KNBC (channel 4) is a
television station in
Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the
West Coast flagship of the
NBC network. It is
owned and operated by the network's
NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside
Corona-licensed
Telemundo outlet
KVEA (channel 52). Both stations share studios at the Brokaw News Center in the northwest corner of the
Universal Studios Hollywood lot off of
Lankershim Boulevard in
Universal City, while KNBC's transmitter is located on
Mount Wilson.
History
Channel 4 first went on the air as KNBH (standing for "NBC
Hollywood") on January 16, 1949. It was the second-to-last
VHF
Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter.
Frequencies immediately below VHF ...
station in Los Angeles to debut, and the last of NBC's five original
owned-and-operated stations to sign on. Unlike the other four, KNBH was the only NBC-owned television station that did not benefit from having a sister radio station. Though the
NBC Radio Network had long been affiliated with
KFI in Los Angeles, that relationship did not extend into television when
KFI-TV
KCAL-TV (channel 9) is an independent television station in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CBS West Coast flagship KCBS-TV (channel 2). Both stations share studios at the CBS S ...
(channel 9, now
KCAL-TV) signed on in August 1948. When KNBH signed on, it marked the debut of NBC programs on the West Coast. Channel 4 originally broadcast from the NBC Radio City Studios on
Sunset Boulevard and
Vine Street in Hollywood.
The station changed its callsign to KRCA (for NBC's then-parent company, the
Radio Corporation of America) on October 18, 1954. The call letters were changed again on November 11, 1962, when NBC moved the KNBC identity from its
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17t ...
radio station (which became
KNBR) and applied it to channel 4 in Los Angeles. That call letter change coincided with the station's physical relocation from NBC Radio City to the network's color broadcast studio facility in suburban
Burbank.
NBC Color City, as it was then known, had been in operation since March 1955, and was at least four to five times larger than Radio City, and could easily accommodate KNBC's locally produced studio programming. NBC Radio's West Coast operations eventually followed channel 4 to Burbank not too long after.
KNBC
The station officially modified its callsign to KNBC-TV in August 1986, shortly after NBC and RCA were purchased by
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable ene ...
; the ''-TV'' suffix was dropped effective September 6, 1995.
On October 11, 2007, NBCUniversal announced that it would put its Burbank studios up for sale and construct a new, all-digital facility near the
Universal Studios Hollywood backlot in
Universal City, to merge all of NBCUniversal's West Coast operations (including KNBC, KVEA and
NBC News' Los Angeles bureau) into one area. The studio opened on February 1, 2014.
Shortly thereafter, NBCUniversal named the new broadcast center in honor of former KNBC and NBC News anchor/reporter
Tom Brokaw, christened the Brokaw News Center.
In fall 2007 with the rollout of digital broadcasting, the station began airing a 24/7 newschannel News Raw on the .2 subchannel.
KNBC shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12, 2009, as part of the
federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.
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The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition
UHF
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channel 36,
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PSIP to display KNBC's
virtual channel as 4 on digital television receivers. Since the station qualified for the
nightlight clause in the
DTV Delay Act,
it was required to keep its analog signal on for two weeks from June 12 to 26, 2009 to inform viewers of the digital television transition, consisting of a loop of digital transition
public service announcements, while the digital channel was used for normal programming.
On January 1, 2014,
Universal Sports transitioned into a cable- and satellite-exclusive service, causing its affiliates (such as KNBC) to replace the network and remove the channel from their digital signals entirely.
NBC California Nonstop
KNBC operated NBC California Nonstop, a collaboration between KNBC and two other NBC-owned stations in California (
KNSD
KNSD (channel 39) is a television station in San Diego, California, United States, airing programming from the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations alongside Poway-licensed Telemundo outlet KUAN-L ...
in
San Diego
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and
KNTV in
San Jose) which launched on May 3, 2011, and replaced programming from
NBC Plus on the second
digital subchannels of all three stations. In the case of KNBC, it was the second news-oriented digital channel operated by the station, as digital channel 4.2 featured a rolling news format under the name NewsRaw (which moved from digital channel 4.4 upon Weather Plus' December 1, 2008 shutdown), before the launch of California Nonstop.
