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KTSF history
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On August 17, 1980, KTSF ended the Chinese and other Asian programming during weeknights, relegating it to weekend afternoons.
At that time, four other independent Bay Area stations had general entertainment schedules, including KTVU, KTZO (now KOFY-TV), KICU, and KBHK (now KBCW). By 1981, the Japanese animated and live-action shows were dropped, as well as the station's - TV suffix on New Year's Day.
In 1983, Satellite Television & Associated Resources, the parent company of Subscription Television of San Francisco and part-owner of a similar service in Boston, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and was liquidated.
In 1983, KTSF expanded its Asian content to reflect the changing demographics of the Bay Area.
STAR TV was replaced by another service, Select TV, but in late 1984, Vision Enterprises, the operator, declared bankruptcy, and a federal judge allowed KTSF to stop carrying their programming over $250,000 in unpaid fees to the station.
In 1985, KTSF dropped general English entertainment programming, partly due to the fact that San Francisco had four other stations employing that format.
A significant step in the station's history came in 1987 when it hired Gallup to perform the first Chinese-language consumer study ever conducted in the United States.
KTSF was nominated for and won its only Emmy Award in 1987 when animator Brian Clark redesigned the station's on-air identity package.
On February 6, 1989, KTSF launched the first live Chinese language newscast in the United States.
In 2005, KTSF became the first Asian broadcaster in the United States to subscribe to Nielsen.
In 2007, the KTSF news department expanded by adding a special features unit.
In 2008, a weekly business show, Business and Lifestyle, began airing.
By 2010, KTSF carried programming in twelve languages including Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi and Tagalog.
In 2010, Kaitlyn's Beauty Journal began airing.
In 2012, KTSF was launched on Syncbak App, for a national distribution deal.
In 2014, KTSF launched its local TV app in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store and fully implemented Nielsen proprietary mobile measurement software in order to inform its research and insights and drive advertising effectiveness, which leaves the Syncbak App.
On February 1, 2016, KTSF's main signal was upgraded from 4:3 standard definition (480i) to 16:9 high definition (720p), which allowed local programming and the Cantonese and Mandarin newscasts to be broadcast in widescreen.
On February 1, 2021, KTSF Local TV App was discontinued and moved to a free, live, local TV streaming service, called VUit.
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