KBNT-CA is a Spanish language television station in San Diego, California. KBNT is based in Kearny Mesa, and is owned by Entravision Communications. KBNT's programming is also broadcast on KTCD-LP in San Diego and KHAX-LP in Vista, California.

KBNT-CA was launched in 1989 on channel 19, with a transmitter on Palomar Mountain, some 45 miles north of the center of San Diego. The original KBNT offices were in Mira Mesa. At that time, San Diegans could receive the channel only by cable, because its weak broadcast signal could not reach the city. Eventually the station increased its transmitting power and its signal, while still not reaching San Diego proper, could be picked up in Escondido, San Marcos, Vista, and Fallbrook.

In 1994, KBNT reached an agreement with KNSD to retransmit its programs on KNSD-LP channel 62 in La Jolla, and some years later on channel 17 National City, allowing the signal to reach San Diego, National City, and Chula Vista.

The original channel 19 went off the air (now the digital channel for KSWB-TV), retaining the signal on channel 17, and adding a signal on channel 49, KHAX-LP, in northern San Diego county. The channel 62 signal, KNSD-LP, has since left the air; it is unknown when KNSD-LP ceased operations. That signal was leased to Entravision by LIN TV and NBC Universal, the co-owners of KNSD-TV.

Luis Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, writer and film director.

He is regarded as the father of Chicano theater in the United States.

Valdez was born in Delano, California to migrant farm worker parents. His brother is the actor Daniel Valdez. Luis Valdez graduated from James Lick High School in San Jose and went on attend San Jose State University (SJSU) on a scholarship for math and physics. He later switched his major and earned a degree in English in 1964.

According to Valdez, when he was six years old, he watched a teacher use part of a paper bag to make paper-mâché masks for a theater production. This experience transformed him and would have a lasting effect. In college, it helped lead him to the theater. Valdez's first full-length play, The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, debuted at SJSU in 1963.

After graduation, Valdez spent the next few months with The San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he was introduced to agitprop theatre.

In 1965, Valdez returned to Delano, where he formed El Teatro Campesino, a farm worker's theater troupe. Valdez's teatro was influential, according to Gale Resources, "Thanks to Valdez and El Teatro Campesino. What began as a farm workers' theater in the migrant camps of Delano now exploded into a national Chicano theater movement. Theater groups sprang up with surprising speed on college campuses and in communities throughout the United States."