KXTV

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KXTV
Sacramento, California
Branding	News10
Slogan	Committed to News And Connected To Our Community
Channels	10 (VHF) analog, 61 HDTV (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ABC The AccuWeather Channel on DT2 signal
Owner	Gannett
Founded	March 19, 1955
Call letters meaning	X = Roman numeral 10 (for channel number) TV
Former callsigns	KBET (1955-1959)
Former affiliations	CBS (1955-1995)
Website	www.news10.net

KXTV, "News10" is an ABC affiliate in Sacramento, California. They are owned and operated by the Gannett Corporation.

Contents 1 Station and programming history 2 KXTV's ownership 3 Newscasts 3.1 Other Current Personalities 3.2 Former Personalities 4 High Definition & Digital TV 5 Trivia 6 External links

[edit] Station and programming history

The station went on the air on March 19, 1955 as KBET. Four years later, with an ownership change, the call letters became KXTV (the "X" being the Roman numeral for the VHF channel it broadcasts on, channel 10).

From its founding until 1995, KXTV was an affiliate of CBS. As a CBS affiliate, the station preempted some lower-rated daytime (the 9-10am block in the 1980s and early 90's) and late night (from the late 1980s until the arrival of The Late Show with David Letterman in 1993) programs; and eventually dropped Guiding Light due to low ratings in the early 1990s. While most CBS stations would air The Young and The Restless from 11 a.m.-NOON, KXTV moved it to the 3 p.m. timeslot in 1994. Then, on March 6, 1995, in an unprecedented move in local television, KXTV swapped affiliations with KOVR, switching networks to ABC. As an ABC affiliate, the station preempted the half-hour soap airing in the 12:30 timeslot (Loving/The City/Port Charles); but when the network axed the programming block outright in the early 2000s; KXTV has aired the entire schedule of ABC programming since then. On another note, KXTV aired All My Children at 3 p.m. in the early years as an ABC affiliate, before finally following the niche of airing it at Noon alongside majority of the ABC stations -- only after the midday newscast moved an hour earlier from Noon to 11 a.m..

Four years later, in 1999, KXTV began digital broadcasts on a new and separate HDTV channel. Then, in 2001, to reflect the station's commitment to its news coverage, KXTV decided to become better known as "News10".

KXTV has first choice on all King World programs offered locally, currently holding the local syndication rights to Jeopardy!, Inside Edition, and Wheel of Fortune. Until 2002, the station also held the local syndication rights to The Oprah Winfrey Show. It is these shows that have made News10 one of the highest-rated local stations in daytime television. Since 2002-2003, KXTV has been the local television home of the Sacramento Kings, the city's National Basketball Association franchise, which coincides with their network's coverage of NBA games. The station picked up the rights to Kings telecasts in the middle of the 2002-03 season due to the contractual dispute between the team and its then-rights holder, UPN station KMAX.

[edit] KXTV's ownership

The Gannett Corporation (which also owns the USA Today newspaper) has owned KXTV since 1999, when it obtained the station in a swap with Belo Corporation in exchange for Austin ABC affiliate KVUE. (Belo had acquired KXTV in 1984 as part of its purchase of Corinthian Broadcasting.) The station's transmitter, the KXTV/KOVR Tower (shared with KOVR channel 13), is located in Walnut Grove. The tower is among the tallest in the world and is likely the tallest structure in California.

KXTV will be the market's only commercial station to remain on the VHF dial once the FCC completes the digital transition on February 17, 2009. [1]

[edit] Newscasts

Over the years as a CBS or ABC affiliate; KXTV's newscasts (which successively identified as Shell News, The Big News, Channel 10 News, Newservice 10 (in the 1970s), and Eyewitness News (early 80's) before adopting the present News 10 moniker in the mid-to-late 80's [2]) have traditionally placed a somewhat distant second in the local TV news ratings. However, in recent ratings periods, its newscasts have shown considerable ratings gains (particularly in the critical 11 p.m. race), eroding at the longtime dominance of local news ratings kingpin KCRA.

News10 airs local newscasts in the following time slots.

MONDAY-FRIDAY

• News10 Good Morning (5:00-7:00 a.m.)
  • anchored by by Dan Elliott and Kelly Jackson (Joins the show 04/23/07) with Monica Woods Gray (wife of KCRA anchor Walt Gray) on weather and Melissa Crowley May (wife of sports anchor Bryan May) with traffic, Angel Cardenas (Air 10 Traffic Reporter)
• News10 Midday (11:00-11:30 a.m.)
  • anchored by Dan Elliott and Jennifer Smith with Gregg Lalka on weather
• News10 at 5:00 (5:00-5:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dale Schornack and Cristina Mendonsa with Patty Souza on weather
• News10 at 6:00 (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dale Schornack and Cristina Mendonsa with Patty Souza on weather and Bryan May with sports
• News10 at 11:00 (11:00-11:35 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dale Schornack and Cristina Mendonsa with Patty Souza on weather and Bryan May with sports

SATURDAY

• News10 at 6:00 (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dana Howard and Alicia Malaby with Darla Givens on weather and Ryan Yamamoto with sports
• News10 at 11:00 (11:00-11:35 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dana Howard and Alicia Malaby with Darla Givens on weather and Ryan Yamamoto with sports

SUNDAY

• News10 at 5:00 (5:00-5:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dana Howard and Alicia Malaby with Darla Givens on weather
• News10 at 6:00 (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dana Howard and Alicia Malaby with Darla Givens on weather and Ryan Yamamoto with sports
• News10 at 11:00 (11:00-11:35 p.m)
  • anchored by Dana Howard and Jennifer Smith with Darla Givens on weather and Ryan Yamamoto with sports

