KPIX-TV
 | |
| San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose, California United States | |
|---|---|
| City of license | San Francisco, California |
| Branding |
KPIX 5 (general) KPIX 5 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Stay connected |
| Channels |
Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 5 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 5.1 CBS |
| Affiliations | CBS (O&O) |
| Owner |
CBS Corporation (CBS Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 22, 1948 |
| Call letters' meaning | PIX is a shorthand term for "pictures" |
| Sister station(s) | KBCW, KCBS, KFRC-FM, KITS, KLLC, KMVQ-FM, KZDG |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 5 (VHF, 1948–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
All secondary: NBC (1948–1949) DuMont (1949–1953) Paramount (1953) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 401 m (1,316 ft) |
| Facility ID | 25452 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°45′18.8″N 122°27′10.4″W / 37.755222°N 122.452889°W |
| Licensing authority | Federal Communications Commission |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com |
KPIX-TV, channel 5, is the CBS owned-and-operated television station in San Francisco, California. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, and is part of a duopoly with CW owned-and-operated station KBCW (channel 44).
The station's studios are located just north of San Francisco's Financial District, and its transmitter is located on Sutro Tower. In addition to KBCW, KPIX shares its studios with its CBS Radio partners: KCBS, KFRC-FM, KITS, KLLC, KMVQ-FM and KZDG, although they use a different address number for Battery Street (865 as opposed to 855).
In the few areas of the western United States where a CBS station is not receivable over-the-air, KPIX is available to Dish Network customers as part of All American Direct's distant network package.
History
KPIX-TV signed on the air on December 22, 1948 as the first television station in northern California, as well as the 49th in the United States. It was originally owned by Associated Broadcasters, owners of KSFO (560 AM). Initially, channel 5's signal was transmitted from a tower on top of the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill.[1] It later moved to a shared transmitter tower with KGO-TV at the Sutro Mansion (which was located midway between Mount Sutro and Twin Peaks), and then to the Sutro Tower in 1973. KPIX's first studio was in the attic of the Mark Hopkins Hotel (just above the "Top of the Mark").
The station immediately joined CBS due to a deal KSFO's owners had worked out with the television network one year earlier. KSFO was CBS radio's Bay Area affiliate from 1937 to 1941, when Associated Broadcasters backed out of a deal for CBS to buy the station. When KSFO was still affiliated with CBS, it was originally slated to move to 740 AM, the dial position of San Jose's KQW. 740 AM was the last 50,000-watt frequency available in the Bay Area, and KSFO was to raise its power to 50,000 watts after moving to 740. However, after KSFO parted ways with CBS radio, the network moved its Bay Area affiliation to KQW and was not about to give up the advantage of owning the Bay Area's last available 50,000-watt station. After lengthy Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearings, KSFO won the 740 frequency, but later decided to stay at 560 and concentrate its efforts on building a television station. It traded the 740 frequency to CBS in return for getting the CBS television affiliation for the Bay Area. KQW remained at 740 and CBS changed its call sign to KCBS.
The station also carried programming from DuMont until that network folded in 1956.[2] It even carried a few NBC programs until KRON-TV signed on in November 1949, and programs from the short-lived Paramount Television Network,[2] such as Frosty Frolics,[3] Time For Beany,[4] Cowboy G-Men[5] and Bandstand Revue.[6]
When KPIX's first competitor, KGO-TV, signed on in May 1949, KPIX produced programs to welcome it into the Bay Area. KPIX cameras were used on the first episode of the CBS News program See It Now on November 18, 1951, which opened with the first live simultaneous coast-to-coast TV transmission from both the East Coast (the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor) and the West Coast (KPIX-produced images of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay), under the narration of Edward R. Murrow. Under its first general manager, Phil Lasky, KPIX gained an early reputation for news coverage, being noted for originating national CBS coverage of the Japanese Peace Conference of 1951 (the event which "officially" brought an end to World War II, similar to the function that the Treaty of Versailles served for World War I), held in San Francisco (for which Lasky was commended by then-CBS News president Sig Mickelson), as well as local news coverage of the 1953 crash of an Australian airliner while on approach to San Francisco International Airport, and a powder explosion a few weeks afterward at an explosives plant in suburban Hercules. In regards to sports programming, KPIX originated the annual college football East-West Shrine Game for DuMont, and was the flagship station of the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League until 1954.[7]
In 1952, KPIX and KSFO moved into a new building at 2655 Van Ness Avenue; KPIX moved out of the facility in 1979, when it relocated to a converted 1920s era warehouse on the corner of Battery and Broadway streets (refurbished by the architecture firm Gensler), where KPIX remains to this day (KSFO moved to studios in the Fairmont Hotel, across the hall from the Tonga Room, later in the 1950s). The studio on Van Ness Avenue was the first building in San Francisco specifically built for television (it was demolished in 2006 to make way for a condominium complex[8]). Westinghouse Electric Corporation bought KPIX in 1954 and ran it as part of the company's Group W broadcasting unit.[9] During Westinghouse's ownership, KPIX was the company's only television station on the West Coast. In early 1996, Westinghouse merged with CBS, making KPIX a CBS-owned station and bringing it into common ownership with KCBS radio. Prior to this, KPIX had been CBS's longest-tenured affiliate (a distinction that now belongs to Washington, D.C.'s WUSA). KPIX was also one of two longtime CBS affiliates owned by Group W that became a CBS O&O, the other being Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV.
