A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
124-546: KRON-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California , United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area 's outlet for The CW . Owned and operated by The CW's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group , KRON-TV has studios on Front Street in the city's historic Northeast Waterfront, in the same building as ABC owned-and-operated station KGO-TV , channel 7 (but with completely separate operations from that station). The transmitting antenna
248-536: A barter in some cases. Tegna Inc. Tegna Inc. (stylized in all caps as TEGNA ) is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia . It was created on June 29, 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies. Tegna comprised the more profitable broadcast television and digital media divisions of
372-524: A low-powered MeTV affiliate, and a Quest owned-and-operated station. It also provides operational services to another Fox affiliate, WUPW in Toledo, through a shared services agreement with that station's owner American Spirit Media (agreements that were carried over from WTOL's previous ownership; ASM had acted in a similar capacity with several stations). Stations are listed alphabetically by state and city of license . In 2015, Tegna Media test-ran
496-478: A newsreel feature entitled "Mayor Art's Almanac", games, prizes, and a sock puppet named "Ring-A-Ding." Assignment Four was a documentary series that generally aired Monday evenings at 7 p.m. through much of the 1960s (beginning in February 1960). A promotional brochure declared, "each Assignment Four story is concerned with cultural and ethnic activities or perhaps some fascinating phase of life and living in
620-548: 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. A week later, it was also announced the station's master control operations would be operated remotely from Atlanta beginning in mid-January 2012. The move to new studios, and plans to operate master control from Atlanta, were scrapped by June 2012. On June 6, 2013, Media General announced it would acquire Young Broadcasting in an all-stock deal. The merger
744-518: A Washington, D.C. bureau to produce content for local newscasts, and arguing that Tegna's stations had "too many employees". Standard General responded to the letter, denying that they planned to cut jobs or hub content, and promoting that Tegna would become the largest female-run and minority-owned broadcaster in the United States. They also responded to objections by NewsGuild-CWA describing Standard General as "backed by anonymous investors located in
868-409: A catchphrase, "hunky snarky", that he often used to characterize roads on which traffic was flowing smoothly. Will Prater was the main pilot of Telecopter 4 in its early years and Lou Calderon was the main photographer. KRON also broadcast from remote locations during this era (e.g., Super Bowl venues) via a satellite uplink unit dubbed "Newstar 4". These segments often began with an animation depicting
992-549: A completely separate staff. Each station's employees are restricted by keycards from entering the other's facilities. In June 2014, Fox Television Stations announced it would acquire KTVU and KICU-TV in a trade with Cox Media Group in exchange for that company's stations in Boston and Memphis . Prior to the announcement it was rumored that Fox had considered buying KRON-TV and moving Fox network programming to channel 4. (Had Fox actually acquired KRON-TV, this would have made it one of
1116-1041: 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.). Events in San Francisco were the focal point of KRON's coverage, especially the midnight fireworks show near the Ferry Building. Other West Coast television stations joined KRON in some years (including KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, KING-TV in Seattle , KCRA in Sacramento, KNSD in San Diego and KLAS-TV in Las Vegas in December 1990), featuring midnight countdown events in other cities, such as Las Vegas casinos and at
1240-538: 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. 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 February 2010, Young discussed
1364-462: A few cents per share, was ultimately delisted from NASDAQ in January 2009, after failing to meet the minimum standards for being on the exchange. One month later on February 13, Young made a filing to place the company under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Debt incurred from its 1999 purchase of KRON was believed to be one key factor behind the company's cash problems. Young originally hoped to close
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#17329062276771488-575: A headquarters complex. Tegna also retained G/O Digital, a digital marketing services brand that it launched in August 2013, and the 20 broadcast stations it acquired from Belo Corporation in December 2013 and the six stations it acquired from London Broadcasting Company in July 2014. In September 2016, Tegna announced plans to spin off Cars.com to create two independent publicly traded companies. Tegna shareholders approved an initial public offering of Cars.com as
1612-459: A limited-run informative talk show hosted by Dallas-based bishop T. D. Jakes on its owned stations in Dallas, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Cleveland. The show, titled T.D. Jakes , was co-produced by Debmar-Mercury , Tegna Media, 44 Blue Productions, Jakes' own production company, TDJ Enterprises and EnLight Productions and lasted from August 17, 2016, to September 8, 2017. On December 9, Tegna greenlit
1736-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in
1860-485: 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. The proposal ultimately fell apart by September 1983. On June 16, 1999, the deYoung family announced the liquidation of Chronicle Publishing's assets. By this point, the deYoungs owned three television stations (including KRON) in large and mid-sized media markets around
1984-450: A publicly traded spin-off in May 2017. Shortly after, Tegna completed the spin-off of Cars.com, which now trades under a new ticker symbol, CARS. Upon the completion of the spin-off, Dave Lougee, president of Tegna Media, was named president and CEO of Tegna and joined the company's board of directors. Gracia Martore, president and CEO of Tegna, retired and stepped down from the board. Prior to
