KCBA
KCBA (channel 35) is a television station in Salinas, California, United States, serving the Monterey Bay area as an affiliate of The CW Plus. It is owned by VistaWest Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG), owner of CBS/Fox/Telemundo affiliate KION-TV (channel 46), for the provision of certain services. Programming originates from the KION-TV studio facilities on Moffett Street in Salinas and is broadcast from a transmitter located on Fremont Peak.
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| City | Salinas, California |
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| Branding | Central Coast CW |
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| Operator | News-Press & Gazette Company |
Sister stations | KION-TV |
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First air date | November 1, 1981 |
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Call sign meaning | reverse order of the first three letters of the English alphabet |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 14867 |
| ERP | 19.75 kW |
| HAAT | 726 m (2,382 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°45′22″N 121°30′10″W |
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| Website | Central Coast CW |
Established as a Spanish-language station in 1981, KCBA became an English-language station in 1986 and affiliated with the new Fox network the next year. The station started broadcasting local news in 1990 and acquired most of the operations of KION-TV, then known as KCCN-TV, in 1996. In 2013, Seal Rock changed service providers from KION-TV to Entravision Communications, owner of Univision affiliate KSMS-TV; this deal ended in 2021, and a new agreement was signed with KION. On January 1, 2022, KCBA and KION's second digital subchannel exchanged affiliations.