In May 2006, KPIX moved its San Jose news bureau to the Fairmont Tower at 50 W. San Fernando Street – which served as the original site of Charles Herrold's experimental radio broadcasts that were the precursor of KCBS. Although CBS was not aware of the significance of the San Fernando St. address when the move was planned, it quickly recognized and embraced its significance when informed, giving long-overdue credit to one of the inventors of radio broadcasting during the bureau's opening celebration.[citation needed]
Digital television
Digital channels
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KPIX-DT | Main KPIX-TV programming / CBS |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KPIX-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 29,[10][11] using PSIP to display KPIX-TV's virtual channel as 5 on digital television receivers.
Programming
Entertainment programs
KPIX originated the concept for the entertainment and lifestyle program, Evening Magazine. Evening Magazine debuted on the station 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 stations around the United States that were not owned by Group W as PM Magazine. The entire Evening/PM Magazine format was cancelled by the late 1980s, though Evening Magazine was later resurrected on KPIX in 1998. In 2005, Evening Magazine was retitled Eye On The Bay, to focus further on the San Francisco Bay Area. KBCW also aired day-behind reruns of the program in the early 2000s. In 2007, Eye on the Bay began broadcasting in high definition. Eye on the Bay ended its weekday broadcasts on September 7, 2012, and switched to a weekly program on Saturdays thereafter.
For most of the time before Westinghouse bought CBS, KPIX was the network's largest affiliate. Despite this, from the mid-1970s until 1994, it was standard practice for KPIX to pre-empt CBS's morning daytime programs such as The Price Is Right (for example, the first season of Tattletales was pre-empted for reruns of Perry Mason). Despite the pre-emptions, CBS was mostly satisfied with KPIX as it was among its highest rated affiliates. In 1995, when CBS signed a long-term affiliation deal with the Westinghouse stations (just before the two companies merged), KPIX began airing the entire CBS schedule in pattern without preemptions, as per the agreement between Westinghouse and CBS. However, even as a CBS O&O, KPIX still occasionally preempts CBS programs due to breaking news coverage, some of these pre-empted shows air instead on KPIX-TV's CW O&O sister KBCW.
During the 1987-88 season, KPIX ran a 90-minute block of court shows from 4:30 to 6 p.m.: Superior Court, The People's Court and The Judge.[12] From 1992 to 1998, KPIX ran CBS primetime programming one hour earlier than typical for the Pacific Time Zone (from 7 to 10 p.m., instead of 8 to 11 p.m.), a practice which its Sacramento sister station KOVR continues to this day.
Talk shows
KPIX was also known for the locally produced morning talk show, People are Talking, which began in 1978 with Ann Fraser and Ross MacGowan, and ran until 1991 (the People are Talking format was also syndicated to other Group W stations during this period). On KPIX, the show pre-empted The Price Is Right for a few years, the game show aired instead on independent stations in the Bay Area such as KOFY-TV. At one point, a more celebrity-driven People Are Talking in the Afternoon aired with a small house band. Prior to the launch of the People are Talking franchise, Ann Fraser hosted The Morning Show (essentially a half-hour version of People Are Talking), which replaced The Kathryn Crosby Show, another half-hour talk show hosted by Bing Crosby's wife, Kathryn.
