Eventually, after the digital transition and widescreen upgrades, KRON's HD channel was moved to the main 4.1 channel. They don't.". By about 1991, this evolved into the "circle 4" logo in use to this day, with the "4" keeping the bridge design. 's Leading TV Station", "Battle for Control At Channel 4 / NBC puts conditions on renewing deal with KRON's future owner", NBC Drops Television Channel in Bay Area, Calif., for San Jose Station, "NBC buys KNTV, cuts ties to KRON / Deal affirms Jan. 1 switch", "The new KRON makes a weak first impression", "UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network", "Young Broadcasting Inc. 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Some of the stories covered by Shell News in 1957 included the end of the "pedestrian scramble" system at downtown San Francisco street intersections, the end of the San Francisco-Oakland Southern Pacific railroad passenger ferry and the final game of the San Francisco Seals baseball team (to be replaced by the San Francisco Giants in 1958). Despite this, KRON occasionally preempted NBC programming. >>we're going to get more on the rain from days for in the weather center. Get more news, more weather and more video. (CBS-owned UPN affiliate KBHK, whose call sign became KBCW by the network's launch, was named The CW's Bay Area affiliate. However, we shall update it as soon as possible. [12] It did so primarily as a stopgap in case NBC failed in its bid to buy KRON from Young. However, also at that time, KRON's 11 p.m. news was shortened to 15 minutes until it was dropped when KRON launched a new 9 p.m. newscast on August 21, 2017, which competed with KGO's 9 p.m. newscast for KOFY-TV until KGO cancelled it. Similar to fellow NBC station KCRA-TV in neighboring Sacramento, KRON-TV stopped airing the Saturday morning T-NBC lineup in the early 1990s. Live streaming video of news, traffic, and weather for the San Francisco bay area from KRON 4. [55] By 2009, overall viewership for the station's newscasts had fallen to fifth place among the Bay Area's news-producing English-language television stations. KRON-TV was the third television outlet in the Bay Area behind KGO-TV (channel 7) and KPIX-TV (channel 5), all going on the air within a year, and the last license before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) placed a moratorium on new television station licenses that would last the next four years. BayTV was carried on cable channel 35. Both select Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants games were aired as part of NBC's broadcast contract with Major League Baseball from 1957 to 1989, including the A's string of three consecutive World Series victories in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Before joining KRON 4 news, Moore worked at WBZ – TV in Boston as a News anchor and Reporter. KRON's early morning news digests in the 1960s utilized sign language by Peter Wechsberg and Jane Norman. Channel 4 also preempted some of the network's prime time programs. Starting in 2011, Gary Radnich joined Heenan as host at various locations in San Francisco each year. The station reran some of these segments in an occasional program called Cover Story Magazine. Without those NBC shows, KRON's ratings started to decline. From 1989 until January 2008, KRON-TV produced a countdown program called New Year's Live, which aired on New Year's Eve (sometimes beginning at 11 p.m.) and continued into New Year's Day (sometimes ending at 1 a.m.). Using personal funds, Winston started a scholarship program for inner-city public school students who planned to attend college. Young would also have to give NBC the first option on the programming of additional subchannels on the station's digital signal.[11]. In 1999, she made history when she became the first African-American to chair a major political party in Indiana. Shannon received billing in newscast introductions along with the anchors, and weather and sports presenters. The move to new studios, and plans to operate master control from Atlanta, were scrapped by June 2012. Experience the brand new KRON4 news app. KRON also did not air NBC's soap operas in pattern (for example, KRON-TV aired Days of Our Lives after Another World, rather than the standard slot for NBC affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone—at 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. depending on the season and time slot). With regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest newscast output of any television station in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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[20] Debt incurred from its 1999 purchase of KRON was believed to be one key factor behind the company's cash problems. She has appeared as a political commentator on CBS, NBC, and NPR and has been quoted in numerous national and state publications. Florida discourages "vaccine tourism" Scott Shellady, The Cow Guy, weighs in on Biden's $1.9T stimulus plan. Topics mostly included horses. She has an estimated net worth of between $100k-$200k. While serving in the Commerce Department, Mr. Winston directed $11 million in grants to communities to improve infrastructure, housing, municipal facilities, and preserve historic buildings. The station debuted what was then the only local early morning newscast in the San Francisco television market on September 1, 1986, with the launch of Daybreak (which ran from 6:30 to 7 a.m., leading into Today). More information about her spouse is not available at this moment. Moore joined KRON 4 News in March 1991. KRON lost the Athletics' television rights following the team's 1998 season. The television transmitter was moved to Sutro Tower on July 4, 1973, while the FM transmitter remained on San Bruno Mountain. More information about her marital status is not available at this moment. [56][57][58] On September 14, 2020, KRON launched an afternoon newscast at 3 p.m.