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KABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated
Owned-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 television network with which it is associated....
 television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an United States television network. Created in 1943 from the former National Broadcasting Company Blue Network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group....
, licensed to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale
Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson
Mount Wilson (California)

Mount Wilson is one of the more prominent peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains, part of the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California, USA....
.

In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive ABC programs over-the-air, KABC-TV is available on satellite to subscribers of DirecTV
DirecTV

DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite service based in El Segundo, California, California, which transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America....
.

nel 7 first went on the air as KECA-TV on September 16, 1949.






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KABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated
Owned-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 television network with which it is associated....
 television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an United States television network. Created in 1943 from the former National Broadcasting Company Blue Network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group....
, licensed to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale
Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson
Mount Wilson (California)

Mount Wilson is one of the more prominent peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains, part of the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California, USA....
.

In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive ABC programs over-the-air, KABC-TV is available on satellite to subscribers of DirecTV
DirecTV

DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite service based in El Segundo, California, California, which transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America....
.

History

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Channel 7 first went on the air as KECA-TV on September 16, 1949. At the same time, it was the last of Los Angeles' VHF television stations to sign-on, and the last of the five original ABC-owned stations to debut, after KGO-TV
KGO-TV

KGO-TV, channel 7, based in San Francisco, California, is an owned-and-operated station of The Walt Disney Company subsidiary American Broadcasting Company....
 in San Francisco signed-on four months earlier.

The station was named after Los Angeles broadcasting pioneer Earle C. Anthony
Earle C. Anthony

Earle C. Anthony was a pioneer businessman based in Los Angeles, California. He is primarily known for his achievements in two fields: Broadcasting and automobiles....
, whose initials were also present on channel 7's then-sister radio station, KECA (790 AM, now KABC). KECA radio had been an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network
Blue Network

The Blue Network was the on-air name of an American radio production and distribution service from 1942 to 1945, which traced its formal origins back to 1927....
. Anthony's other Los Angeles radio station, KFI
KFI

KFI is an AM broadcasting radio station in Los Angeles. It began operating on March 31, 1922 as one of the United States' first high-powered, "clear-channel station" stations....
, was aligned with the Red Network. The Red Network survived the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission is an Independent agencies of the United States government, created, directed, and empowered by United States Congress statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President of the United States....
-ordered split of the two NBC radio networks in 1943. Edward J. Noble, who bought the Blue Network (beginning its transformation into ABC), purchased KECA radio a year later
1944

Year 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar....
 when the FCC forced Anthony to divest one of his Los Angeles radio stations.

On February 1, 1954 KECA-TV changed its call letters to the present KABC-TV.

From the time of its initial sign-on in 1949, channel 7 was located at the ABC Television Center (now branded as the Prospect Studios), located in the Los Feliz
Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California

Los Feliz, also Rancho Los Feliz is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, named for its land grantee Jos? Vicente Feliz.It lies north of East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and just south of the Santa Monica Mountains, adjacent to the neighborhoods of Hollywood and Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California....
 neighborhood of Los Angeles, east of Hollywood. In December 1999, KABC-TV moved from its longtime studios to a new state-of-the-art facility designed by César Pelli
César Pelli

C?sar Pelli is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. His designs are known for their curved facades and metallic elements....
 in nearby Glendale
Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area....
. The station is currently a short distance from ABC's West Coast headquarters, and from parent Walt Disney Company's headquarters in Burbank
Burbank, California

Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 100,316 at the United States Census, 2000.Burbank is located in the eastern region of the San Fernando Valley, north of Downtown Los Angeles, California....
.

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KABC-TV has used the Circle 7 logo since 1962 (the same year ABC created and implemented its current logo), and augmented its bottom left quadrant with the ABC network logo in 1997. The station's news anchors and reporters wear Circle 7 lapel pins when they appear on camera, a practice that had once been standard at each of the original five ABC-owned stations.

On February 4, 2006, KABC-TV became the first television station in California to broadcast its newscasts in high-definition
High-definition television

High-definition television is a digital television broadcasting system with higher than traditional television systems . HDTV is digitally broadcast; the earliest implementations used analog broadcasting, but today digital television signals are used, requiring less Bandwidth due to digital video compression....
. Along with the in-house upgrades, the station debuted an upgraded news set and an update to their theme music.

In the weeks preceeding the 2009 Presidential Inaguration, KABC refused to sell ad space to a non-profit organization called gettoknowusfirst.org for the swearing in of the 44th President. The rejected advertisement profiled two LA residents raising 5 children aged 6 to 25. The LA residents depicted were both African-American men. The Media Buyer used by the non-profit organization, Chris Yokogawa, claims that "KABC said it was too controversial to air because many families will be watching". KABC was the only station in all of California to reject the request to purchase ad space by the non-profit organization.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

KABC-DT

KABC-DT broadcasts on digital channel 53.
Virtual
Channel		 Name Programming
7.1 KABC-DT main KABC-TV/ABC programming
7.2 KABC-DT2 KABC Plus
7.3 KABC-DT3 Local weather channel


KABC Plus, also known as "ABC7+," mainly airs rebroadcasts of its local news and public affairs programming, as well as some syndicated shows. However, ABC7+ can carry shows that are normally on the main channel, if KABC has preempted the shows for breaking news
Breaking news

Breaking news is a current event that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming in order to report its details. Its use is often loosely assigned to the most significant story of the moment or a story that is being covered live....
. For example, twice in 2007
2007 in television

The year 2007 in television involves some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2007....
, ABC7+ aired sports events from ESPN on ABC when KABC covered wildfire
Wildfire

A wildfire is any uncontrolled, non-structure fire that occurs in the wilderness, wildland, or The Bush. Synonyms such as wildland fire, forest fire, brush fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, Peat#Fires, bushfire , and hill fire are commonly used....
s. They were the Subway 500
2007 Subway 500

The 2007 Subway 500, the 32nd race of the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the sixth race in the 2007 Chase for the NEXTEL Cup, ran on Sunday, October 21st, 2007, at Martinsville Speedway, located on the outskirts of Martinsville, Virginia....
 NASCAR
NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
 NEXTEL Cup Series race on October 21 and the first round of the Skins Game
Skins Game

A skins game is a type of scoring for various sports, most notably golf but also for curling and bowling....
 golf tournament on November 24.

