KNTV
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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
(the Telemundo
station for the Bay Area) and CNBC
's Silicon Valley
Bureau. The new digital facilities were constructed in San Jose by NBC in 2004. KNTV's studios are entirely powered by wind energy. KNTV is one of five television stations that is licensed to San Jose (another is KTVU's
sister station KICU).
On cable, KNTV is broadcast on cable channel 3 on Comcast
cable systems in the Bay Area market. In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive NBC programs over-the-air, KNTV is available as part of All American Direct's standard definition distant network package.
, intended to cover the California coastal area from Monterey
north to San Francisco. Its transmitter was located on Loma Prieta Peak, some 60 miles (100 km) south of San Francisco. It often aired CBS
, DuMont
and NBC shows that were turned down by San Francisco's KPIX-TV
and KRON-TV
, as well as some ABC
shows that also aired on KGO-TV
.
However, the station was not viable as an independent, and the going got even more difficult when Oakland-based KTVU
signed on in 1958. However, due to its transmitter location, its signal could be received fairly well in the nearby Monterey Bay
area (Monterey and Salinas
). Taking advantage of this, KNTV sought and was granted the ABC affiliation for the Monterey Bay area, on condition that it reduce its power so as not to overlap with KGO-TV. Previously, all three networks had been shoehorned on Salinas' KSBW
. KNTV thus became one of the few stations located outside the market it served.
Channel 11 was then purchased by Gill Cable, the local cable operator for San Jose. Even as an ABC affiliate, KNTV occasionally preempted a few ABC programs. KGO-TV, as an ABC owned and operated station, cleared the entire ABC schedule, so this often gave San Jose and Silicon Valley Area residents a second choice for viewing preempted ABC programming.
Gill Cable sold KNTV to what was then Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises LLC) in 1978. Twelve years later, Landmark sold the station to the Granite Broadcasting Corporation
, a minority-owned firm.
, saw the need to expand KGO-TV's exclusive advertising market share to San Jose for this reason, and it felt KNTV was taking away from the share. On July 3, 2000, KNTV terminated its ABC affiliation, and temporarily carried WB
programming (simulcast with then co-owned KBWB-TV, now KOFY-TV). It cost the Monterey Bay area an ABC affiliate, so to compensate for the loss, KGO-TV was then added to cable systems in that market, but certain syndicated shows only meant for Bay Area viewers had to be SyndEx-ed out. However, on December 20, 2010, nearly ten years after KNTV terminated its affiliation with ABC, KSBW announced that the station will carry ABC programming beginning April 18, 2011 over on its second digital subchannel
.
(FCC) ruled that KNTV was officially part of the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland designated market area as Nielsen Media Research
had reclassified KNTV as part of the then fifth-largest market in September 2000 and KNTV had fulfilled FCC regulatory requirements to be considered part of the market by doubling its signal power to better cover the Bay Area.
In 2000, the deYoung family, owners of longtime affiliate KRON-TV
, had put all of its properties up for sale. NBC, which had been in the midst of renewing its affiliation agreement with KRON, jumped into the bidding, but narrowly lost to Young Broadcasting
. NBC responded by threatening to yank its programming from KRON unless Young agreed to run it under the conventions of an NBC O&O. The network also made the unprecedented demand that Young pay the network $10 million a year to remain affiliated with NBC. Young refused, and announced that it would end KRON's 52-year affiliation with NBC at the end of 2001.
Soon afterward, Granite contacted NBC and offered to pay
an average of $
37 million annually (totaling roughly $362 million over 10 years) for the rights to broadcast NBC programs on KNTV. This agreement was ground-breaking and notable, as it reversed the long-standing model whereby networks paid affiliates to carry their programming. NBC accepted the deal, and KNTV officially joined NBC at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day
2002. Jay Leno
officially welcomed NBC's newest station in a ceremony on The Tonight Show, followed later by The Today Show, where Al Roker
introduced the anchors of KNTV at its former studios. KNTV became the first major market affiliate to pay a network for programming. With KRON's loss of the affiliation, NBC was the only major network in the Bay Area to switch from one station to another. KNTV is the third Bay Area station to affiliate with NBC as primary CBS affiliate KPIX-TV
had the affiliation first (as a secondary) in 1948 upon its launch until KRON was launched the year after.
Local news coverage of San Jose events was cut and the station's news coverage rebuilt to target the larger Bay Area area audience. For Granite Broadcasting, the deal was expensive; the company showed a net loss of $44 million for the first three quarters of 2001, more than double its same-period losses one year previous. In an attempt to reduce debts, Granite started looking for a buyer for Detroit WB affiliate WDWB in October 2001.
In December 2001, NBC announced another twist on the deal: this time to purchase the station from cash-strapped Granite for $230 million. The network already owned Telemundo
station KSTS-TV in San Jose and wanted to create a duopoly
in the Bay Area. The transaction was finalized in April 2002.
After the switch to NBC affiliation, KNTV was rebranded as "NBC3" to reflect its position on cable channel 3 on nearly every cable system in the Bay Area. The "NBC3" branding was Granite's idea, but backfired due to confusion with Sacramento
's longtime NBC affiliate KCRA-TV
, which is viewable over the air and on cable in parts of the North Bay and East Bay as channel 3. NBC was moreover unimpressed with the "virtual channel" approach, and rebranded
the station to "NBC11" in fall 2002. While KNTV is the only VHF station in the region not to have a cable channel match the analog, the station contracted with cable provider AT&T Broadband (now Comcast
) for the cable 3 allocation, previously unused by any other local station. It has always been on channel 3 on cable in San Jose, dating back to its first days. The marketing mishap meant that cities that carried KNTV on cable channel 11 had to move it down to channel 3 within months of the switch. During the 2004 Summer Olympics
, the station heavily promoted channel 11 through its "i11uminating" marketing campaign (with the number "11" used in place of the "L" letters).
Even in the early years as the new NBC affiliate, KNTV aired NBC's daytime drama lineup much later in the afternoon than most affiliates. KRON had done this for years as an NBC affiliate. Soon enough by August 2004, KNTV fell in line with the network's recommended time slot and now airs Days of our Lives
(NBC's remaining afternoon daytime drama) at the recommended 1pm timeslot.
In the early years as an NBC station, KNTV still broadcast from its longtime transmitter location on Loma Prieta Peak (located between San Jose and Santa Cruz
), but did not increase its power to improve its coverage in San Francisco and Oakland. This caused two problems. First, the signal could not be seen over the air in much of the Bay Area north of San Mateo County, including much of San Francisco itself. Second, because of the affiliation and market switches, it was dropped from or had NBC programming blocked in many cable systems in the Monterey Bay Area (Salinas/Monterey DMA) under SyndEx guidelines; even so, the signal was still overlapping with KSBW.
That all changed on September 12, 2005, when KNTV was able to finally move its transmitter to San Bruno Mountain
, giving it a signal comparable to the other major Bay Area stations. The move came after years of objection from Young Broadcasting, owner of KRON, which in its filings alleged that KNTV would cease to serve thousands of San Jose residents by moving closer to San Francisco.
Some San Francisco residents, especially in the Sunset and Richmond districts of San Francisco, still found it difficult to receive an adequate off-air signal because they are shielded by San Bruno Mountain. Most of the other Bay Area stations operate from the Sutro Tower
, which has a better overall view of San Francisco proper, although at the expense of those in northern San Mateo County, where San Bruno Mountain acts as a shield. However, most of the Bay Area is covered with a strong signal from all of the stations.
The year closed, however, with a devastating fire at the retired transmitting facility on Loma Prieta Peak. The fire was quickly extinguished on the afternoon of December 31. However, the fire re-ignited after firefighters had left the scene, and destroyed the formerly-primary analog and digital transmitters, which had only been retired a few months earlier and were in backup status, as well as a variety of other communications gear.
moved its Silicon Valley
bureau, formerly located at the Wall Street Journal in Palo Alto, into the NBC11/T48 San Jose studios. Jim Goldman (a former reporter at the pre-NBC KNTV and then-NBC KRON) is the bureau chief, and the main CNBC reporter covering the financial aspects of Silicon Valley. Its set (seen daily nationally on CNBC) occupies a portion of the KNTV newsroom. In May 2007, Rich Cerussi, Executive Vice President of the NBC Station Group's national sales organization in New York was named KNTV President and General Manager, succeeding Linda Sullivan, who was named President and General Manager of KNBC
in Los Angeles. Cerussi had previously served as KNTV's general sales manager under both Granite and NBC ownership.
Falling in line with many of the NBC Universal
job layoffs of the past two years, on June 29, 2009, KNTV trimmed the jobs of San Francisco/Oakland Reporters Noelle Walker, Ethan Harp, Christien Kafton, and San Jose reporter Daniel Garza. Other behind-the-scenes jobs were cut involving production, engineering, clerical staff and Control Room Operations.
For the first half of 2009, the recession forced NBC to direct KNTV to continue its cost cutting. KNTV extended its job cuts with additional rounds of lay-offs. These lay-offs went deep into the organization, forcing KNTV to shed some of its most valuable talent, including Chief Weatherman John Farley, who left the station in late-March 2009. Cost cutting included closing the Sacramento bureau, and the layoff of NBC Sacramento Bureau Chief Mike Luery. NBC closed its San Francisco sales office, closing the KNTV bureau. The Oakland mini-bureau, located near Oakland Coliseum, was also closed. The last day of video footage from the stations helicopter in which the station purchased a helicopter in 2006 was on April 30, 2009. After former chief meteorologist John Farley had left KNTV, weekend weather segments originated from the NBC News West Coast Headquarters in Burbank
, leaving with only two meteorologists at the time of Farley's departure. The station had to rely on KNBC meteorologist Pablo Pereira on weekends for a time being until on May 22, 2009, when TVNewser reported that Jeff Ranieri
was leaving NBC News in New York to join KNTV. Ranieri currently serves as chief meteorologist.
