KNTV, Channel 11, is the
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owned-and-operated
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in the
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market. It is licensed to
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, with its transmitter located on
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, just south of San Francisco. It shares facilities in San José with
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sister station
KSTSKSTS is the NBC Universal owned and operated Telemundo television station in the San Francisco Bay Area market. The station is located in San Jose, California and broadcasts on digital channel 49. KSTS shares facilities with NBC sister operation KNTV. The new all-digital broadcast center was opened...
, the
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station for the San Francisco Bay Area, and
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's
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Bureau. The all-new digital facilities were constructed in San José by NBC in 2004. The master control center and local commercial insertion for KNTV and
KSTSKSTS is the NBC Universal owned and operated Telemundo television station in the San Francisco Bay Area market. The station is located in San Jose, California and broadcasts on digital channel 49. KSTS shares facilities with NBC sister operation KNTV. The new all-digital broadcast center was opened...
are located at NBC Universal's West Coast headquarters in
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. It is also the largest—and perhaps only—local television station in the nation where only women anchor all of the evening newscasts. KNTV's studios are entirely powered by wind energy.
In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive NBC programs over-the-air, KNTV is available to
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customers as part of All American Direct's distant network package.
1950s-1990s
KNTV signed on the air on September 12, 1955. It was the first television station in San José and the South Bay, originally owned by Sunlite Bakery. KNTV was originally an
independent stationAn independent station is television terminology used to describe a television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any network...
, intended to cover the California coastal area from
MontereyThe City of Monterey in Monterey County is located on Monterey Bay along the Pacific coast in Central California. Variants of the city's name are recorded as Monte Rey and Montery. Monterey lies at an elevation of 26 feet above sea level. As of 2005, the city population was 30,641...
north to San Francisco. Its transmitter was located on Loma Prieta Peak, some 60 miles (100 km) south of San Francisco. It often aired
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,
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and NBC shows that were turned down by San Francisco's
KPIX-TVKPIX-TV is the CBS owned and operated television station in San Francisco, California. Through its parent company CBS Corporation, KPIX is co-owned with The CW affiliate KBCW-TV ....
and
KRON-TVKRON-TV, channel 4, is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to San Francisco, the station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 38. The station's transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco. The station is the flagship of Young Broadcasting...
, as well as some
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
shows that also aired on
KGO-TVKGO-TV, channel 7, based in San Francisco, California, is an owned-and-operated television station of The Walt Disney Company subsidiary ABC...
.
However, the station was not viable as an independent, and the going got even more difficult when Oakland-based
KTVUKTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. It has been owned by Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by...
signed on in 1958. However, due to its transmitter location, its signal could be received fairly well in the nearby
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area (
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and
SalinasSalinas is the county seat and the largest municipality of Monterey County, California. Salinas is located east-southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River, at an elevation of about 52 feet above sea level. The most current estimate from the California Department of Finance sets the 2006...
). Taking advantage of this, KNTV sought and was granted the ABC affiliation for the Monterey Bay area, on condition that it reduce its power so as not to overlap with KGO-TV; NBC affiliate KSBW dropped the secondary ABC affiliation around the same time. KNTV thus became one of the few stations located outside the market it served.
It was then purchased by Gill Cable, the local cable operator for San José. Even as an ABC affiliate, KNTV occasionally preempted a few ABC programs. KGO-TV, as an ABC O&O, cleared the entire ABC schedule, so this often gave San José and South Bay Area residents a second choice for viewing preempted ABC programming.
Gill Cable sold KNTV to what was then Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises LLC) in 1978. Twelve years later, Landmark sold the station to the
Granite Broadcasting CorporationGranite Broadcasting Corporation , founded by W. Don Cornwell and Stuart Beck in 1988, is a broadcasting holding company which owns or operates 14 television stations in the United States, largely centered in the midwest with a cluster in New York state...
, a minority-owned firm.
The end of the ABC era
In 1999, KGO-TV agreed to pay Granite a substantial fee to stop the station from running ABC programming when its affiliation contract expired. ABC's parent,
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, saw the need to expand KGO-TV's exclusive advertising market share to San José for this reason, and it felt KNTV was taking away from the share. So on July 3, 2000, KNTV terminated its ABC affiliation, and temporarily carried
WBThe WB Television Network, or simply The WB, was a television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture of Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. As a replacement, on January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
programming (simulcast with then co-owned KBWB-TV, now KOFY-TV). It cost the Monterey Bay area an ABC affiliate, so to compensate for the loss, KGO-TV was then added to cable systems in that market, but certain syndicated shows only meant for Bay Area viewers had to be SyndEx-ed out.
2001
In March 2001, the FCC ruled that KNTV was officially part of the San Francisco-Oakland-San José designated market area as
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had reclassified KNTV as part of the then fifth-largest market in September 2000 and KNTV had fulfilled FCC regulatory requirements to be considered part of the market by doubling its signal power to better cover the Bay Area.