Analog-to-digital transition

After the analog television shutdown scheduled for June 12, 2009 , KABC-TV will move its digital signal to channel 7.

News Programming

Kabc Eyewitness News 2005
KABC-TV first adopted the Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News

Eyewitness News is a name used by local television newscasts, widely used in different markets across the United States. It is also the name of a very popular music package offered by Frank Gari....
 format in February 1969, not long after it became a hit at sister station WABC-TV
WABC-TV

WABC-TV, channel 7, is the Flagship of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. WABC-TV is best known in broadcasting circles for its highly successful version of the Eyewitness News format, and for its morning show Live with Regis and Kelly, syndicated nationally by corporate cousin Dis...
 in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. Like the other ABC-owned stations, Channel 7 used the "Tar Sequence" cue from the soundtrack of the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke is a Cinema of the United States drama film starring Paul Newman and directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from the novel by Pearce....
 as its theme music, and continued to do so even after the others adopted the Frank Gari
Frank Gari

Frank Gari is a popular singer and songwriter from the late 1950s and early 1960s. His best known songs where he was a performer are Princess, Utopia and Lullaby Of Love, all of which hit the U.S....
-composed News Series 2000
News Series 2000

News Series 2000 is a television news music package by United States composer Frank Gari. It is an updated and expanded version of the "Tar Sequence" cue from the soundtrack to the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke by Lalo Schifrin, used by American Broadcasting Company O&O for their Eyewitness News bulletins....
, an updated version of the theme. Later on, the original Cool Hand Luke theme would only be used in the news open, a similar practice to what KGO-TV, WTVD-TV and WABC-TV did at the time. The station's newscasts used a synthesized version of the old theme, composed by Frank Becker, during the mid-1980s. KABC-TV would pick up the News Series 2000 package in 1990. In 1995 KABC began using Gari's "Eyewitness News" music package, which remains the station's news theme.

During the 1980s, KABC-TV was one of a few stations in the country to run a three-hour block of local news
United States television news

News broadcasting in the United States has evolved over many years. It has gone from a simple 10 to 15-minute format in the evenings, to a variety of programs and channels....
 during weekday afternoons and early evenings from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. The station was the first in the region, if not the state, to introduce an hour long newscast at 4 p.m., first anchored by Jerry Dunphy
Jerry Dunphy

Jerry Dunphy was a legendary American television news anchor in the Los Angeles/Southern California media market. He was best known for his catchy intro "From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California, a good evening."...
 and Tawny Little
Tawny Little

Tawny Elaine Little , aka Tawny Godin, was born in Portland, Maine. Ms. Little was Miss America for 1976 and later became a well-known News presenter in Los Angeles, California....
 in September 1980. Before this the station ran two hours of news from 5-7 p.m.

The station reduced this block by one half hour in 1990, when it moved ABC World News Tonight (now World News with Charles Gibson
World News with Charles Gibson

World News with Charles Gibson is the flagship news program of the American Broadcasting Company in the United States. Currently, the weekday editions are hosted by Charles Gibson, Saturdays by David Muir, and Sundays by Dan Harris ....
) from 7:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. For a time in the late 1980s, its 6:30 p.m. newscast was branded "Eyewitness Update" and served as a final recap of the day's news, similar in nature to an 11 p.m. newscast.

KABC-TV is currently one of two ABC stations on the West Coast to air World News at 6:30 p.m.; The only other ABC station to do this is KGTV
KGTV

KGTV is the American Broadcasting Company television affiliate in San Diego, California. It broadcasts as a digital only station on VHF channel 10 also using VHF channel 10 as its virtual channel through the use of PSIP ....
 in San Diego which recently moved it's 6 PM airing of "World News" to 6:30 PM in order to make room for a 7 PM newscast. Most other Western ABC stations run this broadcast at 5:30 or 6:00 p.m.. When the network soap opera Port Charles
Port Charles

Port Charles is a daytime soap opera which aired on American Broadcasting Company from June 2, 1997 to October 3, 2003. It is a spin-off of the serial General Hospital, which has been running since 1963 and takes place in the fictional city of Port Charles , New York....
 ended its run in 2003, channel 7 expanded its midday newscast to a full hour. KABC-TV currently airs over 40 hours of live news programming each week, more than any other individual television station in Los Angeles.

KABC-TV is one of two Los Angeles television stations with a full-time presence in California's state capital, Sacramento
Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the Capital of the United States U.S. state of California, and the county seat of Sacramento County, California. Located along the Sacramento River and just south of the American River's confluence in California's expansive California Central Valley, it is the seventh-largest city in California.....
. Since late 2003, the station has shared resources
Common-pool resource

In economics, a common-pool resource , alternatively termed a common property resource, is a particular type of good consisting of a natural resource or human-made Resource system, the size or characteristics of which makes it costly, but not impossible, to exclude potential beneficiaries from obtaining benefits from its use....
 with sister stations KGO-TV in San Francisco and KFSN-TV
KFSN-TV

KFSN-TV is the American Broadcasting Company owned and operated station television station in Fresno, California. The station transmits its analog television signal on UHF television channel 30, and its digital television signal on VHF channel 9....
 in Fresno
Fresno, California

Fresno is a city in California, USA, the county seat of Fresno County, California, and the second largest inland city in the state, after San Jose, California....
 to staff a Sacramento bureau following Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and Politics of the United States, currently serving as the List of Governors of California Governor of California of the state of California....
's election to the office of Governor
Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the Executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state....
, during the 2003 California recall.

