[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13543]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  KSBW CELEBRATES 60-YEAR ANNIVERSARY

  (Mr. FARR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FARR. Madam Speaker, I rise today in the United States Congress 
to celebrate and honor our local television station--it started 60 
years ago--KSBW, an NBC affiliate for the central coast of California. 
SBW stands for ``Salad Bowl Capital of the World,'' which is what the 
Salinas area is known for.
  In September 1953, the station opened, and it proudly represented the 
whole feeling of the central coast to have its first television 
station. I was 12 years old, and I remember sitting there with my 
father as he was being interviewed on that television station. It went 
through decades of being the area's first station to provide local 
news. It was the first station to broadcast in color. It was the first 
to broadcast news reports from the field. It was the first to broadcast 
in high definition.
  For the past 15 years, the station has been owned by the 126-year-old 
Hearst Corporation and led locally by Joseph W. Heston as president and 
general manager. Hearst continues to operate a full-time Washington, 
D.C., news bureau, making KSBW the only local station on the central 
coast to provide direct reports from Washington to local constituents.
  Congratulations, KSBW, for 60 years of firsts. I wish them another 60 
years of great success on the central coast.

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