Each station produced a local newscast at 7 p.m. that was tailored to their respective market. For the Los Angeles feed of the channel, Colleen Williams anchored the hour-long ''Nonstop News LA''. NBC California Nonstop ended on December 20, 2012, when Cozi TV was launched.
Programming
KNBC is the flagship station for ''
The Kelly Clarkson Show'' and ''
Access Hollywood'' (and its
afternoon counterpart) which is produced by KNBC, both of which also air on other NBC owned-and-operated stations.
Sports programming
The station has had a long history of carrying Los Angeles sports teams via
NBC Sports. The station aired select
Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the city of Broo ...
games from their arrival in Los Angeles in
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
until
1989
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(and games featuring the
California Angels from their establishment in
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
to
1989
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) via
NBC's Major League Baseball broadcast contract; this included the Dodgers'
World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winner of the Worl ...
victories in
1963,
1965 and
1988. Channel 4 was the station of record for the
NFL's
Raiders
Raider(s) may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Paul Revere & the Raiders, an American rock band
* "Raider", a track from the 1969 album ''Farewell Aldebaran'', by Judy Henske and Jerry Yester
* "Raiders", a track from the 1987 album ''Young and ...
during
their tenure in Los Angeles from
1982 to
1994
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, and also aired any
Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Lakers play thei ...
and
Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division in the league's Western Conference. The Clipper ...
games that were part of the ''
NBA on NBC''. This included the Lakers championships in
2000,
2001 and
2002 (game 4 of the 2002 series was the last NBA game aired on NBC) and the team's appearance in
1991. Additionally, it served as the home station for the
Rose Bowl Game in
Pasadena from its first telecast in
1952 until
1988.
KNBC also provided local coverage of
Super Bowl VII, which was hosted at
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (and was the first Super Bowl televised in the host city), as well as Super Bowls
XI,
XVII
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Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers.
In mathematics
17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as s ...
, and
XXVII, which were hosted at the
Rose Bowl. Furthermore, the station provided local coverage of
Super Bowl LVI, which was held at
SoFi Stadium in
Inglewood Inglewood may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Inglewood, Queensland
* Shire of Inglewood, Queensland, a former local government area
*Inglewood, South Australia
*Inglewood, Victoria
*Inglewood, Western Australia
Canada
* Inglewood, Ontario
*Inglewoo ...
. The
first Super Bowl, which was also held at the Coliseum and broadcast on both NBC and
CBS, did not air on KNBC or KNXT (channel 2, now
KCBS-TV), due to the
NFL's blackout policy of the time, which did not allow home telecasts of games regardless of whether they were sold out, including playoffs and the league championship game, and that policy extended to the host cities for the first six Super Bowls—Los Angeles,
Miami
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(
II,
III
III or iii may refer to:
Companies
* Information International, Inc., a computer technology company
* Innovative Interfaces, Inc., a library-software company
* 3i, formerly Investors in Industry, a British investment company
Other uses
* ...
,
V), and
(
IV and
VI). The
American Football League, before its merger with the NFL starting with the
1970 season, also had a similar home blackout policy to the NFL's, and starting with the
1973 season, home games were allowed to be televised in the local market, so long as the game sold out 72 hours in advance (the blackout rules were lifted completely in 2015). This allowed KNBC to televise any
Los Angeles Rams inter-conference home games via
NBC's AFC Sunday afternoon package if the game was sold out in advance; the first such game was the final home game of the
1973 season, as the Rams hosted the
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conferenc ...
at the Coliseum on December 16.
