Evening Magazine
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Evening Magazine is the name of various news and entertainment style local television shows in different markets.
affiliate in San Francisco, California owned at the time by Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting
, debuted a locally-produced magazine program called Evening: The MTWTF Show, changing the name to Evening Magazine within a few years. The award-winning series ran for 14 years and was the first program in the U.S. to introduce the magazine format for television. It was also the first non-primetime series to be shot entirely on videotape. The series dealt with lifestyles, leisure time, pop culture, famous people, fascinating places, consumer tips and information about modern city living.
KPIX's Evening Magazine was first hosted by San Francisco radio personality Jan Yanehiro
, journalist Steve Fox
and Detroit news anchor and reporter Erik Smith. Yanehiro stayed with the series throughout original run, while Fox stayed for three years and Smith for only the first 13 weeks. Smith had come from WXYZ-TV
in Detroit, Michigan and returned there, becoming the anchor of that station's weekday morning newscast. The original KPIX version would go on to air more than 3,000 episodes.
Richard Hart
joined the series after Steve Fox left and stayed until the "final" episode in 1989. Jan Yanehiro was then joined by Mike Jerrick
for a rebooted series titled Evening, which was later renamed Evening Magazine. This continuation ran for a little over 200 episodes.
In the late 1980s, Joe Montana
and his wife Jennifer served as special guest hosts, hosting segments from around the country, the San Francisco Bay Area
, and Disney World.
The original San Francisco version was so popular, Group W decided to export the Evening Magazine format to its other owned-and-operated stations. When Group W decided to expand the format to stations outside of their group, the existence of another locally produced program in Seattle, Washington, already named Evening Magazine, prompted them to create an alternate name for the national roll-out—PM Magazine
.
When Evening Magazine ended, all of the tapes were shipped to Pittsburgh and eventually destroyed. What remains can be found in private collections of the hosts, guests, and viewers. The School of Multimedia Communications at the Academy of Art University
, San Francisco is currently gathering all surviving video elements of the original Evening Magazine. Still to be discovered is the very first episode, one of the holy grails of television history.
affiliate KING-TV
. Launched on that station in 1986, that show airs at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time, with a replay airing later on sister cable station Northwest Cable News. The show focuses on local events, places, and human-interest stories. When Evening Magazine / PM Magazine was still on the air nationwide, KING would use some stories from the national feed for their own Evening Magazine.
The show's longtime host, John Curley, emotionally signed off for the last time on April 23, 2009, after hosting nearly 4,000 shows over 14 years. This makes him the longest solo host of a television show in Pacific Northwest
history.
On December 9, 2009, former KING morning news anchor Meeghan Black became the new host of Evening Magazine.
in Philadelphia
, the hosts included Ray Murray, Larry Angelo and Teresa Brown. Featured contributors included Susie Pevaroff, Nancy Glass, Mary Ann Grabavoy, Jerry Penacoli
, Pat Ciarrocchi
, and other stars of KYW-TV's Eyewitness News
. It was canceled in May 1992 and it was the last Evening Magazine version to air on a Westinghouse-owned station.
The Pittsburgh
version of Evening Magazine aired on KDKA-TV
from August 1, 1977, until October 12, 1990. Hosts included Dave Durian, Donna Hanover
, Liz Miles, Jon Burnett and Mary Robb Jackson. Contributors to the show included Bob Kmetz and Dennis Miller
(in his first broadcast experience, prior to joining Saturday Night Live
).
Boston's version of Evening Magazine was produced at WBZ-TV
, featuring Robin Young
and Marty Sender, later hosts and contributors included Sara Edwards
, Barry Nolan
, Candace Hacey, and Tom Bergeron
. It premiered on April 18, 1977, and ended on December 17, 1990, with a special entitled "An Evening to Remember," featuring a history of the show, augmented with staff and viewer comments.
In Baltimore, WJZ-TV
's edition of Evening Magazine was hosted by Jeff Pylant, Donna Hamilton and Steve Aveson. Maria Shriver
served as a contributor early in her career.
WPCQ-TV (now WCNC-TV
) in Charlotte
, owned by Westinghouse from 1980 until 1984, was the only Group W station that did not air its own version of Evening Magazine. WBTV
owned the syndicated rights to the program's format and aired it as PM Magazine.
by CBS) from 1998 to 2005. This one is well known because it was hosted by the now-popular Discovery Channel
personality, Mike Rowe. The Bay Area Evening Magazine aired on weeknights prior to Mike Rowe's move to Dirty Jobs
. The show has since been replaced by Eye on the Bay, which has left Rowe's former Evening Magazine co-host, Malou Nubla, on the outs with the TV station. Chuck Barney, the TV critic for the Bay Area "Times" newspapers said in a March 2006 article:
The original concept
In August 1976, KPIX, the CBSCBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate in San Francisco, California owned at the time by Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting
Westinghouse Broadcasting
The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndication....
, debuted a locally-produced magazine program called Evening: The MTWTF Show, changing the name to Evening Magazine within a few years. The award-winning series ran for 14 years and was the first program in the U.S. to introduce the magazine format for television. It was also the first non-primetime series to be shot entirely on videotape. The series dealt with lifestyles, leisure time, pop culture, famous people, fascinating places, consumer tips and information about modern city living.
