KTSF

Hitting the airwaves in 1976 to serve audiences not targeted by other local stations, KTSF began broadcasting general entertainment, both English and foreign-language, to viewers in the Bay Area. As viewer demographics in the area began to shift with increasing immigration from Asia, the station expanded its content to serve the growing need for programming to the Asian audience. In 1989 KTSF launched the first live Chinese-language newscast in the US, a copy of which is in the Smithsonian Institution, and now carries programming in Asian languages including Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Hindi, Farsi, and Tagalog.