Until 2021, the station aired select games involving the
Los Angeles Kings and
Anaheim Ducks via
NBC's broadcast contract with the
NHL, including
Stanley Cup Finals victories in
2007 for the Ducks, and
2012 and
2014
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for the Kings. Today, KNBC carries any Rams and/or
Chargers games that are chosen for ''
NBC Sunday Night Football'' (the station previously aired any Rams home inter-conference games from 1973 to
1994
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when NBC had the
AFC
AFC may stand for:
Organizations
* Action for Children, a UK children's charity
* AFC Enterprises, the franchisor of Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits
* Africa Finance Corporation, a pan-African multilateral development finance institution
* A ...
broadcast package), including the Rams' victory in Super Bowl LVI (notably as the second NFL team to play in and win a Super Bowl at its home stadium, although the Rams were designated as the visiting team). It will also be the home station when Los Angeles hosts the
2028 Summer Olympics and will share the Universal Studios lot with international broadcasters covering the Games.
News operation
As of 2022, KNBC broadcasts 44 hours, 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 hours, 35 minutes each weekday, three hours on Saturdays, and 3½ hours on Sundays). The station's newscasts have historically more of a "serious" tone covering issues (such as politics, government, education, and the economy) than other Los Angeles area newscasts. In 2010, the Norman Lear Center at the
University of Southern California found KNBC to have the least coverage of crime and the second-highest coverage of local government and sports and weather, compared to other Los Angeles stations. As part of a 2012 investment by parent company Comcast, KNBC's newscasts added 18 employees and produced more enterprise reporting. The station runs a special hour-long newscast on Sunday nights during the NFL season where ''NBC Sunday Night Football'' telecasts preempt the 6 p.m. newscast. On election nights, KNBC runs a special extended edition of its 11 p.m. newscast to show early election results.
In April 1968. channel 4 revamped its news programs into the ''KNBC News Service'' (stylized on the air as ''KNBC Newservice'') which, when combined with the ''
Huntley-Brinkley Report'', comprised the first 2½ hour-long block of early-evening local and national news on a major-market television station in the United States. The ''KNBC Newservice'' lasted until March 1976, when the newscasts adopted the ''NewsCenter 4'' title. NBC made similar changes to newscasts in other markets around the same time, and channel 4 shared the ''NewsCenter'' branding with sister stations
WNBC-TV in
New York,
WRC-TV in
Washington, D.C., and
WMAQ-TV in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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. KNBC's newscasts were the last to drop the ''NewsCenter'' moniker, rebranding to ''News 4 LA'' in July 1982 as the station also launched a new hour newscast at 4:00 p.m. The branding changed once more to ''Channel 4 News'' in August 1985. While KNBC became known on-air as ''NBC 4'' in 1995, the ''Channel 4 News'' branding was so well established in Southern California that the title was retained for 26 years until 2011, when it became ''NBC 4 News''.
For most of the last 30 years, KNBC has waged a spirited battle with
KABC-TV for the top-rated local newscast in Southern California, becoming a three-way race with KCBS-TV's ratings resurgence in 2006. Throughout the late 1980s and into the early 2000s, KNBC's newscasts were the most-watched in the region, beating out every other station viewership-wise, which coincided with NBC's overall ratings at the time. Channel 4's 11 p.m. newscast currently sits in the first place (adults 25–54) and has been for nine months straight; most of the station's other newscasts, including its once-popular morning news program, ''
Today in L.A.'', the area's first local morning newscast (which debuted in 1986), now is battling for second place.
For many years, KNBC produced a late afternoon newscast at 4 p.m., which was dropped in 2002, in favor of ''
Dr. Phil
Phillip Calvin McGraw (born September 1, 1950), better known as Dr. Phil, is an American television personality and author best known for hosting the talk show '' Dr. Phil''. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, though he ceased rene ...
'' (that program moved to KCBS-TV in 2004, and was replaced by ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' through the end of the show's run in 2022). The station also had an hour-long 11 a.m. newscast, which later was trimmed to a half-hour before ultimately being canceled at the start of the
2010 Winter Olympics. The station revived its midday newscast as a half-hour program at noon in early 2012, which expanded to one hour that September. KNBC became the fifth station in the Los Angeles market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in
high definition on July 14, 2008 (Spanish-language sister station KVEA and former sister
KWHY-TV also converted their newscasts to HD at the same time). On December 6, 2011, KNBC entered into a partnership with
public radio station
KPCC as part of a larger effort by NBCUniversal to partner with non-profit news organizations following its acquisition by
Comcast.
