KPIX-TV

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KPIX-TV
San Francisco, California
Branding	CBS 5 Bay Area (general) CBS 5 Eyewitness News (newscasts)
Slogan	Everywhere
Channels	5 (VHF) analog, 29 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	CBS Corporation
Founded	December 24, 1948
Former affiliations	DuMont (secondary 1948-1955) NBC (secondary 1948-1949)
Transmitter Power	100 kW/506 m (analog) 1000 kW/401 m (digital)
Website	www.cbs5.com

KPIX-TV (Channel 5) is the CBS owned and operated television station in San Francisco, California. Through its parent company CBS Corporation, KPIX is co-owned with The CW affiliate KBCW (Channel 44).

The station transmits from the Sutro Tower and its signal covers the San Francisco Bay Area. Known on the air as CBS 5 Bay Area, KPIX is home to one of the higher rated newscasts among CBS-owned stations. KPIX was also one of 2 Group W stations that became a CBS O&O, but had already been affiliated with CBS (the other being KDKA-TV).

Contents 1 History 2 Programs 3 Newscasts 3.1 Lineup 3.2 Past and present Personalities, Newscasters and Reporters 4 Previous logos 5 References 6 External links

[edit] History

KPIX signed on Christmas Eve 1948. It was the nation's 49th television station, the fifth in California and the first outside Los Angeles. It was owned by the Associated Broadcasters, owners of KSFO-AM 560.

It immediately joined CBS due to a deal KSFO's owners had worked out with CBS a year earlier. KSFO had been CBS Radio's Bay Area affiliate from 1937 to 1941, when Associated Broadcasters backed out of a deal for CBS to buy the station. While KSFO was still affiliated with CBS, it was originally slated to move to 740 AM, the dial spot of KQW in San Jose. That frequency was the last 50,000-watt frequency originally allocated to the Bay Area, and KSFO would raise its power to 50,000 watts after the move. However, after KSFO parted ways with CBS, CBS moved its Bay Area affiliation to KQW and wasn't about to give up the obvious advantage of owning the last available 50,000-watt station in the Bay Area. After lengthy FCC hearings, KSFO won the frequency, but later decided to stay at 560 and concentrate its efforts on building a television station. It traded 740 to CBS in return for getting the CBS television affiliation for the Bay Area. CBS changed KQW's calls to KCBS.

The station also carried programming from the now-defunct DuMont Television Network until that network folded in 1955. [1]. It even carried a few NBC programs until KRON-TV signed on in 1949.

When KPIX's first competitor, KGO-TV, signed on in 1949, KPIX produced programs to welcome it to the Bay Area.

In 1952, KPIX and KSFO moved into a new building on Van Ness Avenue, with KPIX staying there until about 1979, when they relocated to a refurbished building on the corner of Battery and Broadway streets, where KPIX remains to this day. (KSFO moved to other studios in the Fairmont Hotel, across the hall from the Tonga Room, later in the 1950s.) Westinghouse Electric Corporation bought KPIX in 1954 and ran it as part of Group W, its broadcasting unit. In November 1995, Westinghouse merged with CBS, making KPIX a CBS O&O station and bringing it into common ownership with KCBS.

In May, 2006, KCBS and KPIX moved their San Jose news bureau to the Fairmont Tower at 50 W. San Fernando St. This was the original site of Charles Herrold's experimental broadcasts that eventually birthed KCBS. Although CBS was not aware of the history of the San Fernando St. address when the move was planned, it quickly recognized and embraced its significance when informed, giving long-overdue credit at the bureau's opening celebration to one of the inventors of broadcasting.

[edit] Programs

KPIX was the station that came up with the concept for a local entertainment and lifestyles program, Evening Magazine. Evening Magazine began on KPIX-TV in August 1976, and within a year, the concept expanded to the other Group W stations. By Fall 1978, the Evening Magazine format was syndicated to non-Group W markets across the country as PM Magazine. The entire Evening/PM Magazine format was cancelled by the late 1980s. KPIX resurrected Evening Magazine in 1998. In 2005, Evening Magazine was retitled Eye On The Bay, to focus further on the San Francisco Bay Area. KBCW also aired Evening Magazine and Eye on the Bay in the early 2000s but as reruns of the previous night's episode.

KPIX was also known for the locally produced morning talk show, People are Talking, which began in 1978, and ran until the 1990's (the other Group W stations also used the People are Talking format during these years). On KPIX, this show pre-empted The Price Is Right for a few years, and CBS had to schedule the popular game show on other Bay Area independent stations such as KOFY (now KBWB).

Until 1994, it was standard KPIX practice to pre-empt not only The Price Is Right but also other CBS morning daytime shows as well. In 1995, when CBS signed a long term deal with every Westinghouse station (just before the two companies merged), KPIX began broadcasting the entire CBS schedule.

For a time from 1992 until 1998, KPIX ran CBS primetime programming an hour earlier than typical for the Pacific Time Zone (i.e. from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.), a practice which KOVR, its sister station in Sacramento, continues to this day. This practice also saw the launch of a 10:00 hour-long newscast in the 1990s, whereas KRON also had a 10 p.m. newscast which was 30 minutes. Both have since moved back up to the 11 p.m. timeslot, with KPIX doing this in 1998 due to the fact that KTVU had a long standing with their 10 p.m. newscast for years.

