[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. 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. [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. San Francisco Bay Area's local news & weather station. 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). 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. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive. (It is currently one of the largest MyNetworkTV-affiliated stations not to previously have been an affiliate of either The WB or UPN, second only to the network's Dallas O&O KDFI.). [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 August 1959, the Chronicle reported that the tower was severely damaged by an unusually strong thunderstorm, requiring major repairs before KRON-TV could return to the air. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. The station's studios are located in … In September 2008, KRON dropped its 5 p.m. newscast after the syndicated daytime talk show Dr. Phil was moved to the slot, the program's former 8 p.m. timeslot (which Dr. Phil held locally since the show's 2002 premiere) was replaced by an hour-long primetime newscast; this would be undone in September 2009, with the cancellation of the 8 p.m. newscast and Dr. Phil's return to the 8 p.m. slot, along with the reinstatement of a 5:30 p.m. newscast (which expanded back to 5 p.m. by 2010). Some of the stories covered by Shell News in 1957 included the end of the "pedestrian scramble" system at downtown San Francisco street intersections, the end of the San Francisco-Oakland Southern Pacific railroad passenger ferry and the final game of the San Francisco Seals baseball team (to be replaced by the San Francisco Giants in 1958). During the 1992–1993 season, KRON-TV, along with KCRA-TV, participated in the "Early Prime" experiment in which prime time programs aired one hour earlier (mirroring the scheduling of the network's primetime lineup in the Central and Mountain time zones), the half-hour late evening newscast also moved from 11:00 to 10:00 p.m. as a result. Local reporting to make San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and the rest of the Bay Area a better place to live. The network would resort to purchasing stations for the sole purpose of switching or upgrading them to O&O status because of this (Miami's WTVJ and Salt Lake City's KUTV are such examples) or would find independent stations to air NBC programs that the main affiliate did not air. Topics: california, san francisco, ashley zavala, kron, thorpe, biden, san jose, los angeles, garland,... KRON 4 News at 8 : KRON : February 22, 2021 8:00pm-9:01pm PST. 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. Despite this, KRON occasionally preempted NBC programming. The first anchors were Lloyd Patterson and Lila Petersen. KNTV officially joined NBC later that evening at 11:35 p.m. with the regular broadcast of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. 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. 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. All the evening newscasts featured a variety of anchors, until settling down with the successful duo of Roz Abrams and Jim Paymar. Young would also have to give NBC the first option on the programming of additional subchannels on the station's digital signal.[11]. ), On February 10, 2014, Media General announced that KRON-TV would move into leased space on the third floor of KGO-TV's building (ABC Broadcast Center) at 900 Front Street, in space formerly occupied by radio stations KGO and KSFO. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. 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. 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. KRON-TV eventually branded its newscasts as Newswatch 4 in the early 1970s. KRON-TV originally broadcast from studios located in the basement of the Chronicle Building at Fifth and Mission Streets. 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. During the February 2004 sweeps period, the station placed second in the ratings behind KTVU. KRON launched a new 10 p.m. newscast on May 16, 2016, that competes with newscasts on KTVU and, at that time, KBCW. Topics: san francisco, california, san mateo, richmond, oakland, williams, san jose, boeing, antioch, cdc,... KRON 4 News at 8am : KRON : February 22, 2021 8:00am-9:01am PST. KRON-TV's studios at 1001 Van Ness Avenue would be put up for sale. 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. )[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 4 News at 3pm: 4:00 pm: Dr. Phil Help! By about 1991, this evolved into the "circle 4" logo in use to this day, with the "4" keeping the bridge design. 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. She claims it's filled with junk, and she's even found a mummified kitten in the mess. San Jose-based KNTV channel 11 approached NBC with a proposal to pay $37 million annually for the rights to broadcast its programming. The show featured Popeye cartoons mixed with science demonstrations, a newsreel feature entitled "Mayor Art's Almanac", games, prizes, and a sock puppet named "Ring-A-Ding. 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: 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. 3, San Francisco, CA, United States. On September 29, 2015, Sky Link TV, a 24/7 Chinese language TV network, launched on channel 4.2, replacing the news channel. The company had been encountering difficulties in meeting interest payments on its outstanding debt. 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." On January 27, 2016, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire Media General. On January 10, 2008, Young Broadcasting announced it would sell KRON-TV. The station reran some of these segments in an occasional program called Cover Story Magazine. Starting in 2011, Gary Radnich joined Heenan as host at various locations in San Francisco each year. [53] When KRON lost NBC to KNTV and became an independent station in January 2002, the station expanded its news programming by adding two hours to its weekday morning newscast (from 7 to 9 a.m.), and extending its 6 p.m. newscast to one hour to fill timeslots vacated by the departures of Today and Nightly News. KRON also broadcast from remote locations during this era (e.g., Super Bowl venues) via a satellite uplink unit dubbed "Newstar 4". The station filled time slots formerly occupied by NBC shows with syndicated programming and expanded newscasts. NBC felt that price was too high, and walked away from the deal when Young refused to lower it. Though both KRON and KPIX ran hour-long newscasts at 10 p.m., neither were able to beat Fox affiliate KTVU, due to that station's longtime dominance in the 10 o'clock hour that continues to this day. By early 1972, the station ran newscasts at noon, 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m. on weekdays and 6 and 11 p.m. on weekends, it also ran a late newscast that aired (then) immediately after The Tonight Show called the Newswatch Sign-Off Edition. 