KGO-TV
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KGO-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated
television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company
, based in San Francisco, California
. 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.
Until April 18, 2011, the station was viewable in the Salinas
/Santa Cruz
/Monterey Bay area exclusively via cable and satellite.
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,
's second-oldest TV station, behind Associated Broadcasters' KPIX
(channel 5, later sold to Westinghouse Broadcasting
). In fact, KPIX had a hand in getting KGO-TV on the air, as the CBS
-affiliated (and now CBS-owned) station produced informational programming on how to receive and view ABC's channel 7. KGO-TV'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.
Channel 7 was the fourth original ABC-owned and operated TV station to sign-on, after outlets in New York
, Chicago
and Detroit
. KGO-TV is ABC's oldest O&O station in California
, as its sister station KECA-TV (now KABC-TV
) in Los Angeles
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
(810 AM and 103.7 FM, now KKSF
). In addition to airing ABC programming, KGO-TV also aired syndicated programs from the Paramount Television Network
. Among the Paramount programs aired were Time For Beany, Hollywood Reel, Sandy Dreams, Hollywood Wrestling, and Cowboy G-Men.
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 show
s Oh My Word and The Anniversary Game were produced at KGO-TV for Circle Seven Productions. In the mid-1950s, KGO-TV telecast live weeknight variety show
s 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 Cumulus Media
.
In September 1962, KGO began carrying ABC's first color program, the animated series The Jetsons
, followed by The Flintstones
. In the mid 1960s KGO became the first Bay Area station to transmit local programs in compatible color, including its newscasts.
For most of its existence, 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) becoming a charter member of UPN
(which the station's then-owner
was a partner in), KPIX becoming a CBS O&O and KNTV becoming an NBC O&O, 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.)
KSBW
, the NBC affiliate for the Monterey-Salinas market, announced on December 20, 2010, that the station will carry ABC programming on its second digital subchannel beginning in Spring 2011, which means that KGO will no longer serve Monterey. The new channel, identified as Central Coast ABC
on the air, began broadcasting on April 18, 2011, using the 720p
format like most ABC stations. KSBW now owns the rights as the ABC affiliate for that market, and is carried on digital subchannel 8.2, as well as channel 7 on Comcast cable systems and channel 16 on Dish Network, with Charter cable, DirecTV, and AT&T U-verse. In that process, it replaced KGO-TV as the area's ABC affiliate in that market.
Digital channels>
Channel
Programming
7.1
main KGO programming / ABC
7.2
Live Well Network HD
7.3
Live Well Network SD
KGO has a construction permit for a fill-in translator on UHF Channel 35, serving the southern portion of the viewing area, including San Jose.
Speaker's Luncheon and reruns of the 1960s ABC primetime western The Guns of Will Sonnett
, were not shown on Channel 7. As of now, most programming aired on 7.2 is programming from the Live Well Network.
), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
, The Oprah Winfrey Show
, Jeopardy!
and Wheel of Fortune
. The former two programs are produced by the station's corporate cousin, Buena Vista Television
, while the latter three are produced by the now-defunct King World Productions
. Jeopardy! and the Wheel have aired on the station permanently since 1992 after moving from KRON. Only The Oprah Winfrey Show has always aired on KGO-TV throughout the program's tenure (1986–2011). At one point, it also ran Donahue
since the 1980s to complement Oprah in the afternoon lineup after Donahue relocated from KTVU. But in the fall of 1995 KGO-TV became the first affiliate in the country to drop the talk show, one year before its cancellation. (NBC-owned WNBC
in New York City was the only other affiliate to drop Donahue as well shortly afterwards.)
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.)
and Janelle Wang. The hour-long show focused on hot spots as well as interviews and other interests in the Bay Area. Aimed toward female viewers, the show aired Mondays-Fridays at 3 p.m., and was available to watch online while the show was on the air.http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/channel?section=view_from_the_bay&id=5755208 The View From the Bay also aired nightly on weekdays in Los Angeles on KABC-TV
digital subchannel 7.2 at 10 p.m. and at various times on digital subchannels of other ABC O&O stations. On Live Well HD, though, it was aired as "Everyday Living", which was aired on all ABC O&O stations as of July 2010. http://livewellhd.com/everydayliving/channel?id=7186766
, a longtime KGO-AM radio host, former contributor to KTVU's "Mornings on Two" and playwright of the autobiographical "Not a Genuine Black Man" one-man show. Copeland is aided by Lizzie Bermudez, who stands at a computerized podium and alternatively act as "sidekick" or "sounding board" to Copeland and shares material from her computer. Bermudez focuses on "tech" &"culture"/"pop" matters. "7 Live" has an innovative format with a studio audience called "The Voice Box" and continuous written commentary from viewers conveyed by e-mail, Facebook and Twitter and read aloud by Copeland and Bermudez during the program. Copeland spends most of the program walking about the studio, peppering his material with humorous comments. "7 Live" ends with Copeland sharing a "Thought of the Day."
The premiere focused on the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion
(that occurred four days earlier), an offer of bail to an American detainee in Iran and germ contamination on supermarket grocery cart handles. Jennifer Jolly was a co-host from a computerized podium (on a par with Bermudez) from the first broadcast until she was let go in June 2011. Jolly focused on "tech" issues.
