<P> KTVU (Channel 2) first signed on the air on March 3, 1958 . It has studios in historic Jack London Square in Oakland and initially used a transmitter tower on San Bruno Mountain . It was an independent station for many years and was the first station to telecast the San Francisco Giants baseball games, whenever the team played the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chávez Ravine, through arrangements with KTTV in Los Angeles . Don Sherwood hosted a nightly talk show on the station during the late 1950s, often interviewing entertainers who were appearing in the Bay Area . KTVU's children's programming included Captain Satellite, hosted by Bob March . The station aired numerous classic television shows and regular movies, including a Sunday night series called Premiere, which included the first local telecasts (often in color) of classic Warner Brothers films from the 1950s . A Friday night feature in the 1960s was live professional wrestling matches from the KTVU studios, hosted by Walt Harris with live Chevrolet commercials . Another popular KTVU program was Creature Features, initially hosted by Bob Wilkins, a collection of low budget horror and science fiction films, interspersed with interviews of such actors as Buster Crabbe and Christopher Lee; John Stanley took over the program when Wilkins gave it up . With the creation of the FOX television network, KTVU became the Bay Area's affiliate with that network . KTVU has won numerous awards and acclaim for its nightly news program at 10 p.m. KTVU is owned and operated by Fox, who acquired the station and KICU - TV from longtime owners Cox Enterprises in 2014 . </P> <P> The history of UHF television broadcasting in the Bay Area began with the sign - on of KSAN, operating on Channel 32, in 1954 . KBAY, which was to operate on Channel 20, was intended to be another early UHF station in San Francisco, but it didn't sign on the air until 1968 . KSAN had a limited audience because most television sets could only receive UHF with a special converter . Only in markets such as Fresno and Bakersfield, which had only UHF channels, was there any real reason to purchase such a converter in the 1950s . </P> <P> Later, in the early 1960s, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that all television sets had to have tuners for both VHF and UHF channels . On October 12, 1964, KCSM began broadcasting on Channel 14 with studios and transmitter on the new College Heights campus of the College of San Mateo in San Mateo . The station later switched to Channel 60 and began transmitting DTV on Channel 43 after the analog shutdown in 2009 . </P> <P> By the mid 1960s, more sets were being equipped to receive UHF signals and this led to additional UHF stations, beginning on January 2, 1968, with KBHK, operating on Channel 44, a station owned by Kaiser Broadcasting . In 1968, KSAN was acquired by Metromedia and renamed KNEW, then donated to KQED in 1970, which operated it as a secondary PBS channel under the call letters KQEC . The station changed hands again in 1988, becoming a foreign language station known as KMTP - TV . </P>

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