In 2000, the deYoung family, owners of longtime affiliate
KRON-TVKRON-TV, channel 4, is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to San Francisco, the station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 38. The station's transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco. The station is the flagship of Young Broadcasting...
, had put all of its properties up for sale. NBC, which had been in the midst of renewing its affiliation agreement with KRON, jumped into the bidding, but narrowly lost to
Young BroadcastingYoung Broadcasting is an American holding company that owns 14 television stations in 11 media markets in the United States. The company is the outgrowth of the ad representation/invest firm Adam Young, Inc. which was founded in 1944 by Adam Young and is currently run in part by his son, Vincent...
. NBC responded by trying to impose Owned and Operated conditions on KRON as a condition of keeping its programming on channel 4. The network also made the unprecedented demand that Young pay the network $10 million a year to remain affiliated with NBC. Young refused, and announced that it would end KRON's 52-year affiliation with NBC at the end of 2001.
Soon afterward, Granite contacted NBC and
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an average of
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37 million annually (totaling roughly $362 million over 10 years) for the rights to broadcast NBC programs on KNTV. This agreement was ground-breaking and notable, as it reversed the long-standing model whereby networks paid affiliates to carry their programming. NBC accepted the deal, and KNTV officially joined NBC at the stroke of midnight on
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2002.
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officially welcomed NBC's newest station in a ceremony on
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. KNTV became the first major market affiliate to pay a network for programming. With KRON's loss of the affiliation, NBC was the only major network in the Bay Area to switch from one station to another. KNTV is the third Bay Area station to affiliate with NBC as primary CBS affiliate KPIX had the affiliation first (as a secondary) in 1948 upon its launch until KRON was launched the year after.
Local news coverage of
San José, CaliforniaSan Jose or San José is the third-largest city in California and the tenth-largest in the United States. The county seat of Santa Clara County, it is located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region commonly referred to as Silicon Valley...
was cut and the stations news coverage rebuilt to target the larger
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area audience. For Granite Broadcasting, the deal was expensive; the company showed a net loss of $44 million for the first three quarters of 2001, more than double their same-period losses one year previous. In an attempt to reduce debts, Granite started looking for a buyer for
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WB affiliate WDWB in October 2001.
In December 2001, NBC announced another twist on the deal: this time to purchase the station from cash-strapped Granite for $230 million. The network already owned
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station KSTS-TV in San José and wanted to create a
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in the Bay Area. The transaction was finalized in April 2002. To date, KNTV is the only Bay Area network O&O which is based
outside San Francisco.
2002-04
After the switch to NBC affiliation, KNTV was rebranded as
"NBC3" to reflect its position on cable channel 3 on nearly every cable system in the Bay Area. The
"NBC3" branding was Granite's idea, but backfired due to confusion with
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longtime NBC affiliate
KCRA-TVKCRA is a television station broadcasting on channel 3 in Sacramento, California. KCRA-TV is owned by Hearst Television, and has been an affiliate of the NBC Television Network since its inception...
, which is viewable over the air and on cable in parts of the North Bay and East Bay. NBC was moreover unimpressed with the "virtual channel" approach, and
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the station to
"NBC11" in fall 2002. While KNTV is the only VHF station in the region not to have a cable channel match the analog, the station contracted with cable provider AT&T Broadband (now
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) for the cable 3 allocation, previously unused by any other local station. It has always been on channel 3 on cable in San José, dating back to its first days. The marketing mishap meant that cities that carried KNTV on cable channel 11 had to move it down to channel 3 within months of the switch. During the
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, the station heavily promoted channel 11 through its "i11uminating" marketing campaign (with the number "11" used in place of the "L" letters).
Even in the early years as the new NBC affiliate, KNTV aired NBC's daytime drama lineup much later in the afternoon than most affiliates. KRON had done this for years as an NBC affiliate. Soon enough by August 2004, KNTV fell in line with the network's recommended time slot and now airs
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(NBC's remaining afternoon daytime drama) at the recommended 1pm timeslot.
On December 13, 2004, NBC converted vacant North San José office space into a state-of-the-art, all-digital facility for KNTV and KSTS. After 49 years, the station moved from its cramped, original studios on Park Avenue in downtown San José to the new location.
2005
In the early years as an NBC station, KNTV still broadcast from its longtime transmitter location on Loma Prieta Peak (located between San José and
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), but did not increase its power to improve its coverage in San Francisco and Oakland. This caused two problems. First, the signal could not be seen over the air in much of the San Francisco Bay Area north of San Mateo County, including much of San Francisco itself. Second, because of the affiliation and market switches, it was dropped from or had NBC programming blocked in many cable systems in the Monterey Bay Area (Salinas/Monterey DMA) under SyndEx guidelines; even so, the signal was still overlapping with nearby Salinas's
KSBWKSBW is a television station in the United States and is the NBC affiliate for the Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, California market, with studios in Salinas. The station is owned by the Hearst Corporation, and is located on channel 8. Its news programs are entitled Action News 8...
