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'''KGO-TV''', channel 7, based in ], is an ] of ] ] ]. Its studios are located in the ABC Broadcast Center on Front and Vallejo streets in downtown San Francisco, while its transmitter is atop the iconic ], located between ] and the ] in central San Francisco, along with the ]'s other major television stations. '''KGO-TV''', channel 7, based in ], is an ] of ] ] ]. Its studios are located in the ABC Broadcast Center on Front and Vallejo streets in downtown San Francisco, while its transmitter is atop the iconic ], located between ] and the ] in central San Francisco, along with the ]'s other major television stations.


The station's signal is currently carried by a ]-only ABC affiliate in the ]/]/] area. Formerly the local ABC station from ] was ] channel 11 until 2000. The station's signal is carried by a ]-only ABC affiliate in the ]/]/] area. Formerly the local ABC station from ] was ] channel 11 until 2000.


For antenna viewers, '''KGO-DT''' was available ] on RF channel 24 until the ]. It has since returned to RF channel 7. For antenna viewers, '''KGO-DT''' was available ] on RF channel 24 until the ]. It has since returned to RF channel 7.
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The station did, however, follow other aspects of news branding at the other ABC O&Os. The station currently utilizes the market's first helicopter equipped to shoot and transmit ] (HD) video. The helicopter branded Sky 7HD made its on-air debut in February 2006. Due to current logistical and equipment limitations, video from Sky 7HD at times is only available in ] (SD) 4:3 ]. When this occurs, the helicopter is branded as Sky 7. Also following the leads of its sister stations, KGO began broadcasting ABC7 News in ] on Saturday, February 17, 2007, becoming the 2nd news operation in the Bay Area to make this transition following ]. It should be noted that the KGO-TV affiliate in the Monterey/Salinas area does not transmit a high definition signal. KGO-TV also produces a 9pm newscast for independent station ]; the only other ABC O&O to do this is ] in North Carolina. The station did, however, follow other aspects of news branding at the other ABC O&Os. The station currently utilizes the market's first helicopter equipped to shoot and transmit ] (HD) video. The helicopter branded Sky 7HD made its on-air debut in February 2006. Due to current logistical and equipment limitations, video from Sky 7HD at times is only available in ] (SD) 4:3 ]. When this occurs, the helicopter is branded as Sky 7. Also following the leads of its sister stations, KGO began broadcasting ABC7 News in ] on Saturday, February 17, 2007, becoming the 2nd news operation in the Bay Area to make this transition following ]. It should be noted that the KGO-TV affiliate in the Monterey/Salinas area does not transmit a high definition signal. KGO-TV also produces a 9pm newscast for independent station ]; the only other ABC O&O to do this is ] in North Carolina.


On July 20, 2007 long-time main news anchor and KGO radio talk show host ] died.
===Death of Pete Wilson===
On ], ] long-time main news anchor and KGO radio talk show host ] died following a massive heart attack suffered during a hip replacement procedure at ] in ]. He was 62 years old. The station aired extensive tributes to Wilson when his death was publicly announced the following day. His final newscast and radio show were on Wednesday ], ].


===Failed single-anchor experiment=== ===Failed single-anchor experiment===
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===Current personalities=== ===Current personalities===
'''Anchors''' '''Anchors'''
*] - Weeknights 5:00, 6:00, 9:00 on ]<ref> *] - Weeknights on ]<ref>
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}}</ref> & 11:00 p.m. }}</ref> & 11:00 p.m.
*] - Weekdays 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. (6:00 p.m. anchor Fridays only) *] - (6:00 p.m. anchor Fridays only)
*] - 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. (Sun-Thurs) *] - (Sun-Thurs)
*] - Weekdays 4:30, 5:00, 6:00 and 11 a.m. *] - Weekdays
*] - Weekday Mornings 4:30, 5:00 & 6:00 a.m. *] - Weekday Mornings
*] - Saturdays 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. *] - Saturdays
*] - Sunday Mornings 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. *] - Sunday Mornings
*] - Saturday Mornings 6 a.m. *] - Saturday Mornings


