KQCA
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KQCA is the MyNetworkTV
-affiliated television station
for Sacramento, California
, USA
. Licensed to Stockton
, the station broadcasts a digital-only signal on UHF channel 46. KQCA's transmitter is located northeast of Walnut Grove. The station is owned by Hearst Television as part of a duopoly with NBC
affiliate KCRA-TV
. The two stations share studios located on Television Circle in Downtown Sacramento. KQCA is known on-air as KQCA My 58 TV.
As a result of the duopoly, local rights to syndicated shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show
and Access Hollywood
are shared between KCRA and KQCA. Other shows currently airing on KQCA that are not on KCRA are Cheaters
, The Office, Friends
, The Jerry Springer Show
, Maury
, How I Met Your Mother
, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
, The New Adventures of Old Christine
, Brothers & Sisters, Stargate: Universe, Stargate: Atlantis, Friends
, The Simpsons
, American Chopper
, Deadliest Catch
and That '70s Show
.
From September 5, 2006 to September 21, 2009, KQCA did not follow the 8 to 10 pm primetime MyNetworkTV schedule like other affiliates of the network. Instead, the station aired network programming from 7 to 9 pm and The Oprah Winfrey Show from 9 to 10 pm leading up to the 10 pm newscast that is produced by KCRA. KQCA is the second in the market to not follow a traditional network schedule. The other station KOVR
has had a 7 to 10 pm lineup since its network switch to CBS
in 1995. KQCA was also one of five MyNetworkTV affiliates on the West Coast that did not follow the 8 to 10 pm scheduling. The four other stations to do this (and still do so today) are KRON-TV
(which has network programming slotted from 9 to 11 pm), KEVU (Network programming slotted from 9 to 11 pm), KPDX
(Network Programming also slotted from 9 to 11 pm) and KMYQ, (Now KZJO, which also aired network programming from 7 to 9 pm until September 13th, 2010, when that station moved MyNetworkTV programming to 11pm-1am). KQCA now airs the MyNetworkTV block in pattern.
runs. KSCH was also the first stereo
sound station in the Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto
area built from the ground up.
In 1994, KSCH entered into a local marketing agreement
(LMA) with Kelly Broadcasting, the owner of KCRA. That station then took over the operations of KSCH.
On February 1, 1995, the station changed its call letters to its current call sign KQCA, became an affiliate of UPN
, and changed its on-air branding to "Q 58". On January 5, 1998, it swapped affiliations with KMAX
and became an affiliate of The WB. When Hearst-Argyle Television (predecessor to today's Hearst Television) bought KCRA and its LMA with KQCA in 1999, the "Q 58" branding was dropped in favor of its call letters and channel number. Hearst-Argyle eventually bought KQCA outright in 2000 and the station adopted the "WB 58" branding in September 2004.
On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge to create a new network. The new network would be called The CW, the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
unit of Time Warner
. It was announced that KMAX would become an affiliate of The CW.
On February 22, 2006, News Corporation
announced that it would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV. The new network, which would be sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV
was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also created to compete against The CW.
KQCA began broadcasting MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006. KMAX began broadcasting The CW on September 18, 2006.
In August 2007, KQCA became the new home of Oakland Raiders
pre-season games. It took the broadcasting rights from KMAX.
Like its sister station KCRA, My58 airs local news on a regular basis. It also airs news at special times in the event NBC special programming pre-empts KCRA's regularly scheduled local news (for example, if an event such as NFL football airs at 5 pm on a typical Sunday on KCRA, My58 will take its sister station's place in airing its early news).
Sister station KCRA produces several newscasts for KQCA. This includes ones at 6 am-9 am (6 am simulcast from KCRA), 10 pm on weekdays and 10 pm on weekends. Like KCRA, all of the newscasts on KQCA are broadcast in HD. During all newscasts, KQCA uses KCRA's news helicopter that is known as "LiveCopter 3 HD". During all weather forecasts, KQCA uses KCRA's regional weather radar
that is known as "KCRA 3 Live Triple Doppler".
