KTSF

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KTSF (channel 26) is an independent television station in San Francisco, California, United States, broadcasting in a variety of languages, most notably Chinese. The station is owned by the Lincoln Broadcasting Company and maintains studios on Valley Drive in south suburban Brisbane. It shares a channel and transmitter with KDTV-DT (channel 14), owned by Univision, broadcasting from atop Mount Allison. Channel 26 was approved in 1965 but did not begin broadcasting until September 1976. It was owned by Lillian Lincoln Howell and, aside from a short-lived daily business show at launch and four years of prime time subscription television programming in the early 1980s, primarily broadcast alternative English-language syndicated and local programs as well as brokered programs in languages other than English, primarily serving the Bay Area's growing Asian community. In 1989, KTSF began producing the first Chinese-language television newscast in the United States, airing in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. In addition to local news, KTSF produces other local programs in Chinese and English and airs Chinese-language entertainment programming, several independently produced shows catering to the Indian and Iranian communities, paid programs, and religious broadcasting. Interest in San Francisco's ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 26 had been sporadic in the 1950s and early 1960s. Plaza Radio and Television Company applied for the channel and received a construction permit in 1956. No station emerged, and in 1962, another group filed for the channel: Automated Electronics, Inc. The company, based in Dallas, attempted to start stations in Dallas, San Francisco, and other cities carrying business news information, but its assets were purchased in late 1963 by Ultrasonic Research and Testing Laboratories, which had no broadcasting operations.