TV30

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TV30 is a local public access television station serving the four East San Francisco Bay Area cities collectively known as the "Tri-Valley". The cities include Livermore, Dublin, Pleasanton and San Ramon. The station, seen on Comcast cable channels 28, 29, and 30, was founded in the 1970's. Formerly known as CTV, or "Tri-Valley Community Television",the name was recently changed to TV30. Even though only homes with cable subscriptions in the four aforementioned cities are able to see the station, TV30 is well known throughout the Bay Area, gaining attention as far away as San Jose with small management controversies. The station is located in Pleasanton.

TV30 News Team

1 History
2 Programming
3 Awards
4 On-Air News Team
5 Other On-Air Talent
6 Former Personalities
7 External links

[edit] History

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Tri-Valley Community Television started in 1976, founded by Darla Stevens. Known as CTV the station expanded from having only a few hours each day on the air, to growing to over three channels decades later. By the 1980s the station moved from covering local events and happenings, and began producing studio shows with the help of the local cable company.

Darla Stevens was Executive Director of the 501(c)3 California Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation known as Tri-Valley Community Television until her retirement in fall of 2003. At that point, then Operations Manager Sheila Tole replaced Stevens as interim Executive Director. In March of 2004, Bruce Goddard was hired for the position of Executive Director and Tole departed.

By December of 2004 several employees of the station either left or were removed by Goddard. Just before Christmas of that year, four employees were fired. Those employees threatened lawsuit and fought their termination with the station's board of directors. None of the employees were re-instated but accusations on behalf of the terminated lead to Goddard being placed on Administrative Leave pending an investigation. No results were officially released but Goddard resigned a few months into his leave.

On July 1, 2005 Glenn Davis was hired as the station's new executive director. One month later the station went live with a digital video server.

One of the longest running shows at the station has been Let's Talk Sports. Hosted by George "Dr. B" Baljevich, the show grew from a call-in talk show, to a studio interview talkshow, and later a field production at TV30. The last in-studio taping of this show took place in 2004.

The 580/680 News is one of the other longest running shows at the station. Now known as TV30 News, the show has been anchored by Tom Morrison since its inception in 1989. George "Dr. B" Baljevich" has anchored sports for the newscast since the beginning. Ian Bartholomew also anchors the sports section of the show. Shortly after the show started, Robin Fahr joined Tom Morrison as Co-Anchor for the show. By 2005 she only anchored one or two days a week with Michelle Soba anchoring one day a week.

In 2004, when the station re-named itself TV30, the name of the newscast was changed to TV30 News. That move brought a re-modeled salmon colored news set replacing the dated blue-lit grey set. In Fall 2005, a new professionally-designed set was installed.

[edit] Programming

TV30 airs meetings on 28 and 29. The bulk of the stations programming can be seen on channel 30. The main show is TV30 News, airing on weekdays. Other local programming includes "Everything Local" and "Livermore Life".