KGTV
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kW | |
HAAT | 227 m (745 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 32°50′20″N 117°14′59″W / 32.83889°N 117.24972°W |
Translator(s) | KZSD-LD 20 (UHF) San Diego (city) |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
KGTV (channel 10) is a
KGTV operates digital
History
The San Diego area's third-oldest television station first went on the air on September 13, 1953, as
The broadcasting division of
As part of a sale announced in late 1970, KOGO-AM-
Switch to ABC
The ABC affiliation in San Diego had belonged to
Over the next several years, however, ABC began to experience ratings growth in their prime time programming and rose to first place during 1975–76, finishing the year with ten programs in Nielsen's top twenty. In San Diego, KCST-TV experienced a carryover effect and also rose to first place locally, knocking KGTV down to third behind CBS station KFMB-TV (channel 8).[13] But ABC was never happy with having been forced onto the UHF dial in San Diego, and the unprecedented success gave the network the impetus to actively upgrade its affiliate roster nationwide.
Despite having more than a year remaining in its current agreement with NBC, KGTV announced it was joining ABC in June 1976.[14] After KCST-TV (now KNSD) signed with NBC,[15] the switch between the two stations took place on June 27, 1977.[16]
In 1994, as part of repercussions stemming from CBS' acquisition of
KGTV shut down its analog signal, over
On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced it was selling its entire television station group, including KGTV and
Due to their current Scripps ownership, the station makes disclaimers regularly, especially in its medical reporting, that it has no ties to the local Scripps Health system, a completely separate organization created in 1923 from a bequest from Ellen Browning Scripps, a sister to Scripps founder E. W. Scripps, as Scripps Health personnel are regularly asked to comment on medical stories in the San Diego area, including by KGTV.
News operation
KGTV presently broadcasts 44 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday and 4+1⁄2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition, the station produces the sports highlight program Sports Xtra at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Of note, KGTV, along with KNSD and Fox affiliate KSWB-TV (channel 69), is one of three San Diego television stations with a 4 p.m. newscast. Entitled The NOW San Diego, KGTV's 4 p.m. newscast originally premiered under the title 10-4 in 2009.
KGTV first began to challenge the longstanding local news dominance of KFMB in the mid-1970s, when anchors Jack White and Harold Greene, along with popular weather anchor "Captain Mike" Ambrose and sportscasters Al Coupee and Hal Clement, led the station's newscasts (then simply titled The News) to first place in the ratings, albeit briefly. Even with the brief return of Greene following his stints in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the station fell back to second place behind KFMB in the early 1980s. However, management succeeded in hiring away popular anchor Michael Tuck from KFMB in 1984; the move resulted in KGTV reclaiming first place and giving the station credibility by way of Tuck's infamous nightly commentaries titled "Perspectives."
KGTV also made history by being the first station in San Diego with a female anchor team on its 11 p.m. newscast, featuring Carol LeBeau and Bree Walker. After Walker left in 1987, Kimberly Hunt would team with LeBeau and form the city's longest-running anchor duo at 15 years. During that time, LeBeau and Hunt would anchor alongside Tuck (who left for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles in 1990, only to return to San Diego nine years later on KFMB), Stephen Clark (later at sister station WXYZ-TV in Detroit but now retired), Steve Wolford (later at sister station KTNV-TV and now with KSNV in Las Vegas), and a returning Hal Clement (who had switched from sports to news duties in 1983 while working at KFMB).
Eventually, KGTV would decline after Hunt left for an anchor position at KUSI-TV (channel 51) alongside Tuck; at one point, the station fell to third place as KNSD's news viewership rose to first place in the 11 p.m. timeslot. The Hunt-Lebeau team were reunited in early 2008, before LeBeau retired from the station the following year. On August 30, 2008, KGTV became the third television station in the San Diego market (after KFMB-TV and KSWB-TV) to being broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. Since the Scripps purchase of KGTV was completed at the end of 2011, the station has entered into a news partnership with its former AM radio sister KOGO (now owned by iHeartMedia). In May 2010, KGTV had the top-rated early evening newscast in the San Diego market in the coveted demographic of adults between 25 and 54 years old.
