KPIX-TV
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| KPIX-TV | |
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| San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, California | |
| Branding | CBS 5 Bay Area (general) CBS 5 Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Everywhere |
| Channels | 5 (VHF) analog, 29 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner | CBS Corporation |
| Founded | December 24, 1948 |
| Former affiliations | DuMont (secondary 1948-1955) NBC (secondary 1948-1949) |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW/506 m (analog) 1000 kW/401 m (digital) |
| Website | www.cbs5.com |
KPIX-TV (Channel 5) 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 (Channel 44).
The station transmits from the Sutro Tower and its signal covers the San Francisco Bay Area. Known on the air as CBS 5 Bay Area, KPIX is home to one of the higher rated newscasts among CBS-owned stations. KPIX was also one of 2 Group W stations that became a CBS O&O, but had already been affiliated with CBS (the other being KDKA-TV).
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[edit] History
KPIX signed on Christmas Eve 1948. It was the nation's 49th television station, the fifth in California and the first in California outside Los Angeles. It was owned by the Associated Broadcasters, owners of KSFO-AM 560.
It immediately joined CBS due to a deal KSFO's owners had worked out with CBS a year earlier. KSFO had been CBS Radio's Bay Area affiliate from 1937 to 1941, when Associated Broadcasters backed out of a deal for CBS to buy the station. While KSFO was still affiliated with CBS, it was originally slated to move to 740 AM, the dial spot of KQW in San Jose. That frequency was the last 50,000-watt frequency originally allocated to the Bay Area, and KSFO would raise its power to 50,000 watts after the move. However, after KSFO parted ways with CBS, CBS moved its Bay Area affiliation to KQW and wasn't about to give up the obvious advantage of owning the last available 50,000-watt station in the Bay Area. After lengthy FCC hearings, KSFO won the frequency, but later decided to stay at 560 and concentrate its efforts on building a television station. It traded 740 to CBS in return for getting the CBS television affiliation for the Bay Area. CBS changed KQW's calls to KCBS.
The station also carried programming from the now-defunct DuMont Television Network until that network folded in 1955. [1]. It even carried a few NBC programs until KRON-TV signed on in 1949.
When KPIX's first competitor, KGO-TV, signed on in 1949, KPIX produced programs to welcome it to the Bay Area.
In 1952, KPIX and KSFO moved into a new building on Van Ness Avenue, with KPIX staying there until about 1979, when they relocated to a refurbished building on the corner of Battery and Broadway streets, where KPIX remains to this day. (KSFO moved to other studios in the Fairmont Hotel, across the hall from the Tonga Room, later in the 1950s.) Westinghouse Electric Corporation bought KPIX in 1954 and ran it as part of Group W, its broadcasting unit. In November 1995, Westinghouse merged with CBS, making KPIX a CBS O&O station and bringing it into common ownership with KCBS.
In May, 2006, KCBS and KPIX moved their San Jose news bureau to the Fairmont Tower at 50 W. San Fernando St. This was the original site of Charles Herrold's experimental broadcasts that eventually birthed KCBS. Although CBS was not aware of the history of the San Fernando St. address when the move was planned, it quickly recognized and embraced its significance when informed, giving long-overdue credit at the bureau's opening celebration to one of the inventors of broadcasting.
[edit] Programs
KPIX pioneered in local television news coverage in the Bay Area. Like most television stations, it presented a 15-minute evening news program until 1963, when the networks began expanding their evening newscasts to 30 minutes. Among the early KPIX news anchors was John Weston.
During the 1950s, KPIX produced a local children's program, Captain Fortune, on weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings. In addition to a number of live segments with an in-studio children's audience, the program featured the pioneering animated television episodes of Crusader Rabbit.
For several years in the late 1950s and early 1960s KPIX presented Dance Party, hosted by Dick Stewart. The program invited local teenagers to come and dance to recorded music in the KPIX studios. Stewart also hosted a number of "High School Salute" programs on Saturdays that spotlighted area high schools with interviews with students and faculty, as well as filmed segments from each school.
KPIX was the station that came up with the concept for a local entertainment and lifestyles program, Evening Magazine. Evening Magazine began on KPIX-TV in August 1976, and within a year, the concept expanded to the other Group W stations. By Fall 1978, the Evening Magazine format was syndicated to non-Group W markets across the country as PM Magazine. The entire Evening/PM Magazine format was cancelled by the late 1980s. KPIX resurrected Evening Magazine in 1998. In 2005, Evening Magazine was retitled Eye On The Bay, to focus further on the San Francisco Bay Area. KBCW also aired Evening Magazine and Eye on the Bay in the early 2000s as reruns of the previous night's episode.
KPIX was also known for the locally produced morning talk show, People are Talking, which began in 1978, and ran until the 1990's (the other Group W stations also used the People are Talking format during these years). On KPIX, this show pre-empted The Price Is Right for a few years, and CBS had to schedule the popular game show on other Bay Area independent stations such as KOFY (now KBWB).
