KTVI

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KTVI
St. Louis, Missouri
Branding	FOX2
Slogan	Coverage You Can Count On; St. Louis' Newsroom; The Most Powerful Name In Local News
Channels	2 (VHF) analog, 43 (HDTV, UHF) digital
Affiliations	Fox (since 1995)
Owner	Fox Television Stations Group (New World Communications of St. Louis, Inc.)
Founded	August 13, 1953 on channel 54 (moved to channel 36 in 1955 and to channel 2 in 1957)
Call letters meaning	K Tele- Vision Illinois (station originally licensed to Belleville, IL)
Former callsigns	WTVI (1953-1955)
Former affiliations	CBS (1953-54) ABC (1953-95, secondary until 1955) (1948-1956?)
Website	www.myfoxstl.com

KTVI is the Fox owned and operated station in St. Louis, Missouri. Its transmitter is located in Sappington, Missouri, in a field behind Lindbergh High School. Its studios are located off Interstate 64/U.S. Highway 40 at the intersection of Berthold, Oakland, and Hampton Avenues in the Clayton-Tamm/Dogtown neighborhood of St. Louis.It Serves the Counties Of St.Louis,MO St.Charles,MO Jefferson,MO Warren,MO Washington,MO Iron,MO Madison,MO Randolph,IL Monroe,IL St.Clair,IL Washington,IL Sainte Genevieve,MO Perry,MO Crawford,MO Franklin,MO Pike,MO St.Francois,MO

KTVI broadcasts in stereo and broadcasts a Secondary Audio Program (SAP) channel, used mainly for Descriptive Video Service (DVS). KTVI airs also about 42 hours of local news per week.

Contents 1 History 2 News Operations 2.1 Newscasts 2.1.1 Weekdays 2.1.2 Saturdays 2.1.3 Sundays 2.1.4 Other 2.2 News Sets/Graphics Packages 2.3 On-Air Personalities 2.3.1 Current 2.3.2 Past 3 External links

[edit] History

KTVI began on August 13, 1953 as WTVI, channel 54 in Belleville, Illinois; a suburb of St. Louis. It was the CBS affiliate for St. Louis, with a secondary ABC affiliation. When KWK-TV (now KMOV) signed on and took the CBS affiliation, WTVI became a full ABC affiliate. It moved its studios and license across the Mississippi River to St. Louis on April 9, 1955 changing its calls to KTVI. It also moved to channel 36. KTVI moved to channel 2 on April 15, 1957, where it remains to this day. WTVI are currently the call letters of a PBS member affiliate in Charlotte.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Times Mirror owned the station. As part of a group deal, KTVI was sold to Argyle Broadcasting in 1993. In 1994, the Fox network took over the contract from CBS to carry the NFC game package. This inspired a conglomerate called New World Communications to reach an affiliation agreement with the network by switching all of its stations to Fox in the winter of 1994. Then New World bought out Argyle, and cut another deal to switch KTVI and sister stations KDFW in Dallas, WVTM in Birmingham and KTBC in Austin in the summer of 1995. (But WVTM would remain an NBC affiliate because former ABC affiliate WBRC was directly sold to Fox; WVTM would be subsequently sold to NBC Universal, then to that station's current owner Media General). The new owners moved Fox programming to KTVI on August 7, 1995, allowing the former Fox affiliate, KDNL channel 30, to become St. Louis' ABC affiliate. Distinctively, when New World merged with Fox Television Stations Group under Newscorp in 1996, KTVI was the first major network O&O in St. Louis since KMOX-TV was sold by CBS to Viacom, and became KMOV in 1986. It stayed that way until 2003 when KPLR was sold to Tribune.

KTVI didn't pick up Fox Kids at first, so it moved to KNLC. However, in the fall of 1996, due to Reverend Larry Rice's refusal to air commercials on Fox Kids (replacing them with ministry messages), Fox pulled Fox Kids from KNLC and was picked up by KTVI. KTVI was the only New World station to take Fox Kids. Shortly thereafter, KTVI and the New World Fox affiliates were sold to Fox' parent, News Corporation, becoming Fox O&Os. (However, like many of their FOX sister stations including those in Tampa, Cleveland, and Atlanta, KTVI still use "NEW WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC." as their end tag after their newscasts) Programming changed very slightly as Fox began buying more expensive syndicated shows for KTVI.

