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KRON-TV
Image:Kron4 logo.gif
Image:Mykron4logo.jpg
San Francisco, California
Branding KRON 4 (general/news)
MyKRON 4 (MNTV promos)
Slogan The Bay Area's News Station
Channels Analog: 4 (VHF)

Digital: 38 (UHF)
Translators K41AF 41 Ukiah
Affiliations MyNetworkTV
RTN (DT2)
Owner Young Broadcasting, Inc.
(sale pending)
(Young Broadcasting of San Francisco, Inc. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a A slogan is a memorable Motto or Phrase used in a Political, commercial, Religious and other context as a repetitive expression of In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and Ukiah (pronounced You-kai-uh juːˈkаɪjə is the County seat and largest city of Mendocino County California. MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyNet or MNT) is a Television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company The Retro Television Network (aka RTN is a system of television stations primarily airing classic television programming from the 1950s through the 1980s such as Leave it to Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property Young Broadcasting ( is an American Holding company that operates 13 Television stations. )
First air date November 15, 1949
Call letters’ meaning KRON sounds like "chron," for former owner (Chronicle)
Former affiliations NBC (1949-2001)
Independent (2002-2006)
Transmitter Power 100 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
Height 506 m (analog)
446 m (digital)
Facility ID 65526
Transmitter Coordinates 37°45′18.8″N, 122°27′10.4″W
Website www.kron4.com

KRON-TV (Channel 4) is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. Events 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's An independent station is Television terminology used to describe a Television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not In radio Telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power (ERP is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency (RF 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 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 MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyNet or MNT) is a Television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a geographically and ethnically diverse metropolitan region that surrounds the Licensed to San Francisco, the station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 4, and its digital signal on UHF channel 57. A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting is the community that a Radio station or Television station The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. The station's transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco. Sutro Tower is a three-pronged Antenna tower on Mount Sutro in the western part of San Francisco, California The station is the flagship of Young Broadcasting. Young Broadcasting ( is an American Holding company that operates 13 Television stations. The station brands itself as "My KRON 4", keeping the station's previous branding while adding "My" to go with the network's naming conventions, only during MyNetworkTV Shows. It is changed again to "KRON 4" during other programming. KRON can also be seen in Ukiah on K41AF channel 41. Ukiah (pronounced You-kai-uh juːˈkаɪjə is the County seat and largest city of Mendocino County California.

From its founding in 1949 until December 2001, KRON was affiliated with NBC, and was one of that network's strongest affiliates. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's

Contents

History

1940s and 1950s

When the channel 4 allocation in the Bay Area (the third and final one licensed by the FCC before that agency placed a moratorium on new television station licenses that would last the next four years) came open for bidding, it soon became obvious that the license would go to either NBC or the deYoung family, publishers of the San Francisco Chronicle. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H NBC badly wanted an owned and operated station in the Bay Area alongside its radio station in the area, KNBC (AM 680, now KNBR). KNBR, The Sports Leader, is the on-air branding used by two AM radio stations in the San Francisco California, area broadcasting a However, in an upset, the deYoungs won the license. They brought the station on the air on November 15, 1949 as NBC affiliate KRON-TV. Events 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The station's call letters come from a modification of the paper's nickname in the Bay Area, "The Chron. " KRON-TV originally broadcast from studios located in the basement at Fifth and Mission streets (929 Mission) in the same building that housed the newspaper.

KRON-TV originally broadcast from transmitter facilities on San Bruno Mountain; huge white letters "NBC" were placed near the summit of Radio Peak. San Bruno Mountain, situated in northern San Mateo County California, is the northernmost part of the Santa Cruz Mountains. In August 1959, the Chronicle reported that the tower was severely damaged by an unusually strong thunderstorm, requiring major repairs before KRON could return to the air.