Sports
During the 1980s, KPIX was the flagship station for the Oakland Athletics baseball team (at times pre-empting or delaying CBS network shows for the live broadcasts), before the A's broadcasts moved to then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV in the early 1990s. KPIX was also the television home of the Golden State Warriors basketball team during the 1990s. KPIX-TV was also the exclusive home of the Bay to Breakers, before it moved to KRON.
From 1962 to 1993, KPIX carried most San Francisco 49ers games locally as part of CBS's broadcast rights to the NFL, which covered the entire pre-merger league until 1970, and the National Football Conference from 1970 to 1993. Two of the 49ers' Super Bowl victories aired locally on KPIX: Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XXIV. KPIX lost the 49ers to KTVU in 1994 (a year after fan favorite Joe Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs), when the NFC package moved to Fox. However, in 1998, the American Football Conference package moved to CBS from NBC, and KPIX has aired Oakland Raiders games since. KPIX will still air 49ers afternoon games if the team plays against an AFC team, which under NFL broadcast rules, forces the Raiders to play on national TV, or have a bye week.
Captain Fortune
During the 1950s, KPIX produced a local children's program, Captain Fortune, on weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings. In addition to a number of live segments with an in-studio children's audience, the program featured the pioneering animated television episodes of Crusader Rabbit. The "captain" sometimes drew pictures to illustrate his stories. He was actually a talented artist named Peter Abenheim.[13] Abenheim authored a book, published in 1959 by Nourse Publishing of San Carlos, California, Captain Impossible at Sea.[14] Abenheim wrote the screenplay for a 1962 science fiction film, This Is Not a Test (also released as Atomic War Bride).[15] He was born in England on January 26, 1912. He came to San Francisco in 1932 and attended the California School of Fine Arts. He worked as an educational filmmaker. He died in San Francisco on May 2, 1988.[16]
Dick Stewart
From 1956 to 1959, Davenport, Iowa native Dick Stewart (born 1927) hosted a weekday variety program at KPIX. Due to the popularity of the film Gidget in 1959, the station decided to run a "Miss Gidget" contest on Dick Stewart's television program. The contest was won by Barbara Bouchet, who would become one of the "Regulars" on his later program Dance Party. She would later go on to be a famous star in her own right.
From 1959 to 1963, Stewart hosted Dance Party for KPIX, a program that invited local teenagers to come and dance to recorded music in the KPIX studios. Besides playing current recordings, Stewart sometimes welcomed popular recording stars to the program. Following the custom of American Bandstand, the singers would lip-synch to their recordings. Stewart also hosted a number of "High School Salute" programs on Saturdays that spotlighted area high schools with interviews with students and faculty, as well as filmed segments from each school.[17]
News operation
KPIX-TV presently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours on weekdays, and 2½ hours on Saturdays and Sundays). KPIX-TV also produces a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast for CW owned-and-operated sister station KBCW, which debuted on March 3, 2008[18] and competes against a longer-running newscast in that same timeslot on Fox affiliate KTVU. KPIX is home to one of the higher rated newscasts among CBS-owned stations; however for most of the last 30 years, KPIX has been runner-up to KGO. KPIX utilizes a doppler weather radar system called "Hi-Def Doppler" during weather segments, which is located on Mount Vaca.
KPIX was a pioneer in local television news coverage in the Bay Area. Like most television stations, it presented a 15-minute evening news program until 1963, when the networks began expanding their evening newscasts to 30 minutes. One of KPIX's innovating program directors, Ray Hubbard, created The Noon News. The anchors were John Weston, "Channel 5's Guy on the Go", and Wanda Ramey (one of the first female news anchors on U.S. television), "Channel 5's Gal on the Go". From 1965 to 1994 and again from 1995 to 2013, KPIX used the Eyewitness News format originally adopted by Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV. KGO-TV also uses a similar format for its newscasts, but KPIX had the Eyewitness News name first; KGO adopted its version of the format from its New York City sister station WABC-TV. In 1966, KPIX hired the first African-American news reporters in the San Francisco television market: Ben Williams, who had been the first Black reporter for the San Francisco Examiner a few years earlier, and Belva Davis, the first female African-American reporter on the West Coast.[19][20]
The station moved its 11 p.m. newscast to 10:00 p.m. and expanded the program to one hour in 1993, as part of KPIX's "Early Prime" programming experiment which moved CBS's primetime lineup one hour early. Then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV also experimented with a 7-10 p.m. primetime block and ran a newscast at 10 p.m. during this time, but its newscast ran for only a half-hour before reverting to the standard 8-11 p.m. primetime scheduling after only a year; KPIX did not revert to the standard Pacific Time Zone primetime scheduling until 1998, after failing to make a dent in the ratings for long-dominant KTVU's 10 p.m. newscast.
