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{{short description|UniMás TV station in Vallejo, California}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = KFSF-DT
| city = Vallejo, California
| logo = KFSF-DT (2021).svg
| logo_size = 220px
| branding = {{lang|es|UniMás 66}}
| digital = 34 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 66
| subchannels = 
| translators = KDTV-[[Class A television service|CD]] 28.2 [[Santa Rosa, California|Santa Rosa]]
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''66.1:''' [[UniMás]]|'''[[KDTV-DT|66.2]]:''' [[Univision]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = [[TelevisaUnivision]]
| licensee = UniMas San Francisco [[LLC]]
| location = {{ubl|[[Vallejo, California|Vallejo]]–[[San Francisco]]–[[Oakland]]–|[[San Jose, California]]}}
| country = United States
| airdate = {{start date and age|1986|11|25|p=y}}
| last_airdate = 
| callsign_meaning = Telefutura San Francisco
| sister_stations = [[KDTV-DT]]
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|KPST-TV (1986–2002)|KFSF (2002–2003)|KFSF-TV (2004–2009)}}
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 66 (UHF, 1986–2009)
| former_affiliations = Asian [[Independent station|Independent]]/[[HSN]] (1986–2002)
| erp = 370 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|498|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 51429
| coordinates = {{coord|37|45|19|N|122|27|10|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = [http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=6&schid=1611 UniMás]
}}
'''KFSF-DT''' (channel 66) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Vallejo, California]], United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language [[UniMás]] network to the [[San Francisco Bay Area]]. It is [[owned and operated]] by [[TelevisaUnivision]] alongside [[San Francisco]]–licensed [[Univision]] outlet [[KDTV-DT]] (channel 14). The two stations share studios on Zanker Road near the [[North San Jose Innovation District]] in [[San Jose, California|San Jose]];<ref>[http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/local-tv/univision-moves-bay-area-studio-san-jose/160429 Univision moves Bay Area studio to San Jose] Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved on August 19, 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.mediamoves.com/2014/12/univision-14-will-move-sf-headquarters-to-san-jose.html Univision 14 will move SF headquarters to San Jose] Media Moves. Retrieved on August 19, 2017</ref> KFSF-DT's transmitter is located atop [[Sutro Tower]] in San Francisco.

==History==
The station first signed on the air on November 25, 1986, as KPST-TV. Founded by [[Millbrae]]-based Pan Pacific Television Inc., it originally maintained a part-time [[independent station]] format, consisting of a three-hour block of [[Mandarin language]] programming during [[prime time]] each night and programming from the Home Shopping Network ([[HSN]]) filling the remaining 20 hours of its daily schedule.<ref name="chronicle-dillerbuyskfsf">{{cite news|title=Diller OKd to Buy Bay Area Station / TV mogul comes to Vallejo|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Diller-OKd-to-Buy-Bay-Area-Station-TV-mogul-2994071.php|first=Julia|last=Angwin|author-link=Julia Angwin|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|publisher=[[Chronicle Publishing Company]]|date=February 15, 1996|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref>

However, from the start, other companies competed for the Channel 66 [[broadcast license|license]], even after Pan Pacific Television was awarded it by the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC). The most fervent competitor was Silver King Broadcasting, the broadcasting arm of HSN, which vied for the license for ten years after the station's sign-on. Shortly before KPST made its formal debut, Silver King announced that it would acquire the license. The deal was stalled for years until alleged improprieties by Pan Pacific cracked open the door for Silver King to try and take over the license. In 1989, the FCC opened an investigation into Pan Pacific Television over allegations that it intentionally declined to disclose its ownership by [[China|Chinese]] investors on its application, in violation of agency rules restricting foreign companies from maintaining an ownership interest in an American broadcast television or radio property higher than 25%.<ref name="chronicle-dillerbuyskfsf"/>