The "7" in its logo is not the familiar "Circle 7," but instead a modification of a northeastward-pointing arrow. The program's moniker is "tv_with_attitude." The program plays off the "seven" theme by sometimes incorporating a seven-item list (referred to as "The List") into the program. "7 Live" is reminiscent of "The Site," a program on the MSNBC cable network in 1996.
, 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 (beginning in 1982) 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 broadcast a 4:30 p.m. newscast named Early News in 1970, anchored by Ray Tannehill and John Reed King
, with Pete Giddings
covering weather and Bob Fouts presenting sports. Lu Hurley provided live helicopter traffic coverage, one the first television programs in the San Francisco Bay Area to offer that feature. KGO-TV was one of the last ABC affiliates that broadcast the network evening news program in the 7:00 p.m. time slot. By early 1992, ABC World News Tonight had been displaced to 5:30 p.m, replacing the last half of the 5:00 p.m. news hour.
KGO-TV also produces an hour-long 9 p.m. newscast for independent station KOFY (channel 20); the only other ABC O&O to do this is WTVD
in North Carolina. It usually re-airs stories prepared for the 6 p.m. newscast and ABC News material. Dan Ashley often serves as the solo anchor.
KGO-TV has long broadcast an 11:00 p.m. newscast. It was a half-hour program known as "Channel Seven News Scene Tonight" in 1980 and "Channel 7 News Tonight" in the late 1980s. It expanded to 35 minutes in the early 1990s. Today it is called "ABC 7 News at 11 p.m." Occasionally it has been re-broadcast overnight, Tuesday through Saturday. In the 2000s, a staple of the 11 p.m. Sunday newscast was Richard Hart's segment about technological developments, alternatively titled "Next Step and "Drive to Discover."
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 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 4:3 aspect ratio
. When this occurs, the helicopter is branded simply "Sky 7". Also following the leads of its sister stations, KGO began broadcasting its newscasts in high definition on February 17, 2007, becoming the second news operation in the Bay Area to make this transition (after KTVU
). It should be noted that the KGO-TV cable-relay channel in the Monterey/Salinas area does not transmit a high definition signal.
As of August 2010, KGO is currently one of the very few ABC O&O stations that carries a 4:30 a.m. newscast. However, ABC does not air America This Morning live on KGO, as it normally airs in that timeslot, so the station currently broadcasts it on a tape-delay at 4 a.m. Since mid-2008, KGO is the second station to start its early morning newscast before 5 a.m., as KNTV
added its 4:30 a.m. newscasts a few months later as a result of its 11 a.m. newscast being canceled. With that, KGO is the only station remaining in the San Francisco Bay Area
to air an 11 a.m. newscast. On May 26, 2011, immediately following the end of The Oprah Winfrey Show
which lasted for 25 years, KGO debuted a 4 p.m. newscast, anchored by Carolyn Johnson and Larry Beil. On September 10, 2011, KGO-TV will expand its weekend 11 p.m. newscasts to one hour.
died following a massive heart attack suffered during a hip replacement procedure at Stanford University Medical Center
in Palo Alto, California
. 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 July 18, 2007.
Weather team
Sports team
Reporters
7Live
Owned-and-operated station
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television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
, based in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
. 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
Sutro Tower
Sutro Tower is a three-pronged antenna tower near Clarendon Heights in San Francisco, California. Rising from a hill between Twin Peaks and Mount Sutro, it is a prominent part of the city skyline and a landmark for city residents and visitors...
, located between Mount Sutro
Mount Sutro
Mount Sutro is a hill in San Francisco, California. Most of Mount Sutro remains private property owned by the University of California, San Francisco , but a parcel, including the summit, has been set aside as the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve and is open to the public. It is one of San...
and the Twin Peaks in central San Francisco, along with the Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
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's other major television stations.
Until April 18, 2011, the station was viewable in the Salinas
Salinas, California
Salinas is the county seat and the largest municipality of Monterey County, California. Salinas is located east-southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River, at an elevation of about 52 feet above sea level. The population was 150,441 at the 2010 census...
/Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...
/Monterey Bay area exclusively via cable and satellite.
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,
History
The station signed on the air for the first time on May 5, 1949, as Northern CaliforniaNorthern California
Northern California is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The San Francisco Bay Area , and Sacramento as well as its metropolitan area are the main population centers...
's second-oldest TV station, behind Associated Broadcasters' KPIX
KPIX-TV
KPIX-TV is the CBS owned and operated television station in San Francisco, California. Through its parent company CBS Corporation, KPIX is co-owned with The CW affiliate KBCW-TV ....
(channel 5, later sold to Westinghouse Broadcasting
Westinghouse Broadcasting
The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndication....
). In fact, KPIX had a hand in getting KGO-TV on the air, as the CBS
CBS
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-affiliated (and now CBS-owned) station produced informational programming on how to receive and view ABC's channel 7. KGO-TV's original studios were located in the renovated Sutro Mansion atop Mount Sutro
Mount Sutro
Mount Sutro is a hill in San Francisco, California. Most of Mount Sutro remains private property owned by the University of California, San Francisco , but a parcel, including the summit, has been set aside as the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve and is open to the public. It is one of San...
in San Francisco, next to the transmitter tower it shared with KPIX.