With the Giants being broadcast on KNTV for the 2010 season, former NBC station KRON-TV began to broadcast NBC programming as a secondary affiliation, which is the first time in eight years that KRON has done this. This comes after a shared services agreement was discussed between KRON, NBC Universal
, and KRON's owner, Young Broadcasting. However, as a result, the schedule lineups are altered to accommodate any San Francisco Giants
game.
On April 13, 2010, KNTV became the subject of Stephen Colbert
's program, The Colbert Report, where Colbert played a clip read by weekend anchor Diane Dwyer on the issue of "unpaid internships". Colbert would eventually use that given clip to set the stage for laughs based on unpaid interns.
On October 12, 2010, KNTV hosted its first debate since becoming owned by NBC Universal. Its 5, 6, and 11 pm newscast was broadcast live at San Rafael
's Dominican University of California, though the latter newscast were used as a wrap-up of the debate. The debate between California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman
and Jerry Brown
was moderated by NBC News
special correspondent Tom Brokaw
. This program was simulcast on both NBC O&O KNBC
and KNSD
, as well as on Hearst Television owned KCRA
and KSBW
, and several other NBC stations within California.
KNTV also has a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 11.1, broadcasting at 1.83 Mbit/s.
, is carried as subchannel 11.2; the national network is defunct as of December 2008; however, a computer-updated loop of satellite/radar images, current weather conditions and temperatures, and daily forecasts for major regions of the country was shown after the shutdown, along with the continued use of the "L" Bar, which gave weather conditions in the Bay Area and a five day forecast. KNTV, along with both KNBC and KNSD, was expected to launch NBC California Nonstop somewhere between December 2010 and January 2011 on their second digital subchannels, which will replace NBC Plus. It contains live news, public affairs programming, and some of KNTV's locally produced programs such as In Wine Country. After several months of delays, California Nonstop began transmission on May 3, 2011, with additional newscasts such as an hour-long 7 p.m. newscast, which will be anchored in the Bay Area by Brent Cannon.
is used to display KNTV's virtual channel
as 11 on digital television receivers. KNTV is now the largest NBC affiliate on the VHF band — and the only NBC O&O to broadcast on VHF.
and WNBC
.
has adopted in 1999, however, KNTV has two versions of the editorial. The first version is the focus of the issue, while the second version is the selected viewer's response. As of July 2010, KNTV is currently the only station in the Bay Area
to have an editorial. Unlike KSBW, which airs the editorial on weekends, KNTV continuously airs those editorials throughout each week either during or after newscasts.
hockey when they are broadcast on NBC as part of the NHL on NBC package, as well as local sports coverage also carried by NBC Sports
. Also, KNTV would air a special edition of a newscasts or "Sports Sunday" primarily for local post-game highlights, such as the US Open at Pebble Beach in 2010, and most recently, the post-game highlights of the NFL
's San Francisco 49ers
and/or Oakland Raiders
if they are part of NBC Sunday Night Football
.
is broadcast, Jerry Rice
and Nnamdi Asomugha
also co-host the program during the season. Before a commercial break, if a guest cameraman is in the KNTV studio, Mathai also mentions them, and notable guest cameramen that were mentioned includes players from a Bay Area sports team and St. Louis Cardinals
manager Tony La Russa
.
' for the next three years, through 2010. The Giants had aired their games on KTVU since moving to the Bay Area in 1958. The debut on KNTV was on April 1, 2008, the day after the rebranding from FSN Bay Area to CSN Bay Area.
KNTV broadcasts 20 to 40 San Francisco Giants
baseball games a year, which are produced by CSN Bay Area. On game nights during KNTV's 6pm newscast, a preview of the game is shown usually during sports segments, with Raj Mathai usually at the ballpark, and Jeff Ranieri giving the forecast specifically for the game. The pregame segments would continue up to the broadcast following the newscasts. During the broadcast, the "peacock" logo is inserted into the top-right hand of the scoreboard in lieu of the "CSN" logo. The music package heard on KNTV differs from the packages heard on CSN Bay Area or CSN California. Jon Miller
and Mike Krukow
normally serve as host of the telecasts, but occasionally, Dave Flemming
, Duane Kuiper
, and Greg Papa
would also fill-in. During games with the Oakland A's
, broadcaster Ray Fosse would also join in, particularly when Giants baseball is only aired on KNTV and not on either CSN Bay Area or CSN California. In addition to the broadcast, KNTV also airs "Giants Clubhouse" on weekends. In this case, all of the Giant's broadcast are currently in HD. During a Giants' telecast on KNTV, promos will often air, such as upcoming newscasts and NBC Sports
coverage that is scheduled to air. Giants' baseball are preempted when the Summer Olympics are held due to NBC currently holding the rights to the Olympics (an example of this is the 2008 Beijing Olympics).
On July 16, 2010, for a Friday night home game against the New York Mets
, sports director Raj Mathai briefly broadcast part of the first inning because Miller had to make his way to the TV booth. This is because the Giants were honoring Miller as one of the legendary broadcasters before he received the 2010 Ford Frick Award about a week later, since the coverage was on KNTV. Following the Giants winning the 2010 World Series
on November 1, 2010, KNTV immediately announced that the station would have wall-to-wall coverage of the post game parade that took place in San Francisco, with live coverage beginning at 11 a.m. on November 3 in order to not interfere with election coverage. The Giants' contract with KNTV ran out at the end of the 2010 season, however, the broadcast still continues on KNTV when the 2011 schedule was released on March 6, 2011.
Many changes did take place in the sports department. The station first announced in December 2010 that Raj Mathai will move up to anchor the weeknight newscast, though Mathai did remain being the host of Sports Sunday for a while after the change while still hosting Giants' games. This comes when Comcast has already purchased a majority stake of NBC, pending approval from both the FCC
and the Department of Justice, which eventually became effective later under several conditions. On January 3, 2011, KNTV introduced a new sports segment called "Xfinity Sports Desk" that airs weeknights during the 6 and 11 p.m. newscast. It uses a similar format that mirrors that of NBC Sports
, although there is no content overlap between NBC Sports and the KNTV sports segment due to the fact that KNTV covers local sports.
The relationship with CSN Bay Area grew closer when on April 20, 2011, KNTV announced that CSN Bay Area will produce sports segments beginning in June, with CSN also planning a new set specifically for KNTV's segments. The move also would include elements from CSN Bay Area during KNTV sports segments. Similar to the news content used by WNBC
when WNBC was the test platform for additional news coverage, KNTV would be the test base for NBC O&O stations which include WNBC, along with WMAQ
in Chicago, WCAU
in Philadelphia, and WRC
in Washington D.C.; those also have its cable sports networks. The new segment would make the first such station to replace a traditional sports segment, in which CSN has 140 reporters on staff. The new segment commenced on June 13, 2011.
, The Real Housewives, The Nate Berkus Show
, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
, and Extra
.
; the latter is produced by Sony and Harpo Studios after NBC Universal
and Sony Pictures Television
reached an agreement. KNTV also announced the addition of Access Hollywood Live (along with both KNBC and KNSD
), which debuted in HD on September 13, 2010, but Access Hollywood started broadcasting in HD on September 7, 2010. This comes following the announcement of Bonnie Hunt's cancellation and The Martha Stewart Show's move to The Hallmark Channel for the 2010-11 season. As a result, on September 6, 2010, Wendy Williams
time slot moved to KOFY-TV following KNTV's acquisition announcement of the three shows.
viewers almost exclusively. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the KNTV news theme was based on the 1968 hit song "Do You Know the Way to San Jose
." KNTV then competed with KSBW
and KMST/KCCN (now KION-TV
) which were both located in the immediate part of Monterey Bay. In fall 1987, KNTV aired Good Morning San Jose from 6:45 to 7 a.m. That was then KNTV's only local morning newscast, aside from local cut-ins to Good Morning America.
Today, with the addition of California Nonstop over on its second digital subchannel, KNTV produces 32½ hours of local news per week, with 5½ hours on weekdays and 2½ hours on weekends. On weekdays, a 2½ hour newscast begins at 4:30am, followed by a half-hour block at 5pm, a one-hour block at 6pm, and a 35-minute wrap at 11pm. On weekends, a one-hour newscast begins at 7am, followed by half-hour blocks at 5, 6, and 11pm. Sunday's 5 and 6pm newscasts are preempted for NBC's "Football Night in America" during football season. When NBC Sunday Night Football
airs on KNTV, the station would air an early edition of "Sports Sunday" immediately after the game, hosted by Raj Mathai and former football star Jerry Rice
, with occasional news updates if breaking news occurs. Upon the affiliation and market switch, KNTV was added to the competition with KTVU, KRON-TV, KPIX and KGO-TV. As of May 2010, NBC Nightly News
is occasionally preempted on weekends to allow another 30 minutes of local newscasts primarily due to extensive coverage from NBC Sports
, which often is the case for other NBC O&O stations.
On June 17, 2007, KNTV introduced former KGO-TV anchor Jessica Aguirre to the new 5 p.m. newscast, a stand-up interactive newscast where viewers were able to chat live online during the newscast. In addition, a Fast Feedback on the day's news was introduced to the station, in which viewers could comment on what they thought of the issue. In late April 2008, the format changed as the anchors were no longer standing up throughout the newscast due to the control room undergoing messy construction in the background of the studio, due to the station receiving an HD upgrade. Also, Lisa Kim
started anchoring the 5 p.m. broadcast while Jessica switched over to 6 p.m.; however, the interactive live chat/discussion along with the fast feedback would remain on the newscast.
