Throughout its affiliation with Fox under Cox Enterprises ownership, the station continued to brand itself as "Channel 2", even as the network began to require that its owned-and-operated stations and affiliates incorporate the "Fox" name within their on-air branding. They deserve it! However, Martin did not disclose what he wished to do in retirement from the screens. Nevertheless, we will update this section once we have the specifics. The program was reformatted in 1971 as The Tuck-Fortner Report, with Ron Fortner and Michael Tuck at the helm; they were replaced by Marcia Brandwynne and George Reading in 1974 (Reading would later be replaced by Atkinson and eventually, Judd Hambrick). The company formally announced the launch of the new network, the Fox Broadcasting Company, on May 7, 1986. Martin joined WJW in 1994, as co-anchor of the then hour-long early morning newscast. He covered the Oakland Hills fires, the earthquake in 1989, the San Bruno gas fire, the Japanese tsunami, the Camp Fire in Paradise where he lost the house he grew up in, the Oroville Dam evacuations, and numerous local flooding. KTVU also airs most Las Vegas Raiders games (a holdover from when the team played in Oakland) in which the team plays host to an NFC team at Allegiant Stadium and starting in 2014, when the NFL instituted its new 'cross-flex' broadcast rules, any Raiders game involving another AFC team that is moved from KPIX to KTVU. Your employees might not think about needing long-term care, especially if they feel young and healthy. In September 1989, the station debuted a half-hour 6:00p.m. newscast, The 6:00 News, which lasted until its cancellation in 1991. But Giammona said she can't wait for change much longer. KTVU obtained the rights to televise San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball games in 1961,[38] three years after the team relocated to the Bay Area from New York City. He covered the Oakland Hills fires, the earthquake in 1989, the San Bruno gas fire, the Japanese tsunami, the Camp Fire in. 4. new text end new text begin Penalties. Originally anchored by Barbara Simpson and Bob MacKenzie, the hour-long midday news-talk programwhich replaced syndicated game shows in the noontime slotfeatured a hybrid of in-depth interviews and various lifestyle features, preceded by a news summary during the first half-hour. One-on-one telephone consultations: Experience account management thats easy and personable. [5] The sale was eventually canceled in October 1961, 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; as a result, the NBC affiliation in San Francisco stayed with KRON-TV (channel 4, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate) until 2001, when NBC attempted again, successfully purchasing KNTV (channel 11). While KTVU remained a superstation for the remainder of its run as an independent, its cable coverage would become limited to providers within the Western United Statesprimarily those located in Northern California, Nevada, Oregon and select areas of Utah. 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The Ten O'Clock News is also one of the few local newscasts in the United States to have been syndicated to other television stations. 1,813 Followers, 315 Following, 556 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Bill Martin (@billmartinktvu) Moreover, WB affiliate KBWB (now KOFY-TV) canceled its KNTV-produced 10:00p.m. newscast after four years in 2002, as it was unable to compete with KTVU in the ratings. Before Bill joined WJW, he was a reporter and anchor for WUAB-TV (Cleveland) from 1991-94. Opponents argue that those changes could pose a threat to the overall health of the Social Security fund. [77][78] Two days later on January 24, 2011, KTVU expanded its weekday morning newscast to 4 hours, with the addition of a half-hour at 4:30a.m.[77], In March 2014, KTVU began using the AFD #10 broadcast flag to present its newscasts in letterboxed widescreen for viewers watching on cable through 4:3 television sets (the AFD #10 flag had already been used to show Fox programming on the station in the letterbox format on Bay Area cable and IPTV providers). Throughout its run as an independent station, The Ten O'Clock News was the only news program on KTVU. Until his retirement on November 26, 2019, he worked at Fox 8 News in Cleveland, Ohio, for 25 years. Many of the films presented were prints restored by the station's editing department to eliminate color and splicing errors and scratches present within the negatives. This change followed its former sister stations, WSB-TV in Atlanta and WFTV in Orlando, which also began airing their newscasts in high definition. Martin said that he couldnt thank FOX 8s amazing viewers enough for all the wonderful and unforgettable memories he had while at FOX 8. Bill Martin (Meteorologist) is an American Chief Meteorologist at KTVU, Oakland, California. Wilkins also interviewed then-local author Anne Rice upon the publication of Interview with the Vampire as well as, among many others, Christopher Lee, William Shatner and local independent filmmaker Ernie Fosselius (of Hardware Wars fame). 