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65-612: Eyewitness News is a style of television presentation that emphasizes visual elements and action videos, instead of the older ,"man-on-camera" style of newscast. The earliest known use of the Eyewitness News name in American television was on April 6, 1959, when KYW-TV (now WKYC-TV ) – at the time, based in Cleveland and owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting – launched the nation's first 90-minute local newscast (under

130-846: A BBC sitcom which got adapted as The Office (U.S.) in the United States, Kontoret in Sweden, HaMisrad in Israel , Le Bureau in France, The Office (India) in India , Stromberg in Germany, La Job in Quebec, Canada and La Ofis in Chile. A format is licensed by TV networks , so that they may produce a version of the show tailored to their nationality and audience. Formats are

195-476: A Grit affiliate and switching to western programming on April 16, 2022. On July 20, 2007, longtime evening news anchor and KGO radio talk show host Pete Wilson died at age 62, following a massive heart attack that he suffered during a hip replacement procedure at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California . The station aired extensive tributes to Wilson when his death was publicly announced

260-541: A Millionaire , first-run on the network, until the game show's cancellation in 2019. It also paired Donahue with Oprah on the station's afternoon lineup in the late 1980s, after the station acquired Donahue from KTVU; however, in January 1995, KGO-TV became the first affiliate in the country to drop the talk show, sixteen months before its cancellation in May 1996 (New York City's NBC O&O WNBC dropped Donahue during

325-698: A computerized podium (on a par with Bermudez) from its premiere until August 2011, when she became a frequent technology and social media guest contributor for the now-defunct CBS morning news program, The Early Show . The program played off the "seven" theme by sometimes incorporating a seven-item list (referred to as "The List") into the program. 7 Live was canceled by KGO, due to low ratings, airing its last broadcast on April 27, 2012. KGO-TV presently broadcasts 42 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 hours, 35 minutes each weekday and five hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). The program usually rebroadcast stories previously shown during

390-519: A concept translation in Spanish of Eyewitness News ) on certain owned-and-operated stations of Spanish networks. A separate, but mostly unrelated, Eyewitness News format was developed by Irv Weinstein in Buffalo, New York , for WKBW-TV . This format was mostly based not on the original Eyewitness News (though it used the same logo ; in actuality, a slightly modified version of it) but rather on

455-412: A digital subchannel; at the time, the 7.2 subchannel ran simulcasts and rebroadcasts of most KGO newscasts and other locally produced programs, along with repeats of ABC News programs in non-traditional timeslots (for example, the weeknight editions of ABC World News Tonight aired at 7 pm, while Nightline aired most weekdays at 9 a.m. and 7:30 pm). Some programs seen on channel 7.2, such as

520-453: A form of intellectual property (IP), and are regularly bought and sold by TV producers , distribution company and broadcasters. For example, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? has been recreated in 108 territories, while local versions of Idol have aired (over 129 series) in 42 territories receiving about three billion votes, most notable being American Idol . However, TV formats are not generally protected under copyright law. As

585-504: A live 11 p.m. newscast. On July 9, 2015, KGO became the first station in Northern California to fly a commercial drone under newly approved FAA guidelines. Called "DroneView7", the aircraft flew over the demolition of Candlestick Park, broadcasting live. On February 4, 2022, the station launched ABC 7 Bay Area 24/7 , a continuous online streaming channel showing local news and information. On February 1, 2024, KGO updated

650-479: A major part of the international television market . Format purchasing is popular with broadcasters, due principally to the lower risk associated with an already-proven idea and the preference of audiences to watch programming tailored to their locality. Leading companies that handle the creation and sales of programming formats include Warner Bros. International Television Production , ITV Studios , Talpa , Endemol Shine and Fremantle . TV formats are viewed as

715-432: A result, KGO-TV instead called its newscasts Channel 7 News Scene throughout the 1970s, and Channel 7 News from 1982 to 1998, when it switched to the current ABC 7 News branding. Along with the other ABC O&Os, KGO-TV also used an edited version of the "Tar Sequence" from the soundtrack of Cool Hand Luke as the theme music for its newscasts starting in 1969. After its Chicago sister station, WLS-TV, began to reuse

