KGTV
Encyclopedia
KGTV, digital channel 10, is the ABC
television
affiliate in San Diego, California. The station can be seen on Cox Communications
, Time Warner Cable
, and AT&T
U-verse
on cable channel 10 in standard definition. Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable carry its high definition
signal on cable channel 710, while AT&T U-verse carries its HD
signal on channel 1010. The station is also available on its customary channel 10 position (in both standard definition and in high definition) on both of DirecTV
and Dish Network
's local channels packages.
It is currently owned by McGraw-Hill
, which also owns Azteca America
affiliate KZSD-LP
. KGTV's transmitter is located atop Mount Soledad
above La Jolla, California.
, digital television receivers continue to display KGTV's virtual channel
as 10. Since KGTV is an ABC network affiliate, it broadcasts in 720p
high definition.
. KFVW/KFSD radio (1220/620/600 AM) was the first full time commercial radio station in San Diego which signed on June 3, 1925. KFBC/KGB signed on July 14, 1922, but was only on the air part-time as an amateur station at 833.3 Kilocycles. Channel 10's call letters followed the AM and FM stations to make it a complete combo AM/FM/TV. In 1961, the stations changed their call letters to KOGO, as the format of the AM station changed to MOR (Middle of the Road). As legend has it, they fed information about San Diego and its people into the new device by IBM called the computer. They asked the computer for the perfect call letters for the new AM station and it responded with KOGO.
The broadcasting division of the Time-Life magazine company purchased the KOGO stations, KOGO-AM-FM-TV, in 1962 from a locally based firm, Fox, Wells & Rogers.
In 1972, McGraw-Hill purchased KOGO-TV (along with the rest of Time-Life's broadcasting properties) and changed its call letters to the present KGTV (to reflect KOGO-TV). The radio stations were sold separately, and AM 600 retained the KOGO call letters, and was sold to Retlaw (which is Walter spelled backwards, and was a broadcast company owned by members of Walt Disney's family, specifically his children and his brother. These holdings were separate from the Walt Disney Studios). 94.1 went back to the KFSD calls, and went through a series of owners. In 1977, the station dropped its affiliation with NBC and switched to ABC. NBC had crashed to last place while ABC had become the #1 network in the country with hit shows (Happy Days, Three's Company, Laverne & Shriley, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, etc. ) and specials (Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots). KCST-TV (channel 39, now KNSD
) picked up NBC and is now a NBC majority-owned station.
In April 2009, KGTV rebranded itself as "ABC 10" and launched new graphics and a new logo.
On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced it was selling its entire television station group, including KGTV and Azteca America affiliate KZSD-LP
, to The E.W. Scripps Company for $212 million.
, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
, The Doctors
, and Inside Edition
.
Even with the brief return of Greene following his stints in San Francisco and Los Angeles
, the station fell back to second place behind KFMB in the early 1980s. However, management succeeded in acquiring the services of popular anchorman Michael Tuck from KFMB in 1984; the move resulted in KGTV reclaiming first place and giving the station credibility by way of Tuck's infamous nightly commentaries titled "Perspectives."
KGTV also made history by being the first station in San Diego with a female anchor team with its 11 p.m. newscast, featuring Carol LeBeau and Bree Walker. After Walker left in 1987, Kimberly Hunt
would team with LeBeau and form the city's longest-running anchor duo at 15 years. During that time, LeBeau and Hunt would anchor alongside Tuck (who left for Los Angeles in 1990, only to return to San Diego on KFMB), Stephen Clark (now at WXYZ-TV
in Detroit), Steve Wolford, and a returning Hal Clement (who had switched from sports to news in 1983 while at KFMB).
Eventually, KGTV would decline after Hunt left to anchor the news at KUSI-TV
alongside Tuck, at one point falling to third as KNSD rose to number one at 11 p.m. The Hunt-Lebeau team reunited in early 2008, before LeBeau retired the following year. On August 30, 2008, KGTV became the third station, behind KFMB-TV and KSWB-TV
, to launch local news in High Definition.
KGTV is among the few United States television stations that broadcast local news programs at 7:00 p.m. on weeknights. In May 2010, the newscast was the top rated early evening newscast in the market in the 25-54 demographic.
10 News Pinpoint Weather
Sports team
Traffic
Reporters
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...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
affiliate in San Diego, California. The station can be seen on Cox Communications
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
, Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
, and AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
U-verse
U-Verse
AT&T U-verse is a registered service mark under which AT&T offers Internet access, television, and telephone services in various parts of the United States. It began in 2008 to serve mostly residences and small businesses in urban and suburban areas.-Services:...
on cable channel 10 in standard definition. Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable carry its high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
signal on cable channel 710, while AT&T U-verse carries its HD
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
signal on channel 1010. The station is also available on its customary channel 10 position (in both standard definition and in high definition) on both of DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
and Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
's local channels packages.