2 weekend a.m. news", "KTVU to Add Afternoon News, Expands Mornings", "TV station, NTSB apologize for fake Asiana pilot names", "KTVU firings over airing of prank Asiana pilots' names", "NTSB News Release: NTSB statement on erroneous confirmation of crew names", "Asiana: NTSB admits intern confirmed racist pilot names", "KTVU producers fired over Asiana pilots' fake names", "TV station taps copyright law to erase embarrassing broadcast", "Smart or Not? "The unintended consequence of their version of trying to prolong the solvency of the Social Security system has been to punish families who have given their entire careers to public service," said Davis. Delivering the news is an honor but helping you get through a tough day has been incredibly meaningful, he said. The station continued to run Fox Kids programming on weekdaysmoving it to an earlier time period on weekday afternoons in January 2000, to build an adult-targeted audience for the pending launch of its 6:00p.m. newscast by filling the 4:00 to 6:00p.m. slot with talk and court showsuntil the network discontinued its afternoon block in January 2002;[15] it retained the Saturday morning lineup, which eventually became known as 4Kids TV under a programming agreement with 4Kids Entertainment, until Fox discontinued its children's programming altogether on December 27, 2008 (replacing it with the two-hour infomercial block Weekend Marketplace). It's embarrassing. KTVU's Rob Roth reports. KTVU retained this status even as competing independents on the UHF band signed on during the late 1960s, most notably KBHK-TV (channel 44, now KBCW) and KEMO-TV (channel 20, now KOFY-TV) within months of each other in early 1968. He is a licensed professional Counselor, a member of the American Counseling Association and the American Association of Christian Counselors. Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Bill Martin. The May 1999 retirement of Zehnder brought changes to the newsroom; however, KTVU was ranked as the highest quality local newscast in the nation in 2000 by the Project for Excellence in Journalism under his immediate successor, Andrew Finlayson (who began his tenure at KTVU as a noon news producer in 1988 and left the station in 2003), while maintaining the top rating slot at 10:00 and throughout the noon and morning newscasts. On November 29, 1999, Cox Enterprises acquired San Jose-based independent station KICU-TV from Detroit businessman and Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson and KICU president/general manager Jim Evers. Personalities on KTVU FOX 2. from WED 1:00 AM PST until WED 8:00 AM PST, North Bay interior valleys, East Bay Interior Valleys, Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National . Following its purchase of WJZY in Charlotte, North Carolina, in March 2013, Variety reported that Fox Television Stations was pursuing station acquisitions in San Francisco and Seattle as it desired to have a larger presence in the markets of NFL teams that are part of the National Football Conference (such as the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks), the conference to which Fox holds broadcast rights. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. However, the station also decreased its reliance on movies during this period, due to the growing difficulty of broadcast stations in acquiring film content as the number of cable television networks increased. Unfortunately, government rules restrict the amount of money these highly compensated employees can contribute to tax-deferred plans, like a 401(k). Though, early on, the program experienced turnover with its main anchor team. In February 2015, KTVU introduced a new graphics package, accompanied by the replacement of the "Icon News" package with OSI Music's "Fox Affiliate News Theme", matching with the imaging style of other Fox Television Stations-owned outlets and implementing the "Fox 2" brand universally. The weeknight editions of The 10 o'clock News would expand to one hour in 1975; hour-long weekend editions were eventually added in September 1979, which were first by anchored by Elaine Corral. He later landed another job opportunity at KPIX(CBS) in San Francisco and was their morning show meteorologist for 2 years then finally became part of the KTVU team in 1993. When Giammona retired as a teacher in California, she didn't know she would only be allowed to collect a small portion of the Social Security benefits she paid into before stepping into education. He loves the Bay Area temperate climate andenjoys surfing, biking, skiing, snowboarding, hiking, kayaking, and climbing. As calls for water conservation rise