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KNBC
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Los Angeles, California

<tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Branding</th><td style="text-align: left;">NBC4 / The Channel 4 News</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Slogan</th><td style="text-align: left;">Trust Experience</td></tr>

Channels 4 (VHF) analog,
36 (UHF) digital
Affiliations NBC
Owner NBC Universal
Founded January 16, 1949

<tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Call letters meaning</th><td style="text-align: left;">K
National
Broadcasting
Company
</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Former callsigns</th><td style="text-align: left;">KNBH (1949-1954)
KRCA-TV (1954-1960)</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Former affiliations</th><td style="text-align: left;">None</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Transmitter Power</th><td style="text-align: left;">43.7 kW/984 m (analog)
665 kW/991 m (digital)</td></tr> <tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Website</th><td style="text-align: left;">www.nbc4.tv</td></tr>

KNBC, "NBC4", is the NBC-owned and operated station in Los Angeles and the network's West Coast flagship. The station is seen via satellite through Dish Network and DirecTV. Its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.

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[edit] History

This station went on the air on January 16, 1949 as KNBH-TV. In 1954, KNBH changed its call letters to KRCA-TV. The station was originally located at the NBC Radio City Studios on Sunset Blvd. and Vine Street in Hollywood. KRCA changed its call letters to the present KNBC-TV in 1960. In 1962, Channel 4 relocated to the newly built NBC Studios (also known then as NBC Color City) in suburban Burbank. The KNBC call letters originally belonged to NBC's former San Francisco AM station, which now called KNBR (680 AM). Former callsign meanings: KNBH = NBC Hollywood; KRCA = Radio Corporation of America, after its former parent company, RCA. Ironically, KRCA would have originally belonged to Sacramento NBC station KCRA, but the FCC callsign application was misspelled.

KNBC has remained one of the most consistenly watched television stations in Southern California. For over 30 years it battled KABC-TV for the top spot as the most watched news station among English-language local TV stations in the area. Until recently, its 11PM newscast was #1 in the Los Angeles market, with KABC being a very strong #2. However, longtime also-ran KCBS-TV recently passed both KNBC and KABC for first place at 11 PM. KNBC finished a very close third behind KABC.

The station has long been active in community events throughout the Los Angeles area, including its annual live coverage of the Kingdom Day Parade (an annual event that takes place every year on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, along King Boulevard in South Los Angeles) and the Los Angeles Marathon, which it has televised yearly since 2001.

During the 1950's, KNBC began the KNBC News Service, a competitor to KNXT's (now KCBS-TV) Big News. In 1975, it was rebranded NewsCenter 4 (a la WNBC), and later News4LA, before becoming the current Channel 4 News. KNBC's news department is so well respected that even after KNBC renamed itself "NBC4" on-air in 1995, the newscast was and still is called "The Channel 4 News". In 1986, KNBC premiered Today In L.A., the first early-morning local newscast in Los Angeles.

Note that the current television station KRCA in the Los Angeles area is now unrelated to NBC and Channel 4.


[edit] Personalities

Longtime NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw began his long association with NBC, as an anchor and reporter for KNBC, starting in 1966. He left the station to work exclusively for the network in 1973, as a correspondent. Others that have started their careers at KNBC include Bryant Gumbel, Pat Sajak, Kent Shocknek, David Horowitz, John Beard & Tom Snyder. Horowitz's long-running syndicated series, Fight Back!, orginated from KNBC, aired on many NBC-owned and affiliated stations, and was produced and distributed by NBC and Group W Broadcasting.

In 1987 during a KNBC afternoon newscast, a gun-wielding mental patient gained access to NBC Studios, and took Horowitz hostage live on the air. With the gun pressed on his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements on camera. The unidentified man was caught with a toy gun, and was arrested by local police. It led Horowitz to start a successful campaign to ban "look-alike" toy guns in several states, including California and New York. [1]

Current KNBC personalities include Paul Moyer, Colleen Williams, Chuck Henry, chief weathercaster Fritz Coleman, and sports director Fred Roggin. Moyer, Williams, Coleman, and Roggin make up the station's 5 and 11PM Monday-Friday news team, while Henry co-anchors the 6PM weeknight newscasts with Ana Garcia. Roggin and Coleman are KNBC's most notable current personalities. Roggin is nationally known because of his work with NBC Sports and for his appearances on The Tonight Show. Roggin also hosted a syndicated program, Roggin's Heroes and can also be seen on Early Today .Roggin also is a sports announcer for the Olympic Games . Coleman also makes occasional appearances on the Tonight Show, and once hosted a late night variety show for KNBC (airing after Saturday Night Live), and it aired during the late 80's to the early 90's.