During KCRA-produced KQCA newscasts, additional news personnel from KCRA are also used, see the KCRA article for a complete listing
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Licensed to Stockton
Stockton, California
Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...
, the station broadcasts a digital-only signal on UHF channel 46. KQCA's transmitter is located northeast of Walnut Grove. The station is owned by Hearst Television as part of a duopoly with NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
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...
. The two stations share studios located on Television Circle in Downtown Sacramento. KQCA is known on-air as KQCA My 58 TV.
As a result of the duopoly, local rights to syndicated shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
and Access Hollywood
Access 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...
are shared between KCRA and KQCA. Other shows currently airing on KQCA that are not on KCRA are Cheaters
Cheaters
Cheaters is a weekly syndicated hidden camera reality television series that documents people who are suspected of committing adultery, or cheating, on their partners. Investigations are headed by the "Cheaters Detective Agency". The show is hosted by Joey Greco, the show airs on Saturday nights...
, The Office, Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
, The Jerry Springer Show
The Jerry Springer Show
The Jerry Springer Show is a syndicated television tabloid talk show hosted by Jerry Springer, a former politician, broadcast in the United States and other countries...
, Maury
Maury (TV series)
Maury is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Maury Povich.When the series first aired in 1991, the show was called The Maury Povich Show and was produced by MoPo Productions in association with Paramount Domestic Television...
, How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
, The New Adventures of Old Christine
The New Adventures of Old Christine
The New Adventures of Old Christine is an American comedy series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus which ran for five seasons on CBS from March 13, 2006, to May 12, 2010...
, Brothers & Sisters, Stargate: Universe, Stargate: Atlantis, Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
, The Simpsons
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
, American Chopper
American Chopper
American Chopper is a reality television series that airs on Discovery Channel, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television. The series centers on Paul Teutul, Sr. and his son Paul Teutul, Jr. , who manufacture custom motorcycles. Orange County Choppers is in Newburgh, New York...
, Deadliest Catch
Deadliest Catch
Deadliest Catch is a documentary/reality television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and C. opilio crab fishing seasons.The Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor,...
and That '70s Show
That '70s Show
That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979...
.
From September 5, 2006 to September 21, 2009, KQCA did not follow the 8 to 10 pm primetime MyNetworkTV schedule like other affiliates of the network. Instead, the station aired network programming from 7 to 9 pm and The Oprah Winfrey Show from 9 to 10 pm leading up to the 10 pm newscast that is produced by KCRA. KQCA is the second in the market to not follow a traditional network schedule. The other station KOVR
KOVR
KOVR, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated station of the CBS Television Network located in Sacramento, California and licensed to Stockton. KOVR-TV shares its offices and studio facilities with sister station KMAX-TV in West Sacramento, California, and its transmitter is located in Walnut Grove,...
has had a 7 to 10 pm lineup since its network switch to CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
in 1995. KQCA was also one of five MyNetworkTV affiliates on the West Coast that did not follow the 8 to 10 pm scheduling. The four other stations to do this (and still do so today) are 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...
(which has network programming slotted from 9 to 11 pm), KEVU (Network programming slotted from 9 to 11 pm), KPDX
KPDX
KPDX is the MyNetworkTV-affiliate serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 30. In addition, it is seen on channel 13 on most local cable TV systems....
(Network Programming also slotted from 9 to 11 pm) and KMYQ, (Now KZJO, which also aired network programming from 7 to 9 pm until September 13th, 2010, when that station moved MyNetworkTV programming to 11pm-1am). KQCA now airs the MyNetworkTV block in pattern.
History
The station went on the air on April 13, 1986 with the call letters KSCH. It originally was an independent station and aired classic television shows of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Some shows that were aired had not been seen since their original network/syndicationTelevision syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
runs. KSCH was also the first stereo
STEREO
STEREO is a solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth...
sound station in the Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto
Modesto, California
Modesto is a city in, and is the county seat of, Stanislaus County, California. With a population of approximately 201,165 at the 2010 census, Modesto ranks as the 18th largest city in the state of California....
area built from the ground up.