Until 1994, it was standard KPIX practice to pre-empt not only The Price Is Right but also other CBS morning daytime shows as well. In 1995, when CBS signed a long term deal with every Westinghouse station (just before the two companies merged), KPIX began broadcasting the entire CBS schedule.
For a time from 1992 until 1998, KPIX ran CBS primetime programming an hour earlier than typical for the Pacific Time Zone (i.e. from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.), a practice which KOVR, its sister station in Sacramento, continues to this day. This practice also saw the launch of a 10:00 hour-long newscast in the 1990s, whereas KRON also had a 10 p.m. newscast which was 30 minutes. Both have since moved back up to the 11 p.m. timeslot, with KPIX doing this in 1998 due to the fact that KTVU had a long standing with their 10 p.m. newscast for years.
KPIX was also home to 30 Minutes Bay Area, a 30 minute news magazine created by 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt after he retired from the national show. The "30 Minutes" concept was originally planned to air on many CBS O&O stations, but KPIX was the only station to implement the concept. 30 Minutes Bay Area was discontinued in early 2007.
[edit] Newscasts
KPIX uses the Eyewitness News format adopted by sister station KYW-TV in Philadelphia. KGO-TV also uses a similar type format, but KPIX had the Eyewitness News name first; KGO adopted its version from WABC-TV in New York City. For most of the last 30 years, KPIX has been runner-up to KGO.
[edit] Lineup
Monday-Friday
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News Early Edition - 5-7 a.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at Noon - Noon-12:30 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5 - 5-5:30 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 6 - 6-7 p.m.
- Eye on the Bay - 7-7:30 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 11 - 11-11:35 p.m.
Saturday
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News Weekend Early Edition - 7-8:30 a.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5:30 - 5:30-6 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 6:30 - 6:30-7 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 11 - 11-11:35 p.m.
Sunday
- Bay Sunday - 5:30-6 a.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News Weekend Early Edition - 7:30-8:30 a.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5:30 - 5:30-6 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 6:30 - 6:30-7 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 11 - 11-11:35 p.m.
[edit] Current Personalities
Anchors
- Ken Bastida - 6 and 11 p.m. weekdays
- Lisa Chan - weekend mornings
- John Kessler - weekday mornings and noon
- Dana King - 6 and 11 p.m. weekdays
- Sydnie Kohara - weekday mornings
- Allen Martin - 5 p.m. weekdays
- Ann Notarangelo - weekend evenings
- Barbara Rodgers - noon weekdays, Bay Sunday
- Wendy Tokuda - 5 p.m. weekdays
- Joe Vazquez - weekend mornings
Weather
- Roberta Gonzales - weekday mornings and noon
- Lawrence Karnow - weekday substitute and weekends
- Samantha Mohr - weeknights
Sports
- Dennis O'Donnell - weeknights
- Rick Quan - weekends and weeknights (weeknight reporter)
Reporters
- Anna Duckworth ( mornings and noon)
- Brian Hackney - Eye on the Bay host/correspondent
- Sherry Hu - East Bay Bureau
- Heather Hudgens - traffic
- Kate Kelly - feature reporter/Bay Area Jefferson Awards (occasional anchor)
- Sue Kwon - business/technology reporter
- John Lobertini - Sacramento Bureau
- Liam Mayclem - Eye on the Bay contributor
- Phil Matier - political commentator
- Dr. Kim Mulvihill - medical reporter
- Jeanette Pavini - consumer reporter
- Simon Perez-general assignment reporter
- Hank Plante - political editor
- Len Ramirez - South Bay correspondent
- Manuel Ramos-weeknight reporter, occasional weekend anchor
- Tony Russomanno - San Jose Bureau
- Jeffrey Schaub - North Bay Bureau Chief
- Bill Schechner-weeknight reporter
- Mike Sugerman-general assignment reporter
- Thuy Vu - San Jose Bureau
- Anna Werner - investigative reporter
[edit] Past Personalities, Newscasters and Reporters
- Van Amburg - sports anchor (1962-1969)
- Jim Avila - weekend anchor/San Jose Bureau chief (1976-1980, now at ABC News)
- Ed Arnow - reporter (1970-1983)
- Jennifer Auther - reporter (1991-1992)
- Amalia Barreda - reporter (1974-1976, now at WCVB-TV in Boston)
- Joel Bartlett - chief meteorologist (1976-1989, now at KGO)
- Anna Chavez - anchor (1992-1997)
- Christopher Chow - first Chinese-American reporter in the market (1970-1973)
