With regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest newscast output of any television station in the San Francisco Bay Area. [55] By 2009, overall viewership for the station's newscasts had fallen to fifth place among the Bay Area's news-producing English-language television stations. In 2020, KRON-TV became the now Las Vegas Raiders official Bay Area home station for pre-season games and special programming.[44]. As of September 2013, only studio segments and on-air graphics are presented in HD, footage from field cameras and other news sources continue to be broadcast in widescreen SD. KRON's now-defunct 9 p.m. newscast originally debuted on BayTV in the late 1990s and lasted until the cable channel ceased operations on August 30, 2001. Since KRON-TV was contractually obligated to show the baseball game live, it rebroadcast the trials at midnight. KRON is a MyNetworkTV local network affiliate in San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA.You can watch KRON local news, weather, traffic, live sports, daytime, primetime, & late night programming. The 9 p.m. newscast was revived on channel 4 following KRON-TV's transition to an independent station in January 2002, though it was moved to 8 p.m. when it affiliated with MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006. In June 2014, Fox Television Stations announced it would acquire KTVU and KICU-TV in a trade with Cox Media Group in exchange for that company's stations in Boston and Memphis. During the February 2004 sweeps period, the station placed second in the ratings behind KTVU. A promotional brochure declared, "each Assignment Four story is concerned with cultural and ethnic activities or perhaps some fascinating phase of life and living in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area." KRON-TV is the second largest MyNetworkTV affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation, which owns the programming service. [3] This logo was used as early as April 1974, during coverage of a Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery. (Most of Media General's television stations were in the Southeastern, Midwestern and Northeastern United States. Subjects ranged from 'Skid Row' to 'The Single Girl,' the 'Green Intricate Country of Napa Valley' to 'No Deposit, No Return' (a study of garbage disposal that won a 1966 Emmy Award and Silver Medal Award in the 1966 New York International Film Festival). Topics: biden, california, san francisco, washington, jackson, selma, kron, joe biden, ashley zavala,... KRON 4 News at 5pm : KRON : February 22, 2021 5:00pm-5:31pm PST. KRON is a MyNetworkTV local network affiliate in San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA. KRON-TV signed on the air on November 15, 1949, as a full-time NBC affiliate, operated alongside co-owned radio station KRON-FM (96.5, now KOIT-FM). In late 2010, Young announced an affiliation deal with The Country Network for several of its stations, including KRON. (This responsibility as a backup NBC affiliate was assumed by KICU-TV in 2012. Topics: california, san francisco, jonathan, dovato, williams, larkspur, oakland, kron, richmond, kron,... KRON 4 News at 8 : KRON : February 21, 2021 8:00pm-9:01pm PST. Topics: peyton, san francisco, larkspur, kron, antioch, williams, washington, california, petaluma,... KRON 4 News at 10 : KRON : February 21, 2021 10:00pm-10:46pm PST. This caused a problem in 1996, when the final day of the U.S. Olympic track and field trials conflicted with a scheduled Athletics broadcast. Other West Coast television stations joined KRON in some years (including KCAL-TV/Los Angeles, KING-TV/Seattle, KCRA/Sacramento, KNSD/San Diego and KLAS-TV/Las Vegas in December 1990), featuring midnight countdown events in other cities, such as Las Vegas casinos and at the Seattle Space Needle. KRON 4.2 was originally a 24/7 news channel. The vertical component is a bridge tower, the horizontal component is a portion of the bridge deck, and the curve is a portion of a suspension cable. NBC accepted KNTV's deal in February 2000. NBC wanted an owned-and-operated station (O&O) in the Bay Area alongside its West Coast flagship radio station, KNBC (680 AM, now KNBR). [43] The over-the-air channel was replaced by Sky Link TV on September 29, 2015, and the online live stream was shut down on the same date. Young originally hoped to close a sale of the station by the end of the first quarter of 2008, but no buyer emerged.