KPIX-TV
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KPIX-TV, "CBS 5 Bay Area" is the CBS owned and operated television station in San Francisco, California. Through its parent company CBS Corporation, KPIX is co-owned with UPN (and future The CW) affiliate KBCW (Channel 44).
The station transmits from the Sutro Tower and its signal covers the San Francisco Bay Area. Known on the air as CBS 5 Bay Area, KPIX is home to one of the higher rated newscasts among CBS-owned stations. KPIX was also one of 2 Group W stations to became a CBS O&O, but had already been affiliated with CBS (the other being KDKA-TV).
History
KPIX signed on Christmas Eve 1948. It was the nation's 49th television station, the fifth in California and the first outside Los Angeles. It was owned by the Associated Broadcasters, owners of KSFO-AM 560.It immediately joined CBS due to a deal KSFO's owners had worked out with CBS a year earlier. KSFO had been CBS Radio's Bay Area affiliate from 1937 to 1941, when Associated Broadcasters backed out of a deal for CBS to buy the station. While KSFO was still affiliated with CBS, it was originally slated to move to 740 AM, the dial spot of KQW in San Jose. That frequency was the last 50,000-watt frequency originally allocated to the Bay Area, and KSFO would raise its power to 50,000 watts after the move. However, after KSFO parted ways with CBS, CBS moved its Bay Area affiliation to KQW and wasn't about to give up the obvious advantage of owning the last available 50,000-watt station in the Bay Area. After lengthy FCC hearings, KSFO won the frequency, but later decided to stay at 560 and concentrate its efforts on building a television station. It traded 740 to CBS in return for getting the CBS television affiliation for the Bay Area. CBS changed KQW's calls to KCBS.
The station also carried programming from the now-defunct DuMont Television Network [link].
When KPIX's first competitor, KGO-TV, signed on in 1949, KPIX produced programs to welcome it to the Bay Area.
In 1952, KPIX and KSFO moved into a new building on Van Ness Avenue, with KPIX staying there until about 1979, when they relocated to a refurbished building on the corner of Battery and Broadway streets, where KPIX remains to this day. (KSFO moved to other studios later in the 1950s.) Westinghouse Electric Corporation bought KPIX in 1954 and ran it as part of Group W, its broadcasting unit. In November 1995, Westinghouse merged with CBS, making KPIX a CBS O&O station and bringing it into common ownership with KCBS Radio.
Programs
KPIX was the station that came up with the concept for a local entertainment and lifestyles program, Evening Magazine. Evening Magazine began on KPIX-TV 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 non-Group W markets across the country as PM Magazine. The entire Evening/PM Magazine format was cancelled by the late 1980s. KPIX resurrected Evening Magazine in 1998. In 2005, Evening Magazine was retitled Eye On The Bay, to focus further on the San Francisco Bay Area.KPIX was also known for the locally produced talk show, People are Talking, which began in 1978, and ran until the 1990's.
Until 1994, KPIX preempted some of the CBS morning daytime shows. In 1995, when CBS signed a long term deal with every Westinghouse station (just before the two companies merged), KPIX began broadcasting the entire CBS schedule.
For a time from 1992 until 1998, KPIX ran CBS primetime programming an hour earlier than typical for the Pacific Time Zone (i.e. from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.), a practice which KOVR, its sister station in Sacramento, continues to this day. This practice also saw the launch of a 10:00 hour-long newscast in the 1990s, whereas KRON also had a 10 p.m. newscast which was 30 minutes. Both have since moved back up to the 11 p.m. timeslot, with KPIX doing this in 1998 due to the fact that KTVU had a long standing with their 10 p.m. newscast for years.
Newscasts
Lineup
Monday-Friday- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5 a.m. - 5 a.m.-6 a.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 6 a.m. - 6 a.m.-7 a.m.
- Eye on the Bay - 9:30 a.m.-10 a.m. (repeat from previous night's show)
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at Noon - NOON-12:30 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5 p.m. - 5 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 6 p.m. - 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
- Eye on the Bay - 7:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. (New episode)
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 11 - 11-11:35 p.m.
Weekends
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News Weekend Early Edition - Saturday 7-8:30 a.m and Sunday 7:30-8:30 a.m.
- Bay Sunday - Sunday 5:30 a.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5:30 p.m. - 5:30-6 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 6:30 p.m. - 6:30-7 p.m.
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 11 - 11-11:35 p.m.
