Since 1984, Asian Americans living in the San Francisco area have had a station to call their own--KTSF, one of the only full-powered UHF stations in the country to broadcast 24 hours of programming a day in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Cambodian and several other languages.

The station, started in 1976 by San Francisco philanthropist Lillian Lincoln-Howell (who originally sought to offer programming for women and children, but changed formats eight years later), offers Asian American viewers in the Bay Area a mix of local newscasts, satellite news from abroad, foreign movies and TV shows, and televised events like the Chinese New Years Parade....