2108-1041: A repeat episode of Crossing Jordan , at 10 p.m. on December 31, 2001. KNTV officially joined NBC later that evening at 11:35 p.m. with the regular broadcast of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . That ended KRON-TV's 52-year affiliation with the NBC network. January 1, 2002, was KRON's first full day as an independent station. That morning, KRON broadcast the Rose Parade from the feed of Los Angeles station KTLA (then affiliated with The WB ), with Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards as co-hosts. With ABC, CBS, UPN and now NBC carrying their programming locally on owned-and-operated stations (KGO-TV, KPIX, KBHK—channel 44, now KPYX —and KNTV, respectively), and Fox and The WB under contract with KTVU and KBWB, respectively, KRON-TV became an independent station by default. The station filled time slots formerly occupied by NBC shows with syndicated programming and expanded newscasts. The NBC network
2232-411: A reporter and camera operator, to generate news stories on scene. SF Weekly reported in 2006 that KRON was the first major-market television station to make such a decision and commented, "the results at times are more akin to home movies than news programming broadcast to the nation's sixth-largest TV market." On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of MyNetworkTV . The network
2356-405: A sale of the station by the end of the first quarter of 2008, but no buyer emerged. On February 13, 2009, the company declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. At the last minute, Young canceled 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. Instead of auctioning off the stations, Young and its secured lenders reached
2480-483: A seven-minute program (at 6:53 a.m.); the program was canceled by late 1982. All the evening newscasts featured a variety of anchors, until settling down with the successful duo of Roz Abrams and Jim Paymar . After Abrams left for New York City's WABC-TV in 1986 , Paymar co-anchored alongside Sylvia Chase (who had been a correspondent for CBS News and later for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 ). The station debuted what
2604-410: A signal originating from the uplink location, bouncing off a satellite and ending at a satellite dish next to the words "San Francisco." 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. They don't." In the 1980s, KRON-TV produced lengthy analysis pieces for
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#17329062276772728-516: A small insert studio on San Bruno Mountain . 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. In 1960, NBC attempted to purchase its own station in the Bay Area, when they attempted to buy KTVU . The sale was canceled that October due to pre-existing concerns over the sale cited by
2852-570: A statement, she explained that the split plans were "significant next steps in our ongoing initiatives to increase shareholder value by building scale, increasing cash flow, sharpening management focus, and strengthening all of our businesses to compete effectively in today's increasingly digital landscape". Additionally, the company announced that it would buy out the remainder of Classified Ventures (a joint venture between Tegna and several other media companies) for $ 1.8 billion, giving it full ownership of properties such as Cars.com . As part of
2976-461: A studio inside the Chronicle building at Fifth & Mission streets (the station's news department was located 30 feet from the Chronicle city desk). Appropriately for a station once owned by the Chronicle , KRON-TV has long been a very news-intensive station. it produced six daily newscasts at the time, including the Shell -sponsored 6 p.m. newscast Shell News , with Tom Franklin reporting from
3100-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations
3224-431: A year). Preemptions would only be permitted for extended breaking news or severe weather coverage. NBC also demanded yearly payments of $ 10 million from Young, a form of reverse compensation , flipping around the then-normal mode of networks paying their affiliates for their airtime. (In turn, NBC would stop making annual payments to KRON of $ 7.5 million to carry the network's programming.) Young would also have to give NBC
3348-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,
3472-426: 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. By about 1991, this evolved into the "circle 4" logo in use to this day, with the "4" using a simpler bridge design. In 1982, the deYoung family's Chronicle Publishing Company unit discussed
3596-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around
3720-718: Is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco. In 1948, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized a construction permit by the Chronicle Publishing Company , publishers of the San Francisco Chronicle daily newspaper, for a new television station in San Francisco, KRON-TV. Chronicle Publishing was founded by brothers Charles and Michael de Young . The company already owned radio station KRON-FM . Managed by Michael de Young's grandson Charles de Young Thieriot, KRON signed on
3844-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually
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3968-464: 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). 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. Despite
4092-824: The Dispatch Broadcast Group 's television and radio assets, subject to regulatory approval, for $ 535 million. The purchase includes the WBNS television ( CBS affiliate WBNS-TV ) and radio ( WBNS (AM) and WBNS-FM ) stations in Columbus, the Ohio News Network , and NBC affiliate WTHR television in Indianapolis . The sale was approved by the FCC on July 29, 2019, and was completed on August 8. In December 2019, Tegna agreed to sell KFMB-AM-FM to Local Media San Diego for $ 5 million;
4216-404: The E. W. Scripps Company , and Sinclair. Tegna also owns two digital multicast networks ( True Crime Network , Quest ). In June 2015, Gannett spun off its broadcasting division. Robert Dickey – who led Gannett's newspaper group – would continue as CEO of the company as a sole newspaper publisher, leaving the former broadcasting and digital operations under the leadership of Gracia Martore . In