KPIX's Evening Magazine was first hosted by San Francisco radio personality Jan Yanehiro
Jan Yanehiro
-Personal life:She earned a journalism degree from California State University, Fresno in 1970.She is the Director of Multimedia Communications at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.-Television career:...
, journalist Steve Fox
Steve Fox
Steve Fox may refer to:*Steve Fox , English former football player*Steve Fox , The Canadian country music singer*Steve Fox , The fictional British boxer in the Tekken fighting game series...
and Detroit news anchor and reporter Erik Smith. Yanehiro stayed with the series throughout original run, while Fox stayed for three years and Smith for only the first 13 weeks. Smith had come from WXYZ-TV
WXYZ-TV
WXYZ-TV, channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Detroit, Michigan, USA. WXYZ-TV is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, and is the media company's largest-market TV station property...
in Detroit, Michigan and returned there, becoming the anchor of that station's weekday morning newscast. The original KPIX version would go on to air more than 3,000 episodes.
Richard Hart
Richard Hart (journalist)
Richard Hart was a staple of Bay Area television throughout the 1980s on the popular Evening Magazine. EM aired at 7:30 pm nightly, with co-host Jan Yanehiro and showcased some of the interesting and often technology-based activities and happenings around the San Francisco Bay Area.Richard Hart...
joined the series after Steve Fox left and stayed until the "final" episode in 1989. Jan Yanehiro was then joined by Mike Jerrick
Mike Jerrick
Michael Eugene Joseph Jerrick was the co-host with Juliet Huddy of the morning program The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, which began in January 2007. The last "live" episode of the show aired on June 12, 2009...
for a rebooted series titled Evening, which was later renamed Evening Magazine. This continuation ran for a little over 200 episodes.
In the late 1980s, Joe Montana
Joe Montana
Joseph Clifford "Joe" Montana, Jr. , nicknamed Joe Cool, Golden Joe, The Golden Great and Comeback Joe, is a retired American football player. Montana started his NFL career in 1979 with the San Francisco 49ers, where he played quarterback for the next 14 seasons...
and his wife Jennifer served as special guest hosts, hosting segments from around the country, the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
, and Disney World.
The original San Francisco version was so popular, Group W decided to export the Evening Magazine format to its other owned-and-operated stations. When Group W decided to expand the format to stations outside of their group, the existence of another locally produced program in Seattle, Washington, already named Evening Magazine, prompted them to create an alternate name for the national roll-out—PM Magazine
PM Magazine
PM/Evening Magazine was a television series with a news and entertainment format. It was syndicated to stations throughout the United States...
.
When Evening Magazine ended, all of the tapes were shipped to Pittsburgh and eventually destroyed. What remains can be found in private collections of the hosts, guests, and viewers. The School of Multimedia Communications at the Academy of Art University
Academy of Art University
The Academy of Art University , a for-profit university owned by the Stephens Institute, was founded in San Francisco, California in 1929 by Richard S. Stephens...
, San Francisco is currently gathering all surviving video elements of the original Evening Magazine. Still to be discovered is the very first episode, one of the holy grails of television history.
Evening Magazine in Seattle
The current Evening Magazine that airs in the Seattle area is still produced to this day by NBCNBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate KING-TV
KING-TV
KING-TV, virtual channel 5, is a television station in Seattle, Washington, affiliated with the NBC network. Owned by Belo Corporation, it broadcasts on UHF digital channel 48. Its offices and broadcasting center are located just east of Seattle Center...
. Launched on that station in 1986, that show airs at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time, with a replay airing later on sister cable station Northwest Cable News. The show focuses on local events, places, and human-interest stories. When Evening Magazine / PM Magazine was still on the air nationwide, KING would use some stories from the national feed for their own Evening Magazine.
The show's longtime host, John Curley, emotionally signed off for the last time on April 23, 2009, after hosting nearly 4,000 shows over 14 years. This makes him the longest solo host of a television show in Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...
history.
On December 9, 2009, former KING morning news anchor Meeghan Black became the new host of Evening Magazine.
Evening Magazine in other Group W markets
Local versions of Evening Magazine were produced at the other four Westinghouse-owned stations. At KYW-TVKYW-TV
KYW-TV, virtual channel 3, is an owned and operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. KYW-TV shares a studio facility with its sister station, CW flagship WPSG just north of Center City Philadelphia...
in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
, the hosts included Ray Murray, Larry Angelo and Teresa Brown. Featured contributors included Susie Pevaroff, Nancy Glass, Mary Ann Grabavoy, Jerry Penacoli
Jerry Penacoli
Jerry Penacoli is an American actor and entertainment reporter.-Reporting career:Before going national, Penacoli served as a newscaster and talk-show host in several markets, starting with Jacksonville, Florida, then, WTVJ, Miami, where Jerry served as host of PM Magazine in the early 1980s, then...