Notable on-air personalities who have worked for the station's news department in the past include Bill Bonds
Bill Bonds

Bill Bonds is an Emmy award-winning United States television anchor and reporter, best known for his work at WXYZ-TV in Detroit.A native of Detroit and a graduate of the University of Detroit, Bonds came to fame initially as a reporter for the city's Contact News on WKNR-AM, known as Keener 13....
, Jerry Dunphy
Jerry Dunphy

Jerry Dunphy was a legendary American television news anchor in the Los Angeles/Southern California media market. He was best known for his catchy intro "From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California, a good evening."...
, Christine Lund
Christine Lund

Christine Lund was a popular Los Angeles, California news anchor for KABC-TV from the early 1970s to the late 1990s and consistently garnered high ratings....
, Lisa McRee
Lisa McRee

Lisa McRee is an United States television journalist and former news anchor.She was a news anchor for WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, from 1989 to 1991 before becoming one of the original anchors, along with Aaron Brown, of ABC News' World News Now when the show launched in 1992....
, Harold Greene
Harold Greene

Harold Greene was an award-winning journalist, best known for working at KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. Before joining the CBS duopoly, Greene enjoyed a long television news career, mostly in Southern California....
, Tawny Little
Tawny Little

Tawny Elaine Little , aka Tawny Godin, was born in Portland, Maine. Ms. Little was Miss America for 1976 and later became a well-known News presenter in Los Angeles, California....
, Laura Diaz
Laura Diaz (TV anchor)

Laura Diaz is a Southern California newscaster. She joined KCBS-TV in September 2002 as news presenter of the CBS 2 News at 5 and 11 p.m. with Harold Greene and in 2004 Paul Magers joined her as co-anchor....
, Paul Moyer
Paul Moyer

Paul Moyer is a veteran television news broadcaster in Southern California. He currently co-anchors the 5 and 11 p.m weekday editions of the KNBC-TV's Channel 4 News with Colleen Williams....
, Chuck Henry
Chuck Henry

Chuck Henry is a Los Angeles television personality and a news presenter with over 35 years of news experience. Before anchoring at KNBC, he worked at KABC-TV for 11 years, where he served as reporter, anchor and television director....
, Dr. George Fischbeck, Judd Rose
Judd Rose

Judd Rose was an Emmy Award winning television journalist. He rose to prominence as an investigative reporter for ABC where he spent 16 years working on shows such as Prime Time Live and Good Morning America....
, and Bill Weir
Bill Weir

Bill Weir is co-anchor of Good Morning America Weekend Edition on American Broadcasting Company. He became news presenter when the show began on September 4, 2004....
. Former channel 7 sports reporters and anchors include former NFL
National Football League

The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
 players Lynn Swann
Lynn Swann

Lynn Curtis Swann is an United States former professional American football player and sportscaster. In Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, 2006, he was the Republican Party nominee to run against the incumbent Ed Rendell for Pennsylvania Governor....
, Gene Washington
Gene Washington

Gene Washington was a NFL player for many years who played for the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions as a wide receiver. He also played football for Stanford University....
, Jim Hill
Jim Hill (sportscaster)

James Webster "Jim" Hill is a retired American football defensive back who played in the National Football League. He is now a Los Angeles, California-based sportscaster and currently lead sports anchor and sports director at KCBS-TV....
 and Bob Chandler
Bob Chandler

Robert Donald Chandler was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League....
, and former Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
 player (and current Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles, USA. The team is in the Western Division of the National League. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of names before becoming the Brooklyn Dodgers circa 1911....
 radio analyst and play-by-play
Play-by-play

Play-by-play, in broadcasting, is a North American term that means the reporting of a sporting event with a voiceover describing the details of the game in progress....
 announcer) Rick Monday
Rick Monday

Rick Monday is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball and is currently a Broadcasting announcer. From 1966 through 1984, Monday, a center fielder for most of his career, played for the Oakland Athletics , Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers ....
.

During the 1970s and 1980s the station's newscasts often included spirited mini debates and commentaries reflecting various political viewpoints. Several notable politicians and political pundits
Pundit (politics)

A pundit is someone who offers to mass-media their opinion or commentary on a particular subject area on which they are knowledgeable. The term has been increasingly applied to popular media personalities....
 appeared on these segments including Proposition 13
California Proposition 13 (1978)

Proposition 13, officially titled the "People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation," was a ballot initiative to amend the constitution of the state of California....
 backer Howard Jarvis
Howard Jarvis

Howard Jarvis was an United States politician.Jarvis was born in Magna, Utah, and died in Los Angeles, California, California. In Utah he had some political involvement working with his father's campaigns and his own....
, former U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
 and Senator
United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
 John Tunney, , Bill Press
Bill Press

William Press is an American Radio syndication talk radio host, political commentator and author. Press was the chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996....
 and Baxter Ward
Baxter Ward

Baxter Ward was a television news anchor who served two terms on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Prior to his election on the board, he ran third in an unsuccessful bid to unseat Samuel W....
. In addition, like many other stations at the time, KABC-TV aired brief editorials from the stations general manager, most notably John Severino, who served throughout the 1980s. This practice was discontinued in 1990.

Ratings


The introduction of Eyewitness News, followed by the addition of syndicated staples such as The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show is a United States Television syndication talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
 (in 1986), Live with Regis and Kelly
Live with Regis and Kelly

Live with Regis and Kelly is a television syndication American television talk show, hosted by Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa. Before 2000, the show was known as, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, with Kathie Lee Gifford co-hosting with Philbin....
, Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is a game show featuring trivia in topics such as history, literature, pop culture and science. The show has a decades-long Jeopardy! broadcast history in the United States since its creation by Merv Griffin in the early 1960s....
, and Wheel of Fortune (all in 1992) has generally allowed KABC to maintain a substantial ratings advantage over its competition.

