KRON was sold in 1999 and, after years of being San Francisco's NBC affiliate, became an independent station on January 1, 2002 when NBC -- tired of the DeYoungs' repeated refusal to sell KRON to the network -- purchased KNTV in San Jose from Granite Broadcasting Corporation for $230 million.
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