'''Weather''' '''Weather'''
*] - weekend mornings *] - weekend mornings
*] - 6 p.m. weeknights (also co-host of ''View from the Bay'') *] - weeknights (also co-host of ''View from the Bay'')
*] - weekend evenings/View from the Bay contributor *] - weekend evenings/View from the Bay contributor
*] - fill-in weather anchor *] - fill-in weather anchor
*] - weekday mornings and 11 a.m. (AMS Certified) *] - weekday mornings and 11 a.m. (AMS Certified)
*] - 5, 9, and 11 p.m. weeknights (NWA/AMS) *] - weeknights (NWA/AMS)


'''Sports''' '''Sports'''
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===Notable alumni=== ===Notable alumni===
*] - Anchor (July 1998- April 2007, now 5/11pm anchor ]) *] - Anchor (July 1998- April 2007)
*] - longtime anchor (1969-1986) *] - longtime anchor (1969-1986)
*] - reporter (1965-1970) *] - reporter (1965-1970)
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*] - anchor (1990-1996) *] - anchor (1990-1996)
*] - sports anchor (1984-1985) *] - sports anchor (1984-1985)
*] - anchor/reporter (1979-1983), later worked at ] *] - anchor/reporter (1979-1983)
*] - sports anchor *] - sports anchor
*] - South Bay Bureau chief (1974-2003, now operating Rigo Chacon Associates at RigoChacon.com) *] - South Bay Bureau chief (1974-2003)
*] - anchor/reporter (1984-1991) *] - anchor/reporter (1984-1991)
*] - anchor/reporter (1970s), later worked at ] and ] *] - anchor/reporter (1970s)
*] (deceased) - editorial reporter, former general manager of KGO-TV *] (deceased) - editorial reporter, former general manager of KGO-TV
*] - East Bay Bureau chief (1977-1982) *] - East Bay Bureau chief (1977-1982)
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*] - sports anchor (1971-1991, deceased) *] - sports anchor (1971-1991, deceased)
*] - weather anchor (1969-1998) *] - weather anchor (1969-1998)
*] - East Bay Bureau chief (1988-1995, now weekend morning anchor/reporter ]) *] - East Bay Bureau chief (1988-1995)
*] - reporter *] - reporter
*] - anchor (1961-1968, deceased) later was moved to WABC in 1968 *] - anchor (1961-1968, deceased)
*] - reporter (1995-2002, then reporter NBC11, now at ]) *] - reporter (1995-2002, then reporter NBC11)
*] - weather anchor (1990-1995, weather anchor/news anchor at KRON, now host of "Eye on the Bay" at ]) *] - weather anchor (1990-1995, weather anchor/news anchor at KRON)
*] - reporter (1980-1981, now at ]) *] - reporter (1980-1981)
*] - anchor/reporter/''A.M. San Francisco'' host (1970s-1990s) *] - anchor/reporter/''A.M. San Francisco'' host (1970s-1990s)
*] - reporter (1995-2005, now working for the homeless) *] - reporter (1995-2005)
*] - sports anchor/reporter (1976-1977) *] - sports anchor/reporter (1976-1977)
*] - reporter (1972-1990, now in public relations) *] - reporter (1972-1990)
*] - sports reporter/anchor *] - sports reporter/anchor
*] - reporter (1980s) *] - reporter (1980s)
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*] - weather weekend/morning anchor (deceased) *] - weather weekend/morning anchor (deceased)
*] - anchor (1970-1971) *] - anchor (1970-1971)
*] - reporter (1987-1989, now weekday morning anchor ]) *] - reporter (1987-1989)
*] - anchor/reporter (1980s, now at ] in Syracuse) *] - anchor/reporter (1980s)
