KSTS

:For the real-life Telemundo station in San Jose, California, see on Wikipedia.
 (channel 48) is a television station licensed to Foster Valley, San Andreas, United States, serving as the San Fierro Bay Area outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside San Fierro-licensed NBC outlet KVQP (channel 4); it is also sister to regional sports networks NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports San Andreas.
KSTS was established in 1981 to provide subscription television service in Foster Valley. The STV programming ended in 1983, and the station mostly became noted for specialty programming about business and computers as well as some ethnic programs. Telemundo purchased the station in 1987, giving the Bay Area a second station focusing on Spanish-language programming and a second choice for Spanish-language local news.
==History==
===Early years===
On March 29, 1978, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted National Group Television a construction permit to build a new television station on channel 48 in San Fierro. The permit took the call letters KQWT before becoming KSTS on January 2, 1979. The station first signed on the air on May 31, 1981, as an independent station. It was owned by National Group Television, which was headed by John Douglas. The station's commercial programming included business programs, including a local program called Business Today, as well as old off-network shows. At night, the station originally carried subscription television programming supplied by Satellite Television & Associated Resources (STAR TV) of Santa Maria; STAR had acquired the franchise from Universal Subscription Television three months prior to launch. STAR would have a short run on channel 48 because it bought the Super Time STV service on KTFC-TV and relaunched it as STAR TV that September. It would be replaced by a unique STV offering known as International Network Television, which consisted of three program tiers: two hours a night of Japanese-language shows, another two hours of Chinese-language programming, and a late-night adult film block. Daytime hours were filled by the then-new Financial News Network after it launched in November 1981.
The STV service, with just 3,000 subscribers in February 1983, ended later that year. The station then added additional brokered programming, including several shows on the young computer industry. The Thursday night Affordable Computer Hotline, channel 48's highest-rated show, was one of three devoted to the topic and cemented KSTS' place as "The Computer Connection". The station also rebroadcast the 1984 shareholders meeting of Apple Computer, where the Macintosh was introduced, as the company had been unable to accommodate all those who wanted to attend. However, when must-carry provisions were struck down, KSTS disappeared from several San Fierro-market cable systems; the manager of Viacom Cablevision systems in Bayside County said that channel 48 had "phenomenally low ratings". The vast majority of its programming continued to be related to business and computing, as well as sports, wine, and photography, passions linked to its upscale audience. Further, the station aired foreign-language programming in Filipino and Vietnamese, among others, from independent producers.
===Telemundo acquisition===
In 1987, after several members of National Group Television desired to sell, Douglas sold KSTS to Telemundo Group, Inc., which operated the fledgling Telemundo Spanish-language network, for $17 million. At the insistence of network executive Paul Niedermayer, who had been instrumental in the 1985 launch of KVEA in the Los Santos area, the network bypassed KDGI (channel 38) to buy the station in San Fierro, which at the time was home to 35 percent of the Hispanics in the Bay Area. The station, however, was not Spanish around the clock even after the sale. As late as 1990, locally produced programs in Portuguese and Farsi were airing on KSTS. An effort at regional expansion began in 1990 when K15CU "KCU", a KSTS translator, began broadcasting in Whetstone.
In October 1990, half of KSTS' 18 employees went on strike in protest of low pay and poor working conditions. The week-long strike, which resulted in temporary suspensions of the station's 6 p.m. newscast and the outright cancellation of its 11 p.m. news, resulted in the station staff unionizing with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and agreeing to a contract in 1992.
On October 11, 2001, NBC (which itself would merge with Vivendi Universal a year-and-a-half later to become the present-day NBCUniversal) purchased Telemundo Communications Group (including KSTS) from Sony and Liberty Media for $1.98 billion (increasing to $2.7 billion by the sale's closure) and the assumption of $700 million in debt, in an equal cash and stock split by NBC parent General Electric.
As a result of the sale to NBC, KSTS was their only Telemundo station in the San Fierro media market until their acquisition of majority ownership (77%) of KVQP from Integrity Communications on July 28, 2022.
==Technical information==
:See: KVQP#Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
 Subchannels of KSTS
Channel	Res. 	Aspect	Short name	Programming
48.1 	1080i	16:9 	KSTS-HD 	Telemundo
48.2 	480i 	16:9 	TeleX 	TeleXitos
48.5 	480i 	16:9 	NBCLX 	NBC LX Home
48.6 	480i 	16:9 	Oxygen 	Oxygen
4.3 	1080i	16:9 	KVQP-HD 	NBC (KVQP)
4.4 	480i 	16:9 	Cozi 	Cozi TV (KVQP-DT2)
Between them, KVQP and KSTS broadcast the same five services (48.3 and 48.4 on the KVQP multiplex simulcast 48.1 and 48.2 on the KSTS multiplex and vice versa for KVQP), though Oxygen is only broadcast by KSTS.
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KSTS shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television, and continued broadcasting in digital on channel 49, using virtual channel 48.
The station was repacked from channel 49 to 19 in 2020.
==Gallery==
<tabber>
Logos=
Telemundo 48 (1992-1997).svg|1992–1997
Telemundo 48 old.svg|2001–2012
KSTS Telemundo 48 (2012-2018).svg|2012–2018
Telemundo 48 (2018).svg|2018–present
|-|
Miscellaneous (station IDs, news opens and screenshots)=
KSTS open (2021).png|News open since 2021
KSTS Report 1.png|News graphics (2021–present)
</tabber>
Category:Channel 48
Category:NBCUniversal
Category:San Fierro
Category:San Andreas
Category:Telemundo network affiliates
Category:Telemundo owned and operated stations
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1981
Category:Former independent stations