4340-669: The Federal Communications Commission . The acquisition was completed on February 15, 2018. On August 20, 2018, Tegna agreed to purchase two stations spun off from the Gray Television - Raycom Media merger, CBS affiliate WTOL-TV in Toledo (the sale likely includes rights to an existing shared services agreement with American Spirit Media -owned Fox affiliate WUPW ) and NBC affiliate KWES-TV in Odessa in order to alleviate ownership conflicts involving Gray's ownership of ABC affiliate WTVG in
4464-695: The Newswatch Sign-Off Edition . Presenters then included Terry Lowry, Phil Wilson, Karna Small, Bob Marsden, Paul Ryan, Art Brown and Dave Valentine. The station's newscasts were branded as NewsCenter 4 from 1977 until 2001, when it was changed to the current KRON 4 News . A major change in KRON-TV's evening news broadcasts occurred on April 6, 1981, when the station launched the 90-minute newscast "Live on 4" (from 4 to 5:30 p.m.). NBC Nightly News also moved from 7 to 5:30 p.m. (KPIX and KGO would follow this move with their national newscasts during
4588-528: The San Francisco Seals baseball team (to be replaced by the San Francisco Giants in 1958). 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. Ed Hart, and later Frank Dill, reported sports with a focus on only
4712-510: The San Mateo County coastline). In the 1990s, the station utilized a "24 Hour News" format, with 30- to 60-second news updates each hour outside of regular newscasts. During the May 2001 sweeps period – its last as an NBC affiliate – KRON's newscasts beat KGO-TV's in the 5 and 6 p.m. timeslots by a very close margin, ending KGO's domination in those timeslots. When KRON lost NBC to KNTV and became an independent station in January 2002,
4836-624: The Western Addition neighborhood (a location that formerly served as the site of the Roman Catholic cathedral of San Francisco). The television transmitter was moved to Sutro Tower on July 4 , 1973, while the FM transmitter remained on San Bruno Mountain. Since the 1970s, KRON's logo has incorporated a stylized number "4" design that is based on the Golden Gate Bridge . The vertical component
4960-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station
5084-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has
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5208-631: The "Cover Story" segment on its 6 p.m. newscast, many with an investigative journalism focus and sometimes produced by the 10-person "Target 4" investigative unit. The station reran some of these segments in an occasional program called Cover Story Magazine . The station also produced a half-hour public affairs program on Sunday mornings called Weekend Extra , which was hosted by Belva Davis and Rollin Post. This program frequently presented features from KRON's news bureaus in Washington, D.C. , and Sacramento,
5332-506: The "Early Prime" experiment in which prime time programs aired one hour earlier (mirroring the scheduling of the network's prime time lineup in the Central and Mountain time zones), the half-hour late evening newscast also moved from 11 to 10 p.m. as a result. While KRON moved NBC's prime time programming back to the 8–11 p.m. timeslot in September 1993, CBS affiliate KPIX, who adopted
5456-665: The 10 o'clock hour that continues to this day. In 1965, KRON-TV began broadcasting most Oakland Raiders games, which were at first part of the American Football League , which had a contract with NBC from 1965 to 1969, and then the National Football League 's American Football Conference , which inherited the AFL's deal with NBC from 1970 to 1997 (the Raiders relocated to Los Angeles in 1982 , stripping KRON of its status as
5580-421: 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 prime time newscast, though KRON's late news remained in competition against KGO, KNTV and KPIX's late evening newscasts); the station also added a prime time newscast at 9 p.m. To this day, KRON maintains a newscast schedule similar to the one it had as an NBC affiliate. It
5704-487: The 1950s and 1960s, local programs produced by KRON-TV included the award-winning documentary series Assignment Four , Fireman Frank with George Lemont (died October 1985 at the age of 63) and his puppets (including a rooster named Rhode Island Red ), and a live children's program hosted by Art Finley as Mayor Art. Bay Area kids, known as the "City Council," joined Mayor Art in the studio each day. The show featured Popeye cartoons mixed with science demonstrations,
5828-556: The 1980s, KRON continued its dominance by airing top-rated syndicated programs, including the Merv Griffin -produced game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune (the original NBC daytime versions of both series also aired on KRON), as well as Entertainment Tonight . The game show pair was moved to ABC-owned KGO-TV in February 1992—seven months ahead of schedule—as a direct result of KRON's experiment with its early prime time schedule that year. For most of its tenure with NBC, KRON
5952-443: The 21% share it had as an NBC affiliate. The 9 p.m. newscast created after becoming independent eventually fell to fourth place by 2005. In March 2006, KRON's morning newscast posted an average viewership of approximately 28,000 viewers. 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. On September 17, 2007, KRON-TV became
6076-734: The Bay. Past local programs include Bay Area Backroads , Bay Cafe , Henry's Home & Garden , Latin Eyes , Pacific Fusion , Bay Area Bargains , The Silver Lining ; and several series and featured news segments that were developed by Jim Swanson, executive producer including Bay Area Bargains – Green Edition ; Bay Area Living – Seniors Edition ; KRON 4's Body Beautiful ; KRON 4's Casino Adventures ; Don't Invest and Forget ; Health and Beauty with Dr Sonia ; Living Green with Petersen Dean ; KRON 4's Medical Mondays ; KRON 4's Peninsula Beauty ; KRON 4's Sizzling Hot Auto Deals and KRON 4's Spa Spectacular . In