With the likelihood that the company would have to undergo a hearing by the FCC Commissioner's Board regarding the issue, Pan Pacific also realized that the station was ripe for a possible takeover by other prospective licensees, citing a federal law that permitted minority-owned firms to be able to purchase local broadcast media properties that were under FCC investigation at a discount bid. The company chose to sell the KPST license to Channel 66 of Vallejo, a company founded by veteran media executive [[Barry Diller]] (who is [[Caucasian race|Caucasian]]) and businessman Edward Whitehead (who is [[African American]]), the latter of whom held a 51% controlling interest in the company.<ref name="chronicle-dillerbuyskfsf"/>

However, shortly after the transaction occurred, the [[District of Columbia Court of Appeals]] ruled that the FCC's rules giving preferential treatment to companies owned by minorities to allow them to acquire licenses under agency investigation were unconstitutional. As a result, the FCC rejected Whitehead's application. However, even though the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] decided to uphold the ruling by the D.C. Appeals Court when the case regarding the purchase discounts for minority firms was brought to a hearing in 1990, Whitehead and Diller chose to submit their application to the FCC once again. However, San Francisco–based West Coast United Broadcasting Co.; Arthur Liu of [[New York City]]–based Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc. and a consortium between [[Tennessee]]-based Pen Holdings Inc. and San Jose developer John S. Wong each filed petitions objecting to the sale. West Coast United Broadcasting subsequently filed a competing application to the FCC, in doing so filing a challenge to Diller and Whitehead's argument that they had full rights to purchase the station.

===Silver King/USA Broadcasting ownership===
The dispute over the license was eventually resolved in late 1995, when the Whitehead-Diller partnership reached an out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed sum, in which West Coast Broadcasting agreed to rescind its application and allow Whitehead and Diller to purchase the station. In addition, Diller's company, Silver King Communications, agreed to the reimburse the legal fees incurred by the three petitioners (with Wong and Pen receiving up to $268,000, West Coast Broadcasting receiving up to $17,000 and Liu receiving up to $28,960), in exchange for each of the parties dropping their legal challenges.<ref name="chronicle-dillerbuyskfsf"/>

On February 15, 1996, the Whitehead-Diller partnership was given permission by the FCC to acquire KPST-TV for $9 million (below the station's appraisal value of $12 million).<ref>{{cite news|title=TV Mogul Gets Deal On Area Station|url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/TV-Mogul-Gets-Deal-On-Area-Station-2994068.php|first=Julia|last=Angwin|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|publisher=Chronicle Publishing Company|date=February 16, 1996|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref> Silver King's involvement in the deal gave the company an additional television station property as Diller had earlier announced on November 27, 1995, that he would acquire the Home Shopping Network and Silver King Broadcasting, which owned HSN-affiliated stations in several other larger [[media market]]s.<ref>{{cite news|title=STARTING OFF ON THE GROUND FLOOR DILLER BUYING HOME SHOPPING NETWORK, SAVOY PICTURES|newspaper=[[Daily News (Los Angeles)|Daily News]]|date=November 28, 1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=A Pair Of Deals Put Spotlight On Diller|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1995/11/28/a-pair-of-deals-put-spotlight-on-diller/|first=Tim|last=Jones|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|publisher=[[Tribune Publishing]]|date=November 28, 1995|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Silver King annexes HSN|url=https://variety.com/1996/scene/vpage/silver-king-annexes-hsn-1117436608/|first=Martin|last=Peers|periodical=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|publisher=[[Reed Business Information|Cahners Business Information]]|date=December 19, 1996|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Diller Is Cleared to Take Control of Silver King|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/12/business/diller-is-cleared-to-take-control-of-silver-king.html|agency=[[Associated Press]]|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 12, 1996|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref> Two years later in 1997, Silver King purchased the [[USA Network]] and renamed its broadcast television subsidiary as [[USA Broadcasting]], as part of a corporate rebranding borrowing from the identity of its new cable channel property.