*] - ''A.M. San Francisco'' co-host (1982-1987 ) *] - ''A.M. San Francisco'' co-host (1982-1987)
*] - political reporter (1970s) *] - political reporter (1970s)
*] - entertainment reporter (1968-1973) *] - entertainment reporter (1968-1973)
*] - reporter (1985-1986, now anchor/reporter ]) *] - reporter (1985-1986)
*] - sports anchor/reporter (1988-1993) *] - sports anchor/reporter (1988-1993)
*] - ''A.M. San Francisco'' co-host (1982-1987) *] - ''A.M. San Francisco'' co-host (1982-1987)
*] - anchor/reporter (1984-1989), reporter/anchor KRON/BAY-TV *] - anchor/reporter (1984-1989)
*] - anchor/reporter (1989-2004, now reporter ]) *] - anchor/reporter (1989-2004)
*] - anchor/reporter (early 1980s) *] - anchor/reporter (early 1980s)
*] - Oakland Bureau chief (1982-2007) *] - Oakland Bureau chief (1982-2007)
*] - anchor (1979-1981, now at ]) *] - anchor (1979-1981)
*] - reporter (1981-1984, at ] radio until 2008) *] - reporter (1981-1984)
*] - reporter (1982-1985, now at ]) *] - reporter (1982-1985)
*] - reporter/anchor (1995-2002, now at ]) *] - reporter/anchor (1995-2002)
*] Weekend/Morning Meteorologist (1985-1989). Now writer for ] *] Weekend/Morning Meteorologist (1985-1989).
*] - weekday morning anchor (1999 - 2001) *] - weekday morning anchor (1999 - 2001)
*] - freelance reporter (1995-1996, now at ]) *] - freelance reporter (1995-1996)
*] - sports (1973) *] - sports (1973)
*] - reporter/anchor (1992-1995) *] - reporter/anchor (1992-1995)
*] - anchor/''A.M. San Francisco'' co-host (1978-1980, now host of ]) *] - anchor/''A.M. San Francisco'' co-host (1978-1980)
*] - reporter (1968-1970) *] - reporter (1968-1970)
*] - anchor (1982-1988) *] - anchor (1982-1988)
*] - anchor/reporter (2005-2007, now at ] in ]) *] - anchor/reporter (2005-2007)
*] - host of ''King Norman's Kingdom of Toys'' (1954-1961) *] - host of ''King Norman's Kingdom of Toys'' (1954-1961)
*]-Shaw - anchor (1977-1988), then anchor at KRON *]-Shaw - anchor (1977-1988), then anchor at KRON
*] - traffic reporter (1985-1990, now at ]) *] - traffic reporter (1985-1990)
*] - anchor/reporter (1997-2000, now at ]) *] - anchor/reporter (1997-2000)
*] - variety show host (1955-1957, deceased) *] - variety show host (1955-1957, deceased)
*] - anchor/reporter (1972-1976, now Karna Bodman and an author ) *] - anchor/reporter (1972-1976)
*] - reporter (1975-1979), then to KRON 1979-2006, now spokesman for Kaiser *] - reporter (1975-1979), then to KRON 1979-2006
*] - anchor/reporter (1984-1993, now at ]) *] - anchor/reporter (1984-1993)
*] - anchor (1957-1970) *] - anchor (1957-1970)
*] - reporter *] - reporter
*] - anchor (1983-1990, then anchor at KRON 1990-2002, back to ABC7 News 2002-2007, deceased) *] - anchor (1983-1990, then anchor at KRON 1990-2002, back to ABC7 News 2002-2007, deceased)
*] - reporter, now at ] *] - reporter
*] - sports director (1980-2007) *] - sports director (1980-2007)
*] - reporter *] - reporter
*] - technology reporter *] - technology reporter
*] - reporter (1977-1978), then lead reporter at KRON 1978-2007 *] - reporter (1977-1978), then lead reporter at KRON 1978-2007
*] - weather anchor (1981-1983, now working for both ] and ]) *] - weather anchor (1981-1983)
*] - reporter *] - reporter
*] - reporter/anchor (1976-1979, now at ]) *] - reporter/anchor (1976-1979)