Channel 7 was the fourth original ABC-owned and operated TV station to sign-on, after outlets in New York
WABC-TV
WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Disney-owned American Broadcasting Company located in New York City. The station's studios and offices are located on the Upper West Side section of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State...
, Chicago
WLS-TV
WLS-TV, virtual channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The station operates their full power digital operations on UHF channel 44, with their digital fill-in translator on VHF channel...
and Detroit
WXYZ-TV
WXYZ-TV, channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Detroit, Michigan, USA. WXYZ-TV is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, and is the media company's largest-market TV station property...
. KGO-TV is ABC's oldest O&O station in California
California
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, as its sister station KECA-TV (now KABC-TV
KABC-TV
KABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale, California...
) in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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did not sign on the air until September 1949. In addition, it is the only ABC station to keep its original call letters
Call sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...
, which were inherited from KGO radio
KGO (AM)
KGO is a news/talk-format radio station radio with offices and studios in San Francisco, California. Unlike most other American news/talk stations, KGO originates nearly all of its own programming locally. Since 1978, KGO radio has received Arbitron's number-one ranking in the Bay Area...
(810 AM and 103.7 FM, now KKSF
KKSF
KKSF, known as "Oldies 103.7", is a classic hits radio station in San Francisco, California. The station is owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications.-History:...
). In addition to airing ABC programming, KGO-TV also aired syndicated programs from the Paramount Television Network
Paramount Television Network
The Paramount Television Network was a venture by American film corporation Paramount Pictures to organize a television network in the late 1940s...
. Among the Paramount programs aired were Time For Beany, Hollywood Reel, Sandy Dreams, Hollywood Wrestling, and Cowboy G-Men.
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
San Francisco Chronicle
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, 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
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Ernest Jennings Ford , better known as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres...
, and entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer famous for her striptease act. She was also an actress, author, and playwright whose 1957 memoir was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy.-Early life:...
. Syndicated
Television syndication
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game show
Game show
A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...
s Oh My Word and The Anniversary Game were produced at KGO-TV for Circle Seven Productions. In the mid-1950s, KGO-TV telecast live weeknight variety show
Variety show
A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...
s hosted by KSFO disc jockey
Disc jockey
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Don Sherwood
Don Sherwood (disc jockey)
Don Sherwood was an American radio personality. He was a San Francisco, California disc jockey during the 1950s and 1960s. Billed as "The World's Greatest Disc Jockey," Sherwood spent most of his career hosting a 6 to 9 a.m...
, 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
KGO (AM)
KGO is a news/talk-format radio station radio with offices and studios in San Francisco, California. Unlike most other American news/talk stations, KGO originates nearly all of its own programming locally. Since 1978, KGO radio has received Arbitron's number-one ranking in the Bay Area...
), KSFO and KMKY, although the former two are now owned by Cumulus Media
Cumulus Media
Cumulus Media, Inc. is the second largest Owner and Operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States, behind Clear Channel Communications, operating 570 stations in 150 markets as of September 16, 2011. The company also owns Cumulus Media Networks...
.
In September 1962, KGO began carrying ABC's first color program, the animated series The Jetsons
The Jetsons
The Jetsons is a animated American sitcom that was produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in prime-time from 1962–1963 and again from 1985–1987...
, followed by The Flintstones
The Flintstones
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. In the mid 1960s KGO became the first Bay Area station to transmit local programs in compatible color, including its newscasts.
For most of its existence, 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
Capital Cities Communications
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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
WPVI-TV
WPVI-TV, channel 6, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. WPVI has its studios located on the border between Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd, and its transmitter is located in the...
, Houston
Houston, Texas
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's KTRK-TV
KTRK-TV
KTRK-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Houston, Texas...
and Fresno
Fresno, California
Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation...
's KFSN-TV
KFSN-TV
KFSN-TV, UHF channel 30, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Fresno, California. The station's transmitter is located in Meadow Lakes, California. Its signal covers the Central San Joaquin Valley and the mountain...
-- 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) becoming a charter member of UPN
UPN
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(which the station's then-owner
BHC Communications
BHC Communications, Inc. was the holding company for the broadcast property of Chris-Craft Industries. BHC is said to stand for "broadcasting holding company".-History:...
was a partner in), KPIX becoming a CBS O&O and KNTV becoming an NBC O&O, in that order. (As of 2007, some exceptions to this policy may be made when breaking news
Breaking news
Breaking news, also known as a special report or news bulletin, is a current event that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming and/or current news in order to report its details. Many times, breaking news is used after the news network has already reported on this story...
events or selected ABC Sports programs warrant exclusive coverage, in which case Granite Broadcasting Corporation
Granite Broadcasting Corporation
Granite Broadcasting Corporation, founded by W. Don Cornwell and Stuart Beck in 1988 , is a broadcasting holding company which owns or operates 14 television stations in the United States, largely centered in the midwest with a cluster in New York state...
's independent station, KOFY, may pick up the pre-empted ABC programming scheduled for the time period.)
Salinas, Monterey, and Santa Cruz Market
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KSBW
KSBW
KSBW is a television station in the United States and is the primary NBC affiliate for the Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, California market. The station is owned by Hearst Television. KSBW has its studios on John Street in downtown Salinas, which is mentioned occasionally during commercial breaks...