In 1994, KSCH entered into a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
(LMA) with Kelly Broadcasting, the owner of KCRA. That station then took over the operations of KSCH.
On February 1, 1995, the station changed its call letters to its current call sign KQCA, became an affiliate of UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
, and changed its on-air branding to "Q 58". On January 5, 1998, it swapped affiliations with KMAX
KMAX-TV
KMAX-TV, channel 31, is the CW affiliate serving the Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, California broadcast area. The station is owned by CBS Television Stations along with the local CBS station, KOVR; the two stations are two of the 3 English network O&Os in the market, along with Ion Television...
and became an affiliate of The WB. When Hearst-Argyle Television (predecessor to today's Hearst Television) bought KCRA and its LMA with KQCA in 1999, the "Q 58" branding was dropped in favor of its call letters and channel number. Hearst-Argyle eventually bought KQCA outright in 2000 and the station adopted the "WB 58" branding in September 2004.
On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge to create a new network. The new network would be called The CW, the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
unit of Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
. It was announced that KMAX would become an affiliate of The CW.
On February 22, 2006, News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
announced that it would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV. The new network, which would be sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also created to compete against The CW.
In August 2007, KQCA became the new home of 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...
pre-season games. It took the broadcasting rights from KMAX.
Like its sister station KCRA, My58 airs local news on a regular basis. It also airs news at special times in the event NBC special programming pre-empts KCRA's regularly scheduled local news (for example, if an event such as NFL football airs at 5 pm on a typical Sunday on KCRA, My58 will take its sister station's place in airing its early news).
Newscasts
Before the switch to MyNetworkTV branding, KQCA used to have its own set and own newscast. Once the station branded itself with the new MyNetworkTV affiliation, the decision was made to just use KCRA's set and anchors. While KCRAs newscast are branded as "KCRA 3 Reports", KQCAs newscast is branded as "KCRA 3 News".Morning news
In 2007, KQCA announced that it would be stopping the daily video feed of the radio program the Armstrong & Getty Show, instead going for a morning news show to compete with KMAX-TV's Good Day Sacramento. The newscast, very similar to Good Day Sacramento, airs from 7:00 am to 9:00 am Monday through Friday. The station advertises as being from 7-9, although it actually simulcasts sister station's KCRA morning news so the program actually starts at 4:30 am and ends at 9:00 am.Digital television & HD
KQCA broadcasts on digital channel 46 since June 12, 2009.| 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 |
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| 58.1 | 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 KQCA programming / MyTV |
| 58.2 | 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 | This TV This TV This TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies.... |
Current on-air staff
(With the date they joined the station.)Weather radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, estimate its type . Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the...
that is known as "KCRA 3 Live Triple Doppler".
Anchors
- Walt Gray, weekday morning anchor 6 am-7 am (1988)
- Deirdre Fitzpatrick, weekday morning anchor 6-9 am (1997)
- Chris Riva, weekend evening anchor 10 pm (2005)
- Gulstan Dart, weeknight 10 pm anchor (2008)
- Kellie MacMullan weeknight 10 pm anchor (2011)
- Teo Torres, weekday morning anchor 7-9 am (2008)
Weather
- Eileen Javora, weekday morning meteorologist 6 am-9 (2005)
- Mark Finan, weekday evening meteorologist 10 pm (1991)
- Dirk Verdoorn, weekend evening meteorologist 5 pm 6 pm 10 pm (1998)
- Jeff Martinez fill-in meteorologist (2009)
- Jeff Thompson fill-in meteorologist (2009)
Sports
- Del Rodgers weekday/weekend evening sports anchor 10 pm (1997)
During KCRA-produced KQCA newscasts, additional news personnel from KCRA are also used, see the KCRA article for a complete listing