, but upon the switch to HD, most of the field reporting were still in 4:3 standard definition for about a year. After the switch, the master control center and local commercial insertion for KNTV and KSTS were located at NBC Universal's West Coast headquarters in Burbank, California
until mid-2009 when KNTV upgraded its master control center in order for the videos to be shot in HD. (Its sister station, KNSD
, is the only station that currently uses the master control center in Burbank.) In addition, weather graphics were still in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition until the introduction of new HD weather graphics on January 15, 2010, which debuted during the 5pm newscasts. As of June 2010, all of the field cameras are shot in HD, and as of August 2010, some field reports that are shot in HD are re-aired on NBC News
programs when breaking news occurs.
On the day of the switch to HD, KNTV changed its on-air branding from "NBC11" to "NBC Bay Area", with only the "NBC" and its peacock logo on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen until mid-2009. Graphics, style and music were changed on air, similar to other NBC owned-and-operated stations (i.e., KNBC
in Los Angeles
& WNBC
in New York
). The "NBC 11" digital on-screen graphic
is retained on its syndicated and local programs; additionally the station's website continued to be branded as "NBC 11" until October 16, when it was also renamed to "NBC Bay Area", which is part of a larger relaunch of the NBC O&O stations' websites and unrelated to the on-air rebrand. For the 11:00 p.m. news broadcast, the station retained the "11@11" moniker for the 11:00 p.m. news broadcast, but de-emphasized it. The station also retained the "top stories in the first eleven minutes" saying at the beginning of the 11:00 p.m. newscast, but no longer ran non-stop news and a weather summary during the first eleven minutes.
A few months after switching to HD, KNTV is one of the first NBC O&O stations to carry a 4:30am newscast, and the third station to carry a newscast earlier than 5am. Most NBC O&O stations would eventually follow suit, and Early Today
was pushed back live to 4am (both Eastern/Pacific) as a result due to cancellations of its midday newscasts on many of its O&Os. (One of KNTV's competitors, KGO
, already has its 4:30 am newscasts, but ABC's America This Morning is broadcasted on a tape-delay rather than "live.")
KNTV currently is the only NBC owned and operated station to use the WNBC theme music during the majority of its newscasts. KNTV has previously used the Tower v.1 series upon its switch to NBC. It also uses its own station ID during newscasts openings. However, when breaking news or a developing story occurs, KNTV would use opening graphics specifically for those openings instead of its normal news opening, with its own station ID on the bottom of the screen afterwords.
On September 1, 2010, KNTV introduced its own localized version of the Today show, Today in the Bay. It features morning news, weather, and traffic reports from KNTV anchors and reporters, as well as segments and interviews very similar to that of the Today Show. The graphics also made a change to mirror that of Today, and the logo is inserted on the bottom-left corner of the screen rather than the bottom-right corner. Weather graphics also made a minor change. Although the branding remains NBC Bay Area News, morning anchors and reporters use the brand Today in the Bay. The 4:30 a.m. portion of the newscast, however, is entitled, Today in the East Bay, focusing primarily on the eastern half of the Bay Area, leading to the two-hour 5 a.m. newscast. In all cases, a new music package was created specifically for their morning show.
meteorologist Nick O'Kelly, and freelance sports anchors Justin Allen and Christine Nubla, in which all except Tellez previously had stints at KNTV.
On January 22, 2011, the day that Mathai started to anchor the weeknight newscast, the new set was unveiled. During weather segments, meteorologists and weather anchors no longer had to rely on a "green screen" to present their forecasts, only to revert back a few days later.
On August 10, 2011, Janelle Wang replaced Jessica Aguirre as the 5 p.m. anchor. Wang and Mathai are the only Asian American
weekday anchor team outside of Hawaii.
(NOTE: + indicates personalities based at Comcast SportsNet Bay Area)
NBC
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owned-and-operated television station
Television station
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in the Bay Area market. It is licensed to San Jose
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
, with its transmitter located on San Bruno Mountain
San Bruno Mountain
San Bruno Mountain in northern San Mateo County, California is the northernmost part of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Most of the mountain lies within the San Bruno Mountain State Park, a unique open-space island in the midst of the San Francisco Peninsula's urbanization. Next to the state park is the...
, just south of San Francisco. It shares facilities in San Jose with NBC Universal
NBC Universal
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sister station KSTS
KSTS
KSTS is the NBCUniversal owned and operated Telemundo television station in the San Francisco Bay Area market. The station is located in San Jose, California and broadcasts on digital channel 49. KSTS shares facilities with NBC sister operation KNTV. The new all-digital broadcast center was opened...
(the Telemundo
Telemundo
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station for the Bay Area) and CNBC
CNBC
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's Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
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Bureau. The new digital facilities were constructed in San Jose by NBC in 2004. KNTV's studios are entirely powered by wind energy. KNTV is one of five television stations that is licensed to San Jose (another is KTVU's
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...
sister station KICU).
On cable, KNTV is broadcast on cable channel 3 on Comcast
Comcast
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cable systems in the Bay Area market. In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive NBC programs over-the-air, KNTV is available as part of All American Direct's standard definition distant network package.
The early years (1955-1999)
KNTV signed on the air on September 12, 1955. It was the first television station in San Jose and the Silicon Valley, originally owned by Sunlite Bakery. KNTV was originally an independent stationIndependent station
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, intended to cover the California coastal area from Monterey
Monterey, California
The City of Monterey in Monterey County is located on Monterey Bay along the Pacific coast in Central California. Monterey lies at an elevation of 26 feet above sea level. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 27,810. Monterey is of historical importance because it was the capital of...
north to San Francisco. Its transmitter was located on Loma Prieta Peak, some 60 miles (100 km) south of San Francisco. It often aired CBS
CBS
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, DuMont
DuMont Television Network
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and NBC shows that were turned down by San Francisco's KPIX-TV
KPIX-TV
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and KRON-TV
KRON-TV
KRON-TV, virtual channel 4 , is a television station in San Francisco, California, serving as the Bay Area affiliate of the MyNetworkTV programming service; the station is owned by Young Broadcasting...
, as well as some ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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shows that also aired on KGO-TV
KGO-TV
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...
.
However, the station was not viable as an independent, and the going got even more difficult when Oakland-based 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...
signed on in 1958. However, due to its transmitter location, its signal could be received fairly well in the nearby Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean, along the central coast of California. The bay is south of San Francisco and San Jose, between the cities of Santa Cruz and Monterey....
area (Monterey and 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...
). Taking advantage of this, KNTV sought and was granted the ABC affiliation for the Monterey Bay area, on condition that it reduce its power so as not to overlap with KGO-TV. Previously, all three networks had been shoehorned on Salinas' 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...
. KNTV thus became one of the few stations located outside the market it served.
Channel 11 was then purchased by Gill Cable, the local cable operator for San Jose. Even as an ABC affiliate, KNTV occasionally preempted a few ABC programs. KGO-TV, as an ABC owned and operated station, cleared the entire ABC schedule, so this often gave San Jose and Silicon Valley Area residents a second choice for viewing preempted ABC programming.
Gill Cable sold KNTV to what was then Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises LLC) in 1978. Twelve years later, Landmark sold the station to the 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...
, a minority-owned firm.
The end of the ABC era (1999–2001)
In 1999, KGO-TV agreed to pay Granite a substantial fee to stop the station from running ABC programming when its affiliation contract expired. ABC's parent, The Walt Disney CompanyThe Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
, saw the need to expand KGO-TV's exclusive advertising market share to San Jose for this reason, and it felt KNTV was taking away from the share. On July 3, 2000, KNTV terminated its ABC affiliation, and temporarily carried WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
programming (simulcast with then co-owned KBWB-TV, now KOFY-TV). It cost the Monterey Bay area an ABC affiliate, so to compensate for the loss, KGO-TV was then added to cable systems in that market, but certain syndicated shows only meant for Bay Area viewers had to be SyndEx-ed out. However, on December 20, 2010, nearly ten years after KNTV terminated its affiliation with ABC, KSBW announced that the station will carry ABC programming beginning April 18, 2011 over on its second digital subchannel
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...
.
The early years as an NBC affiliate (2001–2004)
In March 2001, the Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) ruled that KNTV was officially part of the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland designated market area as Nielsen Media Research
Nielsen Media Research
Nielsen Media Research is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre films and newspapers...
had reclassified KNTV as part of the then fifth-largest market in September 2000 and KNTV had fulfilled FCC regulatory requirements to be considered part of the market by doubling its signal power to better cover the Bay Area.
In 2000, the deYoung family, owners of longtime affiliate KRON-TV
KRON-TV
KRON-TV, virtual channel 4 , is a television station in San Francisco, California, serving as the Bay Area affiliate of the MyNetworkTV programming service; the station is owned by Young Broadcasting...
, had put all of its properties up for sale. NBC, which had been in the midst of renewing its affiliation agreement with KRON, jumped into the bidding, but narrowly lost to Young Broadcasting
Young Broadcasting
New Young Broadcasting Holding Co, Inc. is an owner of 14 television stations in 11 United States media markets. The company was formerly known as Young Broadcasting Inc. and was the outgrowth of the ad representation/invest firm Adam Young, Inc. which was founded in 1944 by Adam Young and is...
. NBC responded by threatening to yank its programming from KRON unless Young agreed to run it under the conventions of an NBC O&O. The network also made the unprecedented demand that Young pay the network $10 million a year to remain affiliated with NBC. Young refused, and announced that it would end KRON's 52-year affiliation with NBC at the end of 2001.