, the NBC affiliate for the Monterey-Salinas market, announced on December 20, 2010, that the station will carry ABC programming on its second digital subchannel beginning in Spring 2011, which means that KGO will no longer serve Monterey. The new channel, identified as Central Coast ABC
KSBW-DT2
KSBW-DT2, branded as Central Coast ABC, is the second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KSBW, which is owned by Hearst Television. The second digital subchannel is the ABC affiliate for the Salinas–Monterey–Santa Cruz, California market, which began transmission on April 18, 2011...
on the air, began broadcasting on April 18, 2011, using the 720p
720p
720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...
format like most ABC stations. KSBW now owns the rights as the ABC affiliate for that market, and is carried on digital subchannel 8.2, as well as channel 7 on Comcast cable systems and channel 16 on Dish Network, with Charter cable, DirecTV, and AT&T U-verse. In that process, it replaced KGO-TV as the area's ABC affiliate in that market.
Logos
KGO-TV was one of the earliest ABC stations to use the original Circle 7 logo (along with sister station WBKB 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:Analog-to-digital conversion
KGO-TV shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009 as part of the DTV transition, it 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 a construction permit for a fill-in translator on UHF Channel 35, serving the southern portion of the viewing area, including San Jose.
Live Well HD
As of May 2010, 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 ClubCommonwealth Club of California
The Commonwealth Club of California is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization based in Northern California. Founded in 1903, it is the oldest and largest public affairs forum in the United States...
Speaker's Luncheon and reruns of the 1960s ABC primetime western The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series set in the 1870s which ran on the ABC television network from 1967 to 1969. The series was the first production collaboration between Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas, who would later go on to produce one of ABC's most-memorable hits, The Mod...
, were not shown on Channel 7. As of now, most programming aired on 7.2 is programming from the Live Well Network.
Programming
The station carries a high profile lineup of daytime programming with shows such as Live with Regis and KellyLive with Regis and Kelly
Live! with Kelly is a syndicated American television morning talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa. The show has aired since 1983 in New York City and 1988 nationwide. Tony Pigg has been the show's announcer since its inception...
), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (US game show)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is an American television quiz show which offers a maximum prize of $1,000,000 for correctly answering 14 consecutive multiple-choice questions of random difficulty. Until 2010, the format required contestants to correctly answer 15 consecutive questions of increasing...
, The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
and Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, which premiered in 1975. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a large wheel. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that...
. The former two programs are produced by the station's corporate cousin, Buena Vista Television
Buena Vista Television
Disney-ABC Domestic Television is the domestic television syndication firm of the Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, that handles the television distribution of product from Walt Disney Television, Walt Disney Television Animation, BVS Entertainment, and ABC...
, while the latter three are produced by the now-defunct King World Productions
King World Productions
King World Productions, Inc. was a production company and a syndicator of television programming in the United States until its eventual 2007 incorporation into CBS Television Distribution...
. Jeopardy! and the Wheel have aired on the station permanently since 1992 after moving from KRON. Only The Oprah Winfrey Show has always aired on KGO-TV throughout the program's tenure (1986–2011). At one point, it also ran Donahue
The Phil Donahue Show
The Phil Donahue Show, also known as Donahue, is an American television talk show that ran for 26 years on national television. Its run was preceded by three years of local broadcast in Dayton, Ohio, and it was broadcast nationwide between 1967 and 1996.In 2002, Donahue was ranked #29 on TV Guide's...
since the 1980s to complement Oprah in the afternoon lineup after Donahue relocated from KTVU. But in the fall of 1995 KGO-TV became the first affiliate in the country to drop the talk show, one year before its cancellation. (NBC-owned WNBC
WNBC
WNBC, virtual channel 4 , is the flagship station of the NBC television network, located in New York City. WNBC's studios are co-located with NBC corporate headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan...
in New York City was the only other affiliate to drop Donahue as well shortly afterwards.)
The station also airs the pre-show of the Academy Awards (produced by sister station KABC-TV
KABC-TV
KABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale, California...
in Los Angeles). The station sometimes aired the Bay to Breakers
Bay to Breakers
The Bay to Breakers is an annual footrace which takes place in San Francisco, California on the third Sunday of May. The name reflects the fact that the race starts at the northeast end of the downtown area a few blocks from The Embarcadero and runs west through the city to finish at the Great...
race in the 1980s and the KGO Cure-a-thon with its radio partner, KGO-AM 810
KGO (AM)
KGO is a news/talk-format radio station radio with offices and studios in San Francisco, California. Unlike most other American news/talk stations, KGO originates nearly all of its own programming locally. Since 1978, KGO radio has received Arbitron's number-one ranking in the Bay Area...
.
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
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
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.)
