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KGTV is the ABC affiliate for the San Diego, California market, broadcasting on digital channel 10. Its subcarrier, 10.2 broadcasts KGTV in high definition. They first broadcast digital on channel 25, but they moved to 10 (their original analog position) on the original analog shutoff date of February 17, 2009.

Channel 10 first went on the air in 1953 as KFSD-TV and was an NBC affiliate. Prior, NBC was secondary on CBS affiliate KFMB/channel 8. They changed calls to KOGO in 1961. After McGraw-Hill bought them from Time-Life in 1972, the call was changed to the current KGTV. (KFSD is now the call sign for a radio station in Escondido, airing on 1450 AM.)

KGTV became an ABC affiliate in 1977, as the network was looking to find another home on the VHF band. They had been on KCST/channel 39 (now NBC's KNSD) since 1973 when KCST wrested ABC away from XETV/channel 6 and the network was not happy with having to air on UHF. KGTV has been an ABC affiliate since.

Among early fare on channel 10 was KOGO's Corner, a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon children's show hosted by Johnny Downs. While extoling the virtues of drinking milk to the kids, Downs also screened cartoons of Deputy Dawg and The Mighty Hercules. Regis Philbin hosted a local talk show in the early 60s on channel 10. During that time, the station aired only the second hour of NBC's The Today Show--the first hour was occupied by Today's Cartoons at 7 AM (airing old W-B cartoons along with Dick Tracy, Mr. Magoo and Q.T. Hush) and The King and Odie at 7:45. In the 1962-63 season, channel 10 aired a movie Friday nights at 8:30 and would subsequently run kinescope-delays of the two NBC shows at those time periods over the weekend--Sing Along With Mitch Sunday afternoons and The Price Is Right Saturday evenings.

KGTV had rebroadcast KSDX/Azteca America on its subcarrier up till recently. It is now on channel 15 on San Diego cable systems and its still operated by KGTV.

[edit] Digital programming

Virtual	Physical	Name	Programming
10.1	10.1	KGTV-DT	Main KGTV (ABC)
10.2	10.2	KGTV-DT2	KGTV High Definition

[edit] Current Prime-Time Schedule

Day	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	11:00
Monday	10 News at 7	TMZ	Dancing with the Stars				Castle		10 News at 11
Tuesday	10 News at 7	TMZ	V		Dancing with the Stars Results		The Forgotten		10 News at 11
Wednesday	10 News at 7	TMZ	Modern Family (repeats)	The Middle	Modern Family	Cougar Town	Eastwick		10 News at 11
Thursday	10 News at 7	TMZ	FlashForward		Grey's Anatomy		Private Practice		10 News at 11
Friday	10 News at 7	TMZ	Supernanny		Ugly Betty		20/20		10 News at 11
Saturday	Without A Trace		Saturday Night College Football						10 News at 11
Sunday	America's Funniest Home Videos		Extreme Makeover: Home Edition		Desperate Housewives		Brothers & Sisters		10 News at 11

[edit] External Links

Official Site