In 2006, KNBC launched a local news channel on digital channel 4.4 called ''News Raw'', that provided hourly news updates, additional information on breaking news stories, and previewed news stories scheduled to air on the main channel's newscasts. After Universal Sports was launched in 2008, ''News Raw'' became a part-time channel, and was later dropped when KNBC expanded Universal Sports programming on the former subchannel to 24 hours a day. Mekahlo Medina, the host of ''News Raw'', has received national attention for his integration of social media into local newscasts.
In summer 2016, changes were brought to KNBC's daytime lineup which led to the restoration of the 4 p.m. newscast, allowing the station to complete with KCBS-TV and its sister independent station KCAL-TV (which moved its 4 p.m. newscast from KCBS-TV in 2002) and KABC-TV (which began airing its 4 p.m. newscast into the period in September 1980). On July 24, 2016, KNBC became the tenth (and final) NBC-owned station and the third (and final) owned station in the West Coast to use its "Look N" graphics that is first implemented by the NBC O&Os in the East Coast in summer of that year; also its mic flags were updated, the color scheme was now blue with a white 4 instead of its white with a blue 4 color scheme; before this, KNBC along with sister stations KNTV and KNSD revamped their websites on July 1, 2016. In July 2016, KNBC entered into a partnership agreement with
Cumulus Media—owned
KABC radio to carry the simulcasts of the first half-hour of ''Today in L.A.'' morning newscasts and the station's 6:00 p.m. weeknight newscasts; additionally, some of the station's on-air talent occasionally appeared as guests on KABC's programs.
On July 31, 2017, KNBC began its expansion of ''Today in L.A.'' morning newscast, an extra half-hour was added to begin its start time to 4:00 a.m.; additionally, became the second station in Los Angeles and Southern California to expand it to the time period, following
KTLA who began expanding
its morning newscast to their time period in 2012.
On January 2, 2019, it was announced that the station's hour-long midday newscast will be cutting to a half-hour along with its in-state sister stations KNTV and KNSD in favor of the brand new lifestyle show ''California Live'' beginning January 7, 2019.
On June 7, 2021, KNBC premiered a new 30-minute 7 p.m. newscast.
In January 2022, KNBC announced that they will plan to launch a new streaming channel for NBCUniversal's streaming service
Peacock, under the name of "NBC LA News"; this comes following the announcement they would have a simultaneous rollout of streaming news channels starting with its sister stations in Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia and Boston launching on January 20; the said channel was launched on March 17, 2022.
On September 12, 2022, KNBC premiered a new 30-minute 3 p.m. newscast, followed by ''
NBC Nightly News''.
News team
KNBC has had a very stable news team over the years: weeknight anchor
Colleen Williams
Colleen Ann Williams (born March 6, 1955) is an American journalist. She is a news anchor of KNBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles, currently serving on the 5 and 11 p.m. weekday broadcasts. She also reports on occasion for NBC News and MSNBC. Williams ...
(who also occasionally reports for
MSNBC
MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...
and NBC News) and sports anchor
Fred Roggin (also has the nickname "The Dean of L.A. Sports" and serves as a commentator for
NBC's Olympics coverage) have each been at the station at least thirty years or more. Former chief weathercaster
Fritz Coleman
Fritz Coleman (born May 27, 1948 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a retired weathercaster, who worked for NBC Channel 4 (KNBC) in Los Angeles, California from 1982 until 2020. He began hosting Media Path Podcast with Louise Palanker in 2020. ...