Soon afterward, Granite contacted NBC and offered to pay
Reverse compensation
Reverse compensation, in United States broadcasting, is the practice of a commercial television station paying a television network in exchange for being permitted to affiliate with that network...
an average of $
United States dollar
The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
37 million annually (totaling roughly $362 million over 10 years) for the rights to broadcast NBC programs on KNTV. This agreement was ground-breaking and notable, as it reversed the long-standing model whereby networks paid affiliates to carry their programming. NBC accepted the deal, and KNTV officially joined NBC at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day
New Year's Day
New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome...
2002. Jay Leno
Jay Leno
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno is an American stand-up comedian and television host.From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. ,...
officially welcomed NBC's newest station in a ceremony on The Tonight Show, followed later by The Today Show, where Al Roker
Al Roker
Albert Lincoln "Al" Roker, Jr. is an American television meteorologist as well as an actor and book author. He is best known as being the weather anchor on NBC's Today. On Monday, July 20, 2009, he began co-hosting his new morning show, Wake Up with Al, on The Weather Channel, which airs weekdays...
introduced the anchors of KNTV at its former studios. KNTV became the first major market affiliate to pay a network for programming. With KRON's loss of the affiliation, NBC was the only major network in the Bay Area to switch from one station to another. KNTV is the third Bay Area station to affiliate with NBC as primary CBS affiliate KPIX-TV
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 ....
had the affiliation first (as a secondary) in 1948 upon its launch until KRON was launched the year after.
Local news coverage of San Jose events was cut and the station's news coverage rebuilt to target the larger Bay Area area audience. For Granite Broadcasting, the deal was expensive; the company showed a net loss of $44 million for the first three quarters of 2001, more than double its same-period losses one year previous. In an attempt to reduce debts, Granite started looking for a buyer for Detroit WB affiliate WDWB in October 2001.
In December 2001, NBC announced another twist on the deal: this time to purchase the station from cash-strapped Granite for $230 million. The network already owned Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
station KSTS-TV in San Jose and wanted to create a duopoly
Duopoly (broadcasting)
In United States broadcast television and radio, duopoly is a term used to describe a single company which owns two or more stations in the same city or community....
in the Bay Area. The transaction was finalized in April 2002.
Sacramento
Sacramento is the capital of the state of California, in the United States of America.Sacramento may also refer to:- United States :*Sacramento County, California*Sacramento, Kentucky*Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta...
's longtime NBC affiliate KCRA-TV
KCRA-TV
KCRA-TV, channel 3, is a television station in Sacramento, California, United States. KCRA-TV is owned by Hearst Television, a subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, and is an affiliate of the NBC television network...
, which is viewable over the air and on cable in parts of the North Bay and East Bay as channel 3. NBC was moreover unimpressed with the "virtual channel" approach, and rebranded
Rebranding
Rebranding is the creation of a new name, term, symbol, design, or a combination of them for an established brand with the intention of developing a differentiated position in the mind of stakeholders and competitors....
the station to "NBC11" in fall 2002. While KNTV is the only VHF station in the region not to have a cable channel match the analog, the station contracted with cable provider AT&T Broadband (now Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
) for the cable 3 allocation, previously unused by any other local station. It has always been on channel 3 on cable in San Jose, dating back to its first days. The marketing mishap meant that cities that carried KNTV on cable channel 11 had to move it down to channel 3 within months of the switch. During the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
, the station heavily promoted channel 11 through its "i11uminating" marketing campaign (with the number "11" used in place of the "L" letters).
Even in the early years as the new NBC affiliate, KNTV aired NBC's daytime drama lineup much later in the afternoon than most affiliates. KRON had done this for years as an NBC affiliate. Soon enough by August 2004, KNTV fell in line with the network's recommended time slot and now airs Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
(NBC's remaining afternoon daytime drama) at the recommended 1pm timeslot.
New office and transmitter location (2004–2007)
On December 13, 2004, NBC converted vacant North San Jose office space into a state-of-the-art, all-digital facility for KNTV and KSTS. After 49 years, the station moved from its cramped, original studios on Park Avenue in downtown San Jose to the new location.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...
), but did not increase its power to improve its coverage in San Francisco and Oakland. This caused two problems. First, the signal could not be seen over the air in much of the Bay Area north of San Mateo County, including much of San Francisco itself. Second, because of the affiliation and market switches, it was dropped from or had NBC programming blocked in many cable systems in the Monterey Bay Area (Salinas/Monterey DMA) under SyndEx guidelines; even so, the signal was still overlapping with KSBW.
That all changed on September 12, 2005, when KNTV was able to finally move its transmitter to San Bruno Mountain
San Bruno Mountain
San Bruno Mountain in northern San Mateo County, California is the northernmost part of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Most of the mountain lies within the San Bruno Mountain State Park, a unique open-space island in the midst of the San Francisco Peninsula's urbanization. Next to the state park is the...
, giving it a signal comparable to the other major Bay Area stations. The move came after years of objection from Young Broadcasting, owner of KRON, which in its filings alleged that KNTV would cease to serve thousands of San Jose residents by moving closer to San Francisco.
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...
, which has a better overall view of San Francisco proper, although at the expense of those in northern San Mateo County, where San Bruno Mountain acts as a shield. However, most of the Bay Area is covered with a strong signal from all of the stations.
The year closed, however, with a devastating fire at the retired transmitting facility on Loma Prieta Peak. The fire was quickly extinguished on the afternoon of December 31. However, the fire re-ignited after firefighters had left the scene, and destroyed the formerly-primary analog and digital transmitters, which had only been retired a few months earlier and were in backup status, as well as a variety of other communications gear.
New leadership and decline (2007–present)
In January 2007 CNBCCNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
moved its Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
bureau, formerly located at the Wall Street Journal in Palo Alto, into the NBC11/T48 San Jose studios. Jim Goldman (a former reporter at the pre-NBC KNTV and then-NBC KRON) is the bureau chief, and the main CNBC reporter covering the financial aspects of Silicon Valley. Its set (seen daily nationally on CNBC) occupies a portion of the KNTV newsroom. In May 2007, Rich Cerussi, Executive Vice President of the NBC Station Group's national sales organization in New York was named KNTV President and General Manager, succeeding Linda Sullivan, who was named President and General Manager of KNBC
KNBC
KNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KNBC's studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson...
in Los Angeles. Cerussi had previously served as KNTV's general sales manager under both Granite and NBC ownership.
Falling in line with many of the NBC Universal
NBC Universal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...
job layoffs of the past two years, on June 29, 2009, KNTV trimmed the jobs of San Francisco/Oakland Reporters Noelle Walker, Ethan Harp, Christien Kafton, and San Jose reporter Daniel Garza. Other behind-the-scenes jobs were cut involving production, engineering, clerical staff and Control Room Operations.
For the first half of 2009, the recession forced NBC to direct KNTV to continue its cost cutting. KNTV extended its job cuts with additional rounds of lay-offs. These lay-offs went deep into the organization, forcing KNTV to shed some of its most valuable talent, including Chief Weatherman John Farley, who left the station in late-March 2009. Cost cutting included closing the Sacramento bureau, and the layoff of NBC Sacramento Bureau Chief Mike Luery. NBC closed its San Francisco sales office, closing the KNTV bureau. The Oakland mini-bureau, located near Oakland Coliseum, was also closed. The last day of video footage from the stations helicopter in which the station purchased a helicopter in 2006 was on April 30, 2009. After former chief meteorologist John Farley had left KNTV, weekend weather segments originated from the NBC News West Coast Headquarters in Burbank
Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....
, leaving with only two meteorologists at the time of Farley's departure. The station had to rely on KNBC meteorologist Pablo Pereira on weekends for a time being until on May 22, 2009, when TVNewser reported that Jeff Ranieri
Jeff Ranieri
Jeff Ranieri is a Chief Meteorologist for NBC O&O station KNTV in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ranieri previously reported for NBC NEWS on Early Today, and MSNBC weekday mornings & afternoons. He was also a NBC Weather Plus Meteorologist for Weekend Today Saturday...
was leaving NBC News in New York to join KNTV. Ranieri currently serves as chief meteorologist.
With the Giants being broadcast on KNTV for the 2010 season, former NBC station KRON-TV began to broadcast NBC programming as a secondary affiliation, which is the first time in eight years that KRON has done this. This comes after a shared services agreement was discussed between KRON, NBC Universal
NBC Universal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...
, and KRON's owner, Young Broadcasting. However, as a result, the schedule lineups are altered to accommodate any San Francisco Giants
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
game.
On April 13, 2010, KNTV became the subject of Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.Colbert originally studied to be an...
's program, The Colbert Report, where Colbert played a clip read by weekend anchor Diane Dwyer on the issue of "unpaid internships". Colbert would eventually use that given clip to set the stage for laughs based on unpaid interns.
On October 12, 2010, KNTV hosted its first debate since becoming owned by NBC Universal. Its 5, 6, and 11 pm newscast was broadcast live at San Rafael
San Rafael, California
San Rafael is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. The city is located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area...
's Dominican University of California, though the latter newscast were used as a wrap-up of the debate. The debate between California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman
Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman is an American business executive. She is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard. A native of Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School...
and Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...
was moderated by NBC News
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...
special correspondent Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw
Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004. He is the author of The Greatest Generation and other books and the recipient of numerous awards and honors...
. This program was simulcast on both NBC O&O KNBC
KNBC
KNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KNBC's studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson...
and 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...
, as well as on Hearst Television owned KCRA
KCRA-TV
KCRA-TV, channel 3, is a television station in Sacramento, California, United States. KCRA-TV is owned by Hearst Television, a subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, and is an affiliate of the NBC television network...
and 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...
, and several other NBC stations within California.