[21][22]. Topics: san francisco, california, texas, kron, ucsf, san jose, thorpe, boeing, dallas, ashley zavala,... KRON 4 News at 9 : KRON : February 22, 2021 9:00pm-10:01pm PST. [citation needed], On June 6, 2013, Media General announced it would acquire Young Broadcasting in an all-stock deal. NBC president and chief executive officer Bob Wright had warned that if NBC did not succeed in buying KRON, it would require any prospective buyer to uphold specific terms if it wanted to retain the NBC affiliation. Until the late 1970s, KRON-TV was known for being very San Francisco-centric in its news coverage and audience targeting, an approach that would become costly to the station as population growth in areas outside San Francisco soared. [27] KRON, WATE-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, and WLNS-TV in Lansing, Michigan (the latter two, unlike KRON, compete with Gray-owned stations in their respective markets), were the only stations not included in the management deal. However, also at that time, KRON's 11 p.m. news was shortened to 15 minutes until it was dropped when KRON launched a new 9 p.m. newscast on August 21, 2017, which competed with KGO's 9 p.m. newscast for KOFY-TV until KGO cancelled it. Topics: california, san francisco, kron, aag, washington, los angeles, san mateo, tiger woods, kron,... KRON 4 News at 9am : KRON : February 23, 2021 9:00am-10:00am PST. Several of KRON's veteran anchors and reporters left the station after the loss of the NBC affiliation; KRON also began incorporating video journalists (many of which were newer hires) to report, tape and edit news stories. Ed Hart, and later Frank Dill, reported sports with a focus on only the area's professional teams. NBC Nightly News also moved from 7 to 5:30 p.m. (KPIX and KGO would follow this move with their national newscasts during the following decade). Shannon received billing in newscast introductions along with the anchors, and weather and sports presenters. KRON 4, The Bay Area s News Station, Ch. In 1981, KRON launched its first morning newscast with a seven-minute program (at 6:53 a.m.), the program was cancelled by late 1982. Topics: dovato, kron, san francisco, san jose, san mateo, larkspur, marin county, johnson, california,... KRON 4 News at 4am : KRON : February 23, 2021 4:00am-4:30am PST. On September 29, 2015, Sky Link TV, a 24/7 Chinese language TV network, launched on channel 4.2, replacing the news channel. Presenters then included Terry Lowry, Phil Wilson, Karna Small, Bob Marsden, Paul Ryan, Art Brown and Dave Valentine. Topics: ucsf, san francisco, biden, thorpe, sunnyvale, antioch, lafayette, san carlos, novato, bay area,... KRON 4 News at 3pm : KRON : February 22, 2021 3:00pm-4:01pm PST. NBC wanted an owned-and-operated station (O&O) in the Bay Area alongside its West Coast flagship radio station, KNBC (680 AM, now KNBR). The viewership of its newscasts began to fall substantially by the time the station regained a network affiliation. They don't.". The station's call letters come from a modification of the Chronicle's nickname, "The Chron". The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. Topics: california, san francisco, antioch, thorpe, oakland, biden, washington, kron, san mateo, ashley... KRON 4 News at 10 : KRON : February 22, 2021 10:00pm-11:01pm PST. Topics: california, san francisco, kron, biden, texas, ucsf, thorpe, jonathan, johnson, bay area, dmv,... KRON 4 News at 6:30pm : KRON : February 22, 2021 6:30pm-7:01pm PST. Live on 4 was replaced in 1983 with T.G.I.4, an hour-long light local news and interview program co-hosted by Jan Rasmusson and Patrick Van Horn. However, it had little reason to complain about its ratings performance in the Bay Area, as channel 4 was one of NBC's strongest affiliates for the better part of a half-century. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: In October 2007, the Retro Television Network (RTV) was expected to launch as a digital subchannel on KRON-DT2 as part of a test of the network by Young Broadcasting, along with sister stations WBAY-TV Green Bay, Wisconsin, and WTEN Albany, New York. [31] The move made KRON-TV the largest station by market size owned by Media General as well as the company's only station west of the Rocky Mountains. Bay Area kids, known as the "City Council," joined Mayor Art in the studio each day. You can watch local news, daytime shows, primetime shows, late night programming on KRON without cable of satellite. It finally saw the opportunity to get an owned-and-operated station in what was then the United States' fifth-largest television market and quickly jumped into the bidding war for KRON. BayTV was carried on cable channel 35. KNTV agreed to drop its ABC affiliation at the behest of network-owned KGO-TV, the market's primary ABC station. KRON is a television station in San Francisco, CA that serves the San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose television market. During that timeframe, KRON also produced a Saturday morning children's program called Buster and Me. While KRON moved NBC's prime time programming back to the 8:00–11:00 p.m. timeslot in September 1993, CBS affiliate KPIX, who adopted the early primetime schedule at the same time as KRON, continued with the experiment until 1998–well after it had become owned by the network through CBS's 1994 acquisition by KPIX's then-owner Westinghouse. NBC also demanded yearly payments of $10 