As with its East coast sister WNBC, KNBC has a very stable news team. There have been some changes among the reporting staff in recent years, but the anchors have remained unchanged. Williams, Roggin and Coleman have been at KNBC for at least 20 years each, while Moyer arrived from rival KABC-TV in July 1992, replacing veteran anchor John Beard who anchored at KNBC for many years. Moyer started his Los Angeles broadcasting career at KNBC in 1972, as an anchor and reporter, before beginning a 13 year stint at KABC in 1979. Much like Moyer, Chuck Henry was also a mainstay at KABC, before making the move to Burbank in January 1994. He currently produces (through his self-titled production company) the travelouge series, Travel Cafe, which airs weekends on KNBC.

The most controversial departure was that of Christopher Nance, a popular longtime weathercaster on the weeekend and, later, Today in L.A. newscasts. In 2002 Nance was fired from KNBC after years of what some say was "menancing and profane off-air behavior" contrary to Nance's on-air flamboyant and cheerful nature, a popular staple at KNBC, a reason for Today in L.A.'s high ratings. Shortly after he was fired, Los Angeles Magazine published an article on Nance and KNBC, further detailing his behavioral problems, including allegations that he had been involved with an intern at KNBC, and had been in altercations with many staff members. He alleges that the station fired him because of his religious beliefs. He is a Christian, and was known to have read the bible during breaks, according to his website and the article on Los Angeles Magazine. In 2004 Nance sued his former employer citing he was fired due to racial and religious discrimination. [2][3]

[edit] Current Anchors/Hosts

[edit] Other Reporters

[edit] Alumni

[edit] Newscasts

KNBC produces many hours of news. It is notable in the Los Angeles area for not showing car chases. Thus, when direct competitors KCBS-TV and KABC-TV switch to police chase coverage, KNBC continues on its regularly scheduled newscast, while staffers prepare a regular news story on the pursuit for airing on a later newscast.

The newscasts generally covers more "serious" issues, such as politics, government, education, and the economy, than other Los Angeles newscasts. On election nights, KNBC runs a special extended edition of their 11PM newscast to cover election results. KNBC's newscasts are well known in Los Angeles for the longetivity of its anchors and reporters, and based on that experience and serious coverage, it has become the highest rated newscast overall in the Los Angeles area. However, currently KCBS-TV beats KNBC on the 11 o'clock newscast because of the strength of the CBS primetime lineup.

In 2006 KNBC embarked on an all-news channel called News Raw, hosted by Mekahlo Medina. The news channel, on digital channel 4.4 and also on many local digital cable systems, provides news updates every hour, teases news stories in future newscasts on standard channel 4, and provides additional information about breaking news stories. News Raw only runs Monday through Friday, and coverage occurs between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. During off hours, previous broadcasts repeat. [4] Also, a new program, The Local Story, began in July 2006. The program takes an in-depth look at one major local story in the news, and is hosted by veteran television journalist Ross Becker. The program was cancelled in September to make way for The Ellen DeGeneres Show but still airs online. In October, the program returned to the airwaves, airing at 4:30 p.m, but was removed again in mid-November.

In September 2006, a new program called YourLA TV began. The program features videos about interesting things happening in the Southern California area. User-submitted videos and comments via MySpace are mixed with profiles of ordinary people similar to PM Magazine.

The station's radar is called "Weather Plus Doppler".

On Saturday, October 28th, NBC aired a new sound theme for the Channel 4 News, and Today In LA. All of the graphics are exactly the same, but they changed the open on the Channel 4 News at 11AM from 'Live From NBC4, This is the Channel 4 News at 11AM', but now, they say 'This is the Channel 4 News Mid-Day Report'.

[edit] Weekdays

  • Today In LA - 5:00 - 7:00AM
  • The Channel 4 News Mid-Day Report - 11:00AM - Noon
  • YourLA TV - Noon
  • The Channel 4 News at 5PM - 5:00 - 6:00PM
  • The Channel 4 News at 6PM - 6:00 - 6:30PM
  • The Channel 4 News at 11PM - 11:00 - 11:35PM

Until 2006 KNBC aired rebroadcasts of "The Channel 4 News at 11PM" at 11:30pm on KPXN. In 2002 KPXN aired a rebroadcast of "The Channel 4 News at 6pm", but KPXN discontinued the rebroadcasts of KNBC newscasts in 2006. "The Channel 4 News at 11PM" is rebroadcasted at 4am on KNBC.

