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KCAL-TV
Los Angeles, California
Branding K-CAL 9 (general)
K-CAL 9 News (newscasts)
Slogan Live, Local, Late Breaking
Always On
Channels Analog: 9 (VHF)

Digital: 43 (UHF)
Translators (see article)
Affiliations Independent
Owner CBS Corporation
(Los Angeles Television Station KCAL, LLC)
Founded August 25, 1948
Call letters’ meaning CALifornia
Sister station(s) KCBS-FM, KCBS-TV, KFWB, KLSX, KNX, KROQ-FM, KRTH, KTWV
Former callsigns KFI-TV (1948-1951)
KHJ-TV (1951-1989)
Former affiliations NBC (1948-1949)
DuMont (1954-1956)
Transmitter Power 141 kW (analog)
300 kW (digital)
Height 970 m (analog)
947 m (digital)
Facility ID 21422
Transmitter Coordinates 34°13′35.9″N, 118°4′3.6″W
Website www.kcal9.com

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KCBS-TV, channel 2 is an owned-and-operated station of the CBS Television Network, located in Los Angeles California. CBS Studio Center is a television and film studio located in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. Studio City is a four-square-mile district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. Mount Wilson is one of the more prominent peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains, part of the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County California, USA

Contents

History

Early years

Channel 9 went on the air as KFI-TV on August 25, 1948, owned by Earle C. Anthony, along with KFI radio (640 AM). Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Earle C Anthony ( December 18, 1880 &ndash August 6, 1961) was a pioneer businessman based in Los Angeles, California. For other stations which used the KFI callsign please see KFI (disambiguation. KFI had long been affiliated with NBC, and KFI-TV served for a brief period as Los Angeles' first NBC television affiliate. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Channel 9 lost its NBC affiliation in January 1949 when the network launched its own station, KNBH (now KNBC). Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. KNBC, channel 4 is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network and the westcoast flagship station of NBC licensed to Los Angeles KFI-TV then became an independent station, a status it has retained to this day (though it carried DuMont programming from 1954 until the network's demise in 1956). An independent station is Television terminology used to describe a Television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not The DuMont Television Network was the world's first commercial Television network, beginning operation in the United States in 1946 Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Channel 9's engineers made noises about going on strike in 1951, leading Anthony to sell the station to the General Tire and Rubber Company. Strike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal by Employees to perform work. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January The General Tire and Rubber Company is an American manufacturer of Tires for Motor vehicles. A few months earlier General Tire had purchased the Don Lee Broadcasting System, a regional West Coast radio network. Don Lee's flagship station was KHJ radio (930 AM), and General Tire changed its new TV station's call letters to KHJ-TV. KHJ Radio in Los Angeles, California broadcasts Spanish-language entertainment programming as La Ranchera. The Don Lee name was so well respected in California broadcasting that KHJ-TV called itself "Don Lee Television" for a few years in the early 1950s, even though it had never been affiliated with KHJ radio until the 1951 deal. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive Most of Don Lee's television experiments had been conducted on what is now KCBS-TV -- ironically, current sister station to channel 9. KCBS-TV, channel 2 is an owned-and-operated station of the CBS Television Network, located in Los Angeles California.

In 1955, General Tire purchased RKO Radio Pictures, giving the company's TV stations access to RKO's film library, and soon after General Tire merged its broadcast interests as General Teleradio. In 1959, General Tire's broadcasting and film divisions were renamed as RKO General. RKO General was the main Holding company through 1991 for the noncore businesses of the General Tire and Rubber Company and after General Tire's reorganization in

RKO ownership

By the late 1960s, channel 9 offered a standard independent schedule of movies, off-network reruns, children's shows, syndicated fare, and locally-produced programs such as news, sports, and public-affairs shows.