KRON-FM

For many years, the Chronicle had a non-commercial classical music FM station, KRON-FM, at 96. 5 on the FM dial, which had a limited broadcasting schedule (evenings only). It first broadcast from July 1947 to December 31, 1954, then it was off the air until 1957. In the 1960s, programming was devoted primarily to classical music and an hour (7 to 8 p. m. ) featuring an entire Broadway show album. Since the station had no commercials, no underwriters, and no on-air fund drives, the Chronicle operated the station as a public service. Staff announcers delivered short newscasts on the station's evening broadcasts. In December 1970, KRON-FM began simulcasting a Spanish language newscast from KRON-TV by Terry Lowry. [1] Then, the station was sold in 1975 to Bonneville International and renamed KOIT-FM. See also KOIT (AM, KYA (AM KOIT (965 MHz FM) is an Adult contemporary -formatted Radio station in the

1960s and 1970s

In the 1950s and 1960s, local programs produced by KRON-TV included the award-winning documentary series Assignment Four, Fireman Frank with George Lemont and his puppets (including Scat the Cat and Carl the Carrot), and a live children's program hosted by Art Finley in the role of Mayor Art. Art Finley (born Arthur Finger in 1926 in Fairmont West Virginia, U Bay Area kids (collectively known as the "City Council") joined Mayor Art in the studio each day. The show featured Popeye cartoons mixed with science demonstrations, a newsreel feature entitled "Mayor Art's Almanac," games, prizes, and a sock puppet named "Ring-A-Ding. "

In 1967, KRON-TV and KRON-FM moved to a new studio on Van Ness Avenue, where channel 4 is still headquartered today. The television transmitter was moved to the Mount Sutro tower on July 4, 1973. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. The FM transmitter remained on San Bruno Mountain.

Until the late 1970s, KRON-TV was infamous for being very San Francisco-centric in its news coverage and audience targeting, an approach that would become costly to the station as growth in areas outside San Francisco soared. Realizing this enabled KRON-TV to become the dominant station in the Bay Area.

Since the 1970s, KRON-TV has used a logo with the design of the number four based upon the Golden Gate Bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension Bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean The vertical component is a bridge tower, the horizontal component is a portion of the bridge deck, and the curve is a portion of a suspension cable. (This logo was used as early as April 1974, during coverage of a Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery. The Symbionese Liberation Army ( SLA) was an American self-styled urban Guerrilla warfare group active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a ) By about 1990-1991, this evolved into the "circle 4" logo in use to this day, with the 4 keeping the bridge-like design. Notably absent from KRON's on-air identity was the NBC Peacock logo, even during its days as an NBC affiliate (the station would use the peacock logo sparingly in select on-air promotions, notably in the late 1980s and 1990's to promote NBC Sports coverage of local teams such as the San Francisco Giants as well as joint news promo spots featuring NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw and local anchors Jim Paymar and Sylvia Chase). 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 The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's NBC Sports is the brand used for sports programming on NBC, responsible for the televising of many Sports events on the network The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in, that currently play in the National League West Division. 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

Also in the 1970s, KRON used an early NewsCenter 4 logo. At the top of this logo was the "Golden Gate Bridge 4" logo (the "4" was superimposed over the famous Golden Gate Bridge), and on the bottom was the text in a stylized font in capital letters, which read NEWSCENTER. The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension Bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean

1980s

A 3D animated Golden Gate ID was introduced in June 1984, where some station IDs and newscast openings included animations wherein the "4" logo was superimposed upon a section of the bridge. The year 1984 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1984. There were two versions of this station ID: daytime and nighttime. In the early days of this station ID, the same music cue used for the early 80's C Channel station was used. C Channel was a Canadian Premium television service specialising in arts programming Later that year, a new music cue was used on the ID and was used until 1987. When KRON overhauled their set and debuted the foghorn music package in June 1987, a new updated music cue was used on the ID until 1989. [2]

In addition when "DayBreak" debuted On September 1st, 1986, the DayBreak Sun which mirrored that of NBC's Today Show was designed by PDI and was used in the news openings/closings of the program with the Golden Gate Bridge being put on the other side of the DayBreak Sun.