KPIX is also home to 30 Minutes Bay Area a 30 minute news magazine created by 60 Minutes Creator Don Hewitt after he left the national show. The "30 Minutes" concept was originally planned to air on many CBS O&O stations but recent KPIX promos make the claim that their broadcast is the only local version of 60 Minutes.

[edit] Newscasts

KPIX uses the Eyewitness News format adopted by sister station KYW-TV in Philadelphia. KGO-TV also uses a similar type format, but KPIX had the Eyewitness News name first; KGO adopted its version from WABC-TV in New York City.

[edit] Lineup

Monday-Friday

• CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5 a.m. - 5 a.m.-6 a.m.

John Kessler, Sydnie Kohara, Roberta Gonzales (weather), Heather Hudgens (traffic)

• CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 6 a.m. - 6 a.m.-7 a.m.

John Kessler, Sydnie Kohara, Roberta Gonzales (weather), Heather Hudgens (traffic)

• CBS 5 Eyewitness News at Noon - NOON-12:30 p.m.

John Kessler, Barbara Rodgers, Roberta Gonzales (weather)

• CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5 p.m. - 5 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Ken Bastida, Juliette Goodrich, Samantha Mohr (weather)

• CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 6 p.m. - 6 p.m.-7 p.m.

Ken Bastida, Dana King, Samantha Mohr (weather), Dennis O'Donnell (sports)

• Eye on the Bay - 7:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

• CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 11 - 11-11:35 p.m.

Ken Bastida, Dana King, Samantha Mohr (weather), Dennis O'Donnell (sports)

Weekends

• CBS 5 Eyewitness News Weekend Early Edition - Saturday 7-8:30 a.m and Sunday 7:30-8:30 a.m.

Lisa Chan, Joe Vasquez, Lawrence Karnow (weather)

• Bay Sunday - Sunday 5:30 a.m.

hosted by Barbara Rodgers

• CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5:30 p.m. - 5:30-6 p.m.

Ann Notarangelo, Allen Martin, Lawrence Karnow (weather), Rick Quan (sports)

• CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 6:30 p.m. - 6:30-7 p.m.

Ann Notarangelo, Allen Martin, Lawrence Karnow (weather), Rick Quan (sports)

• CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 11 - 11-11:35 p.m.

Ann Notarangelo, Allen Martin, Lawrence Karnow (weather), Rick Quan (sports)

[edit] Past and present Personalities, Newscasters and Reporters

• Jim Avila
• Joel Bartlett
• Ken Bastida
• Anna Chavez
• Dave McElhatton
• Joe Fonzi
• Roberta Gonzales
• Juliette Goodrich
• Brian Hackney
• Mike Hegedus
• Jonathan Karsh
• Kate Kelly
• John Kessler
• Dana King
• Sydney Kohara
• Larry McCormick
• Ron Magers
• Allen Martin
• Samantha Mohr
• Dr. Kim Mulvihill
• Doug Murphy (Died in December 2005 in a house fire in Lafayette, California)
• Malou Nubla
• Dennis O'Donnell
• Rick Quan
• Wanda Ramey
• Len Ramirez
• Manuel Ramos
• Barbara Rodgers
• Mike Rowe (television host)
• Tony Russomanno
• Rolando Santos (currently executive at CNN Headline News)
• Dr. Nancy Snyderman (currentuly the NBC chief medical correspondent)
• Drew Soicher (currently at KUSA)
• Brian Sussman
• Wendy Tokuda (currently at rival KRON)
• Kaity Tong
• Van Amburg
• Thuy Vu
• Wayne Walker
• John Wesson
• Jan Yanehiro

[edit] Previous logos

KPIX's "5" logo dates from the days as a Westinghouse station, when the "Group W font" was standard on KPIX and its sister stations, most notably WINS radio in New York City, KFWB radio in Los Angeles, WIND radio and later WMAQ radio in Chicago, KYW-AM-TV in Philadelphia, KDKA radio and television in Pittsburgh, WBZ-AM-TV in Boston, WJZ-TV in Baltimore and WOWO radio in Fort Wayne, Indiana. When Westinghouse merged with CBS, most of the former Group W stations eventually retired the font. KPIX and WJZ-TV would become the only two CBS-owned television stations to continue using this logo font today. KPIX would be the only CBS-owned station in the West Coast to not follow the CBS Mandate for years after the merger, but referenced itself as KPIX-TV Channel 5. Finally in 2005, KPIX fell in line with the mandate and called itself CBS 5, later CBS 5 Bay Area (although some references to "CBS 5" were heard in commercials as early as 2003). But it was briefly branded simply as KPIX 5 between 1993 and 1996, even dropping the Eyewitness News name and called itself KPIX 5 News at the same time before reverting.

KPIX logo used from 1965 to 1996 (It was not italicized until 1984)

A variation of the previous logo, used from 1994 to 1996

KPIX logo used from 1996 to 2002. The current logo is a slightly darker color and has a larger CBS eye.

KPIX news open from 2002 to 2004. Contains the current logo with older "Everywhere" tagline.

[edit] References

• KPIX History

[edit] External links

• CBS 5
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KPIX-TV

CBS Network Affiliates in the state of California
KCBS 2 (Los Angeles) - KPIX 5 (San Francisco) - KVIQ 6 (Eureka) - KFMB 8 (San Diego) - KCOY 12 (Santa Maria) - KHSL 12 (Chico) - KOVR 13 (Stockton/Sacramento/Modesto) - KBAK 29 (Bakersfield) - KPSP 38 (Coachella Valley) - KION 46 (Salinas) - KGPE 47 (Fresno)
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