KTVU
FCC | |
Facility ID | 35703 |
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ERP | 1,000 kW |
HAAT | 512 m (1,680 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°45′19″N 122°27′10″W / 37.75528°N 122.45278°W |
Translator(s) | 26 (UHF) San Jose |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
KTVU (channel 2) is a
History
As an independent station
The station first signed on the air on March 3, 1958, originally operating as an independent station. The station was originally owned by San Francisco–Oakland Television, Inc., a local firm whose principals were William D. Pabst and Ward D. Ingrim, former executives at the
Channel 2 was the fourth commercial television station to sign on in the Bay Area, and the first independent station in the
The Ingrim–Pabst–Pauley group attempted to sell KTVU to NBC in 1960, as the network sought to acquire a television station in the Bay Area to operate alongside KNBC radio (now KNBR).[6] The sale was eventually canceled in October 1961, due to pre-existing concerns over the sale cited by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that were related to NBC's ownership of radio and television stations in Philadelphia; as a result, the NBC affiliation in San Francisco stayed with KRON-TV (channel 4, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate) until 2001, when NBC attempted again, successfully purchasing KNTV (channel 11).[7] Eighteen months after the sale to NBC was aborted, in July 1963 channel 2 was sold to the Miami Valley Broadcasting Company, a precursor to the broadcasting division of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises, for $12.3 million; the sale was finalized in mid-October of that year.[8][9] Over the station's history as an independent, KTVU's programming schedule consisted mainly of syndicated off-network series, movies, talk shows and religious programs, as well as a sizeable amount of locally produced news, sports, talk and public affairs programming. In 1960, after acquiring camera, projection and slide equipment to transmit programming available in the format, the station began broadcasting its programming in color; much of the programs that it broadcast in color consisted of movies and certain series acquired from the syndication market that were produced in the format, as well as locally produced specials.
Under Cox's stewardship, channel 2 became the leading independent station in the San Francisco–Oakland market and one of the top-rated independents in the Western United States. KTVU retained this status even as competing independents on the
In the early 1960s, KTVU obtained the local broadcast rights to the
As an independent competitor, KTVU aired a nightly film showcase, The 8 O'Clock Movie, as an alternative to network programs that aired during prime time on then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV,
Channel 2 adapted to competition over the years by reinventing the station's image with the launch of a promotional campaign using the slogan, "There's Only One 2" – which was used in its marketing and on-air promos, including a musical jingle, during the 1970s and 1980s (the slogan was reintroduced under Fox ownership in 2015).[11]
In 1977, KTVU was uplinked to
Fox affiliation
In October 1985,
KTVU and Cox's other two independent stations,
During the early and mid-1990s, the station gradually shifted the focus of its daytime schedule from a mix of off-network sitcoms and drama series to a lineup predominately made up of first-run syndicated talk,
Throughout its affiliation with Fox under Cox Enterprises ownership, the station continued to brand itself as "Channel 2", even as the network began to require that its owned-and-operated stations and affiliates incorporate the "Fox" name within their on-air branding. However, KTVU would begin to alternately brand as "Fox Channel 2" by the early 1990s, which was mainly used within promotions for Fox network programs, with the network's logo being placed to the left of KTVU's longtime "Circle Laser 2" logo (which was first introduced in 1975). In April 1997, the Fox wordmark logo was added onto the underside of the top line of "Circle Laser 2"; the station also concurrently changed its branding to "KTVU Fox 2" as the network tightened its branding standardizations for its stations—although the previous "KTVU Channel 2" moniker remained in use as part of its newscast branding (the "Fox 2" logo was also used on its newscasts in April 1997, but the moniker was used from March to October 2001).
On November 29, 1999, Cox Enterprises acquired San Jose-based independent station KICU-TV from Detroit businessman and Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson and KICU president/general manager Jim Evers. The resulting pairing of KICU with KTVU created the Bay Area's first television station duopoly when the deal was finalized in March 2000;[17][18] the operations of KICU migrated from that station's original studio facilities in San Jose, where KTVU relocated its South Bay news bureau, and were consolidated into KTVU's Jack London Square facility in Oakland.[19] On March 3, 2008, KTVU celebrated its 50th anniversary of broadcasting. In honor of the anniversary, a series of fifteen promos were produced, which included those honoring past KTVU programs such as Romper Room and Captain Satellite as well as the station's sports programming.