Digital television
| Channel | Video | Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,... |
Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.1 | 1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
Main KNTV programming / NBC |
| 11.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | NBC California Nonstop NBC California Nonstop NBC California Nonstop is a 24-hour news and entertainment service on the secondary digital television subchannels of NBC's owned-and-operated stations in Los Angeles , San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland , and San Diego... |
| 11.3 | Universal Sports Universal Sports Universal Sports is an American television network that airs various sports, primarily those contested in the Olympic Games, including swimming, gymnastics, cycling, track and field, figure skating, skiing, bobsledding and triathlon.-Programming:... |
KNTV also has a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 11.1, broadcasting at 1.83 Mbit/s.
California Nonstop
NBC Plus, formerly NBC Weather PlusNBC Weather Plus
NBC Weather Plus was a 24-hour, commercially sponsored, weather-oriented broadcast/cable television network jointly owned by NBC Universal and the local affiliates of the NBC network. It debuted on November 15, 2004 and shut down on December 31, 2008...
, is carried as subchannel 11.2; the national network is defunct as of December 2008; however, a computer-updated loop of satellite/radar images, current weather conditions and temperatures, and daily forecasts for major regions of the country was shown after the shutdown, along with the continued use of the "L" Bar, which gave weather conditions in the Bay Area and a five day forecast. KNTV, along with both KNBC and KNSD, was expected to launch NBC California Nonstop somewhere between December 2010 and January 2011 on their second digital subchannels, which will replace NBC Plus. It contains live news, public affairs programming, and some of KNTV's locally produced programs such as In Wine Country. After several months of delays, California Nonstop began transmission on May 3, 2011, with additional newscasts such as an hour-long 7 p.m. newscast, which will be anchored in the Bay Area by Brent Cannon.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KNTV shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009 as part of the DTV transition, it remained on channel 12 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...
is used to display KNTV'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 11 on digital television receivers. KNTV is now the largest NBC affiliate on the VHF band — and the only NBC O&O to broadcast on VHF.
Locally-produced programs
Since being owned by NBC Universal, KNTV has produced its own programs both locally and nationally. Two of KNTV's national and regional distributed programs to NBC stations are Tech Now! and In Wine Country, both of which also airs on California Nonstop. KNTV is one of three NBC O&O stations to distribute programs nationally and/or regionally as of 2010, along with KNBCKNBC
KNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KNBC's studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson...
and 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...
.
- Tech Now is a show that covers the latest in technology and gadgets that generally airs each week. The show is hosted by Scott Budman and produced by Scott McGrew. It started on September 19, 19981998 in televisionThe year 1998 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1998.For the American TV schedule, see: 1998–99 United States network television schedule.-Events:-Debuts:-1950s:...
under Granite Broadcasting ownership before KNTV was purchased by NBC Universal, and the show at one time was popular in GhanaGhanaGhana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
. It is noted that TechNow has been seen around the world, from Hong KongHong KongHong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
to Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
. Tech Now was originally a locally produced show until about a year before the actual DTV transition in June 2009. A special edition dedicated to the DTV transition was available to NBC stations across the country. The special program features some of KNTV's personalities and contributors to Tech Now. The main purpose of that show was to let viewers know about the DTV transition, and how to solve DTV problems through questions, walkthroughs, and tips throughout the show, as well as to let local NBC stations have a word on DTV transition. It was originally broadcasted in April 2008, though there were reruns throughout late 2008 into 2009. Selected shows are distributed to NBC stations (mostly its O&Os) as of August 2010. - In Wine CountryIn Wine CountryIn Wine Country is a lifestyle television show originating from NBC's owned-and-operated station in San Jose, California, KNTV , which serves the San Francisco Bay Area, and also airs throughout the country on the network's "Nonstop" digital subchannels and as part of the overnight schedule early...
debuted in January 2002 under the name "Wine County Living" before the current title change in 2004 and is hosted by Mary Babbitt. The show focuses generally on wines and life in the Napa Valley, but also areas that also produce wine, such as home and garden, food, and travels to places of interests. As of March 2011, the show became a part of the national NBC All Night lineup which airs overnights over the NBC Television Network, on early Sunday mornings. Two episodes began to air in September 2011 with the cancelation of Poker After DarkPoker After DarkPoker After Dark was an hour-long poker television program on NBC. The show made its debut on January 1, 2007, and was cancelled as another victim of the "Black Friday" criminal case due to the show's sponsorship by Full Tilt Poker, one of that case's defendants. on September 23, 2011 For its first...
. - Press: Here is a weekly local technology talk show hosted and moderated by Scott McGrew, which features national reporters from many media and newspaper outlets, like USA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
, The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, and the BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
. The format of the show consists generally of technology issues, as both McGrew and national reporters that also participated would take turns asking tough questions on the issues that faces the consumers to the interviewee. - NBC Class Action, hosted by Jessica Aguirre, is a weekly local interview/talk show that focuses on the education sector happening in the state and around the Bay Area. This show has a similar format to Press: Here, but consists of one or more persons being asked the tough questions that affects local schools.
- NBC At Work is a local lifestyle/job show hosted and created by Vicky NguyenVicky NguyenVicky Nguyen is a television reporter who works as the San Jose Bureau reporter at KNTV in San Jose. Previously, she worked as a collaborator at Phoenix, Arizona's KSAZ-TV channel.-Education:...
. The creation of the show comes as a response to the high jobless rates. Debuted in April 2010 http://www.nbcbayarea.com/shows/at-work/, the format of the show consists of the company's profile, then taking people inside the office and seeing them at work in the process, and including information on application at the end of each segment. - Comunidad Del Valle is a local weekly show that focuses on the Latino highlights and its community, hosted by Damian Trujillo. The show's concept debuted as far back as 1980, when KNTV was an ABCAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe 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...
station. Notable guests that appeared on the show included Vicente FoxVicente FoxVicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican former politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.Fox was elected...
and comedian George LopezGeorge LopezGeorge Lopez is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host. He is mostly known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom George Lopez. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including the Mexican American culture...
. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/station/community/Airs_Sunday_Afternoons.html - On Thin Ice is a locally produced special hosted by meteorologist Rob MayedaRob MayedaRob Mayeda is currently a meteorologist, reporter, storm chaser, and segment producer for KNTV in San Jose, California.- Education :...
. Debuted in November 2010, the special focuses on the climate change and the impact it would do in the Bay Area, which also includes a tour of the Alaska glaciers.http://www.nbcbayarea.com/shows/on-thin-ice/
Bay Area Proud
Since March 2009, KNTV introduced a promotional concept named "Bay Area Proud."http://www.nbcbayarea.com/station/as-seen-on/BC-PRD-About-Bay-Area-Proud.html This promotion consist of some of KNTV's personalities and many volunteers doing community work around the Bay Area. Notable community work done by KNTV and its volunteers includes cleaning trash, helping out at community events, and some major projects in the Bay Area. Some highlights of the community work is shown during selected newscasts, and promos of this is often aired during local commercial breaks, as well as on station IDs. KNTV will occasionally prime-time specials or segments during newscasts entitled "NBC Bay Area Proud," which is often simplified as "Bay Area Proud" during segments.Editorial
KNTV also produces a two-minute editorial since its HD debut in 2008, called "NBC Bay Area Editorial" http://www.nbcbayarea.com/station/as-seen-on/NBC-Bay-Area-Editorial.html, and is hosted by Suzanne Shaw, who is the editorial director. The brief editorial addresses key issues relating mostly to education and politics, as well as local issues. The format is similar to the one that fellow NBC station KSBWKSBW
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...
has adopted in 1999, however, KNTV has two versions of the editorial. The first version is the focus of the issue, while the second version is the selected viewer's response. As of July 2010, KNTV is currently the only station in the 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 have an editorial. Unlike KSBW, which airs the editorial on weekends, KNTV continuously airs those editorials throughout each week either during or after newscasts.
San Jose Holiday Parade
Since 1987, KNTV produces a yearly special called the San Jose Holiday Parade, typically broadcasted once a year in early December. The parade usually consist of high school bands, parade floats, and local celebrities that perform during the parade. At the end of the parade, the anchor(s) that hosted the parade will chat briefly with Santa before wrapping things up.Sports
For most of the late 1990s, 2000s, and even today, KNTV is well known for its local sports coverage. KNTV occasionally broadcasts local sports when they occasionally preempt network programming, most recently the San Francisco Giants, which they have signed a contract with the Giants when KTVU's contract has ended due to a preemption dispute. KNTV also broadcasts San Jose SharksSan Jose Sharks
The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
hockey when they are broadcast on NBC as part of the NHL on NBC package, as well as local sports coverage also carried by NBC Sports
NBC Sports
NBC Sports is the sports division of the NBC television network. Formerly "a service of NBC News," it broadcasts a diverse array of programs, including the Olympic Games, the NFL, the NHL, MLS, Notre Dame football, the PGA Tour, the Triple Crown, and the French Open, among others...
. Also, KNTV would air a special edition of a newscasts or "Sports Sunday" primarily for local post-game highlights, such as the US Open at Pebble Beach in 2010, and most recently, the post-game highlights of the NFL
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
's San Francisco 49ers
San Francisco 49ers
The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...
and/or Oakland Raiders
Oakland Raiders
The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
if they are part of NBC Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with Cris Collinsworth as the color...
.
