KTSF Receives Emmy Nomination for Station-Produced Night Shift

San Francisco – April 28, 2006 - Night Shift, the weekly magazine-style program produced by KTSF Television in San Francisco, has received an Emmy nomination in the category of "best youth programming." The nomination, made by the Northern California Chapter of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, recognizes excellence in news and original programming production.

Night Shift, sponsored by Pepsi, is an English language music and variety program hosted by three young Asian Americans. Targeting 18-25 year olds, the half-hour program features interviews with alternative rock bands, movie reviews, comedy sketches and features on popular culture. Night Shift airs in San Francisco on KTSF, on KBCB in Seattle and KBTV in Sacramento. Night Shift is a spin off of the KTSF-produced television show StirTV, which was also nominated for an Emmy last year.

"The Emmy nomination proves that Night Shift's appeal spills over into the mainstream audience and validates the quality of original production work available in the Asian media space," says David Baker, Executive Producer of Night Shift.

Night Shift will begin its second season on June 10th in all three markets. The second season premiere will be preceded by launch parties and events next month in San Francisco, Sacramento and Seattle. Night Shift hosts Pete Mar, Brian Tong and Sabrina Shimada will be appearing at the launch parties.

KTSF-TV is California's largest multilingual television station serving the rapidly growing Asian American marketplace. Established in 1976, KTSF is an independent, full-power station, providing the Bay Area's 1.4 million Asians with news, information and entertainment in twelve languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean and Hindi. In 1989, KTSF became the first broadcaster in the nation to carry a live Chinese-language newscast. Today, KTSF is the only broadcaster in the United States to air nightly, live Mandarin and Cantonese-language newscasts. KTSF's signal covers more than 2.75 million households in the San Francisco television market and is locally owned and operated by the Lincoln Broadcasting Company. In the Bay Area, KTSF is available over-the-air on channel 26 and on cable channel 8 on Comcast Cable throughout the market. DirecTV and Dish Network also carry KTSF.

CONTACTS:

Lisa Yokota (lyokota@ktsftv.com)
David Baker (dbaker@ktsftv.com)
(415) 468-2626
www.ktsf.com

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