By the mid-1970s, the cartoons were gone (moving to KTTV and KCOP), and the station ran far fewer off-network sitcoms. KTTV, channel 11 is an Owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation -owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles California KCOP-TV, channel 13 is a television station in Los Angeles California. It focused more on talk shows, game shows, older movies, and dramas. It did have a weekday children's show called Froozles, which ran until the late 1980s. It also produced a local talk show called Mid Morning L. A. , hosted over the years by Bob Hilton, Meredith MacRae, Geoff Edwards and Regis Philbin, which ran well into the 1980s. Bob Hilton is an American television game show personality Although known mainly for his role as announcer he has hosted other shows as well including The Guinness Game Meredith MacRae (born May 30, 1944 in Houston Texas, died July 14, 2000 in Manhattan Beach California) was an American Geoffrey Oswald "Geoff" Edwards (born on February 15, 1931 in Westfield New Jersey) is an Emmy Award-winning American Television Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (born August 25, 1931) is an Emmy Award -winning American Television personality and occasional Actor Edwards and MacRae won Emmy Awards for their hosting duties during the early-1980s. Some other locally produced public affairs shows included the investigate show Camera 9 and The Changing Family, a program about family and social issues during the 1980s.

KHJ-TV's camera from the 1960s, also showing its logo from that era.
KHJ-TV's camera from the 1960s, also showing its logo from that era.

Meanwhile, a behind-the-scenes battle was underway with serious implications on the station's future -- and that of its owner. In 1965, RKO General faced a threat to its license for KHJ-TV from a group called Fidelity Television. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. At first, Fidelity's claim focused on channel 9's programming quality. Later, and more seriously, Fidelity claimed that KHJ-TV was involved in reciprocal trade practices. Fidelity alleged that RKO's parent company, General Tire, forced its retailers to purchase advertising on KHJ-TV and other RKO stations as a condition of their contracts with General Tire. An administrative law judge found in favor of Fidelity, but RKO appealed. In 1972, the FCC allowed RKO to keep the license for KHJ-TV, but two years later conditioned future renewals on the renewal of sister station WNAC-TV (now WHDH-TV) in Boston. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Six years later, the FCC stripped WNAC-TV of its license for numerous reasons, but largely because RKO had misled the FCC about corporate misconduct at General Tire. The decision meant KHJ-TV and sister station WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV) in New York City lost their licenses as well. WWOR-TV, channel 9 is a MyNetworkTV -affiliated television station licensed to Secaucus New Jersey, and serving the New York City metropolitan area The City of New York However, an appeals court ruled that the FCC had erred when it tied channel 9's renewal to that of WNAC-TV and ordered new hearings for KHJ-TV and WOR-TV.

The hearings dragged on until 1987. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) That year, an administrative law judge found RKO unfit to be a broadcast licensee due to numerous cases of dishonesty by RKO, including fraudulent billing and lying about its ratings. The FCC advised RKO that it would almost certainly deny any appeals, and persuaded RKO to sell its stations to avoid the indignity of having their licenses taken away.

Joining the House of Mouse

Finally, in 1989, RKO agreed to sell KHJ-TV to Fidelity Television, the group that originally challenged the license in 1965. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Fidelity then sold the license to the Walt Disney Company. As a result of the sale, many, if not all, of KHJ-TV's staffers were dismissed or left the station, including notably longtime KHJ-TV general manager Charles Velona.

Even though Channel 9's longtime radio sisters had changed their calls to KRTH some years before, Disney wanted to make a clean start. KRTH (1011 FM, "K-Earth 101" is a US Oldies Radio station located in Los Angeles California, broadcasting to the Accordingly, it changed the calls to KCAL-TV, and briefly branded the station as California 9 before settling on K-CAL 9. The station also tweaked its format in the wake of its ownership change, adding more children's programs, including cartoons from the Walt Disney library. The station also ran a greater number of off-network and syndicated programs.

