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. KRON-TV was the third television outlet in the Bay Area behind KGO-TV (channel 7) and KPIX-TV (channel 5), all going on the air within a year, and the last license before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) placed a moratorium on new television station licenses that would last the next four years. Live streaming video of news, traffic, and weather for the San Francisco bay area from KRON 4. In late 2010, Young announced an affiliation deal with The Country Network for several of its stations, including KRON. It originally maintained transmitter facilities, master control and a small insert studio on San Bruno Mountain. Bob McCarthy, Rita Cohen and Janice Huff were among the personalities who reported from Telecopter 4. [1] The transmitting antenna, shared with Fox O&O KTVU (channel 2) and CBS O&O KPIX-TV (channel 5), is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco. 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-TV eventually branded its newscasts as Newswatch 4 in the early 1970s. Walker Award for Leadership, recognized as Emerging Business Owner of the Year by the Indiana Black Chamber of Commerce and was honored as Man of the Year by the Circle City Chapter of the Links, Inc. Unlike most news-producing stations that have become independent after losing a network affiliation or that have switched to one of the post-1986 broadcast networks, KRON originally kept its late newscast in the 11 p.m. timeslot instead of moving it to or adding one at 10 p.m. (avoiding direct competition with KTVU's long-dominant primetime newscast, though KRON's late news remained in competition against KGO, KNTV and KPIX's late evening newscasts); the station also added a primetime newscast at 9 p.m. To this day, KRON maintains a newscast schedule similar to the one it had as an NBC affiliate. The Livestream News Network delivers the most compelling live, local news from cities and towns around the country. With affiliate offices in Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; and Louisville and partnerships in Washington, DC, Winston’s firm continues to expand its capabilities to serve diverse clients. KRON4 is the Bay Area’s Local News station providing viewers more than 65 hours of news and local content each week. The viewership of its newscasts began to fall substantially by the time the station regained a network affiliation. An accomplished business leader and a skilled political strategist, Robin Winston has devoted her career to providing timely and savvy public outreach, communications, strategic, finance, management, marketing, and political advice to her colleagues and clients. 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. Realizing this and refocusing on the entire market enabled KRON-TV to become the dominant station in the Bay Area. 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). San Francisco GOP chairman disappointed in Trump impeachment. KRON-TV, virtual channel 4 (digital channel 38), is a television station in San Francisco, California, serving as the Bay Area affiliate of the MyNetworkTV programming service; the station is owned by Young Broadcasting. KRON is one of only two MyNetworkTV affiliates that air and produce their own newscasts, alongside Philadelphia affiliate WPHL-TV (though only a morning newscast, while its 10:00 p.m. newscast is produced by WPVI-TV), after the service's Secaucus, New Jersey owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV (whose news department operated separately from Fox-owned sister station WNYW stemming from license requirements imposed by WWOR's 1983 license transfer from New York City to New Jersey) closed theirs in July 2013. The company had been encountering difficulties in meeting interest payments on its outstanding debt. San Jose-based KNTV channel 11 approached NBC with a proposal to pay $37 million annually for the rights to broadcast its programming. She earns an estimated salary of between $5k-$10k annually. [56][57][58] On September 14, 2020, KRON launched an afternoon newscast at 3 p.m.[59], For the matrix operation abbreviated "kron", see, Television station in California, United States, Acquisitions by Media General, then Nexstar, Past programming preemptions and deferrals. 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. CADL Local History online added nearly 17,000 photographs of homes in Lansing. KRON-TV's studios at 1001 Van Ness Avenue would be put up for sale. In 1967, KRON-FM-TV moved to a new studio at 1001 Van Ness Avenue in the Western Addition neighborhood (a location that formerly served as the site of the Roman Catholic cathedral of San Francisco). She started her broadcasting career at Total Traffic Networks/Clear Channel in 2003 reporting and producing traffic for a number of bay area radio stations & SIRIUS XM. 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. 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. KRON lost the Athletics' television rights following the team's 1998 season. [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. Most recently, she was the drive time traffic reporter at KGO Radio in San Francisco where she reported for 10 years. The television transmitter was moved to Sutro Tower on July 4, 1973, while the FM transmitter remained on San Bruno Mountain. [13] In December 2001, NBC purchased KNTV from Granite Broadcasting for a fraction of KRON's sale price of $230 million. 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). (RTV is currently carried in the market by KAXT-CD.) 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. KRON aired coverage of the Raiders' victories in Super Bowl XI and Super Bowl XV. 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). However, we shall update it as soon as possible. Features: - Navigate easily through local news and information that's important to you - Stay informed … BayTV was carried on cable channel 35. [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). Get reviews, hours, directions, coupons and more for Lori Kron Naughton Psys. Thanks for becoming a fan of KRON4, the Bay Area's Local News Station! In 1961, NBC attempted to purchase its own station in the Bay Area, when they attempted to buy KTVU. 