[edit] Saturdays

  • Today In LA Weekend- 7:00 - 8:00AM
  • The Channel 4 News at 5PM - 5:00 - 6:00PM
  • The Channel 4 News at 11PM - 11:00 - 11:30PM

[edit] Sundays

  • Today in LA Weekend - 7:00 - 8:00AM
  • News Conference (Public Affairs) - 9:00 - 9:30AM with Conan Nolan and Laurel Erickson
  • The Channel 4 News Sunday - 4:30 - 5:30PM
  • The Channel 4 News at 11PM - 11:00 - 11:45PM

[edit] Newscast Titles

  • Ford News (1950s)
  • Jack Latham & The News (1950s)
  • KNBC News Service (1970s)
  • NewsCenter 4 (1975-1982) NewsCenter 4 was also used on other NBC O&Os WRC, and WNBC.
  • News 4 LA (1982-1985)
  • The Channel 4 News (1985-present)

[edit] Programming Notes

In Los Angeles, national news from the three major networks air at 6:30 PM instead of earlier, as in other West Coast cities. This includes NBC Nightly News here on KNBC.

[edit] Station Slogans

  • Number One in Southern California (1985-early 90s) Same slogan that KABC-TV used on their newscasts in the 1980s.
  • Live from NBC4, This is The Channel 4 News (2000-present)
  • Trust Experience

[edit] Rebroadcasters

KNBC is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

[edit] See Also

[edit] External links

Coordinates: 34° 13' 32" N 118° 03' 52" W

Broadcast television in the Los Angeles market  (Nielsen DMA #2)

KCBS 2 (CBS) - KNBC 4 (NBC) - KTLA 5 (The CW) (The Tube on DT5) - KSFV-LP 6 (Ind/Spanish/Religious) - KABC 7 (ABC) - KCAL 9 (Ind) - KTTV 11 (Fox) - KCOP 13 (MNTV) - KSCI 18 (Ind) - KWHY 22 (Ind/Spanish) - KVCR 24 (PBS) - KNET-LP 25 (Ind/Infomercials) - KNLA-LP 27 (Ind/Spanish) - KCET 28 (PBS) - KPXN 30 (i) - KMEX 34 (UNI) - KPAL-LP 38 (Ind) - KSKJ-CA 38 / KSKP-CA 25 (Ind) - KTBN 40 (TBN) - KXLA 44 (Ind) - KLAU-LP 45 (Ind/Infomercials) - KFTR 46 (TFU) - KOCE 50 (PBS) - KVEA 52 (TEL) - KAZA 54 (AZA) - K55KD 55 (Almavision) - KDOC 56 (Ind) - KJLA 57 / KSMV-LP 33 / KSGA-LP 64 (Ind) - KLCS 58 (PBS) - KRCA 62 (Ind) - KBEH 63 (Ind) - KHIZ 64 (A1) - KHTV-LP 67 (HSN)

Local digital television channels

KVMD 23 (Ind/A1)

Local cable television channels
FSN West - FSN Prime Ticket

Past broadcast stations
KKOG 16 (IND) - KVST / KEEF 68 (non-commercial)

NBC Network Affiliates in the state of California

KCRA 3 (Sacramento) - KIEM 3 (Eureka) - KNBC 4 (Los Angeles) - KSBY 6 (San Luis Obispo) - KSBW 8 (Salinas) - KNTV 11 (San Jose/San Francisco) - KGET 17 (Bakersfield) - KNVN 24 (Chico) - KSEE 24 (Fresno) - KMIR 36 (Palm Desert) - KNSD 39 (San Diego)

See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California

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Owned &
Operated
Television
Stations by: 		NBC: KNBC | KNSD2 | KNTV | KXAS2 | WCAU | WMAQ | WNBC | WRC | WTVJ | WVIT
ShopNBC: WWDP
Telemundo: KBLR | KHRR | KDEN | KNSO | KTAZ | KTMD | KVDA | KSTS | KVEA | KXTX | WKAQ | WNEU | WNJU | WSCV | WSNS
Spanish Independent TV Stations: KBOP3 | KWHY 1 50%, with Viacom's Paramount Pictures
2The stations are co-owned with LIN TV in a joint venture (76% owned by NBC, 24% owned by LIN).
KNSD also includes a repeater used for rebroadcast of Entravision's KBNT-CA.

3Owned by Commercial Broadcasting Corp., and operated by the NBC / LIN joint ventutre (see note 1)
4 Co-owned with Corus Entertainment, Classic Media, Scholastic Books and ION Media Networks

Internet Venture: NBBC
Other Assets: qubo4 | EMKA, Ltd.
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