Leveraging the strength of its sizeable Oprah lead-in at 3:00 p.m, channel 7 has long held 2nd or 1st the ratings lead for its 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. news block. However, ratings leads for the morning and late news have typically been spirited (and expensive) battles with local stations KTLA
KTLA

KTLA, channel 5, is a television station in Los Angeles, California. Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of The CW Television Network....
 and KTTV
KTTV

KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California....
 in the morning, and KNBC (and recently KCBS-TV
KCBS-TV

KCBS-TV is the owned and operated station station of the CBS Television Network located in Los Angeles, California. KCBS-TV shares its offices and studio facilities with sister station KCAL-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City, Los Angeles, California section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson ....
) at 11:00 p.m. When ABC primetime programming was faltering, channel 7 would typically finish in second place behind KNBC at 11:00 p.m. and 2nd place in the morning to KNBC or KTLA.

With its across-the-board ratings success in hand, the station has been running quick five-second "tags" throughout the day that say, "ABC 7 -- Number one in news, number one in Southern California." This is a throwback to its openers during the 1980s, when the station proudly proclaimed itself "Number One in Southern California."

Other Programming

KABC-TV produces several local shows including Vista L.A.. (which profiles Latino
Latino

The demonyms Latino and Latina , are defined in English language dictionaries as:* "a person of Latin-American or Spanish-speaking descent."...
 life in Southern California), and Eye on L.A.. (which has been on the air in some form since the early 1980s). On weekends, the station airs Eyewitness Newsmakers, hosted by reporter Adrienne Alpert.

The station produces a sports/variety type show branded ABC 7 Sports Zone, which formerly originated from the ESPN Zone
ESPN Zone

ESPN Zone is a small chain of very large sports-themed restaurants that include arcades, TV studios, and radio studios. The first ESPN Zone opened in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 11, 1998 in the Power Plant Live! on the Inner Harbor....
 in Anaheim
Anaheim, California

Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California. As of January 1, 2008, the city population was about 346,823, making it the 10th most-populated city in California and ranked 54th in the United States....
. This show airs occasionally following network telecasts of NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and University in the United States ....
 football and NBA
National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
 games. Most ABC 7 Sports Zone shows now originate from local sports venues including the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Rose Bowl
Rose Bowl (stadium)

The Rose Bowl is an outdoor American football stadium in Pasadena, California, near Los Angeles, California. The stadium is the site of the annual college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl , held at the beginning of the New Year....
 in Pasadena
Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl Game American football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ,...
 and Staples Center
Staples Center

Staples Center is a multi-purpose arena in Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, United States. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex....
 in Los Angeles, and occasionally at the station's studios in Glendale. It is hosted by Rob Fukuzaki. This program is a spin-off of Monday Night Live, which aired on KABC-TV from 1989 until Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football

Monday Night Football is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. Originally airing on the American Broadcasting Company network from 1970 NFL season to 2005 NFL season, Monday Night Football was the second longest running prime time show on United States of America broadcast network television and one of the hig...
 left the network after the 2005 NFL season
2005 NFL season

The 2005 season of the National Football League was the 86th season played by the major professional American football league in the United States....
. That show was hosted by Todd Donoho
Todd Donoho

Todd Donoho is an United States radio and television journalist. He hosts the post-game show for Missouri Tigers College basketball on the statewide Tiger Radio Network....
 until 1997, and later Bill Weir
Bill Weir

Bill Weir is co-anchor of Good Morning America Weekend Edition on American Broadcasting Company. He became news presenter when the show began on September 4, 2004....
 and Rob Fukuzaki and featured an extensive trivia contest.

Prior to ABC's annual telecasts of the Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
, KABC-TV produces a live pre-awards show, An Evening at the Academy Awards: The Arrivals, featuring red carpet interviews and fashion commentary. This show also airs on the network's other owned stations and is syndicated to several ABC affiliates and other broadcasters outside the country. The station also produces and broadcasts post-ceremony show called An Evening at the Academy Awards: The Winners.

In the past, KABC-TV featured various locally produced shows such as AM Los Angeles; a morning talk show which at various times featured personalities Regis Philbin
Regis Philbin

Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an United States television personality and occasional actor known for his roles as a talk show host, game show host, and presenter at various events....
, Sarah Purcell
Sarah Purcell

Sarah Purcell is a well known talk show host, game show host and panelist.She was co-host of The Better Sex , Real People , America , and Home Show , and had guest appearances in several TV dramas....
, Ralph Story
Ralph Story

Ralph Story, originally Ralph Bernard Snyder was an United States Television in the United States and Radio in the United States personality....
, Tawny Little, Cristina Ferrare
Cristina Ferrare

Cristina Ferrare is a former fashion model, actress, author and television talk-show host.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, she was 14 years old when her family moved to Los Angeles, California, California, where her beauty landed her a contract with a major modeling agency and then with 20th Century Fox film studios....
, Cyndy Garvey, and Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards (talk show host)

Steve Edwards is an American broadcast personality based in Los Angeles, California. Edwards is currently the lead anchor/host of Good Day L.A., a morning news and infotainment program that airs on Fox Broadcasting Company-owned KTTV in Los Angeles....
 as hosts. Edwards also hosted a short lived afternoon show in the mid-1980s branded 330. (Live with Regis and Kelly, co-hosted by Philbin, now occupies the former time slot of AM Los Angeles.)

On April 30, 1954, KABC-TV aired a preview, Dig Me Later, Vampira, hosted by Maila Nurmi
Maila Nurmi

Maila Nurmi was a Finnish-American actress, who created the Camp 1950s character Vampira. Her portrayal of this character as television's first horror host and in the Ed Wood cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space was influential over the decades that followed....
 at 11:00pm. The Vampira Show premiered on the following night, May 1, 1954. For the first four weeks, the show aired at midnight, and it moved to 11:00pm on May 29. Ten months later, the series aired at 10:30pm, beginning March 5, 1955. As Vampira, Nurmi introduced films while wandering through a hallway of mist and cobwebs. Her horror-related comedy antics included talking to her pet spider Rollo and encouraging viewers to write for epitaph
Epitaph

An epitaph is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively....
s instead of autographs. When the series was cancelled in 1955, she retained rights to the character of Vampira.

