KSNT
Encyclopedia
KSNT is the NBC
-affiliated television station
for Topeka, Kansas
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter at its studios on Northwest 27th Street (U.S. 24
) near the Kiro section of Topeka. Owned by New Vision Television
, the station is sister to and shares facilities with Class A
Fox affiliate KTMJ-CA
, it also operates ABC
affiliate KTKA-TV
under a shared services agreement
with PBC Broadcasting. Syndicated
programming on KSNT includes: Oprah
, Dr. Phil
, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
.
On cable, KSNT is carried on analog channel 7 in standard definition and digital channel 2007 in high definition on Cox Communications
in Topeka, on analog channel 8 in standard definition and digital channel 208 in high definition on Knology
in the Lawrence area, and on analog channel 8 in standard definition on RESNET
in Lawrence
.
This station's digital signal is multiplexed:>
Channel
Video
Aspect
Name
Programming
27.1
1080i
16:9
KSNT
Main KSNT / NBC HD programming
27.2
720p
16:9
KTMJ-CA
Simulcast of KTMJ-CA
founding owner of the Buffalo Bills
NFL
football team. It was Topeka's second commercial television station and the first full-powered UHF station in Kansas
. The station has been an NBC affiliate from the first day. Unlike most then two-station markets
, KTSB did not take a formal secondary affiliation with ABC
but did clear a few shows from that network. It had little need to air many ABC shows because KMBC-TV
in Kansas City
and KQTV
in St. Joseph both decently cover Topeka. In any case, KTKA got the ABC affiliation when it signed-on in 1983.
In 1982, George Hatch (owner of the Kansas State Network based at KARD-TV in Wichita
now KSNW
) bought the station. Later that year, this station was renamed KSNT as part of an effort to help viewers think of the KSN stations as part of one large network. During the next few years, the station referred to itself as KSN but only did limited simulcasting with KSNW and the other three KSN stations in Western Kansas, but still provides stories from the northeast area to KSNW and the other KSN stations and KSNW providing central and western Kansas news stories to KSNT today, in addition to University of Kansas Jayhawks basketball games and NBC programming. While in its role as airing partial simulcasts of KSNW programming, it used the Hello News music package until 1986.
George Lilly (SJL Communications
) purchased the station from Hatch in 1990 along with KSNW and eventually dismantled part of the microwave system that linked the two stations in a cost cutting effort. In 1995, Lee Enterprises
picked up the KSN group including KSNT. In 2000, Emmis Communications
acquired the KSN stations but eventually sold it back to Montecito Broadcasting Group (formerly SJL Communications) for $259 million.
It was announced in April 2006 that KSNT-DT2 would be Northeast Kansas' home of the The CW beginning on September 18. On July 24, 2007, Montecito announced the sale of all of its stations (KSNT, KSNW and its satellites, plus KHON-TV
in Honolulu
and its satellites, and KOIN
in Portland
) to New Vision Television. The sale closed on November 1 of that year. In July 2008, New Vision purchased low-powered Fox affiliate KTMJ, and in November, replaced The CW programming on KSNT-DT2 with a digital broadcast of that channel since it did not air one of its own due to being a Class A station. KTMJ moved from its original studios on Southwest Southgate Drive in Topeka to KSNT's facilities.
On February 4, 2011, Free State Communications announced that would sell KTKA-TV to PBC Broadcasting, which also owns stations in Youngstown, OH
and Savannah, GA
. Both operations are part of shared service
and local marketing agreement
s with stations owned by KSNT's owner New Vision Television
in their respective markets, suggesting that KTKA would be structured under the same sort of arrangement with KSNT. Despite objections to the sale by the American Cable Association that the sale could give the virtual triopoly too much leverage in retransmission consent
negotiations, leaving the possibility of the blackout of three of Topeka's network affiliates should retrans negotiations with area pay television providers break down in the future, the FCC approved the sale of KTKA to PBC Broadcasting for $1.5 million on July 21, 2011.
On July 30, 2011, KSNT and KTMJ-CA combined its news operations with KTKA-TV, under the banner name of Kansas First News; the newscasts are based out of the KSNT studios. The arrangement is similar to other virtual triopoly joint news operations such as Raycom Media
/MCG Capital's Hawaii News Now
in Honolulu, Hawaii
and Granite
/Malara
's Indiana's NewsCenter
in Fort Wayne, Indiana
and Northland's NewsCenter
in Duluth, Minnesota
.
First Warning Weather Team
Sports team
Reporters
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for Topeka, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka |Kansa]]: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was...