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. [16] KRON-TV became a MyNetworkTV affiliate when it debuted on September 5, 2006. 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. VL: Writing and illustrating story booklets of what seemed endlessly fascinating in my little world. 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. She handled constituent requests, assisted with public relations and community outreach for the board, analyzed legislation, and won two national awards for cost-saving innovations. Ed Hart, and later Frank Dill, reported sports with a focus on only the area's professional teams. KRON 4 is the bay area's news station giving you the latest local news whenever and wherever you need it for the San Francisco Bay Area. Moving to Indianapolis in 1993, Miss Winston became a community development specialist in the Indiana Department of Commerce. 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. 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." [54] The 9 p.m. newscast created after becoming independent eventually fell to fourth place by 2005. 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. Miss Winston is a life member of the NAACP, a member of the Indiana State Museum Board of Directors and Capital Campaign Chair of the $3.1M Levi Coffin Center Interpretive project, a member of the Dean’s Council of the IUPUI School of Liberal Arts and is a member of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation Board of Directors. Presenters then included Terry Lowry, Phil Wilson, Karna Small, Bob Marsden, Paul Ryan, Art Brown and Dave Valentine. NBC accepted KNTV's deal in February 2000. She also served as the Executive Producer for “Indiana Trailblazers”, a 2015 documentary about the history of civil rights in Indiana produced for PBS. She maintained close working relationships with the State Director of the campaign and assisted on logistics for events held in Indiana. 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). Features: - Navigate easily through local news and information that's important to you - Stay informed of breaking news with KRON 4 news alerts - View local news videos embedded within stories or at full screen Get reviews, hours, directions, coupons and more for Dr. Diane Marie Mater, DO. They don't.". 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. Indiana Democrats fared well during her term as Chairman. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. 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). Search for other Physicians & Surgeons on The Real Yellow Pages®. More information about her age is not available at this moment. 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.). During this time, KRON news grew rapidly in viewership and collected a large number of awards, including two DuPont Columbia awards, a Peabody,[52] and more than 100 local Emmys. 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. 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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. Get more news, more weather and more video. The digital signal was moved to UHF channel 38. 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. Miss Winston then accepted Lieutenant Governor O’Bannon’s invitation to join her personal staff as a special assistant. The KRON news staff also provided local news updates on MSNBC and CNN Headline Newson Bay Area cable systems during this period. Without those NBC shows, KRON's ratings started to decline. 75.3k Followers, 135 Following, 3,290 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from KRON4 News (@kron4tv) (CBS-owned UPN affiliate KBHK, whose call sign became KBCW by the network's launch, was named The CW's Bay Area affiliate. Eventually, after the digital transition and widescreen upgrades, KRON's HD channel was moved to the main 4.1 channel. In the mid-1980s, KRON-TV produced and aired an afternoon talk program called Bay City Limits. 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. 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. The program, which generally aired on Sunday evenings, featured hosts such as Jerry Graham and Doug McConnell. [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. Mike Caplan Fox 32, Bio, Wiki, Age, Wife, Son, ABC 7, Salary, Net Worth, Deanne Roberts WFLA-TV. In 2020, KRON-TV became the now Las Vegas Raiders official Bay Area home station for pre-season games and special programming.[44]. The move to new studios, and plans to operate master control from Atlanta, were scrapped by June 2012. On September 29, 2015, Sky Link TV, a 24/7 Chinese language TV network, launched on channel 4.2, replacing the news channel. Bio, Wiki, Age, Family, Husband and Net worth. 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. 697 were here. In the 1940s, when the channel 4 allocation in the Bay Area came open for bidding, it soon became clear that the license would go to either NBC or the deYoung family, publishers of the San Francisco Chronicle daily newspaper. [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. 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 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). I was six or seven years old. [47][48] From the 1970s into the late 1980s, the station used Gabriel Fauré's Pavane, Opus 50 as the music played during its nightly sign-off, alongside scenic rustic shots from around the Bay Area. Newscasts benefited from the resources of the Chronicle and there was cooperation between KRON-TV and the newspaper. The channel featured news, local weather and traffic updates using the common screen template and setup shared among all of Young's automated weather/news information subchannels. On January 10, 2008, Young Broadcasting announced it would sell KRON-TV. 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. KRON 4 Morning News (TV Series 2002– ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. 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. 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. In the 1990s, the station utilized a "24 Hour News" format, with 30- to 60-second news updates each hour outside of regular newscasts. Get caught up on the days news all in one place at one convenient time. Robin Winston is an American journalist from Bay Area currently working as fill-in traffic and weather reporter for KRON 4 News since 2009. (Most of Media General's television stations were in the Southeastern, Midwestern and Northeastern United States. she has been selected as Entrepreneur of the Year by the Center for Leadership Development, received the Madame C.J. 