million from Young, a form of reverse compensation, flipping around the then-normal mode of networks paying their affiliates for their airtime. Topics: san francisco, california, costco, nevada, san mateo, washington, richmond, williams, biden, kron,... KRON 4 News at 5am : KRON : February 22, 2021 5:00am-6:01am PST. KRON aired coverage of the Raiders' victories in Super Bowl XI and Super Bowl XV. You will be able to watch the broadcast station with an antenna on Channel 4 or by subscribing to a live streaming service. In the 1960s, KRON-TV had anchors Art Brown and Jerry Jensen (who later moved to KGO-TV), and Linda Richards, who wrote predicted temperatures backwards on sliding glass panels with maps drawn on them, for viewers to see the weather forecast. The station also produced a series of one-minute documentaries during the mid-1980s, San Francisco Minutes and Bay Area Minutes, which featured people, places and events in San Francisco and Bay Area history and usually featured narrations by KRON-TV personalities set to soaring music (e.g., Mark Thompson on San Francisco's cable cars, Lloyd Patterson on the San Mateo County coastline). [34] Prior to the announcement it was rumored that Fox had considered buying KRON-TV and moving Fox network programming to channel 4. [28] That year, KRON informally reunited with NBC as it began to carry network programs during sports programming and breaking news events that force their preemptions on KNTV. NBC was seen as the frontrunner to buy the station, but it was outbid at the last minute on November 16, 1999. The station filled time slots formerly occupied by NBC shows with syndicated programming and expanded newscasts. Eventually, after the digital transition and widescreen upgrades, KRON's HD channel was moved to the main 4.1 channel. Topics: california, san francisco, biden, ucsf, washington, san francisco, bay area, san jose, dmv,... KRON 4 News at 5:30pm : KRON : February 22, 2021 5:30pm-6:01pm PST. "Assignment 4" promotional pamphlet, c. 1967, found in Bancroft Library, Thomas Kuchel Papers, Carton 379. [12] It did so primarily as a stopgap in case NBC failed in its bid to buy KRON from Young. Live streaming video of news, traffic, and weather for the San Francisco bay area from KRON 4. Other syndicated programming currently airing on KRON-TV includes Dr. Phil, Inside Edition and The Doctors. The station's studios are located in … The last NBC program to be broadcast by channel 4 was a repeat episode of Crossing Jordan, at 10:00 p.m. on December 31, 2001. Topics: san francisco, san mateo, california, oakland, berkeley, menlo park, james, newsome, sausalito,... KRON 4 News at 5am : KRON : February 23, 2021 5:00am-6:00am PST. ", Assignment Four was a documentary series that generally aired Monday evenings at 7:00 p.m. through much of the 1960s (beginning in February 1960). The KRON news staff also provided local news updates on MSNBC and CNN Headline News on Bay Area cable systems during this period. NBC felt that price was too high, and walked away from the deal when Young refused to lower it. [40] Antenna TV was added to digital subchannel 4.3. Because former station owner Media General has signed an affiliation agreement with getTV, KRON 4.3 became an affiliate of that network on May 1, 2016. KRON-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. Wright did not rule out moving NBC's Bay Area affiliation elsewhere. Franklin anchored most of the program from behind a desk that had a large Shell logo next to a "Tom Franklin" nameplate, with a Shell "X-100" oil can that sat atop the desk. Market Station Times; Abilene-Sweetwater: KIDZ - 42 M – F 8/7c and 9/8c: Albany Unlike the cable-exclusive BayTV, it was carried locally on over-the-air digital subchannel 4.2, on cable through Comcast Xfinity channel 193, and was streamed on KRON's website. Topics: san francisco, california, san mateo, thorpe, oakland, new york, pittsburgh, nevado, reyna, newsom,... KRON 4 News at 8am : KRON : February 23, 2021 8:00am-9:00am PST. I've Lost Control Of My 16 Yr-old Daughter Who Spent 38 Days In Juvenile Hall - Season 19 Episode 84 5:00 pm: KRON 4 News at 5: 5:30 pm: KRON 4 News at 5:30: 6:00 pm: KRON 4 News at 6 In the 1990s, the station utilized a "24 Hour News" format, with 30- to 60-second news updates each hour outside of regular newscasts. On February 13, 2009, the company declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Laurie is pleading for help with her dad's house. In 1993, Channel 4 became the flagship station of the Oakland Athletics, after acquiring broadcast rights to the Major League Baseball team's games. [5] By this point, the deYoungs owned three television stations (including KRON) in large and mid-sized media markets around the country, two of which were sold off to LIN TV (which traded KAKE-TV in Wichita and WOWT in Omaha to Benedek Broadcasting in turn). The documentary 'Not to Have Lived' (aired January 31, 1966) about mechanized society featured no dialogue or narration.