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An Arab America Empowerment Summit excerpt adds a personal explanation to the station's coverage of a changed Senate map.
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Why he goes by 'Abdul' | KTVU
Standardized test forms are an unexpected footnote to KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco's election coverage. In "Why he goes by 'Abdul' | KTVU", Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed explains how a name that wouldn't fit the forms helped establish what people would call him from kindergarten onward. Paula Abdul's chart success and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's basketball career supplied familiar cultural references along the way.
That personal turn arrived among sixteen uploads in a week dominated by national politics. The biggest new audience went to "Trump breaks tone to congratulate Democrats on midterm sweep", which reached roughly 2.3 million views, almost all in its first day. Trump's congratulations open the report; Greg Lee then works through Democratic Senate victories, including James Talarico's defeat of Ken Paxton in Texas. It is an election-night account, with Michigan still undecided at that point.
The strongest viewing momentum now belongs to the report in which Allan Filgueiras remembers his daughter Nathalia, the co-pilot who died in the Florida Learjet crash. El-Sayed's name explanation follows it, while a Mission District safety initiative brings the focus back to nighttime patrols, community ambassadors and better lighting near BART stations.
Across the channel, the week brought about 4.7 million views and a growing subscriber audience. That was the largest weekly view gain among the nearby local-news channels, although today's viewing pace is close to KTVU's usual level. Its mix remains distinctive: a presidential phone call can draw the biggest crowd, while the Bay Area reporting continues closer to home.
A Democratic politician and educator who is the U.S. senator-elect from Texas. He has served in the Texas House of Representatives since 2018.
More on Wikipedia ›Texas attorney general since 2015 and the Republican nominee in the state's 2026 U.S. Senate election.
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- Channel
- KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco
- Subscribers
- 392,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,695,021
- Videos published this week
- 16
- Video published
- November 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 57,948
The numbers
Here is KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco's week in views and subscribers.