amid California's severe drought, KTVU is taking a look at the drought's impact on the Bay Area and exploring how to best conserve water. . Bill worked at KRON NBC from 1988 to 1990 and at Channel 50 KFTY in Santa Rosa from 1990 to 1992. In 1977, KTVU was uplinked to satellite as a national superstation, being carried primarily on systems operated by cable television provider and corporate cousin, Cox Cable. He has a Masters Degree in Counseling / Human Relations from Liberty University and attended Ashland Theological Seminary. [20] Fox's original parent company News Corporation (which spun off the network to 21st Century Fox in July 2013 as part of the company's separation of its entertainment and publishing assets) made several offers to buy KTVU, but Cox turned down each of News Corporation's proposals (Fox had also reportedly considered purchasing KIRO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Seattle, which would have displaced that market's charter Fox affiliate, KCPQ; such a purchase never materialized, although Fox did attempt to buy KCPQ outright before renewing its affiliation contract with that station in July 2014, after it was unsuccessful in pressuring Tribune Broadcasting to sell KCPQ by purchasing and proposing to move its programming to Bellingham, Washington-based KBCB). On October 10, 2006, KTVU became the first television station in the Bay Area to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition;[74] with the upgrade, the station debuted a new state-of-the-art studio designed for HD newscast production, which replaced the previous set that had been in use since 1986 (with updates in 1989, 1997 and 2005); video from remote and field equipment was initially broadcast in 480p standard definition following the transition; high definition cameras are now utilized for field reports. "It's a lack of fairness. [52][53][54] Another mainstay of KTVU's prime time newscast was Pat McCormick, who served as a weather anchor off-and-on from 1969 until his retirement in 1995 (replacing Bob Wilkins as chief weathercaster in 1974); his successor Bill Martin, who joined Channel 2 in 1996, was the first television meteorologist in the Bay Area to provide six-day weather forecasts. Bill Melugin Reporter: Bio, Wiki, Age, Birthday, Height, Family, Wife, FOX 11, Model, Salary and Net Worth, Bill Kazmaier Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Wife, Powerlifting, Workout, and Net Worth. In 1992, KTVU ran a station-edited version of the 1984 science fiction film Dune, which combined footage from the Alan Smithee television cut with the original theatrical release (thereby restoring all the violence featured in the latter cut, while eliminating some of the objectionable edits that caused director David Lynch to remove his name from the credits of the television print). Image source: Elizabeth Pepin View the companion KQED TV piece on the QUEST website and discuss it in the QUEST Science . In honor of the anniversary, a series of fifteen promos were produced, which included those honoring past KTVU programs such as Romper Room and Captain Satellite as well as the station's sports programming. When channel 2 became the Giants' television partner, it was only permitted to televise the team's road games against the Los Angeles Dodgers until 1965,[39] when the station began airing additional regular season and exhibition games (KTVU's relationship with the Giants extended to the franchise's ownership, as Cox Enterprises owned a 10% stake in the Giants during the latter years of the broadcast contract[17]). This subchannel later affiliated with Fox Weather in January 2022. Bill Martin had always wanted to adopt a child. Initially airing for a half-hour on Monday through Friday nights, the program was originally anchored by Les Nichols (who served as KTVU's managing editor) and Al Helmso (who also served as the station's first news director). Prior to this announcement it was rumored that Fox had considered buying rival (and former NBC affiliate) KRON-TV and moving its programming there (which would have resulted in KTVU losing its Fox affiliation to channel 4 had Fox acquired that station instead). He retired after spending 25 years as a member of the FOX 8 family. Bill started working at KTVU as the weekend meteorologist in 1992. During the early 1970s, the station began employing a different programming strategy to stand out from the other independents in the market, acquiring first-run syndicated sitcoms and drama series, several comedies and dramas from the United Kingdom (such as Upstairs, Downstairs and The Benny Hill Show, the latter of which had some episodes re-edited by the station to remove scenes of frontal nudity accidentally left in the broadcast prints), and various nature series (including National Geographic specials) as alternative offerings. 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