News Music
- Look For Us - Telesound - 1975-1984
- We Light Up The Bay - Klein & - 1977-1982
- Signature News - Telesound - 1982-1988
- And You - Telesound - 1982-1988
- New Age News - Michael Karp Music - 1988-1992
- Allegro - Gari Communications - 1992-1996
- Battery - 615 Music - 1996-Present
Past and present Personalities
- Dave McElhatton
- Wendy Tokuda (currently at rival KRON)
- Dana King
- Ken Bastida
- Doug Murphy (Died in December 2005 in a house fire in Lafayette, California)
- Van Amburg
- Jim Avila
- John Kessler
- Sydney Kohara
- Joel Bartlett
- Larry McCormick
- Kate Kelly
- Wayne Walker
- Brian Sussman
- Jan Yanehiro
- Jonathan Karsh
- Malou Nubla
- Kaity Tong
- Barbara Rodgers
- Manuel Ramos
- Brian Hackney
- Juliette Goodrich
- Dr. Kim Mulvihill
- Thuy Vu
- Joe Fonzi
- Dr. Nancy Snyderman
- Ron Magers
- Mike Rowe (television host)
- Drew Soicher
- Anna Chavez
- Mike Hegedus
Previous logos
KPIX's "5" logo dates from the days as a Westinghouse station, when the "Group W font" was standard on KPIX and its sister stations, most notably WINS radio in New York City, KFWB radio in Los Angeles, KYW-AM-TV in Philadelphia, KDKA radio and television in Pittsburgh, WBZ-AM-TV in Boston and WJZ-TV in Baltimore. When Westinghouse merged with CBS, most of the former Group W stations eventually retired the font. KPIX and WJZ-TV would become the only two CBS-owned television stations to continue using this logo font today. KPIX would be the only CBS-owned station in the West Coast to not follow the CBS Mandate for years after the merger, but referenced itself as KPIX-TV Channel 5. Finally in 2005, KPIX fell in line with the mandate and called itself CBS 5, later CBS 5 Bay Area. But it was briefly branded simply as KPIX 5 between 1993 and 1996, even dropping the Eyewitness News name and called itself KPIX 5 News at the same time before reverting.References
External links
| Broadcast television in the San Francisco Bay Area market [(Nielsen DMA #6)] | ||
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Greater San Francisco Bay Area:
KTVU 2 (Fox) -
KRON 4 (Ind/MNTV) -
KPIX 5 (CBS) -
KGO 7 (ABC) -
KQED 9 (PBS) -
KNTV 11 (NBC) -
KDTV 14 (UNI)
KBWB 20 (The WB/Ind) -
KRCB 22 (PBS) -
KTSF 26 (Ind) -
KMTP 32 (Ind) -
KICU 36 (Ind) -
KCNS 38 (S@H/JTV) -
KTNC 42 (AZA) -
KBCW 44 (UPN/The CW) -
KSTS 48 (TEL) -
KFTY 50 (Ind) -
KTEH 54 (PBS) -
KKPX 65 (i) -
KFSF 66 (TFT) -
KTLN 68 (TLN) Ukiah-Mendocino County: KUNO 8 (AZA) - K17CG 17/K27EE 27 (Fox) - K21CD 21 (Ind) - K23CZ 23 (UPN/The CW) - K29DF 29 (PBS) - K41AF 41 (Ind/MNTV) K43AF 43 (CBS) - K43AH 45 (ABC) - K51AQ 51 (UPN/The CW) - K55GX 55 (PBS) - K67BV 67 (Ind) - K69DF 69 (PBS) | ||
| Local digital television channels | ||
| KCSM 43 (PBS) | ||
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Local cable television channels
FSN Bay Area - Comcast SportsNet West | ||
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Past broadcast stations
KQEC 32 (PBS) | ||
| '''CBS Network Affiliates in the state of California | |
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| KCBS 2 ([[Template:LA TV|Los Angeles]]) - KPIX 5 ([[Template:SF TV|San Francisco]]) - KVIQ 6 ([[Template:Eureka TV|Eureka]]) - KFMB 8 ([[Template:San Diego TV|San Diego]]) - KCOY 12 ([[Template:Central Coast TV|Santa Maria]]) - KHSL 12 ([[Template:Chico-Redding TV|Chico]]) - KOVR 13 ([[Template:Sacramento TV|Stockton]]) - KBAK 29 ([[Template:Bakersfield TV|Bakersfield]]) - KPSP 38 ([[Template:Coachella Valley TV|Coachella Valley]]) - KION 46 ([[Template:Monterey TV|Salinas]]) - KGPE 47 ([[Template:Fresno TV|Fresno]]) | |
| See also: [[Template:ABC California|ABC]], [[Template:Fox California|Fox]], [[Template:NBC California|NBC]], [[Template:PBS California|PBS]], [[Template:UPN California|UPN]], [[Template:WB California|WB]], [[Template:Telefutura California|Telefutura]], [[Template:Telemundo California|Telemundo]], [[Template:Univision California|Univision]], [[Template:California Independent Stations|Independent]], [[Template:Other California Spanish Network Stations|Other Spanish Network]], [[Template:California Religious Stations|Religious]], [[Template:California Home Shopping Stations|Home Shopping]] and [[Template:Other California Stations|Other]] stations in California | |
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