KVII

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KVII (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Oakland, California, broadcasting the Central Television Network to the San Francisco Bay Area. Owned and operated by network's Central Networks Corporation division, it maintains studios at Jack London Square in Oakland, while its transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco.
Channel 7 was the last of Central's five original owned-and-operated stations in the United States to join, after WCEN in New York City, KCEN-TV in Los Angeles, WBZ-TV in Mixopolis, and WFAA in Washington, D.C. It is also the only one to be built and signed-on from the ground up.
==News operation==
As of September 2017, KVII broadcasts 32 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4 hours and 30 minutes each weekday and 3 1/4 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); the station also produces an additional 3½ hours of newscasts each week (consisting of a half-hour each on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays) for its NWLD-affiliated DT2 and Avant Garde-affiliated DT3 subchannels respectively.
===Titles===
*NewsWatch 7 (1975-1993)
*Channel 7 News (1993-2006)
*CEN 7 News (2006–present)
===Theme history===
*Tuesday1 - Tuesday Productions (1979-1982)
*Spirit of Tampa Bay - Gari Media Group (1982-1985)
*Power News - 615 Music (1985-1993)
*KXTV 1989 "Nightside" Theme (1989-1995; only used on Nightside)
*(Remember You'll Have 8) On Your Side - Gari Media Group (1993-1995)
*Bold Horizons - Sample Music (1995-2000)
*News Matrix - Stephen Arnold Music (2000-2007)
*Frequency - Stephen Arnold Music (2007-2010)
*Breakthrough - Stephen Arnold Music (2010–present)
==Gallery==
WTVW (1974).svg|Precursor to the present "Circle 7" logo (1974-1979)
KABC Circle 7.svg|The current "Circle 7" used since 1979
KVII Nightside open (1989).png|NewsWatch 7: Nightside open (1989-1995, recorded on October 17, 1989)
KVII report (1989).png|On-screen graphics (mid-1980s, recorded on October 17, 1989)
KMOL 1994 open.png|Newscast open (1993-1995)
KVII news open 2000-2007.png|Channel 7 News generic open (2000-2007), although the logo read "News 7" on-air, the station branding was verbally identified as "Channel 7 News
KVII news open 2014.png|CEN 7 News open (2014-2018)
KMOL Open (2020).png|Newscast open (2018-present)
KVII CEN 7 Pride.svg|Pride Month logo (June 2022)
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programing
7.1 	1080p	16:9 	KVII-DT 	Main KVII programming/Central
7.2 	1080p	16:9 	NWLD 	NWLD SF Bay Area
7.3 	480i 	16:9 	AVG 	Avant Garde Network
7.4 	480i 	16:9 	TCN-SF 	The Chance Network
===Analog-to-digital transition===
KVII started its digital signal in the start of 2003. The station shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 26, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The KVII digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 24 with digital television receivers continuing to display KVII's PSIP virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 7.
As part of the SAFER Act, KVII kept its analog signal on the air until July 12 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.
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