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KRON to get the CW affiliation?

e-dawg said:
I'm looking at KRON 4 tv schedule and they still have MNT (My Network TV) program, but at late night around 1am. I'm surprised KICU didn't picked up the MNT schedule since MNT is owned and operated by FOX.
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After all these many years I'm still trying to get over the fact that KRON "the Big 4 in San Francisco" isn't the NBC affiliate in the Bay Area, and that KNTV isn't simply the ABC affiliate for Salinas-Monterey-Santa Cruz. But just call me old fashioned...
 
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The CW Comes To KRON San Francisco This Week

Nexstar Media Group’s KRON San Francisco (DMA 10) is set to launch The CW Network this Friday, Sept 1. KRON, the market’s former MyNetworkTV affiliate, replaces CBS-owned KBCU as the CW affil. Nexstar owns 75% of The CW Network and is also The CW’s largest affiliate group. The CW reaches 100% of...
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Nexstar issues a press release specific to KRON in relation to the CW affiliation.
 
TomásEstefan said:
After all these many years I'm still trying to get over the fact that KRON "the Big 4 in San Francisco" isn't the NBC affiliate in the Bay Area, and that KNTV isn't simply the ABC affiliate for Salinas-Monterey-Santa Cruz. But just call me old fashioned...
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Wanted to make an additional comment. Way back in the day we referred to ch 4 as "K-RON". Not "cron-tv" as used today on the station. Yes, some things just don't go away.
 
TomásEstefan said:
Wanted to make an additional comment. Way back in the day we referred to ch 4 as "K-RON". Not "cron-tv" as used today on the station. Yes, some things just don't go away.
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I politely disagree. Channel 4 was originally owned by the San Francisco Chronicle (hence the call letters) and they always referred to it on the air as "Chron 4".
 
K.M. Richards said:
I politely disagree. Channel 4 was originally owned by the San Francisco Chronicle (hence the call letters) and they always referred to it on the air as "Chron 4".
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You're absolutely right ! I was only referring to a lot of people I knew in the bay area who would jokingly refer to the station as "K-RON just like K-DON and K-TOM in Salinas and K-TIM in San Rafael.
 
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