- Christine Craft - anchor/reporter (1975-1977, now a radio host at KSAC in Sacramento [2])
- David Cruz - anchor/reporter (1979-1985, now at KNBC in Los Angeles)
- Belva Davis - anchor/reporter (1966-1977)
- Sandra Dickson - reporter (early 1970s)
- Ysabel Duron - reporter (early 1970s, now at KRON-TV)
- Joe Fonzi - sports reporter/anchor (1982-1994, now at KTVU)
- Dan Fouts - sports anchor (1994-1997, now at NFL Network)
- Steve Fox - Evening Magazine co-host
- Ann Fraser - People Are Talking host/reporter (1966-1997)
- Wayne Freedman - reporter (1989-1991, now at KGO-TV)
- Emil Guillermo - reporter (1977-1980)
- Mike Hegedus - reporter (1985-1994, now at CNBC)
- Robert Handa - reporter (1990-1998, now at KTVU)
- Joe Hoskinson - Traffic Reporter (2005-2006)
- Cheryl Hurd - reporter (1992-1998, now at KNTV)
- Jonathan Karsh - Evening Magazine host/contributor (1998-2001, now a filmmaker [3])
- Bill Lagattuta - reporter (1980-1982, now at CBS News)
- Mike Lee - reporter (1968-1975, now at ABC News in London)
- Ron Magers - anchor/reporter (1968-1974, now at WLS-TV in Chicago)
- Janelle Marie - traffic reporter (1992-1994)
- Bill Martin - meteorologist (1993-1995, now at KTVU)
- Dave McElhatton - longtime anchor (1976-2001)
- Ross McGowan - People Are Talking host/reporter (1978-1992, now at KTVU)
- Brendan McLaughlin - anchor/reporter (now at WFTS-TV in Tampa)
- Lee Mendelson - producer; better known for work on Peanuts TV specials
- Doug Murphy - anchor/reporter (1982-2005, deceased)
- Christopher Nance - weather anchor (1983-1985)
- Dan Navarro - reporter (1974-1976)
- Malou Nubla - Evening Magazine co-host (2000-2006, now runs a communications company [4])
- Joe Oliver - anchor/reporter (1996-1998, now at WESH-TV in Orlando)
- Rollin Post - reporter/commentator (1961-1973)
- Wanda Ramey - noon co-anchor/reporter; first female anchor in western U.S. (1957-1967)
- Troy Roberts - reporter (1985-1987, now at CBS News)
- Mike Rowe - Evening Magazine co-host (2001-2005)
- Dr. Nancy Snyderman - medical reporter (1988-2004, now at NBC News)
- Drew Soicher - sports anchor (1997-1999, now at KUSA-TV in Denver)
- Jim Steck - anchor (circa 1973)
- Dick Stewart - host of Dance Party and High School Salute
- Sandra Stricker - reporter (1985-1993)
- Mark Sugerman - reporter (1981-2005)
- Brian Sussman - meteorologist (1989-2000)
- Wendy Tokuda - anchor (1978-1992, went on to KNBC-TV and KRON-TV until March 2007 before returning to CBS5 on 4/9/07)
- Kaity Tong - reporter (1976-1979, now at WPIX-TV in New York)
- Wayne Walker - sports anchor (1974-1994)
- John Weston - noon co-anchor/reporter
- Ben Williams - reporter (1966-1991
- Colleen Williams - anchor/reporter (1981-1983, now at KNBC in Los Angeles)
- Jan Yanehiro - Evening Magazine co-host (1976-1989)
[edit] KPIX Branding
KPIX's "5" logo dates from the days as a Westinghouse station, when the "Group W font" was standard on KPIX and its sister stations. When Westinghouse merged with CBS, most of the former Group W stations eventually retired the font. KPIX and WJZ-TV would become the only two CBS-owned television stations to continue using this logo font. KPIX was the only CBS-owned station on the West Coast to not follow the CBS Mandate for years after the merger, referencing itself as KPIX-TV Channel 5. Finally in 2005, KPIX fell in line with the mandate and called itself CBS 5, later CBS 5 Bay Area (although some references to "CBS 5" were heard in commercials as early as 2003). But it was briefly branded simply as KPIX 5 between 1993 and 1996, even dropping the Eyewitness News name and called itself KPIX 5 News at the same time before reverting.
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| Ukiah-Mendocino County: KUNO 8 (AZA) - K17CG 17 (Ind) - K21CD 21 (TEL) - K27EE 27 (PBS) - K29DF 29 (Ind) - K39AG 39 (Fox) - K41AF 41 (MNTV) - K43AF 43 (CBS) - K45AH 45 (ABC) - K51AQ 51 (The CW) - K55GX 55 (PBS) - K67BV 67 (Ind) - K69DF 69 (PBS) |
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| Local cable television channels FSN Bay Area - Comcast SportsNet West - Tri-Valley Community Television |
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KCBS 2 (Los Angeles) - KPIX 5 (San Francisco) - KVIQ 6 (Eureka) - KFMB 8 (San Diego) - KCOY 12 (Santa Maria) - KHSL 12 (Chico) - KOVR 13 (Stockton/Sacramento/Modesto) - KBAK 29 (Bakersfield) - KPSP 38 (Coachella Valley) - KION 46 (Salinas) - KGPE 47 (Fresno) |
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| See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California | |