, another NBC affiliate.
That all changed on September 12, 2005, when KNTV was able to finally move its transmitter to
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, giving it a signal comparable to the other major Bay Area stations. The move came after years of objection from Young Broadcasting, owner of KRON, which in its filings alleged that KNTV would cease to serve thousands of San José residents by moving closer to San Francisco.
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2006
With a signal that finally reached nearly all of the San Francisco Bay Area, and operating from a state-of-the-art digital broadcast facility, KNTV was able to become a factor in the Bay Area ratings for the first time since the network switch.
Some San Francisco residents, especially in the Sunset and Richmond districts of San Francisco, still found it difficult to receive an adequate off-air signal, because KNTV broadcasts its signal from
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, giving it a shadow in these particular areas. Most of their competitors' signals originated from the
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, which has a better overall view of San Francisco proper, although at the expense of those in northern San Mateo County, where San Bruno Mountain acts as a shield. However, most of the Bay Area is covered with a strong signal from all of the stations.
The year closed, however, with a devastating fire at the retired transmitting facility on Loma Prieta Peak. The fire was quickly extinguished on the afternoon of December 31. However, the fire re-ignited after firefighters had left the scene, and destroyed the formerly-primary analog and digital transmitters, which had only been retired a few months earlier and were in backup status, as well as a variety of other communications gear.
2007
In January 2007
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moved its
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bureau, formerly located at the Wall Street Journal in Palo Alto, into the NBC11/T48 San José studios. Jim Goldman (a former reporter at the pre-NBC KNTV and then-NBC KRON) is the bureau chief, and the main CNBC reporter covering the financial aspects of Silicon Valley. Their set (seen daily nationally on CNBC) occupies a portion of the KNTV newsroom.
In May 2007, Rich Cerussi, Executive Vice President of the NBC Station Group's national sales organization in New York was named KNTV President and General Manager, succeeding Linda Sullivan, who was named President and General Manager of
KNBCKNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California. Its studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California and its transmitter is based on Mount Wilson...
in Los Angeles. Cerussi had previously served as KNTV's general sales manager under both Granite and NBC ownership.
On June 17, 2007, KNTV introduced former
ABC7KGO-TV, channel 7, based in San Francisco, California, is an owned-and-operated television station of The Walt Disney Company subsidiary ABC...
anchor Jessica Aguirre to the new 5 PM newscast, a stand-up interactive newscast where viewers were able to chat live online during the newscast. In addition, a Fast Feedback on the day's news was introduced to the station, in which viewers could comment on what they thought of the issue. In late April, 2008, the format changed as the anchors were no longer standing up throughout the newscast due to the control room undergoing messy construction in the background of the studio, due to the station receiving an HD upgrade. Also,
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started anchoring the 5 PM broadcast while Jessica switched over to 6 PM; however, the interactive live chat/discussion along with the fast feedback still remains on the newscast.
On November 1, 2007, KNTV announced that it would become the new flagship station for the
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' for the next three years, through 2010. The Giants had aired their games on
KTVUKTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. It has been owned by Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by...
since moving to the Bay Area in 1958. The debut on KNTV was on April 1, 2008.
2008
Falling in line with many of the
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job layoffs of the past two years, on June 29, KNTV trimmed the jobs of San Francisco/Oakland Reporters Noelle Walker, Ethan Harp, Christien Kafton, and San José reporter Daniel Garza. Other behind-the-scenes jobs were cut involving production, engineering, clerical staff and Control Room Operations.
On July 20, 2008, the first day KNTV broadcast in HD, KNTV changed its on-air branding from "NBC11" to "NBC Bay Area". Graphics, style and music were changed on air, similar to other NBC owned-and-operated stations (ie.
KNBCKNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California. Its studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California and its transmitter is based on Mount Wilson...
in
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&
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in
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). The "NBC 11"
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is retained on their syndicated and local programs; additionally the station's website continued to be branded as "NBC 11" until October 16, when it was also renamed to "NBC Bay Area" (though this is part of a larger relaunch of the NBC O&O stations' websites and is not related to the on-air rebrand). For the 11:00 p.m. news broadcast, the station retained the "11@11" moniker for the 11:00 p.m. news broadcast, but de-emphasized it. The station also retained the "top stories in the first eleven minutes" saying at the beginning of the 11:00 p.m. newscast, but no longer ran non-stop news and a weather summary during the first eleven minutes.
2009
For the first half of 2009, the recession forced NBC to direct KNTV to continue its cost cutting. KNTV extended its job cuts with additional rounds of lay-offs. These lay-offs went deep into the organization, forcing KNTV to shed some of its most valuable talent, including Chief Weatherman John Farley. Cost cutting included closing the Sacramento bureau, and the layoff of NBC Sacramento Bureau Chief Mike Leury. NBC closed their San Francisco sales office, closing the KNTV bureau. The Oakland mini-bureau, located near Oakland Coliseum, was also closed. Reporters and photographers are being asked to work from their cars, their homes, or request work space from government agencies.