The View From The Bay
From June 26, 2006 to September 10, 2010, KGO-TV broadcast a locally-produced weekday variety show called The View From The Bay, hosted by Spencer ChristianSpencer Christian
Spencer Christian is an American television broadcaster, best known as the former weather forecaster for ABC's Good Morning America from 1986 to 1998. He currently is the weather forecaster for ABC-owned KGO-TV in San Francisco. Christian is also the author of several children's...
and Janelle Wang. The hour-long show focused on hot spots as well as interviews and other interests in the Bay Area. Aimed toward female viewers, the show aired Mondays-Fridays at 3 p.m., and was available to watch online while the show was on the air.http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/channel?section=view_from_the_bay&id=5755208 The View From the Bay also aired nightly on weekdays in Los Angeles on KABC-TV
KABC-TV
KABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale, California...
digital subchannel 7.2 at 10 p.m. and at various times on digital subchannels of other ABC O&O stations. On Live Well HD, though, it was aired as "Everyday Living", which was aired on all ABC O&O stations as of July 2010. http://livewellhd.com/everydayliving/channel?id=7186766
7 Live
On September 13, 2010, "7 Live" debuted in the 3 p.m. weekday time slot. It is a KGO-TV production hosted by Brian CopelandBrian Copeland
Brian Copeland is an American actor, comedian, radio talk show host, playwright and author based in the San Francisco Bay Area.Copeland has been the opening act for artists such as Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin and Ringo Starr. For the past 12 years he has hosted a radio program for...
, a longtime KGO-AM radio host, former contributor to KTVU's "Mornings on Two" and playwright of the autobiographical "Not a Genuine Black Man" one-man show. Copeland is aided by Lizzie Bermudez, who stands at a computerized podium and alternatively act as "sidekick" or "sounding board" to Copeland and shares material from her computer. Bermudez focuses on "tech" &"culture"/"pop" matters. "7 Live" has an innovative format with a studio audience called "The Voice Box" and continuous written commentary from viewers conveyed by e-mail, Facebook and Twitter and read aloud by Copeland and Bermudez during the program. Copeland spends most of the program walking about the studio, peppering his material with humorous comments. "7 Live" ends with Copeland sharing a "Thought of the Day."
The premiere focused on the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion
2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion
The 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 p.m. PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, a suburb of San Francisco, when a 30 inch diameter steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded in flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood west of...
(that occurred four days earlier), an offer of bail to an American detainee in Iran and germ contamination on supermarket grocery cart handles. Jennifer Jolly was a co-host from a computerized podium (on a par with Bermudez) from the first broadcast until she was let go in June 2011. Jolly focused on "tech" issues.
The "7" in its logo is not the familiar "Circle 7," but instead a modification of a northeastward-pointing arrow. The program's moniker is "tv_with_attitude." The program plays off the "seven" theme by sometimes incorporating a seven-item list (referred to as "The List") into the program. "7 Live" is reminiscent of "The Site," a program on the MSNBC cable network in 1996.
News operations
KGO-TV had followed the lead of its sister station in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, WABC-TV
WABC-TV
WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Disney-owned American Broadcasting Company located in New York City. The station's studios and offices are located on the Upper West Side section of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State...
, and adopted the Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...
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
KYW-TV
KYW-TV, virtual channel 3, is an owned and operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. KYW-TV shares a studio facility with its sister station, CW flagship WPSG just north of Center City Philadelphia...
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 (beginning in 1982) 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 broadcast a 4:30 p.m. newscast named Early News in 1970, anchored by Ray Tannehill and John Reed King
John Reed King
John Reed King was a famous radio and television game show host who hosted numerous game shows during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s....
, with Pete Giddings
Pete Giddings
Peter F. "Pete" Giddings was born in New York in 1939. He worked as a local television news meteorologist in Northern California and Northern Nevada. He is best known for his 29 years as a meteorologist at KGO-TV in San Francisco. Giddings earned six Emmy Awards during his tenure at KGO.Giddings'...
covering weather and Bob Fouts presenting sports. Lu Hurley provided live helicopter traffic coverage, one the first television programs in the San Francisco Bay Area to offer that feature. KGO-TV was one of the last ABC affiliates that broadcast the network evening news program in the 7:00 p.m. time slot. By early 1992, ABC World News Tonight had been displaced to 5:30 p.m, replacing the last half of the 5:00 p.m. news hour.
KGO-TV also produces an hour-long 9 p.m. newscast for independent station KOFY (channel 20); the only other ABC O&O to do this is WTVD
WTVD
WTVD, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Durham, North Carolina. The station serves the areas of Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, and Fayetteville, known as the Triangle...
in North Carolina. It usually re-airs stories prepared for the 6 p.m. newscast and ABC News material. Dan Ashley often serves as the solo anchor.
KGO-TV has long broadcast an 11:00 p.m. newscast. It was a half-hour program known as "Channel Seven News Scene Tonight" in 1980 and "Channel 7 News Tonight" in the late 1980s. It expanded to 35 minutes in the early 1990s. Today it is called "ABC 7 News at 11 p.m." Occasionally it has been re-broadcast overnight, Tuesday through Saturday. In the 2000s, a staple of the 11 p.m. Sunday newscast was Richard Hart's segment about technological developments, alternatively titled "Next Step and "Drive to Discover."
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 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 4:3 aspect ratio
Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of the width of the image to its height, expressed as two numbers separated by a colon. That is, for an x:y aspect ratio, no matter how big or small the image is, if the width is divided into x units of equal length and the height is measured using this...
