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San Francisco, CA (September 24, 1995)

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from San Francisco Examiner via Newspapers.com

0 Cinemax
1 The Movie Channel
2 KTVU 2-Fpx
3 Prevue Channel
4 KRON 4-NBC
5 KPIX 5-CBS
6 KICU 36
7 KGO 7-ABC
8 HBO
9 KQED 9-PBS
10 Showtime
11 KDTV 14-Univision
12 KBHK 44-UPN
13 KOFY 20
14 ESPN
15 Nickelodeon
16 SportsChannel Pacific
17 CNN
18 TNT
19 America's Talking
20 USA Network
21 MTV
22 Lifetime
23 KCNS 38
24 KSTS 48-Telemundo
25 C-SPAN
26 KTSF 26
27 Prevue Guide/Spice
28 WTBS
29 KFCB 42
30 KTEH 54-PBS
31 Disney Channel
32 KMTP 32/Hot Choice
33 KCSM 60-PBS
34 AMC
35 Bay TV
36 Discovery Channel
37 FX
38 Jade Channel/Travel Channel
39 CNBC/Comedy Central
40 E!
41 Vh1
42 BET
43 Sci-Fi Channel
44 A&E
45 CNN Headline News
46 Bravo
48 KPST 66
49 QVC/California Channel/San Francisco State University
50 Faith & Values/Fashion Channel/Viewer';s Choice
51 C-SPAN2/Playboy Channel
52 Community Access
53 Educational Access/America's Disability Channel
54 Municipal Access
 
They didn't carry KNTV-11?

I know it was a Salinas/Monterey market station (this even though San Jose is physically outside that market), but seeing as it was in the Bay Area, you'd think they would.
 
Actually, KNTV's transmitter was about 60 miles from San Francisco, so even though San Jose proper is in the SF market, it wouldn't have been that different from its being a Sacramento-market station. KNTV was in the odd position of being licensed outside its own market. Evidently it wasn't deemed worth it to carry it on cable in SF. They could always have sim-subbed it, laying KGO's network programming over top of the KNTV schedule.

It's a similar situation to WMUR in Manchester NH or WWSB in Sarasota FL. Viewers in Boston or Tampa might be able to get them with a good antenna, but as a practical matter, they probably wouldn't bother unless there were an attractive syndicated offering (such as the evening game shows out of pattern with whatever Boston or Tampa station also carried the show) or unless WCVB or WFTS pre-empted an ABC offering. ABC seems to have more of a tolerance for dual affiliates at far edges of the same market, at one point NBC ditched several small-town affiliates (Philadelphia, Washington DC, Salt Lake City, possibly others).

Here are KNTV's contours from the 1995 Television Factbook:

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