The NewsCenter 4 logo was changed around 1980. The "4" was placed in a square and the bolder NewsCenter text appeared next to it. In 1984, the logo was changed again to feature the word NewsCenter in a new font (same as the font used for NBC News programming in the early-to-mid 1980s). NBC News is the news division of American Television network NBC, a part of NBC Universal, which is majority-owned by General Electric The "4" was italicized and the square was removed. This logo was used until 1988.

When the station signed off, the same text for KRON-TV featured in the Golden Gate station ID was superimposed on the SMPTE color bars. The "4" was placed next to the KRON-TV text.

Under NBC

KRON's Animated Golden Gate Bridge ID used from 1984-1989. This animated ID open as well as many other KRON ID's and promos are designed by Pacific Data Images of Palo Alto, CA.
KRON's Animated Golden Gate Bridge ID used from 1984-1989. This animated ID open as well as many other KRON ID's and promos are designed by Pacific Data Images of Palo Alto, CA. Palo Alto (ˌpæloʊˈæltoʊ from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high" i

As an NBC affiliate, KRON-TV branded its newscasts using the NewsCenter 4 name from the 1970s until it adopted the KRON 4 News branding scheme in late 2000, early 2001. NewsCenter ( NotiCentro in Spanish) is the name given to a number of local-news operations at American Television stations The year 2000 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2000. The year 2001 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2001.

Appropriately for a station owned by the Chronicle, KRON-TV was a very news-intensive station. For example, its 6 p. m. newscast was called NewsCenter 4 at 6. However, KRON-TV also had other names for its newscasts. Before MY/KRON 4 Morning News was used for the entire 5-10 a. m. slot on weekday mornings, the 5-7 a. m. newscast was called Daybreak. Its 11:30 a. m. weekday noon-time newscast was called NewsCenter 4 Midday. Its 4 p. m. weekday newscast was called First 4 News when it first premiered in 1996. The year 1996 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1996. For much of the 1980s, the 5 p. m. weekday newscast was Live at Five; Bob Jimenez was the solo anchor in the mid-1980s. Its 11:00 p. m. weekday newscast was called NewsCenter 4 Nightbeat. Sometimes anchors would refer the 11 p. m. newscast as The Nightbeat. In the mid-1980s, the 11 p. m. weekday newscast was known as NewsCenter 4 Update; originally it was anchored by Roz Abrams and Jim Paymar. Roz Abrams (b1949 in Lansing) is a television Journalist. She most recently worked for WCBS-TV in New York City from 2004 to 2006 Later after Abrams left for WABC in 1986, Jim Paymar and Sylvia Chase (who had been a correspondent for the ABC-TV newsmagazine 20/20) anchored. WABC-TV, channel 7 is the flagship station of the Walt Disney Company -owned American Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. The year 1986 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1986. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. A newsmagazine, also spelled news magazine, is usually a weekly Magazine featuring articles or segments on current events 20/20 is an American television Newsmagazine broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. In the 1990s, the station branded itself as 24 Hour News, with 30 to 60 second news updates every hour. The station adopted the slogan The Bay Area's News Station in 2001. The year 2001 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2001.

Daybreak debuted as a half-hour program (6:30 a. m. -7 a. m. ) on September 1, 1986 (Labor Day), leading in to NBC's Today program. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. The year 1986 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1986. Labor Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September Today, also referred to as The Today Show, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on NBC. Anchored by Lloyd Patterson and Lila Petersen, it was then the only morning newscast in the San Francisco television market (aside from local cut-ins into network programs). Daybreak successively expanded to earlier timeslots until it ran from 5 a. m. to 7 a. m. The name Daybreak pre-dated the newscast that began in 1986; KRON had earlier used the Daybreak name with its five-minute news briefs at 6:45, 7:25, and 8:25 a. m.

KRON-TV newscasts in the mid- and late-1980s ran commentaries by Wayne Shannon in a segment called "Just 4 You. Wayne Shannon (born January 16 1948) is a veteran News commentator and Humorist. " Shannon's name received billing in newscast introductions along with the anchors and weather and sports presenters.