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter at its studios on Northwest 27th Street (U.S. 24
U.S. Route 24
U.S. Route 24 is one of the original United States highways of 1926. It originally ran from Pontiac, Michigan, in the east to Kansas City, Missouri, in the west. Today, the highway's eastern terminus is west of Clarkston, Michigan, at an intersection with I-75 and its western terminus is near...
) near the Kiro section of Topeka. Owned by New Vision Television
New Vision Television
New Vision Television is a broadcast company based in Los Angeles, California. The company owns or manages 18 television stations in medium sized markets.-New Vision I:...
, the station is sister to and shares facilities with Class A
Class A television service
The class A television service is a system for regulating some low-power television stations in the United States. Class A stations are denoted by the broadcast callsign suffix "-CA" or "-CD" , although very many analog -CA stations have a digital companion channel that was assigned the -LD...
Fox affiliate KTMJ-CA
KTMJ-CA
KTMJ-CA is the Class A Fox-affiliated television station for Topeka, Kansas. It broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter in the city between the Kansas River and I-70/U.S. 40/U.S. 75/KS 4...
, it also operates ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting 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. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate KTKA-TV
KTKA-TV
KTKA-TV, channel 49, is the ABC-affiliated television station in Topeka, Kansas. Owned by PBC Broadcasting, the station is operated by New Vision Television though a shared services agreement with NBC affiliate KSNT and low-powered Fox affiliate KTMJ-CA. Its studios are located on Northwest 27th...
under a shared services agreement
Shared services
Shared services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an...
with PBC Broadcasting. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on KSNT includes: Oprah
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, Dr. Phil
Dr. Phil (TV series)
Dr. Phil is a reality/talk television show hosted by Phil McGraw. After McGraw's success with his segments on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil debuted on September 16, 2002...
, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (US game show)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is an American television quiz show which offers a maximum prize of $1,000,000 for correctly answering 14 consecutive multiple-choice questions of random difficulty. Until 2010, the format required contestants to correctly answer 15 consecutive questions of increasing...
.
On cable, KSNT is carried on analog channel 7 in standard definition and digital channel 2007 in high definition on Cox Communications
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
in Topeka, on analog channel 8 in standard definition and digital channel 208 in high definition on Knology
Knology
Knology Inc. is a cable company that formed in 1994 by ITC Holding Company, Inc, a telecommunications holding company in West Point, Georgia that also founded Internet service provider Mindspring. In late 1994, shortly after Knology's inception, two employees made a $600,000 investment to make...
in the Lawrence area, and on analog channel 8 in standard definition on RESNET
Ku
Ku, KU, Kū or ku may refer to:Science:* Ku band, a band of microwave radio frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum* Ku , a protein involved in DNA repair...
in Lawrence
Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence is the sixth largest city in the U.S. State of Kansas and the county seat of Douglas County. Located in northeastern Kansas, Lawrence is the anchor city of the Lawrence, Kansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Douglas County...
.
Digital programming
KSNT-DT2 is carried on analog channel 6 and digital channel 2006 on Cox Communications in the Topeka area.KSNT-DT
KSNT-DT broadcasts on digital channel 27.Aspect ratio
The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,...
1080i
1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels...
16:9
16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...
720p
720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...
16:9
16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...
KTMJ-CA
KTMJ-CA is the Class A Fox-affiliated television station for Topeka, Kansas. It broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter in the city between the Kansas River and I-70/U.S. 40/U.S. 75/KS 4...
Analog-to-digital conversion
On June 12, 2009, KSNT abandoned its previous pre-transition digital channel assignment of channel 28, and moved its digital channel assignment to the station's former analog channel 27.History
It debuted on December 28, 1967 as KTSB originally owned by Ralph C. Wilson Jr.Ralph C. Wilson Jr.
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. is the founder, owner and president of NFL's Buffalo Bills. He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League, the league that the NFL merged with in 1970. He is the oldest owner in the National Football League, at age...
founding owner of the Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
NFL
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
football team. It was Topeka's second commercial television station and the first full-powered UHF station in Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
. The station has been an NBC affiliate from the first day. Unlike most then two-station markets
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
, KTSB did not take a formal secondary affiliation with ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting 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. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
but did clear a few shows from that network. It had little need to air many ABC shows because KMBC-TV
KMBC-TV
KMBC-TV virtual channel 9 is a television station affiliated with the ABC television network, located in Kansas City, Missouri. KMBC-TV is owned by Hearst Television and its studios are located on Winchester Ave. near Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri. The station's high guyed mast broadcast...
in Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
and KQTV
KQTV
KQTV, digital channel 7 , is the ABC-affiliated television station in St. Joseph, Missouri. Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, it is the only local commercial broadcast television station serving the St. Joseph area; though TBN affiliate KTAJ , which primarily serves the northern portion of...
in St. Joseph both decently cover Topeka. In any case, KTKA got the ABC affiliation when it signed-on in 1983.