Additionally, with the birth of triplets, morning anchor Laura Garcia-Cannon went on leave and was temporarily replaced by Susan Blake, a former anchor at KRON who had been off-the-air for many years.
Susan Sullivan, VP of News, after completing her cost cutting plan, has decided to leave for WNBC New York, where she will be expected to implement similar austere measures and cost cuts.
Digital television
Digital channels>
| Virtual Channel |
Digital Channel |
Programming |
| 11.1 |
12.1 |
main KNTV/NBC programming |
| 11.2 |
12.2 |
NBC Plus |
| 11.3 |
12.3 |
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|
NBC Plus, formerly
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is carried as subchannel 11.2; the national network is defunct as of December 2008; however, a computer-updated loop of satellite/radar images, current weather conditions and temperatures, and daily forecasts for major regions of the country are still being shown. The "L" Bar still updates weather conditions in the Bay Area and still gives a five day forecast.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KNTV shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009 as part of the DTV transition, it remained on channel 12
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is used to display KNTV's
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as 11 on digital television receivers. KNTV is now the largest NBC affiliate on the VHF band — and the only NBC O&O to broadcast on VHF.
Newscasts
In the days as an ABC affiliate, KNTV billed itself as
"The San José News Channel" because its news reports primarily catered to
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viewers almost exclusively. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the KNTV news theme was based on the 1968 hit song "
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." KNTV then competed with
KSBWKSBW is a television station in the United States and is the NBC affiliate for the Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, California market, with studios in Salinas. The station is owned by the Hearst Corporation, and is located on channel 8. Its news programs are entitled Action News 8...
and KMST/KCCN (now
KION-TVKION-TV is a full-power television station in Salinas, California, broadcasting on digital channel 32 as a CBS affiliate. The stations continues to use UHF channel 46 as its virtual channel through the use of PSIP. KION-TV shows local news, weather, and sports programming, as well as syndicated...
) which were both located in the immediate part of Monterey Bay. Today, the station produces live newscasts at 4:30 a.m., 5 a.m., 6 a.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. each weekday; 7 a.m., 5 p.m., 6 and 11 p.m. on weekends (except during football season when the 5 and 6 p.m. Sunday newscasts are pre-empted for NBC's "Football Night in America." Upon the affiliation and market switch, KNTV was added to the competition with
KTVUKTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. It has been owned by Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by...
,
KRON-TVKRON-TV, channel 4, is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to San Francisco, the station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 38. The station's transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco. The station is the flagship of Young Broadcasting...
, KPIX and
KGO-TVKGO-TV, channel 7, based in San Francisco, California, is an owned-and-operated television station of The Walt Disney Company subsidiary ABC...
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Newscast titles
- News 11 (1970s
The 1970s was the decade that ran from January 1, 1970, to December 31, 1979.In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and political and economic liberty of women, continued to grow...
-1987)
- The San José NewsChannel
NewsChannel is a popular name of local television station newscasts in the United States....
(1987-1995)
- NewsChannel
NewsChannel is a popular name of local television station newscasts in the United States....
11 (1995-December 31, 2001)
- NBC 3 News (January 1, 2002-September 16, 2002)
- NBC 11 News (September 16, 2002-July 20, 2008)
- NBC Bay Area (July 20, 2008-present)
Station Slogans
- We're With You, on 11 with You (1984-1985; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- The San José News Channel (1987-1998)
- The South Bay's News Leader (1998-2000)
- The Fastest Growing News Station in Northern California (2000-2001)
- The Bay Area's NBC11 / The Bay Area's Leading News Station (2001-2008)
- Proud To Call The Bay Area Home (2008-present)
Current
Anchors
- Jessica Aguirre
Jessica D. Aguirre is an American television journalist. She is the 6pm & 11pm anchor for KNTV NBC11 News, the NBC O&O station in San Francisco, California. She formerly worked for KGO-TV Channel 7.-External links:*...
, anchor, 6pm & 11pm
- Susan Blake, morning anchor - fill-in for Laura Garcia-Cannon
- Brent Cannon, anchor, 4:30 am, 5am & 6am
- Diane Dwyer, weekend anchor, 5pm, 6pm & 11pm
- Laura Garcia-Cannon, anchor, 4:30am, 5am & 6am
- Lisa Kim
Elizabeth Lee Kim-Lohmann , known professionally as Lisa Kim, is a television news anchor for an NBC-affiliated station in the San Francisco Bay Area and a former news anchor for MSNBC.- Early life and education :...