Another staple of KRON-TV newscasts in the 1980s was live traffic reports and news coverage from the station's helicopter "Telecopter 4. " Bob McCarthy, Rita Cohen, and Janice Huff were among the personalities who reported from Telecopter 4. Bob McCarthy MBE (born 1944 Sydney New South Wales) is an Australian former Rugby league footballer and coach Janice Huff (born September 1, 1960) is a meteorologist for WNBC in New York City. Their traffic reports appeared regularly in the Daybreak cut-ins during Today and during Live at Five.

In the 1980s, KRON-TV produced lengthy analysis pieces for the "Cover Story" segment of its 6 p. m. newscast. Many had an investigative journalism focus. The station re-ran some of these segments in a weekly program called Cover Story Magazine.

T. G. I. Four was a one-hour light local news program which ran at 4 p. m. in the early-1980s. It began with shots of various landmark Bay Area clocks chiming four o'clock. In the mid-1980s, KRON-TV produced and aired a talk program called Bay City Limits, which ran in the afternoon. (Rival TV stations also produced talk programs in that era: A. M. San Francisco at KGO-TV and People Are Talking at KPIX. )

In the late 1980s, KRON was among the few TV stations in the United States that produced a game show. Claim to Fame was a weekly half-hour show hosted by Patrick Van Horn. Patrick Van Horn (born 19 August 1969) is an American actor best known for his role as Sue in the film Swingers. It usually ran on Saturday evenings. In that era, KRON also produced a Saturday morning children's program called Buster and Me[3][4].

Scheduling oddities

Despite its status as NBC's second-largest affiliate (and largest on the West Coast), KRON occasionally pre-empted NBC programming, usually during daytime (most notably the soap opera Another World, which would since re-air on the station in the early 1990s). A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. Another World is a television Soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4 1964 to June 25 1999. Two NBC daytime game shows, 50 Grand Slam and Just Men!, never aired an episode on KRON-TV. 50 Grand Slam was a short-lived game show from Ralph Andrews Productions that aired on NBC from October 4 to December 31, 1976, and Just Men! was a game show that aired on NBC Daytime from January 3 to April 1 1983. Also, the station did not air NBC soap operas in the traditional pattern. For example, KRON-TV aired Days of Our Lives after Another World instead of the standard network programming -- at 2 p. Days of Our Lives is an American Soap opera, which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8 1965 on the NBC network in the United m. or 3 p. m. depending on the season and time slot. KRON-TV also pre-empted some prime time programming on NBC. Like NBC counterpart KCRA-TV in Sacramento, KRON-TV stopped airing the T-NBC lineup on Saturday mornings in the early 1990s. KCRA-TV is a Television station broadcasting on channel 3 in Sacramento California. TNBC (Teen NBC was NBC 's Saturday morning block of television shows geared toward teenagers and young adults NBC has been far less tolerant of preemptions than the other networks, and even had to buy stations to switch affiliates to in the mid-1990s because of this. However, despite losing valuable advertising in the nation's fifth largest market, NBC was very satisfied with KRON-TV, which was one of its strongest affiliates.

For the years 1992-1993, KRON-TV participated in the "Early Prime" experiment in which prime time programs were aired an hour earlier, with the 30-minute late night newscast moved from 11 p. The year 1992 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1992. The year 1993 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1993. m. to 10 p. m. While KRON-TV moved prime time NBC programming back to its normal time, KPIX-TV continued its experiment with an hour-long newscast at 10 p. KPIX-TV (Channel 5 is the CBS Owned and operated Television station in San Francisco California. m. until 1998, when it moved its CBS newscast back to 11 p. The year 1998 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1998. m. for 35 minutes. KTVU has dominated the 10 p. KTVU, channel 2 is the San Francisco Bay Area 's Fox affiliate m. newscast for decades.

