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KNBC
Los Angeles, California
Branding NBC 4 (general)
The Channel 4 News (newscasts)
Slogan Trust Experience
We're 4 LA
Channels Analog: 4 (VHF)

Digital: 36 (UHF)
Translators (see article)
Affiliations NBC
Owner NBC Universal
(NBC Telemundo License Company)
Founded January 16, 1949
Call letters’ meaning K National Broadcasting Company
Sister station(s) KVEA, KWHY-TV
Former callsigns KNBH (1949-1954)
KRCA-TV (1954-1960)
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380 kW (digital)
Height 984 m (analog)
991 m (digital)
Facility ID 47906
Transmitter Coordinates 34°13′31.7″N, 118°3′55.1″W
Website www.knbc.com

KNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, located in Los Angeles, California. The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. Height above average terrain ( HAAT) (or less popularly EHAAT, Effective Height Above Average Terrain is used extensively in FM Radio and The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Its studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California, and its transmitter is based on Mount Wilson. NBC Studios was also a previous name for NBC's production division which is now Universal Media Studios, formerly NBC Universal Television Studio Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County 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 In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive NBC programs over-the-air, KNBC is available on satellite to subscribers of Dish Network and DirecTV. Not be confused with Indian Service Dish TV DISH Network is a Direct broadcast satellite (DBS service that provides Satellite television DirecTV (trademarked as "DIREC' TV' " is a Direct broadcast satellite (DBS service based in El Segundo California, USA, that was founded

KNBC is one of three NBC Universal-owned television stations in Los Angeles; the other two are Telemundo outlet KVEA (channel 52), and Spanish-language independent KWHY-TV (channel 22). NBC Universal is a media and Entertainment company formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electric 's NBC with Vivendi Universal Telemundo is an American television network based in Hialeah Florida a suburb of Miami Florida. KVEA, "Telemundo 52" is an NBC -owned and operated television station in the Los Angeles area and is the West Coast flagship station of the An independent station is Television terminology used to describe a Television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not KWHY-TV Channel 22 is a Spanish Independent station owned by the Telemundo network / NBC, a subsidiary of NBC Universal.

Contents

History

Channel 4 first went on the air on January 16, 1949, as KNBH (for NBC Hollywood). Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It was the second-to-last of Los Angeles' VHF stations to debut, and the last of the five original NBC-owned stations to sign on. Unlike the other four, KNBH was the only NBC-owned television station which did not benefit from having a sister station on radio. NBC Radio was affiliated with KFI in Los Angeles, and that relationship extended into television in August 1948 when KFI-TV (channel 9, now KCAL-TV) aligned with NBC television. For other stations which used the KFI callsign please see KFI (disambiguation. KCAL-TV, channel 9 is an independent television station in Los Angeles California, owned by the CBS Corporation. When KNBH signed on, KFI-TV was forced to relinquish its rights to NBC programming, though KFI radio retained its relationship with the network.

The station changed its call letters KRCA-TV (for NBC's then-parent company, the Radio Corporation of America) in 1954. RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986 The call sign was changed again in 1960, when NBC moved the KNBC identity from its San Francisco radio station (which became KNBR) and applied it to channel 4 in Los Angeles. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city KNBR, The Sports Leader, is the on-air branding used by two AM radio stations in the San Francisco California, area broadcasting a

Channel 4 originally broadcast from the NBC Radio City Studios on Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood. NBC Radio City Studios is the name given to both a Radio and Television studio complex in New York's Rockefeller Center and the former radio-TV complex Sunset Boulevard is a Street in the western part of Los Angeles County California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles Vine is a Street in Hollywood Los Angeles California that runs north-south from Melrose Avenue up past Hollywood Boulevard. In 1962, after 13 years broadcasting from Hollywood, the station relocated to the network's color broadcast studio facility in suburban Burbank. NBC Color City, as it was then known, was already in operation since March 1955, and was at least four to five times larger than Radio City, and could easily accommodate KRCA-TV's locally-produced studio programming. NBC Radio's West Coast operations eventually followed channel 4 to Burbank not too long after.