, anchor, 5pm and 11pm
- Tom Sinkovitz, anchor, 5pm and 6pm
- Kris Sanchez, weekend morning anchor/San José bureau reporter/fill-in weekday anchor
Reporters
- Mary Babbit, In Wine Country host
- Scott Budman, Business & Tech reporter/"Tech Now" host/fill-in anchor
- Stacey Ciauri, freelance reporter
- Jean Elle, San Francisco bureau reporter
- Marianne Favro, reporter/health reporter
- Monte Francis, freelance reporter
- Larry Gerston, Ph.D., political analyst
- Traci Grant, San Francisco bureau reporter
- Jodi Hernandez, Oakland bureau reporter
- Cheryl Hurd, San Francisco bureau reporter/fill-in anchor
- Mike Inouye, traffic anchor
- George Kiriyama, San José bureau reporter
- Scott McGrew, Business & Tech morning reporter/"Tech Now" producer/reporter/"Press:Here" moderator
- Jeanette Pavini, "The Real Deal" host
- Vicky Nguyen
Vicky Nguyen is a television reporter who works as the San Jose Bureau reporter at KNTV in San Jose. Previously, she worked as a collaborator at Phoenix, Arizona's KSAZ-TV channel.Her website is www.vickynguyen.com- Education :...
, San José bureau reporter
- Bob Redell, San José bureau/fill in traffic anchor
- Laurence Scott, reporter/sports anchor-reporter
- Christie Smith, Oakland/East Bay bureau reporter
- Kimberly Tere, freelance reporter
- Garvin Thomas, San José Bureau reporter/fill-in anchor
- Damian Trujillo, "Comunidad Del Valle" host/South Bay bureau reporter
Weather
- Rob Mayeda
Rob Mayeda is currently a meteorologist, reporter and segment producer for KNTV in San Jose, California.- Education :Mayeda attended Chaminade College Preparatory in West Hills, California and graduated from the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1994 with a Bachelors degree in Journalism and English...
, meteorologist
- Craig Herrera, morning meteorologist
- Jeff Ranieri
Jeff Ranieri is a meteorologist for NBC affiliate KNTV in San Francisco. Ranieri previously reported for NBC NEWS on Early Today, and MSNBC weekday mornings & afternoons. He was also a meteorologist for Weekend Today Saturday...
- Pablo Pereira, Fill in Meteorologist also does KNBC Weather
Sports
- Raj Mathai, sports anchor/sports director/fill-in news anchor
- Laura Behnke, sports anchor/reporter
- Laurence Scott, sports anchor-reporter/reporter
KNTV alumni and where are there now
- Eric Alvarez, freelance reporter (2007)
- Jennifer Arterburn (2000-2004) now associate at the Nixon Peabody, LLP law firm
- Justin Allen (2002-2004) later to KXTV
KXTV, channel 10, is an ABC affiliate in Sacramento, California. It is owned and operated by the Gannett Company. Its transmitter tower is located in Walnut Grove, California, and studios are located on Broadway, just south of Business Loop 80 at the south edge of downtown Sacramento...
in Sacramento, now at WTSP in Tampa
- Chauncey Bailey
Chauncey Wendell Bailey, Jr. was an American journalist, noted for his work primarily on issues of the African-American community. He served as editor-in-chief of The Oakland Post from June 2007 until he was shot dead on August 2, 2007...
(1970-1971) on-air reporter, later Post editor murdered in Oakland 2007
- Cornell Barnard reporter, now at KXTV
KXTV, channel 10, is an ABC affiliate in Sacramento, California. It is owned and operated by the Gannett Company. Its transmitter tower is located in Walnut Grove, California, and studios are located on Broadway, just south of Business Loop 80 at the south edge of downtown Sacramento...
- Lisa Beckett (2002-2005) former freelance morning reporter/head writer at KTVU
KTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. It has been owned by Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by...
for Mornings On Two before joining NBC11, now real estate agent
- Lisa Bernard, (1999-April 2009) San Francisco bureau reporter
- Dina Braun traffic reporter (1996-2001) now spokesperson for the Valley Transportation Authority
- Marc Brown
Marc Alan Brown is an television news anchor 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...
(1985-1987) anchor at KABCKABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated and West Coast flagship television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California...
in LA
- Jim Byrne (2004 and 2006) sub-meteorologist for Shannon O'Donnell while on maternity leave in 2004 and 2006. Still chief meteorlogist at KCOY-TV
KCOY-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Central Coast of California that is licensed to Santa Maria. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter on Tepusquet Peak in the Los Padres National Forest east of Santa Maria. Owned by the Cowles...
- Kelly Carr, sports fill-in anchor/reporter * (January-July 2007 Then May-June 2008 December '08-January 2009) now at KFIG
KFIG is a Sports Talk station in Fresno, California, United States. The station broadcasts at 1430 kHz on the AM dial.KFIG serves as the local affiliate for ESPN Radio. It is also an affiliate of the Los Angeles Lakers, San Francisco 49ers, San Francisco Giants, and San Jose Sharks.-External links:*...
in Fresno
- Sandy Castelblanco, anchor (1997-2006)
- Rigo Chacon reporter, then at KGO-TV
KGO-TV, channel 7, based in San Francisco, California, is an owned-and-operated television station of The Walt Disney Company subsidiary ABC...
