KTSE

KTSE
City	Bakersfield, California, United States
Channels	Virtual: 38
Branding	Bakersfield's CW
Programming
Affiliations	38.1: The CW 38.2: MundoDBC
Ownership
Owner	Central Broadcasting (Central Broadcasting of Bakersfield, LLC)
Operator	Dorado Media
Sister stations	KBKD KBKU KOBB
History
First air date	January 3, 1990
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 38 (UHF, 1990–2009)
Former affiliations	Independent (1990–1995) The WB (1995–2006)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC

KTSE (channel 38) is a television station in Bakersfield, California, United States, affiliated with The CW. Owned by Central Broadcasting, KTSE is a sister station to NBC affiliate KOBB (channel 8), but operated by Dorado Media through a local marketing agreement (LMA), which makes them sister-stations to DBC station KBKD (channel 3), and UDC station KBKU (channel 11), which are wholly owned by Dorado Media. While KBKD and KBKU share studio facilities on East California Avenue near Edison Highway in Bakersfield, KOBB and KTSE share studio facilities on East Casa Loma Drive along Madison Street in Bakersfield and its transmitter is located atop Mount Adelaide.

History

The station now known as KTSE signed on the air on January 3, 1990, as an independent station. Communications Corporation of America brought WB programming to Bakersfield cable subscribers. The station commenced operations on March 5, 1995, as an affiliate of The WB, and was acquired by ACME Communications (not to be confused with the current ACME Television Stations, which owns the ACME Television Network).

On December 30, 2002, ACME sold KTSE to AZBroadcasting for $240 million.

On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. KTSE was announced as Bakersfield's CW affiliate, while the market's UPN affiliate KMYB-TV was named as the city's affiliate of MyNetworkTV (another new network created by News Corporation as a result of the formation of The CW).

On April 2017, KTSE was sold to Dorado Media as part of the deal in which former owner AZBroadcasting filed for bankruptcy after its CEO stepped down from his position. Dorado purchased the non-license assets of KTSE from AZBroadcasting and began operating them through a master service agreement with Central Broadcasting.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
38.1	1080i	16:9	KTSE-DT	Main KTSE-TV programming / The CW

Analog-to-digital conversion

KTSE discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 38, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.