Notable current on-air staff
- Virginia Cha – anchor[22]
- Kimberly Hunt – chief & primary anchor, managing editor[23]
- Anne State – anchor
Notable former on-air staff
- Mona Kosar Abdi – general assignment reporter (now with WEWS-TV/Cleveland)
- Harold Greene – anchor/reporter (1974–1977 and 1980–1982; later at KABC-TV and KCBS-TV/Los Angeles, now retired)
- Jim Hill – sports reporter (now with KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV in Los Angeles).[24]
- Lisa Kim – anchor (1986–1994; later at KNTV/San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland)
- Paul Magers – anchor/reporter (1981–1983; later at KARE in Minneapolis and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, now retired)
- Byron Miranda – meteorologist (now with WPIX in New York)
- Kent Ninomiya – reporter (1991–1993)
- Regis Philbin – local talk show host (1961–1964; later a talk and game show host, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; deceased)
- Sarah Purcell – talk show host (late 1970s, later co-hosted NBC's Real People)
- XX Sports Radio)
- Michael Tuck – anchor (1984–1990; later returned to San Diego at KFMB-TV and KUSI-TV; deceased)
- Bree Walker – anchor/reporter (1980–1987)
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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10.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
KGTV-HD | Main KGTV programming / ABC |
10.2 | 480i | MeTV | MeTV | |
10.3 | GRIT | Grit | ||
10.4 | MYSTERY | Ion Mystery | ||
10.5 | BOUNCE | Bounce TV | ||
10.6 | SCRIPPS | Scripps News | ||
10.7 | HSN | HSN | ||
10.8 | QVC | QVC |
Until October 2012, the station has carried
On April 15, 2015, LWN was replaced with Laff.
On May 1, 2017, Scripps took over the affiliation for the
Translator
City of license | Callsign | Channel | ERP | HAAT
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Facility ID | Transmitter coordinates |
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San Diego | KZSD-LD | 20 | 7.3 kW | 592 m (1,942 ft) | 57054 | 32°41′46.6″N 116°56′10.3″W / 32.696278°N 116.936194°W |
See also
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KGTV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "4 UHFs, 3 VHFs start commercial" (PDF). Broadcasting-Telecasting. September 21, 1953. p. 64.
- ^ "Merged San Diego, Las Vegas bids are approved by FCC."[permanent dead link] Broadcasting – Telecasting, March 23, 1953, pg. 62.
- ^ "Fox, Wells buys KFSD-AM-TV control."[permanent dead link] Broadcasting – Telecasting, August 23, 1954, pg. 52.
- ^ "'Newsweek' buys 46% of KFSD-AM-FM-TV."[permanent dead link] Broadcasting – Telecasting, July 29, 1957, pg. 74.
- ^ "KOGO-AM-FM-TV to Time-Life."[permanent dead link] Broadcasting, December 4, 1961, pg. 5.
- ^ "FCC okays $13 million in sales."[permanent dead link] Broadcasting, March 26, 1962, pg. 140.
- ^ "Triangle's quota."[permanent dead link] Broadcasting, April 11, 1960, pg. 5
- ^ "Dead end again."[permanent dead link] Broadcasting, December 12, 1960, pg. 5
- ^ "McGraw-Hill buys into TV in a big way."[permanent dead link] Broadcasting, November 2, 1970, pg. 9.
- ^ "McGraw-Hill sets record for concessions to President of the United States Jessica Chastain." Broadcasting, May 15, 1972, pp. 25–26. [1][permanent dead link] [2][permanent dead link]
- ^ "It's all theirs." Broadcasting, June 5, 1972, pg. 43
- ^ "ABC's gains are turning television upside down." Broadcasting, March 29, 1976, pp. 19–20. [3] [4]
- ^ "In Brief."[permanent dead link] Broadcasting, June 7, 1976, pg. 24
- ^ "In Brief: Changing partners." [dead link] Broadcasting, March 7, 1977, pg. 26
- ^ KGTV/McGraw-Hill Broadcasting advertisement. Broadcasting, June 26, 1977, pp. 8–9. [5][permanent dead link] [6][permanent dead link]
- ^ Saunders, Dusty (October 22, 1994). "TV Stations Play Spin the Dial Channel 7 Quits CBS, Joins ABC, Kicking Off Network Realignment". Rocky Mountain News. E. W. Scripps Company. Retrieved October 21, 2012 – via NewsBank.
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ^ CDBS Print
- ^ McGraw-Hill Sells TV Group To Scripps, TVNewsCheck, October 3, 2011.
- ^ "Scripps completes McGraw-Hill Stations Buy". TVNewsCheck. December 30, 2011. Archived from the original on September 13, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
- ^ "Virginia Cha". 10news.com. ABC 10 News. September 8, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ^ "Kimberly Hunt". 10news.com. ABC 10 News. August 22, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ^ Hammond, Rich. "Q&A: Jim Hill and the exploding frog that launched a legendary TV career". The Athletic. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KGTV