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780-478: A result, KGO-TV is the only Bay Area television station to retain the same channel allocation post-transition and the only other station alongside KNTV to remain on the VHF dial (KQED moved from VHF channel 9 to UHF channel 30). During the 2019 digital television repack, KGO-TV moved to VHF channel 12, while KRON-TV moved to VHF channel 7. KGO-TV has a construction permit for a fill-in translator on UHF channel 35, serving

845-410: A result, copycat formats are sometimes created, which seek to duplicate the success of an original format without paying the person who came up with it. Format developers seek to prevent this by various means, including the use of trademarks or withholding distribution of other shows. Establishing "Proof of Review" and exposure to companies reviewing new TV formats is one important aspect of protection by

910-462: A studio audience called "The Voice Box" and viewer-submitter e-mail, Facebook and Twitter comments that were read by the hosts during the program. Copeland spent most of the program walking about the studio, peppering his material with humorous comments. Each edition of 7 Live generally ended with Copeland sharing a "Thought of the Day". Jennifer Jolly served as the technology/social media co-host from

975-575: Is used by Eyewitness News , located in Johannesburg and in Cape Town . It is also used by Talk Radio 702 and 94.7 Highveld Stereo in Gauteng , 567 CapeTalk and 94.5 Kfm in Cape Town . TV format Particular models in the genre of sitcoms are often sold as formats, enabling broadcasters to adapt them to the perceived tastes of their own audience. An example is The Office ,

1040-492: The Commonwealth Club Speaker's Luncheon and reruns of the 1960s ABC prime time western The Guns of Will Sonnett , were not shown on channel 7.1. KGO-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 24 to VHF channel 7. As

1105-717: The 2016 and 2019 NBA Finals . The station carried the 1989 World Series , a matchup between the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants which would be interrupted by the Loma Prieta earthquake shortly before Game 3 was to begin at Candlestick Park . From June 26, 2006, to September 10, 2010, KGO-TV broadcast a locally produced weekday variety show called The View from the Bay , hosted by Spencer Christian and Janelle Wang. The hour-long show focused on local attractions as well as interviews and other interests in

1170-545: The Action News format of its sister stations in the Capital Cities Communications stable. While based on Action News ' s brief and numerous reports, Weinstein built his Eyewitness News newscast around attention-grabbing catchphrases and alliterative headlines, along with occasional wisecracking or sarcastic one-liners about the day's news stories. This version of Eyewitness News

1235-450: The Eyewitness News branding in 2013, KGO-TV became the only ABC O&O that does not use the Eyewitness News or Action News brand for its newscasts as with other ABC O&O stations. The station broadcast a 4:30 p.m. newscast named Early News in 1970, anchored by Ray Tannehill and John Reed King , with Pete Giddings covering weather and Bob Fouts presenting sports. Lu Hurley provided live helicopter traffic coverage, one of

1300-428: The Eyewitness News concept there with him, choosing music from the 1967 Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke – the "Tar Sequence" cue (composed by Lalo Schifrin ) – as the theme. However, he added a new twist at WABC-TV – light, informal-sounding conversation among the anchors between the news stories and segments, which came to be known as " happy talk ". Among the newscasters in the first wave of happy talk on WABC-TV

1365-663: The Eyewitness News name left that city until WEWS adopted it for its newscasts in the 1970s). KYW-TV used the name and format until 1991, and re-adopted it in 1998; the name was dropped altogether in 2023, with station vice president and general manager Kelly Frank saying that " Eyewitness News really was no longer relevant to a modern news and information consumer." All five major stations owned by Westinghouse prior to its 1995 acquisition of CBS have used Eyewitness News as their newscast title at some point in time. In 1968, Primo moved to WABC-TV in New York City and took

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1430-778: The Oakland Raiders ' appearance in Super Bowl XXXVII . Also, Channel 7 airs NBA on ABC contests involving the Golden State Warriors via the network's contract with the NBA and, since 2021, San Jose Sharks games through the network's contract with the NHL . KGO-TV has aired the Warriors' championship victories in the 2015 , 2017 , 2018 , and 2022 NBA Finals and the Warriors' championship appearances in