. When this occurs, the helicopter is branded simply "Sky 7". Also following the leads of its sister stations, KGO began broadcasting its newscasts in high definition on February 17, 2007, becoming the second news operation in the Bay Area to make this transition (after KTVU
KTVU
KTVU, virtual channel 2 , is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to Oakland, California, the station has been owned by Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the...
). It should be noted that the KGO-TV cable-relay channel in the Monterey/Salinas area does not transmit a high definition signal.
As of August 2010, KGO is currently one of the very few ABC O&O stations that carries a 4:30 a.m. newscast. However, ABC does not air America This Morning live on KGO, as it normally airs in that timeslot, so the station currently broadcasts it on a tape-delay at 4 a.m. Since mid-2008, KGO is the second station to start its early morning newscast before 5 a.m., as KNTV
KNTV
KNTV, channel 11, is the NBC owned-and-operated television station in the Bay Area market. It is licensed to San Jose, with its transmitter located on San Bruno Mountain, just south of San Francisco. It shares facilities in San Jose with NBC Universal sister station KSTS and CNBC's Silicon...
added its 4:30 a.m. newscasts a few months later as a result of its 11 a.m. newscast being canceled. With that, KGO is the only station remaining in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
to air an 11 a.m. newscast. On May 26, 2011, immediately following the end of The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
which lasted for 25 years, KGO debuted a 4 p.m. newscast, anchored by Carolyn Johnson and Larry Beil. On September 10, 2011, KGO-TV will expand its weekend 11 p.m. newscasts to one hour.
Death of Pete Wilson
On July 20, 2007 long-time main news anchor and KGO radio talk show host Pete WilsonPete Wilson (broadcaster)
Peter James "Pete" Wilson was an American broadcaster born in Wisconsin. For more than 20 years prior to his death, he worked in the San Francisco Bay Area...
died following a massive heart attack suffered during a hip replacement procedure at Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford University Medical Center represents the Stanford Hospital and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and is located at 300 Pasteur Drive in Stanford, California. Stanford Hospital provides both general acute care services and tertiary medical care for patients locally, nationally and...
in Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...
. 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 July 18, 2007.
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.Newscast titles
- San Francisco Tonight (1950s)
- 90 for News/The News (early 1960s–1965)
- Newsbeat (weeknight newscasts; 1965–1969)
- Morning News (morning newscast, 1965–1969)
- Sunday Night News (Sunday evening newscasts; 1965–1969)
- Channel 7 News Scene (1969–1982)
- Channel 7 News (1982–1998)
- ABC 7 News (1998–present)
- ABC 7 News HD (2007–present)
Station slogans
- Number One in Northern California (1987–1998)
- Watched By More Northern Californians, Channel 7, ABC (1993–1996, local version of ABC ad campaign)
- Live. Local. Latebreaking. (1996–1999)
- The Bay Area's #1 News (1999–2007)
- Discover ABC-7 (2007–present)
Current on-air staff
Anchors- Dan Ashley - weeknights at 5, 6, 9 (on KOFY) and 11 p.m.; also general assignment reporter
- Larry Beil - weeknights at 4 p.m., also sports director and fill-in anchor
- Cheryl Jennings - weekdays at 11 a.m., and weeknights at 5 p.m.; host of Beyond the Headlines and Assignment 7 correspondent and fill in anchor
- Carolyn Johnson - weeknights at 4, 6 and 11 p.m.; also health and science reporter
- Kristen Sze - weekday mornings ABC 7 Morning News (4:30-7 a.m.) and 11 a.m.; also Assignment 7 host and reporter
- Eric Thomas - weekday mornings ABC 7 Morning News (4:30-7 a.m.); also weeknight reporter, Assignment 7 host and correspondent
- Carolyn Tyler - Sunday morning anchor - ABC 7 Morning News (5-7 and 9-10 a.m.); also general assignment reporter
- Alan Wang - weekends at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.; also weeknight reporter and fill in anchor
- Terry McSweeney - Saturday morning anchor - "ABC 7 Morning News" (5-7am)and "ABC 7 Morning News at 8am" (8-9am); fill in anchor and general assignment reporter
Weather team
- Spencer ChristianSpencer ChristianSpencer Christian is an American television broadcaster, best known as the former weather forecaster for ABC's Good Morning America from 1986 to 1998. He currently is the weather forecaster for ABC-owned KGO-TV in San Francisco. Christian is also the author of several children's...
- chief meteorologist; weekdays at 4 p.m.; weeknights at 6 and 9 p.m. (on KOFY) - Sandhya Patel (AMSAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...
and NWANational Weather AssociationThe National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...
Seals of Approval) - meteorologist; weeknights at 5 and 11 p.m.; fill in - Lisa Argen - meteorologist; weekend mornings, also fill-in
- Leigh Glaser (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend evenings; general assignment reporter
- Mike Nicco (AMS Certified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday mornings ABC 7 Morning News (4:30-7 a.m.) and 11 a.m. - Jeff Martinez - weather anchor; fill-in
- Frances Dinglasan - weather anchor; fill-in; also weekday morning traffic reporter (currently on maternity leave)
Sports team
- Larry Beil - sports director; weeknights at 6, 9 (on KOFY) and 11 p.m., also weekday 4 p.m. news anchor
- Mike Shumann - sports anchor; Saturdays at 5, and weekends at 6 and 11 p.m.
