KNSD

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KNSD
San Diego, California
Branding	NBC7/39, NBC San Diego
Channels	39 (UHF) analog, 40 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC (since 1977) NBC Weather Plus (DT2)
Owner	NBC Universal (through Station Venture Operations, LP) (76%) / LIN Television (24%)
Founded	November 16, 1965
Call letters meaning	K NBC San Diego
Former callsigns	KAAR-TV (1965-68) KCST-TV (1968-88)
Former affiliations	Independent (1965-1972) ABC (1972-1977)
Transmitter Power	2510 kW/577 m (analog) 370 kW/563 m (digital)
Website	www.nbcsandiego.com

KNSD is an NBC owned-and-operated television station based in San Diego, California. It uses the on-air branding NBC 7/39, which reflects its channel location on all San Diego-area cable systems (7) and its over-the-air analog channel number (39). KNSD is the only network-owned television station in San Diego, with 76 percent of its ownership controlled by NBC; the remaining 24 percent is owned by LIN Television. NBC 7/39 Weather Plus is seen on KNSD's digital sub-channel.

Contents 1 History 2 Programming 3 Personnel 4 NBC 7/39 News 4.1 Personalities 4.1.1 Current 4.1.2 Past 5 Trivia 6 External links

[edit] History

The station went on the air on November 16, 1965 as KAAR-TV, San Diego's first UHF independent station. The station at the time was based in the building once occupied by the National Pen Company, located in Kearny Mesa, a neighborhood ten miles northeast of downtown San Diego. However, in 1966, a fire destroyed the KAAR building, and the station was off the air for more than year. Channel 39 was sold to Bass Broadcasting, a Texas-based broadcaster, and returned to the air in 1968 as KCST-TV. The new call letters supposedly stood for California San Diego Television.

For a three to four year period in the late 1960s to the early 1970s, Bass tried to take the ABC network affiliation from XETV (channel 6), a station licensed across the Mexican border in Tijuana but based in San Diego. XETV had been San Diego's ABC affiliate since 1956, but Bass claimed that it wasn't appropriate for an American television network to affiliate with a Mexican television station when there was a viable American station available. In 1972, the FCC revoked XETV's permission to carry ABC. KCST took over the ABC affiliation on July 1, 1973, and XETV became an independent station until it became a charter Fox affiliate in 1987. In 1973, KCST started a news department, with Harold Greene, later to gain fame in Los Angeles, as news director and lead news anchor.

Storer Broadcasting, owner of major network stations in the East and Midwest, bought KCST on September 30, 1974. In 1977, in the wake of its newfound success as America's number one television network, ABC switched its San Diego affiliation from KCST to KGTV (channel 10), with KCST taking KGTV's old NBC affiliation. ABC had never been happy with the way its San Diego affiliation had ended up on KCST in the first place, and had sought a way to get back on VHF at the first opportunity. This move did not please Storer, who retaliated by dropping ABC from KCST's then-sister station, WITI-TV in Milwaukee, in favor of CBS (although Storer had originally purchased WITI in hopes of affiliating it with CBS anyway).

In 1985, Storer Broadcasting was taken over by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). Two years later, KCST and the other Storer stations were sold to Gillett Communications (except for former Storer flagship WTVG in Toledo, Ohio, which had been sold to a separate owner). On September 16, 1988, the station changed its call letters to the current KNSD. It also began calling itself "Channel 7/39" on-air. Gillett restructured into SCI TV in the early 1990s after it declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. After SCI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992, its stations were sold to New World Communications. New World then entered into a deal with News Corporation in which most New World stations (mostly CBS affiliates, with a few ABC and NBC stations mixed in) would convert to the Fox network. However, KNSD stayed with NBC since Fox was already on VHF in San Diego (see XETV). KNSD and WVTM in Birmingham, Alabama were both sold to NBC in November 1996. That following January, KNSD began calling itself "NBC 7/39". Later in 1997, LIN TV sold 76% of KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth to NBC in exchange for 24% of KNSD and cash.

In spring 2001, KNSD moved its studios and offices into a redeveloped high-rise office building in downtown San Diego, which includes an all glass enclosed street-level news studio resembling that of The Today Show in New York City's Rockefeller Center.

[edit] Programming

In addition to its network programming, KNSD is home to "Streetside San Diego" (a local lifestyles and infotainment program), The Megan Mullally Show, Ellen, Access Hollywood, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and Ebert & Roeper.

Digital Channels

Channel	Programming
39.1 / 40.1	Main KNSD Programming
39.2 / 40.2	NBC Weather Plus

[edit] Personnel

Station General Manager: Phyllis Schwartz
News Director: Greg Dawson

[edit] NBC 7/39 News

Weekdays

• NBC 7/39 News in the Morning - 5:00-7:00AM
• NBC 7/39 News at 10AM - 10:00-10:30AM
• NBC 7/39 1st News at 4PM - 4:00-4:30PM
• NBC 7/39 News at 4:30PM - 4:30-5:00PM
• NBC 7/39 News at 5PM - 5:00-5:30PM
• NBC 7/39 News at 6PM - 6:00-6:30PM
• NBC 7/39 News at 11PM - 11:00-11:35PM

Saturday

• NBC 7/39 News This Weekend - 7:00-9:00AM
• NBC 7/39 News at 11PM: Weekend Edition - 11:00-11:30PM

Sunday

• NBC 7/39 News This Weekend - 7:00-9:00AM
• NBC 7/39 News at 11PM: Weekend Edition - 11:00-11:35PM
• Sportswrap - 11:35PM-12:05AM with Jim Laslavic

KNSD also currently produces a 10pm newscast for KSWB.