Acquisition by Fox Television Stations
Following its purchase of
On June 24, 2014, Fox announced that it would trade two of its owned-and-operated stations,
In November 2014, KTVU transitioned from Cox's in-house digital platforms to those operated by Fox, which included the release of new mobile apps and the transition of its website to the WorldNow platform and the webpage layouts that the provider designed for the Fox-owned stations.[28] On February 8, 2015, KTVU began to fully comply with Fox's station branding guidelines, extending the "KTVU Fox 2" brand to its news programming (as well as adopting Fox Television Stations' standardized graphics package for the group's Fox O&Os); however, the station retained the "Circle Laser 2" logo by both including it within the group's standardized "boxkite" logo and in an alternate version in which it is now placed next to the Fox wordmark (the latter became the main logo in August 2015, when KTVU introduced updated introductions for its newscasts, which de-emphasized the standardized graphics).[29]
On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company, owner of ABC and KGO-TV, announced its intent to buy KTVU's parent company, 21st Century Fox, for $52.4 billion; the sale excluded the Fox Television Stations unit (including KTVU and KICU), the Fox network, Fox News, Fox Sports 1 and the MyNetworkTV programming service, which were transferred to a separate company.[30]
Programming
Since it first joined the network as an affiliate in October 1986, KTVU has generally aired the entire Fox program lineup without preemptions (except for San Francisco Giants baseball games during its contractual tenure with the team), as the network airs fewer hours of programming than that offered by CBS, NBC and ABC. The only regular exception has been Fox NFL Kickoff, which KTVU has declined carriage of since the Sunday pre-game show and Fox NFL Sunday lead-in moved to Fox from Fox Sports 1 in September 2015, due to its existing commitment to carry the "official" San Francisco 49ers pregame show 49ers Pre Game Live on Sunday mornings during the NFL regular season; Kickoff thus airs at the same time on KICU.[31]
At first, KTVU delayed the preempted prime time programming to weekends, but with the growth of Fox and because of viewer demand, the station eventually aired network shows that were delayed from their designated prime time slots following its 10 p.m. newscast. From the time that Cox took over the operations of KICU in 2000 until Channel 2 lost the Giants rights after the 2007 season, the preempted Fox programming would be moved to KICU to air in their network-designated time slots.
Locally produced programming
From 1958 until the early 1970s, KTVU aired the space-themed afternoon children's program Captain Satellite, which was hosted by Bob March and was set in a fictional spaceship known as the Starfinder II. The series—which was originally produced at Moose Hall in Oakland, before moving to the KTVU studios in 1959—showcased cartoons between segments (including among others
Until the 1980s, the station produced a series of classic
One of the station's most successful programs—both in terms of ratings and cultural impact—was
Wilkins eventually began hosting a second program on KTVU,
Other local programs that aired on KTVU during its run as an independent station included the film showcase/trivia game show franchise
Sports programming
KTVU obtained the rights to televise San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball games in 1961,[39] three years after the team relocated to the Bay Area from New York City. After the move, the Giants initially opted against televising their games to encourage game attendance by Bay Area residents and tourists. When channel 2 became the Giants' television partner, it was only permitted to televise the team's road games against the Los Angeles Dodgers until 1965,[40] when the station began airing additional regular season and exhibition games (KTVU's relationship with the Giants extended to the franchise's ownership, as Cox Enterprises owned a 10% stake in the Giants during the latter years of the broadcast contract[18]). KTVU eventually began sharing the local television rights to the Giants with SportsChannel Bay Area (now NBC Sports Bay Area, in which the Giants had purchased a 30% minority interest in December 2007[41]) when the regional sports network launched in July 1991.
Channel 2 lost the local over-the-air telecast rights to the Giants following the
KTVU has also served as the market's primary official television broadcaster of the San Francisco 49ers since 1994, when Fox assumed the contractual rights to air games from the National Football Conference (NFC). The station airs most of the team's regular-season and playoff games that do not have rights held by other broadcast networks (primarily those involving the 49ers' in-conference opponents), as well as another 49ers-related programming during the NFL season including the pre-game show 49ers Pre Game Live (on Sunday mornings), the weekly station-produced sports program KTVU Mercedes-Benz Sports Weekend (on Saturday evenings), magazine program 49ers Total Access (which follows Sports Wrap on Sunday evenings) and the 49ers Red & Gold Specials (comprising four programs focusing on the 49ers' history that air on either KTVU or KICU during the team's training camp and/or preseason).[44][45] The station aired the team's appearance in Super Bowl LIV.