- Rick Quan - sports reporter and fill-in sports anchor
- Colin Resch - sports reporter and fill-in sports anchor
- Jerry Olsten - fill in sports anchor
Reporters
- Laura Anthony - general assignment reporter
- John Alston - general assignment reporter and fill in anchor
- Johnathan Bloom - general assignment reporter
- Leslie Brinkley - general assignment reporter
- Ama Daetz - general assignment reporter
- Frances Dinglasan - traffic anchor and fill-in weather anchor (currently on maternity leave)
- Michael FinneyMichael FinneyMichael Finney is a professional magician. He was born in 1954 in Woodland, California. He moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1978. He has appeared on numerous television specials and performs regularly throughout the U.S...
- consumer reporter; 7Live correspondent and fill in - Wayne FreedmanWayne FreedmanWayne Freedman is a feature reporter for KGO-TV; the ABC owned television station in San Francisco, California.Freedman's education included Chaminade High School near his hometown of Woodland Hills, California. Freedman showed an interest in reporting at an early age, and became published with a...
- general assignment reporter - Sue Hall - fill in traffic anchor (currently weekday morning traffic anchor, until Frances Dinglasan comes back from maternity leave)
- Lisa Amin Gulezian - general assignment reporter
- Amy Hollyfield - general assignment reporter
- Heather Ishimaru - general assignment reporter
- Lilian Kim - general assignment reporter
- Jane KingJane King (journalist)Jane King is an American journalist. King does syndicated business and financial reports for Bloomberg News from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Formerly, King covered local Business News for CNN's Newsource division, CNN Marketsource...
- weekday morning business reporter (correspondent for Bloomberg NewsBloomberg TelevisionBloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...
) - Vic Lee - general assignment reporter
- David Louie - financial and general assignment reporter
- Megan Marlena - fill in traffic anchor
- Terry McSweeney - general assignment reporter and fill in anchor; Anchor - Saturday morning anchor
- Nick Smith - general assignment reporter and "7Live" contributor
- Mark MatthewsMark MatthewsMark Matthews was an American veteran of the Second World War and a Buffalo Soldier. Born in Alabama and growing up in Ohio, Matthews joined the 10th Cavalry Regiment when he was only 15 years old, after having been recruited at a Lexington, Kentucky racetrack and having documents forged so that...
- political and general assignment reporter - Lyanne Melendez - education and general assignment reporter
- Nannette MirandaNannette MirandaNannette Miranda is the Sacramento Bureau Chief for KABC-TV in Los Angeles, KGO-TV in San Francisco, and KFSN-TV in Fresno. She joined the three ABC-owned stations in December 2003 after they decided to share resources to establish a full-time presence in California's state capitalPrior coming back...
- Sacramento Bureau chief reporter - Sergio Quintana - general assignment reporter
- Dan Noyes - investigative reporter; also fill-in anchor and general assignment reporter
- Karina Rusk - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Don Sanchez - general assignment reporter; arts and entertainment reporter
7Live
- Lizzie Bermudez - co-host
- Brian Copeland - host
- Michael Finney - contributor and fill in host
- Nick Smith - contributor
- Lisa Quinn - contributor
Notable former staff
- Jessica AguirreJessica AguirreJessica D. Aguirre is a Cuban-American television journalist.-Biography:Jessica Aguirre is a first generation Cuban-American, the daughter of immigrants she grew up in Florida...
- anchor (July 1998-April 2007; now weeknight anchor at KNTVKNTVKNTV, channel 11, is the NBC owned-and-operated television station in the Bay Area market. It is licensed to San Jose, with its transmitter located on San Bruno Mountain, just south of San Francisco. It shares facilities in San Jose with NBC Universal sister station KSTS and CNBC's Silicon...
) - Richard Brown - anchor (1990–1996); after nine years (1998–2007) at KXLY-TVKXLY-TVKXLY-TV, virtual channel 4, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Spokane, Washington, USA. KXLY-TV is owned by Spokane Television Group, a subsidiary of Morgan Murphy Media, it is one of five local Spokane TV stations seen in Canada on the Shaw Direct satellite provider.-History:Although KHQ...
in Spokane, WashingtonSpokane, WashingtonSpokane is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city of Spokane County of which it is also the county seat, and the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region...
, currently at CKOM Radio in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. - Jim DunbarJim DunbarJim Dunbar is an American radio program director, talk show host and news anchor who helped boost the ratings of KGO into to the top five with its unique news/talk format. KGO has consistently scored in the top five since 1963 and has been #1 since 1978.In addition to his radio work, he also...
- reporter (1965–1979) - Dr. Dean EdellDean EdellDoctor Dean Edell is an American physician and broadcaster who hosted the Dr. Dean Edell radio program, a syndicated radio talk show which aired live from 1979 until December 10, 2010.- Private life :...
- medical reporter (retired from television in 2007) - Pete GiddingsPete GiddingsPeter F. "Pete" Giddings was born in New York in 1939. He worked as a local television news meteorologist in Northern California and Northern Nevada. He is best known for his 29 years as a meteorologist at KGO-TV in San Francisco. Giddings earned six Emmy Awards during his tenure at KGO.Giddings'...
