KSEE
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- KSEE is also the ICAO identifier for Gillespie FieldGillespie FieldGillespie Field is a county-owned public-use airport located 10 miles northeast of the central business district of San Diego, in El Cajon, San Diego County, California, United States....
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KSEE (on-air, referred to as KSEE 24, pronounced "K-SEE") is the 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...
affiliated television station in Fresno, California
Fresno, California
Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation...
, broadcasting on digital channel
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
38. KSEE is owned and operated by Granite Broadcasting Corporation. Granite owns and operates eight network-affiliated television stations nationwide. KSEE is an NBC network affiliate and a member of the National Association of Broadcasters.
History
KSEE started transmitting on June 1, 1953, as KMJ-TV. It was the first station to go on-air in Fresno and the first to use color film and network color in 1954. The station was affiliated with NBCNBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
, but also carried independent programming.
KMJ-TV was originally owned by the McClatchy family
The McClatchy Company
The McClatchy Company is a publicly traded American publishing company based in Sacramento, California. It operates 30 daily newspapers in 15 states and has an average weekday circulation of 2.2 million and Sunday circulation of 2.8 million...
whose assets included KMJ radio
KMJ (AM)
KMJ is a radio station located in the Fresno, California area. The station is owned by Peak Broadcasting LLC.-Programming:...
and three California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
n newspapers called The Bee, in Fresno
The Fresno Bee
The Fresno Bee is the daily newspaper serving Fresno, California and surrounding counties in that U.S. state's San Joaquin Valley. It is owned by The McClatchy Company and ranks fourth in circulation among the company's newspapers....
, Sacramento
The Sacramento Bee
The Sacramento Bee is a daily newspaper published in Sacramento, California, in the United States. Since its creation in 1857, the Bee has become Sacramento's largest newspaper, the fifth largest newspaper in California, and the 25th largest paper in the U.S...
and Modesto.
In 1981, McClatchy retired from television station ownership by selling KMJ-TV to San Joaquin Communications, which changed the station's call letters to the present-day KSEE (as McClatchy heold on to KMJ radio until 1987). San Joaquin Communications, in turn, sold KSEE to Meredith Corporation
Meredith Corporation
The Meredith Corporation is a media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The company has two divisions, National Media and Local Media.-History:...
in 1984.
Granite Broadcasting purchased KSEE, along with Syracuse, New York
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603...
's 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...
affiliate WTVH
WTVH
WTVH is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central New York State licensed to Syracuse. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 47 from a transmitter in LaFayette. The station can also be seen on Time Warner and Verizon FiOS channel 5. There is a high definition feed...
, from Meredith Corporation on December 27, 1993.
The station may have changed its call letters once, but its network affiliation hasn't; it is one of the two Central California television stations that has never changed its affiliation, and has been since the mid-1980s the region's second rated television station behind longtime leader KFSN. The other station to keep its affiliation is KMPH
KMPH-TV
KMPH-TV is a television station in Fresno, California broadcasting digitally on television channel 28, and is licensed to nearby Visalia. It is the Fresno-area affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is owned by Titan Broadcast Group and is sister station to KFRE-TV, the Central Valley's CW...
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Digital television
The station's digital signal is UHF 38, multiplexed:| Channel | Programming |
|---|---|
| 24.1 | main KSEE-TV/NBC programming |
| 24.2 | KSEE Weather Plus |
| 24.3 | LATV LATV LATV is a bilingual music and entertainment network. LATV has been on the air in the Los Angeles market as KJLA since 2001 and is distributed through mostly digital television subchannels throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.... |
Programming
In addition to local programming, syndicated programming on KSEE are light, with Dr. Phil and Inside EditionInside Edition
Inside Edition is a thirty-minute American television syndicated news program, first aired on CBS on October 9, 1988. It was originally similar to the programs Hard Copy and A Current Affair, but now more closely resembles a condensed version of breakfast television, exclusively with pre-recorded...
in the mid-afternoons, 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...
before primetime. KSEE clears all NBC programming, however, 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...
airs an hour later than the recommended 1 p.m. slot.
KSEE produced a local oriented show MedWatch which aired every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. with former Fresno anchor Cindy Suryan. MedWatch talked about health topics and concerns as well as featuring the latest in medical technology.
In September 2005, Sports Central was launched. The show went more in-depth about local sports teams as well as national sports topics. The KSEE sports department also launched The Bulldog Insider to air on Sundays at 6:30 p.m., this series goes in-depth with California State University, Fresno's athletic teams .
In September 2007, a new business-entertainment show Central Valley Today was launched and airs at 11 a.m. after the fourth-hour of Today. The daily hour-long show features KSEE 24 Sunrise news anchor Alex Delgado as host. Producing credit along with Delgado is Amanda Jaurigui. Monica Favila, now in San Diego, was the show-launch producer along with Monique Soltani, now at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, who served as associate producer and co-host.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KSEE remains on its current pre-transition channel number, 38. However, through the use of PSIPProgram and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...
, digital television receivers will display KSEE24'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 24.1.
News operation
As of 2011, KSEE totals 27 hours of local news per week (5 hours on weekdays and 1 hour on weekends). A two hour newscast airs at 5 a.m., followed by half-hour blocks at noon and 5 p.m., one hour at 6 p.m., half-hour at 7 p.m., and a 35-minute wrap at 11 p.m. On weekends, only half-hour newscasts at 6 and 11 p.m. are provided. KSEE previously had a 4 p.m. newscast before being replaced by a 30-minute locally produced live program called "We Are Fresno" in March 2011, which airs between Dr. Phil and Inside Edition.On July 31, 2006, KSEE 24 produced a 10 p.m. primetime newscast every Monday through Friday on My Network TV affiliate KAIL
KAIL
KAIL is a VHF television station affiliated with MyNetworkTV, based in Fresno, California, operating on digital channel 7. Its transmitter is on top of Auberry Mountain. They are locally owned by Trans-America Broadcasting Corporation...
until September 11, 2009. KSEE 24 was the only station to start a 4:30 a.m. newscast for KSEE Sunrise earlier than any other station. On January 3, 2011, KSEE Sunrise moved the newscast start time to 5:00 a.m. Since September 21, 2009, KSEE 24 is the first and only station to launch a 7 p.m. newscast with a different kind of format with Carolyn Bruck and is now hosted by Lindsey Pena.
