KNBP-DT

(channel 12) is a television station in Paleto Bay, San Andreas, United States, affiliated with NBC and is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group.
==History==
The station first signed on the air on May 7, 1953, originally broadcasting on VHF channel 12. It was the first television station to sign on outside of Los Santos and was founded by NBC, which served Paleto Bay where network-owned KNBL (channel 4) could not reach the market.
The station was a major beneficiary of a quirk in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s plan for allocating stations. In the early days of broadcast television, there were twelve VHF channels available and 69 UHF channels (later reduced to 55 in 1983). The VHF bands were more desirable because they carried longer distances and many television receivers lacked optional UHF tuners. Since there were only twelve VHF channels available, there were limitations as to how closely the stations could be spaced.
After the FCC's Sixth Report and Order ended the license freeze and opened the UHF band in 1952, it devised a plan for allocating VHF licenses. Under this plan, almost all of the country would be able to receive two commercial VHF channels plus one noncommercial channel. Most of the rest of the country ("1/2") would be able to receive a third VHF channel. Other areas would be designated as "UHF islands" since they were too close to larger cities for VHF service. The "2" networks became CBS and NBC, "+1" represented non-commercial educational stations, and "1/2" became ABC (which was the weakest network usually winding up with the UHF allocation where no VHF was available).
However, Paleto Bay was sandwiched between Los Santos (channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13) to the south and Las Venturas (channels 6, 8, 10 and 13) to the east. This resulted in the Paleto Bay market having only one VHF license; largely due to KNBP's good fortune in gaining that license, it has been the market leader for most of the time since records have been kept. During the analog era, KNBP was the only commercial VHF station in north-central San Andreas licensed outside of Los Santos.
In 1990, after selling the majority-ownership stake of Cleveland-based WKYC to Multimedia, Inc., NBC began to negotiate with Las Venturas-based Sunbelt Communications (then-owner of KVBC-TV, later the Intermountain West Communications Company) about the sale of KNBP. When KKTO-TV in Santa Fe, New Mexico was sold in 1992 after an economic downturn, the Sunbelt board made an offer to purchase channel 12 from NBC. Then-parent company General Electric agreed to sell channel 12 to Sunbelt and the deal was completed by that year, effectively a sister station channel 15 in Las Venturas.
When the Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its purchases of KNBP and MTTM-DT in 2013, it became the only former IWCC station currently owned by Sinclair in the state of San Andreas as they already own KVMY at the time, they traded it to Dorado Media for RKO affiliate KLVR (channel 31).
==Gallery==
<tabber>
Logos=
KNBP (1976-1979).svg|1976–1979
KNBP (1979-1982).svg|1979–1982
KNBP 12 1982.svg|1982–1986
KNBP (1986-1990).svg|1986–1990
KNBP 12 1990.svg|1990–1998
KNBP Where News Comes First (1996-1998).svg|News logo (1996–1998)
KNBP 1998-2013.svg|1998–2013
KNBP 1998-2006.svg|1998–2006
KNBP 2006-2013.svg|2006–2013
KNBP News 12 2006-2013.svg|News logo
KNBP-DT (2013) 1.svg|2013–2021
KNBP-DT (2013) 2.svg|News 12 logo
KNBP 1.svg|Alternative logo
KNBP-DT (2013) Monochrome 1.svg
KNBP-DT (2013) Monochrome 2.svg
KNBP 12 Olympics.svg|Olympics logo (2014-present)
KNBP (2021).svg|2021–present
KNBP News 12 logo (2021, alternate).svg
KNBP News 12 logo (2021, alternate 2).svg
KNBP-DT.svg|"News 12" logo (2021–present)
|-|
Miscellaneous (station IDs, news opens and screenshots)=
KNBP ID 1976.png|1976–1979
KNBP News 12 open (1996).png|"News 12" open (1996)
KNBP News 12 open (2013).png|"News 12" open from 2013
KNBP graphics (2013).png|Graphics from 2013
KNBP Report 1.png|Graphics from 2017
KNBP news open (2021).png|News open since 2021
KNBP social PFP.svg|Social media profile picture, also used for its app icon
Knbp-footer.svg
</tabber>
Category:Sinclair Broadcast Group
Category:NBC network affiliates
Category:Paleto Bay
Category:Channel 12
Category:Former CBS affiliates
Category:Former ABC affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1953
Category:San Andreas