- weather anchor (1969–1998) - Roger GrimsbyRoger GrimsbyRoger Grimsby was an American journalist, television news anchor and actor. Grimsby is known as one of the pioneers of local television broadcast news.-Early life:...
- anchor (1961–1968; later at WABC in New York City, deceased) - Jack Hanson - anchor/reporter/A.M. San Francisco host (1970s-1990s)
- John Reed KingJohn Reed KingJohn Reed King was a famous radio and television game show host who hosted numerous game shows during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s....
- anchor (1970–1971) - Pia LindstromPia LindströmFriedel Pia Lindström in Stockholm, Sweden, is the first child of actress Ingrid Bergman and Dr. Petter Aron Lindström, a Swedish American Neurosurgeon....
- entertainment reporter (1968–1973) - Kent NinomiyaKent NinomiyaKent Ninomiya is the first male Asian American broadcast journalist to be a primary news anchor of a television station in the United States. The Asian American Journalist Association, often referred to as the AAJA, notes that there are numerous Asian American women on the air at American...
- weekday morning anchor (1999–2001) - Lucy NolandLucy NolandLucy Noland is a Vietnamese-American news anchor. She is currently a news anchor and reporter at KNBC in Los Angeles, California...
- freelance reporter (1995–1996, now at KHOU-TVKHOU-TVKHOU is the CBS affiliate television station in Houston, Texas. Serving Greater Houston, it is owned by the Belo Corporation and broadcasts on digital and PSIP channel 11...
in Houston) - Ross PalomboRoss PalomboRoss Palombo is an American journalist and television news anchor.-Early life and education:Palombo was born in Chicago, Illinois and was raised in the Northwest suburbs...
- reporter (2007; now at CBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
) - Maury PovichMaury PovichMaurice Richard "Maury" Povich is an American TV talk show host who currently hosts his self-titled talk show Maury.-Personal background:...
- anchor/A.M. San Francisco co-host (1978–1980, now host of MauryMaury (TV series)Maury is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Maury Povich.When the series first aired in 1991, the show was called The Maury Povich Show and was produced by MoPo Productions in association with Paramount Domestic Television...
) - Wanda RameyWanda RameyWanda Ramey was a pioneering American television news reporter. She was married to Richard Queirolo and assumed his name, but continued to use her maiden name in her professional life.-Early life and education:Ramey was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to parents Hiram and May Ramey...
- reporter (1968–1970) - Erik RosalesErik RosalesErik Rosales was the South Bay bureau reporter and a field reporter for KGO-TV in San Francisco and San Jose, California, United States. He has been with the station since [January 2005 till October,2007. He is now at KIII-TV in Corpus Christi where he was a reporter back in the mid-90's as a...
- anchor/reporter (2005–2007, now at KIII in Corpus Christi, TX) - Don SherwoodDon Sherwood (disc jockey)Don Sherwood was an American radio personality. He was a San Francisco, California disc jockey during the 1950s and 1960s. Billed as "The World's Greatest Disc Jockey," Sherwood spent most of his career hosting a 6 to 9 a.m...
- variety show host (1955–1957, deceased) - Cecilia Vega - general assignment reporter (2008-2011)- Now at ABC News
- Janelle Wang - anchor/reporter/host; now 5pm anchor at KNTV-TV
- Pete WilsonPete Wilson (broadcaster)Peter James "Pete" Wilson was an American broadcaster born in Wisconsin. For more than 20 years prior to his death, he worked in the San Francisco Bay Area...
- anchor (1983–1990 and 2002–2007; was anchor at KRON from 1990–2002, deceased) - Steve WilsonSteve Wilson (reporter)Steve Wilson is an American news reporter. Currently running his own nonprofit investigative reporting group, he is best known for his whistleblower lawsuit with then-wife Jane Akre against WTVT in 1997 and his work as WXYZ-TV's Chief Investigative Reporter in Detroit, Michigan in the late...
- reporter (later at WXYZ-TVWXYZ-TVWXYZ-TV, channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Detroit, Michigan, USA. WXYZ-TV is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, and is the media company's largest-market TV station property...
in Detroit) - Lloyd Lindsay YoungLloyd Lindsay YoungLloyd Lindsay Young is a television weatherman who built a cult following of sorts with his over-the-top delivery and antics. He is the father of former KGET-TV weatherman George Lindsay Young, with whom he worked for several years in New York....
- weather anchor (1981–1983, now working for both KERO-TVKERO-TVKERO-TV is a television station serving Bakersfield, California. It is an ABC affiliate owned by McGraw-Hill, and transmits its digital signal on VHF channel 10. Syndicated programming on KERO includes: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Ellen....
in Bakersfield and KGO-AM) - Linda YuLinda YuLinda Yu is a news anchor for WLS-TV in Chicago. At ABC7, she anchors the 11am newscast with Sylvia Perez and the 4pm newscast with Alan Krashesky. Linda first joined the station in 1984 after five years with rival NBC O & O WMAQ-TV...
- reporter/anchor (1976–1979, now at WLS-TVWLS-TVWLS-TV, virtual channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The station operates their full power digital operations on UHF channel 44, with their digital fill-in translator on VHF channel...
in Chicago)