==See also== ==See also==

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KGO-TV, channel 7, based in San Francisco, California, is an owned-and-operated (O&O) television station of The Walt Disney Company subsidiary ABC. Its studios are located in the ABC Broadcast Center on Front and Vallejo streets in downtown San Francisco, while its transmitter is atop the iconic Sutro Tower, located between Mount Sutro and the Twin Peaks in central San Francisco, along with the Bay Area's other major television stations.

The station's signal is carried by a cable television-only ABC affiliate in the Salinas/Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay area. Formerly the local ABC station from San Jose was KNTV channel 11 until 2000.

For antenna viewers, KGO-DT was available over-the-air on RF channel 24 until the digital transition. It has since returned to RF channel 7.

In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive ABC programs over-the-air, KGO is available to Dish Network customers as part of All American Direct's distant network package.

History

The station signed on the air for the first time on May 5, 1949, as Northern California's second-oldest TV station, behind Associated Broadcasters' KPIX-TV (later sold to Westinghouse, now CBS-owned). In fact, KPIX had a hand in getting KGO-TV on the air, as the CBS channel 5 station produced informational programming on how to receive and view ABC's channel 7. KGO's original studios were located in the renovated Sutro Mansion atop Mount Sutro in San Francisco, next to the transmitter tower it shared with KPIX.

KGO is ABC's oldest original O&O station on the West Coast, as its sister station KECA-TV (now KABC-TV), also operating on channel 7, did not sign on the air until September 1949. In addition, it is the only ABC station to keep its original call letters which were inherited from KGO radio (AM 810 and FM 103.7, now KKSF). KGO was the fourth original ABC O&O (after WABC-TV, WLS-TV and WXYZ-TV in New York, Chicago, and Detroit, respectively) to begin broadcasting.

Channel 7 had a limited broadcasting schedule during its first year on the air. It wasn't until September 1950 that the station announced, in the San Francisco Chronicle, that it would finally broadcast seven days a week. For much of the 1950s, the station signed on late in the morning, especially on the weekends.

In 1954, KGO-TV moved to one of the most modern broadcasting facilities on the West Coast (at the time), at 277 Golden Gate Avenue.

For many years, Saturday programming began with King Norman's Kingdom of Toys, a popular children's program hosted by the owner of a San Francisco toy store, Norman Rosenberg. Born in 1918, Rosenberg was a former naval officer when he began the program in 1954, joined by his wife Doris as Page Joy. It ran until 1961. The Rosenbergs eventually owned a chain of 21 stores in three states. Doris Rosenberg died from colon cancer on January 10, 2009, at the age of 85.

As an ABC O&O station, KGO-TV originated some daytime network shows, including programs hosted by fitness advocate Jack La Lanne, singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, and entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee. Syndicated game shows Oh My Word and The Anniversary Game were also produced at KGO-TV for Circle Seven Productions. In the mid-1950s, KGO-TV telecast live week night variety shows hosted by KSFO disc jockey Don Sherwood, until Sherwood was fired for making a political commentary in defiance of a warning from the station's management. Today, KGO-TV broadcasts from studios at 900 Front Street, which it has occupied since 1985. It shares the facility with KGO Radio (AM 810), KSFO and KMKY, although the former two are now owned by Citadel Broadcasting.

In 1962, KGO began carrying ABC's first color program, the animated series The Flintstones, followed by The Jetsons. In the mid 1960s KGO became the first Bay Area station to transmit local programs in compatible color, including its newscasts.

In 1973, KGO joined the other major Bay Area television stations in moving its transmitter to the Sutro Tower, located on a ridge between Mount Sutro and Twin Peaks.

For many years, KGO-TV was the only network-owned-and-operated station in the Bay Area, even throughout the time when ABC was going through ownership changes when Capital Cities Communications bought out ABC and merged with the network in 1985 before being sold to Disney in 1996. As such, the station did not heavily pre-empt network programming unlike its local competitors or its sister stations -- such as Philadelphia's WPVI-TV, Houston's KTRK-TV and Fresno's KFSN-TV -- which were known for doing so in those days. The distinction ended in 1995 when several other stations over the next ten years became network-owned stations--notably KBHK (today's KBCW), KPIX and KNTV in that order. (As of 2007, some exceptions to this policy may be made when breaking news events or selected ABC Sports programs warrant exclusive coverage, in which case Granite Broadcasting Corporation's independent station, KOFY, may pick up the pre-empted ABC programming scheduled for the time period.)

KGO-TV was the first station to transmit images of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake through ABC News and ABC Sports. At the time, ABC was televising the third game of the 1989 World Series, which was interrupted by the quake. Subsequent coverage of the earthquake won the station that year's Peabody Award.

Cable-only Monterey ABC station

File:Monterey abc.png
Logo for cable-only "ABC 7".

