 KTAS' studios are located on Carmen Lane in Santa Maria, and its transmitter is located atop Cuesta Peak.KTAS was previously seen on now-defunct repeater stations K07TA in Santa Maria and K09UF in Morro Bay.Channel 33 first signed on in January 1990 as KADE, owned by the owners of KADY in Oxnard, California (now KBEH), rebroadcasting its sister station in Oxnard with the exception of nightly Fox network programming.