[edit] Other Current Personalities

• Dan Adams, General Assignment Reporter
• Cornell Barnard, General Assignment Reporter
• Marcey Brightwell, Political Reporter
• Kelly Brothers, Consumer and Business Reporter
• Angel Cardenas, Traffic Reporter Air 10
• Nicole Chavez, General Assignment Reporter
• Tim Daly, San Joaquin Valley reporter
• Monika Diaz, General Assignment Reporter
• Mark Hedlund, General Assignment Reporter
• Deborah Hoffman, General Assignment Reporter
• Sharon Ito, Online News Anchor/ Reporter
• Gregg Lalka, Meteorologist
• Dave Marquis, General Assignment Reporter
• Karen Massie, General Assignment Reporter
• Jonatham Mumm, General Assignment Reporter
• Meggan Rush, Fill-in Traffic Anchor
• Gina Villarreal, Assignment Editor/ Fill-in Reporter
• George Warren, General Assignment Reporter

[edit] Former Personalities

• Beth Duncan, Morning Traffic Anchor (late 90s-2001)
• Justin Allen, Sports Anchor (2004-2005) now at WTSP in Tampa Bay
• Rena Apple, Morning Traffic Reporter (2002-2003)
• Cecil King, Morning pilot (2004-2005)
• Rob Marshall, Air10 Co-pilot (1990s-late 2003 now in Colorado)
• J.D Maher, Weekend Meteorologist (2000-2005 Freelancing at KTXL FOX40 in Sacramento)
• Julie Durda, Traffic Anchor (2003-2006 Now at KPHO-TV in Phoenix)
• Will Selva, Sports Anchor (2003-2005 Now at CNN Sports Los Angeles)
• Jane McCarthey, Reporter/ Fill-in anchor (1999-2004 Now at KING-TV Seattle, WA)
• Dick Cable, Anchor (1969-1998)
• Sande Drew, Anchor/Reporter (1970-1975)
• Dana Jacobson, Sports Anchor/Reporter (1998-2002, now at ESPN)
• Elissa Lynn, Chief Meteorologist (1996-2006) (Now at the California Department of Water Resources, Division of Flood Management)
• Creighton Sanders, Sports Director (1960-1980)
• Stuart Satow, Sports Director (1980-2002)
• Marv Simmons, Reporter (1970-1984)
• Hank Thornley, Anchor (1955-1960) (When KXTV 10 was KBET)
• Ken Wayne, freelance anchor (1998-1999) still at KTVU in Oakland, CA
• Alan Frio, Anchor (1970s,1990s, now at WSMV-TV)
• Lex Boyd, Anchor (195?-19??)
• Pamela Tom, Weekend Reporter (2003-2003...Only worked for a few months then moved to KGO in SF to freelance)
• Mary Pae, Reporter (2003-2003...Worked for a few months as well)
• Deborah Pacyna, Reporter (199?-2001) Now switched careers and works for the state.

[edit] High Definition & Digital TV

News10 (KXTV) is currently producing Sacramento Kings basketball games, Friday Night Football highlights, and Jonathan Mumm's California Postcard reports in High Definition.

KXTV recently produced The Future Is HDTV on News 10, an HD produced special, profiling the FCC's imposed transition from Standard Definition to High Definition. The special also show-cased the HD produced shows from ABC, as well as some syndicated shows.

On KXTV's digital subchannel 61.2 (known as 10.2), The AccuWeather Channel broadcasts live National weather, plus local KXTV weather. It is available online.

Rumors have suggested that KXTV coud be next in line to begin a full HD produced newscast, and following the lead of 7 other Gannett-owned stations, which are now producing their newscasts in high definition. Those stations include KARE (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN - Debuted in April, 2006), KPNX (Phoenix, AZ - Debuted on November 2, 2006), KSDK (St. Louis, MO - Debuted on February 6, 2006), KUSA (Denver, CO - Debuted in April, 2004), WKYC (Cleveland, OH - Debuted in May, 2006), WUSA (Washington, DC - Debuted on May 2, 2005), and WXIA (Atlanta, GA - Debuted on February 2, 2006).

[edit] Trivia

• As a CBS affiliate, KXTV's station ID would include an electronic alarm like version of the infamous CBS "ding".
• KXTV is the third station in Sacramento to affiliate with ABC. Low-performing ABC affiliate KCCC Channel 40 (now the home of KTXL) had it first before shutting down and the network moved to KOVR.

[edit] External links

• Official News10 website
• News10 50th Anniversary
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KXTV

Broadcast television in the Sacramento / Stockton / Modesto market  (Nielsen DMA #20)

KCRA 3 (NBC) (WX Plus) on DT2 - KVIE 6 (PBS) - KBTV-CA 8 (Ind.) - KXTV 10 (ABC) (AccuWX TV) on DT2 - KOVR 13 (CBS) - KMMK-LP 14/KMUM-CA 15/KMMW-LP 47 (MMA/MTV3) - KAZV-LP 14 (AmericanLife, A1) - KUVS 19 (UNI) - KBSV 23 (Ind.) - K27EU 27 (3ABN) - KSPX 29 (ION) - KMAX 31 (The CW) - KCSO 33 (TMD) - KTXL 40 (FOX) - KTNC 42 (AZA) - KRJR-CA 47/KDTS-CA 52/KACA-LP 61 (DS) - KSAO-LP 49/KSTV-LP 60 (Jewelry TV) - KQCA 58 (MNTV) - KTFK 64 (TFU)