page_title: KNBC
section_title: KNBC
hierarchical_section_title: KNBC / History / KNBC
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance from Lankershim Blvd to Gate 3 at Universal Studios, with signage for NBC and Telemundo, and the newly built structure on the former site of Technicolor Plant 20.
context_page_description: KNBC, virtual channel 4, is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the network's West Coast flagship outlet. The station is owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal, as part of a duopoly with Corona-licensed Telemundo West Coast flagship KVEA. The two stations share studios in the northwest corner of the Universal Studios Hollywood lot off of Lankershim Boulevard in Universal City; KNBC's transmitter is located on Mount Wilson.
  In the few areas of the western United States where an NBC station is not receivable over-the-air, KNBC is available on satellite television through DirecTV.
context_section_description: The station officially modified its callsign to KNBC-TV in August 1986, shortly after NBC and RCA were purchased by General Electric; the -TV suffix was dropped effective September 6, 1995.
  On October 11, 2007, NBCUniversal announced that it would put its Burbank studios up for sale and construct a new, all-digital facility near the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot in Universal City, in an effort to merge all of NBCUniversal's West Coast operations into one area. As a result, KNBC, KVEA and NBC News' Los Angeles bureau moved to a new digital facility on the Universal lot formerly occupied by Technicolor SA. The studio opened on February 1, 2014.  Shortly thereafter, NBCUniversal named the new broadcast center in honor of former KNBC and NBC News anchor/reporter Tom Brokaw, christened the Brokaw News Center.
  In fall 2007 with the rollout of digital broadcasting, the station began airing a 24/7 newschannel News Raw on the .2 subchannel.
  KNBC shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36, using PSIP to display KNBC's virtual channel as 4 on digital television receivers. Since the station qualified for the nightlight clause in the DTV Delay Act, it was required to keep its analog signal on for two weeks from June 12 to 26, 2009 to inform viewers of the digital television transition, consisting of a loop of digital transition public service announcements, while the digital channel was used for normal programming.
  On January 1, 2014, Universal Sports transitioned into a cable- and satellite-exclusive service, causing its affiliates (such as KNBC) to replace the network and remove the channel from their digital signals entirely.
caption: The Brokaw News Center, new location at the Universal lot, 2015
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