1495-512: The 1980s due to its one-hour duration unlike other newscasts. Network Ten dropped the use of the Eyewitness News name in 1988 but later reinstated it in July 1989 for six months, and then again in January 1991 until late 1994. Network Ten reinstated the "Eyewitness News" branding once again on 16 September 2013 until 31 October 2018, when it was retired as part of a network relaunch and replaced with 10 News First . In South Africa , Eyewitness News

1560-463: The 6 p.m. newscast and national and international news reports from ABC News. KGO-TV had followed the lead of its New York City sister station, WABC-TV, and adopted the Eyewitness News format for its newscasts in the late 1960s; however, the Eyewitness News title was already being used on KPIX-TV, which inherited its version of the format from its Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV . As

1625-565: The Bay was replaced by a new local afternoon talk program called 7 Live on September 13, 2010 (which was similar in format to one of MSNBC 's earliest programs, The Site ), taking the former program's previous 3 p.m. timeslot. The program was hosted by longtime KGO-AM radio host Brian Copeland and Lizzie Bermudez, who stood at a computerized podium and alternatively acted as "sidekick" or "sounding board" to Copeland and shared material from her computer; Bermudez focused on technology and pop culture segments. 7 Live had an innovative format with

1690-565: The Bay Area's only O&O station ended in 1995 when several other stations in the San Francisco-Oakland market became network-owned stations over the next twenty years—including KBHK-TV (now KPYX ) becoming a charter member of UPN (in which the station's then-owner was a partner) in 1995, KPIX becoming a CBS O&O with the network's 1995 merger with Westinghouse, KNTV becoming an NBC O&O in 2002 after being bought by

1755-509: The Bay Area. Aimed at female viewers, the show aired weekdays at 3 pm, and was also live streamed online. Los Angeles sister station KABC-TV also aired the program weeknights at 10 p.m. on its second digital subchannel, with the program also airing at various times on digital subchannels of other ABC O&O stations. The program was also syndicated to the Live Well Network in 2010, retitled as Everyday Living . The View from

1820-665: The Capital Cities/ABC merger, KGO-TV went on to be the longest-serving ABC O&O outside of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Owing to its common ownership with ESPN , Channel 7 holds the right of first refusal to Monday Night Football games involving the San Francisco 49ers . The station carried coverage of the 49ers' victories in Super Bowl XIX , which was played locally at Stanford Stadium , and Super Bowl XXIX . The station also carried coverage of

1885-737: The Eyewitness News brand in 2022, as its owner, The E. W. Scripps Company , was convinced the brand was outdated. In Mexico and other Latin American countries during the 1970s and 1980s, some local newscasts also used the Eyewitness News format, under the names Noticias de Primera Plana ( Headline News ) and Noticias de Acción ( Action News ). The title was used in Canada , on CTV affiliate CFRN-TV in Edmonton . In Indonesia , Metro TV branded its newscasts as iWitness , and abbreviated as Eyewitness . It has since become one of

1950-553: The Paramount programs aired were Time For Beany , Hollywood Reel , Sandy Dreams , Hollywood Wrestling , and Cowboy G-Men . Channel 7 had a limited broadcasting schedule during its first year on the air. It was not until September 1950 that the station announced, in the San Francisco Chronicle , that it would broadcast on all seven days of the week. For much of the 1950s, the station signed on late in

2015-639: The air on May 5, 1949, as the San Francisco Bay Area's second-oldest television station, signing on five months after KPIX (channel 5) and the 50th in the United States. In fact, KPIX had a hand in getting KGO-TV on the air, as the CBS -affiliated station produced informational programming on how to receive and view ABC's channel 7. KGO-TV's original studios were located in the renovated Sutro Mansion near Mount Sutro in San Francisco, next to

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2080-594: The cue 007 from the 1963 film From Russia with Love as the musical theme. The format quickly became a hit in Philadelphia and allowed KYW-TV to surge past longtime leader WCAU-TV for first place, a position it kept on and off until the late 1970s. KYW-TV's success inspired rival station WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV ) to develop the Action News format to compete with it (after NBC was ordered to re-assume control of its Cleveland broadcasting properties in 1965,