KPIX was also home to 30 Minutes Bay Area, a half-hour news magazine created by 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt after he retired from the national show. The "30 Minutes" concept was originally planned to air on many CBS-owned stations, but KPIX was the only station to implement the concept. 30 Minutes Bay Area was discontinued in early 2007; however, it continues to air as a special as of 2010. KPIX also was one of the first U.S. television stations to provide full-time environment reporting in its newscasts – "The Greenbeat" ran from 2007 to 2010, and featured reports by Jeffrey Schaub on environmental sustainability, green technology and earth awareness issues.
In 2007, Wendy Tokuda (who co-anchored channel 5's evening newscasts from 1978 to 1992), returned to KPIX and brought her "Students Rising Above" feature reports that she originated during her nine-year tenure with KRON-TV to the station; Tokuda founded the "Students Rising Above" student scholarship program in 1998. On January 28, 2008, KPIX became the third Bay Area television station in the to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition (behind KGO-TV and KTVU); most field reports were initially still broadcast in 4:3 standard definition (albeit pillarboxed), KPIX started using HD cameras for its field reports in September 2010, however, not all of the station's news footage is shot in HD.
In September 2010, KPIX introduced new graphics for its newscasts, a standardized package that was also rolled out to CBS's other news-producing O&O stations; this included the addition of "The Enforcer" music package by Gari Media Group, the basic theme of which has been used on many CBS-owned stations since the mid-1970s, when it was introduced by WBBM-TV. In January 2011, KPIX expanded its weekday morning newscast by a half-hour to 4:30 a.m. On January 8, 2012, KPIX began producing a Sunday morning newscast for sister station KBCW.[21]
News/station presentation
Newscast titles
- The Noon News (1948–1952)
- Shell News (1952–1956)
- William Winter & The News (1956-1960)
- "Channel 5 News" (1960–1965)
- (KPIX) Channel 5 Eyewitness News (1965–1994 & 1995–2003)
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News (2003–2013)
- KPIX 5 News (1994–1995, 2013–present)
Station slogans
- "See the Best...Channel 5" (1974-1975, based on CBS slogan)
- "There's Something in the Air, on Channel 5" (1977-1978, based on CBS slogan)
- "We Light Up the Bay" (1977–1982)
- "Turn Us On, We'll Turn You On, on Channel 5" (1978-1979, based on CBS slogan)
- "Channel 5, We're Looking Good!" (1979-1980, based on CBS slogan)
- "Looking Good Together, Channel 5" (1980-1981, based on CBS slogan)
- "Reach for the Stars on Channel 5" (1981-1982, based on CBS slogan)
- "Great Moments on Channel 5" (1982-1983, based on CBS slogan)
- "We've Got The Touch, You and Channel 5" (1983-1984, based on CBS slogan)
- "You and Channel 5, We've Got The Touch" (1984-1985, based on CBS slogan)
- "We've Got The Touch on Channel 5" (1985-1986, based on CBS Slogan)
- "Share the Spirit on Channel 5" (1986-1987, based on CBS slogan)
- "Channel 5 Spirit, Oh Yes!" (1987-1988, based on CBS slogan)
- "You Can Feel It on Channel 5" (1988-1989, based on CBS slogan)
- "Get Ready for Channel 5" (1989-1991, based on CBS slogan)
- "The Look of San Francisco is Channel 5" (1991-1992, based on CBS slogan)
- "This is CBS, on Channel 5" (1992-1993, based on CBS slogan)
- "It's All Right Here, on KPIX 5" (1993-1994, based on CBS slogan)
- "KPIX 5 People" (1994-1995, based on CBS slogan)
- "The Best Place for News in The Best Place on Earth" (1994–1998)
- "The Address is CBS 5, Welcome Home" (1997-1999, based on CBS slogan)
- "Everywhere in the Best Place on Earth" (1998–2001)
- "The Address is CBS 5" (1999-2000, based on CBS slogan)
- "CBS 5, It's All Here" (2000-2005, based on CBS slogan)
- "Everywhere" (2001–2005)
- "Always Worth Your Time" (2005–2009)
- "Everybody's Watching CBS 5" (2005-2006, based on CBS slogan)
- "We Are CBS 5" (2006-2009, based on CBS slogan)
- "Only CBS 5" (2009-2013, based on CBS slogan)
