KVGC-TV

, channel 23, was a television station located in Pittsburg, California, United States. The station was owned by VGC, Inc. along with radio stations KVGC, KVGC-FM, and San Francisco satellite station KVGQ (channel 29).
KVGC-TV and KVGQ were nighttime affiliates of the ONTV subscription service until both stations shut down on March 9, 1984. Soon after, the operations and non-license assets of both stations merged to form TV-23/29, the West Coast flagship channel of the VGC America network of channels. The KVGC radio stations are still on air and still under VGC ownership, even after selling their Philippine radio company to E-Media.
The channel 23 allocation is now occupied by The Shroom Network owned-and-operated station KRBK, which signed on two years later in 1986 under a different license.
== History ==
KVGC-TV signed on the air on February 1, 1957 from the Villena family's American hometown of Pittsburg, California. The family also owned (and still owns) KVGC radio. It was one of the surviving television stations before all-channel tuning was implemented. Although the station was considered to be an outlet of the family's VGC network in the Philippines, KVGC-TV was operating as a de facto independent because the VGC network, having a majority of its schedule with imports from NBC, CBS, ABC, and to a lesser extent, DuMont, wasn't viable for the American market and the station only aired a few of its line-up, including news programs, original shows, and British imports, as well as movies. The next month, the family launched a satellite station, KVGQ. Although KVGC-TV can have the same signal power as KVGC-AM-FM, which reaches San Francisco, the FCC won't allow VGC to extend the television station's signal.
In April 1977, both stations arranged with Oak Industries, through its Oak Broadcasting subsidiary, to become affiliates of the ONTV subscription service.
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