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). This program frequently presented features from KRON's news bureaus in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, the only Bay Area station to maintain bureaus (which were later deemed to be too expensive and were shut down by the end of the decade). I helped launch and currently anchor the new 3pm newscast on KRON 4 News. NBC was seen as the frontrunner to buy the station, but it was outbid at the last minute on November 16, 1999. )[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. James Fletcher anchors the KRON4 Morning News from 4am – 8am and then reports from the newsroom until 10am. In 2008, she worked with the Obama for President staff on the General Election campaign. In 2000, the Indiana Democratic Party provided coordinated campaign support for the reelection of Governor Frank O’Bannon and maintaining leadership in the Indiana House of Representatives. [12] It did so primarily as a stopgap in case NBC failed in its bid to buy KRON from Young. NBC had made many offers for channel 4 over the years, but the deYoungs turned them down each time. In March 2006, KRON's morning newscast posted an average viewership of approximately 28,000 viewers. The station debuted what was then the only local early morning newscast in the San Francisco television market on September 1, 1986, with the launch of Daybreak (which ran from 6:30 to 7 a.m., leading into Today). However, Young's asking price for the station was $735 million, only slightly less than what it paid to buy the station from Chronicle. [50] The station's newscasts were branded as NewsCenter 4 from 1977 until 2001, when it was changed to the current KRON 4 News. 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. Also in Louisville, Mr. Winston served as chief of staff at the city’s legislative body, the Board of Aldermen. However, we shall update it as soon as possible. However, we shall update it as soon as possible. and Wheel of Fortune (the original NBC daytime versions of both series also aired on KRON), as well as Entertainment Tonight. By about 1991, this evolved into the "circle 4" logo in use to this day, with the "4" keeping the bridge design. Channel 4 also preempted some of the network's prime time programs. At KRON, Moore was assigned to report on medical issues for “4 Your Health” segments and was a host of “Health Matters,” a … [29] A week later, it was also announced the station's master control operations would be operated remotely from Atlanta beginning in mid-January 2012. Past local programs include Bay Area Backroads, Bay Cafe, Henry's Home & Garden, Latin Eyes, Pacific Fusion, The Silver Lining; and several series and featured news segments that were developed by Jim Swanson, executive producer including Bay Area Bargains – Green Edition; Bay Area Living – Seniors Edition; KRON 4's Body Beautiful; KRON 4's Casino Adventures; Don't Invest and Forget; Health and Beauty with Dr Sonia; Living Green with Petersen Dean; KRON 4's Medical Mondays; KRON 4's Peninsula Beauty; KRON 4's Sizzling Hot Auto Deals and KRON 4's Spa Spectacular. After inheriting a financial deficit, she left the center with a substantial surplus. KRON's news operations were handled by the Chronicle until it launched its own news department in September 1957. Florida discourages "vaccine tourism" Scott Shellady, The Cow Guy, weighs in on Biden's $1.9T stimulus plan. KRON-TV also produces two locally-produced programs outside of local newscasts: Bay Area Living – Home Improvement Edition and Bay Area Bargains. More information about her spouse is not available at this moment. Miss Winston left public employment in 1996 and became deputy director of O’Bannon’s successful campaign to be elected governor. KRON launched a new 10 p.m. newscast on May 16, 2016, that competes with newscasts on KTVU and, at that time, KBCW. >>we're going to get more on the rain from days for in the weather center. Fun Home was also awarded the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015 and the 2014 Obie Award for writing for musical theater. KRON began branding itself as "MyKRON 4" for MyNetworkTV programming, although it continues to promote itself as "KRON 4" outside of the service's programming hours. (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. KRON 4 is the bay area's news station giving you the latest local news whenever and wherever you need it for the San Francisco Bay Area. She served as then-Lieutenant Governor Frank O’Bannon’s representative to communities across Indiana. Before joining KRON 4 news, Moore worked at WBZ – TV in Boston as a News anchor and Reporter. During that timeframe, KRON also produced a Saturday morning children's program called Buster and Me. In addition, Winston worked with other Democrats to raise a record amount of funds to support party-building and outreach activities across Indiana. 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. Local reporting to make San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and the rest of the Bay Area a better place to live. 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. [4], On June 16, 1999, the deYoung family announced the liquidation of Chronicle Publishing's assets. 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. When she’s not at work, she enjoys hiking on some of the Bay Areas’ toughest trails. 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). 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-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). [18] Young's stock, which had been trading for a few cents per share, was ultimately delisted from NASDAQ in January 2009, after failing to meet the minimum standards for being on the exchange. Experience the brand new KRON4 news app. [34] Prior to the announcement it was rumored that Fox had considered buying KRON-TV and moving Fox network programming to channel 4. 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. Currently (December 2020), MyNetwork programming airs from Midnight to 2 AM. 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