-TV decoders and equipment...

 subscription TV services.

In 1984, the station partnered with two other independent Spanish language television stations to bring about 5 hours a day of Spanish shows weekday evenings. This Network was known as Net Span. The Spanish programming actually replaced Subscription Television programming. Other stations joined this group. By 1986, KSTS was running Spanish programming about half the time. The Net Span network became known as Telemundo in mid-1987. By then the station was running this programming about 16 hours a day. Telemundo actually bought the station outright later that year of at which time full-time Telemundo programming began. Initially, KSTS was themed for the San Jose/Silicon Valley metro area, but after converting to Spanish language programming has changed focus for the entire San Francisco Bay area. In 2000, as a result of a corporate takeover, NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 became the owner of KSTS running the station as part of the Telemundo division.

KSTS also has a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 48.1, broadcasting at 1.83 Mbit/s.

External links

• Telemundo 48
• Telemundo
• The Introduction of Macintosh on KSTS in 1984

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