KRON-TV
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KRON-TV (channel 4) is a
History
NBC affiliation (1949–2001)
In 1948, the
Managed by Michael de Young's grandson Charles de Young Thieriot, KRON
KRON-TV originally broadcast from studios located in the basement of the Chronicle Building at Fifth and Mission Streets. Newscasts benefited from the resources of the Chronicle and there was cooperation between KRON-TV and the newspaper. It originally maintained transmitter facilities, master control and a small insert studio on San Bruno Mountain. In August 1959, the Chronicle reported that the tower was severely damaged by an unusually strong thunderstorm, requiring major repairs before KRON-TV could return to the air. In 1960, NBC attempted to purchase its own station in the Bay Area, when they attempted to buy KTVU.[11] The sale was canceled that October due to pre-existing concerns over the sale cited by the FCC that were related to NBC's ownership of radio and television stations in Philadelphia;[12] as a result, NBC stayed with KRON-TV.
In the early 1960s, KRON's profits were keeping the Chronicle Publishing Company financially solvent at a time when the San Francisco Chronicle was losing money, around $3 million from 1958 to 1965.[13] In 1967, KRON-FM-TV moved to a new studio at 1001
Since the 1970s, KRON's logo has incorporated a stylized number "4" design that is based on the Golden Gate Bridge. The vertical component is a bridge tower, the horizontal component is a portion of the bridge deck, and the curve is a portion of a suspension cable.[14] This logo was used as early as April 1974, during coverage of a Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery. By about 1991, this evolved into the "circle 4" logo in use to this day, with the "4" using a simpler bridge design.
In 1982, the deYoung family's Chronicle Publishing Company unit discussed a possible trade of KRON-TV to the
Sale to Young Broadcasting
On June 16, 1999, the deYoung family announced the liquidation of Chronicle Publishing's assets.
NBC had made many offers for channel 4 over the years, but the deYoungs turned them down each time. It finally saw the opportunity to get an owned-and-operated station in what was then the United States' fifth-largest television market and quickly jumped into the bidding war for KRON. NBC was seen as the frontrunner to buy the station, but it was outbid at the last minute on November 16, 1999. KRON was bought by
NBC president and chief executive officer Bob Wright had warned that if NBC did not succeed in buying KRON, it would require any prospective buyer to uphold specific terms if it wanted to retain the NBC affiliation. Wright did not rule out moving NBC's Bay Area affiliation elsewhere.[20][21] When Young closed on its purchase of channel 4, NBC made good on these threats by demanding that Young operate KRON under the same conventions as an NBC owned-and-operated outlet. Among other things, it demanded that KRON change its on-air name to "NBC 4" and run the network's entire schedule in pattern (reducing prime time preemptions due to local programming from 20 hours to five hours a year). Preemptions would only be permitted for extended breaking news or severe weather coverage. NBC also demanded yearly payments of $10 million from Young, a form of reverse compensation, flipping around the then-normal mode of networks paying their affiliates for their airtime. (in turn, NBC would stop making annual payments to KRON of $7.5 million to carry the network's programming). Young would also have to give NBC the first option on the programming of additional subchannels on the station's digital signal.[22]
Rather than give in to NBC's demands, Young decided not to renew channel 4's affiliation contract, which was set to expire at the beginning of 2002. San Jose-based KNTV channel 11 approached NBC with a proposal to pay $37 million annually for the rights to broadcast its programming. In 1999, KNTV joined The WB in conjunction with the network's existing Bay Area affiliate, then co-owned KBWB (channel 20, now KOFY-TV). KNTV agreed to drop its ABC affiliation at the behest of network-owned KGO-TV, the market's primary ABC station. NBC accepted KNTV's deal in February 2000.[23] It did so primarily as a stopgap in case NBC failed in its bid to buy KRON from Young.