In 1964, Pinky Lee
Pinky Lee

Pinky Lee , born Pincus Leff, was a male burlesque comic and host of the children's television program, The Pinky Lee Show in the early 1950s....
 attempted a return to kids TV by hosting a local children's comedy program on KABC-TV. The series was also seen in national syndication for the 1964 & 1965 TV seasons. But the program fell prey to creative interference from the show's producers and from station management. Lee tried to fight off the creative interference, but his efforts were for naught. The 1960s version of "The Pinky Lee Kids TV Show" went off the air after one season.

Current personalities


Anchors

  • Marc Brown
    Marc Brown (journalist)

    Marc Brown is an Emmy Award winning television news newsreader at KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Brown co-anchors the station's Eyewitness News HD newscasts at 5 pm and 11 pm with Michelle Tuzee....
     - weeknights 5PM & 11PM
  • John Gregory
    John Gregory

    John Charles Gregory is an England former Association football and coach . He has previously managed Portsmouth F.C., Plymouth Argyle F.C., Wycombe Wanderers F.C., Aston Villa F.C., Derby County F.C....
     - weekend mornings & Saturdays Noon
  • Lisa Hernandez - weekend mornings & Saturdays Noon
  • Jovana Lara - weekend evenings
  • Ellen Leyva - weekdays 4PM & 6PM
  • Micah Ohlman - weekend evenings
  • David Ono - weekdays 4PM & 6PM
  • Phillip Palmer - weekdays 4:30AM, 5AM, 6AM & 11AM
  • Leslie Sykes
    Leslie Sykes

    Leslie Sykes is a television news anchor and reporter....
     - weekdays 11AM
  • Michelle Tuzee
    Michelle Tuzee

    Michelle Tuzee joined KABC-TV in 1997 as an newsreader at 4 pm and 6 pm Eyewitness News HD newscasts with Marc Brown . When Laura Diaz left KABC-TV to work for KCBS-TV,Tuzee was promoted to the 11 pm anchor at KABC-TV.In August 2007 Michelle And Marc Brown now anchor the 5pm newscast plus the 11pm newscast,and David Ono And Ellen Levya...
     - weeknights 5PM & 11PM
  • Kathy Vara - weekdays 4:30AM, 5AM & 6AM


Weather

  • Garth Kemp - Weekday Mornings
  • - Weekend mornings & Saturdays Noon
  • Dallas Raines (AMS Certified) - chief meteorologist - Weeknights
  • Danny Romero - weekend evenings


Traffic

  • Sevena Mora - Weekdays
  • Jane Monreal - Weekday mornings
  • Scott Reiff - Weekday Mornings Air 7 HD


Sports

  • Rob Fukuzaki - sports director/weeknights
  • John Hartung
    John Hartung

    John Hartung was born Jewish in 1947 but now is an atheist. He is a big supporter of Noam Chomsky, Kevin B. MacDonald and Richard Dawkins. He is an extremely fierce critic of both Judaism and Christianity....
     - reporter and fill-in anchor
  • Curt Sandoval - weekends

Reporters

  • Adrienne Alpert
  • Bob Banfield (Inland Empire
    Inland Empire (California)

    The Inland Empire is a region mainly located in Southeast California, particularly the Riverside County, California and San Bernardino County, California counties....
     bureau)
  • Lori Corbin (food/nutrition/exercise)
  • Denise Dador ("Health Specialist")
  • Eileen Frere (Orange County
    Orange County, California

    Orange County is a county in Southern California California, United States. Its county seat is Santa Ana, California. The state of California estimates its population as of 2008 to be 3,121,251, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County, California and San Diego County, California....
     bureau)
  • Sid Garcia
  • Gene Gleeson
  • Carlos Granda
  • Rob Hayes
  • Miriam Hernandez
  • Robert Holguin
  • Dave Kunz ("Automotive Specialist")
  • Leslie Miller
    Leslie Miller

    Leslie Miller is the name of:* Leslie A. Miller , governor of Wyoming, U.S.A.* Leslie Adrienne Miller , American poet...
  • Nannette Miranda
    Nannette Miranda

    Nannette Miranda is Capitol Correspondent for KABC-TV in Los Angeles, KGO-TV in San Francisco, and KFSN-TV in Fresno. She joined the 3 American Broadcasting Company-owned stations December 2003....
     (Sacramento
    Sacramento, California

    Sacramento is the Capital of the United States U.S. state of California, and the county seat of Sacramento County, California. Located along the Sacramento River and just south of the American River's confluence in California's expansive California Central Valley, it is the seventh-largest city in California.....
     bureau)
  • John North (politics)
  • George Pennacchio (entertainment)
  • Amy Powell
  • Subha Ravindhran
  • Ric Romero
    Ric Romero

    Ric Romero is the consumer reporter for KABC-TV, a television station in the United States city of Los Angeles.Born in Los Angeles, Romero graduated from San Jos? State University with a degree in Broadcasting and Business and a minor in Theatre Arts....
     (consumer affairs)
  • Leo Stallworth
  • Leanne Suter

Air 7 HD

All Pilot Reporters
  • Scott Reiff - AM Traffic
  • Bill Thomas
    Bill Thomas

    William Marshall Thomas , commonly known as Bill Thomas, United States politician, was a United States Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979?2007, representing the 22nd District of California...
     - Afternoon/Evening
  • Gabriel Pabon - Fill in

Notable alumni

  • Jessica Aguirre
    Jessica Aguirre

    Jessica D. Aguirre is an American television journalist. She is the 6pm & 11pm anchor for KNTV NBC11 News, the NBC Owned and operated station in San Francisco, California....
  • Eddie Alexander
    Eddie Alexander

    Eddie Alexander was a Scottish cyclist, a mutiple national champion on the track in the Tandem Sprint event, he won a bronze medal in the sprint at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh....
  • Cynthia Alison
  • Henry Alfaro
  • Fred Anderson
    Fred Anderson