2145-422: The exception of programs that channel 7 was only allowed to show within the San Francisco market under syndication exclusivity rules. On December 20, 2010, Hearst Television , owners of NBC affiliate KSBW , signed an affiliation agreement with ABC to bring the network's programming to KSBW's second digital subchannel . The new subchannel (branded on-air as "Central Coast ABC") debuted on April 18, 2011, and took

2210-475: The facility with radio stations KGO (AM 810), KSFO and KMKY (the former two are now owned by Cumulus Media ). By 2012, the radio stations had vacated 900 Front Street. In late 2014, KRON-TV (channel 4; then a primary MyNetworkTV affiliate) moved its operations from 1001 Van Ness Avenue, a building it had occupied since 1967, to the ABC Broadcast Center, leasing from KGO-TV/ABC the space on

2275-619: The featured segments on the daytime news program Wide Shot . In Australia , BTQ-7 in Brisbane adopted the Eyewitness News branding in the early 1970s. The branding was also employed by NWS-9 in Adelaide for its evening newscast. TEN-10 in Sydney and ATV-0/10 in Melbourne , the principal stations of Network Ten , adopted the Eyewitness News branding in the mid-1970s and it

2340-399: The first television programs in the San Francisco Bay Area to offer traffic reports. KGO-TV was one of the last ABC affiliates that broadcast the network's evening news program in the 7:00 p.m. time slot. By early 1992, World News Tonight had been displaced to 5:30 pm, replacing the last half of the 5:00 p.m. news hour. KGO-TV has long broadcast an 11:00 p.m. newscast; it

2405-455: The following day. His final newscast and radio show were on July 18, 2007. In 2008, KGO became the first station in the market to start its early morning newscast before 5 am, with the expansion of its weekday morning program to 4:30 am. Around that same time and prompted by a sluggish economy and the station's conversion to the "Ignite" automated control room system, on May 26, 2011, KGO debuted an hour-long 4 p.m. newscast, which filled

2470-612: The helicopter was only available in 4:3 standard definition at times (when this occurs, the helicopter is branded simply "Sky 7"). KGO became the second television station in the Bay Area (after KTVU) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition on February 17, 2007. From January 8, 2007, until March 11, 2022, KGO-TV also produced an hour-long 9 p.m. newscast for independent station KOFY-TV (channel 20). On September 6, 2021, KOFY moved ABC 7 News from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 pm. KGO aired its final news broadcast on KOFY on March 11, 2022, in anticipation of KOFY becoming

2535-698: The highest-rated station in New York City for much of that time. The format, as modified by WABC-TV, was copied by many other stations in the United States, with four other stations owned and operated by ABC – KABC-TV in Los Angeles , WLS-TV in Chicago , WXYZ-TV in Detroit and KGO-TV in San Francisco – using both the format and the Cool Hand Luke theme (in the case of KGO, since KPIX

2600-459: The husband-and-wife team of Fred LaCosse and Terry Lowry (other ABC owned-and-operated stations produced their own A.M. programs in the 1980s; for example, A.M. Chicago at WLS-TV evolved into The Oprah Winfrey Show , and Live with Kelly and Mark evolved from a similar A.M. program on WABC). For a week or two in the summer of 1988, A.M. Los Angeles was simulcast on KGO-TV, with a few KGO-TV produced segments. For most of its existence, KGO-TV

2665-609: The industry at the Television Writers Vault. The Format Recognition and Protection Association (FRAPA) aims to protect rights to formats and lobbies for legal protection. KGO-TV KGO-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California , United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area 's ABC network outlet. It has been owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division since

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2730-408: The latter two are produced by Sony Pictures Television and distributed by CBS Media Ventures ). Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune have aired on KGO-TV since both shows moved to the station from KRON-TV in 1992. The Oprah Winfrey Show aired on KGO-TV throughout the program's tenure from 1986 to 2011. The station was among the handful of ABC affiliates to have aired the syndicated Who Wants to Be

