KXTV

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KXTV, "News10" is an ABC affiliate in Sacramento, California. They are owned and operated by the Gannett Corporation.

Station and programming history

The station went on the air on March 19, 1955 as KBET. Four years later, with an ownership change, the call letters became KXTV (the "X" being the Roman numeral for the VHF channel it broadcasts on, channel 10).

From its founding until 1995, KXTV was an affiliate of CBS. As a CBS affiliate, the station preempted some lower-rated daytime (the 9-10am block in the 1980s and early 90's) and late night (from the late 1980s until the arrival of The Late Show with David Letterman in 1993) programs. KXTV also preempted Sunday morning cartoons that CBS offered from the 60's until the early 80's. In 1991, KXTV dropped Price Is Right, due to the abundance of syndicated programming commitments. After sevreal months of complaints, KXTV reinstated "Price Is Right, but to make room for syndicated programming it was committed to carry, dropped Guiding Light due to low ratings in the early 1990s. While most CBS stations would air The Young and The Restless from 11 a.m.-NOON, KXTV moved it to the 3 p.m. timeslot in 1994. The soap did well in the 3 PM time slot.

Then, on March 6, 1995, in an unprecedented move in local television, KXTV swapped affiliations with KOVR, switching networks to ABC. As an ABC affiliate, the station preempted the half-hour soap airing in the 12:30 timeslot (Loving/The City/Port Charles), at some point running it on overnights; but when the network axed the programming block outright in the early 2000s; KXTV has aired the entire schedule of ABC programming since then. For the first 6 months as an ABC affiliate, KXTV preempted an hour of ABC Saturday morning cartooms, but since the Fall of 1995 has run the entire Saturday morning block. On another note, KXTV aired All My Children at 3 p.m. in the early years as an ABC affiliate (probably because they previously aired a soap from CBS in that timeslot and to maintain a similar type of show in that slot), before finally following the niche of airing it at Noon alongside majority of the ABC stations -- only after the midday newscast moved an hour earlier from Noon to 11 a.m..

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An advertisment for Lex Boyd the morning anchor in 1957

Four years later, in 1999, KXTV began digital broadcasts on a new and separate HDTV channel. Then, in 2001, to reflect the station's commitment to its news coverage, KXTV decided to become better known as "News10".

KXTV has first choice on all King World programs offered locally, currently holding the local syndication rights to Jeopardy!, Inside Edition, and Wheel of Fortune. Until 2002, the station also held the local syndication rights to The Oprah Winfrey Show. It is these shows that have made News10 one of the highest-rated local stations in daytime television. Since 2002-2003, KXTV has been the local television home of the Sacramento Kings, the city's National Basketball Association franchise, which coincides with their network's coverage of NBA games. The station picked up the rights to Kings telecasts in the middle of the 2002-03 season due to the contractual dispute between the team and its then-rights holder, UPN station KMAX.

KXTV's ownership

The Gannett Corporation (which also owns the USA Today newspaper) has owned KXTV since 1999, when it obtained the station in a swap with Belo Corporation in exchange for Austin ABC affiliate KVUE. (Belo had acquired KXTV in 1984 as part of its purchase of Corinthian Broadcasting.) The station's transmitter, the KXTV/KOVR Tower (shared with KOVR channel 13), is located in Walnut Grove. The tower is among the tallest in the world and is likely the tallest structure in California.

KXTV will likely be the market's only commercial station to remain on the VHF dial once the FCC completes the digital transition on February 17, 2009 unless it decides to elect another channel number. [1]

News10 Now

News10 Now is designed to let the viewers and online visitors to be the first to know about breaking news. News10 Now updates can be seen threw out the Good Morning America breaks. They can also be seen prior 2 hours before a newscast goes on air. The first News10 Now update was debuted in April 2005.

News10 Weather Tower

News10 weather tower was debuted on August 24, 2001 the same day the California State Fair opened. It was completed in 2000 but News10 decided to debut it later because of the rolling blackouts that was going around. It was built and designed by Nacht & Lewis Architects based in Downtown Sacramento. The television station, an anchor facility and active proponent of improvements to the Broadway Street Corridor, elected not to construct a conventional broadcast tower, examples of which may be seen throughout Sacramento. The proposed design melds the rather demanding engineering requirements for communications towers with sensitivity to the suggestions of the surrounding residents while creating an icon and gateway for the Broadway Corridor.

