Who We Are

Pappas Telecasting Companies, through with its affiliates, owns and operates television stations, including market-leading FOX, The CW, ABC, CBS, and THIS Network TV affiliates, in several regions of the United States.  Pappas Telecasting’s radio affiliates include KTRB-XTRA Sports 860 in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose radio market, and KMPH-AM 840 The Patriot in Modesto, California .  

Mission Statement

Our duty is to serve the public interest, convenience and necessity. A true broadcaster has to perform two roles comfortably: one, that of public trustee, and the second, that of responsible businessperson. Our business interests cannot supersede or contravene our duty as public trustee.

The Federal Communications Commission states, "Programming is the essence of broadcasting." All material we broadcast must be truthful. We must seek to serve the needs, tastes and interests of the public we serve in each local area. We entertain, inform, educate and stimulate our audiences. Our newscasts must adhere to the highest and best standards and traditions of broadcast journalists. Where programming is supplied by others, we must endeavor to persuade our content providers that contemporary community standards of decency and good taste are to be respected, and that we seek to broadcast programming with a due regard for the conventions, beliefs, morals and religious values of the various persons who together represent the communities we are obliged to serve.

We believe a company is a group of persons united by common purpose and high standards, whose ambition is to achieve a collective success arising from the contribution of their unique skills, insight, diligence, hard work and inspiration. We seek to associate with ladies and gentlemen who treat others as they deserve to be treated.

We know that we work for our audiences first, our advertisers second, our colleagues third.

We believe that whatever we conceive, we can achieve if it is consistent with dignity, honor, principle and our duties.

We are broadcasters.

Pappas Telecasting Companies

500 S. Chinowth Road
Visalia, CA 93277

Phone: (559) 733-7800
Fax: (559) 733-7878