6200-618: The Cayman Islands", stating that the entirety of its board is represented by U.S. interests. On February 24, 2023, it was confirmed that FCC staff had referred the deal to an administrative law judge , effectively killing the deal since the hearing process would necessarily run longer than the merger agreement's deadline to close the deal. The deal was terminated on May 22, 2023. Tegna owns or operates 68 television stations located in 54 markets (including fourteen duopolies ); it also owns two radio stations in Columbus, Ohio. Twenty-two of
6324-476: The DirecTV, AT&T U-verse, AT&T TV and DirecTV Stream services at 8 p.m. ET on November 30. The dispute was resolved on January 13, 2024. The following month, TEGNA affirmed the dispute with DirecTV caused it to see lower subscription and overall revenue during 2023. In 2020, activist shareholder Soo Kim, owner of Standard General , began to pursue control over Tegna, citing its "pattern of passivity" on
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#17329062276776448-601: The FCC that were related to NBC's ownership of radio and television stations in Philadelphia; as a result, NBC stayed with KRON-TV. In the early 1960s, KRON's profits were keeping the Chronicle Publishing Company financially solvent at a time when the San Francisco Chronicle was losing money, around $ 3 million from 1958 to 1965. In 1967, KRON-FM-TV moved to a new studio at 1001 Van Ness Avenue in
6572-495: The Greater San Francisco Bay Area." Subjects ranged from 'Skid Row' to 'The Single Girl,' the 'Green Intricate Country of Napa Valley' to 'No Deposit, No Return' (a study of garbage disposal that won a 1966 Emmy Award and Silver Medal Award in the 1966 New York International Film Festival ). The documentary 'Not to Have Lived' (aired January 31, 1966) about mechanized society featured no dialogue or narration. In
6696-480: The NBC affiliation. Wright did not rule out moving NBC's Bay Area affiliation elsewhere. When Young closed on its purchase of channel 4, NBC made good on these threats by demanding that Young operate KRON under the same conventions as an NBC owned-and-operated outlet. 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 prime time preemptions due to local programming from 20 hours to five hours
6820-590: The San Francisco market on September 1. Until the late 1970s, KRON-TV was known for being very San Francisco-centric in its news coverage and audience targeting, an approach that would become costly to the station as population growth in areas outside San Francisco soared. Realizing this and refocusing on the entire market enabled KRON-TV to become the dominant station in the Bay Area. As of September 2024, syndicated programming on KRON-TV includes Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight which are distributed by CBS Media Ventures , as well as Judy Justice . During
6944-717: The Seattle Space Needle . Former KRON weather anchor Mark Thompson served as the host during the program's early years. New Year's Live returned to KRON in December 2010 as an hour-long broadcast, hosted by Catherine Heenan and George Rask in-studio, with live reports from Henry Tenenbaum at Pier 39 and Vicki Liviakis at Waterbar on the Embarcadero . Starting in 2011, Gary Radnich joined Heenan as host at various locations in San Francisco each year. KRON-TV also produces two locally produced programs outside of local newscasts: Bay Area Living – Home Improvement Edition and LIVE! in
7068-501: The Toledo market and CBS affiliate KOSA-TV in the Odessa market. In March 2019, Tegna announced its formation of VAULT Studios, its first, in-house digital content studio. The studio's first content would be true crime podcasts, drawing on its station news content. On March 20, 2019, Tegna entered an agreement with Nexstar Media Group to acquire eleven stations for $ 740 million in order to reduce Nexstar's national ownership reach under
7192-552: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in
7316-607: The air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content
7440-509: The air on November 15, 1949, as a full-time NBC affiliate. Its opening night program schedule included a special about San Francisco entertainment followed by the usual NBC prime time lineup of the Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle , The Life of Riley , Mohawk Showroom , and The Chesterfield Supper Club . KRON-TV was the third television outlet in the Bay Area behind KGO-TV (channel 7) and KPIX-TV (channel 5), all going on
7564-524: The air within a year, and the last license before the FCC placed a moratorium on new television station licenses that would last the next four years. KRON-TV originally broadcast from studios located in the basement of the Chronicle Building at Fifth and Mission Streets. Newscasts benefited from the resources of the Chronicle and there was cooperation between KRON-TV and the newspaper. It originally maintained transmitter facilities, master control and
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#17329062276777688-439: 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. Their traffic reports appeared regularly on Daybreak , during Today and Live at Five . Evocative of his folksy, down-to-earth style, McCarthy had
7812-440: The area's professional teams. KRON's early morning news digests in the 1960s utilized sign language by Peter Wechsberg and Jane Norman. KRON-TV eventually branded its newscasts as Newswatch 4 in the early 1970s. By early 1972, the station ran newscasts at noon, 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m. on weekdays and 6 and 11 p.m. on weekends; it also ran a late newscast that aired (then) immediately after The Tonight Show called
7936-496: The baseball game live, it rebroadcast the trials at midnight. KRON lost the Athletics' television rights following the team's 1998 season . 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 . From 1989 until January 2008, KRON-TV produced
8060-741: The board of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan . Tegna and Cooper Media, parent corporation of the Justice Network , announced on November 7, 2017, a new multicast network, Quest . Tegna would be the charter station group as such would receive a minority stake in the network, which launched in January 2018. The range of programming on the network would be engineering and science, human achievements, military history and natural history. On December 18, 2017, Tegna announced it would acquire KFMB-AM - FM - TV in San Diego from Midwest Television, Inc. for $ 325 million, pending approval from
