KSBY-TV (ksby.com) is the NBC affiliate in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties and made its on-air debut in May of 1953. It went on the air, however, as KVEC-TV. The VEC call letters stood for Valley Electric Company.

KVEC-TV was the first local television station built in the Central Coast of California. Originally, the station carried all three television networks: NBC, CBS & ABC\

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