(who like Roggin, has also occasionally appeared on ''
The Tonight Show'', and once hosted a late-night variety show for KNBC called ''It's Fritz'' from 1989 to the early 1990s) worked at the station from 1982 until his June 2020 retirement. Former anchor
Paul Moyer
Paul Moyer (born June 13, 1941) is an American journalist. He co-anchored the 5 PM and 11 PM weekday editions of KNBC-TV's ''Channel 4 News'' with Colleen Williams for a decade after earlier co-anchoring with Kelly Lange.Nieto, Rebecca (2009-05- ...
worked two stints at channel 4; first from 1972 to 1979 (when he began a 13-year run at rival KABC-TV) and from July 1992 until his April 2009 retirement. Like Moyer, anchor
Chuck Henry was also a mainstay at KABC-TV, before making the move to channel 4 in January 1994.
Kelly Lange,
Stu Nahan,
John Schubeck
John Schubeck (March 18, 1936 – September 26, 1997) was an American television reporter and anchor, and one of the few to anchor newscasts on all three network owned-and-operated stations in one major market.
Schubeck was born in Detroit, Mic ...
,
Tritia Toyota
Tritia Toyota (born March 29, 1947) is a former Los Angeles television news anchor and a current adjunct assistant professor in anthropology, Asian American studies and the media at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Early life and e ...
,
Jess Marlow
Myron Jess Marlow (November 29, 1929 – August 3, 2014) was an American journalist. He was best known for his work on television in Los Angeles, California, where he spent the bulk of his career.
Early career
Marlow began his television caree ...
,
David Sheehan,
John Beard John Beard may refer to:
* John Beard (artist) (born 1943), Welsh artist and painter
* John Beard (colonial administrator) (died 1685), Chief Agent and Governor of Bengal
* John Beard (embryologist) (1858–1924), Scottish embryologist and anatomi ...
and
Nick Clooney are other notables who have worked on KNBC's newscasts in the past. Another KNBC alum of note is consumer reporter
David Horowitz, whose long-running syndicated series, ''Fight Back!'', began on channel 4 and was produced and distributed by NBC and
Group W. In 1987 during an afternoon newscast, a gun-wielding mental patient gained access to NBC Studios and took Horowitz hostage live on-air. With the gun pressed to his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements on camera. The man, identified as Gary Stollman, was caught with a toy gun and was arrested by local police. It led Horowitz to start a successful campaign to ban "look-alike" toy guns in several states, including
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
and
New York.
Tom Brokaw began his NBC career as an anchor and reporter at KNBC in 1966, staying until he went over to national work for NBC News in 1973. Other notables who have worked at KNBC early in their careers prior to joining the network include
Bryant Gumbel,
Ross Porter,
Pat Sajak,
Kent Shocknek,
Bob Abernethy,
Keith Morrison
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Career
Beginning his career in the 1960s, Morrison was a reporter and anchor at local stations in Saskatchew ...
and
Tom Snyder.
=Notable current on-air staff
=
Anchors
*
Chuck Henry
*
Carolyn Johnson
*
Robert Kovacik
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*
Kathy Vara
*
Colleen Williams
Colleen Ann Williams (born March 6, 1955) is an American journalist. She is a news anchor of KNBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles, currently serving on the 5 and 11 p.m. weekday broadcasts. She also reports on occasion for NBC News and MSNBC. Williams ...
Sports team
*
Fred Roggin – Sports director and anchor
Reporters
*
Joel Grover
Joel Grover is an investigative journalist for KNBC in Los Angeles, California. He is nationally known for his undercover investigations, exposes and consumer reports.
Education and early career
Joel Grover graduated from Ulysses S. Grant H ...
– Investigative reporter
*
Conan Nolan
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– Chief political reporter
=Notable former on-air staff
=
*
Bob Abernethy (retired NBC News correspondent)
*
Andy Adler
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(now with
WPIX
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)
*
Jim Avila (now with
ABC News
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)
*
John Beard John Beard may refer to:
* John Beard (artist) (born 1943), Welsh artist and painter
* John Beard (colonial administrator) (died 1685), Chief Agent and Governor of Bengal
* John Beard (embryologist) (1858–1924), Scottish embryologist and anatomi ...