- Sean Comey reporter, then at KPIX, currently media spokesperson for California State Automobile Association
- Kevin Cooney (1979-1982) now main anchor at KCCI
KCCI is a television station that broadcasts on channel 8 in Des Moines, Iowa. It is affiliated with the CBS television network and serves most of central Iowa. Owned by Hearst Television, KCCI has studios in downtown Des Moines. The station's transmitter is located in Alleman, Iowa, about midway...
in Des Moines, Iowa
- Mollie Cooney (1979-1982) now noon anchor at KCCI
KCCI is a television station that broadcasts on channel 8 in Des Moines, Iowa. It is affiliated with the CBS television network and serves most of central Iowa. Owned by Hearst Television, KCCI has studios in downtown Des Moines. The station's transmitter is located in Alleman, Iowa, about midway...
- Tom Curran (1980s) sports anchor, now at WTVT
WTVT, channel 13, is a television station in Tampa, Florida. It is an owned and operated station of the Fox Broadcasting Company, a subsdiary of the News Corporation. WTVT's studios are located in Tampa, and its transmitter is located in Riverview, Florida....
in Tampa
- Allen Denton
Allen Denton is an American Television Journalist. He was a news co-anchor of San Jose, CA-based NBC11's flagship news program, The Bay Area at 11...
(2000-2007) anchor, 6pm & 11pm, Now at KUSI
- Chris Donohoe (1995-1998) weather anchor, later sub-weather anchor at KTVU
KTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. It has been owned by Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by...
- Janice Edwards, (2002-April 2009) Community Affairs and "Bay Area Vista" host
- Atle Erlingsson freelance reporter (2005-2006)
- Charlotte Fadipe freelance reporter (2007-2009)
- John Farley chief meteorologist (1996-2009)
- Chris Flanagan weekend sports anchor (2000-2004), later main anchor at WOI
WOI-DT is the ABC affiliate licensed to Ames in the Des Moines, Iowa market. Its studios are in West Des Moines. Its transmission tower is located near Alleman.-History:...
in Des Moines (2004-2008), now morning anchor at WFAA-TVWFAA is a duPont-Columbia Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning ABC television affiliate serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, one of the top ten media markets in North America. The station is the flagship of Belo Corporation and the largest ABC affiliate not owned and operated by the network...
Dallas/Fort Worth
- Sasha Foo (2001-2002) currently at KUSI
KUSI-TV is an independent television station based in San Diego, California. The station is owned and operated by Channel 51 of San Diego, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of McKinnon Broadcasting...
in San Diego
- June Foster (1999-2002) now at WFAA
WFAA is a duPont-Columbia Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning ABC television affiliate serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, one of the top ten media markets in North America. The station is the flagship of Belo Corporation and the largest ABC affiliate not owned and operated by the network...
in Dallas
- Steve Gannon (1996-2000) now sub-sports anchor at KHOU
KHOU-TV is the local CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, owned by Belo Corporation. It broadcasts on Channel 11, and its transmitter is located in Missouri City, Texas at an antenna farm, along with all other Houston broadcast stations.-History:...
in Houston
- Judy Garcia (1994-1997) weekend anchor
- Daniel Garza, San José bureau reporter (2001-2008)
- Roberta Gonzales meteorologist now at KPIX
- Melanie Garrett (2000, 2001, and 2002) substitute traffic reporter while at KSBW-TV Monterey in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Now a DJ at KXKL-FM Denver)
- Stephanie Guadian weekend anchor/reporter (2000-2002) most recently weekend anchor at KTRK-TV
KTRK-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Houston, Texas...
in Houston (2002-2008) but was let go by the station.
- Greg Gurule (2000-2004) then to KRQE
KRQE is a local television news station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a CBS network affiliate and broadcasts on channel 13. KRQE is currently owned by LIN TV and is sister station to KASA-TV...
in Albuquerque, now at KPHO in Phoenix
- Robert Handa reporter then to KQED/PBS then to KPIX now at KTVU
KTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. It has been owned by Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by...
- Ethan Harp, San José/Oakland bureau reporter (2003-2008), now writer CNN NY
- Darryl Hawks Weekend Sports Anchor/Sports Reporter (2004-2008, now at NBC 5 Chicago
WMAQ-TV is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, located in Chicago, Illinois. WMAQ-TV's main studios and offices are located within the NBC Tower in the Streeterville neighborhood, with an auxiliary street-level studio on the Magnificent Mile at 401 N. Michigan...
)
- Stacey Hendler-Ross weekend anchor/reporter (1989-1994)
- Brad Hicks (1998-2003) now anchor at WITI in Milwaukee
- TJ Holmes (2003-2006) 5pm anchor, now weekend morning anchor and weekday morning reporter/fill-in anchor at CNN
Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is an U.S. cable news network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first network to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States...