Leaving "Beautiful Downtown Burbank"

On October 11, 2007, NBC Universal announced that it will sell its Burbank studios and construct a new, all-digital facility near the Universal Studios backlot, in an effort to merge all of NBC Universal's West Coast operations into one area. Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American As a result, KNBC, KVEA, KWHY-TV, and NBC News' Los Angeles bureau will move to a new digital facility adjacent to the Universal City Metro Red Line Station. NBC News is the news division of American Television network NBC, a part of NBC Universal, which is majority-owned by General Electric Universal City station has an island platform and serves the nearby Universal Studios theme park and Universal Studios The Tonight Show and other studio productions will move to the studios backlot. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as appropriate --> The Tonight Show is a long-running Construction plans to take place over the next four years.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel Programming
4. 1 / 36. 1 main KNBC/NBC programming
4. 2 / 36. 2 NBC Weather Plus
4. NBC Weather Plus is a 24-hour commercially-sponsored weather-oriented broadcast/cable television network jointly owned by NBC Universal and the local affiliates of the 4 / 36. 4 KNBC News Raw

Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009[1], KNBC will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 36. [2] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display KNBC's virtual channel as 4. The Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP is the protocol used in the ATSC and DVB digital television systems for carrying Metadata In Telecommunications, a logical channel number (LCN also known as virtual channel in North America, is a channel designation which differs

News operation

For over the last 30 years, it has battled fellow network stations, KNXT/KCBS-TV (channel 2) and KABC-TV (channel 7), for the top position for the number-one news operation in greater Los Angeles, although KCBS-TV hasn’t been more of a factor until 2006. KCBS-TV, channel 2 is an owned-and-operated station of the CBS Television Network, located in Los Angeles California. KABC-TV, channel 7 is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company -owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles Throughout the late 1980s and into the early 2000s, KNBC's newscasts were top-ranked in the region, beating out every other station for news ratings and coinciding with the network's ratings. Currently, channel 4's 11:00 p. m. newscast sits in third place. However, most of the station's other newscasts, including its popular morning news program, Today in L.A., the area's first local morning newscast (starting in 1986), rates at or near the top of the local news ratings. Today In LA became the first morning local newscast in Southern California when it debuted on KNBC in 1986 as a half-hour lead-in to The Today Show

KNBC-TV's 1998 news bumper
KNBC-TV's 1998 news bumper

The newscasts generally take a more "serious" tone covering the issues, including politics, government, education, and the economy, than other Los Angeles newscasts. On election nights, KNBC runs a special extended edition of their 11 p. m. newscast to show early election results. KNBC is notable in the Los Angeles area for not showing car chases. Car chase often describes the pursuit of a criminal by Police, and is increasingly captured on film from media and police Helicopters. Thus, when direct competitors KCBS-TV and KABC-TV switch to police chase coverage, channel 4 continues on its regularly scheduled newscast, while staffers prepare a regular news story on the pursuit for airing on a later newscast.

In 2006 KNBC embarked on an all-news channel called News Raw, hosted by Mekahlo Medina. The news channel, on digital channel 4. 4 and also on many local digital cable systems, provides news updates every hour, teases news stories in future newscasts on standard channel 4, and provides additional information about breaking news stories. News Raw only runs Monday through Friday, and coverage occurs between 10 a. m. and 5 p. m. weekdays. During off hours, previous broadcasts repeat. [1] Another program, The Local Story, began in July 2006, taking an in-depth look at one major local story in the news. It was hosted by veteran television journalist Ross Becker, and was canceled to make way for The Ellen DeGeneres Show but continued to be shown online. Ross Becker is a television journalist and news anchor He is currently employed as an anchor/reporter at KTVX-TV ABC4 in Salt Lake City Utah The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to Ellen, also called Ellen The Ellen DeGeneres Show, is an Emmy Award winning In October 2006, the program returned to the airwaves, airing at 4:30 p. m, but was removed again in mid-November for good.

In September 2006, a new program called YourLA TV began. The program featured videos about interesting things happening in the Southern California area. User-submitted videos and comments via MySpace are mixed with profiles of ordinary people similar to PM Magazine. MySpace is a popular social networking Website offering an interactive user-submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and See also Evening Magazine PM/Evening Magazine was a television series with a news and entertainment format

For many years, KNBC had a 4 p. m. newscast. It was dropped in 2002, in favor of Dr. Phil which moved to KCBS-TV in 2005, and was replaced by The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

