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KICU-TV
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| KICU-TV | |
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| San Jose, California | |
| City of license | San Jose/San Francisco/Oakland, CA |
| Branding | TV36 (as of October 2007) |
| Slogan | "Fun For You" |
| Channels | Analog: 36 (UHF) Digital: 52 (UHF) |
| Translators | K29AB 29 Monterey, etc. K31GK 31 Ukiah K33CH 33 Lakeport K64AZ 64 Lakeport |
| Affiliations | Independent Fox (secondary since 2000) |
| Owner | Cox Enterprises |
| Founded | October 1967 |
| Call letters meaning | KICU = "I See You" |
| Sister station(s) | KTVU |
| Former callsigns | KGSC-TV (1967-1981) |
| Transmitter Power | 4070 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 686 m (analog) 668 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 34564 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.kicu.com |
KICU-TV, known as TV36, is a television station in San Jose, California that broadcasts on analog channel 36 and digital channel 52. It is owned by Cox Enterprises. It runs an independent schedule of classic sitcoms, talk shows, reality shows, movies, and some kids shows on weekends. It is also the flagship station for Oakland A's baseball.
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The independent station began as KGSC-TV in early October 1967 and was owned by Ralph Wilson. It is the Bay Area's longest continuously running commercial UHF television station. In the 1970s the station promoted itself as "The Perfect 36" and employed as spokesmodel San Francisco entertainer Carol Doda. KICU produced a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast in the 1980s and '90s. Jan Hutchins, formerly a sportscaster at KPIX, was a longtime anchor. In the late 1980s, KICU ran INN News at 10:30 p.m. INN News, also known as Independent Network News, was produced by WPIX-TV in New York City. Previously, from 1995-2000 KICU broadcast several Golden State Warriors basketball games each season. Over the years, the station ran a number of drama shows and older movies. It added more classic sitcoms and children's shows by the mid-1990s. However, the station gradually phased out children's programming between 1998 and 2002.
In 2000 the station was sold to Cox, meaning that the station moved from its original studios in San Jose to share studio facilities with now-sister KTVU in Oakland, giving the Bay Area the first station duopoly. From January 2000 until September 14, 2001, KICU-TV aired the rebroadcast of the Emmy-Award winning Ten O'Clock News from KTVU, usually at 11 p.m. The broadcast on KICU was titled The Eleven O'Clock edition of the Original Ten O'Clock News. At the time, KRON(as NBC) and KPIX were broadcasting network primetime from 7-10 p.m. and had their own 10:00 p.m. newscasts. KTVU branded their newscast as the original ten o'clock newscast because theirs was the longest running and top-rated one in the market. In the early 2000s, KICU simulcast KTVU's 7-9 a.m. "Mornings on 2" newscast, but ran South Bay traffic and weather information at the bottom of the screen and broke away occasionally for South Bay-specific news. Nowadays if KTVU were unable to air Fox programs because of breaking news or on-air coverage of San Francisco Giants, KICU would pick them up. This pattern is usually followed on many duopolies involving a "Big 4" affiliate and an independent.
KICU-TV is the flagship station for Oakland Athletics games. This is a sharp contrast to the fact that KTVU has aired its rival team, the Giants, for years. Every Friday night at 11 p.m. from September to June, KICU-TV broadcasts its own Emmy-winning program High School Sports Focus live, which is rebroadcast on Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m.
KICU also offers Korean language programming 24 hours a day on digital subchannel 36.2.
"I see you TV 36!" - 1980s slogan displayed before KICU programs. It was usually followed with the line, "And you should see us now!," or the corresponding music. This was a play off of the call letters I-C-U.
"You're watching the Perfect 36 in San Jose." was cooed by busty stripper Carol Doda in the late-1960s through the late-1970s, pictured from the waist up and wearing clothes which amplified her most prominent physical attributes.
"Action 36 Cable 6" - Slogan used from 1992-1995 and then again from July, 2001 until October 28, 2007.
On October 29th, 2007, KICU-TV rebranded themselves from Action 36, Cable 6 to TV 36 as part of their new campaign slogan, "Fun For You".
In the Pilot episode of Monk, one of the reporters who had a microphone had the former Blue/Red/Yellow graphics but identified itself as Action 16.
- KICU's official site
- UHF Nocturne: Channel 36
- Korean Television Network - Northern California (airs on digital channel 52.2)
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KICU-TV
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KOTR-LP 2 (MNTV) - KMMD-CA 3 (MTV3) - K10OI 5 (TVA) - KSBW 8 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - K15CU 15 / K47LC-D (TEL) - KLFB-LP 21 (3ABN) - KMUV 23 (TEL) - K23ED 23 (Ind) - KQET 25 (PBS) - KYMB-LP 27 (TBA) - K29AB 29 (Ind) - KDJT-CA 33 (TFU) - KCBA 35 (Fox) - K38JP 38 (PBS) - KMCE-LP 43 (AZA) - KION 46 (CBS, The CW on DT2) - KSMS 67 (UNI) |
| See also Broadcast television in the San Francisco, Fresno / Visalia, and Santa Barbara / Santa Maria / San Luis Obispo markets |
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KBTV-CA 8 (Sacramento) - KCAL 9 (Los Angeles) - KSCI 18 (Long Beach) - KBBV-CA 19 (Bakersfield) - KBWB 20 (San Francisco) - KWHY 22 (Los Angeles) - KBSV 23 (Ceres) - KVMD 23 (Twentynine Palms) - |
| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California |
Categories: Television stations in the San Francisco Bay Area | Television stations in Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz | Television stations in California | Independent television stations in the United States | Channel 36 TV stations in the United States | Cox Television | Television channels and stations established in 1967