 As KNTV had been serving the Monterey Bay area as its ABC affiliate – more so than San Jose (located to the north) – KGO was added to cable systems in that area as compensation for the loss (the Monterey–Salinas market would eventually regain an ABC station of its own, when Salinas-based NBC affiliate KSBW-TV (channel 8) launched an ABC-affiliated digital subchannel on April 18, 2011).NBC announced its acquisition of KNTV from Granite on December 17, 2001, and formally took control of the station in April 2002.A similar situation occurred in Boston 15 years later.