In June 1998, USA Broadcasting launched a customized independent station format, "CityVision", which infused syndicated programming—including a few produced by sister production unit [[Universal Television|Studios USA]] that also aired nationally on USA Network—with a limited amount of local entertainment and magazine programs (reminiscent of the format used by [[CITY-TV]] in [[Toronto]] and more prominently, that station's sister broadcast television properties that became charter stations of [[Citytv]], when [[CHUM Limited]] expanded the format to other [[Canada|Canadian]] markets as a [[television system]] in 2002).<ref>{{cite web|title=USA looking at L.A., Chi, others for expansion|url=https://variety.com/1999/tv/news/cityvision-may-export-local-format-1117490304/|first=Cynthia|last=Littleton|periodical=Variety|publisher=Cahners Business Information|date=January 17, 1999|access-date=September 11, 2015}}</ref> At the time the concept formally launched on [[Miami]] sister station [[WAMI-TV]] in September of that year (later expanding to sister stations WHOT-TV [now [[WUVG-DT]]] in [[Atlanta]], KHSX-TV [now [[KSTR-DT]]] in [[Dallas]]–[[Fort Worth]] and WHUB-TV [now [[WUTF-DT]]] in [[Boston]]), USA Broadcasting had not announced plans for KPST to switch to adopt the format.

===Sale to Univision===
In the summer of 2000, USA Networks announced that it would sell its television station group, in order to focus on its cable network and television production properties. Among the prospective buyers for the USA Broadcasting unit was [[The Walt Disney Company]]—which had acquired [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] in 1996—which was the original frontrunner to purchase the thirteen-station group (had Disney been successful in acquiring the station, such a deal would have made KPST a [[sister station]] to  [[KGO-TV]] (channel 7), one of ABC's five original [[owned-and-operated station]]s). However, [[Spanish language in the United States|Spanish-language]] broadcaster Univision Communications beat out Disney and the competing bidders in a close race, securing a deal to purchase the USA Broadcasting stations for $1.1 billion on December 7, 2000.<ref>{{cite news|title=Univision to Buy More TV Stations / Spanish-language group expands to key markets|url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Univision-to-Buy-More-TV-Stations-2723410.php|first=Verne|last=Kopytoff|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|publisher=Chronicle Publishing Company|date=December 8, 2000|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Univision Buys 13 TV Stations For $1.1 Billion|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2000/12/08/univision-buys-13-tv-stations-for-11-billion/|first=Tim|last=Jones|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|publisher=[[Tribune Publishing]]|date=December 8, 2000|access-date=September 11, 2015}}</ref> But because of the station's joint ownership structure, Whitehead and USA Networks had to sell their respective stakes in KPST to Univision; USA sold its 49% minority interest in the station for $37 million, while Whitehead sold his 51% share for $42 million. The sale to Univision faced opposition from a coalition of Bay Area residents of Chinese origin and San Francisco city supervisor Leland Yee, who each filed a complaint to the FCC over the sale.<ref>{{cite news|title=BAY AREA BRIDGES / A ROUNDUP FROM ETHNIC AND COMMUNITY MEDIA|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BAY-AREA-BRIDGES-A-ROUNDUP-FROM-ETHNIC-AND-2853431.php|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|publisher=Chronicle Publishing Company|date=November 18, 2001|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref> The FCC chose to approve the Univision acquisition,<ref>{{cite web|title=Univision gets FCC OK for USA stations buy|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/univision-gets-fcc-ok-usa-stations-buy/88431|periodical=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|publisher=Cahners Business Information|date=May 21, 2001|access-date=September 11, 2015}}</ref> effectively allowing KPST to form a duopoly with Univision owned-and-operated station KDTV (channel 14).

The week prior to the sale's completion, on May 15, 2001, Univision Communications announced during its [[upfront presentation]] that it would launch a secondary television network—later announced to be named TeleFutura (the forerunner of UniMás) on July 31—that would compete with Univision, [[Telemundo]] and the then-recently launched [[Azteca América]]. Univision would utilize the former USA Broadcasting stations to serve as charter outlets of the network, which would cater to bilingual Latinos and young adult males between the ages 18 and 34 that seldom watch Spanish language television other than sporting events.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Network in Works for Univision|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-15-ca-63557-story.html|first=Dana|last=Calvo|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=May 15, 2001|access-date=November 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=BRIEF / Entertainment: Univision to Call New Network Telefutura|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jul-31-fi-28886-story.html|first=Meg|last=James|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 31, 2001|access-date=November 7, 2015}}</ref> Univision, however, continued to maintain [[American English|English-language]] programming formats on the nine HSN affiliates and four independent stations it acquired from USA Networks for fourteen months following the completion of the purchase, with KPST continuing to air HSN and Mandarin language programming.