KTVU also airs most
News operation
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As of September 2023[update], KTVU presently broadcasts 69+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 12 hours each weekday, 4+1⁄2 hours on Saturdays and five hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it has the second-highest newscast output of any television station in the San Francisco Bay Area (behind the CW/ MyNetworkTV affiliate KRON-TV, which carries 72 hours each week), and one of the top 4 in the country. In addition, the station produces the sports highlight program Sports Wrap, which airs Saturdays at 10:45 p.m. and Sundays at 11:30 p.m. (it originally existed as a 15-minute program contained within the weekend editions of the 10 p.m. newscast until May 30, 2015, after which the Sunday edition was spun-off into a separate half-hour program on June 7; the program retains its 15-minute format for its Saturday edition),[46] and the public affairs program Bay Area People, which airs Saturdays at 6:30 am. The Saturday and Sunday editions of KTVU's 6 p.m. newscast is subject to preemption or delay due to network sports telecasts overrunning into or starting within either time slot; since April 2016, sister station KICU has served as an alternate broadcaster of KTVU newscasts that are preempted by network sports telecasts. KTVU was the fifth-largest Fox station overall without a newscast in a conventional late news time slot (locally in the San Francisco market, 11 p.m. Pacific Time). As of 2021, KTVU airs a newscast at 11 p.m.
The station has been well known in the Bay Area for its news programming; KTVU's news department began operations along with the station on March 3, 1958, with the launch of The 10 o'clock News (modified to a fully spelled titling in 2001, before switching to partially numerical-based titling—as the Fox 2 10:00 News, mirroring similar titling schemes for newscasts used by some of its sister stations such as Los Angeles O&O KTTV—for six months starting in February 2015 under Fox ownership, before reverting to the previous title form), which for years had been the market's only local television newscast at 10 pm. Initially airing for a half-hour on Monday through Friday nights, the program was originally anchored by Les Nichols (who served as KTVU's managing editor) and Al Helmso (who also served as the station's first news director). The program has long established itself with top-drawer talent, many of whom have worked at KTVU for more than ten years. Though, early on, the program experienced turnover with its main anchor team. Nichols and Helmso stepped down as main anchors in the early 1960s, replaced by Gary Park and Stan Atkinson. The program was reformatted in 1971 as The Tuck-Fortner Report, with Ron Fortner and Michael Tuck at the helm; they were replaced by Marcia Brandwynne and George Reading in 1974 (Reading would later be replaced by Atkinson and eventually, Judd Hambrick). The weeknight editions of The 10 o'clock News would expand to one hour in 1975; hour-long weekend editions were eventually added in September 1979, which were first by anchored by Elaine Corral.
In 1976, assignment reporter
For more than 40 years, The Ten O'Clock News has been the ratings leader in the San Francisco Bay Area at 10 pm, with or without news competition in the arena. The program's rise to ratings dominance—even at times when weaker-rated shows led into the newscast—occurred under the helm of longtime news director Fred Zehnder (who originally joined the station as an assistant news director, before being promoted to head the news department after the firing of his predecessor Ted Kavanau in 1978). Zehnder crafted a no-nonsense journalistic style for The 10 o'clock News that was based around in-depth and fair reporting, largely devoid of the "
The 10 p.m. newscast's dominance was to such an extent that, from 1987 to 2005, the program was referenced in its title sequence and some news promotions as "the #1 primetime newscast in the country", a factual statement based on the number of viewers watching the program at that hour, even beating network programs airing against it on KRON-TV, KGO-TV and KPIX on most nights. It was such a force to be reckoned with that when KRON and KPIX respectively timeshifted NBC and CBS' prime time lineups one hour earlier as part of the "early prime" network scheduling experiment in February 1992, The Ten O'Clock News handily beat the late evening newscasts that both stations had consequently moved up to 10 pm. KRON would move its late news back to the 11 p.m. slot in September 1993; KPIX would not follow suit until September 1998 (although it would later begin producing a competing half-hour 10 p.m. newscast for KBCW in March 2008). In stark contrast, when KRON became an independent station in January 2002, it initially scheduled its new prime time newscast at 9 p.m. to avoid competing directly with KTVU (KRON would eventually restore a newscast at 10 p.m. on May 16, 2016[60]). Moreover, WB affiliate KBWB (now KOFY-TV) canceled its KNTV-produced 10 p.m. newscast after four years in 2002, as it was unable to compete with KTVU in the ratings. During this period, KTVU branded its flagship newscast as The Original Ten O'Clock News.
