KCRT-TV is a local cable news cable TV station in Richmond, California

Richmond, California

Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7, 1905. It is located in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a residential inner suburb of San Francisco, as well as the site of heavy industry, which has been...

. It mostly plays historic archives and historic documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

, news, as well as the long-running Sidewalks Entertainment

Sidewalks Entertainment

Sidewalks Entertainment is a long-running, weekly American television series that is a combination of a talk show, magazine show and variety show featuring celebrity interviews, music, artistic and novelty acts, and rising performers...

. In Richmond, the station appears on Channel 28.

Launched in 1990 with 12,000 viewer households, KCRT now reaches 70,000 homes and an estimated 250,000 viewers throughout West Contra Costa and Northern Alameda counties.

Serving the East San Francisco Bay Area, KCRT Television, part of The KCRT Information Network, televises to audiences on cable systems in West Contra Costa and Northern Alameda counties. Now telecast on Channel 28 throughout the Comcast

Comcast

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service areas, KCRT is currently seen in Richmond, El Cerrito, Marina Bay, Brickyard Cove, San Pablo, Kensington, Albany and portions of El Sobrante. Future expansion is planned in Contra Costa and Solano County.