    Fred Anderson may refer to:*Fred Anderson , Major League Baseball player *Fred Anderson *Fred Anderson *Fred Anderson , South African rugby league player...
  • Sparky Anderson
    Sparky Anderson

    George Lee "Sparky" Anderson is a former Major League Baseball manager. He managed the National League's Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 World Series and 1976 World Series championships, then added a third title in 1984 World Series with the Detroit Tigers of the American League....
  • Ed Arnold
    Ed Arnold

    Ed Arnold is an American news anchor and reporter, based in Los Angeles, California.Arnold is currently a co-anchor for Real Orange, a nightly news and public affairs show for Orange County, California on KOCE, one of the four PBS stations in the Los Angeles market....
  • Jaie Avila
  • Marianne Banister
  • Joseph Benti
  • Angela Black
  • Ron Bodholdt
  • Bill Bonds
    Bill Bonds

    Bill Bonds is an Emmy award-winning United States television anchor and reporter, best known for his work at WXYZ-TV in Detroit.A native of Detroit and a graduate of the University of Detroit, Bonds came to fame initially as a reporter for the city's Contact News on WKNR-AM, known as Keener 13....
  • Linda Breakstone
  • Wendy Burch
  • Francesca Cappucci
  • Jann Carl
    Jann Carl

    Jann Carl is a Los Angeles-based journalist and, since 1995, correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. She has also appeared on Candid Camera and America's Next Top Model....
  • Karen Carlson
  • Larry Carroll
  • Bob Chandler
    Bob Chandler

    Robert Donald Chandler was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League....
  • nna Chavez
  • Christine Clayburg
    Christine Clayburg

    Christine Clayburg, born May 26, 1973 in Paso Robles, California is an Emmy Award nominated United States television meteorologist who also has done some actress and screenwriter....
  • Bob Coburn
  • Mark Coogan
    Mark Coogan

    Mark Coogan is a retired United States track athletics . He attended Bishop Feehan High School and the University of Maryland, College Park.Coogan was coached there by the "great" Charles F....
  • Maggie Cooper
  • John Corcoran
    John Corcoran

    John Corcoran is an American author who read only at a second-grade level until the age of 48. He managed to graduate from high school and college, and to work as a high school teacher and real estate developer without being discovered....
  • Paul Dandridge
  • Rick De Reyes
  • Elmer Dills
  • Ted Dawson
  • Laura Diaz
    Laura Diaz (TV anchor)

    Laura Diaz is a Southern California newscaster. She joined KCBS-TV in September 2002 as news presenter of the CBS 2 News at 5 and 11 p.m. with Harold Greene and in 2004 Paul Magers joined her as co-anchor....
  • Todd Donoho
    Todd Donoho

    Todd Donoho is an United States radio and television journalist. He hosts the post-game show for Missouri Tigers College basketball on the statewide Tiger Radio Network....
  • Jerry Dunphy
    Jerry Dunphy

    Jerry Dunphy was a legendary American television news anchor in the Los Angeles/Southern California media market. He was best known for his catchy intro "From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California, a good evening."...
  • Steve Edwards
    Steve Edwards

    Steve Edwards is the name of:*Steve Edwards , American football player for the Chicago Bears*Steve Edwards , host of Good Day LA on KTTV*Steve Edwards , vocalist on Bob Sinclair's "World Hold On" and Cassius' "The Sound of Violence"...
  • Dr. George Fischbeck
    George Fischbeck

    Dr. George Fischbeck was a popular elementary school science teacher and television weatherman on KOB-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico from the early 1960s to early 1970s....
  • Gary Franklin
    Gary Franklin

    Gary Franklin was a well-known German American broadcast film critic based in Los Angeles, California. Gary Franklin was born to a Jewish family in Leipzig, Germany on September 22 1928....
  • Ana Garcia
  • Gary Gabrial
 
  • Maria Genero
  • Dr. Lillian Glass
  • Harold Greene
    Harold Greene

    Harold Greene was an award-winning journalist, best known for working at KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. Before joining the CBS duopoly, Greene enjoyed a long television news career, mostly in Southern California....
  • Saul Halpert
  • Chuck Henry
    Chuck Henry

    Chuck Henry is a Los Angeles television personality and a news presenter with over 35 years of news experience. Before anchoring at KNBC, he worked at KABC-TV for 11 years, where he served as reporter, anchor and television director....
  • Jim Healy
    Jim Healy

    Jim Healy was a longtime Los Angeles, California, sports commentator , whose daily solo radio show featured a number of sound effects and audio clips of famous sports personalities, which he played repeatedly to affect an acerbically humorous tone....
  • Tony Hernandez
  • Jim Hill
    Jim Hill (sportscaster)

    James Webster "Jim" Hill is a retired American football defensive back who played in the National Football League. He is now a Los Angeles, California-based sportscaster and currently lead sports anchor and sports director at KCBS-TV....
  • Sandy Hill
  • Desiree Horton
    Desiree Horton

    Desiree Horton , nicknamed "Chopper Chick," is a helicopter pilot and television personality based in Los Angeles, California, California. She is one of the few female helicopter pilots/on-camera reporters in Los Angeles television history....
  • Joanne Ishimine
  • David Jackson
  • J. J. Jackson
    J. J. Jackson

    John J. "J. J." Jackson, Jr. was an US radio and television personality. He was one of MTV's five original VJ s . In his appearances on MTV, Jackson often went by and introduced himself as "Triple J"....
  • Bryan Jenkins
    Bryan Jenkins

    Dr. Bryan Jenkins is the Australian CEO of Canterbury Regional Council , the Regions of New Zealand for Canterbury, New Zealand, the largest region in the South Island of New Zealand....
  • Vera Jimenez
  • Al Julius
  • Dana King (nee James)
  • Ken Kurtis
  • Kelly Lange
    Kelly Lange

    Kelly Lange is an American journalist, reporter, talk show host, former Tournament of Roses parade co-host, longtime southern California local news anchor, and currently, a best-selling mystery author....
  • Pinky Lee
    Pinky Lee

