Evening Magazine
This article needs additional citations for verification. (September 2011) |
Evening Magazine | |
---|---|
Also known as | PM Magazine (for non Group W-owned stations, except KING-TV or WWOR) |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 16 for original San Francisco series; ongoing for Seattle |
No. of episodes | 2,652 for San Francisco |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Release | August 9, 1976 August 30, 1991 | –
Evening Magazine is the name of various news and entertainment-style local television shows in different markets in the United States.
Concept
On August 9, 1976,
KPIX's Evening Magazine was first hosted by San Francisco radio personality Jan Yanehiro,[1] journalist Steve Fox and Detroit news anchor and reporter Erik Smith. Yanehiro stayed with the series throughout its original run, while Fox stayed for three years and Smith for only the first 13 weeks. Smith had come from WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan and returned there, becoming the anchor of that station's weekday morning newscast. The original KPIX version would go on to air more than 3,000 episodes.
Richard Hart joined the series after Steve Fox left and stayed until the "final" episode in 1989. Jan Yanehiro was then joined by Loren Nancarrow and Mike Jerrick for a rebooted series titled Evening, which was later renamed Evening Magazine. This continuation ran for a little over 200 episodes.
In the late 1980s,
The original San Francisco version was so popular, Group W decided to export the Evening Magazine format to its other owned-and-operated stations. When Group W decided to expand the format to stations outside of their group, the existence of another locally produced program in Seattle, Washington (where Group W did not own a TV station), already named Evening Magazine, prompted them to create an alternate name for the national roll-out—PM Magazine.
Seattle
The current Evening that airs in the Seattle area is still produced to this day by
The show's longtime host, John Curley,[3] emotionally signed off for the last time on April 23, 2009, after hosting nearly 4,000 shows over 14 years. On December 9, 2009, former KING 5 Morning News traffic anchor Meeghan Black became the new host of Evening Magazine, while remaining as co-host of Gardening with Ciscoe. The program celebrated its silver anniversary throughout the 2011 season, while Black ended her "Evening" host run in November 2013, when a revolving cast consisting of "Evening" reporters Jim Dever, Saint Bryan, Kim Holcomb, and Michael King took over hosting duties. Although the format continues to evolve, the show's hosts typically present one show each week as a team, then front the other shows for the week as solo hosts, or occasionally in pairs. When hosting as a team, the group also pre-records segments to be used throughout the week, including "Inbox," "WeighIn," and "Raves," which make use of viewer comments and off-the-cuff interactions between the hosts.
Longtime reporter and host Michael King left the program on December 6, 2019; his replacement, former KIRO-TV news anchor and Take 5 host Angela Poe Russell joined the program on March 2, 2020. Her final show was broadcast on Saint Patrick's Day, March 17, 2023. The current hosting lineup consists of Dever, Bryan, and Holcomb, with multimedia journalist Jose Cedeno also providing content.[4][5]
Other Group W markets
Local versions of Evening Magazine were produced at four other Westinghouse-owned stations. WPCQ-TV (now WCNC-TV) in Charlotte, owned by Westinghouse from 1980 until 1984, was the only Group W station that did not air its own version of Evening Magazine. Then-Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting-owned WBTV held the Charlotte rights to the franchise and aired it as PM Magazine from September 1979 until November 1990.
Baltimore
In
Boston
Philadelphia
At
Pittsburgh
The
KPIX revival
A similar show with the same name aired on KPIX (now
Turns out Nubla was displeased when Channel 5 (KPIX) scrapped Evening Magazine in favor of Eye on the Bay—a move that diminished her onscreen role. Her contract, however, ran through this month, and she insists she intended to be a good team player and honor it. But then a heated exchange with a station exec (that Nubla says was initiated by the "irate" exec) quickly torpedoed those plans, and she was out of there.
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-135-88020-0. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
- ^ Staff, KING 5. "Evening Magazine celebrates 28th anniversary". KING5.com. TEGNA, Inc. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Rahner, Mark (2009-04-24). "Television | John Curley, "Evening Magazine" host, signs off | Seattle Times Newspaper". Seattletimes.nwsource.com. Retrieved 2013-04-07.
- ^ Holcomb, Kim. "After 25 years, Michael King bids farewell to KING 5". KING5.com. TEGNA, Inc. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ Staff, KING 5. "Angela Poe Russell joins Evening". KING5.com. TEGNA, Inc. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)