In 1999, KGO-TV reached an agreement with the Granite Broadcasting Corporation, then owner of San Jose's ABC affiliate KNTV. KGO-TV agreed to pay Granite in exchange for dropping ABC programming from KNTV, and as a result, KGO-TV became the exclusive ABC outlet in the Bay Area. The agreement, however, also saw the Salinas/Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay area lose over-the-air reception of ABC programming since KNTV (before the 1999 agreement) had also served those communities. In response, a cable-only ABC affiliate was set up for the Salinas/Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay area. The station simulcasts the signal from KGO-TV (including ABC programming and local newscasts) for part of the day and opts out of the station's signal during programming which KGO-TV is only allowed to show within the San Francisco Bay Area under syndication exclusivity.

The ABC affiliate is carried on channel 7 on area cable systems including Comcast, identifies itself on-air as "ABC 7", and has its own logo. The local Comcast Spotlight website claims this is the first cable-only big three network affiliate in the United States. ABC's local station website lists Del Rey Gardens Drive in Del Ray Oaks as the studios of "ABC 7". According to the website of satellite carrier DirecTV, KGO-TV is available in the Monterey / Salinas television market. It is part of the local channel's package on DirecTV in that area while DISH Network does not have KGO-TV available (nor any other local ABC channel) since a court order in 2006 forced them to cease offering distant network stations "a la carte". However, DISH Network customers in the Monterey/Salinas television market may still be able to receive KGO-TV through All American Direct. This service leases satellite space from DISH Network to provide distant network feeds to qualifying customers and chooses San Francisco as the source market for its west coast feeds.

Logos

KGO-TV was one of the earliest ABC stations to use the original Circle 7 logo (along with sister station WLS-TV in Chicago). When it was rebranded from Channel 7 to ABC7 (temporarily branded Channel 7 ABC 1996-1997), the ABC logo was just simply attached to the Circle 7 on this station, its sister stations and others across the country.

Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels
Digital Channel Programming
7.1 main KGO-TV/ABC programming
7.2 ABC News// Live Well HD
7.3 ABC7 AccuWeather NOW

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown scheduled for June 12, 2009 , KGO-TV moved back to channel 7. Now KGO-TV is the only station to retain the same channel allocation in the Bay Area post-transition and the only other station alongside KNTV to remain on the VHF dial.

KGO has recently applied for a fill-in translator on UHF Channel 35, serving the southern portion of the viewing area, including San Jose.

Programming

The station carries a high profile lineup of daytime programming with shows such as Live with Regis and Kelly (produced by sister station WABC-TV in New York), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. The latter two programs have aired on the station permanently since 1992 after moving from KRON. The station also airs the pre-show of the Academy Awards (produced by sister station KABC-TV in Los Angeles). The station sometimes aired the Bay to Breakers race in the 1980s and the KGO Cure-a-thon with its radio partner, KGO-AM 810.

KGO-TV was the first station to produce earthquake documentaries of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake on April 8, 2006.

In the 1970s and 1980s, KGO-TV produced weekday talk/variety shows in the 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. timeslot, after the national Good Morning America broadcast ended each day. A.M. San Francisco was the name from about 1975 until late 1987 or early 1988, when it was replaced with Good Morning, Bay Area, hosted by Susan Sikora. Hosts of A.M. San Francisco included the husband-and-wife team of Fred LaCosse and Terry Lowry. (Other ABC owned-and-operated stations produced their own A.M. programs in the 1980s. For example, A.M. Chicago at WLS-TV evolved into the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Live with Regis and Kelly evolved from the similar A.M. program on WABC. For a week or two in the summer of 1988, A.M. Los Angeles was simulcast on KGO-TV, with a few KGO-TV produced segments.)

On June 26, 2006, KGO-TV began a new locally-produced weekday variety show called The View From The Bay, hosted by Spencer Christian and Janelle Wang. This hour long show focuses on hot spots as well as interests in the Bay Area. The show airs Mondays-Fridays at 3 PM, and is available to watch online while the show is on the air. The View From the Bay also airs nightly on weekdays in Los Angeles on KABC-TV DT 7.2 at 10 pm and at various times on ABC O&O's digital subchannels.