However, Young's asking price for the station was $735 million, only slightly less than what it paid to buy the station from Chronicle. NBC felt that price was too high, and walked away from the deal when Young refused to lower it.[24]
In December 2001, NBC purchased KNTV from Granite Broadcasting for a fraction of KRON's sale price of $230 million. That made NBC the only major broadcast network to have switched from one Bay Area station to another. The last NBC program to be broadcast by channel 4 was a repeat episode of Crossing Jordan, at 10 p.m. on December 31, 2001. KNTV officially joined NBC later that evening at 11:35 p.m. with the regular broadcast of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. That ended KRON-TV's 52-year affiliation with the NBC network.[25]
Independent station (2001–2006)
January 1, 2002, was KRON's first full day as an independent station. That morning, KRON broadcast the
With ABC, CBS, UPN and now NBC carrying their programming locally on owned-and-operated stations (KGO-TV, KPIX, KBHK—channel 44, now KPYX—and KNTV, respectively), and Fox and The WB under contract with KTVU and KBWB, respectively, KRON-TV became an independent station by default. The station filled time slots formerly occupied by NBC shows with syndicated programming and expanded newscasts. The NBC network was near the top of the ratings nationally at the time of the disaffiliation, due to strong shows such as Friends, Frasier, Law & Order and ER. Without those NBC shows, KRON's ratings started to decline. The viewership of its newscasts began to fall substantially by the time the station regained a network affiliation.
In 2005, KRON downsized its news production staff to send teams of two people, specifically a reporter and camera operator, to generate news stories on scene.[26] SF Weekly reported in 2006 that KRON was the first major-market television station to make such a decision and commented, "the results at times are more akin to home movies than news programming broadcast to the nation's sixth-largest TV market."[27]
MyNetworkTV affiliation (2006–2023)
On February 22, 2006,
Young Broadcasting bankruptcy
On January 10, 2008, Young Broadcasting announced it would sell KRON-TV. The company had been encountering difficulties in meeting interest payments on its outstanding debt.
On February 13, 2009, the company declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.[36][37] At the last minute, Young canceled a planned auction of all 10 of its stations five months later on July 14, a move believed to have been made due to a lack of suitable bids.[38][39] Instead of auctioning off the stations, Young and its secured lenders reached a deal where the lenders (among them Wachovia and Credit Suisse) would take control of the company, and Gray Television would manage seven of Young's ten stations.[40] KRON, WATE-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, and WLNS-TV in Lansing, Michigan (the latter two, unlike KRON, compete with Gray-owned stations in their respective markets), were the only stations not included in the management deal.
In February 2010, Young discussed the possibility of entering into a shared services agreement (SSA) with KNTV's owner NBCUniversal.[41] That year, KRON informally reunited with NBC as it began to carry network programs during sports programming and breaking news events that force their preemptions on KNTV. (This responsibility as a backup NBC affiliate was assumed by KNTV's Cozi TV-affiliated second digital subchannel in 2014.)
Station management announced at a November 2011 meeting that no such agreement would take place, and that KRON would instead relocate to a smaller, state-of-the-art facility within the next year to year-and-a-half.[42] A week later, it was also announced the station's master control operations would be operated remotely from Atlanta beginning in mid-January 2012. The move to new studios, and plans to operate master control from Atlanta, were scrapped by June 2012.[citation needed]
Acquisitions by Media General, then Nexstar
On June 6, 2013,
On February 10, 2014, Media General announced that KRON-TV would move into leased space on the third floor of KGO-TV's building (ABC Broadcast Center) at 900 Front Street, in space formerly occupied by radio stations KGO and KSFO. KRON-TV's studios at 1001 Van Ness Avenue would then be put up for sale; it was later demolished in 2019 to make way for a new assisted living facility for elderly people. Despite the colocation, KRON-TV maintains separate broadcast facilities from KGO-TV and employs a completely separate staff. Each station's employees are restricted by keycards from entering the other's facilities.[45][46]
In June 2014, Fox Television Stations announced it would acquire KTVU and KICU-TV in a trade with Cox Media Group in exchange for that company's stations in Boston and Memphis.[47] Prior to the announcement it was rumored that Fox had considered buying KRON-TV and moving Fox network programming to channel 4. (Had Fox actually acquired KRON-TV, this would have made it one of the two major networks in the Bay Area, along with NBC, to switch from one station to another.)[48] Fox completed its acquisition of KTVU and KICU-TV on October 8, 2014; despite MyNetworkTV being operated by Fox Television Stations, as of 2020[update], KRON-TV remains an affiliate of the service.
