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Full-power digital · channel 8 · SALINAS, CA
| Facility ID | 19653 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | HEARST STATIONS INC. |
| Community of licence | SALINAS, 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 | 36.75633, -121.50242 |
| Effective radiated power | 20.6 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 1048 m above average terrain · non-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.ksbw.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 19
|
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 794883 | 3 | LPD | |
| facility 794391 | 3 | LPT | |
| facility 794897 | 4 | LPD | |
| facility 794434 | 4 | LPT | |
| facility 794903 | 6 | LPD | |
| KCBA | 11 | DTV | VISTAWEST OF MONTEREY, LLC |
| K12XN-D | 12 | LPD | RUBIN BROADCASTING, INC. |
| facility 794906 | 13 | LPD | |
| K15CU-D | 15 | LPD | NBC TELEMUNDO LICENSE LLC |
| KLFB-LD | 22 | LPD | THREE ANGELS BROADCASTING NETWORK, INC. |
| KMMD-CD | 28 | DCA | CABALLERO ACQUISITION LLC |
| K31OL-D | 31 | LPD | MONTEREY COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOL |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KSBW | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KSBW | 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.