As of January 2008, KNBC is one of the three television stations in Los Angeles that has yet to start broadcasting local news and programming in High Definition (the other two being KTTV and KCOP). High-definition television (HDTV is a Digital television Broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (standard-definition 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. Currently, KNBC broadcasts its news in the 4:3 aspect ratio in standard definition. The aspect ratio of an Image is its width divided by its height On March 29, 2008, the station announced that they will begin producing its newscasts in High Definition, following in the footsteps of other NBC owned-and-operated stations in New York City, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Miami. Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common WNBC Channel 4 is the flagship station of the NBC television network located in New York City. WMAQ-TV, channel 5 is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, located in Chicago Illinois. KXAS-TV, Channel 5 is the NBC station for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. WTVJ, channel 6 is the NBC owned-and-operated Television station for South Florida, licensed to Miami. Since the announcement, KNBC has been broadcasting its newscasts from the newsroom as opposed to the studio which in a few months will house a new High Definition set. The new set debuted on April 27, 2008. The conversion to High-Definition will take a few months, with KNBC expected to produce news in HD during or before the 2008 Olympics which will air on NBC.

Current KNBC personalities include news anchors Paul Moyer, Colleen Williams, and Chuck Henry, chief weathercaster Fritz Coleman, and sports director Fred Roggin. Paul Moyer (born 1942 in Los Angeles CA) is a veteran broadcaster in Southern California. Colleen Williams is one of the co-anchors of KNBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles along with Paul Moyer Chuck Henry (born January 1, 1946 in Los Angeles California) is a popular Los Angeles Television personality and an Emmy Award -winning Fritz Coleman (b 1948 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is a weathercaster for KNBC -TV in Los Angeles California. Fred Roggin is the sports anchor at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles California. Moyer, Williams, Coleman, and Roggin make up the station's 5 and 11 p. m. Monday-Friday news team, while Henry co-anchors the 6 p. m. weeknight newscasts with Ana Garcia. Roggin and Coleman are KNBC's most notable current personalities. Roggin is nationally known because of his work with NBC Sports and for his appearances on the Tonight Show. NBC Sports is the brand used for sports programming on NBC, responsible for the televising of many Sports events on the network Roggin also hosted a syndicated program, Roggin's Heroes and can also be seen on Early Today. Roggin also is a sports announcer for the Olympic Games. Coleman also makes occasional appearances on the Tonight Show, and once hosted a locally-produced late night variety "It's Fritz" which aired on KNBC from 1989 and into the early 1990s. Colleen Williams also sometimes appears nationally as she does occasional reports for MSNBC and NBC News. MSNBC is a 24-hour cable television news channel based in the United States and available in Canada.

KNBC has had a very stable news team, over the years. Williams, Roggin, and Coleman have been at the station for at least 20 years each, while Moyer arrived from rival KABC-TV in July 1992, replacing John Beard, who had been at channel 4 since 1981. John Beard is an Emmy -award winning American News anchor based in Los Angeles. Moyer started his Los Angeles broadcasting career at KNBC in 1972, as an anchor and reporter, before beginning a 13-year stint at KABC-TV in 1979. Much like Moyer, Chuck Henry was also a mainstay at KABC-TV, before making the move to Burbank in January 1994. He currently produces (through his self-titled production company) the travelouge series, Travel Cafe, which airs weekends on KNBC.

Former Today Show co-host and NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw began his NBC career as an anchor and reporter for KNBC, starting in 1966. Today, also referred to as The Today Show, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on NBC. NBC Nightly News is the flagship evening news program for NBC News and broadcasts from the GE Building, Rockefeller Center in New York City. Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw (born February 6, 1940) is an American Television Journalist and Author, and He left the station to work exclusively for the network in 1973. Others that have worked at KNBC early in their careers include Bryant Gumbel, Pat Sajak, Kent Shocknek, Tom Snyder, and consumer reporter David Horowitz, whose long-running syndicated series, Fight Back!, originated from channel 4 and was produced and distributed by NBC and Westinghouse Broadcasting. Bryant Charles Gumbel (born September 29, 1948) is an American Television personality for news and Sports programs Pat Sajak (born Patrick Leonard Sajdak on October 26, 1946) is a Television personality, former weatherman and a former Talk Kent Shocknek is Southern California's longest-running Television news morning News anchor. Tom Snyder ( May 12, 1936 - July 29, 2007) was an American television personality, News anchor and David Horowitz (born June 30, 1937) is a well-known American Consumer advocate and former reporter/anchor for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the Broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. In 1987 during an afternoon newscast, a gun-wielding mental patient gained access to NBC Studios, and took Horowitz hostage live on the air. With the gun pressed on his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements on camera. The unidentified man 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 and New York. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous ([2])