[46]. The NBC Network was near the top of the ratings nationally at the time of the disaffiliation, due to strong shows such as Friends, Frasier, Law & Order and ER. It operated from a studio inside the Chronicle building at Fifth & Mission streets (the station's news department was located 30 feet from the Chronicle city desk). Topics: california, san francisco, dovato, dmv, kron, janis joplin, oakland, san mateo, scott wiener,... KRON 4 News at 4am : KRON : February 22, 2021 4:00am-4:31am PST. For most of its tenure with NBC, KRON was the network's second-largest affiliate (behind only KYW-TV in Philadelphia) and its largest on the West Coast. "NBC" lettering was placed near the summit of Radio Peak in huge white letters. In 1982, the deYoung family's Chronicle Publishing Company unit discussed a possible trade of KRON-TV to the Gannett Company (whose broadcasting division is now part of Tegna) in exchange for acquiring Gannett's Oklahoma City station KOCO-TV, plus an additional $100 million. and Wheel of Fortune (the original NBC daytime versions of both series also aired on KRON), as well as Entertainment Tonight. These segments often began with an animation depicting a signal originating from the uplink location, bouncing off a satellite and ending at a satellite dish next to the words "San Francisco." Without those NBC shows, KRON's ratings started to decline. From late 1981 to late 1988, the 5 p.m. weekday newscast was Live at Five; Bob Jimenez anchored in the studio with Evan White in the newsroom. The program, which generally aired on Sunday evenings, featured hosts such as Jerry Graham and Doug McConnell. The channel's daily Silicon Valley news recap New Media News also aired nationally on Jones Media Group cable channel Mind Extension University/Knowledge TV until that channel shut down in 2000. KRON also did not air NBC's soap operas in pattern (for example, KRON-TV aired Days of Our Lives after Another World, rather than the standard slot for NBC affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone—at 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. depending on the season and time slot). Their traffic reports appeared regularly on Daybreak, during Today and Live at Five. Topics: california, san francisco, kron, williams, larkspur, jonathan, nasa, flossie, justine, richmond,... KRON 4 News Weekend : KRON : February 21, 2021 7:00am-10:01am PST. The game show pair would move to ABC-owned KGO-TV permanently in 1992 after KRON-TV experimented with its "early prime time" schedule that year, while ET also moved to KGO in 1988, before returning to KRON in 1992 (where the show has remained since). In the 1980s, KRON-TV produced lengthy analysis pieces for the "Cover Story" segment on its 6 p.m. newscast, many with an investigative journalism focus and sometimes produced by the 10-person "Target 4" investigative unit. All the evening newscasts featured a variety of anchors, until settling down with the successful duo of Roz Abrams and Jim Paymar. KRON-TV originally signed on the air on November 15, 1949, as a primary NBC affiliate. On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of MyNetworkTV. In February 2010, Young discussed the possibility of entering into a shared services agreement (SSA) with KNTV's owner NBCUniversal. Find out where to watch myNetworkTV! 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The proposal ultimately fell apart by September 1983. Channel 4 also preempted some of the network's prime time programs. (CBS-owned UPN affiliate KBHK, whose call sign became KBCW by the network's launch, was named The CW's Bay Area affiliate. In July 2012 KRON switched 4.2 to a 24/7 news repeat channel. Starting in 2011, Gary Radnich joined Heenan as host at various locations in San Francisco each year. Historically, NBC was far less tolerant of preemptions than the other networks, but has recently eased its standards. KRON-TV, virtual channel 4 (VHF digital channel 7), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. A major change in KRON-TV's evening news broadcasts occurred on April 6, 1981,[51] when the station launched the 90-minute newscast "Live on 4" (from 4 to 5:30 p.m.). KRON was bought by New York City-based Young Broadcasting, then-owner of Los Angeles independent station KCAL-TV and several other stations in medium to small markets. Rather than give in to NBC's demands, Young decided not to renew channel 4's affiliation contract, which was set to expire at the beginning of 2002. The sale was cancelled that October due to pre-existing concerns over the sale cited by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that were related to NBC's ownership of radio and television stations in Philadelphia;[2] as a result, NBC stayed with KRON-TV. San Jose-based KNTV channel 11 approached NBC with a proposal to pay $37 million annually for the rights to broadcast its programming. Topics: biden, california, kron, aag, bay area, san jose, novato, san francisco, cdc, wgn america,... KRON 4 News at 9am : KRON : February 22, 2021 9:00am-10:01am PST. One such notable omission was Another World, which would eventually air on the station in the early 1990s; KRON's decision to drop the daytime soap opera in the summer of 1998 (leaving Days of Our Lives and the struggling Sunset Beach as the only network soaps on its schedule) is thought to have hastened NBC's decision to cancel it altogether a year later. KRON quietly upgraded its newscasts to high definition in April 2012, with the debut of new graphics. (Had Fox actually acquired KRON-TV, this would have made it one of the two major networks in the Bay Area, along with NBC, to switch from one station to another. Appropriately for a station once owned by the Chronicle, KRON-TV has long been a very news-intensive station. )[35] Fox completed its acquisition of KTVU and KICU-TV on October 8, 2014; despite MyNetworkTV being operated by Fox Television Stations, as of 2020[update], KRON-TV remains an affiliate of the service. KRON launched a new 10 p.m. newscast on May 16, 2016, that competes with newscasts on KTVU and, at that time, KBCW. KRON also produced Bay Area Backroads, a half-hour program (which ran from the mid-1980s to 2008) that profiled places and people in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and occasionally beyond. However, KRON never carried the network. However, KRON's news viewership has gradually fallen since that point; also in 2004, the station posted an 8.7% market share, down from the 21% share it had as an NBC affiliate. It is the only MyNetworkTV affiliate that has ever maintained a news schedule mirroring that of a Big Three affiliate (as it carries morning, 5 p.m., and 6 p.m. newscasts, and previously an 11 p.m. newscast). In the late 1980s, KRON-TV was among the few local television stations in the United States that produced a game show: Claim to Fame, a weekly half-hour program hosted by Patrick Van Horn that usually ran on Saturday evenings. She claims it's filled with junk, and she's even found a mummified kitten in the mess. With ABC, CBS, UPN and now NBC carrying their programming locally on owned-and-operated stations (KGO-TV, KPIX, KBHK—channel 44, now KBCW—and KNTV respectively), and Fox and The WB under contract with KTVU and KBWB respectively, KRON-TV became an independent station by default. [25][26] Instead of auctioning off the stations, Young and its secured lenders reached a deal where the lenders (among them Wachovia and Credit Suisse) would take control of the company, and Gray Television would manage seven of Young's ten stations. Another staple of KRON-TV newscasts in the 1980s was live traffic reports and news coverage from the station's helicopter "Telecopter 4." Franklin began the broadcast standing next to a map of the San Francisco Bay Area, with lights illuminated on the map next to the various cities that the newscast was to feature stories from. Among other things, it demanded that KRON change its on-air name to "NBC 4" and run the network's entire schedule in pattern (reducing primetime preemptions due to local programming from 20 hours to five hours a year). KRON also broadcast from remote locations during this era (e.g., Super Bowl venues) via a satellite uplink unit dubbed "Newstar 4". In March 2006, KRON's morning newscast posted an average viewership of approximately 28,000 viewers. Realizing this and refocusing on the entire market enabled KRON-TV to become the dominant station in the Bay Area. After Abrams left for New York City's WABC-TV in 1986, Paymar co-anchored alongside Sylvia Chase (who had been a correspondent for CBS News and later for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20). KRON-TV also produces two locally-produced programs outside of local newscasts: Bay Area Living – Home Improvement Edition and Bay Area Bargains. Although it was mostly owned-and-operated by the locally-based Chronicle Publishing Company, the network (who also owned AM radio station KNBC [now KNBR] at the time)fought for the construction permit but later lost to the Chronicle. During the May 2001 sweeps period – its last as an NBC affiliate – KRON's newscasts beat KGO-TV's in the 5 and 6 p.m. timeslots by a very close margin, ending KGO's domination in those timeslots. View All Listings. Terrence O'Flaherty, "All the News That's Fit to Squint," San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 1981, p. 54. moratorium on new television station licenses, federally mandated transition from analog to digital television, "KRON Ready to Move in With KGO Next Week", "Chronicle board puts paper, KRON-TV, other properties up for sale", "Chronicle Publishing Sells Newspaper for $295 Million", "$823 Million Purchase Of KRON-TV / Young Broadcasting outbids media giants", "KCAL's Owner Outbids NBC for S.F.

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