, Pat Ciarrocchi
Pat Ciarrocchi
Pat Ciarrocchi co-anchors the weekday noon newscast of CBS3 Eyewitness News on KYW-TV, alongside Ukee Washington. She joined the station in 1982. Previously she had served as anchor of the weekday morning and noon news for almost two decades. While at KYW-TV, she served as co-anchor of Evening...
, and other stars of KYW-TV's Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...
. It was canceled in May 1992 and it was the last Evening Magazine version to air on a Westinghouse-owned station.
The Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
version of Evening Magazine aired on KDKA-TV
KDKA-TV
KDKA-TV, channel 2, is an owned and operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. KDKA-TV broadcasts from a transmitter located in the Perry North neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and its studios are located in downtown Pittsburgh at Gateway Center....
from August 1, 1977, until October 12, 1990. Hosts included Dave Durian, Donna Hanover
Donna Hanover
Donna Hanover is an American journalist, radio and television personality, television producer, and actress, who appears on WOR radio in New York City and the Food Network. From 1994 through 2001 she was First Lady of New York City, as the then-wife of Rudy Giuliani...
, Liz Miles, Jon Burnett and Mary Robb Jackson. Contributors to the show included Bob Kmetz and Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator, actor, sports commentator, and television and radio personality. He is known for his critical assessments laced with pop culture references...
(in his first broadcast experience, prior to joining Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
).
Boston's version of Evening Magazine was produced at WBZ-TV
WBZ-TV
WBZ-TV, virtual channel 4, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station, located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WBZ-TV's studios and office facilities, shared with sister station WSBK-TV , are located in the Allston-Brighton section of Boston, and its transmitter is located in Needham,...
, featuring Robin Young
Robin Young
Robin Young is an American television and radio personality. She has been a Boston, Massachusetts-based radio and television host since the mid-1970s when she hosted Evening Magazine for WBZ-TV....
and Marty Sender, later hosts and contributors included Sara Edwards
Sara Edwards (American television presenter)
Sara Edwards is a freelance reporter, producer, film critic and media consultant who owns Sara Edwards Media, currently based in San Marino, California. She was previously based in Boston, Massachusetts where she was an entertainment and features reporter and film critic from 1981-2009.Edwards...
, Barry Nolan
Barry Nolan
Barry Nolan is an American former presenter on Comcast Cable's CN8 channel, once hosting the shows Nitebeat and Backstage, and Backstage with Barry Nolan...
, Candace Hacey, and Tom Bergeron
Tom Bergeron
Tom Bergeron is an American television personality and game show host, best known as the host of the ABC reality series Dancing with the Stars and host of America's Funniest Home Videos . He was also host of Hollywood Squares and a fill-in host for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire...
. It premiered on April 18, 1977, and ended on December 17, 1990, with a special entitled "An Evening to Remember," featuring a history of the show, augmented with staff and viewer comments.
In Baltimore, WJZ-TV
WJZ-TV
WJZ-TV, channel 13, is an owned and operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Baltimore, Maryland. WJZ-TV's studios and offices are located on Television Hill in the Woodberry section of Baltimore, adjacent to the transmission tower it shares with four other Baltimore...
's edition of Evening Magazine was hosted by Jeff Pylant, Donna Hamilton and Steve Aveson. Maria Shriver
Maria Shriver
Maria Owings Shriver is an American journalist and author of six best-selling books. She has received a Peabody Award, and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of...
served as a contributor early in her career.
WPCQ-TV (now WCNC-TV
WCNC-TV
WCNC-TV is the NBC affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 22 and is carried on cable channel 6 on most area cable systems. It is owned by the Belo Corporation...
) in Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2010, Charlotte's population according to the US Census Bureau was 731,424, making it the 17th largest city in the United States based on population. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a 2009...
, owned by Westinghouse from 1980 until 1984, was the only Group W station that did not air its own version of Evening Magazine. WBTV
WBTV
WBTV, channel 3 , is the CBS affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is one of two flagship stations of Raycom Media. WBTV's studios are located off Morehead Street just west of Uptown Charlotte, and its transmitter is located in north-central Gaston County, North Carolina...
owned the syndicated rights to the program's format and aired it as PM Magazine.
KPIX revival
A similar show with the same name aired on KPIX (now owned and operatedOwned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated...
by CBS) from 1998 to 2005. This one is well known because it was hosted by the now-popular Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
personality, Mike Rowe. The Bay Area Evening Magazine aired on weeknights prior to Mike Rowe's move to Dirty Jobs
Dirty Jobs
Dirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television, in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the typical employees. The show premiered with two pilot episodes in November 2003...
. The show has since been replaced by Eye on the Bay, which has left Rowe's former Evening Magazine co-host, Malou Nubla, on the outs with the TV station. Chuck Barney, the TV critic for the Bay Area "Times" newspapers said in a March 2006 article:
Turns out Nubla was displeased when Channel 5 (KPIX) scrapped Evening Magazine in favor of Eye on the Bay—a move that diminished her onscreen role. Her contract, however, ran through this month, and she insists she intended to be a good team player and honor it. But then a heated exchange with a station exec (that Nubla says was initiated by the "irate" exec) quickly torpedoed those plans, and she was out of there.