As of September 26, 2011, KSEE is one of two stations without high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
newscasts (along with KGPE
KGPE
KGPE, virtual channel 47, is the CBS affiliated television station for the Fresno, California market. KGPE's digital signal is on UHF channel 34 from Auberry, California. It's currently owned by High Plains Broadcasting and operated by Newport Television, LLC....
); however, KSEE's newscasts are now in 16:9 enhanced widescreen.
Newscast titles
- Total News
- NewsCenter 24 (1980s-1994)
- KSEE 24 Hour News24 Hour News SourceThe 24 Hour News Source brand was a common name used by American television stations starting in the early 1990s for brief hourly news updates, usually running 30 seconds to a minute in length. At its peak, dozens of stations across the U.S. were producing these brief news updates...
(1994–2000) - KSEE 24 News (2000–present)
Newscast programming
Daily- KSEE Sunrise (1992–present)
- Central Valley Today (2007–present)
- KSEE 24 News at Noon
- "We Are Fresno Live" (2011-present)
- KSEE 24 News at 4PM (2002–2011)
- KSEE 24 News at 5PM
- KSEE 24 News at 6PM
- KSEE 24 News at 6:30PM (1998–present)
- KSEE 24 News at 7PM (2009–present)
- KSEE 24 News at 10PM (2006–2009)
- KSEE 24 News at 11PM (19??-1995, 2003–present)
- KSEE 24 News 11 at Eleven (1995–2003)
Saturdays
- KSEE 24 Sunrise Saturday (2000–2008)
- Central Valley Today Weekend (2008–present)
- KSEE 24 News at 6PM
- Medwatch (2004–2009)
- KSEE 24 Sports Central (2005–2009)
- KSEE 24 News at 11PM
Sundays
- KSEE 24 News at 6PM
- KSEE 24 Sports Central Bulldog Insider (2007–present)
- KSEE 24 News at 10PM (2006, 2008–2009) - during Sunday Night Football
- KSEE 24 News at 11PM
- KSEE 24 Sports Central (2005–present)
Station slogans
- We Give You More (1983–1994)
- Come Home To The Best, Only On 24
- Coverage You Can Count On (1994–2000)
- People You Can Count On (2000–2003)
- The People You Count On (2003–2006)
- Big Stories & Breaking News, First, KSEE 24: The Central Valley's News Station (2006–2010)
- News That Matters (2010–present)
Current on-air staff
Anchors/hosts- Stefani Booroojian - We Are Fresno Live co-host weekdays at 4 p.m.; weeknights 5, 6 & 6:30 p.m.; also health reporter
- Alex Delgado - Central Valley Today host weekdays at 11 a.m. ; We Are Fresno Live co-host weekdays at 4 p.m.
- David Marcus - weeknights at 5, 6, 6:30 and 11 p.m.; We Are Fresno Live news update weekdays at 4 p.m.
- Matt Otstot - weekday mornings on KSEE Sunrise from 5am-7am
- Lindsey Pena - weeknights at 7 & 11 pm
- Pamela Prado - weekdays at noon
- Faith Sidlow - weekday mornings on KSEE Sunrise from 5am-7am
'KSEE 24 Weather Plus'
- A.J. Fox (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...
Certified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weekdays at 4, weeknights at 5, 6, 6:30, 7 and 11 p.m. - Lindsey Pena - fill-in weather reporter
- Matt Otstot - weekday mornings on KSEE Sunrise from 5am-7am
- Pamela Prado - weekdays at noon
Sports team
- Anthony Flores - sports director; Sunday-Thursdays at 6 and 11 p.m., and Monday-Thursdays at 7 p.m.; also "Sports Central" host
- Senerey de los Santos - sports reporter and fill-in sports anchor
Reporters
- Kacie Allen - morning traffic reporter on KSEE Sunrise from 5am-7am & Real-Time Traffic 24 updates
- Christina Lusby - general assignment reporter
- Jobin Panicker - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Michelle Roberts - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Justin Willis - general assignment reporter: also fill-n anchor
- Joe Ybarra - general assignment reporter
- Audrey Asistio - general assignment reporter
Management
- Chris Manson - news director
- Mike Hartman - managing editor
- Larry Johnson - executive producer
- Brian DiFuria - assignment manager
Notable former on-air staff
- Pablo PereiraPablo PereiraPablo Daniel Pereira Coitiño, better known as Pablo Pereira , is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Esporte Clube Vitória of the Série B on loan from the league rivals Sport.-External links:*...
(Meteorologist now with KTTVKTTVKTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California. Serving the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, KTTV is a sister station to KCOP , Los Angeles' MyNetworkTV station...
Los Angeles) - Sean Michael ThomasSean Michael ThomasSean Michael Thomas is a television broadcast news journalist, author and illustrator currently living in Moscow, Russia. As a broadcaster, he is known on-air by his first and last name only, while his credits as an author list him with all three of his given names, Sean Michael Thomas.-Early...
- reporter 2007-2009 (reporting for Russia TodayRussia TodayRussia Today may refer to:* Russia Today, an English language 24-hour television news channel from Russia. It was launched in 2005 and is not related to an online news service of the similar name operated by EIN News...
in Moscow, Russia)