It is currently owned by McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...
, which also owns Azteca America
Azteca América
Azteca América is a broadcast television network marketed toward Spanish-speaking families residing in the United States. As a rapidly-growing Spanish language network, Azteca América now reaches 89% of the Hispanic households in the U.S., operating in sixty-two markets nationwide. Wholly owned by...
affiliate KZSD-LP
KZSD-LP
KZSD-LP is a low-powered television station in San Diego, California, broadcasting locally on channel 41 as an affiliate of Azteca America. Initially licensed September 25, 1997 , the station is owned by McGraw-Hill along with sister station KGTV, which carries the station's digital signal over...
. KGTV's transmitter is located atop Mount Soledad
Mount Soledad
Mount Soledad is a prominent landmark in the city of San Diego, California, United States. The mountaintop is the site of the Mount Soledad cross, the subject of a continuing controversy over the involvement of religion in government.- Geography :...
above La Jolla, California.
Digital television
| Channel | Name | Programming |
|---|---|---|
| 10.1 | KGTV-DT | Main KGTV programming / ABC |
| 10.2 | COOL-TV | TheCoolTV TheCoolTV THECOOLTV is a United States over-the-air digital subchannel launched in March 2009. The network's current program schedule consists of an all-music video lineup that can be customized to meet an affiliate's preference, along with the three hours per week of E/I programming as required by the... |
| 10.15 | KZSD-D2 | Simulcast of KZSD-LP KZSD-LP KZSD-LP is a low-powered television station in San Diego, California, broadcasting locally on channel 41 as an affiliate of Azteca America. Initially licensed September 25, 1997 , the station is owned by McGraw-Hill along with sister station KGTV, which carries the station's digital signal over... |
Analog-to-digital conversion
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion on February 17, 2009, KGTV moved its digital signal from channel 25 to channel 10. However, through the use of PSIPProgram and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...
, digital television receivers continue to display KGTV's virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
as 10. Since KGTV is an ABC network affiliate, it broadcasts in 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...
high definition.
History
The station went on the air on September 13, 1953 as KFSD-TV, and was affiliated at the time with NBCNBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
. KFVW/KFSD radio (1220/620/600 AM) was the first full time commercial radio station in San Diego which signed on June 3, 1925. KFBC/KGB signed on July 14, 1922, but was only on the air part-time as an amateur station at 833.3 Kilocycles. Channel 10's call letters followed the AM and FM stations to make it a complete combo AM/FM/TV. In 1961, the stations changed their call letters to KOGO, as the format of the AM station changed to MOR (Middle of the Road). As legend has it, they fed information about San Diego and its people into the new device by IBM called the computer. They asked the computer for the perfect call letters for the new AM station and it responded with KOGO.
The broadcasting division of the Time-Life magazine company purchased the KOGO stations, KOGO-AM-FM-TV, in 1962 from a locally based firm, Fox, Wells & Rogers.
In 1972, McGraw-Hill purchased KOGO-TV (along with the rest of Time-Life's broadcasting properties) and changed its call letters to the present KGTV (to reflect KOGO-TV). The radio stations were sold separately, and AM 600 retained the KOGO call letters, and was sold to Retlaw (which is Walter spelled backwards, and was a broadcast company owned by members of Walt Disney's family, specifically his children and his brother. These holdings were separate from the Walt Disney Studios). 94.1 went back to the KFSD calls, and went through a series of owners. In 1977, the station dropped its affiliation with NBC and switched to ABC. NBC had crashed to last place while ABC had become the #1 network in the country with hit shows (Happy Days, Three's Company, Laverne & Shriley, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, etc. ) and specials (Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots). KCST-TV (channel 39, now KNSD
KNSD
KNSD is the NBC television station based in San Diego, California. It is owned by a joint venture of NBCUniversal and LIN TV . However, because NBCUniversal has majority control, KNSD is run as an NBC owned and operated station...
) picked up NBC and is now a NBC majority-owned station.
In April 2009, KGTV rebranded itself as "ABC 10" and launched new graphics and a new logo.
On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced it was selling its entire television station group, including KGTV and Azteca America affiliate KZSD-LP
KZSD-LP
KZSD-LP is a low-powered television station in San Diego, California, broadcasting locally on channel 41 as an affiliate of Azteca America. Initially licensed September 25, 1997 , the station is owned by McGraw-Hill along with sister station KGTV, which carries the station's digital signal over...
