KGTV
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| San Diego, California | |
| Branding | San Diego's 10 10 News |
| Channels | Analog: 10 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Company, Inc. |
| First air date | September 13, 1953 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Great TeleVision |
| Sister station(s) | KZSD-LP |
| Former callsigns | KFSD-TV (1953-1961) KOGO-TV (1961-1972) |
| Former affiliations | NBC (1953-1977) |
| Transmitter Power | 316 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 227 m (analog) 205 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 40876 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.10news.com |
KGTV is the ABC television affiliate in San Diego, California. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 10, and its digital signal on UHF channel 25. It is currently owned by McGraw-Hill. Its transmitter is located atop Mount Soledad above La Jolla, California.
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[edit] History
The station went on the air on September 13, 1953 as KFSD-TV (First in San Diego), and was affiliated at the time with NBC. In 1961, KFSD-TV and its then-sister radio station KFSD-AM 600 changed their call letters to KOGO-TV and KOGO-AM. The broadcasting division of the Time-Life magazine company purchased the stations, which also included a FM station, in 1962 from a locally based firm, Fox, Wells & Rogers.
In 1972, the McGraw-Hill publishing company purchased Channel 10 (along with Indianapolis' WFBM-TV Channel 6, now WRTV) and changed its call letters to the present KGTV. The radio stations were sold separately to other interests. KGTV joined ABC in 1977, after ABC chose to disaffiliate itself from UHF station KCST Channel 39 (now KNSD). Channel 10 has remained with ABC since then.
Famous KGTV alumni include Regis Philbin, who hosted his first talk show on KGTV in the 1960s.
Syndicated programs currently airing on KGTV include: Rachael Ray, Family Feud, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Merv Griffin's Crosswords , as well as the new TMZ on TV newsmagazine.
KGTV has plans to broadcast its daily news program, 10 News, in High Definition beginning sometime in 2008. KGTV is among the few United States television stations that broadcast local news programs at 7:00 p.m. on weeknights. The newscast finished 2nd in it's time period during the May 2008 sweeps, trailing only Wheel of Fortune.
[edit] Logos
 KGTV logo from 1973 |
 KGTV logo from 1987 |
[edit] Personalities
[edit] Current
Anchors
- Steve Atkinson - 7 p.m. weeknights; also reports
- Hal Clement - 6 p.m. weeknights
- Bill Griffith - weekday mornings
- Kimberly Hunt - 5 p.m., 7 p.m. & 11 p.m. weeknights
- Lee Ann Kim - weekends
- Lisa Lake - weekday mornings
- Carol LeBeau - 5 p.m. & 11 p.m. weeknights; also medical reporter
Reporters
- Michael Chen
- Steve Fiorina
- Charisse Yu
- Michael Gleeson - Digital Correspondent
- Jennifer Jensen
- Bob Lawrence
- Rett Lawrence - Digital Correspondent
- Kerstin Lindquist
- Claudia Llausas - Digital Correspondent (in Spanish)
- Cedric Moon
- Lauren Reynolds
- Juliette Vara
- Evy Ramos - Digital Correspondant
- Joe Little - Digital Correspondant
- Jacqui Nguyen
- Elsa Sevilla
- Maxwell Gardner - photojournalist/Digital Correspondant
Weather
- Geni Cavitt - weekends
- Loren Nancarrow - 5, 6, 7 & 11pm weekdays
- James Quiñones - weekday mornings
Sports
- Ben Higgins - early evening weekdays and 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursdays
- Steve Smith - early evening weekends, 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday
[edit] Former
- Adrienne Alpert - longtime anchor/reporter (1978-1997, now at KABC-TV in Los Angeles)
- Mike Ambrose - weather anchor (1973-2001)
- Fred Blankenship - early evening weekends and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings, (now at WSB-TV in Atlanta Ga.)
- Herb Cawthorne - reporter (1990-2002)
- Phoebe Chongchua - anchor/reporter (1990-2000, now a speaker, fitness host and realtor [1])
- Stephen Clark - anchor (1989-1997, now at WXYZ-TV in Detroit)
- John Culea - reporter/anchor (1975-1977)
- Kim Edwards-reporter/digital
- Bill Gaines - anchor/reporter (now at WGCL in Atlanta)
- Gene Gleeson - anchor (1976-1980, now at KABC-TV in Los Angeles)
- Harold Greene - anchor/reporter (1977-1982, now at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles)
- Byron Harlan - reporter (1986-1994, now at WFLD-TV in Chicago)
- Kimberly Hunt - anchor (1987-2002) KUSI (2002-2007)
- Lisa Kim - anchor (1997-1999, now at KNTV in San Jose/San Francisco)
- Paul Magers (1981-1983, now at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles)
- Mark Matthews (1987-2003, now at KGO-TV in San Francisco)
- Susan McBride - anchor/reporter (1979-1987, now Susan McPeters at WQPT-TV in Moline, IL)
- Kent Ninomiya - reporter (1991 - 1993)
- Regis Philbin - hosted his first talk show at this station (1961-1964)
- Sarah Purcell - talk show host (late 1970s)
- Margaret Radford - reporter (1986-1994, now at KNSD)
- Salvador Rivera - Reporter/digital correspondent
- Larry Roberts - anchor/reporter (1982-1989)
- Danny Romero - weathercaster (1994-1995, now at KABC-TV in Los Angeles)
- Larry Sacknoff - sportscaster (1978-1992)
- Billy Ray Smith - sportscaster (1993-1997, now at XX Sports Radio)
- Mike Smith (1982-1986, now a partner in Ad-Lib Productions)
- Michael Tuck - anchor (1984-1990)
- Leonard Villareal - reporter/anchor (1976-2004)
- Bree Walker - anchor/reporter (1980-1987)
- Jack White - anchor (1967-2002)
- Melanie Wingo - reporter (2004-2006)
- Steve Wolford - anchor (1998-2000, now at KTNV in Las Vegas)
[edit] See also
- KZSD-LP (Azteca America affiliate owned and operated by KGTV)
[edit] External links
- KGTV Homepage
- Station Index @ TVJobs.com
- KGTV Talent @ TVJobs.com
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KGTV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KGTV-TV
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