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Full-power digital · channel 19 · SAN DIEGO, CA
| Facility ID | 6124 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | BOARD OF TRUSTEES, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOR SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY |
| Community of licence | SAN DIEGO, CA
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 32.69797, -116.93508 |
| Effective radiated power | 285 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 812 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | https://www.kpbs.org/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 794678 | 2 | LPT | |
| facility 794294 | 5 | LPD | |
| KRPE-LD | 6 | LPD | VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, LLC |
| facility 796773 | 7 | LPD | |
| KFMB-TV | 8 | DTV | KFMB-TV, LLC |
| KSDX-LD | 9 | LPD | BRIDGE NEWS LLC |
| KGTV | 10 | DTV | SCRIPPS BROADCASTING HOLDINGS LLC |
| facility 795991 | 11 | LPD | |
| facility 794175 | 12 | LPD | |
| facility 794192 | 13 | LPD | |
| facility 795417 | 13 | LPD | |
| facility 795168 | 13 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KPBS | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KPBS | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.