Cartoons continued to be a big part of KCAL's schedule in the 1990s, with blocks of children's programming on weekday mornings and afternoons, including the Disney Afternoon block, that lasted well into 1997. The Disney Afternoon was a created-for- syndication two-hour television programming block which aired from September 10, 1990, until mid- The afternoon kids block was gone by 1998, and the Disney kids block moved to UPN and KCOP in 1999. By 2000, the children's shows in the morning were gone as well. The family sitcoms, however, were gradually phased out, and KCAL added more first-run syndicated talk, reality, court, and newsmagazine shows, under the then-new ownership of Young Broadcasting, who bought KCAL in 1997. The station also added more weekday daytime newscasts at 2 and 3 p. m. , and the 6:30 p. m. newscast was discontinued.

In 1995, Disney purchased Capital Cities/ABC, which owned KABC-TV. Capital Cities redirects here For the article about the seat of a government see Capital. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. KABC-TV, channel 7 is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company -owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles Due to FCC regulations at the time, Disney was not allowed to keep both KABC-TV and KCAL. Disney chose to divest KCAL, which was purchased by Young Broadcasting. Young Broadcasting ( is an American Holding company that operates 13 Television stations.

CBS purchase

As a result of massive debt acquired from purchasing KRON-TV in San Francisco, Young Broadcasting put KCAL up for sale in 2002, and the station was purchased by CBS, then a subsidiary of Viacom, on June 1, 2002. KRON-TV, channel 4 is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Events 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is Assassinated 987 - Hugh Capet is elected KCAL's operations were merged with those of KCBS-TV, and channel 9 moved from its longtime headquarters at the Paramount Studios on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood to the historic CBS Columbia Square, located one mile away. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Melrose Avenue is a well-known Los Angeles street that starts from Santa Monica Boulevard at the border between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood CBS Columbia Square, located at 6121 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood California, was the home of CBS ' Los Angeles radio and television operations

When Viacom/CBS bought KCAL-TV, many in the broadcasting industry speculated that they would move its UPN affiliation from Fox-owned KCOP to KCAL. United Paramount Network ( UPN) was a Television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven Chris-Craft Industries, KCOP's previous owners, had co-founded UPN with Viacom in 1995, and owned 50 percent of the network before selling out to Viacom in 2000. Chris-Craft Industries is a privately held American manufacturer of civilian Powerboats based in Sarasota Florida. Fox's parent company, the News Corporation, purchased KCOP and the other Chris-Craft TV stations in 2001. News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation However, CBS Corporation decided to leave channel 9 as an independent, as Fox renewed its affiliation agreement for its UPN-affiliated stations. It is widely believed that Fox used KCOP as leverage to keep UPN on Fox-owned stations in New York (WWOR-TV, KCAL's former sister station) and Chicago, threatening to drop the network in those markets should Viacom move UPN to KCAL. WPWR-TV, channel 50 is a MyNetworkTV -affiliated television station licensed to Gary Indiana, and serving the Chicago Illinois area This issue became moot with the announcement of the merger of UPN and the WB Television Network into the CW Television Network, in January 2006. The CW Television Network ( The CW) is a Television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006-2007 television season. The new network launched in September 2006, with former WB affiliate KTLA affiliating with the CW. KTLA, channel 5 is a television station in Los Angeles California.

KCAL-TV is still an independent, at least for now, and is now one of three independent stations owned by CBS. The other two stations are both former UPN affiliates, KTXA in Fort Worth, Texas and WSBK-TV in Boston. KTXA, channel 21 is an independent Television station based in Fort Worth Texas, and serving the Dallas /Fort Worth Designated market area Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventeenth-largest city in the United States. WSBK-TV, channel 38 is an independent television station licensed to Boston Massachusetts, owned by the CBS Corporation. Channel 9 currently offers first-run syndicated programs such as one-week old repeats of Dr. Phil, Inside Edition, South Park, and Scrubs, among others. Inside Edition is a syndicated news program on the air since January 9, 1989. South Park is an animated American television comedy series created and written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for Comedy Central Scrubs is an Emmy and Peabody Award -winning American Comedy-drama that premiered on October 2 2001 on NBC. KCAL is the Southern California home of the annual Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day telethon, which it has carried since 1997. Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American Comedian, award-winning actor producer writer and director best-known for his slapstick The Muscular Dystrophy Association ( MDA) is an organization founded in 1950 which combats Muscular dystrophy and diseases of the Nervous system Labor Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September A telethon is a Fundraising event broadcast on Television that lasts many hours or even days the purpose of which is to raise Money for a charitable political