(moved to
KTTV and later to
WGRZ)
*
Ross Becker (later with
KAAL-TV
KAAL (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Austin, Minnesota, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for Southeast Minnesota and Northern Iowa. The station is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, and maintains studios in the TJ Maxx-anc ...
in
Austin, Minnesota; now CEO of TvNewsmentor.com)
*
Victor Bozeman
Victor Emanuel Bozeman (August 11, 1929 in McLennan County, Texas – November 26, 1986 in Los Angeles, California) was an American television announcer, voice-over artist, and actor.
In the 1950s, Bozeman was a disc jockey at WLIB in New Y ...
– staff announcer
*
Tom Brokaw (now retired from
NBC News)
*
Jim Brown
*
Nick Clooney (retired)
*
Fritz Coleman
Fritz Coleman (born May 27, 1948 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a retired weathercaster, who worked for NBC Channel 4 (KNBC) in Los Angeles, California from 1982 until 2020. He began hosting Media Path Podcast with Louise Palanker in 2020. ...
(retired)
*
Sonya Crawford Sonya Crawford Bearson is a Korean-born former broadcast journalist who worked for ABC News as a special-events anchor and correspondent in Washington, D.C. from 2002 until 2007.
Early life
Born in Seoul, South Korea, the daughter of American missi ...
*
Linda Douglass
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*
Crystal Egger
*
David Garcia
*
Garrett Glaser
*
Bryant Gumbel (now with
HBO Sports)
*
Daniella Guzman
Daniella Guzman (born February 14, 1982) is an American journalist.
Early life
Guzman was born in Sugar Land, Texas. She is fluent in Spanish and graduated from University of St. Thomas with a B.A. in bilingual journalism and communications.
C ...
(now with
KPRC-TV
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)
*
Chick Hearn
Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn (November 27, 1916 – August 5, 2002) was an American sportscaster who was the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association for 41 years. Hearn is remembered for his rapi ...
– longtime Lakers announcer who worked previously as a sports anchor when station was known as KRCA (deceased)
*
Dr. Bruce Hensel
*
David Horowitz (deceased)
*
Desiree Horton
*
Rafer Johnson – former Olympic track star who worked briefly as sports anchor (deceased)
*
Whit Johnson
Whit Johnson (born June 25, 1982) is an American journalist and co-anchor of the weekend editions of ''Good Morning America'', the anchor of the Saturday edition of ''ABC World News Tonight'', and he is also fill-in and substitute anchor of ''Goo ...
(now at ABC News)
*
Kyung Lah
Kyung I. Lah ( ko, 나경, ; born August 27, 1971) is a South Korean-American journalist and correspondent for CNN based in the U.S.
Early life and education
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(now with
CNN)
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Kelly Lange – longtime news anchor (later with
KCBS-TV; now retired)
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Elita Loresca
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(now with
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Jess Marlow
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Early career
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– anchor, 1966–1980; 1986–1997
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Byron Miranda
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Personal background
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(now with WPIX)
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Robert W. Morgan (deceased)
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Career
Beginning his career in the 1960s, Morrison was a reporter and anchor at local stations in Saskatchew ...
(now with
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Paul Moyer
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Stu Nahan (later with
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Kevin O'Connell (retired)
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Jack Perkins (deceased)
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Ross Porter
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Francis Gary Powers
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Jacob Rascon
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(later with KPRC-TV; now with KTRK in Houston)
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Donald Rickles – staff announcer
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Michele Ruiz
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Pat Sajak (now host of ''
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Tracie Savage
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John Schubeck
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(later with
KCBS-TV) (deceased)
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Bill Seward
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(now at
NBC Sports)
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David Sheehan (deceased)
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Kent Shocknek (later with
KCBS-TV/
KCAL-TV; now retired)
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Tom Snyder (deceased)
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Steve Somers
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Personal life
S ...
(now at
WFAN)
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Don Stanley – staff announcer
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Peggy Taylor – staff announcer
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Wendy Tokuda
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Biography
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Tritia Toyota
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Early life and e ...
(moved to
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Danny Villanueva
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
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