KXTV, channel 10, is an ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 affiliate television station in Sacramento, California

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. It is owned and operated by the Gannett Company

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. Its transmitter tower (shared with KOVR

KXTV/KOVR Tower

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) is located in Walnut Grove, California

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, and studios are located on Broadway, just south of Business Loop 80 at the south edge of downtown Sacramento.
The station went on the air on March 19, 1955 as KBET, owned by locally-based Sacramento Telecasters. McClatchy, owner of the Sacramento Bee newspaper, and Sacramento Telecasters had long fought over the television broadcast station permit before the Federal Communications Commission and ultimately in federal court.

In 1959, the call letters became KXTV (the "X" being the Roman numeral for the VHF channel it broadcasts on, channel 10) when Corinthian Broadcasting bought the station.