KRON-TV was at one time the flagship station of the Oakland Athletics baseball team from 1993-1998. The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: Toronto Blue Jays over Philadelphia Phillies (4-2 Paul Molitor, Headline events of the year Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr This caused a problem in 1996, when the final day of the USA Olympic track and field trials conflicted with a scheduled Athletics broadcast, as KRON-TV's contract required them to show the baseball game, and, as a result, KRON-TV broadcast the trials at midnight. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Atlanta Braves (4-2 John Wetteland, MVP The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, were an International

The end of the NBC era

In 1999, the deYoung family, owners of the parent corporation Chronicle Publishing, decided to liquidate their assets. The Chronicle Publishing Company was a print and broadcast media corporation headquartered in San Francisco California that was in operation from 1865 until 2000

NBC had made many offers for channel 4 over the years, but the deYoungs had rebuffed them each time. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's It finally saw a chance to get an O&O ("owned and operated") in the Bay Area, and quickly jumped into the bidding war for channel 4. It was seen as the frontrunner until it was outbid at the last second by New York City-based Young Broadcasting (then-owner of KCAL-TV in Los Angeles and several medium-small market stations). The City of New York Young Broadcasting ( is an American Holding company that operates 13 Television stations. KCAL-TV, channel 9 is an independent television station in Los Angeles California, owned by the CBS Corporation. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Young's purchase price for the station ($750 million (U. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been S. ) at the outset rose to $820 million by closing) was a record price for a single station that stands to this day. For the down payment, Young was forced to sell WKBT in La Crosse, Wisconsin to Morgan Murphy Stations. WKBT (NewsChannel 8 is a CBS television affiliate serving West Central Wisconsin, including La Crosse (its City of license) and La Crosse is a city in and the County seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. Morgan Murphy Media is a television and radio chain based out of Madison Wisconsin.

NBC responded with a list of demands that would have required Young to run the station under the conventions of an NBC O&O. For example, NBC wanted Young to rebrand KRON as "NBC 4," and run the entire NBC schedule in pattern with no pre-emptions except for local news emergencies. Rather than give in to NBC's demands, Young decided not to renew Channel 4's affiliation contract with NBC when it ran out in 2002. Granite Broadcasting's KNTV in San Jose later approached NBC with a proposal to pay $37 million annually for the rights to broadcast NBC programming. Granite Broadcasting Corporation is an African American-owned broadcasting Holding company which owns or operates (via Local marketing agreements 14 television stations KNTV, Channel 11 is the NBC owned-and-operated Television station in the San Francisco Bay Area market NBC accepted the deal, however, in December of 2001 NBC purchased KNTV for a fraction of KRON's sale price — $230 million in cash. That makes NBC the only network in the Bay Area to switch from one local station to another. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a geographically and ethnically diverse metropolitan region that surrounds the

The affiliation switch became official at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day 2002, ending KRON-TV's 52-year affiliation with NBC. New Year's Day is the first day of the Year. On the modern Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on January 1, as it was also in ancient Rome (though

BayTV

Also from July 4, 1994 until August 30, 2001 KRON-TV operated a 24-hour news cable and local programming channel, BayTV. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Events 1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. KRON-TV, channel 4 is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. BayTV, on channel 35, was co-operated with then AT&T Broadband, now Comcast. AT&T Broadband was the name of AT&T 's cable operations which were composed of the assets of TCI and MediaOne, as well as two Comcast cable Comcast Corporation ( is the largest Cable television company the second largest Internet service provider and (according to the company the fourth largest telephone BayTV ceased operations in 2001. The year 2001 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2001. KRON-TV's NewsCenter 4 newsroom also offered news updates on MSNBC and CNN Headline News on the cable systems around the Bay Area. MSNBC is a 24-hour cable television news channel based in the United States and available in Canada. Headline News is a Spin-off network from the original Cable News Network ( CNN) television news network in the United States. KRON 4 News at 9 actually started on BayTV in the 1990s and when BayTV went off the air and KRON became an independent, the newscast officially went to channel 4 in 2002 and stayed there until September 5, 2006. The year 2002 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2002. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The channel's daily Silicon Valley news recap New Media News also aired nationally on Jones Media Group cable channel Mind Extension University/Knowledge TV until that channel ended broadcasting in 2000. For the valley nicknamed "Silicone Valley" see San Fernando Valley. Jones Radio Networks & Jones Media Group were branches of Jones International before being sold to Triton Media Group. The year 2000 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2000.