Channel 66 officially converted into a Spanish-language station on January 14, 2002, when it became an owned-and-operated station of TeleFutura, which initially launched on that date on 18 Univision-owned stations (including eleven of its large-market sister stations under USA Broadcasting ownership); the station accordingly changed its call letters to KFSF (for "Telefutura San Francisco") on that date.<ref>{{cite news|title=The WB experiments with some funny stuff / Jamie Kennedy does silly sketches|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/The-WB-experiments-with-some-funny-stuff-Jamie-2885044.php|first=Tim|last=Goodman|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|publisher=Chronicle Publishing Company|date=January 11, 2002|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Univision Aims 3rd Network at Bilinguals|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-14-fi-telefutura14-story.html|first=Meg|last=James|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=January 14, 2002|access-date=September 11, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; Univision bets on a new Spanish-language network, TeleFutura|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/16/business/media-business-advertising-univision-bets-new-spanish-language-network.html|first=Bernard|last=Stamler|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 16, 2002|access-date=November 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='Chair' and 'Chamber' fight to be the hot seat|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/01/18/chair-and-chamber-fight-to-be-the-hot-seat/|first=Allan|last=Johnson|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|publisher=Tribune Publishing|date=January 18, 2002|access-date=November 7, 2015}}</ref>

On December 3, 2012, Univision Communications announced that it would relaunch TeleFutura as UniMás—which loosely translates to "Univision Plus", to underline its ties to its parent network Univision—refocusing its programming to appeal towards Latino males between the ages of 12 and 35 years old. The rebranding took place on January 7, 2013.<ref name="HR">{{cite web|title=Univision Rebrands Telefutura as UniMás|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/univision-telefutura-rebrand-unimas-396702|first=Marisa|last=Guthrie|periodical=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|publisher=[[Guggenheim Partners|Prometheus Global Media]]|date=December 3, 2012|access-date=December 5, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=Univision Transforms Telefutura Into UniMás, Delivering Programming From The Top Spanish-Language Content Producers In The World|url=http://corporate.univision.com/2012/press/univision-transforms-telefutura-into-unimas-delivering-programming-from-the-top-spanish-language-content-producers-in-the-world/#axzz2EDpgL8Yd|publisher=Univision Communications|date=December 3, 2012|access-date=December 5, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Univision plays the hipster card|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2012/12/03/univision-revamps-telefutura-as-unimas.html|first=Annlee|last=Ellingson|work=L.A. Biz|date=December 3, 2012|access-date=December 5, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Univision to revamp its secondary Spanish language network|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2013-jan-07-la-et-ct-unimas-telefutura-spanish-language-network-20130105-story.html|first=Meg|last=James|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=January 7, 2013|access-date=November 7, 2015}}</ref>

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Subchannels of KFSF-DT<ref name="rei">{{Cite web|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KFSF|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KFSF#station|website=[[RabbitEars]]|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 66.1 
| rowspan="2"|[[720p]] || rowspan="6"|[[16:9]] || KFSF-HD || [[UniMás]]
|- style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"
! scope = "row" | [[KDTV-DT|66.2]] 
| KDTV-HD || [[Univision]] ([[KDTV-DT]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 66.3 
| rowspan="4"| [[480i]] || Bounce || [[Bounce TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 66.4 
| Grit || [[Grit (TV network)|Grit]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 66.5
| TrueCri || [[True Crime Network]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 66.6
| NVSN || [[Nuestra Visión]]
|}
{{legend|#E6FFF7|Simulcast of subchannels of another station}}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KFSF shut down its analog signal, over [[UHF]] channel 66, on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref name="Analog to Digital">{{cite web|title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]] |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 34, using [[virtual channel]] 66.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=6&schid=1611 UniMás web page section of univision.com]

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