On April 21, 2007, KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV moved from Columbia Square to an all-digital facility at the CBS Studio Center in Studio City. Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date) Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. CBS Studio Center is a television and film studio located in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. The move allowed both stations to begin broadcasting all local programming in High Definition. In addition, KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV now operate in a completely tapeless newsroom. This newsroom is named after veteran newscaster Jerry Dunphy, who worked at both stations during his career. Jerry Dunphy (June 9 1921 - May 20 2002 was a legendary American television News anchor in the Los Angeles/Southern California media market With the move to Studio City, KTLA and KCET are the only stations (either in radio or television) in Los Angeles to broadcast from Hollywood.

Although KCAL-TV is an independent station, it has aired programming from the CBS network on at least two occasions. On August 30, 2007, it aired an elimination episode of Big Brother 8 and a rerun of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation because KCBS carried a National Football League preseason game between the San Francisco 49ers and the San Diego Chargers at the same time. Events 1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. CSI Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama Television series that trails the investigations of a team of Las Vegas The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego California. In 2005, an episode of Big Brother 6 was bumped to KCAL, as KCBS-TV aired an Oakland Raiders preseason game. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The sixth season of CBS 's American version of ''Big Brother consisted of thirty episodes which aired from July 7 to September 20, 2005 The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland California.

Digital television

Channel Programming
9. 1 / 43. 1 main KCAL-TV programming

Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009[1], KCAL-TV will move its digital broadcasts back to its present analog channel number, 9. [2]

Sports programming

For much of its history, sports have been a part of Channel 9's identity, even more so today. From 1961 to 1963, KHJ-TV was the first television home of the Los Angeles Angels. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California. The team moved to KTLA starting in 1964, when then-Angels owner Gene Autry bought KTLA. Orvon Gene Autry ( September 29 1907 &ndash October 2 1998) was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy Channel 9 has been the broadcast home of Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association since 1977, and it has the longest current consecutive station-team broadcast partnership in the NBA. The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California.

In 1996, KCAL-TV once again became the broadcast home of the Angels (Disney's ownership interest in the Angels briefly overlapped its stewardship of the station), and added more basketball coverage with the Los Angeles Clippers, in addition to its Lakers telecasts. The station and the Clippers parted ways in 2003, as they signed with KTLA. The 2002–03 NBA season was the 57th season of the National Basketball Association. The Angels departed KCAL after the 2005 season, moving to KCOP. 2005 Major League Baseball season Headline events of the year Chicago White Sox swept the Houston Astros to win the World Series

In 1997, KCAL premiered the first fifteen-minute weekday sports report Final Quarter. The show was an expansion of the typical five minute sports report seen towards the end of a newscast. Several years later the show was renamed KCAL 9 Sports News and with the purchase by CBS, joined KCBS-TV and was renamed Sports Central. The show was recently expanded to a full half-hour on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. With the termination of the Southern California Sports Report on Fox Sports Net West/Prime Ticket, this is the only nightly detailed sports highlights show on local television.

In 2007 KCAL became the new over-the-air television home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, televising at least 50 games a year. The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles California, USA Also, channel 9 recently signed a contract extension to continue to carry Lakers games through the end of the current decade, which would give them a 30-plus-year relationship with the NBA team. KCAL carries a minimum of 35 road games per season, with FSN West given the rights to home games. The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net (FSN are a collection of cable TV Regional sports networks owned and operated by News KCAL also carried selected games from the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer until 2005, when the games became cable-exclusive to FSN West. Los Angeles Galaxy (aka LA Galaxy) is an American soccer club based in Los Angeles California. Major League Soccer ( MLS) is the top-flight professional Soccer league in the United States and Canada with 14 teams 13 in the U Currently, channel 9 broadcasts all Lakers and Dodgers games in High Definition.