In 1982, George Hatch (owner of the Kansas State Network based at KARD-TV in Wichita
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...
now KSNW
KSNW
KSNW, digital channel 45 , is a NBC affiliate television station based in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by the New Vision Television group. KSNW is also the flagship station of the Kansas State Network , a chain of NBC affiliates serving the western three-fourths of the state. KSNW's transmitter is...
) bought the station. Later that year, this station was renamed KSNT as part of an effort to help viewers think of the KSN stations as part of one large network. During the next few years, the station referred to itself as KSN but only did limited simulcasting with KSNW and the other three KSN stations in Western Kansas, but still provides stories from the northeast area to KSNW and the other KSN stations and KSNW providing central and western Kansas news stories to KSNT today, in addition to University of Kansas Jayhawks basketball games and NBC programming. While in its role as airing partial simulcasts of KSNW programming, it used the Hello News music package until 1986.
George Lilly (SJL Communications
Montecito Broadcast Group
Lilly Broadcasting, L.L.C. is a privately owned American broadcasting company owned and operated by the father-and-son team of George Lilly and Brian Lilly ....
) purchased the station from Hatch in 1990 along with KSNW and eventually dismantled part of the microwave system that linked the two stations in a cost cutting effort. In 1995, Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 54 daily newspapers in 23 states, and more than 300 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by A.W. Lee and is based in Davenport, Iowa....
picked up the KSN group including KSNT. In 2000, Emmis Communications
Emmis Communications
Emmis Communications is a media conglomerate based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company owns radio stations and magazines in the United States, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria.-History:...
acquired the KSN stations but eventually sold it back to Montecito Broadcasting Group (formerly SJL Communications) for $259 million.
It was announced in April 2006 that KSNT-DT2 would be Northeast Kansas' home of the The CW beginning on September 18. On July 24, 2007, Montecito announced the sale of all of its stations (KSNT, KSNW and its satellites, plus KHON-TV
KHON-TV
KHON-TV is a Fox-affiliated television station in Honolulu, Hawaii. The station broadcasts on virtual channel 2.In addition to its Honolulu broadcast facilities, KHON has relays on all the major Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast programs outside of metropolitan Honolulu: KHAW-TV in Hilo; KAII-TV in...
in Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...
and its satellites, and KOIN
KOIN
KOIN is the CBS affiliate television station serving the Portland metropolitan area. Its transmitter is located in Portland, Oregon, United States; it broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 40...
in Portland
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
) to New Vision Television. The sale closed on November 1 of that year. In July 2008, New Vision purchased low-powered Fox affiliate KTMJ, and in November, replaced The CW programming on KSNT-DT2 with a digital broadcast of that channel since it did not air one of its own due to being a Class A station. KTMJ moved from its original studios on Southwest Southgate Drive in Topeka to KSNT's facilities.
On February 4, 2011, Free State Communications announced that would sell KTKA-TV to PBC Broadcasting, which also owns stations in Youngstown, OH
WYTV
WYTV is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Mahoning Valley of Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Pennsylvania that is licensed to Youngstown. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 from a transmitter on Shady Run Road in Boardman Township...
and Savannah, GA
WTGS
WTGS is the Fox-affiliated television station for South Carolina's Lowcountry and Southeastern Georgia's Coastal Empire. Licensed to Hardeeville, South Carolina, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter in unincorporated Western Chatham County, Georgia...
. Both operations are part of shared service
Shared services
Shared services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an...
and local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
s with stations owned by KSNT's owner New Vision Television
New Vision Television
New Vision Television is a broadcast company based in Los Angeles, California. The company owns or manages 18 television stations in medium sized markets.-New Vision I:...
in their respective markets, suggesting that KTKA would be structured under the same sort of arrangement with KSNT. Despite objections to the sale by the American Cable Association that the sale could give the virtual triopoly too much leverage in retransmission consent
Retransmission consent
Retransmission consent is an option granted to US television stations as part of the law that granted such stations the option to elect must-carry rights. Under retransmission consent, a full-power US television station may elect to negotiate with a cable system operator for carriage of its...
negotiations, leaving the possibility of the blackout of three of Topeka's network affiliates should retrans negotiations with area pay television providers break down in the future, the FCC approved the sale of KTKA to PBC Broadcasting for $1.5 million on July 21, 2011.