, to The E.W. Scripps Company for $212 million.
Programming
Syndicated programing on KGTV includes Rachael RayRachael Ray (TV series)
Rachael Ray, also known as The Rachael Ray Show, is a talk show starring Rachael Ray that debuted in syndication in the United States and Canada on September 18, 2006....
, 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 Doctors
The Doctors (2008 TV series)
The Doctors is an American syndicated talk show airing daily in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Sweden and Finland. It debuted on September 8, 2008. The hour-long daytime program is produced by Phil McGraw and his son Jay McGraw and is distributed domestically and globally by CBS Television...
, and Inside Edition
Inside Edition
Inside Edition is a thirty-minute American television syndicated news program, first aired on CBS on October 9, 1988. It was originally similar to the programs Hard Copy and A Current Affair, but now more closely resembles a condensed version of breakfast television, exclusively with pre-recorded...
.
News operation
KGTV first began to challenge KFMB's dominance in the mid-1970s when anchormen Jack White and Harold Greene, along with popular weatherman "Captain Mike" Ambrose and sportscasters Al Coupee and Hal Clement, led The News to popularity, albeit briefly.Even with the brief return of Greene following his stints in San Francisco and Los Angeles
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, the station fell back to second place behind KFMB in the early 1980s. However, management succeeded in acquiring the services of popular anchorman Michael Tuck from KFMB in 1984; the move resulted in KGTV reclaiming first place and giving the station credibility by way of Tuck's infamous nightly commentaries titled "Perspectives."
KGTV also made history by being the first station in San Diego with a female anchor team with its 11 p.m. newscast, featuring Carol LeBeau and Bree Walker. After Walker left in 1987, Kimberly Hunt
Kimberly Hunt
Kimberly Hunt is an Emmy Award winning San Diego news anchor/reporter for KGTV. During her career Hunt has interviewed sitting Presidents, Oprah Winfrey, and other military, political and business leaders...
would team with LeBeau and form the city's longest-running anchor duo at 15 years. During that time, LeBeau and Hunt would anchor alongside Tuck (who left for Los Angeles in 1990, only to return to San Diego on KFMB), Stephen Clark (now at WXYZ-TV
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...
in Detroit), Steve Wolford, and a returning Hal Clement (who had switched from sports to news in 1983 while at KFMB).
Eventually, KGTV would decline after Hunt left to anchor the news at KUSI-TV
KUSI-TV
KUSI-TV, virtual channel 51.1, is an independent television station based in San Diego, California. The station is owned and operated by Channel 51 of San Diego, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of McKinnon Broadcasting...
alongside Tuck, at one point falling to third as KNSD rose to number one at 11 p.m. The Hunt-Lebeau team reunited in early 2008, before LeBeau retired the following year. On August 30, 2008, KGTV became the third station, behind KFMB-TV and KSWB-TV
KSWB-TV
KSWB-TV, virtual channel 69, is a Fox-affiliated television station in San Diego, California. It broadcasts a 720p high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter southeast of Spring Valley...
, to launch local news in High Definition.
KGTV is among the few United States television stations that broadcast local news programs at 7:00 p.m. on weeknights. In May 2010, the newscast was the top rated early evening newscast in the market in the 25-54 demographic.
Newscast titles
- KFSD-TV News (1953–1961)
- KOGO News (1961–1965)
- Eyewitness NewsEyewitness NewsEyewitness 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...
(1965–1977) - The News (1977–1981)
- NewsWatch 10 (1981–1984)
- 10 News (1984–present)
Station slogans
- The Team That Stands for San Diego (1988–1994)
- The Team You Count On Everyday (1994–1998)
- See What Leadership Can Do for You (2000–2004)
- San Diego's (Local) News Leader (2004–present)
Current on-air staff
Anchors- Steve Atkinson - weeknights at 5, 7 and 11 p.m.
- Virginia ChaVirginia ChaVirginia Cha is a Korean American news anchor for HLN based in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining the network in 2005, Cha was an NBC correspondent based in New York. Cha, a former Miss Maryland, was first runner up in the 1990 Miss America pageant....
- weeknights at 6 p.m. (starting December 5, 2011) - Bill Griffith - weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.) and 11 a.m.
- Kimberly HuntKimberly HuntKimberly Hunt is an Emmy Award winning San Diego news anchor/reporter for KGTV. During her career Hunt has interviewed sitting Presidents, Oprah Winfrey, and other military, political and business leaders...