8184-462: The cancellation of the 8 p.m. newscast and Dr. Phil ' s return to the 8 p.m. slot, along with the reinstatement of a 5:30 p.m. newscast (which expanded back to 5 p.m. by 2010). The 8 p.m. newscast returned on May 30, 2011, concurrent with the replacement of the 4 p.m. news with Dr. Phil . KRON quietly upgraded its newscasts to high definition in April 2012, with
8308-481: The company at $ 5.4 billion. The company, which will retain the Tegna name, will be controlled by an affiliate of Standard General, with Standard Media CEO Deb McDermott (who previously led Young Broadcasting and Media General ) becoming CEO. Affiliates of AGM, as well as Cox Media Group (which is principally owned by AGM, with Cox Enterprises as a minority shareholder) and other investors, will hold non-voting shares in
8432-424: The company stated that "the other two parties have not signed confidentiality agreements to enable due diligence and have not delivered any information on financing sources". Kim began to engage in a proxy fight , with Standard General proposing four nominations to Tegna's board of directors at its next shareholders' meeting in April. Tegna's shareholders chose to re-elect all 12 current board members. Kim accepted
8556-405: The company's completion of the spin-off of Cars.com, it was reported by DealReporter that Nexstar Media Group may be considering a bid to acquire Tegna. In June 2017, Tegna announced it had entered into a definitive agreement, together with the other owners of CareerBuilder , to sell CareerBuilder to an investor group led by investments funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management and
8680-606: The company's stations are affiliated with NBC (including one digital subchannel of KBMT and two semi-satellites of KCEN-TV and WCSH ), fifteen are affiliated with CBS , thirteen are affiliated with ABC , and six are affiliated with Fox . In addition, the company owns eight CW affiliates (including three digital subchannels of KFMB-TV , KYTX , and WMAZ-TV ), ten MyNetworkTV affiliates (including six digital subchannels of KFMB-TV, KIDY , KTTU-TV , KXVA , WQAD-TV , and WZDX ), four independent stations (including two digital subchannels of KTVB and its satellite of KTFT-LD),
8804-659: The company. Tegna's digital advertising subsidiary Premion will be held as a standalone business between Standard and CMG. The sale includes a clause that will slowly increase the value that Standard and Apollo will pay per-share if the sale takes longer than nine months to close. The sale will also result in the realignment of station holdings presently associated with both companies: Standard Media's four stations WDKA , WLNE , KBSI , and KLKN will be sold to Cox Media Group, which will then divest its Boston station WFXT to an affiliate of Standard General, and acquire WFAA / KMPX , KHOU / KTBU , and KVUE , from Tegna. The sale
8928-661: The country, two of which were sold off to LIN TV (which traded KAKE-TV in Wichita and WOWT in Omaha to Benedek Broadcasting in turn). The San Francisco Chronicle , meanwhile, was acquired by the Hearst Corporation in a $ 295 million deal in October of that year. NBC had made many offers for channel 4 over the years, but the deYoungs turned them down each time. It finally saw the opportunity to get an owned-and-operated station in what
9052-495: The debut of new graphics. As of September 2013, only studio segments and on-air graphics are presented in HD, footage from field cameras and other news sources continue to be broadcast in widescreen SD until July 2016. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany , was the first regular television service in the world. It was on
9176-485: The desk. Live segments were used for late bulletins from the Chronicle city desk or for local and regional stories not suitable for film treatment. 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
9300-424: The early prime time schedule at the same time as KRON, continued with the experiment until 1998—well after it had become owned by the network through CBS's 1994 acquisition by KPIX's then-owner Westinghouse . Though both KRON and KPIX initially ran hour-long newscasts at 10 p.m. (KRON switched to a half-hour within months), neither were able to beat Fox affiliate KTVU, due to that station's longtime dominance in
9424-661: The federally imposed 39% cap and alleviate ownership conflicts with existing Nexstar properties once it completes a merger with Tribune Media . Included are stations WOI-DT – KCWI-DT in Des Moines and WQAD-TV , based in Moline, Illinois but also serving neighboring Davenport and Pennsylvania ( WPMT / Harrisburg and WNEP-TV / Scranton – Wilkes-Barre ). Other Nexstar/Tribune stations going to Tegna are WZDX / Huntsville , KFSM-TV / Fort Smith – Fayetteville , WTIC-TV – WCCT-TV / Hartford , and WATN-TV – WLMT / Memphis . The FCC approved
9548-434: The first option on the programming of additional subchannels on the station's digital signal. Rather than give in to NBC's demands, Young decided not to renew channel 4's affiliation contract, which was set to expire at the beginning of 2002. San Jose -based KNTV channel 11 approached NBC with a proposal to pay $ 37 million annually for the rights to broadcast its programming. In 1999, KNTV joined The WB in conjunction with
9672-870: The fledgling network's programming from 9 to 11 p.m., one hour later than MyNetworkTV's standard 8 to 10 p.m. scheduling in the Pacific Time Zone . As of December 2020, MyNetworkTV programming aired from midnight to 2 a.m. Upon affiliating with the CW on September 1, 2023, KRON pushed MyNetworkTV programming back to 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. From July 2024 until its last airdate on September 14, 2024, MyNetworkTV programming aired from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. The programming service moved to Fox -owned KICU-TV effective September 16, 2024. On January 10, 2008, Young Broadcasting announced it would sell KRON-TV. The company had been encountering difficulties in meeting interest payments on its outstanding debt. Young's stock, which had been trading for
