KRCR-TV
ABC television affiliate in Redding, California, United States
KRCR-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Redding, California, United States, serving as the ABC and Fox affiliate for the Chico–Redding market. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside KCVU (channel 20), KXVU-LD (channel 17), KRVU-LD (channel 21), KZVU-LD (channel 22), KUCO-LD (channel 27), and KKTF-LD (channel 30). The stations share studios on Auditorium Drive east of downtown Redding and maintain a news bureau and sales office at the former Sainte Television Group facilities on Main Street in downtown Chico. KRCR's transmitter is located atop Shasta Bally, west of Redding.
KAEF-TV (channel 23) in Arcata operates as a semi-satellite of KRCR, serving the Eureka market. As such, it clears all network programming as provided through KRCR but airs a separate offering of syndicated programming; there are also separate local newscasts, commercial inserts and legal station identifications. Although KAEF maintains its own studios (shared with KBVU) on Sixth Street in downtown Eureka, master control and some internal operations are based at KRCR's facilities.
History
The station was founded in 1956 as KVIP (adding the "-TV" suffix to its callsign on August 15, 1957) by William B. Smullin of California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. (COBI), owners of KOBI in Medford, Oregon, and satellite station KOTI in Klamath Falls, as a primary NBC affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. By 1963, network emphasis had shifted towards ABC, as only the Saturday morning and Sunday night prime time schedules, a few daytime game shows and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson were carried in NBC's schedule pattern.
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