In addition, KCAL broadcasted selected weekend Mighty Ducks of Anaheim games from the team's first season in 1993 (both entities were Disney properties until 1996) until 2005, when the Ducks moved their over-the-air broadcasts to Anaheim-based independent station KDOC-TV. The Anaheim Ducks are a professional Ice hockey team based in Anaheim California, USA. KDOC-TV (Channel 56 is an independent Television station based in Orange County California (licensed to Anaheim, with studios and offices in Santa KCAL was also home to the Los Angeles Kings in the early 1980s and again during the mid-to-late 1990s. The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles California. Channel 9 ran preseason coverage of the NFL's San Diego Chargers in 2005, and aired contests of the Chargers' AFC West rival, the Oakland Raiders, in 2006. The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego California. The AFC West is a division of the National Football League 's American Football Conference. The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland California. The station also aired preseason Raiders during the middle 1990s. Also of note, KCAL-TV simulcasted the ESPN and TNT feeds of Sunday night football games featuring the then-Los Angeles Raiders and then-Los Angeles Rams (now the St. Louis Rams) from 1990 until 1993. Simulcast is a Portmanteau of " simul taneous broad' cast' " and refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is an American cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned The St Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St

News programming

In the 1970s, KHJ-TV had a 10 p. m. newscast. It was moved to 9 p. m. during the 1980s, and the station later added a half-hour 8 p. m. newscast during the late 1980s. Some of its most notable personalities included anchors George Putnam, Jerry Dunphy, Pat Harvey, Tom Lawrence, Nathan Roberts, Lonnie Lardner, Linda Edwards, and weathercaster Andrew Amador, who continues to work in Southern California television. George Putnam ( July 14, 1914 – September 12, 2008) was an American Television News reporter and Talk Many of chanel 9's former staff were let go by the time Disney purchased the station. By 1989, Disney implemented the concept of a prime time news block, with "Prime 9 News" between 8 and 11 p. m. . The 3-hour news block is still seen on KCAL-TV to this day. A few years later, channel 9 added a half-hour newscast at 6:30 p. m.

KCAL is notable for airing newscasts during unconventional time blocks. Along with newscasts at 10 p. m. (where it competes against KTLA and KTTV), noon, and 4 p. m. , it also airs news at 2 p. m. , 3 p. m. , 8 p. m. , and 9 p. m. Combined with its sister station KCBS-TV the two stations air just over 11 hours of news programming every weekday.

KCAL's newscasts run the gamut in tone. Its 8 p. m. newscast is generally an update on the day's news, which are much of the stories devoted to California and local news, and was previously branded California Report. Its 9 p. m. newscast is generally the most serious newscast and was branded in previous years as the Prime 9 News World Report. The 9 p. m. newscast prominently features political, business, and international news. The noon newscast, on the other hand, features lighter stories, including features on food, health, and entertainment news. The 4 p. m. newscast is essentially a repurposed KCBS-TV newscast and is done with channel 2 anchors Harold Greene and Ann Martin, who did not appear recently elsewhere on KCAL. Harold Greene was an award-winning journalist best known for working at KCAL 9 News and CBS 2 News in Los Angeles. Ann Martin (born Martha Gebhardt) was an award-winning journalist and a news anchor for CBS owned-and-operated KCBS-TV