- Joe Hoskinson temporary traffic reporter (2004-2005) later at KPIX-TV
KPIX-TV is the CBS owned and operated television station in San Francisco, California. Through its parent company CBS Corporation, KPIX is co-owned with The CW affiliate KBCW-TV ....
, now weekend traffic at KCBSKCBS is an all-news radio station in San Francisco, California, that is a key West Coast flagship radio station of the CBS Radio Network and Westwood One...
- Terilyn Joe anchor (2000-2002)
- Linton Johnson
Linton Johnson III is a American professional basketball player who is currently a member of the Orlando Magic....
anchor/reporter (2000-2004) now the chief spokesperson for BART
- Christian Kafton reporter, now at KTVU
KTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. It has been owned by Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by...
- Bill Kappel weather anchor, 1998-2001
- Sharon Katsuda reporter (1997-2004)
- Janet Kim reporter (1996-2000)
- Sue Kwon reporter (1998-2004) now at KPIX-TV
KPIX-TV is the CBS owned and operated television station in San Francisco, California. Through its parent company CBS Corporation, KPIX is co-owned with The CW affiliate KBCW-TV ....
- Fred LaCosse anchor (1970-1973)
- Ellis Levinson consumer reporter (1996-2000)
- Mike Luery, (2006-April 2009)"Capitol Insider"/Sacramento bureau chief/reporter
- Sherri Ly (2001-2002), now reporter at WTTG
WTTG Channel 5 is an owned-and-operated TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It's located in Washington, D.C. and serves the entire Washington metropolitan area from a studio and transmitter located in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington...
Washington, D.C
- Jess Marlow
Myron Jess Marlow is a retired Los Angeles television newsman. He hails from Salem, IL and was an anchor at KNTV-TV, KNBC-TV and KCBS-TV for over 40 years, beginning in the late 1950s...
moved to LA and joined KNBCKNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California. Its studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California and its transmitter is based on Mount Wilson...
in 1966, KNXT/KCBSKCBS-TV is the West Coast flagship 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 section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount...
in 1980, rejoined KNBCKNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California. Its studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California and its transmitter is based on Mount Wilson...
in 1986, retired with KCETKCET is the PBS member-television station in Los Angeles, California. It is one of four PBS member stations serving Greater Los Angeles, the others being KVCR-TV, KOCE-TV, and KLCS. Broadcasting on channel 28, the studio is located at 4401 West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood...
- Marla Miller morning news anchor/entertainment reporter, now writer at NBC11 News
- Byron Miranda, Freelance Meteorologist (early 2007-June 2008), later at KTVU
KTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. It has been owned by Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by...
and KIRO-TVKIRO-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Seattle, Washington. It broadcasts on digital channel 39. The station's offices and broadcasting center are located near Seattle Center in the Denny Regrade neighborhood, and its transmitter is located on Queen Anne Hill, Seattle, Washington...
, now weekend morning anchor at KCRA-TVKCRA is a television station broadcasting on channel 3 in Sacramento, California. KCRA-TV is owned by Hearst Television, and has been an affiliate of the NBC Television Network since its inception...
Sacramento
- Doug Moore (1979-2001)
- Catherine Mylinh
Catherine Mylinh is an American journalist. Her latest assignments were for the NBC affiliate in Fresno, where she covered the Central Valley from January 2005 to May 2008. She also served as KSEE weekend anchor, first for KSEE Sunrise Saturdays , then as evening reader for KSEE 24 News at 6/11...
freelance weather anchor (2008-2009)
- Penny Nakamura reporter (1991-1994)
- Christine Nubla traffic anchor (2001-2005), then anchor for SportsRise at Comcast Sportsnet
Comcast SportsNet is a group of regional sports networks in the United States that is primarily owned by the Comcast cable television company....
in Philly 2005-2006, now with Fox Sports
- Stephanie O'Brien sports reporter/anchor (2000-2002)
- Shannon O'Donnell
Shannon Kay O'Donnell is a meteorologist and news anchor.O'Donnell was born in Redmond, Washington and attended Redmond High School where she was valedictorian. After graduation, she attended The University of Washington where she studied meteorology, graduating with a degree in atmospheric sciences...
(2001-2007) weekend/morning weather meteorologist, later KINGKING-TV, channel 48, is a television station in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is affiliated with the NBC network, and broadcasts on digital UHF channel 48. Its offices and broadcasting center are located just east of Seattle Center. The station's transmitter is located in the Queen Anne neighborhood...
, KONGKONG is a television station based in Seattle, Washington. Owned by the Belo Corporation, KONG's city of license is Everett, Washington. It is a sister station to KING-TV, and is run out of KING's studios just east of Seattle Center....