[59], For the matrix operation abbreviated "kron", see, Television station in California, United States, Acquisitions by Media General, then Nexstar, Past programming preemptions and deferrals. KNTV officially joined NBC later that evening at 11:35 p.m. with the regular broadcast of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. NBC wanted an owned-and-operated station (O&O) in the Bay Area alongside its West Coast flagship radio station, KNBC (680 AM, now KNBR). 676 were here. Several of KRON's veteran anchors and reporters left the station after the loss of the NBC affiliation; KRON also began incorporating video journalists (many of which were newer hires) to report, tape and edit news stories. KRON-TV regarded the satellite truck as a major competitive advantage over rival television stations, featuring it in a mid-1980s promotional spot which declared, "We got a mobile satellite up-link. The Livestream News Network - live, local and now online. Preemptions would only be permitted for extended breaking news or severe weather coverage. In the 1960s, KRON-TV had anchors Art Brown and Jerry Jensen (who later moved to KGO-TV), and Linda Richards, who wrote predicted temperatures backwards on sliding glass panels with maps drawn on them, for viewers to see the weather forecast. The program, which generally aired on Sunday evenings, featured hosts such as Jerry Graham and Doug McConnell. (In turn, NBC would stop making annual payments to KRON of $7.5 million to carry the network's programming.) In the mid-1980s, KRON-TV produced and aired an afternoon talk program called Bay City Limits. San Francisco Bay Area's local news & weather station. NBC accepted KNTV's deal in February 2000. On January 10, 2008, Young Broadcasting announced it would sell KRON-TV. [27] KRON, WATE-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, and WLNS-TV in Lansing, Michigan (the latter two, unlike KRON, compete with Gray-owned stations in their respective markets), were the only stations not included in the management deal. In 1982, the deYoung family's Chronicle Publishing Company unit discussed a possible trade of KRON-TV to the Gannett Company (whose broadcasting division is now part of Tegna) in exchange for acquiring Gannett's Oklahoma City station KOCO-TV, plus an additional $100 million. However, in an upset, the deYoungs won the license. Miss Winston then accepted Lieutenant Governor O’Bannon’s invitation to join her personal staff as a special assistant. The last NBC program to be broadcast by channel 4 was a repeat episode of Crossing Jordan, at 10:00 p.m. on December 31, 2001. Meet Vicki Liviakis, KRON4 News Anchor. Scores of Democrats were elected to local municipal offices in 1999. In August 1959, the Chronicle reported that the tower was severely damaged by an unusually strong thunderstorm, requiring major repairs before KRON-TV could return to the air. She earns an estimated salary of between $5k-$10k annually. Live segments were used for late bulletins from the Chronicle city desk or for local and regional stories not suitable for film treatment. Robin graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelors Degree in Broadcast Journalism. In 2008, she worked with the Obama for President staff on the General Election campaign. KRON-TV also produces two locally-produced programs outside of local newscasts: Bay Area Living – Home Improvement Edition and Bay Area Bargains. Following the election, Miss Winston became political director of the Indiana Democratic Party. Unlike most news-producing stations that have become independent after losing a network affiliation or that have switched to one of the post-1986 broadcast networks, KRON originally kept its late newscast in the 11 p.m. timeslot instead of moving it to or adding one at 10 p.m. (avoiding direct competition with KTVU's long-dominant primetime newscast, though KRON's late news remained in competition against KGO, KNTV and KPIX's late evening newscasts); the station also added a primetime newscast at 9 p.m. To this day, KRON maintains a newscast schedule similar to the one it had as an NBC affiliate. Events in San Francisco were the focal point of KRON's coverage, especially the midnight fireworks show near the Ferry Building. Despite the co-location, KRON-TV maintains separate broadcast facilities from KGO-TV and employs a completely separate staff. [23][24] At the last minute, Young cancelled a planned auction of all 10 of its stations five months later on July 14, a move believed to have been made due to a lack of suitable bids. [1] The transmitting antenna, shared with Fox O&O KTVU (channel 2) and CBS O&O KPIX-TV (channel 5), is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco. 697 were here. That made NBC the only major broadcast network to have switched from one Bay Area station to another. In the case of KRON, many of the shows it preempted ended up on independent KICU-TV. Also in Louisville, Mr. Winston served as chief of staff at the city’s legislative body, the Board of Aldermen. Ed Hart, and later Frank Dill, reported sports with a focus on only the area's professional teams. These segments often began with an animation depicting a signal originating from the uplink location, bouncing off a satellite and ending at a satellite dish next to the words "San Francisco." [40] Antenna TV was added to digital subchannel 4.3. KRON-TV, virtual channel 4 (digital channel 38), is a television station in San Francisco, California, serving as the Bay Area affiliate of the MyNetworkTV programming service; the station is owned by Young Broadcasting. Though both KRON and KPIX ran hour-long newscasts at 10 p.m., neither were able to beat Fox affiliate KTVU, due to that station's longtime dominance in the 10 o'clock hour that continues to this day. [3] This logo was used as early as April 1974, during coverage of a Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery. More information about her children is not available at this moment. In February 2010, Young discussed the possibility of entering into a shared services agreement (SSA) with KNTV's owner NBCUniversal. 