The most controversial departure was that of longtime weather reporter Christopher Nance. In 2002 Nance was fired from KNBC after years of what some say was "menacing and profane off-air behavior" contrary to Nance's on-air flamboyant and cheerful nature. Shortly after he was fired, Los Angeles magazine published an article on Nance and KNBC, further detailing his behavioral problems, including allegations that he had been involved with an intern at the station, and had been in altercations with many staff members. Los Angeles magazine is a monthly magazine published by Emmis Communications devoted to covering the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas of He alleges that the station fired him because of his Christian beliefs, according to his website and the article on Los Angeles magazine. In 2004 Nance sued his former employer citing he was dismissed due to racial and religious discrimination (Nance is African-American). ([3], [4])

Current personalities

Anchors
Weather
Sports
Reporters

Notable alumni

(a partial listing)

  • Linda Alvarez
  • Carla Aragon
  • John Beard
  • Dave Bender
  • Rachel Boesing
  • Tom Brokaw
  • Jim Brown
  • Doug Bruckner
  • Rick Chambers
  • Nick Clooney
  • David Cruz
  • Frank H. The Inland Empire is a region mainly located in the Riverside and San Bernardino counties of Southern California and generally encompasses the Vikki Vargas is a native of Orange County, California She is a graduate of Sonora High School, and Cal State Fullerton. Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. John Beard may refer to John Beard (tenor, singer of Handel's operas and oratorios John Beard (news anchor, newscaster and Arrested Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw (born February 6, 1940) is an American Television Journalist and Author, and Doug Bruckner is an American television news correspondent reporter host voice-over artist and producer who is among the best-known correspondents in the history of Tabloid television Nicholas Clooney (born January 13, 1934) is an American television Journalist, anchorman and Game show host as well as a Politician Cruz
  • Paul Dandridge
  • Carlos Del Valle
  • Diane Diaz
  • Linda Douglass
  • Bryant Gumbel
  • David Garcia
  • Jim Giggans
    

Newscast titles

Logos

Image:NBC Channel 4 Logo 1963.jpg
c. mid 1950s
First logo, as KNBH (K NBC Hollywood)		 c. mid 1950s-1960s
Second logo as KNBH		 c. 1960s
First logo as KNBC from around the 1960s		 c. 1971
Generic logo from the 1970s. Note line combination of "N" and "B" similar to the then-current NBC snake logo. The NBC television network has used numerous logos at various times since the 1940s its familiar Peacock design originally introduced for color broadcasts in the 		c. 1973
Stylized logo from 1973, with a stylized font, modification of previous logo
1976 - 1979
First logo with a generic "4"		 1979 - 1981
Second logo with a generic "4". The 4 in this logo would return in 1994		 1981 - 1985
Logo with futuristic 4 and LA		 1985 - 1986
First logo with a custom, stylized font
1986 - 1994
Second logo with a custom, stylized font. Only difference is substitution of "Proud N" with the current logo. 		1994 - 1998
First "modern" logo with a generic 4, very similar to cross-country sister station WNBC-TV in New York City, New York		 1994 - 1998
Second "modern" logo, with a taller "4"		 1996 - present
Current logo, with a golden 4

Other programming

KNBC has been long active in community events, including airing the annual Kingdom Day Parade (honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday) in South Los Angeles, sponsoring an annual two-day Health & Fitness Expo Fair at the Los Angeles Convention Center every summer, and since 2001 has been the exclusive local English-language carrier of the annual Los Angeles Marathon (sister station KVEA carries a Spanish-language version of the event). In Broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels (or "sibling stations" in gender-neutral form are radio and/or Television stations WNBC Channel 4 is the flagship station of the NBC television network located in New York City. The City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Martin Luther King Jr ( January 15, 1929 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, Activist and prominent leader South Los Angeles, often abbreviated as South LA, is the official name for a large geographic and cultural portion lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a Convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Marathon is an annual Marathon held in Los Angeles California since 1986 Sports director and lead sports anchor Fred Roggin's production company, in conjunction with KNBC/KVEA, produces coverage of the Marathon.

Rebroadcasters

KNBC is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

See also

References

  1. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  2. ^ CDBS Print

External links

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