9796-478: The following decade). From late 1981 to late 1988, the 5 p.m. weekday newscast was Live at Five ; Bob Jimenez anchored in the studio with Evan White in the newsroom. Live on 4 was replaced in 1983 with T.G.I.4 , an hour-long light local news and interview program co-hosted by Jan Rasmusson and Patrick Van Horn. In the mid-1980s, KRON-TV produced and aired an afternoon talk program called Bay City Limits . In 1981, KRON launched its first morning newscast with
9920-529: The highest newscast output of any television station in the San Francisco Bay Area. KRON is one of only three MyNetworkTV affiliates that air and produce their own newscasts, alongside WPHL-TV in Philadelphia (though only a morning newscast, while its 10 p.m. newscast is produced by WPVI-TV ) and WJMN-TV in Marquette, Michigan (which maintained a news department when it was a CBS affiliate), after
10044-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of
10168-427: The late 1980s, KRON-TV was among the few local television stations in the United States that produced a game show : Claim to Fame , a weekly half-hour program hosted by Patrick Van Horn that usually ran on Saturday evenings. During that timeframe, KRON also produced a Saturday morning children's program called Buster and Me . From the 1970s into the late 1980s, the station used Gabriel Fauré 's Pavane , Opus 50 as
10292-479: The latter came after a Black nominee put forward by Standard General withdrew, citing a previous incident involving CEO Dave Lougee in 2014. The company stated that Lougee "immediately acknowledged the incident and has stated that he made a mistake, for which he had apologized immediately at the time". On February 22, 2022, Tegna announced that it had agreed to be taken private by a group led by Standard General and Apollo Global Management for $ 24 per-share, valuing
10416-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at
10540-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on
10664-526: The market. In March 2020, Tegna stated that it had turned down two acquisition offers by Gray Television and Apollo Global Management , stating that "these two parties made their proposals shortly before the recent market dislocation due to the COVID-19 pandemic and both subsequently informed Tegna that they were ceasing discussions". In regards to other rumored offers from Byron Allen and religious broadcaster TBN (the latter in partnership with Jahm Najafi ),
10788-606: The music played during its nightly sign-off, alongside scenic rustic shots from around the Bay Area. KRON also produced Bay Area Backroads , a half-hour program (which ran from the mid-1980s to 2008) that profiled places and people in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and occasionally beyond. The program, which generally aired on Sunday evenings, featured hosts such as Jerry Graham and Doug McConnell . As of 2024, KRON broadcasts 77 hours of local newscasts each week (with 14 hours each weekday, 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Saturdays, and 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Sundays); it has
10912-481: The nation's largest markets. However, it had little reason to complain about its ratings performance in the Bay Area, as channel 4 was one of NBC's strongest affiliates for the better part of a half-century. A shuffle of network affiliations around the country (and NBC's acquisition of some stations in markets larger than San Francisco) in the mid-1990s made channel 4 NBC's largest affiliate. From February 1992 to September 1993, KRON-TV, along with KCRA-TV, participated in
11036-445: The network's existing Bay Area affiliate, then co-owned KBWB (channel 20, now KOFY-TV ). KNTV agreed to drop its ABC affiliation at the behest of network-owned KGO-TV, the market's primary ABC station. NBC accepted KNTV's deal in February 2000. It did so primarily as a stopgap in case NBC failed in its bid to buy KRON from Young. However, Young's asking price for the station was $ 735 million, only slightly less than what it paid to buy
11160-491: The old Gannett, while Gannett's publishing interests were spun off as a "new" company that retained the Gannett name. Tegna owns or operates 68 television stations in 54 markets, and holds properties in digital media. In terms of audience reach, Tegna is the largest group owner of NBC -affiliated stations, ahead of Hearst Television and Sinclair Broadcast Group , and the fourth-largest group owner of ABC affiliates, behind Hearst,
11284-674: The only Bay Area station to maintain bureaus (which were later deemed to be too expensive and were shut down by the end of the decade). During this time, KRON news grew rapidly in viewership and collected a large number of awards, including two DuPont Columbia awards, a Peabody , and more than 100 local Emmys. The station also produced a series of one-minute documentaries during the mid-1980s, San Francisco Minutes and Bay Area Minutes , which featured people, places and events in San Francisco and Bay Area history and usually featured narrations by KRON-TV personalities set to soaring music (e.g., Mark Thompson on San Francisco's cable cars, Lloyd Patterson on
11408-510: The only network soaps on its schedule) is thought to have hastened NBC's decision to cancel it altogether a year later. Two NBC daytime game shows, 50 Grand Slam and Just Men! , were never seen in the Bay Area. 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 or 3 p.m. depending on
11532-415: The overall decline of KRON as an independent, its newscasts initially pulled in respectable ratings though viewership was lower than it was before the station lost its NBC affiliation. During the February 2004 sweeps period, the station placed second in the ratings behind KTVU. However, KRON's news viewership has gradually fallen since that point; also in 2004, the station posted an 8.7% market share, down from
11656-434: The possibility of entering into a shared services agreement (SSA) with KNTV's owner NBCUniversal . That year, KRON informally reunited with NBC as it began to carry network programs during sports programming and breaking news events that force their preemptions on KNTV. (This responsibility as a backup NBC affiliate was assumed by KNTV's Cozi TV -affiliated second digital subchannel in 2014.) Station management announced at