726 were here. The viewership of its newscasts began to fall substantially by the time the station regained a network affiliation. Their traffic reports appeared regularly on Daybreak, during Today and Live at Five. On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of MyNetworkTV. Two NBC daytime game shows, 50 Grand Slam and Just Men!, were never seen in the Bay Area. The station filled time slots formerly occupied by NBC shows with syndicated programming and expanded newscasts. Each station's employees are restricted by keycards from entering the other's facilities.[32][33]. Thanks for becoming a fan of KRON4, the Bay Area's Local News Station! Search for other Psychologists on The Real Yellow Pages®. [25][26] Instead of auctioning off the stations, Young and its secured lenders reached a deal where the lenders (among them Wachovia and Credit Suisse) would take control of the company, and Gray Television would manage seven of Young's ten stations. Miss Winston is a life member of the NAACP, a member of the Indiana State Museum Board of Directors and Capital Campaign Chair of the $3.1M Levi Coffin Center Interpretive project, a member of the Dean’s Council of the IUPUI School of Liberal Arts and is a member of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation Board of Directors. ), Station management announced at a November 2011 meeting that no such agreement would take place, and that KRON would instead relocate to a smaller, state-of-the-art facility within the next year to year-and-a-half. Among other things, it demanded that KRON change its on-air name to "NBC 4" and run the network's entire schedule in pattern (reducing primetime preemptions due to local programming from 20 hours to five hours a year). Features: - Navigate easily through local news and information that's important to you - Stay informed … KRON-TV signed on the air on November 15, 1949, as a full-time NBC affiliate, operated alongside co-owned radio station KRON-FM (96.5, now KOIT-FM). Her firm provided office space for the GOTV, Field and Legal components of the campaign. In 1981, KRON launched its first morning newscast with a seven-minute program (at 6:53 a.m.), the program was cancelled by late 1982. [47][48] From the 1970s into the late 1980s, the station used Gabriel Fauré's Pavane, Opus 50 as the music played during its nightly sign-off, alongside scenic rustic shots from around the Bay Area. [54] The 9 p.m. newscast created after becoming independent eventually fell to fourth place by 2005. Indiana Democrats fared well during her term as Chairman. ", Assignment Four was a documentary series that generally aired Monday evenings at 7:00 p.m. through much of the 1960s (beginning in February 1960). marty and good morning, everybody it's … The first anchors were Lloyd Patterson and Lila Petersen. WB affiliate KBWB became an independent station). It is the only MyNetworkTV affiliate that has ever maintained a news schedule mirroring that of a Big Three affiliate (as it carries morning, 5 p.m., and 6 p.m. newscasts, and previously an 11 p.m. newscast). In that capacity, Mr. Winston served as the lieutenant governor’s liaison to several economic development agencies including the Indiana Housing Finance Authority, the Small Business Development Corp., the Minority Business Development Commission, and the Community Development Division of the state Commerce Department. [29] A week later, it was also announced the station's master control operations would be operated remotely from Atlanta beginning in mid-January 2012. KRON-TV eventually branded its newscasts as Newswatch 4 in the early 1970s. The KRON news staff also provided local news updates on MSNBC and CNN Headline Newson Bay Area cable systems during this period. San Jose-based KNTV channel 11 approached NBC with a proposal to pay $37 million annually for the rights to broadcast its programming. An accomplished business leader and a skilled political strategist, Robin Winston has devoted her career to providing timely and savvy public outreach, communications, strategic, finance, management, marketing, and political advice to her colleagues and clients. NBC had a somewhat contentious relationship with KRON, especially since it often lost valuable advertising in one of the nation's largest markets. KRON is one of only two MyNetworkTV affiliates that air and produce their own newscasts, alongside Philadelphia affiliate WPHL-TV (though only a morning newscast, while its 10:00 p.m. newscast is produced by WPVI-TV), after the service's Secaucus, New Jersey owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV (whose news department operated separately from Fox-owned sister station WNYW stemming from license requirements imposed by WWOR's 1983 license transfer from New York City to New Jersey) closed theirs in July 2013. In addition, Winston is a political analyst for WTHR, Indiana’s most-watched television station and a columnist for The Indianapolis Business Journal. [34] Prior to the announcement it was rumored that Fox had considered buying KRON-TV and moving Fox network programming to channel 4. Fun Home was also awarded the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015 and the 2014 Obie Award for writing for musical theater. Bob McCarthy, Rita Cohen and Janice Huff were among the personalities who reported from Telecopter 4. Now a successful businessman in Indianapolis, she runs one of the largest minority-owned government affairs, community relations, and public outreach firms in the Midwest.
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