Sports Sunday
KNTV currently produces a local Sunday night sports program, called Xfinity Sports Sunday Primetime and Sports Sunday: Late Edition, which is hosted by Sports Director Raj Mathai, but if the show is taken on the road, another sports anchor would be stationed in the studio to take it for the remainder of the show. Regular segments include sports highlights and interviews with players from all Bay Area sports teams, including the Giants, A's, Sharks, 49ers and Raiders. Guest co-hosts regularly join Mathai in the studio. During the time that NBC Sunday Night FootballNBC Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with Cris Collinsworth as the color...
is broadcast, Jerry Rice
Jerry Rice
Jerry Lee Rice is a retired American football wide receiver. He is generally regarded as the greatest wide receiver of all time and one of the greatest players in National Football League history...
and Nnamdi Asomugha
Nnamdi Asomugha
Nnamdi Asomugha is an American cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League . He was drafted in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders and played college football for the Golden Bears at the University of California, Berkeley...
also co-host the program during the season. Before a commercial break, if a guest cameraman is in the KNTV studio, Mathai also mentions them, and notable guest cameramen that were mentioned includes players from a Bay Area sports team and St. Louis Cardinals
St. Louis Cardinals
The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...
manager Tony La Russa
Tony La Russa
Anthony "Tony" La Russa, Jr. is a former Major League Baseball manager and infielder, best known for his tenures as manager of the Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, and St. Louis Cardinals...
.
New Partnerships
On November 1, 2007, KNTV announced that it would become the new flagship station for the San Francisco GiantsSan Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
' for the next three years, through 2010. The Giants had aired their games on KTVU since moving to the Bay Area in 1958. The debut on KNTV was on April 1, 2008, the day after the rebranding from FSN Bay Area to CSN Bay Area.
KNTV broadcasts 20 to 40 San Francisco Giants
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
baseball games a year, which are produced by CSN Bay Area. On game nights during KNTV's 6pm newscast, a preview of the game is shown usually during sports segments, with Raj Mathai usually at the ballpark, and Jeff Ranieri giving the forecast specifically for the game. The pregame segments would continue up to the broadcast following the newscasts. During the broadcast, the "peacock" logo is inserted into the top-right hand of the scoreboard in lieu of the "CSN" logo. The music package heard on KNTV differs from the packages heard on CSN Bay Area or CSN California. Jon Miller
Jon Miller
Jon Wallace Miller is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. He is currently employed as a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants. He was also a baseball announcer on ESPN until the network chose not to renew his contract following the...
and Mike Krukow
Mike Krukow
Michael Edward "Mike" Krukow is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. He is currently a television color commentator for the San Francisco Giants.-Early life:...
normally serve as host of the telecasts, but occasionally, Dave Flemming
Dave Flemming
David Braxton "Dave" Flemming is an American sportscaster and television personality, currently working as a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball as well as the Stanford Cardinal football and basketball teams.Flemming grew up in Alexandria, Virginia,...
, Duane Kuiper
Duane Kuiper
Duane Eugene Kuiper is a former Major League Baseball second baseman, and is currently a five-time Emmy award-winning radio and television sportscaster for the San Francisco Giants...
, and Greg Papa
Greg Papa
Greg Papa is an American sportscaster working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been broadcasting for most of the Bay Area professional sports franchises for 21 years, covering the Oakland Raiders, Oakland Athletics, Golden State Warriors and San Francisco Giants.Currently, he is best known as...
would also fill-in. During games with the Oakland A's
Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....
, broadcaster Ray Fosse would also join in, particularly when Giants baseball is only aired on KNTV and not on either CSN Bay Area or CSN California. In addition to the broadcast, KNTV also airs "Giants Clubhouse" on weekends. In this case, all of the Giant's broadcast are currently in HD. During a Giants' telecast on KNTV, promos will often air, such as upcoming newscasts and NBC Sports
NBC Sports
NBC Sports is the sports division of the NBC television network. Formerly "a service of NBC News," it broadcasts a diverse array of programs, including the Olympic Games, the NFL, the NHL, MLS, Notre Dame football, the PGA Tour, the Triple Crown, and the French Open, among others...
coverage that is scheduled to air. Giants' baseball are preempted when the Summer Olympics are held due to NBC currently holding the rights to the Olympics (an example of this is the 2008 Beijing Olympics).
On July 16, 2010, for a Friday night home game against the New York Mets
New York Mets
The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...
, sports director Raj Mathai briefly broadcast part of the first inning because Miller had to make his way to the TV booth. This is because the Giants were honoring Miller as one of the legendary broadcasters before he received the 2010 Ford Frick Award about a week later, since the coverage was on KNTV. Following the Giants winning the 2010 World Series
2010 World Series
The 2010 World Series was the 106th occurrence of Major League Baseball's championship series. The best-of-seven playoff, played between the American League champion Texas Rangers and the National League champion San Francisco Giants, began on Wednesday, , and ended on Monday, , with the Giants...
on November 1, 2010, KNTV immediately announced that the station would have wall-to-wall coverage of the post game parade that took place in San Francisco, with live coverage beginning at 11 a.m. on November 3 in order to not interfere with election coverage. The Giants' contract with KNTV ran out at the end of the 2010 season, however, the broadcast still continues on KNTV when the 2011 schedule was released on March 6, 2011.
Many changes did take place in the sports department. The station first announced in December 2010 that Raj Mathai will move up to anchor the weeknight newscast, though Mathai did remain being the host of Sports Sunday for a while after the change while still hosting Giants' games. This comes when Comcast has already purchased a majority stake of NBC, pending approval from both the FCC
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
and the Department of Justice, which eventually became effective later under several conditions. On January 3, 2011, KNTV introduced a new sports segment called "Xfinity Sports Desk" that airs weeknights during the 6 and 11 p.m. newscast. It uses a similar format that mirrors that of NBC Sports
NBC Sports
NBC Sports is the sports division of the NBC television network. Formerly "a service of NBC News," it broadcasts a diverse array of programs, including the Olympic Games, the NFL, the NHL, MLS, Notre Dame football, the PGA Tour, the Triple Crown, and the French Open, among others...
, although there is no content overlap between NBC Sports and the KNTV sports segment due to the fact that KNTV covers local sports.
The relationship with CSN Bay Area grew closer when on April 20, 2011, KNTV announced that CSN Bay Area will produce sports segments beginning in June, with CSN also planning a new set specifically for KNTV's segments. The move also would include elements from CSN Bay Area during KNTV sports segments. Similar to the news content used by 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...
when WNBC was the test platform for additional news coverage, KNTV would be the test base for NBC O&O stations which include WNBC, along with WMAQ
WMAQ-TV
WMAQ-TV, channel 5, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, located in Chicago, Illinois. WMAQ-TV's main studios and offices are located within the NBC Tower in the Streeterville neighborhood, with an auxiliary street-level studio on the Magnificent Mile at 401...
in Chicago, WCAU
WCAU
WCAU, channel 10, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. WCAU has its studios on the border between Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 34 from a transmitter in the...
in Philadelphia, and WRC
WRC-TV
WRC-TV, channel 4, is an owned and operated television station of the NBC television network, located in the American capital city of Washington, D.C...
in Washington D.C.; those also have its cable sports networks. The new segment would make the first such station to replace a traditional sports segment, in which CSN has 140 reporters on staff. The new segment commenced on June 13, 2011.
Other syndicated shows
Syndicated programming currently includes Access Hollywood LiveAccess Hollywood
Access Hollywood is a weekday television entertainment news program covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Messel, and is currently directed by Robert Silverstein. In previous years, Doug Dougherty and...
, The Real Housewives, The Nate Berkus Show
The Nate Berkus Show
The Nate Berkus Show, commonly referred to as The Nate Show, is a syndicated talk show hosted by interior designer Nate Berkus, which premiered on September 13, 2010....
, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres. Debuting on September 8, 2003, it is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication, including stations owned by NBC Universal. For its first five seasons, the show...
, and Extra
Extra (TV series)
Extra is an American entertainment television news program covering events and celebrities which debuted on September 5, 1994 in syndication. It is produced at Victory Studios in Glendale, California by Telepictures Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television Distribution...
.
Development
As an NBC O&O station, KNTV's owner, NBC Universal, announced that on September 13, 2010, they obtained the rights to broadcast The Real Housewives and The Nate Berkus ShowThe Nate Berkus Show
The Nate Berkus Show, commonly referred to as The Nate Show, is a syndicated talk show hosted by interior designer Nate Berkus, which premiered on September 13, 2010....
; the latter is produced by Sony and Harpo Studios after NBC Universal
NBC Universal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...
and Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television, Inc. is an American and global television production/distribution subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In turn, the latter is part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.-Background:...
reached an agreement. KNTV also announced the addition of Access Hollywood Live (along with both KNBC and 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...
), which debuted in HD on September 13, 2010, but Access Hollywood started broadcasting in HD on September 7, 2010. This comes following the announcement of Bonnie Hunt's cancellation and The Martha Stewart Show's move to The Hallmark Channel for the 2010-11 season. As a result, on September 6, 2010, Wendy Williams
The Wendy Williams Show
The Wendy Williams Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by Wendy Williams that premiered on July 14, 2008, as six-week sneak peek, in Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York City. The test run was picked up for a full season that began its run on July 13, 2009 in over 70% of the country in...
time slot moved to KOFY-TV following KNTV's acquisition announcement of the three shows.
Newscasts
In the days as an ABC affiliate, KNTV billed itself as "The San Jose News Channel" because its news reports primarily catered to Silicon ValleySilicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
viewers almost exclusively. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the KNTV news theme was based on the 1968 hit song "Do You Know the Way to San Jose
Do You Know the Way to San Jose
"Do You Know the Way to San Jose" is a popular song written for Dionne Warwick by Burt Bacharach and Hal David . Introduced on the 1968 RIAA Certified Gold album Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls, "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" was issued as the follow-up single to the double-sided hit "...
." KNTV then competed with 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...
and KMST/KCCN (now KION-TV
KION-TV
KION-TV is a full-power television station in Salinas, California, broadcasting on digital channel 32 as a CBS affiliate. The stations continues to use UHF channel 46 as its virtual channel through the use of PSIP. KION-TV shows local news, weather, and sports programming, as well as syndicated...