- "Only KPIX 5" (2013-present, based on CBS slogan)
- "Stay Connected" (2009–present)
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Current on-air staff
KPIX-TV's primary news anchors include: Ken Bastida (weeknights at 5, 6, 10 (KBCW) and 11p.m.), Elizabeth Cook (weeknights at 5, 6, 10 (KBCW) and 11 p.m.), Michelle Griego (weekday mornings KPIX 5 News This Morning and weekdays at noon), Anne Makovec (weekend mornings KPIX 5 News This Morning: Weekend Edition; also general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor), Frank Mallicoat (weekday mornings KPIX 5 News This Morning and weekdays at noon), Allen Martin (weeknights at 5pm, general assignment reporter and fill in anchor) Phil Matier (Sunday mornings KPIX 5 News This Morning also political commentator and reporter) Mark Kelly (Saturday mornings KPIX 5 News This Morning and reporter and Ann Notarangelo (weekends at 5:30, 6:30, 10 (KBCW) and 11 p.m.; also weekday reporter).[22]
The KPIX 5 Pinpoint Weather team includes: Paul Deanno (member, AMS; NWA Seal of Approval; weeknights at 5, 6, 10 (KBCW) and 11 p.m.); meteorologists Roberta Gonzales (weekends at 5:30, 6:30, 10 (KBCW) and 11 p.m.), Lawrence Karnow (AMS Seal of Approval; weekday mornings and weekdays at noon; also occasional fill-in), Brian Hackney (weekend mornings KPIX 5 News This Morning and fill in meteorologist/reporter/anchor
The sports team includes sports director Dennis O'Donnell (weeknights at 6, 10 (KBCW) and 11 p.m.; also host of "Game Day!", host of 49ers games on KPIX and fill-in anchor), sports anchor Vern Glenn (weekends at 6:30, 10 (KBCW) and 11 p.m.; also weekday fill-in), sports reporter Kim Coyle (also fill-in sports anchor) and fill-in sports anchor Gary Gelfand (also sports reporter).[22]
The traffic team includes weekday morning traffic anchors Elizabeth Wenger (also general assignment reporter, fill-in anchor and fill-in meteorologist) and fill-in traffic reporter Gianna Franco (also producer, and serves as a traffic reporter for KCBS radio (740 AM/106.9 FM) on weekends).[22]
The station's general assignment reporters are Mark Kelly, Christin Ayers, Cate Caugurian, Sharon Chin (also "Bay Area Jefferson Awards" reporter), Kiet Do, Juliette Goodrich (also fill-in anchor),[23] David Jackson, Don Knapp, Sue Kwon, Da Lin, Len Ramirez, Mark Sayre, Mike Sugerman, Joe Vazquez and Linda Yee. Specialty reporters are Jason Brooks (weekday morning and noon "Moneywatch" reporter; also seen on KCBS radio), Brian Cooley (CNet correspondent, appearing Tuesday mornings), Kate Kelly (feature reporter and host of "Bay Area Jefferson Awards"), Dr. Kim Mulvihill (medical reporter), Hank Plante (special contributor; retired from full-time reporting in 2008), Wendy Tokuda ("Students Rising Above" reporter), Joe Tuman (college professor, political analyst, and Oakland mayoral candidate)[24] and Julie Watts ("Consumer Watch" reporter; also fill-in meteorologist and fill-in anchor).[22]
The hosts of the local program Eye on the Bay include Brian Hackney (also producer), Liam Mayclem (also "Liam's List" feature reporter, appearing Thursdays on KPIX 5 News This Morning) and Thuy Vu; all of them also serve as producers of the program.[22]
Notable past on-air staff
- Peter Abenheim - host of Captain Fortune, 1950s; artist and educational filmmaker (1912–1988)[7]
- Jim Avila - weekend anchor/San Jose Bureau chief (1976–1980, now at ABC News)
- Renel Brooks-Moon - entertainment reporter (2003–2006)
- Christine Craft - anchor/reporter (1975–1977, now a radio host at KGO in San Francisco)
- Jami Floyd - legal analyst and reporter (1994-1997), now host of TED Talks in NYC [25]
- Bob Fouts - Sports anchor (1965-1968, 49er play-by-play (1962-1968)
- Dan Fouts - sports anchor (1994–1997, now at NFL Network)
- Bambi Francisco - technology reporter (1999–2003)
- Wayne Freedman - reporter (1989–1991, now at KGO-TV)
- Cynthia Gouw - reporter
- Emil Guillermo - reporter (1977–1980)
- Harold Greene - Anchor (1977) moved to KABC then KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV Los Angeles, now retired.
