KSTS (Telemundo) · Channel 48

Full-power stations are the main licensed broadcasters in a market. They may run the highest power from the tallest towers and are protected from interference, so they set the core of what you can receive.

At 500 kW effective radiated power, KSTS runs more power than 60% of full-power TV stations nationwide (median: 273 kW).

Its antenna sits 703 m above the average surrounding terrain, higher than 92% of full-power stations. Taller antennas see farther: this one's radio horizon is roughly 76 miles, beyond which the signal fades quickly.

We estimate a fair-or-better signal out to about 84 miles with an outdoor antenna. That area includes 310 cities and towns in our guide with about 10,800,000 residents, as far as Carmichael, CA (83 miles).

KSTS shares its transmitter site with KDTV-DT (Univision), KTSF, KAXT-CD, KTLN-TV (MeTV) and KSCZ-LD. One antenna aimed at this site picks up all of them.

The nearest other Telemundo station in our data is KMAX-TV in Sacramento, CA, 55 miles away. Viewers between the two can sometimes receive both.

Telemundo is a Spanish-language broadcast network with telenovelas, news, entertainment and major soccer coverage. It is one of the two largest Spanish-language networks on U.S. antenna TV.