) which were both located in the immediate part of Monterey Bay. In fall 1987, KNTV aired Good Morning San Jose from 6:45 to 7 a.m. That was then KNTV's only local morning newscast, aside from local cut-ins to Good Morning America.
Today, with the addition of California Nonstop over on its second digital subchannel, KNTV produces 32½ hours of local news per week, with 5½ hours on weekdays and 2½ hours on weekends. On weekdays, a 2½ hour newscast begins at 4:30am, followed by a half-hour block at 5pm, a one-hour block at 6pm, and a 35-minute wrap at 11pm. On weekends, a one-hour newscast begins at 7am, followed by half-hour blocks at 5, 6, and 11pm. Sunday's 5 and 6pm newscasts are preempted for NBC's "Football Night in America" during football season. When NBC Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with Cris Collinsworth as the color...
airs on KNTV, the station would air an early edition of "Sports Sunday" immediately after the game, hosted by Raj Mathai and former football star Jerry Rice
Jerry Rice
Jerry Lee Rice is a retired American football wide receiver. He is generally regarded as the greatest wide receiver of all time and one of the greatest players in National Football League history...
, with occasional news updates if breaking news occurs. Upon the affiliation and market switch, KNTV was added to the competition with KTVU, KRON-TV, KPIX and KGO-TV. As of May 2010, NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News is the flagship daily evening television news program for NBC News and broadcasts. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is located in the center...
is occasionally preempted on weekends to allow another 30 minutes of local newscasts primarily due to extensive coverage from NBC Sports
NBC Sports
NBC Sports is the sports division of the NBC television network. Formerly "a service of NBC News," it broadcasts a diverse array of programs, including the Olympic Games, the NFL, the NHL, MLS, Notre Dame football, the PGA Tour, the Triple Crown, and the French Open, among others...
, which often is the case for other NBC O&O stations.
On June 17, 2007, KNTV introduced former KGO-TV anchor Jessica Aguirre to the new 5 p.m. newscast, a stand-up interactive newscast where viewers were able to chat live online during the newscast. In addition, a Fast Feedback on the day's news was introduced to the station, in which viewers could comment on what they thought of the issue. In late April 2008, the format changed as the anchors were no longer standing up throughout the newscast due to the control room undergoing messy construction in the background of the studio, due to the station receiving an HD upgrade. Also, Lisa Kim
Lisa Kim
Elizabeth 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 :...
started anchoring the 5 p.m. broadcast while Jessica switched over to 6 p.m.; however, the interactive live chat/discussion along with the fast feedback would remain on the newscast.
High definition and branding change
On July 20, 2008, KNTV started its broadcast in HDHigh-definition video
High-definition video or HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1,280×720 pixels or 1,920×1,080 pixels...
, but upon the switch to HD, most of the field reporting were still in 4:3 standard definition for about a year. After the switch, the master control center and local commercial insertion for KNTV and KSTS were located at NBC Universal's West Coast headquarters in Burbank, California
Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....
until mid-2009 when KNTV upgraded its master control center in order for the videos to be shot in HD. (Its sister station, 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...
, is the only station that currently uses the master control center in Burbank.) In addition, weather graphics were still in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition until the introduction of new HD weather graphics on January 15, 2010, which debuted during the 5pm newscasts. As of June 2010, all of the field cameras are shot in HD, and as of August 2010, some field reports that are shot in HD are re-aired on NBC News
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...
programs when breaking news occurs.
On the day of the switch to HD, KNTV changed its on-air branding from "NBC11" to "NBC Bay Area", with only the "NBC" and its peacock logo on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen until mid-2009. Graphics, style and music were changed on air, similar to other NBC owned-and-operated stations (i.e., KNBC
KNBC
KNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KNBC's studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson...
in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
& 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
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
). The "NBC 11" digital on-screen graphic
Digital on-screen graphic
A digital on-screen graphic is a watermark-like station logo that many television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area of their programs to identify the channel...
is retained on its syndicated and local programs; additionally the station's website continued to be branded as "NBC 11" until October 16, when it was also renamed to "NBC Bay Area", which is part of a larger relaunch of the NBC O&O stations' websites and unrelated to the on-air rebrand. For the 11:00 p.m. news broadcast, the station retained the "11@11" moniker for the 11:00 p.m. news broadcast, but de-emphasized it. The station also retained the "top stories in the first eleven minutes" saying at the beginning of the 11:00 p.m. newscast, but no longer ran non-stop news and a weather summary during the first eleven minutes.
A few months after switching to HD, KNTV is one of the first NBC O&O stations to carry a 4:30am newscast, and the third station to carry a newscast earlier than 5am. Most NBC O&O stations would eventually follow suit, and Early Today
Early Today
Early Today is an American morning news programme airing on the NBC television network. The program goes out live at 4:00am Eastern Time Zone for those few stations which start their local news at 4:30am, and is transmitted in a continuous half-hour tape delay loop until 10:00am ET, when Today...
was pushed back live to 4am (both Eastern/Pacific) as a result due to cancellations of its midday newscasts on many of its O&Os. (One of KNTV's competitors, KGO
KGO-TV
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...
, already has its 4:30 am newscasts, but ABC's America This Morning is broadcasted on a tape-delay rather than "live.")
KNTV currently is the only NBC owned and operated station to use the WNBC theme music during the majority of its newscasts. KNTV has previously used the Tower v.1 series upon its switch to NBC. It also uses its own station ID during newscasts openings. However, when breaking news or a developing story occurs, KNTV would use opening graphics specifically for those openings instead of its normal news opening, with its own station ID on the bottom of the screen afterwords.
Localized version of Today
Between 1999 and 2002, KNTV previously used Today in its branding upon the switch from ABC to now-defunct WB as Today About the Bay. After being owned by NBC, KNTV was rebranded as The Bay Area Today in its morning newscasts. With the graphics change in 2008, KNTV also made another branding change, although Today was not mentioned in its morning newscasts.On September 1, 2010, KNTV introduced its own localized version of the Today show, Today in the Bay. It features morning news, weather, and traffic reports from KNTV anchors and reporters, as well as segments and interviews very similar to that of the Today Show. The graphics also made a change to mirror that of Today, and the logo is inserted on the bottom-left corner of the screen rather than the bottom-right corner. Weather graphics also made a minor change. Although the branding remains NBC Bay Area News, morning anchors and reporters use the brand Today in the Bay. The 4:30 a.m. portion of the newscast, however, is entitled, Today in the East Bay, focusing primarily on the eastern half of the Bay Area, leading to the two-hour 5 a.m. newscast. In all cases, a new music package was created specifically for their morning show.
New changes
On December 21, 2010, the anchors moved to a temporary set while the studio underwent renovations for the first time since moving to the current studio. Traffic and sports reports were done in the newsroom for the time being, while meteorologists are stationed at the weather center to give the forecast. A new meteorologist, Christina Loren, was introduced during Today in the Bay the following day, while at the same time, meteorologist Rob Mayeda announced on-air that he will return to the weekend shift. The changes as a result of the Comcast acquisition has eventually resulted in additions of additional personnel such as reporter Marla Tellez from KOBKob
The Kob is an antelope found across Sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to South Sudan. Found along the Northern Savanna, often seen in Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda; Garamba and Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as grassy floodplains of...
meteorologist Nick O'Kelly, and freelance sports anchors Justin Allen and Christine Nubla, in which all except Tellez previously had stints at KNTV.
On January 22, 2011, the day that Mathai started to anchor the weeknight newscast, the new set was unveiled. During weather segments, meteorologists and weather anchors no longer had to rely on a "green screen" to present their forecasts, only to revert back a few days later.
On August 10, 2011, Janelle Wang replaced Jessica Aguirre as the 5 p.m. anchor. Wang and Mathai are the only Asian American
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...
weekday anchor team outside of Hawaii.
Newscast titles
- Channel 11 News (1950s-1960s)
- Now News (1960s)
- The Scene Tonight (1960s-1970s)
- News 11 (1970s-1987)
- KNTV News/The San JoseSan Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
NewsChannel (1987–1995) - NewsChannel 11 (1995-December 31, 2001)
- NBC 3 News (January 1, 2002-September 16, 2002)
- NBC 11 News (September 16, 2002-July 20, 2008)
- NBC Bay Area News (July 20, 2008 – present)
- Today in the Bay (September 1, 2010 – present; morning newscasts)
Station slogans
- Look to 11 (1972-circa 1975)
- The San Jose NewsChannel (1987–1998)
- The South Bay's News Leader (1998–2000)
- The Fastest Growing News Station in Northern California (2000–2001; still used occasionally)
- The Bay Area's NBC11 / The Bay Area's Leading News Station (2001–2008)
- Proud To Call The Bay Area Home (2008-early 2010)
- Locals Only (2008–present; secondary slogan)
- Learn, Think, Act, Live (early 2010-September 12, 2010; primary news slogan)
- Reporting What Matters to You (September 1, 2010–present; primary news slogan)
- Every Day is Full of Color (September 13, 2010–present; general slogan)
Anchors
- 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...
- weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m.; also host of "NBC Class Action" - Brent Cannon - weeknights at 7 p.m. on CA Non-stop; weekday fill in
- Diane Dwyer - weekends at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. and fill in weekday anchor
- Laura Garcia-Cannon - weekday mornings "Today in the Bay" (4:30-7 a.m.)
- Jon KelleyJon KelleyJon Kelley is an award winning American sports journalist, author, producer, and television personality. Born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, Kelley played four seasons as a running back for the University of Nebraska before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism...