In the fall of 1998, KTVI reduced the weekday Fox Kids programs to just two hours (from three) and, in 2000, dropped weekday Fox Kids completely while Saturday mornings were continued. At the end of 2001, Fox Kids weekdays ended nationwide, and the weekends were revamped as 4Kids TV. KTVI now airs Fox's entire schedule including 4Kids TV; as of Fall 2006 it airs 2 hours earlier than most affiliates now to accommodate an expanded newscast lineup on Saturday Mornings.

KTVI's introduced its current logo on April 10, 2006. The station is the fourth to use this logo style (which is similar to that of the Fox News Channel), which is gradually being adopted by the other Fox O&Os.

[edit] News Operations

KTVI leads the 9 p.m. news ratings race against KPLR but comes in third behind KSDK and KMOV's 10 p.m. news. KTVI is able to emphasize a broad array of stories from major national and local reports to small-town local stories/investigations because of the many extra hours of news (7.5 hours per day as opposed to 5 on KSDK and KMOV) that need to be filled. Also because of this, the station features more regular segments such as The Jaco Report, a segment where noted reporter Charles Jaco gives either an editorial or introduces an investigative piece, or You Paid For It, where Elliot Davis finds tax abuse in local governments and closes the segment by giving the phone number of the mayor's office in that municipality, signing off with the locally famous line "Call and speak your mind: after all, you paid for it." KTVI devotes a larger segment of its sports coverage to local high-school sports (once joining with the Post-Dispatch to air the "Prep Sports Show" on Saturdays, now cancelled) and is the home of Scott Linehan's weekly St. Louis Rams review show on Mondays. The station's morning news program is 4 hours, 5:00am - 9:00am and another hour from 11:00am-12:00. Since 1998, Fox 2 News In The Morning has been the fastest growing newscast in St. Louis morning Television.^{[citation needed]}

Before Dick Ford retired in December 2005, all four of KTVI's main male anchors (Dick Ford, Tom O'Neal, Dan Gray and John Pertzborn) were once anchors at KSDK.

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Weekdays

• FOX2 News in the Morning - 5:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
  • with Kevin Steincross (5am-7am), Randi Naughton (5am-7am), John Pertzborn (7am-9am), Margie Ellisor (7am-9am)
  • Glenn Zimmerman; weather
  • Monica Adams; traffic
• FOX2 News at 11 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  • with April Simpson, Kevin Steincross
  • Glenn Zimmerman; weather
• FOX2 News at 5 - 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  • with Dan Gray and Mandy Murphey
  • Dave Murray; weather
  • Martin Kilcoyne (Monday-Thursday), Rob Desir (Friday); sports
• FOX2 News at 6 - 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  • with Tom O'Neal and Sandy Miller
  • Dave Murray; weather
  • Martin Kilcoyne (Monday-Thursday), Rob Desir (Friday); sports
• FOX2 News at 9 - 9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  • with Tom O'Neal and Mandy Murphey
  • Dave Murray; weather
  • Martin Kilcoyne (Monday-Thursday), Rob Desir (Friday); sports

[edit] Saturdays

• FOX2 News Saturday Morning - 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  • with Andy Banker and Shawn Lindsay
  • Angela Hutti; weather
  • Maurice Drummond; sports
• FOX2 News at 5 - 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  • with Elliot Davis and TBD
  • Chris Higgins; weather
  • Rob Desir; sports
• FOX2 News at 9 - 9:00 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
  • with Elliot Davis and TBD
  • Chris Higgins; weather
  • Rob Desir; sports
• SportsFinal - 9:40 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  • with Rob Desir, Martin Kilcoyne, and Chris Pelikan

[edit] Sundays

• FOX2 News Sunday Morning - 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
  • with Paul Schankman and Shawn Lindsay
  • Angela Hutti; weather
  • Maurice Drummond; sports
• FOX2 News at 5 - 5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  • with Tom O'Neal and TBD
  • Mark Geldmeier; weather
  • Martin Kilcoyne; sports
• FOX2 News at 9 - 9:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
  • with Tom O'Neal and TBD
  • Chris Higgins; weather
  • Martin Kilcoyne; sports
• SportsFinal - 9:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  • with Rob Desir, Martin Kilcoyne, Chris Pelikan, and Maurice Drummond

[edit] Other

• Rams Weekly with Scott Linehan - Mondays 6:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (in footbal season only)
  • with Martin Kilcoyne and St. Louis Rams head coach Scott Linehan

[edit] News Sets/Graphics Packages

On March 31, 2006, KTVI used their set, originally constructed in 1998, for the last time; at 10:00 p.m. crews began tearing down the set and weather center. Fox 2 broadcast from the newsroom and a temporary set while a new set and weather center were under construction in the old studio. The old news desk was donated to Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the old weather center was donated to the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The new set, along with new graphics, music, and a new logo, debuted for FOX2 News at 9 on Monday, April 10, 2006.