As of June 2009, Channel 7.2 ran "Live Well HD" network programming. In 2007, KGO was among the few commercial television stations in California that scheduled an alternative set of programs on a digital channel. Channel 7.2 then simulcast most KGO-TV-produced programs, but also re-ran them throughout the day. Channel 7.2 also re-ran ABC News programming at non-traditional times, such as World News at 7 pm on weeknights and Nightline at 9 am and 7:30 pm on many weekdays. Some programs on channel 7.2, such as Commonwealth Club Speaker's Luncheon and reruns of the 1960's ABC primetime western The Guns of Will Sonnett, were not shown on Channel 7.

News / Station Presentations

Newscast titles

  • Sunday Night News (Sunday at 5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm, 11pm news, 1965-1969)
  • Morning News (morning newscast, 1965-1969)
  • Channel 7 News Scene (1969-1983)
  • Channel 7 News (1983-1998)
  • ABC 7 News (1998-present)
  • ABC 7 News HD (2007-present)

Station Slogans

  • Now is the Time, Channel 7 is the Place (1981-1982; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
  • Number One in Northern California (1987-1998)
  • Live. Local. Latebreaking. (1996-1999)
  • The Bay Area's #1 News (1999-2007)
  • Discover ABC 7 (2007-present)
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News operations

KGO-TV had followed the lead of its sister station in New York City, WABC-TV, and adopted the Eyewitness News format for its newscasts in the late 1960s. However, the Eyewitness News name was already used on KPIX-TV, which inherited the version of it from its then-sister station KYW-TV in Philadelphia. As a result, KGO-TV instead called its newscasts Channel 7 News Scene throughout the 1970s, and Channel 7 News during the 1980s and much of the 1990s before switching to ABC 7 News. Also, along with the other ABC O & O's, KGO-TV used an edited version of the "Tar Sequence" from the soundtrack of "Cool Hand Luke" as the opening/closing theme of news broadcasts starting in 1969.

The station did, however, follow other aspects of news branding at the other ABC O&Os. The station currently utilizes the market's first helicopter equipped to shoot and transmit high definition (HD) video. The helicopter branded Sky 7HD made its on-air debut in February 2006. Due to current logistical and equipment limitations, video from Sky 7HD at times is only available in standard definition television (SD) 4:3 aspect ratio. When this occurs, the helicopter is branded as Sky 7. Also following the leads of its sister stations, KGO began broadcasting ABC7 News in High Definition on Saturday, February 17, 2007, becoming the 2nd news operation in the Bay Area to make this transition following KTVU. It should be noted that the KGO-TV affiliate in the Monterey/Salinas area does not transmit a high definition signal. KGO-TV also produces a 9pm newscast for independent station KOFY; the only other ABC O&O to do this is WTVD in North Carolina.

On July 20, 2007 long-time main news anchor and KGO radio talk show host Pete Wilson died.

Failed single-anchor experiment

Buoyed by a sluggish economy and conversion to the "Ignite" automated control room system, KGO-TV briefly operated under what was -- by all accounts -- a failed experiment in having one person anchor an entire primary or "main" newscast. During this ill-fated experiment, Cheryl Jennings anchored the 5:00 p.m. weekday news by herself, and Dan Ashley anchored the 11:00 p.m. news solo. Research and ratings later proved both shows had suffered dramatically during the experiment, though Ashley still anchors an additional KGO-TV newscast produced for the independent station in San Francisco, KOFY, Channel 20.

Current personalities

Anchors

Weather

Sports

Reporters

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. San Francisco Chronicle, September 1950
  2. San Bruno Herald
  3. San Francisco Chronicle January 2009
  4. Station Search - Citadel Broadcasting
  5. http://montereybay.comcastspotlight.com/sites/Default.aspx?pageid=4693&siteid=115&subnav=1
  6. http://abc.go.com/site/ca.html
  7. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  8. CDBS Print
  9. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101329805&formid=346&fac_num=34470
  10. "Dan Ashley". Retrieved 2007-10-19.

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These stations are owned by Londen Media Group but operated by Nexstar under a TBA.
Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery still own a combined 25 percent stake in The CW, however the network is operated entirely by Nexstar.
These stations are owned by Vaughan Media but operated by Nexstar under an LMA.
TelevisaUnivision owns the licenses to these stations but the stations themselves are operated by Entravision Communications (of which the company owns a 10 percent stake) under an LMA.
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