- weekday mornings "Today in the Bay" (4:30-7 am) and 11 a.m. - Raj Mathai - weeknights at 5, 6 and 11pm; also sports contributor and host of SF Giants games
- Kris Sanchez - weekend mornings "Today in the Bay" (7-8 a.m.); general assignment reporter
- Marla Tellez - weekday mornings at 11 a.m.; fill in anchor and general assignment reporter
- Janelle Wang - weeknights at 5 p.m.; fill in and general assignment reporter
Weather team
- Jeff RanieriJeff RanieriJeff Ranieri is a Chief Meteorologist for NBC O&O station KNTV in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ranieri previously reported for NBC NEWS on Early Today, and MSNBC weekday mornings & afternoons. He was also a NBC Weather Plus Meteorologist for Weekend Today Saturday...
(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) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.; also contributor to MSNBC and the "Today" show - Rob MayedaRob MayedaRob Mayeda is currently a meteorologist, reporter, storm chaser, and segment producer for KNTV in San Jose, California.- Education :...
(AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend mornings "Today in the Bay" (7-8 a.m.), weekends at 5, 6, and 11 p.m.; weekday fill in and host of "On Thin Ice" - Christina Loren - Meteorologist; weekday mornings "Today in the Bay" (4:30-7 a.m.) and 11 a.m.
- Nick O Kelly (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist, fill-in
Sports team
(NOTE: + indicates personalities based at Comcast SportsNet Bay Area)
- + Mindi Bach - sports anchor, also sports reporter
- + Brodie BrazilBrodie BrazilBrodie Brazil is an American television broadcaster who has been nominated for seventeen and won seven Regional Emmy Awards .-Professional life:...
- sports anchor, also sports reporter - + Amy Gutierrez - sports reporter
- + Jim KozimorJim KozimorJim Kozimor is the play-by-play announcer for the Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes on Comcast SportsNet California and Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. In addition, Kozimor also serves as an anchor for SportsNet Central at CSN Bay Area....
- sports anchor - + Kate Longworth - sports reporter
- + Scott ReissScott ReissScott Reiss is an American journalist who has worked for ESPN. He is currently an anchor at CSN Bay Area and CSN California, where he hosts SportsNet Central, as well as pre- and post-game shows for the San Francisco Giants and San Jose Sharks. He was formerly seen as an anchor on College...
- sports anchor, also sports reporter - Laurence Scott - host of "Sports Sunday" and reporter
- + Henry Wofford - sports anchor
- + John Henry Smith - sports anchor and reporter
- + Dave Benz - sports anchor and reporter
Reporters
- Scott Budman - business and technology reporter; also "Tech Now" host and general assignment reporter
- Jean Elle - general assignment reporter
- Marianne Favro - general assignment reporter; also health reporter
- Monte Francis - general assignment reporter
- Larry Gerston, Ph.D. - political analyst
- Traci Grant - general assignment reporter
- Jodi Hernandez - general assignment reporter
- Cheryl Hurd - general assignment reporter
- Mike Inouye - weekday morning traffic anchor
- George Kiriyama - general assignment reporter
- Elyce Kirchner - general assignment reporter
- Scott McGrew - morning business and technology reporter, "Tech Now" producer/reporter, "Press Here" host/moderator and weekday fill in anchor
- Vicky NguyenVicky NguyenVicky Nguyen is a television reporter who works as the San Jose Bureau reporter at KNTV in San Jose. Previously, she worked as a collaborator at Phoenix, Arizona's KSAZ-TV channel.-Education:...
- general assignment reporter and fill in anchor; also "NBC At Work" host - Jeanette Pavini - "The Real Deal" host
- Bob Redell - general assignment reporter
- Suzanne Shaw - political editor/editorial director
- Christie Smith - general assignment reporter
- Marla Tellez - weekday mornings at 11am; general assignement reporter and fill in anchor
- Kimberly Tere - general assignment reporter
- Garvin Thomas - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Damian Trujillo - "Comunidad Del Valle" host; also general assignment reporter
Notable former on-air staff
- Chauncey BaileyChauncey BaileyChauncey Wendell Bailey, Jr. was an American journalist, noted for his work primarily on issues of the African-American community. He served as editor-in-chief of The Oakland Post from June 2007 until he was shot dead on August 2, 2007...
(1970–1971) on-air reporter, later Post editor murdered in Oakland 2007 - Marc BrownMarc Brown (journalist)Marc Alan Brown is a television news anchor at KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Brown co-anchors the station's Eyewitness News HD newscasts at 5 pm and 11 pm with Michelle Tuzee...
(1985–1987) anchor at KABCKABC-TVKABC-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 LA - Jim Byrne (2004 and 2006) sub-meteorologist for Shannon O'Donnell while on maternity leave in 2004 and 2006. Still chief meteorlogist at KCOY-TVKCOY-TVKCOY-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Central Coast of California that is licensed to Santa Maria. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter on Tepusquet Peak in the Los Padres National Forest east of Santa Maria. Owned by the Cowles...
- Allen DentonAllen DentonAllen Denton is an American Television Journalist. He was a news co-anchor of San Jose, CA-based NBC11's flagship news program, The Bay Area at 11...
(2000–2007) anchor, 6pm & 11pm, now at KUSI - Janice Edwards, (2002-April 2009) Community Affairs and Bay Area Vista host
- John Farley, (March 1996-March 2009), now chief Meteorologist at WIS
- Don HaywardDon HaywardDon Hayward was a Welsh international prop who played club rugby for Newbridge. He won 15 caps for Wales and was selected to play in the British Lions on the 1950 tour of Australia and New Zealand. Hayward is considered to be one of the finest forwards to represent Wales in the early post-war period...
anchor (1962–1982). Deceased - TJ Holmes (2003–2006) 5pm anchor, now weekend morning anchor and weekday morning reporter/fill-in anchor at CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
- 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 :...
- evening anchor (1999–2010) - David LeeM. David Lee IIIM. David Lee III is an award-winning American film director, producer, writer, editor and director of photography. Lee is noted for his use of a version of the Dogme95 principals originally developed by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in his films...
sports anchor (1993–1998) - Jess MarlowJess MarlowMyron Jess Marlow born November 29, 1929 is a retired Los Angeles television newsman. He hails from Salem, IL and was an anchor at KNTV-TV, KNBC-TV and KCBS-TV for over 40 years, beginning in the late 1950s...
moved to LA and joined KNBCKNBCKNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KNBC's studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson...
in 1966, KNXT/KCBSKCBS-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 1980, rejoined KNBCKNBCKNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KNBC's studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson...
in 1986, retired with KCETKCETKCET, channel 28, is an independent, non-commercial public television station licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KCET's studio is located on West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is atop Mount Wilson. Al Jerome is the current CEO and President, serving since 1996.KCET was... - Shannon O'DonnellShannon O'DonnellShannon Kay O'Donnell is a meteorologist and news anchor.O'Donnell was born in Redmond, Washington and attended Redmond High School where she was valedictorian. After graduation, she attended The University of Washington where she studied meteorology, graduating with a degree in atmospheric sciences...
(2001–2007) weekend/morning weather meteorologist, later KINGKING-TVKING-TV, virtual channel 5, is a television station in Seattle, Washington, affiliated with the NBC network. Owned by Belo Corporation, it broadcasts on UHF digital channel 48. Its offices and broadcasting center are located just east of Seattle Center...
, KONGKONG-TVKONG, virtual channel 16, is a television station based in Seattle, Washington. Owned by the Belo Corporation, KONG's city of license is Everett, Washington...
/NWCN, now weekend weather anchor at KOMO-TVKOMO-TVKOMO-TV, virtual channel 4, is a television station in Seattle, Washington. It is an affiliate of ABC and broadcasts on digital channel 38. KOMO-TV is the flagship station of Fisher Communications, and its studios and offices are co-located with sister radio stations KOMO , KVI , and KPLZ-FM ...
in Seattle - Brian SussmanBrian SussmanBrian Sussman is an American Emmy Award-winning television journalist and conservative talk radio host in the San Francisco Bay area. He currently hosts the Morning Show on radio station KSFO.- Personal background :...
(1980s?) now with KSFO - Victoria RecanoVictoria RecañoVictoria Recaño is an American television personality currently working for TV Guide Network. Her last assignment was co-anchoring the 6 pm and 10 pm news on Los Angeles television station KTLA. She did that work from September 14, 2009 until late May 2010, when she left the show without any...
anchor/reporter (January–June 2002), then anchor for Inside EditionInside EditionInside 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...
, and reporter for The InsiderThe Insider (TV series)The Insider is an American tabloid television news program covering events and celebrities. It debuted on September 13, 2004 as a spinoff of Entertainment Tonight and started as a popular segment that took viewers "behind closed doors" and gave them "inside" information...
, now entertainment reporter at TV Guide Network - Ric RomeroRic RomeroRic Romero is the consumer reporter for KABC, a television station in the U.S. city of Los Angeles.Born in Los Angeles, Romero graduated from San José State University with a degree in Broadcasting and Business and a minor in Theatre Arts...
(1977–1978) now at KABCKABC-TVKABC-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... - Catt SadlerCatt SadlerCatt Sadler is a television personality on E! Entertainment Television as a correspondent and host for E! News and formerly The Daily Ten. The Los Angeles Times named Catt Sadler one of the top 10 up-and-coming broadcasters in entertainment.Sadler first appeared in the movie Hoosiers at the age of...
entertainment reporter (1998–2002), then WXINWXIN (TV)WXIN, channel 59, is the Fox affiliated television station in Indianapolis, Indiana. The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 45, using its former analog channel 59 as its virtual channel via PSIP...
-TV/WXIN-DT, now entertainment reporter for E!E!E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.E! has an audience reach of...
KNTV/NBC Bay Area General Manager & Studio location
Rich Cerussi, President/General Manager- San Jose Main Office and Studios: 2450 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95131