- weeknights at 5, 7 and 11 p.m. - Itica Milanes - weekends at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.; also weeknight reporter and fill-in anchor
- Kaushal Patel - weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.) and 11 a.m.
- Preston Phillips - weekends at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.; also weeknight reporter and fill-in anchor
10 News Pinpoint Weather
- Pat Brown - chief weather anchor; weeknights at 5, 6, 7 and 11 p.m.
- Robert Santos - weather anchor; weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.) and 11 a.m.
- Craig Herrera (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...
Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekends at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. - Natasha Stenbock- fill-in
Sports team
- Ben Higgins - sports director; Sunday-Thursdays at 6 and 11 p.m.
- Steve Smith - sports anchor; Fridays and Saturdays at 6 and 11 p.m.
Traffic
- Phil Konstantin - Sky10 reporter
- Melissa Mecija - weekday morning traffic reporter
Reporters
- Allison Ash - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Rachel Bianco - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Mitch Blacher - "I-Team" investigative reporter
- John Carroll - general assignment reporter
- Sandy Castelblanco- general assignment reporter
- Michael Chen - general assignment reporter
- Cary Chow - general assignment reporter
- Luis Cruz - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Ariana Duarte - general assignment reporter
- Steve Fiorina - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Vanessa Van Hyfte- general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Jennifer Jensen - general assignment reporter
- Nina Jimenez - general assignment reporter
- Bob Lawrence - military reporter
- Joe Little - South Bay reporter
- Melissa Mecija- general assignment reporter
- Hannah Mullen- general assignment reporter
- Salvador Rivera - general assignment reporter
Former on-air staff
- Harold GreeneHarold GreeneHarold Greene is a former award-winning journalist, best known for working at KCAL 9 News and CBS 2 News in Los Angeles. Before joining the CBS duopoly, Greene enjoyed a long television news career, mostly in Southern California....
- anchor/reporter (1974–1977 and 1980–1982, later at KCBS-TVKCBS-TVKCBS-TV, channel 2, is an owned-and-operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Los Angeles, California. KCBS-TV shares its offices and studio facilities with sister station KCAL-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter...
in Los Angeles, has since retired.) - Lisa KimLisa KimElizabeth Lee Kim-Lohmann , known professionally as Lisa Kim, is a former television news anchor for an NBC-affiliated station in the San Francisco Bay Area and a former news anchor for MSNBC.- Early life and education :...
- Anchor (1986–1994), last 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...
in San Jose/San Francisco) - Lisa Lake- Morning and Midday anchor (1995-2008)
- Paul MagersPaul MagersPaul Magers is a television news anchor for the CBS owned and operated television station KCBS in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Santa Maria, California, but grew up in Ellensburg, Washington...
(1981–1983, now at KCBS-TVKCBS-TVKCBS-TV, channel 2, is an owned-and-operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Los Angeles, California. KCBS-TV shares its offices and studio facilities with sister station KCAL-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter...
in Los Angeles) - Bryon Miranda
- 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...
- Reporter (1991–1993) - Regis PhilbinRegis PhilbinRegis Francis Xavier Philbin is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Philbin is often called "the hardest working man in show business" and holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera...
- Talk show at KGTV (1961–1964, Now a talk and game show host-- Live with Regis and KellyLive with Regis and KellyLive! 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) - Sarah PurcellSarah PurcellSarah Purcell is an American former talk show host, game show host, and panelist.She was co-host of The Better Sex , Real People , America , and The Home Show , and made guest appearances on several TV dramas. She also co-starred in the 1981 film Terror Among Us with Tracy Reed...
- Talk show host (late 1970s, later co-hosted NBC's Real PeopleReal PeopleReal People is an NBC reality television series that aired from 1979 to 1984, on Wednesday and then Sunday nights. Its initial episodes aired live in the Eastern and Central Time Zones.-Synopsis:...
) - Larry Sacknoff - Sportscaster (1978–1992)
- Billy Ray Smith - Sportscaster (1993–1997, now at XX Sports Radio)
- Bree WalkerBree WalkerBree Walker is a radio talk show host, actress, and disability-rights activist, who gained fame as the first on-air American television network news anchor with ectrodactyly. Walker worked as a news anchor and/or reporter in San Diego, New York City, and Los Angeles.Walker was born in Oakland,...
- Anchor/Reporter (1980–1987)
Station personnel
- Jeff Block - Vice President & General Manager
- Joel Davis - News Director
- Brad McLellan - News Assignment Manager