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. Realizing this and refocusing on the entire market enabled KRON-TV to become the dominant station in the Bay Area. Topics: san francisco, oakland, california, san mateo, richmond, fremont, nevada, daryn james, east bay,... KRON 4 News at 7am : KRON : February 22, 2021 7:00am-8:01am PST. You will be able to watch the broadcast station with an antenna on Channel 4 or by subscribing to a live streaming service. 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. Their traffic reports appeared regularly on Daybreak, during Today and Live at Five. and Wheel of Fortune (the original NBC daytime versions of both series also aired on KRON), as well as Entertainment Tonight. KNTV agreed to drop its ABC affiliation at the behest of network-owned KGO-TV, the market's primary ABC station. 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. 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. 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. 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. [20] Debt incurred from its 1999 purchase of KRON was believed to be one key factor behind the company's cash problems. ), Station management announced at a November 2011 meeting that no such agreement would take place, and that KRON would instead relocate to a smaller, state-of-the-art facility within the next year to year-and-a-half. In July 2012 KRON switched 4.2 to a 24/7 news repeat channel. [34] Prior to the announcement it was rumored that Fox had considered buying KRON-TV and moving Fox network programming to channel 4. Preemptions would only be permitted for extended breaking news or severe weather coverage. Appropriately for a station once owned by the Chronicle, KRON-TV has long been a very news-intensive station. The station runs programming from the My Network TV network and identifies itself as "KRON 4" . KRON-TV regarded the satellite truck as a major competitive advantage over rival television stations, featuring it in a mid-1980s promotional spot which declared, "We got a mobile satellite up-link. Topics: san francisco, ross, california, dovato, oakland, washington, boeing, jack, richmond, united... KRON 4 News at 4:30am : KRON : February 22, 2021 4:30am-5:01am PST. A shuffle of network affiliations around the country (and NBC's acquisition of some stations in markets larger than San Francisco) in the mid-1990s made channel 4 NBC's largest affiliate. 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. [23][24] At the last minute, Young cancelled a planned auction of all 10 of its stations five months later on July 14, a move believed to have been made due to a lack of suitable bids. KRON-TV maintains studios on Front Street immediately west of San Francisco's Embarcadero north of the city's Financial District, in the same building as ABC owned-and-operated station (O&O) KGO-TV, channel 7 (but with completely separate operations from that station). The 8 p.m. newscast returned in September 2011, concurrent with the replacement of the 4 p.m. news with Dr. Phil. ", KRON 4 News at 3pm : KRON : February 23, 2021 3:00pm-4:01pm PST. Watch live, find information here for this television station online. 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. On July 26, 2012, KRON launched another 24-hour local news and weather channel, called the KRON 4 24/7 Bay Area News Channel. [39] KRON carried traffic conditions on channel 4.3. However, in an upset, the deYoungs won the license. [41] The station's pre-transition digital signal had been on UHF channel 57, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. "NBC" lettering was placed near the summit of Radio Peak in huge white letters. After joining MyNetworkTV, the station moved its hour-long 9 p.m. newscast to 8 p.m.[17] It chose to run the fledgling network's programming from 9 to 11 p.m., one hour later than MyNetworkTV's standard 8 to 10 p.m. scheduling in the Pacific Time Zone. Dr. Phil My Hoarder Father Refuses to Clean Out Our Junk Filled, Bug Infested Home! NBC accepted KNTV's deal in February 2000. 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. View All Listings. KRON-TV signed onthe air on November 15, 1949, … 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. From 1989 until January 2008, KRON-TV produced a countdown program called New Year's Live, which aired on New Year's Eve (sometimes beginning at 11 p.m.) and continued into New Year's Day (sometimes ending at 1 a.m.). The station also produced a half-hour public affairs program on Sunday mornings called Weekend Extra, which was hosted by Belva Davis and Rollin Post. Learn how to stream KRON MyNetworkTV 4 with an over-the-antenna or with a live streaming service. 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. [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. 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. Likewise, KRON was by default not made part of Young's carriage of the Disney-owned Live Well Network on its stations, due to the network's carriage on the second and third digital subchannels of Disney-owned ABC O&O KGO-TV. 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. Bob McCarthy, Rita Cohen and Janice Huff were among the personalities who reported from Telecopter 4. KRON's newscasts during the 1980s regularly featured commentaries by Wayne Shannon in a segment called "Just 4 You", many of which had a humorous tone. Both select Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants games were aired as part of NBC's broadcast contract with Major League Baseball from 1957 to 1989, including the A's string of three consecutive World Series victories in 1972, 1973, and 1974. it produced six daily newscasts at the time, including the Shell-sponsored 6 p.m. newscast Shell News,[49] with Tom Franklin reporting from the studio at the Chronicle and in filmed field reports. [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. Each station's employees are restricted by keycards from entering the other's facilities.[32][33]. Wright did not rule out moving NBC's Bay Area affiliation elsewhere. 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. Bay Area kids, known as the "City Council," joined Mayor Art in the studio each day. Evocative of his folksy, down-to-earth style, McCarthy had a catchphrase, "hunky snarky", that he often used to characterize roads on which traffic was flowing smoothly. However, Young's asking price for the station was $735 million, only slightly less than what it paid to buy the station from Chronicle. However, in an upset, the deYoungs won the license. As of 2020, KRON presently broadcasts 72 hours of local newscasts each week (with 12 hours each weekday and six hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). [15] The network was created partly in response to CBS Corporation and Time Warner's January 24 announcement that UPN and The WB would be shut down and replaced with the jointly-owned CW Television Network. However like with RTV, TCN was never carried by the station, and the network was dropped from all of New Young Broadcasting's stations by November 2011. 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.

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