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KHSL-TV, channel 12, is a CBS affiliate television station based in Chico, California. Its transmitter is located in Cohasset, California. Owned by Heartland Media, this station also operates its sister station NBC affiliate, KNVN channel 24, owned by Maxair Media, LLC. That transmitter is located in Red Bluff, California, sharing the news and advertising focus between Chico and Redding. The station's Redding office is located near the Redding Civic Auditorium (737 Auditorium Dr, Redding, CA 96001)
For many years, KHSL-TV has been a dominant television station in the Central Valley north of Sacramento. News presenters have referred to the viewing area on air as the "North State." Until recently, the San Francisco Chronicle included KHSL-TV in its television listings. Under certain weather conditions, KHSL's old analog signal could occasionally be received as far south as the eastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. For many years, KHSL-TV provided a signal to a large network of translators, but due to satellite and cable TV, only the station translators are still in operation.
KHSL-TV's on-air staff over the years has included television host and producer Moriss Taylor, actor Richard Kiel, voiceover announcer and vocalist Ron Palmer, news reporter Rick Rigsby, news anchors Dean Reeter (the former anchor at Channel 7R in Redding), Bill Windsor, Larry Stuelpnagel, Bill Ihle (later with KFBK Radio, Sacramento) and Angela Astore (later with KSTP-TV Minneapolis-St. Paul and CNN Headline News), meteorologist Anthony Watts and sports directors Ray Narbaitz, Dennis Lehnen and Royal Courtain. Former California state assemblyman Stan Statham also anchored news at KHSL-TV and is currently the president of the California Broadcasters Association.