Live Online with Sharon Ito

Monday-Friday you can chat online with News10's Sharon Ito at 11am and again at noon. You can discuss about News10 stories that aired on one of the newscast depending on the subject thats lined up for the day. There are also interviews where you can see from the webcast. News10 debuted this spectacular way to communite with their viewers on Monday May 21, 2007. Sharon Recently anchored News10 Good Morning weekdays along with Dan Elliott from April 2002-March 2007 (5 years). And prior the morning show as a weekend anchor from 1996 to early 2002 (6 years). Just a little info about Sharon she joined News10 in 1986 as a producer and Reporter, then left in the early 90s to become a reporter for KABC 7 in Los Angeles.

Newscasts

Over the years as a CBS or ABC affiliate; KXTV's newscasts (which successively identified as Shell News, The Big News, Channel 10 News, Newservice 10 (in the 1970s), and Eyewitness News (early 80's) before adopting the present News 10 moniker in the mid-to-late 80's [2]) have traditionally placed a somewhat distant second in the local TV news ratings. However, in recent ratings periods, its newscasts have shown considerable ratings gains (particularly in the critical 11 p.m. race), eroding at the longtime dominance of local news ratings kingpin KCRA.

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An advertisement for the Wilson-Gray Report in 1965

News10 airs local newscasts in the following time slots.

MONDAY-FRIDAY

• News10 Good Morning (5:00-7:00 a.m.)
  • anchored by Dan Elliott and Kelly Jackson with Monica Woods Gray (wife of KCRA anchor Walt Gray) on weather and Melissa Crowley May (wife of sports anchor Bryan May) with traffic, Angel Cardenas (Air 10 Traffic Reporter), Nicole Chavez (Reports Live)
• News10 Midday (11:00-11:30 a.m.)
  • anchored by Dan Elliott and Jennifer Smith with Gregg Lalka on weather
• News10 at 5:00 (5:00-5:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dale Schornack and Cristina Mendonsa with Patty Souza on weather
• News10 at 6:00 (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dale Schornack and Cristina Mendonsa with Patty Souza on weather and Bryan May with sports
• News10 at 11:00 (11:00-11:35 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dale Schornack and Cristina Mendonsa with Patty Souza on weather and Bryan May with sports

SATURDAY

• News10 at 6:00 (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dana Howard and Alicia Malaby with Darla Givens on weather and Ryan Yamamoto with sports
• News10 at 11:00 (11:00-11:35 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dana Howard and Alicia Malaby with Darla Givens on weather and Ryan Yamamoto with sports

SUNDAY

• News10 at 5:00 (5:00-5:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dana Howard and Alicia Malaby with Darla Givens on weather
• News10 at 6:00 (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Dana Howard and Alicia Malaby with Darla Givens on weather and Ryan Yamamoto with sports
• News10 at 11:00 (11:00-11:35 p.m)
  • anchored by Dana Howard and Jennifer Smith with Darla Givens on weather and Ryan Yamamoto with sports

Other Current Personalities

• Dan Adams, General Assignment Reporter
• Cornell Barnard, General Assignment Reporter
• Marcey Brightwell, Political Reporter
• Kelly Brothers, Consumer and Business Reporter
• Angel Cardenas, Traffic Reporter Air 10
• Nicole Chavez, General Assignment Reporter
• Melissa Crowley, News10 Good Morning Traffic Anchor
• Tim Daly, San Joaquin Valley reporter
• Monika Diaz, General Assignment Reporter
• Dan Elliott, News10 Good Morning and Midday Anchor
• Darla Givens, Weekend Meteorologist
• Mark Hedlund, General Assignment Reporter
• Deborah Hoffman, General Assignment Reporter
• Dana Howard, Weekend Anchor, Reporter
• Kelly Jackson, News10 Good Morning Anchor
• Sharon Ito, Online News Anchor
• Gregg Lalka, Midday Meteorologist/ Fill-in Reporter
• Alicia Malaby, Weekend Anchor/ Reporter
• Dave Marquis, General Assignment Reporter
• Jonathan Masaki, Freelance Reporter
• Karen Massie, General Assignment Reporter
• Bryan May, Weekend Sports Anchor
• Cristina Mendonsa, News10 Anchor
• Jonatham Mumm, General Assignment Reporter
• Meggan Rush, Fill-in Traffic Anchor
• Dale Schornack, News10 Anchor
• Jennifer Smith, News10 Anchor
• Patty Souza, Chief Meteorologist
• Gina Villarreal, Assignment Editor/ Fill-in Reporter
• George Warren, General Assignment Reporter
• Monica Woods, News10 Good Morning Meteorologist
• Ryan Yamamoto, News10 Sports Anchor