    Pinky Lee , born Pincus Leff, was a male burlesque comic and host of the children's television program, The Pinky Lee Show in the early 1950s....
  • Tawny Little
    Tawny Little

    Tawny Elaine Little , aka Tawny Godin, was born in Portland, Maine. Ms. Little was Miss America for 1976 and later became a well-known News presenter in Los Angeles, California....
  • Rick Lozano
  • Christine Lund
    Christine Lund

    Christine Lund was a popular Los Angeles, California news anchor for KABC-TV from the early 1970s to the late 1990s and consistently garnered high ratings....
  • Ann Martin
  • Lora McLaughlin
  • Joe McMahan
  • Lisa McRee
    Lisa McRee

    Lisa McRee is an United States television journalist and former news anchor.She was a news anchor for WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, from 1989 to 1991 before becoming one of the original anchors, along with Aaron Brown, of ABC News' World News Now when the show launched in 1992....
  • Jeff Michael
  • Dave Michaels
    Dave Michaels (news anchor)

    Dave Michaels was a news anchor on CNN & Headline News from 1985 - 1993. He anchored Eyewitness News at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, and Eleven Alive News at WXIA-TV in Atlanta....
  • Jim Mitchell
    Jim Mitchell

    Jim Mitchell was a senior Ireland politician who served in the cabinets of Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald . He was deputy leader of the Fine Gael party from 2001 until 2002....
  • Rick Monday
    Rick Monday

    Rick Monday is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball and is currently a Broadcasting announcer. From 1966 through 1984, Monday, a center fielder for most of his career, played for the Oakland Athletics , Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers ....
  • Linda Mour
  • Jim Moret
    Jim Moret

    Jim Moret is currently the chief correspondent for television's Inside Edition. Moret has covered entertainment news for over 20 years. He is a regular guest contributor both as legal analyst and entertainment reporter for CNN, Headline News, Fox News Channel, Court TV, and MSNBC....
  • Barney Morris
    Barney Morris

    Barney Morris was a baseball player in the Negro League baseball. A skillful pitcher, he played for the Monroe Monarchs and the Bismarck Churchills....
  • Johnny Mountain
    		•  
  • Paul Moyer
    Paul Moyer

    Paul Moyer is a veteran television news broadcaster in Southern California. He currently co-anchors the 5 and 11 p.m weekday editions of the KNBC-TV's Channel 4 News with Colleen Williams....
  • Terry Murphy
    Terry Murphy

    Terry Murphy may refer to:* Terry Murphy , American television host and correspondent* Terry Murphy , Northern Irish snooker player* Terry Murphy , politician in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada...
  • Stu Nahan
    Stu Nahan

    Stu Nahan was an United States sportscaster best known for his television broadcasting career in Los Angeles, California from the 1950s through the 1990s....
  • Jim Newman
    Jim Newman

    Jim Newman is an United States actor, writer, producer, and director. Born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, he currently lives in Burbank, California....
  • Steven Noe
  • Susan Norris
  • Maila Nurmi
    Maila Nurmi

    Maila Nurmi was a Finnish-American actress, who created the Camp 1950s character Vampira. Her portrayal of this character as television's first horror host and in the Ed Wood cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space was influential over the decades that followed....
  • Warren Olney
    Warren Olney

    Four members of the same family, all named Warren Olney, have been prominent in Californian history.Warren Olney was born March 11, 1841 near the Fox River in frontier Iowa....
  • Ron Olsen
  • Pablo Pereira
  • Regis Philbin
    Regis Philbin

    Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an United States television personality and occasional actor known for his roles as a talk show host, game show host, and presenter at various events....
  • Preston Phillips ()
  • Kimberly Plummer
  • Bill Press
    Bill Press

    William Press is an American Radio syndication talk radio host, political commentator and author. Press was the chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996....
  • Dr. William C. Rader
    William C. Rader

    William C. Rader, M.D. is a controversial Malibu, California psychiatrist who began administering fetus "stem cell" treatments offshore in the 1990s....
     ()
  • Art Rascon
    Art Rascon

    Art Rascon is the anchor for the five o'clock news for KTRK-TV in Texas. He is also an Emmy Award winner and a former vice president of the National Association of Hispanic Jorunalists....
  • Bill Redeker
  • Maggie Rodriguez
    Maggie Rodriguez

    Maggie Rodriguez is an United States journalist and the current anchor on CBS's The Early Show. On January 7, 2008 she became a co-anchor on the weekday edition of The Early Show replacing Hannah Storm....
  • Rich Rodriguez
    Rich Rodriguez

    Rich "Coach Rod" Rodriguez is the head coach college football coach at the Michigan Wolverines football. Prior to moving to Michigan, he was the head coach at West Virginia University for seven seasons....
  • Judd Rose
    Judd Rose

    Judd Rose was an Emmy Award winning television journalist. He rose to prominence as an investigative reporter for ABC where he spent 16 years working on shows such as Prime Time Live and Good Morning America....
  • Jim Ryerson
  • Wayne Satz
    Wayne Satz

    Wayne Thomas Satz was a reporter who first reported on the McMartin preschool trial. His first McMartin broadcast aired on KABC-TV in Los Angeles on February 2, 1984....
  • John Schubeck
    John Schubeck

    John Schubeck was an United States television reporter and News presenter, and one of the few to anchor newscasts on all three Television network owned-and-operated stations in one major market....
  • Tom Snyder
    Tom Snyder

    Tom Snyder was an United States television, news anchor and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow , on the NBC television network in the late 1970s and '80s, and The Late Late Show , on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s....
  • Ralph Story
    Ralph Story

    Ralph Story, originally Ralph Bernard Snyder was an United States Television in the United States and Radio in the United States personality....
  • Lynn Swann
    Lynn Swann

    Lynn Curtis Swann is an United States former professional American football player and sportscaster. In Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, 2006, he was the Republican Party nominee to run against the incumbent Ed Rendell for Pennsylvania Governor....
  • Tricia Takasugi
    Tricia Takasugi