The 4 p. m. newscast was moved to KCAL from KCBS-TV to make room for Dr. Phil, which by contract is not allowed to air opposite The Oprah Winfrey Show, which in Los Angeles airs on KABC-TV at 3 p. The Oprah Winfrey Show is a United States syndicated Talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated m. . Its 10 p. m. newscast is simply more of an update of the 8 p. m. news, as it competes with KTTV and KTLA, and in the past KCOP, though in recent years, it has been shortened to 30 minutes, in order to make way for Sports Central, the only comprehensive local sports news program in Southern California (since the demise of the Southern California Sports Report on Fox Sports Net). The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net (FSN are a collection of cable TV Regional sports networks owned and operated by News The 6:30 p. m. newscast, which ran in the early 1990's was called First 9 News focused primarily on local news and competed against the national network newscasts aired on KCBS-TV, KNBC and KABC-TV.

Because of the amount of news on the station, channel 9 is known as the station showing the most police chases. Often regular news programming is dropped to cover a police chase, and programming following the news is sometimes pre-empted to show the chase's conclusion.

On April 1, 2008, CBS' owned-and-operated television stations division ordered widespread budget cuts and staff layoffs from its stations. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common As a result of the budget cuts, roughly 10 to 15 staffers were released from KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV, including reporters Jennifer Sabih, Greg Phillips, and Jennifer Davis. Harold Greene and Ann Martin, currently the 4:00 co-anchors on channel 9, were also said to have been on the layoff list, but have both decided to retire from television when their contracts expire in June.

Current personalities

Anchors
Weather
Sports
Reporters

Notable alumni

Logos

KCAL-TV logo from its era as KFI-TV. Jackie Johnson is a weather forecaster and Television personality for the primetime KCAL-TV news and the late afternoon KCBS-TV news Eric Demetric Dickerson (born September 2 1960) is a former professional running back in the National Football League (NFL who in his career played for Steve Hartman (born April 14, 1963) is a Columnist and Correspondent for CBS News. James Webster "Jim" Hill (born October 21, 1946 in San Antonio Texas) is a retired American football Defensive back Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. Desiree Horton (born May 18, 1971) nicknamed "Chopper Chick" is a helicopter pilot and television personality based in Los Angeles, California Dave Malkoff is an American Television Journalist working for KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV, the CBS west coast flagship stations based The Inland Empire is a region mainly located in the Riverside and San Bernardino counties of Southern California and generally encompasses the Lisa Sigell is a general assignment reporter and fill in anchor for KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV in Los Angeles California. Jerry Dunphy (June 9 1921 - May 20 2002 was a legendary American television News anchor in the Los Angeles/Southern California media market Sharon Tomiko Ito (born September 3, 1960 (age 47 recently launched a new initiative on news10 Lisa Marie Joyner (born December 31, 1966) is an entertainment reporter Tawny Elaine Little (born 15 September 1956) aka Tawny Godin, was born in Portland Maine. George Putnam may refer to George Putnam (newsman (1914&ndash2008 Los Angeles California television newsman George D David Sheehan has distinguished himself in the world of broadcasting with a series of trailblazing television firsts Mark Anthony Steines (born June 7 1964) is an American broadcast journalist and a co-anchor of the syndicated Gossip and entertainment round-up Jane Velez-Mitchell (b September 29, 1955) is a television news journalist often seen commenting on high-profile cases for CNN, MSNBC,

KCAL-TV logo from its era as KHJ-TV.

KCAL-TV logo from 1998 used until CBS bought the station in early 2003

"Thames on 9"

From June 11 to June 15, 1978, KHJ-TV aired "Thames on 9," in which the entire night's lineup of programs was turned over to Great Britain's Thames Television. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Thames Television was a licencee of the British ITV television network covering London and parts of the surrounding counties Shows included Man About the House, a forerunner of Three's Company, and The Benny Hill Show. Man About the House was a British sitcom starring Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett that was broadcast Three's Company is an American Sitcom that aired from 1977 to 1984 on ABC. The Benny Hill Show is a British Comedy television show starring Benny Hill and various comedy character actors A similar stunt had run two years earlier on WOR-TV in New York City, which was KHJ-TV's sister station.

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KCAL is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

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