KRON-TV

KRON-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's outlet for The CW Television Network. The station also maintains a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. Owned and operated by The CW's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, KRON-TV has studios on Front Street in the city's historic Northeast Waterfront, in the same building as ABC owned-and-operated station KGO-TV, channel 7 (but with completely separate operations from that station). The transmitting antenna is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco.

For the matrix operation abbreviated "kron", see Kronecker product.
KRON-TV
ATSC 3.0 station
  • San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose, California
  • United States
CitySan Francisco, California
Channels
BrandingKRON 4 (pronounced "chron") KRON 4 CW (for CW programming)
Programming
Affiliations
  • 4.1: The CW (primary), MyNetworkTV (secondary)
  • for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner
  • Nexstar Media Group
  • (Nexstar Media Inc.)
History
First air date
November 15, 1949 (1949-11-15)
Former call signs
KCPR (CP, 1946–1948)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 4 (VHF, 1949–2009)
  • Digital: 57 (UHF, 1998–2009), 38 (UHF, 2009–2020)
Former affiliations
  • NBC (primary 1949–2001, secondary 2010–2011)
  • Independent (2001–2006)
  • MyNetworkTV (primary, 2006–2023)
Call sign meaning
San Francisco Chronicle
(former co-owned newspaper)
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID65526
ERP50 kW
HAAT507.2 m (1,664.0 ft)
Transmitter coordinates37°45′19″N 122°27′10″W
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.kron4.com
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