11780-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be
11904-510: The removal of at least 64 Tegna stations in 53 markets, covering about nearly 3 million customers. On October 18, Dish Network filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against Tegna. However, on February 4, 2022, Dish Network reached an agreement with Tegna, resulting in all Tegna owned stations returning. Another carriage dispute with DirecTV in late 2023 resulted in the removal of 66 Tegna stations from
12028-487: The result of the vote, stating that the actions had helped to "[challenge] management's narrative about the Company's performance and seeking greater transparency about Tegna's numbers, acquisition metrics, and engagement with third parties". In 2021, Standard General once again put forward nominees to Tegna's board of directors, alleging that the company was underperforming and had issues with diversity, equity, and inclusion ;
12152-473: The sale on September 16. On May 6, 2019, it was reported that Tegna was going to acquire the 85% of the Justice Network and Quest from Cooper Media that it did not own already for $ 77 Million to close by the end of the second quarter. Cooper Media's president and general manager Brian Weiss transferred to Tegna and continued managing the two networks. On June 11, 2019, it was reported Tegna Inc. purchased
12276-423: The sale was completed on March 17, 2020. A carriage dispute with DirecTV , beginning at 7 p.m. ET on December 1, 2020, resulted in the removal of at least 60 Tegna stations in 51 markets, covering about 39% of TV homes, from the DirecTV, AT&T U-verse and AT&T TV services. The dispute was resolved on December 20, 2020. A carriage dispute with Dish Network , beginning on October 6, 2021, resulted in
12400-464: The season and time slot). Channel 4 also preempted some of the network's prime time programs. Similar to fellow NBC station KCRA-TV in neighboring Sacramento , KRON-TV stopped airing the Saturday morning TNBC lineup in the early 1990s. Historically, NBC was far less tolerant of preemptions than the other networks, but has recently eased its standards. The network would resort to purchasing stations for
12524-540: The separation, the company announced that the broadcasting and digital company would be named Tegna—a partial anagram of "Gannett". The spin-out was structured so that "old" Gannett changed its name to Tegna, Inc., then spun off its newspaper holdings into a "new" Gannett. The split was completed on June 29, 2015. Tegna retained "old" Gannett's stock price history, though it trades under a new ticker symbol, TGNA. The "new" Gannett inherited old Gannett's longtime ticker symbol, GCI. The two companies, however, continued to share
12648-493: The series for an entire run for the 2016–2017 broadcast season. The series debuted on September 12 on most, if not all Tegna-owned stations, as well as several large markets, including Baltimore ( WMAR-TV ), Detroit ( WMYD ), Orlando ( WFTV / WRDQ ), Chicago ( WCIU-TV ), San Antonio ( KSAT-TV ), and San Diego ( KGTV ). Debmar-Mercury, however, is not participating in the production run, being replaced by independent company Flow Media Partners. T.D. Jakes ended in September 2017 and
12772-479: The service's owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey (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. KRON's news operations were handled by the Chronicle until it launched its own news department in September 1957. It operated from
12896-448: The sole purpose of switching or upgrading them to O&O status because of this ( Miami 's WTVJ and Salt Lake City 's KUTV are two such examples) or would find independent stations to air NBC programs that the main affiliate did not air. In the case of KRON, many of the shows it preempted ended up on independent KICU-TV . NBC had a somewhat contentious relationship with KRON, especially since it often lost valuable advertising in one of
13020-471: The station ($ 750 million at the outset, rising to $ 820 million by closing) was a record price for a single station that stands to this day. To help finance the down payment, Young was forced to sell La Crosse, Wisconsin , CBS affiliate WKBT to Morgan Murphy Media . NBC president and chief executive officer Bob Wright had warned that if NBC did not succeed in buying KRON, it would require any prospective buyer to uphold specific terms if it wanted to retain
13144-458: The station expanded its news programming by adding two hours to its weekday morning newscast (from 7 to 9 a.m.), and extending its 5 p.m. newscast to one hour to fill timeslots vacated by the departures of Today and Nightly News . 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
13268-399: The station from Chronicle. NBC felt that price was too high, and walked away from the deal when Young refused to lower it. In December 2001, NBC purchased KNTV from Granite Broadcasting for a fraction of KRON's sale price of $ 230 million. That made NBC the only major broadcast network to have switched from one Bay Area station to another. The last NBC program to be broadcast by channel 4 was
13392-414: The studio at the Chronicle and in filmed field reports. Franklin began the broadcast standing next to a map of the San Francisco Bay Area, with lights illuminated on the map next to the various cities that the newscast was to feature stories from. Franklin anchored most of the program from behind a desk that had a large Shell logo next to a "Tom Franklin" nameplate, with a Shell "X-100" oil can that sat atop
13516-600: The team's home station until they returned to Oakland in 1995 ; the station then served as the unofficial home station until 1997 ). KRON aired coverage of the Raiders' victories in Super Bowl XI and Super Bowl XV . In 2021 , KRON-TV became the now Las Vegas Raiders ' official Bay Area home station for pre-season games and special programming. In addition, during those same years (1970–1997), KRON-TV also aired select San Francisco 49ers games whenever they played host to an AFC opponent at Candlestick Park (the station aired
