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KEMO-TV Channel 20

"Your TV20" the station went through many owners from the 1950s on. It began operations on April 1, 1968 as KEMO-TV, an independent station owned by Overmyer Broadcasting. It was seemingly off the air more than it was on. At the time, the station showed conventional independent fare, plus The Adults Only Movie, a series of art films, but no sex or nudity — it was named "Adults Only" merely because kids would be bored to sleep. It signed off in April 1971. Leon Crosby bought it later that year and it returned back to the air in 1972 with an eclectic type of programming.

As an independent
From 1972 until 1980, it was telecasting stock market programming in the mornings, religious programming in midday, programming in the afternoons and evenings were devoted to Spanish, Japanese, Filipino and Italian shows, and B-grade movies overnight, hosted by Leon Heskett hosting the films. Leon Crosby's KEMO signed off on September 30, 1980.

The station was then sold to FM radio pioneer James Gabbert, who signed it back on October 6, 1980 as KTZO (which stood for Television 20, the Z being construed as a numeral 2), with a general entertainment format featuring off-network drama shows, sitcoms, old movies, rejected CBS and NBC shows preempted by KPIX and KRON, music videos, and religious shows. Most memorable were the station identification breaks featuring pets, usually dogs, of Bay Area viewers that would look on cue at a television screen showing the station's logo. In fact, these proved to be popular enough that KTZO/KOFY would often work together with the SPCA by displaying pets that could be adopted, along with a phone number to call with the pets name on screen. On March 1, 1986 the station changed its call letters to KOFY-TV (pronounced "coffee"). It continued to run a general entertainment format, and added more cartoons in the late 1980s. It also added more sitcoms in the early 1990s.


KBWB's logo when it was known as KOFY
KBWB's final logo as WB20, used from 2002-2006