Adopting the VJ model

KRON was one of the first major market stations in the U. S. to adopt the controversial videojournalist, or VJ[5], model. In smaller markets, this is called one-man banding, a cost-saving practice in which journalists shoot, report, and edit their stories themselves, instead of having a cameraperson/tape editor in the production van with the reporter. [6] Most, if not all, tape editor positions have been eliminated and the union editors typically given the choice to become VJs or leave. Some media watchers have criticized the move as a shift towards "reality programming" such as MTV's The Real World. MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. The Real World is a Reality television program on MTV originally executive produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. [7] Many staff and critics have charged the move to "videojournalism" was done simply to cut costs, eliminate long-time staffers, and break the unions by pitting them against one another. Since KRON instituted the "VJ" scheme in 2005, scores of long-time employees have left -- including editors, producers, writers, reporters, photographers, and operations staff. However, some photographers and producers have welcomed the transition to telling the story themselves. [8]

MyNetworkTV

Main article: MyNetworkTV

KRON-TV is the largest MNTV station that did not lose a WB or UPN affiliation. MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyNet or MNT) is a Television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company 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

When KRON-TV began carrying MNTV programming, it eliminated the hour-long 9 p. m. newscast. [9] However, KRON-TV is not following the standard practice of airing MNTV programming from 8 p. m. to 10 p. m. like most Pacific Time Zone affiliates. Instead, it airs Dr. Phil at 8 p. Dr Phil is an American Talk show hosted by Phil McGraw. After McGraw's success with his segment on The Oprah Winfrey Show m. , and MNTV programming from 9 p. m. to 11 p. m. , one hour later than most affiliates. The MyNetworkTV affiliate in Sacramento, KQCA-TV, along with Seattle's affiliate, KMYQ and Salt Lake City's station KJZZ also deviates from the standard My Network TV programming schedule, airing it from 7-9 p. KQCA is the MyNetworkTV -affiliated Television station for Sacramento California, USA. KMYQ, channel 22 is a MyNetworkTV -affiliated television station in Seattle Washington. m as for KJZZ, they air their My Network TV schedule from 11 PM-1 AM.

On September 17, 2007, KRON started producing their newscasts in 16x9 widescreen format, making it the third station to do so behind KGO and KTVU.

Retro Television Network

In October 2007, Retro Television Network, a network owned by Equity Media Holdings which specializes in airing classic sitcoms and dramas, was expected to launch as a digital subchannel on KRON-DT2 as part of a test of the network by Young Broadcasting, along with sister stations WBAY in Green Bay and Albany's WTEN [3]. The Retro Television Network (aka RTN is a system of television stations primarily airing classic television programming from the 1950s through the 1980s such as Leave it to Equity Media Holdings is a Broadcasting company based in Little Rock Arkansas that owns and operates 31 Television stations across the United In broadcasting digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same Digital radio or Digital television station WBAY-TV, channel 2 is the ABC television affiliate in Green Bay Wisconsin. WTEN is the ABC -affiliated Television station for the Capital District of New York State and western New England.

Young Broadcasting Sale of KRON

As mentioned above, after the New York City-based Young Broadcasting Inc. 's historic purchase of KRON-TV in 2000, the station was stripped of NBC programming after the company's disagreement with the terms from the NBC network. Consequently, it ended the 52-year affiliation of KRON to NBC. Young Broadcasting Inc. decided to make the station independent. Focusing and putting more hours on local programming, and adopting the "VJ model" in their news programs, the station had undergone a major makeover. However, that strategy failed.

On January 10, 2008 Young Broadcasting announced that it will sell KRON-TV. Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common It retained Moelis & Company as the financial advisors on the deal. Young hoped to close the sale by the end of the first quarter of 2008,[10][11][12] but no buyer has emerged as of late May. Analysts suggest that the station would be very attractive, especially to the major networks as they are beginning to be geared to owning their affiliates in the top 10 markets. Indeed, Fox and NBC are reportedly among the interested buyers. The Bay Area market is currently the sixth-largest in the nation.