/NWCN now freelance weather anchor at KOMO-TVKOMO-TV is a television station in Seattle, Washington. It is an affiliate of ABC and broadcasts on digital channel 38. KOMO is the flagship station of Fisher Communications, and its studios are located in Fisher Plaza along with sister stations KOMO AM, KPLZ-FM, and KVI, directly across the street...
in Seattle
- Nick O'Kelly morning/weekend weather anchor (1998-2003), then morning weather anchor at KUSA
KUSA, Channel 9, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Denver, Colorado. KUSA is owned by the Gannett Company, and is a sister station to KTVD , Denver's MyNetworkTV affiliate...
in Denver (2004-2007)
- Pete Pepper anchor/reporter (1982-1989)
- Susan Siravo weekend anchor/reporter, "Sports Sunday" co-host (2000-2007) now with the Santa Clara Valley Water District
- Brian Sussman
Brian Sussman is an American talk radio host on the San Francisco radio station KSFO.-Television career:Sussman is also known in the San Francisco area as the former weatherman at CBS station KPIX during the evening newscast. During his tenure at KPIX, he also anchored the weekly segment Brian's...
(1980s?) now with KSFO
- Flip Spiceland CNN weathercaster in the 1980s.
- Victoria Recano
Victoria Ann Recaño is an Emmy Award-winning American television personality, best known for being a correspondent on such programs as The Insider and Inside Edition....
anchor/reporter (January-June 2002), then anchor for Inside EditionInside Edition is a syndicated news program, on the air since January 9, 1989. It was originally similar to the programs Hard Copy and A Current Affair, but now more closely resembles Entertainment Tonight or The Insider. It was created by John Tomlin and Bob Young for King World Productions Inside...
, now reporter for The InsiderThe Insider is a tabloid television news program covering events and celebrities. It debuted on September 13, 2004 as a spinoff of Entertainment Tonight and started as a popular segment that took viewers "behind closed doors" and gave them "inside" information...
- Ric Romero
Ric Romero is the consumer reporter for KABC, a television station in the U.S. city of Los Angeles.Born in Los Angeles, Romero graduated from San José State University with a degree in Broadcasting and Business and a minor in Theatre Arts...
(1977-1978) now at KABCKABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated and West Coast flagship television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California...
- Ted Rowlands reporter (1997-2001) later to KTVU
KTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. It has been owned by Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by...
, now reporting for CNNCable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is an U.S. cable news network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first network to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States...
- Kathy Sabine (1988-1991) current chief forecaster at KUSA
KUSA, Channel 9, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Denver, Colorado. KUSA is owned by the Gannett Company, and is a sister station to KTVD , Denver's MyNetworkTV affiliate...
- Maggi Scura (1977-2000)
- Catt Sadler
Catt Sadler is a television personality on E!: Entertainment Television as a host on high rated series, The Daily Ten. She has two sons...
entertainment reporter (1998-2002), then WXIN-TV/WXIN-DT, now entertainment reporter for E!E!: Entertainment Television is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network. From November 2006 onwards, it became wholly owned by Comcast.- History :...
- Cody Stark (2004) substitute meteorologist for Shannon O'Donnell while on maternity leave in 2004. Morning meteorologist at KOVR and host of Good Day Sacramento for KMAX
KMAX-TV is the CBS Corporation's CW affiliate serving the Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, California broadcast area. In May 2005, the station merged its operations with the local CBS station, KOVR , which the CBS Corp. just recently purchased -- making both the only English network O&O's in the market...
- Kim Stephens (2000-2003), now morning "Great Day" anchor at KMPH
KMPH-TV is a television station in Fresno, California broadcasting digitally on television channel 28, and is licensed to nearby Visalia. It is the Fresno-area affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company...
in Fresno/Visalia
- Sandra Stricker weekend anchor (1995-1999)
- Will Tran (1996-2000) now reporter at KRON)
- Jonas Tichenor reporter (2002-2004)
- Gina Villareal (1995-2001) Commuidad del Valle co-host, then KSBY and KCOY
KCOY-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Central Coast of California that is licensed to Santa Maria. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter on Tepusquet Peak in the Los Padres National Forest east of Santa Maria. Owned by the Cowles...
Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo in 2003. Now at KXTVKXTV, channel 10, is an ABC affiliate in Sacramento, California. It is owned and operated by the Gannett Company. Its transmitter tower is located in Walnut Grove, California, and studios are located on Broadway, just south of Business Loop 80 at the south edge of downtown Sacramento...
- Ken Wayne (1989-1993) Weekend anchor, now weekend anchor at KTVU
KTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. It has been owned by Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by...
Oakland
- Noelle Walker, Oakland bureau reporter (2005-2008, now at KPIX)
- Beth Willon (1994-2004) later chief of staff for Senator Jackie Speier
Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier, known as Jackie Speier , is the Democratic Representative for California's 12th congressional district...
- John Zuchelli (2001-2006) Assignment Manager. Now News Director, KCOY/KKFX Television, Santa Maria, CA
KNTV/NBC Bay Area General Manager & Studio location
Rich Cerussi, President/General Manager, KNTV
- San José Main Office and Studios: 2450 North First Street, San José, CA 95131
- San Francisco Sales/News Bureau: 848 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 (NOW CLOSED)
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