On January 27, 2016,
CW affiliation (2023–present)
In May 2023, CBS News and Stations announced that its CW affiliates, including San Francisco station KBCW (now KPYX), would cease their affiliation with the network in September and become independent stations.[51] Nexstar Media Group announced on June 14 that KRON would take over the CW affiliation for the San Francisco market on September 1.[1][52]
Programming
Until the late 1970s, KRON-TV was known for being very San Francisco-centric in its news coverage and audience targeting, an approach that would become costly to the station as population growth in areas outside San Francisco soared. Realizing this and refocusing on the entire market enabled KRON-TV to become the dominant station in the Bay Area.
Syndicated programs
As of September 2023, Syndicated Programming on KRON-TV includes
Past programming preemptions and deferrals
For most of its tenure with NBC, KRON was the network's second-largest affiliate (behind only KYW-TV in Philadelphia) and its largest on the West Coast. Despite this, KRON occasionally preempted NBC programming. One notable omission was
Early prime time scheduling experiment
From February 1992 to September 1993, KRON-TV, along with KCRA-TV, participated in the "Early Prime" experiment in which prime time programs aired one hour earlier (mirroring the scheduling of the network's prime time lineup in the Central and Mountain time zones), the half-hour late evening newscast also moved from 11 to 10 p.m. as a result. While KRON moved NBC's prime time programming back to the 8–11 p.m. timeslot in September 1993, CBS affiliate KPIX, who adopted the early prime time schedule at the same time as KRON, continued with the experiment until 1998—well after it had become owned by the network through CBS's 1994 acquisition by KPIX's then-owner Westinghouse. Though both KRON and KPIX initially ran hour-long newscasts at 10 p.m. (KRON switched to a half-hour within months), neither were able to beat Fox affiliate KTVU, due to that station's longtime dominance in the 10 o'clock hour that continues to this day.
Sports programming
In 1965, KRON-TV began broadcasting most Oakland Raiders games, which were at first part of the American Football League, which had a contract with NBC from 1965 to 1969, and then the National Football League's American Football Conference, which inherited the AFL's deal with NBC from 1970 to 1997 (the Raiders relocated to Los Angeles in 1982, stripping KRON of its status as the team's home station until they returned to Oakland in 1995; the station then served as the unofficial home station until 1997). KRON aired coverage of the Raiders' victories in Super Bowl XI and Super Bowl XV. In 2021, KRON-TV became the now Las Vegas Raiders' official Bay Area home station for pre-season games and special programming.[53]
In addition, during those same years (1970–1997), KRON-TV also aired select San Francisco 49ers games whenever they played host to an AFC opponent at Candlestick Park (the station aired the team's victory in Super Bowl XXIII in January 1989).
In
New Year's Live
From 1989 until January 2008, KRON-TV produced a countdown program called New Year's Live, which aired on New Year's Eve (sometimes beginning at 11 p.m.) and continued into
Other local programming
KRON-TV also produces two locally-produced programs outside of local newscasts: Bay Area Living – Home Improvement Edition and LIVE! in the Bay. Past local programs include Bay Area Backroads, Bay Cafe, Henry's Home & Garden, Latin Eyes, Pacific Fusion, Bay Area Bargains, The Silver Lining; and several series and featured news segments that were developed by Jim Swanson, executive producer including Bay Area Bargains – Green Edition; Bay Area Living – Seniors Edition; KRON 4's Body Beautiful; KRON 4's Casino Adventures; Don't Invest and Forget; Health and Beauty with Dr Sonia; Living Green with Petersen Dean; KRON 4's Medical Mondays; KRON 4's Peninsula Beauty; KRON 4's Sizzling Hot Auto Deals and KRON 4's Spa Spectacular.