    Tricia Takasugi is a general assignment reporter for KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles. She has previously been a reporter at KABC-TV during the late 1980's and early 1990's....
  • John Tunney
  • Dr. Art Ulene
  • Bill Van Amburg
  • Baxter Ward
    Baxter Ward

    Baxter Ward was a television news anchor who served two terms on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Prior to his election on the board, he ran third in an unsuccessful bid to unseat Samuel W....
  • Gene Washington
    Gene Washington

    Gene Washington was a NFL player for many years who played for the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions as a wide receiver. He also played football for Stanford University....
  • Bill Weir
    Bill Weir

    Bill Weir is co-anchor of Good Morning America Weekend Edition on American Broadcasting Company. He became news presenter when the show began on September 4, 2004....
  • Doris Winkler
  • Steve Wolford
  • Janet Zappala


    • Newscast titles

    • Southern California/Los Angeles Report (1950-1962)
    • Channel 7 News (1962-1969)
    • Channel 7 Eyewitness News (1969-1997)
    • ABC 7 Eyewitness News (1997-present)
    • ABC 7 Eyewitness News HD (February 2006-present)


    Movie Umbrella Titles

    • Movie 7 (1969-1990)
    • The 6:00 Movie (1967-1971)
    • The 6:30 Movie (1971-1974)
    • The 3:30 Movie
      The 4:30 Movie

      The 4:30 Movie was a television program that aired weekday afternoons on WABC-TV in New York City from 1968 to 1981. The program was mainly known for individual Theme weeks devoted to theatrical Film or Television movie starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular Film genre, or to films that spawned sequels....
       (1974-1981)
    • ABC 7 Movie Special (1996, 2005-present)
    • ABC 7 Prime Movie Special (2003-2004)
    • Channel 7 Midnight Movie (1993-1995)
    • Channel 7 Late Movie (1995-1998)
    • The Vampira Show
      The Vampira Show

      The Vampira Show is a 1950s Emmy Award-nominated television show hosted by Maila Nurmi. The series aired on the Los Angeles American Broadcasting Company KABC-TV from April 30, 1954 through April 2, 1955....
       (1954-1955)
    • The Saturday/Sunday Afternoon Movie (1969-1980s)
    • Hollywood Theatre
      Hollywood Theatre

      The Hollywood Theatre is a central historical point of the Hollywood District in northeast Portland, Oregon. It was built in 1926 and located across the street from Fred Meyer's first shopping center, currently occupied by Rite Aid....
       (1980s-1998)
    • ABC 7 Weekend Afternoon Movie (1998-present)
    • The Saturday/Sunday Night Movie (1969-1996)
    • The Monday Night Movie (1970-1981)
    • The ABC 7 Saturday/Sunday Night Movie (1996-present)
    • Insomniac Theatre (1992-2004)
    • Classic Theatre (1988-1995)


    Rebroadcasters

    KABC is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

    • Daggett
      Daggett, California

      Daggett is an unincorporated area town located in San Bernardino County, California. The town is located on Interstate 40 ten miles East of Barstow, California....
       - Baker
      Baker, California

      Baker is an unincorporated area community located in San Bernardino County, California, California, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 914....
       area.
    • Lucerne Valley
      Lucerne Valley, California

      Lucerne Valley is a small unincorporated community located in the Mojave Desert of western San Bernardino County, California, California. It lies east of the Victor Valley, whose population nexus includes Victorville, California, Apple Valley, California, and Hesperia, California....
       - Victor Valley area.
    • Palmdale
      Palmdale, California

      Palmdale is a city located in the northeast reaches of Los Angeles County, California, United States.The first community within the Antelope Valley to incorporate as a city , Palmdale is separated from Los Angeles, California by the San Gabriel Mountains range....
       - Antelope Valley
      Antelope Valley

      The Antelope Valley in California, United States is located in northern Los Angeles County, California and the southeastern portion of Kern County, California and constitutes the western tip of the Mojave Desert....
       area.
    • Newberry Springs
      Newberry Springs, California

      Newberry Springs is a unincorporated area San Bernardino County, California, California, United States. Interstates Interstate 15 in California and interstate 40 cross Newberry Springs along with the historic U.S....
       - Barstow
      Barstow, California

      Barstow is a city in San Bernardino County, California, California, United States. The population was 21,119 at the 2000 census.Barstow is a major regional transportation center....
       area.
    • Ridgecrest
      Ridgecrest, California

      Ridgecrest was incorporated as a city in 1963. Formerly known as Crumville. It is located in the Indian Wells Valley, California in northeastern Kern County, California adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake....
       - Eastern Kern County, California
      Kern County, California

      Kern County is a county located in the southern California Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Established in 1866, it extends east beyond the southern slope of the eastern Sierra Nevada into the Mojave Desert, and includes parts of the Indian Wells Valley, and the Antelope Valley, and has an area larger than the state of Connec...
      .
    • Ridgecrest
      Ridgecrest, California

      Ridgecrest was incorporated as a city in 1963. Formerly known as Crumville. It is located in the Indian Wells Valley, California in northeastern Kern County, California adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake....
       - Inyo County, California
      Inyo County, California

      Inyo County is located in east-central California in the southwestern United States, on the east side of the Sierra Nevada and south of Yosemite National Park....
      .


    See also

    • Circle 7 logo
    • KABC (AM)
      KABC (AM)

      KABC 790 AM is a Los Angeles radio station, and a West Coast flagship station for the Citadel Broadcasting company. A pioneer of the talk radio format, the station went "all-talk" in 1960 and was one of the first stations to do so....
       (790 kHz.)
    • KLOS-FM
      KLOS

      KLOS is an FM broadcasting classic rock radio station based in Los Angeles, California that debuted in 1969. KLOS is one of many The Walt Disney Company/ABC Radio stations that has now merged with Citadel Broadcasting....
       (95.5 MHz.)


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