The Ten O'Clock News is also one of the few local newscasts in the United States to have been syndicated to other television stations. As of 2016[update], the program also airs on Fox affiliate
Throughout its run as an independent station, The Ten O'Clock News was the only news program on KTVU. The station first began programming news outside its established 10 p.m. slot in September 1986, when it debuted 2 at Noon. Originally anchored by Barbara Simpson and Bob MacKenzie, the hour-long midday news-talk program—which replaced syndicated game shows in the noontime slot—featured a hybrid of in-depth interviews and various lifestyle features, preceded by a news summary during the first half-hour. The program was reformatted into a more traditional newscast in 1990, as The Noon News, at which time it was shortened to a half-hour (the newscast would eventually revert to an hour on April 7, 2016[63]). In September 1989, the station debuted a half-hour 6 p.m. newscast, The 6:00 News, which lasted until its cancellation in 1991.
Channel 2 eventually decided to shift towards a news-intensive format to compete with KRON, KPIX, KGO-TV and KNTV that took the course of several years to take effect; Fox has never carried any national network newscasts (aside from news updates produced out of its New York City station WNYW that aired during prime time from 1987 to 1990, and four attempts at newsmagazines between 1987 and 2003), but it still motivated its affiliates, including KTVU, to air more local news programming. The station's original morning newscast, Mornings on 2, debuted on January 2, 1991, as a two-hour broadcast from 7 to 9 am, replacing animated series in the time period (the program would expand to three hours on September 14, 2015[64]); as such, it became the fourth Fox station to air a newscast on weekday mornings. This was followed on August 5, 1996, by the debut of an additional hour-long newscast at 6 a.m. (which would gradually expand to three hours, now beginning at 4 am).[65] Early evening newscasts later returned on March 27, 2000, with the debut of a new half-hour 6 p.m. newscast (which expanded to an hour on April 25, 2016),[66][67][68][69][70] followed in April 2005 by the addition of an hour-long 5 p.m. newscast on weekdays (an expansion of an existing weekend-only newscast that debuted in 1998).
Besides beating out its competition in the 10 p.m. time slot, The Ten O'Clock News has also placed ahead of KRON, KPIX and KGO's 11 p.m. newscasts in overall late news viewership for much of its history; however as its news programming expanded, KTVU's newscasts avidly competed for first overall with KRON-TV and KGO-TV during the 1990s. Its newscasts became the highest-rated among the Bay Area's television stations in the early 2000s, firmly taking first place from KRON-TV following Channel 4's January 2002 disaffiliation from NBC. The May 1999 retirement of Zehnder brought changes to the newsroom; however, KTVU was ranked as the highest quality local newscast in the nation in 2000 by the Project for Excellence in Journalism under his immediate successor, Andrew Finlayson (who began his tenure at KTVU as a noon news producer in 1988 and left the station in 2003), while maintaining the top rating slot at 10 p.m. and throughout the noon and morning newscasts.[71][72][73] Varying prime time numbers and improvements at competitors (as well as audience erosion for local programming in general) have since led to a decline in the once-dominant news operation's ratings, although it retains the No. 1 spot, a rarity for a Fox station. For August 2010, KTVU's newscasts ranked No. 1 among adult viewers 25–54, beating KPIX, KGO, KNTV, and KRON.[74]
KTVU had used the "KTVU News Theme" by Michael Randall as the primary theme music for its newscasts from 1987 (debuting alongside a custom title sequence for the 10 p.m. newscast that was updated in 1994 and used until 2001, featuring a
On January 21, 2008, the station began producing a half-hour newscast at 7 p.m. each weeknight for sister station KICU-TV.
