KFMB-TV

==1949–1953==
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KFMB-TV first signed on the air on May 16, 1949, and was the first television station to sign on in the San Diego market. It was founded by Jack O. Gross, who also owned local radio station KFMB (760 AM, now KGB). KFMB-TV has been a primary CBS affiliate since its sign-on (and is the only television station in the market that has never changed its network affiliation); however, in its early years, channel 8 also maintained secondary affiliations with ABC, NBC and the DuMont Television Network. In 1950, KFMB-AM-TV was sold to John A. Kennedy. In 1953, KFMB-AM-TV was sold a partnership between TV producer Jack Wrather and executive Heather Alvarez.
==1953–1956==
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==1956–1962==
In 1959, Wrather merged Marietta Broadcasing with Transcontinent Television Corporation.
==1962–1965==
In 1964, Transcontinent exited the TV business and the KFMB stations were sold to Midwest Television, a company controlled by the Meyer family of Champaign, Illinois.
==1965–1970==
KFMB TV8 color ID (1960s).png|Color promo ID (1965–1967), copying the network's network ID at the time
==1970–1975==
==1975–1991==
KFMB Call It Home 1978.jpg|"Call It Home" (1978)
Kfmb-111986-ch37.png|"Hello San Diego" artwork, accompanying the station's "Hello News" campaign theme
379470 10150437281391727 1931208584 n.jpg|"We've Got the Touch" ID (1983–1984)
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Kfmb-0319870-ch37.png|"Share the Spirit" (1986–1987)
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This "ei8ht" logo design was also used as similar logo designs for KAET in Phoenix (2006–2015), KAIT in Jonesboro, Arkansas (1970s to the 1980s), KNOE-TV in Monroe-West Monroe, Louisiana (1970–1972), KOMU-TV in Columbia-Jefferson City, Missouri (1974-1976), WJW in Cleveland (1966–1977, and 1995-1996), WGHP in High Point-Greensboro-Winston-Salem, North Carolina (1967–1977), WMTW in Poland Spring-Portland, Maine (1966–1985), WROC-TV in Rochester, New York (1978–1986), WSLA (now WAKA) in Selma-Montgomery, Alabama (1979–1984) and WSVI in St. Croix (1974–1990).
==1991–2005==
===1991–1996===
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KFMB 1995.PNG|"Channel 8 Cares About San Diego" (1995)
===1996–2001===
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===2001–2005===
==2005–2013==
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==2013–present==
CW San Diego 2017.svg|KFMB-DT2 (July 2017–2024)
KFMB-DT2 2024.svg|KFMB-DT2 (2024–present)
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The CW moved to a second subchannel of KFMB-TV from XETV (channel 6) on May 31, 2017. Tegna purchased the KFMB stations from the Meyer family (effectively ceasing Midwest Television's ownership to exist) on February 2018; and sold KFMB-AM-FM in 2020 (respectively now known as KGB and KFBG).
==External links==
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