13640-646: The team's victory in Super Bowl XXIII in January 1989 ). In 1993 , Channel 4 became the flagship station of the Oakland Athletics , after acquiring broadcast rights to the Major League Baseball team's games. This caused a problem in 1996 , when the final day of the U.S. Olympic track and field trials conflicted with a scheduled Athletics broadcast. Since KRON-TV was contractually obligated to show
13764-413: The third floor of KGO-TV's building (ABC Broadcast Center) at 900 Front Street, in space formerly occupied by radio stations KGO and KSFO . KRON-TV's studios at 1001 Van Ness Avenue would then be put up for sale; it was later demolished in 2019 to make way for a new assisted living facility for elderly people. Despite the colocation, KRON-TV maintains separate broadcast facilities from KGO-TV and employs
13888-487: The third station in the Bay Area (behind KGO and KTVU) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen —albeit in standard definition . In September 2008, KRON dropped its 5 p.m. newscast after the syndicated daytime talk show Dr. Phil was moved to the slot, the program's former 8 p.m. timeslot (which Dr. Phil held locally since the show's 2002 premiere) was replaced by an hour-long prime time newscast; this would be undone in September 2009, with
14012-432: The two major networks in the Bay Area, along with NBC, to switch from one station to another.) Fox completed its acquisition of KTVU and KICU-TV on October 8, 2014; despite MyNetworkTV being operated by Fox Television Stations, KRON-TV remained an affiliate of the service for another 10 years. On January 27, 2016, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire Media General. The transaction
14136-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines
14260-640: Was approved by Standard General and Apollo Global Management on May 17, 2022. On October 6, 2022, Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Frank Pallone and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued a letter to the FCC expressing concerns for the transaction, arguing that it "would violate the FCC's mandate by restricting access to local news coverage, cutting jobs at local television stations, and raising prices on consumers". They specifically cited statements by Standard General regarding plans for
14384-595: Was completed on November 12, 2013. The move made KRON-TV the largest station by market size owned by Media General as well as the company's only station west of the Rocky Mountains until Media General acquired LIN Media , including Portland station KOIN in 2014. (Most of Media General's television stations were in the Southeastern , Midwestern and Northeastern United States .) On February 10, 2014, Media General announced that KRON-TV would move into leased space on
14508-463: Was consummated on January 17, 2017, and with it, KRON became part of the Nexstar Media Group. In May 2023, CBS News and Stations announced that its CW affiliates, including San Francisco station KBCW (now KPYX ), would cease their affiliation with the network in September and become independent stations. Nexstar Media Group announced on June 14 that KRON would take over the CW affiliation for
14632-449: Was created partly in response to CBS Corporation and Time Warner 's January 24 announcement that UPN and The WB would be shut down and replaced with the jointly-owned CW Television Network . (CBS-owned UPN affiliate KBHK, whose call sign became KBCW by the network's launch, was named The CW's Bay Area affiliate. WB affiliate KBWB became an independent station.) KRON-TV became a MyNetworkTV affiliate when it debuted on September 5, 2006. (It
14756-433: Was near the top of the ratings nationally at the time of the disaffiliation, due to strong shows such as Friends , Frasier , Law & Order and ER . Without those NBC shows, KRON's ratings started to decline. The viewership of its newscasts began to fall substantially by the time the station regained a network affiliation. In 2005, KRON downsized its news production staff to send teams of two people, specifically
14880-456: Was one of the largest MyNetworkTV-affiliated stations not to previously have been an affiliate of either The WB or UPN, second only to the network's Dallas O&O KDFI .) KRON began branding itself as "MyKRON 4" for MyNetworkTV programming, although it continues to promote itself as "KRON 4" outside of the service's programming hours. After joining MyNetworkTV, the station moved its hour-long 9 p.m. newscast to 8 p.m. It chose to run
15004-699: Was replaced with news and entertainment show Daily Blast Live , which premiered on September 11, 2017. Other shows Tegna Media has on first-run syndication across most of its stations are Sister Circle (also shown on cable network TV One ), and reality competition Sing Like A Star . Sister Circle ended its run in Spring 2020. In January 2018, Tegna announced a partnership with Sony Pictures Television to handle syndication distribution and advertising sales for its original programs. Daily Blast Live concluded its run on September 6, 2024. Gannett Company spun-off most of its internet media properties to Tegna. When
15128-528: Was the network's second-largest affiliate (behind only KYW-TV in Philadelphia) and its largest on the West Coast. Despite this, KRON occasionally preempted NBC programming. One notable omission was Another World , which would eventually air on the station in the early 1990s; KRON's decision to drop the daytime soap opera in the summer of 1998 (leaving Days of Our Lives and the struggling Sunset Beach as
15252-425: Was then the United States' fifth-largest television market and quickly jumped into the bidding war for KRON. NBC was seen as the frontrunner to buy the station, but it was outbid at the last minute on November 16, 1999. KRON was bought by New York City -based Young Broadcasting , then-owner of Los Angeles independent station KCAL-TV and several other stations in medium to small markets. Young's purchase price for
15376-477: 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 ). The first anchors were Lloyd Patterson and Lila Petersen. KRON's newscasts during the 1980s regularly featured commentaries by Wayne Shannon in a segment called "Just 4 You", many of which had a humorous tone. Shannon received billing in newscast introductions along with
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