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current

Anchors

• Rory Devine - weekend mornings
• Catherine Garcia - 4 and 4:30 p.m.
• Marianne Kushi - weekday mornings
• Marty Levin - 4:30, 5, 6, and 11 p.m.
• Steven Luke - weekend mornings
• Bill Menish - weekday mornings
• Artie Ojeda - weekend evenings
• Susan Taylor - 4, 5, 6, and 11 p.m.

Weather

• Pat Brown - weekday evenings
• Lorrie Jordan - weekend mornings
• Whitney Southwick - weekday mornings

Sports

• Jim Laslavic - sports director (Sunday-Thursday, also hosts Sportswrap)
• Jim Stone - Friday/Saturday sports anchor
• Derek Togerson - reporter

Traffic

• Jason Austell - early evenings
• Kimberly King - weekday mornings, also host of Streetside San Diego

Reporters

• Greg Bledsoe
• George Chamberlin, money advisor
• Emily Chang
• Gene Cubbison
• Bob Dale, "Pet Parade" segment seen weekend mornings (retired)
• Monica Dean
• Bob Hansen, consumer reporter
• Ken Kramer, "About San Diego"
• Steven Luke
• Tania Luviano, anchors Mi San Diego TV 43
• Mari Payton
• Peggy Pico, medical correspondent
• Tony Shin
• Anne State
• Vic Salazar

[edit] Past

• Clark Anthony - anchor/reporter (1992-2002)
• Stacey Baca - anchor/reporter (1999-2002, now at WLS-TV in Chicago)
• Dave Bender - weather (1988-1991, later moved to KNBC and now at KOVR in Sacramento)
• Paul Bloom - anchor/reporter (1977- 1982, 1984-1986 and 1988-1994; now at KUSI)
• Laura Buxton - anchor/reporter (1980-1987, now at Channel 4 San Diego)
• Tim Carr - anchor/reporter (1989-2001)
• Bobby Estill - sports anchor (1988-1991)
• Susan Farrell - anchor/reporter (1987-1998)
• Bernard Gonzales - anchor/reporter (1988-1992 and 2001-2004)
• Dave Gonzales - anchor/reporter (1984-1989, now at KCBS in Los Angeles)
• Harold Greene - anchor (1969-1977, now at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles)
• Laurence Gross - entertainment critic
• Brian Hackney - weather anchor (1988-1990, now at KPIX-TV in San Francisco)
• Roger Hedgecock - anchor (1991-1992, now a radio host at KOGO-AM)
• Kevin Hunt - weekend anchor (1988-1990)
• Al Keck - sports anchor (1986-1988, now at WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida)
• Joe Lizura - weather anchor (1990-2006)
• Dennis Morgigno - anchor/reporter (1978-1987, now at Channel 4 San Diego)
• Margaret Radford- Reporter/Fill-in Anchor (1994-2007), now retired
• Allison Ross - anchor (1991-1996)
• Mike Smith - sports anchor (1967-1982, now a partner in Ad-Lib Productions)
• Rolland Smith - anchor (1993-1996)
• Lynn Stewart - reporter
• Bree Walker - anchor (1997-2000)
• Dave Walker - anchor (1968-1988, now a partner in Ad-Lib Productions)
• Sarah Wallace - anchor/reporter (1981-1985, now at WABC-TV in New York)
• Denise Yamada - anchor/reporter (1977-1994)

[edit] Trivia

• KNSD, under the traditional definition, is the only network O&O in San Diego.
• KNSD's over-the-air signal on channel 39 makes San Diego, currently market #27, the largest TV market with an NBC station on UHF; all larger markets have NBC on VHF. Furthermore, KNSD is one of two NBC UHF O&O's, Hartford's WVIT/30 being the other; a third UHF O&O, WNCN/17 out of Raleigh-Durham was sold to Media General as of June 2006. In the past, the station blamed its woes on its UHF status, but as viewers move to cable and as many VHF analog stations transition to digital UHF, the problem of its position on the UHF dial has been reduced. [1]
• KNSD also owns KNSD-LP channel 62, but it is leased to Entravision to expand the coverage area of KBNT-CA.

[edit] External links

• KNSD's website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KNSD

v • d • e

American broadcast television in the San Diego/Tijuana market (Nielsen DMA #27)

(including Tijuana channels aimed at the San Diego audience) XETV 6 (Fox) - KFMB 8 (CBS) - KGTV 10 (ABC) - KPBS 15 (PBS) - KBNT-CA 17 / KHAX-LP 49 / KNSD-LP 62 (UNI) - KSDX-LP 29 (Ind) - XHAS 33 / KTCD-LP 46 (TEL) - K35DG 35 (Ind) - KDTF-LP 36 (TFU) - KNSD 39 (NBC) (WX Plus on DT2) - KZSD-LP 41 (AZA) - KBOP-CA 43 (Ind) - KSKT-CA 43 (HSN) - K48AL 48 (Ind) - XHDTV 49 (MNTV) - KUSI 51 (Ind) - K59AL 59 (Ind) - K61GH 61 (Multimedios) - K67AM 67 (Ind) - KSWB 69 (The CW)

Mexican broadcast television in the San Diego/Tijuana market (aimed mainly at the Tijuana audience) XHTJB 3 (Once TV) - XEWT 12 (Televisa local) - XHTIT 21 (TV Azteca 7) - XHJK 27 (TV Azteca 13) - XHBJ 45 (Televisa XHGC) - XHUAA 57 (Televisa XEW)

Local cable television channels 4SD

See also Broadcast television in the Los Angeles, Yuma / El Centro and Ensenada markets

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