Past news personalities

Name	Position at KXTV	Years Active	Whereabouts
Beth Duncan	News10 Good Morning Traffic Anchor	1998-2001	Traffic Anchor on the radio
Justin Allen	Weekday Sports Anchor	2005	Now at WTSP in Tampa Bay
Rene Apple	News10 Good Morning fill-in Traffic Anchor	2002	Who Knows
Cecil King	News10 Good Morning pilot	2004	Who Knows
Rob Marshall	Air 10 Pilot	199?-2003	Now in Colorado
J.D Maher	Weekend Meteorologist/ Fill-in Meteorologist	2000-2005	Now at KTXL Freelancing
Julie Durda	Traffic Anchor/ Air10 Traffic reporter	2005-2006	Now at KPHO-TV in Phoenix
Will Selva	Sports Anchor	2003-2005	Now at CNN Sports in Los Angeles
Kiran Chetry	Reporter/ Fill-in Anchor	1998-2000	Now at CNN in New York
Jane McCarthy	Reporter/ Fill-in Anchor	1999-2004	Now at KING-TV in Seattle, WA
Dick Cable	Anchor	1969-1998	Currently retired
Sande Drew	Anchor/ Reporter	1970-1975	Who knows
Jerome Gray	Reporter	1987-1991	Now at KPRC-TV
Dana Jacobson	Weekend Sports Anchor	1998-2002	Now at ESPN
Elissa Lynn	Chief Meteorologist	1996-2006	California Department of water resources
Creighton Sanders	Sports Anchor	1960-1980	Retired
Stuart Satow	Sports Anchor	1980-2002	Switched Careers
Hank Thronley	First News10 Anchor	1955-1960	Retired
Ken Wayne	Freelance Anchord	1998-2000	Now at KTVU-TV
Alan Frio	Anchor	1970s-1990s	Now at WSMV-TV
Lex Boyd	Anchor	1950s-19??	Now retired
Pamela Tom	Freelance Reporter	2003	Now at KGO-TV Freelancing
Mary Pae	Freelance Reporter	2003	Who knows
Deborah Pacyna	State Reporter	199?-2001	Works for the state of California

High Definition & Digital TV

News10 (KXTV) is currently producing Sacramento Kings basketball games, Friday Night Football highlights, and Jonathan Mumm's California Postcard reports in High Definition.

KXTV recently produced The Future Is HDTV on News 10, an HD produced special, profiling the FCC's imposed transition from Standard Definition to High Definition. The special also show-cased the HD produced shows from ABC, as well as some syndicated shows.

On KXTV's digital subchannel 61.2 (known as 10.2), The AccuWeather Channel broadcasts live National weather, plus local KXTV weather. It is available online.

Rumors have suggested that KXTV coud be next in line to begin a full HD produced newscast, and following the lead of 7 other Gannett-owned stations, which are now producing their newscasts in high definition. Those stations include KARE (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN - Debuted in April, 2006), KPNX (Phoenix, AZ - Debuted on November 2, 2006), KSDK (St. Louis, MO - Debuted on February 6, 2006), KUSA (Denver, CO - Debuted in April, 2004), WKYC (Cleveland, OH - Debuted in May, 2006), WUSA (Washington, DC - Debuted on May 2, 2005), and WXIA (Atlanta, GA - Debuted on February 2, 2006).

Trivia

• As a CBS affiliate, KXTV's station ID would include an electronic alarm like version of the infamous CBS "ding".
• KXTV is the third station in Sacramento to affiliate with ABC. Low-performing ABC affiliate KCCC Channel 40 (now the home of KTXL) had it first before shutting down and the network moved to KOVR.

External links

• Official News10 website
• News10 50th Anniversary
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