# SF Here I Come? Channel 11

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**Created:** [November 7, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-here-i-come-channel-11/135641 "2002-11-07T01:36:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-here-i-come-channel-11/135641/1 "2002-11-07T01:36:26Z")

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OK so at first we have a TV Market

San Francisco

NBC-4  
CBS-5  
ABC-7  
And another TV Market

San Jose / Salinas / Monterey

NBC-8  
ABC-11  
CBS-46

So now Channel 4 in SF gets rid of NBC (or vice versa). So NBC buys Channel 11 and says OK now we are NBC and in San Francisco.

How? I mean did they move the transmitter? How can a city just decide it is no longer in a market. Plus doesn’t that leave Salinas and Monterey with TWO NBC (Ch 8 and Ch 11) and NO NBC. Doesn’t Ch 8 get mad they are losing viewers to Ch 11.

Or did SF always get Ch 11 and have two ABC (ch 11-when it was ABC and Channel 7)