The decision to sale comes amid declining ratings for the station. Under NBC network affiliation, Channel 4 had been the top-rated station in the Bay Area for almost 20 years at the time of the purchase, but is currently in 6th place (behind KGO-TV, KPIX, KNTV, KTVU and KBCW). As a result of plummeting ratings, Young lost $373 million from 2001 to 2006. Despite the decision to sell its biggest station, Young still considers KRON a "jewel. "[13]

Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Subchannel Programming
4. 1 / 57. 1 main KRON/MyNetworkTV programming
4. 2 / 57. 2 Retro Television Network

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 [14], KRON will move its digital broadcasts to channel 38. The Retro Television Network (aka RTN is a system of television stations primarily airing classic television programming from the 1950s through the 1980s such as Leave it to [15] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display KRON'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

Known slogans

Current personalities

Programming

Doug McConnell [4]- Bay Area Backroads
Henry Tenenbaum [5]- weekend mornings/Henry's Garden/Bay Area Bargains

Anchors

Weather team

Sports

Reporters

Former personalities

KRON-TV and numerology

According to SF Weekly, the station changed KRON-4's building number from 1001 to 1001552 in January 2006, based on advice from the station manager's "astro-numerologist", Jesse Kalsi. WBZ-TV, channel 4 is an owned-and-operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Boston Massachusetts. Evan White is a founding member of the highly acclaimed Metalcore band As I Lay Dying, he played with the band on and off until 2003 Peter James "Pete" Wilson ( April 5 1945 – July 20 2007) was an American broadcaster born in Wisconsin. KPIX-TV (Channel 5 is the CBS Owned and operated Television station in San Francisco California. Numerology is any of many Systems Traditions or Beliefs in a mystical or Esoteric relationship between Numbers and physical The SF Weekly is a free Alternative weekly Newspaper in San Francisco California. [23] Business for the station had previously been abysmal. Young's station management claims the numerology improved business. They claim one of the results was the station's deal to become a MyNetworkTV affiliate. MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyNet or MNT) is a Television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company "Obviously, there are skeptics who think it's a bunch of hooey, but I can tell you things seem to have improved since the change," said Pat Patton, KRON-TV's programming director. "Morale is better, people are happier," he said. Many staffers saw the numerology as one more indication that station management was "nuts" and in far over their heads. Plans are being made to give Kalsi his own show on the station.

References

  1. ^ Broadcast Legends - Terry Lowry
  2. ^ [1] KRON's July 14, 1987 news update with the DayBreak Sun and Nighttime GGB Legal ID.
  3. ^ Gone But Not Forgotten: "Buster and Me"
  4. ^ Buster and Me (1977) at the Internet Movie Database
  5. ^ How a once-proud San Francisco television station became ground zero in the nation's most controversial experiment in local TV news.
  6. ^ San Francisco - News - KRON's Last Gasp
  7. ^ Grade the News
  8. ^ [2]
  9. ^ TVWeek - Special Reports - Print Edition
  10. ^ "Young Broadcasting Inc. to Sell KRON-TV in San Francisco" (press release)
  11. ^ KNTV: "KRON Goes Up For Sale"(1/10/2008)
  12. ^ KPIX: "Young Broadcasting To Sell KRON-TV" (1/10/2008)
  13. ^ "Young Broadcasting puts Bay Area's KRON-TV up for sale"
  14. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  15. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231228&formid=387&fac_num=65526
  16. ^ Mary Civiello & Civiello Communications Group
  17. ^ Fred LaCosse, keynote addresses, keynote speakers, speakers, public speakers, patriotic speeches, patriotic speakers
  18. ^ DaveMalkoff.com | Television News Reporter
  19. ^ Malou Review
  20. ^ Paymar Communications Group is a leading edge consulting, media training and presentation training firm working with executives, government officials and spokespersons so they become competent communicators
  21. ^ Karna Bodman-Home
  22. ^ AMS List of TV Seal Holder
  23. ^ Russell, Ron. "But Can He Predict the Weather?", SF Weekly, May 3, 2006. The SF Weekly is a free Alternative weekly Newspaper in San Francisco California. Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 2006-06-07. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins  

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