In the 1950s and 1960s, local programs produced by KRON-TV included the award-winning documentary series Assignment Four, Fireman Frank with George Lemont (died October 1985 at the age of 63)
Assignment Four was a documentary series that generally aired Monday evenings at 7 p.m. through much of the 1960s (beginning in February 1960). A promotional brochure declared, "each Assignment Four story is concerned with cultural and ethnic activities or perhaps some fascinating phase of life and living in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area." Subjects ranged from 'Skid Row' to 'The Single Girl,' the 'Green Intricate Country of Napa Valley' to 'No Deposit, No Return' (a study of garbage disposal that won a 1966
In the late 1980s, KRON-TV was among the few local television stations in the United States that produced a
News operation
As of 2023, KRON broadcasts 72 hours of local newscasts each week (with 13 hours each weekday, 6+1⁄2 hours on Saturdays, and 5+1⁄2 hours on Sundays); it has the highest newscast output of any television station in the San Francisco Bay Area. KRON is one of only three MyNetworkTV affiliates that air and produce their own newscasts, alongside WPHL-TV in Philadelphia (though only a morning newscast, while its 10 p.m. newscast is produced by WPVI-TV) and WJMN-TV in Marquette, Michigan (which maintained a news department when it was a CBS affiliate), after the service's Secaucus, New Jersey owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV (whose news department operated separately from Fox-owned sister station WNYW stemming from license requirements imposed by WWOR's 1983 license transfer from New York City to New Jersey) closed theirs in July 2013.
KRON's news operations were handled by the Chronicle until it launched its own news department in September 1957. It operated from a studio inside the Chronicle building at Fifth & Mission streets (the station's news department was located 30 feet from the Chronicle city desk). Appropriately for a station once owned by the Chronicle, KRON-TV has long been a very news-intensive station. it produced six daily newscasts at the time, including the
KRON-TV eventually branded its newscasts as Newswatch 4 in the early 1970s. By early 1972, the station ran newscasts at noon, 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m. on weekdays and 6 and 11 p.m. on weekends; it also ran a late newscast that aired (then) immediately after The Tonight Show called the Newswatch Sign-Off Edition. Presenters then included Terry Lowry, Phil Wilson, Karna Small, Bob Marsden, Paul Ryan, Art Brown and Dave Valentine.[59] The station's newscasts were branded as NewsCenter 4 from 1977 until 2001, when it was changed to the current KRON 4 News. A major change in KRON-TV's evening news broadcasts occurred on April 6, 1981,[60] when the station launched the 90-minute newscast "Live on 4" (from 4 to 5:30 p.m.). NBC Nightly News also moved from 7 to 5:30 p.m. (KPIX and KGO would follow this move with their national newscasts during the following decade). From late 1981 to late 1988, the 5 p.m. weekday newscast was Live at Five; Bob Jimenez anchored in the studio with Evan White in the newsroom. Live on 4 was replaced in 1983 with T.G.I.4, an hour-long light local news and interview program co-hosted by Jan Rasmusson and Patrick Van Horn. In the mid-1980s, KRON-TV produced and aired an afternoon talk program called Bay City Limits.
In 1981, KRON launched its first morning newscast with a seven-minute program (at 6:53 a.m.); the program was canceled by late 1982. All the evening newscasts featured a variety of anchors, until settling down with the successful duo of
KRON's newscasts during the 1980s regularly featured commentaries by Wayne Shannon in a segment called "Just 4 You", many of which had a humorous tone. Shannon received billing in newscast introductions along with the anchors, and weather and sports presenters. Another staple of KRON-TV newscasts in the 1980s was live traffic reports and news coverage from the station's helicopter "Telecopter 4." Bob McCarthy, Rita Cohen and Janice Huff were among the personalities who reported from Telecopter 4. Their traffic reports appeared regularly on Daybreak, during Today and Live at Five. Evocative of his folksy, down-to-earth style, McCarthy had a catchphrase, "hunky snarky", that he often used to characterize roads on which traffic was flowing smoothly. Will Prater was the main pilot of Telecopter 4 in its early years and Lou Calderon was the main photographer. KRON also broadcast from remote locations during this era (e.g., Super Bowl venues) via a satellite uplink unit dubbed "Newstar 4". These segments often began with an animation depicting a signal originating from the uplink location, bouncing off a satellite and ending at a satellite dish next to the words "San Francisco." KRON-TV regarded the satellite truck as a major competitive advantage over rival television stations, featuring it in a mid-1980s promotional spot which declared, "We got a mobile satellite up-link. They don't."