The theme music that KTVI uses is OSI Music's FOX O&O News Theme, formerally known as WTVT NewsEdge Theme. This theme is being used by other FOX O&O stations that have made identical modifications to their identity.

With the new set, music, and graphics that first aired in April 2006, the weather graphics were altered in September 2006 with a new background, and other features to better fit the MyFox theme.

[edit] On-Air Personalities

[edit] Current

Anchors

• Andy Banker, Saturday morning anchor/weeknight reporter
• J.C. Corcoran, Personal Commentary
• Elliot Davis, Friday night&Saturday night&Saturday evening/You Paid For It reporter
• Margie Ellisor, 7am-9am anchor/consumer reporter
• Dan Gray, 5pm weekday anchor/weeknight reporter
• Shawn Lindsey, weekend morning anchor/weekday morning reporter
• Sandy Miller, 6pm weekday anchor
• Mandy Murphey, 5pm & weeknight anchor/reporter
• Randi Naughton, 5am-7am anchor/reporter
• Tom O'Neal, Sunday-Thursday night&5pm Sunday anchor/health reporter
• John Pertzborn, 7am-9am anchor
• April Simpson, midday anchor/weekday morning reporter
• Paul Schankman, Sunday morning anchor/weeknight reporter
• Kevin Steincross, 5am-7am anchor/reporter

Reporters

• Monica Adams, traffic
• John Auble
• Betsey Bruce
• Sean Conroy
• Bonita Cornute
• Tim Ezell, feature
• John Gadson
• Chris Hayes, investigative
• Charles Jaco, war correspondent/The Jaco Report
• Summer Knowles
• Doug Luzader, Washington DC correspondent
• Roche Madden
• Janis Murray, home & garden
• Chris Regnier
• Smash, feature
• Elliot Weiler, Contact 2
• Teresa Woodard

Sports

• Rob Desir, Friday/Saturday evening anchor/Sunday-Thursday reporter
• Maurice Drummond, weekend morning anchor/weekday reporter
• Martin Kilcoyne, Sports director Sunday-Thursday, co-host of Rams Weekly with Scott Linehan
• Chris Pelikan, sports producer/reporter

Weather

• Mark Geldmeier, fill-in meteorologist
• Chris Higgins, weekend evening meteorologist
• Angela Hutti, weather producer, weekend morning meteorologist
• Dave Murray chief meteorologist weekday evenings, Home & Garden reporter
• Glenn Zimmerman, weekday morning & midday meteorologist

[edit] Past

• Victoria Babu, anchor/reporter (now at KTRS Radio, St. Louis).
• Gene Tuck, anchor
• Cecil Tuck, New Director
• Lloyd Beaker, Executive Producer
• Cherie Bank, anchor (now at WCAU, Philadelphia).
• Marion Brooks, anchor.
• Kevin Cokely, anchor.
• Larry Conners, anchor (now at KMOV).
• Ron Corning, reporter.
• Lynn Cousins, reporter.
• Mark Curtis, sports director.
• Jennifer Davis, reporter.
• Kathleen England, traffic reporter (now at KSDK).
• Jill Farmer, consumer reporter.
• Dick Ford, anchor.
• Julie Gaier, reporter.
• Greg Gizinski, sports reporter.
• Joel Goldberg, sports reporter (now at FSN-Midwest).
• Donn "Velvet" Johnson, anchor/reporter.
• Iola Johnson, anchor.
• Dana King, anchor.
• Stu Klitenic, sports director.
• Gina Kurre, reporter.
• Don Lemon, investigative reporter.
• Brenda Madden, reporter.
• Russ Mitchell, reporter (now with CBS-TV).
• Miles Muzio, Chief Metorologist.
• Nancy Pasternak, anchor/reporter.
• Pete (Greg) Peterson, sports director.(Now lead news anchor KMTV)
• Joe Petrovich, meteorologist.
• Rochelle Rowe, anchor.
• Zip Rzeppa, sports director.
• Robin Smith, reporter (now at KMOV).
• Melanie Streeper, weather anchor/producer.
• Howard Streeter, anchor
• Lisa Sylvester, anchor.
• Len Turner, reporter/St. Louis' most wanted reporter.
• Hillary Wicai, reporter
• Ron Yaros, meteorologist
• Bebe Burns, reporter
• Fred Rhodes, reporter

[edit] External links

• Official website
• FOX
• FOX News
• FOX Sports
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KTVI