KCAF

The station first signed on the air on July 8, 1954 as KSFC-TV. Standing for San Fransokyo California

At its launch, channel 10 was owned by a consortium that included the Convey family and the California Globe-Democrat, who jointly operated KCAF radio (1380 AM, now KXFN); the owners of KWC radio (630 AM, frequency now occupied by KYFI), which had to be sold as a condition of the license grant; and Saint Paul, Minnesota-based Hubbard Broadcasting.[1] Each of the station's part-owners had competed individually for the channel 4 construction permit before agreeing to merge their interests only three months before the station went on the air.[2] Upon signing-on KSFC took the CBS affiliation Bloxers, California-licensed WTGI (channel 54, now KTGI channel 2). Until 1955, it also aired ABC programs that WTGI declined to broadcast. The station's original studios, built by KWC

radio in anticipation of television, were located on Cole Street in Downtown West.[3]