In the 1980s, KRON-TV produced lengthy analysis pieces for the "Cover Story" segment on its 6 p.m. newscast, many with an investigative journalism focus and sometimes produced by the 10-person "Target 4" investigative unit. The station reran some of these segments in an occasional program called Cover Story Magazine. The station also produced a half-hour
In the 1990s, the station utilized a "24 Hour News" format, with 30- to 60-second news updates each hour outside of regular newscasts. During the May 2001 sweeps period – its last as an NBC affiliate – KRON's newscasts beat KGO-TV's in the 5 and 6 p.m. timeslots by a very close margin, ending KGO's domination in those timeslots.[62] When KRON lost NBC to KNTV and became an independent station in January 2002, the station expanded its news programming by adding two hours to its weekday morning newscast (from 7 to 9 a.m.), and extending its 5 p.m. newscast to one hour to fill timeslots vacated by the departures of Today and Nightly News.
Unlike most news-producing stations that have become independent after losing a network affiliation or that have switched to one of the post-1986 broadcast networks, KRON originally kept its late newscast in the 11 p.m. timeslot instead of moving it to or adding one at 10 p.m. (avoiding direct competition with KTVU's long-dominant prime time newscast, though KRON's late news remained in competition against KGO, KNTV and KPIX's late evening newscasts); the station also added a prime time newscast at 9 p.m. To this day, KRON maintains a newscast schedule similar to the one it had as an NBC affiliate. It is the only MyNetworkTV affiliate that has ever maintained a news schedule mirroring that of a
Despite the overall decline of KRON as an independent, its newscasts initially pulled in respectable ratings though viewership was lower than it was before the station lost its NBC affiliation. During the February 2004 sweeps period, the station placed second in the ratings behind KTVU. However, KRON's news viewership has gradually fallen since that point; also in 2004, the station posted an 8.7% market share, down from the 21% share it had as an NBC affiliate.[63] The 9 p.m. newscast created after becoming independent eventually fell to fourth place by 2005. In March 2006, KRON's morning newscast posted an average viewership of approximately 28,000 viewers.[64] By 2009, overall viewership for the station's newscasts had fallen to fifth place among the Bay Area's news-producing English-language television stations.
