KRCR-TV is an ABC

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 affiliated television station in California

California

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, USA

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, that serves the northern Sacramento Valley

Sacramento Valley

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, including the towns of Redding

Redding, California

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 and Chico

Chico, California

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. Its studios are located in Redding, where the station is licensed

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. Its transmitter is located atop Shasta Bally.



KAEF is currently broadcasting in HD and continues as a partial repeater of KRCR. It is now available on Suddenlink Cable in Eureka. KRCR still does not broadcast local newscasts in HD but should be within the next year or two, making it the first station in the Chico/Redding market to do so.

On August 23, 2011, Disney-ABC Television Group

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 announced that KRCR and KAEF will carry Live Well Network, a lifestyle-oriented digital broadcast network, as part of an affiliation agreement with Bonten Media Group; the network is likely to be added to a new third digital subchannels, but it is unknown when the network will begin broadcasting over the two stations' digital signals.
After the analog television shutdown scheduled for June 12, 2009, KRCR-TV moved back to channel 7.
The station was founded in 1956 as KVIP-TV by William B.