KMTP-TV

KMTP-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KMTP-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = KMTP
analog = 32 (UHF)
digital = 33 (UHF)
subchannels = 32.1 KMTP Digital 32.2 The World Network 32.4 Wedding Network 32.5 KMTP Analog
other_chs =
affiliations = Non-commercial Independent
network =
founded =
airdate = August 31, 1991
location = San Francisco, California
callsign_meaning = Minority
Television
Project
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Minority Television Project
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 1320 kW (analog)
500 kW (digital)
HAAT = 491 m (analog)
496 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 43095
coordinates = coord|37|45|18.8|N|122|27|10.4|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.kmtp.org/ www.kmtp.org]

KMTP, the San Francisco non-commercial station operated by the Minority Television Project, airs programming in several non-English languages, including several Asian languages and German. KMTP produces and broadcast a daily news show, "5 Day News". It also broadcasts programming from Deutsche Welle TV, Russia Today TV, and the Classic Arts Showcase.

History

The station on channel 32 began commercially as one of the first UHF TV stations in the United States in 1954 as KSAN-TV, owned by the Patterson family, operators of KSAN (AM) radio, showing an amalgam of boxing and wrestling matches, medical conferences, and old movies.

The TV station was purchased by Metromedia in 1968, when the call sign was moved to an FM station and the station re-christened KNEW-TV, to match its co-owned KNEW AM station. KNEW-TV ran the syndicated Metromedia talkshows and variety programming of such stars as shock-talker Joe Pyne, and others.

This format was unsuccessful, and by 1970 Channel 32 was given to leading public broadcaster KQED and re-christened once again, this time as KQEC, a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). KQED held onto the station until 1988 when the FCC revoked the license, ruling that it had been off the air too much to remain in the hands of the KQED ownership (KQED kept KQEC off the air for most of 1972 through 1977, and then again for several months in 1979-80), and reassigned the license to Minority Television Project, one of the challengers of the KQEC license. [http://www.current.org/ptv/ptv888kqed.shtml]

Controversy

In 2004, the FCC levied a $10,000 fine against KMTP for showing paid commercials on a station with an educational license. [http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2005/FCC-05-180A1.html] While it is commonplace for PBS and similar stations to show underwriters' messages that resemble commercials, it is illegal for educationally-licensed stations, like KMTP, to show advertisements that do not meet the standards for underwriting announcements. [http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/decdoc/public_and_broadcasting.html#UNDERWRITING] , [http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/nature.html] KMTP appealed the decision in 2005, but the fine was upheld.

Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

External links

* [http://www.kmtp.org/ KMTP Homepage]
*TVQ|KMTP
*BIA|KMTP|TV|TV
* [http://www.uhfnocturne.com/32KNEW_index.html UHF Nocturne: KNEW 32]


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