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KXTV is a television station in Sacramento, California, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by the Tegna subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group; Nexstar also owns Fox affiliate KTXL. KXTV's studios are located on Broadway, just south of US 50 at the south edge of downtown Sacramento, and its transmitter is located in Walnut Grove, California. KXTV was the second station built in Sacramento proper, signing on in 1955; it served as Sacramento's CBS affiliate for four decades before changing to ABC in 1995. Its early history was dominated by a battle between local newspaper interests and a group of non-broadcasting business owners for the right to operate the channel, which was won by the latter. Owned in turn by Corinthian Broadcasting and Belo before being acquired by Tegna's forerunner Gannett in 1999, the station slowly rose to second place in local news ratings before falling back to third in the late 2000s. In 2026, Tegna was acquired by Nexstar, already owner of KTXL in Sacramento.