- Tracy Humphrey - morning and noon meteorologist (2007–2011)
- Jonathan Karsh - Evening Magazine host/contributor (1998–2001, now a filmmaker )also on CBS's Kid Nation)
- Dana King - anchor (1997-2012)
- Ron Magers - anchor/reporter (1968–1974), now at WLS-TV Chicago.
- Michael Marsh - now anchor at WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge)[26]
- Dave McElhatton - longtime anchor (1976–2000; deceased August 23, 2010)
- Lee Mendelson - producer; better known for work on Peanuts TV specials
- Hank Plante - reporter (1985-2010' retired)
- Wanda Ramey - noon co-anchor/reporter; first female anchor in western U.S. (1957–1967; deceased, August 15, 2009 at age 85)
- Trish Regan - reporter; fill-in "Early Edition" anchor (2002–2003); CBS News (2003–2007); CNBC/NBC News (2007-March 2011); ABC News (2011–Present)
- Mike Rowe - Evening Magazine co-host (2001–2005; now host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs' and announcer of ABC World News with Diane Sawyer)
- Nancy Snyderman - medical reporter (1988-2004, now at NBC News and MSNBC)
- Drew Soicher - sports anchor (1997-1999, now at KUSA-TV in Denver)[27]
- Brian Sussman - meteorologist (1989-2000) now at KSFO Radio Morning Show
- Kaity Tong - reporter (1976-1979, now at WPIX-TV in New York)
- Wayne Walker - sports anchor (1974-1994)
- Colleen Williams - anchor/reporter (1981-1983, now at KNBC in Los Angeles)
- Jan Yanehiro - Evening Magazine co-host (1976–1989)
KPIX branding
KPIX's distinctive "5" logo dates back from the station's days under Westinghouse ownership, when the "Group W font" was standard on KPIX and its sister stations after about 1965. When Westinghouse merged with CBS, most of the former Group W stations eventually retired the font. KPIX, along with its Baltimore sister station WJZ-TV (an ABC affiliate during its pre-merger Group W history) would become the only two CBS-owned television stations to continue using this logo font.
KPIX was the only CBS-owned station on the West Coast not to follow the CBS Mandate for years after the merger, simply referencing itself as "KPIX-TV Channel 5". Between 1993 and 1996, it was branded simply as "KPIX 5", even dropping the Eyewitness News title for its newscasts and branding them as KPIX 5 News at the same time, before reverting. In 2005, KPIX fell in line with the mandate and rebranded as "CBS 5", and later to "CBS 5 Bay Area" (although some references to "CBS 5" were heard in station promos as early as 2003). On February 3, 2013, KPIX dropped the "CBS 5" branding and reverted to being branded as "KPIX 5".
References
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- ↑ "Six stations being sold for nearly $15 million." Broadcasting - Telecasting, March 8, 1954, pp. 27-28.
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- ↑ TV Guide (San Francisco Metropolitan Edition), Sept. 12, 1987
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- ↑ Jones, Carolyn (May 9, 2010). "People vs. The Chron". The San Francisco Chronicle.
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- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 "KPIX 5". Sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
- ↑ "CBS 5 News Reporter Juliette Goodrich on the Art of Journalism". OneDublin.org. 2012-06-22.
- ↑ Associated Press (2013-07-25). "College professor announces plans to run for Oakland mayor - San Jose Mercury News". Mercurynews.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
- ↑ "TED TALKS IN NYC –FEATURING WORLD-RENOWNED TALKS FROM TED.COM – PREMIERES ON NYC LIFE". .nyc.gov. March 15, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
- ↑ "Michael Marsh Bio". WBRZ-TV. 20 October 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ↑ Soicher, Drew (8 July 2013). "Drew Soicher Biography". KUSA-TV. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
External links
- CBSSanFrancisco.com - Official website
- Eye on the Bay
- The KPIX Dance Party on the Dick Stewart Television Show
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KPIX-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KPIX-TV
- Legendary KPIX kids show host Marshal J Fan Page
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