On September 17, 2007, KRON-TV became the third station in the Bay Area (behind KGO and KTVU) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in
KRON launched a new 10 p.m. newscast on May 16, 2016, that competes with newscasts on KTVU and, at that time, KBCW. However, also at that time, KRON's 11 p.m. news was shortened to 15 minutes until it was dropped when KRON launched a new 9 p.m. newscast on August 21, 2017, which competed with KGO's 9 p.m. newscast for KOFY-TV until KGO canceled it.[65][66][67] On September 14, 2020, KRON launched an afternoon newscast at 3 p.m.[68] On January 10, 2022, KRON launched a noon newscast that competes with KTVU and KPIX. The 10 a.m. hour of KRON 4 Morning News was launched on May 22, 2023.[69] KRON launched a 2 p.m. newscast and readded its 11 p.m. newscast on September 1, 2023, while ending its 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. newscast due to the CW affiliation.[70]
Notable current on-air staff
- Catherine Heenan – anchor / reporter
- Ken Wayne – anchor; formerly with KTVU
Notable former on-air staff
- Roz Abrams – anchor (1982–1985; now retired from television journalism)
- Fox News Channel)
- Steve Centanni – reporter (1989–1996; now at Fox News Channel)
- Sylvia Chase – anchor (1986–1990; later returned to ABC News, deceased)
- Claudia Cowan – reporter (1995–1998; now at Fox News Channel)
- Art Finley – children's show host (as "Mayor Art")/host of Pick A Show c. 1966/reporter (1959–1968; deceased)
- California Lottery's The Big Spin
- Michelle Franzen – reporter and fill-in anchor (1998–2001; now at ABC News)
- Emil Guillermo – reporter (1982–1989)
- John Hambrick – (1975–1980; deceased)
- Janice Huff – meteorologist (1990–1994; now chief meteorologist at WNBC New York City)
- Marc Jampole – reporter (1980–1981); now public relations executive
- Vic Lee – reporter (1972–2006; later at KGO-TV; retired)
- Sam Chu Lin – reporter (1981–1984; deceased)
- Dave Malkoff – reporter (2003–2004; now at The Weather Channel)
- Mark Mullen – morning anchor (1991–1995 and 2002–2003; now anchor at KNSD San Diego)
- Soledad O'Brien – reporter (1993–1996; now with Hearst Television)
- Jim Paymar – anchor (1982–1987; now runs a media consulting firm)
- Gary Radnich – sports director (1985–2018; formerly with WBNS-TV, now retired)
- Wayne Shannon – commentator (1982–1988; deceased)
- Ray Taliaferro – anchor (1972–1977; then also at KGO (AM); deceased)
- Wendy Tokuda – anchor/reporter (1997–2007; later returned to KPIX; now retired)
- Patrick Van Horn – co-host of T.G.I.4. (1983–198?), host of KRON-TV's Claim to Fame (1985–1989)
- Marta Waller – freelance writer (1984; later at KTLA Los Angeles)
- Pete Wilson – anchor/reporter (1990–2001; later at KGO-TV & KGO-AM, deceased)[71]
- Emerald Yeh – anchor (1984–2003; now retired from television journalism)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming | ATSC 1.0 host |
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4.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
KRON-TV |
|
KTVU |
4.2 | 480i | 4:3 |
Antenna | Antenna TV | KNTV |
4.3 | 16:9 | Rewind | Rewind TV | KPYX | |
4.4 | Charge! | Charge! | |||
4.5 | Shop LC | Shop LC | KGO-TV |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KRON-TV shut down its analog signal, over
ATSC 3.0
At 10:01 a.m. on March 29, 2023, KRON turned on its new Rhode & Schwarz transmitter at Sutro Tower and began its status as an ATSC 3.0 lighthouse for the San Francisco Bay Area. Two days before, four of the stations participating in the ATSC 3.0 lighthouse began broadcasting KRON's main channel and subchannels as listed above to clear RF channel 7 for ATSC 3.0 use.
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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2.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
KTVU-HD | Fox (KTVU) |
4.1 | 1080p | KRON-TV | The CW | |
5.1 | KPIX-TV | CBS (KPIX-TV) | ||
7.1 | 720p | KGO-HD | ABC (KGO-TV) | |
11.1 | 1080p | KNTV | NBC (KNTV) | |
14.1 | 720p | KDTV-TV | Univision (KDTV-DT) |
Defunct news services
BayTV
BayTV debuted on July 4, 1994, as a
KRON 4 24/7 Bay Area News Channel
On July 26, 2012, KRON launched another 24-hour local news and weather channel, called the KRON 4 24/7 Bay Area News Channel. The channel featured news, local weather and traffic updates using the common screen template and setup shared among all of Young's automated weather/news information subchannels. Unlike the cable-exclusive BayTV, it was carried locally on over-the-air digital subchannel 4.2, on cable through Comcast Xfinity channel 193, and was streamed on KRON's website.[77] The over-the-air channel was replaced by Sky Link TV on September 29, 2015, and the online live stream was shut down on the same date.
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