In March 2014, KTVU began using the
Controversies
2013 Asiana Airlines graphic
During the July 12, 2013, noon newscast, anchor Tori Campbell read a news release that claimed to identify the four pilots of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, which crash landed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6. A summer intern at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) had incorrectly confirmed the spellings of the satirical names to a KTVU staffer who called to verify the release. The names read were Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow.[82][83]
The NTSB apologized for its role in the incident, stating in a press release that "appropriate actions will be taken to ensure that such a serious error is not repeated."[84][85] Several KTVU staff were terminated immediately, and a news producer left, reportedly for health reasons.[86]
Asiana Airlines announced on July 15, 2013, that it would file a defamation lawsuit against KTVU, claiming the incident damaged the airline's reputation, but withdrew it a few days later, stating that it would instead "concentrate all [their] efforts on dealing with the aftermath of the accident."[87] KTVU filed requests through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove user-uploaded videos of the prank.[88] The station contended that the takedowns were intended to lessen insensitivity towards the Asian community.[89]
2019 NLDS graphic
The station received complaints after the 6 p.m. newscast on October 9, 2019, featured a headline about the Atlanta Braves being "scalped" when losing the deciding Game 5 of the National League Division Series to the St. Louis Cardinals, 13–1. Viewers who took to social media to express their disapproval stated the station used language considered to be insensitive to the Native American culture. KTVU issued a statement the following day regretting the incident.[90]
Frank Somerville suspension
Local media reported that anchor Frank Somerville was placed on indefinite suspension after editors overruled his request to add commentary to a September 21, 2021, report on the
Paul Pelosi underwear rumor
In October 2022, following the attack on Paul Pelosi, KTVU inaccurately reported that the attacker was in his underwear at the time of the incident. The station subsequently retracted this claim and removed mention of the underwear from the relevant article; however, social media users and conservative public figures including Dinesh D'Souza began repeating the underwear claim as if it were fact.[92]
Notable former on-air staff
- Brian Copeland – morning feature reporter/meteorologist (1994–1999);[93] later with KGO (AM)[94]
- Mark Curtis – morning anchor/correspondent (1993–2007);[95] now political analyst at WOWK-TV[96]
- Ron Fortner – co-anchor of The Tuck and Fortner Report (early-1970s); deceased
- Leslie Griffith – evening anchor/reporter (1986–2006);[99] former elephant activist;[100] deceased
- bureau chief (1977–2012);[101] now a professor at San Jose State University's School of Journalism & Mass Communications[102]
- Pat McCormick – meteorologist, and host of Dialing for Dollars and children's show Charlie and Humphrey (1968–1995)[103]
- Byron Miranda – meteorologist (2006); now at WPIX[104]
- Steve Physioc – sports director (1987–1989); worked for the Kansas City Royals from 2012 to 2022[105]
- Sergio Quintana – reporter;[106] now at KNTV[107]
- Dennis Richmond – evening anchor (1968–2008)[108]
- Ted Rowlands – reporter (2001–2004),[109] anchor (2016–2017);[110] now at Court TV[111]
- Live with Kelly and Ryan, On Air with Ryan Seacrest, American Idol, and American Top 40, managing editor for E! News, and television producer)
- Sara Sidner – weekend anchor/reporter (2004–2007);[115] now at CNN[116]
- Barbara Simpson – anchor (1970s–80s);[108] later at KSFO[117]
- Frank Somerville – afternoon anchor (1992–2008); 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. anchor (2008–2021); formerly with KSTP-TV[53][118]
- Michael Tuck – co-anchor of The Tuck and Fortner Report (1970–1974); later anchored in San Diego; deceased[119]
- Charlie Van Dyke – station announcer (1987–1995)
- Thuy Vu – anchor/reporter (1998–2000); later at KQED[98]
- Bob Wilkins – original host of Creature Features (1971–1979)[120] and the children's show Captain Cosmic (1977–1979);[121] deceased[120]
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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2.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
KTVU-HD | Fox |
2.2 | 480i | FOXWX | Fox Weather | |
2.3 | Movies! | Movies! | ||
2.4 | Buzzr | Buzzr | ||
4.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KRON-TV | The CW (primary) / MyNetworkTV (secondary) (KRON-TV) |
KTVU also operates a
KTVU originally launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 2.2 in 2008, as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network LATV, which moved to a subchannel of KOFY-TV in 2019, and later KCNZ-CD in 2021. This subchannel later affiliated with Fox Weather in January 2022.
Translators
Analog-to-digital conversion
KTVU shut down its analog signal, over
KTVU also operates a digital fill-in translator on UHF channel 26,[128] which serves the southern part of the viewing area, including San Jose.
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