Programming
Talk shows such as Dr. Phil, Oprah and Live with Regis & Kelly currently air on KSNT.News operation and KSNT/KTKA merger
Currently, KSNT broadcasts a total of 18½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 3½ hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).On July 30, 2011, KSNT and KTMJ-CA combined its news operations with KTKA-TV, under the banner name of Kansas First News; the newscasts are based out of the KSNT studios. The arrangement is similar to other virtual triopoly joint news operations such as Raycom Media
Raycom Media
- History :Although Raycom Media dates its birth to 1996, the core of the company was formed in 1992 when Atlanta native Bert Ellis formed Ellis Communications. He eventually controlled 13 television stations and two radio stations....
/MCG Capital's Hawaii News Now
Hawaii News Now
Hawaii News Now is the name of the news department shared by three Honolulu, Hawaii television outlets, KGMB, KFVE and KHNL. The newscasts are produced by Raycom Media, which owns and operates KGMB and KHNL and shares studios with KFVE through a local marketing agreement.-Background:The origins of...
in Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...
and Granite
Granite Broadcasting Corporation
Granite 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...
/Malara
Malara Broadcast Group
Malara Broadcast Group of Sarasota, Florida, a Delaware corporation, also known as Malara Broadcasting, is a broadcasting holding company. Malara Broadcasting was founded in 2004 by Tony Malara, former president of affiliate relations for CBS...
's Indiana's NewsCenter
Indiana's NewsCenter
Indiana's NewsCenter is the collective brand name of the television and news operations in Fort Wayne, Indiana owned and/or managed by Granite Broadcasting Corporation and Malara Broadcast Group under a local marketing agreement....
in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...
and Northland's NewsCenter
Northland's NewsCenter
The Northland's NewsCenter, began in 2005 but not completed until early 2006, is a collective name for news for the Duluth, Minnesota area's NBC, CBS, MyNetworkTV and The CW stations all operated or owned by Granite Broadcasting. It was originated from KBJR-TV's newscasts but now provides content...
in Duluth, Minnesota
Duluth, Minnesota
Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Saint Louis County. The fourth largest city in Minnesota, Duluth had a total population of 86,265 in the 2010 census. Duluth is also the second largest city that is located on Lake Superior after Thunder Bay, Ontario,...
.
Newscast titles
- Action NewsAction NewsAction News is a local television newscast format in the United States. It was conceived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at WFIL-TV by then-news director Mel Kampmann in 1970 as a response to the "Eyewitness News" format used on rival station KYW-TV...
27 (1973–1977) - Pacesetter News (1977–1982)
- KSN NewsCenter (1982–1997)
- 27 News (1997–2005 and 2010–2011)
- KSNT 27 News (2005–2010)
- Kansas First News (2011–present)
Station slogans
- "Hello Kansas... KSN Loves You" (early-mid 1980s; used in a series of promos using Frank Gari's "Hello News")
- "Turn to KSN" (late 1980s)
- "Coverage You Can Count On" (1997–2002)
- "Clear, Accuate, To The Point" (2002–2008)
- "Complete Local Coverage" (2008–present)
News team
Current anchors- Ben Bauman – weeknights at 6, 9 (on KTMJ-CA) and 10 p.m.
- Nate Hill – news director; weeknights at 5
- Hillary Mullin – weekday mornings
- Gina Ninemire – weekend evenings; also reporter and news producer
- Kelli Stegeman – weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.; also "Kelli's Cameo" segment producer
First Warning Weather Team
- Matt Miller – chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6, 9 (on KTMJ-CA) and 10 p.m.
- Tom Hagen (AMSAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...
Certified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
Seal of Approval) – meteorologist; weekday mornings - Aaron Reeves (member, AMS) – meteorologist; weekend evenings
Sports team
- Alex Wiebel – sports anchor, also sports reporter
Reporters
- Bob Beatty – political analyst
- Monica Castro – general assignment reporter
- Mecca Rayne – general assignment reporter
- Lauren Seabrook – Emporia and education reporter
- Kent Wallace – general assignment reporter
Former on-air staff
- Campbell BrownCampbell BrownCampbell Brown is an American television news reporter and anchor. She previously hosted an eponymous primetime show on CNN and was formerly co-anchor of NBC's Weekend Today...
- Steve DoocySteve DoocyStephen James "Steve" Doocy is an American network-television personality on the Fox News Channel, journalist, and a best selling author.-Early life:...
- Bill KarinsBill KarinsBill Karins is a NBC meteorologist. He reports weekdays for NBC's Early Today, MSNBC's First Look, Morning Joe, Jansing and Company and CNBC. Prior to being named NBC Meteorologist Karins was one of the original meteorologists for the now shuttered NBC Weather Plus. He is MSNBC and NBC News Chief...
- Alycia LaneAlycia LaneAlycia Lane is an American television journalist. She serves as weekday morning anchor at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. Until January 2008, she was co-anchor of the weekday evening newscasts on KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...