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Full-power digital · channel 28 · SAN FRANCISCO, CA
| Facility ID | 69619 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | SAN FRANCISCO TELEVISION STATION KBCW INC |
| Community of licence | SAN FRANCISCO, 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 | 37.75528, -122.45278 |
| Effective radiated power | 1000 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 521.4 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 | http://cwsanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/ |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURK-LD | 3 | LPD | ONE MINISTRIES, INC. |
| KRON-TV | 7 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| facility 793742 | 8 | LPD | |
| facility 794619 | 8 | LPD | |
| facility 795399 | 8 | LPT | |
| KPJC-LD | 11 | LPD | JEFF CHANG |
| KGO-TV | 12 | DTV | KGO TELEVISION, INC. |
| KQTA-LD | 13 | LPD | ONE MINISTRIES, INC. |
| KDTS-LD | 14 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
| KTSF | 20 | DTV | LINCOLN BROADCASTING COMPANY, A CALIFORN |
| KDTV-DT | 20 | DTV | KDTV LICENSE PARTNERSHIP, G.P. |
| KCNZ-CD | 21 | DCA | POQUITO MAS COMMUNICATIONS LLC |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KPYX | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KPYX | 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.