2795-562: The mid-1950s, KGO-TV telecast live weeknight variety shows hosted by Don Sherwood , a disc jockey for KSFO , until Sherwood was fired for making a political comment in defiance of a warning from station management. In September 1962, KGO began carrying ABC's first color program, the animated series The Jetsons , followed by The Flintstones . In the mid 1960s, KGO became the first Bay Area station to broadcast local programs in color, including its newscasts. In 1985, KGO-TV began broadcasting from its current studios at 900 Front Street, sharing

2860-508: The morning or early afternoon, especially on the weekends, because the ABC network did not offer many daytime programs then. For many years, Saturday programming began with King Norman's Kingdom of Toys , a popular children's program hosted by the owner of a San Francisco toy store, Norman Rosenberg, from 1954 until 1961. He died in December 2016 at the age of 98. In 1954, KGO-TV moved to one of

2925-657: The most modern broadcasting facilities on the West Coast at the time at 277 Golden Gate Avenue, formerly known as the Eagle Building. The building was demolished between 2010 and 2011 to make way for apartments. As an ABC-owned station, KGO-TV originated a few network daytime shows, including programs hosted by fitness expert Jack La Lanne , singer Tennessee Ernie Ford , and entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee . Syndicated game shows Oh My Word and The Anniversary Game were produced at KGO-TV by Circle Seven Productions . In

2990-517: The network after it disaffiliated from KRON-TV, KTVU becoming a Fox O&O in 2015 after being acquired by the network alongside sister station KICU-TV a year prior (although KICU remains an independent station due to KRON-TV's affiliation with MyNetworkTV), and KRON-TV becoming a CW O&O after picking up the affiliation in 2024 following KBCW (now KPYX) and seven other CBS-owned stations disaffiliating with The CW. After ABC sold Detroit's WXYZ-TV to Scripps–Howard Broadcasting in 1986 as part of

3055-540: The network's exclusive Bay Area outlet. This resulted in the Salinas – Monterey – Santa Cruz market losing over-the-air reception of ABC programs since KNTV had also served those communities (the station temporarily affiliated with The WB , before replacing KRON-TV as the Bay Area's NBC affiliate in January 2002). In response, a cable -only ABC affiliate was set up for the areas affected, that simulcast KGO-TV's programming (including ABC programming and local newscasts), with

3120-654: The network's prime time Olympics coverage. The special newscast did not air on nights when NBC's Olympic coverage ended before midnight (August 8, for example, resulting in no KGO midnight newscast on August 9). At least one other ABC-owned station, KABC-TV downstate in Los Angeles, also produced a seven-minute midnight newscast during the 2012 Olympics. On August 8, 2014, KGO struck a partnership with Univision O&O KDTV-DT to cross-promote newscast and share news context second behind its Philadelphia sister station WPVI-TV which in December partnered with WUVP-DT to produce

3185-590: The news graphics after a new logo launched. The station's signal is multiplexed : In May 2010, KGO-TV began carrying the Disney/ABC-owned Live Well HD (later Live Well Network, now Localish ) on its second digital subchannel; KGO-TV also produces the cooking show Good Cookin' with Bruce Aidells for the network. In 2007, KGO was among the few commercial television stations in California that scheduled an alternative set of programs on

3250-529: The pay-TV channel slots of KGO's market-only feed throughout California's Central Coast , with the latter wound down at the same time. KGO-TV was the first ABC station to use the Circle 7 logo . According to Broadcasting magazine, KGO unveiled this logo, created by San Francisco design consultant G. Dean Smith, on August 27, 1962. When the station incorporated ABC into its branding in the late 1990s (initially as "Channel 7 ABC" from 1996 to 1997, then as "ABC 7"),

3315-421: The station's inception. KGO-TV's studios are located at the ABC Broadcast Center immediately west of The Embarcadero north of the city's Financial District , and its transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower . In addition, KGO-TV leases part of its building to CW outlet KRON-TV (channel 4, owned by The CW's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group ), but with completely separate operations. KGO-TV first signed on

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3380-436: The station's then-news director, Al Primo , created the Eyewitness News format. In this format, a reporter in the field would be the "eyewitness" to a news event to the anchor in the studio and the viewer at home. The anchors became personalities instead of presenters with the introduction of banter, or "happy talk" as it was named by Al Primo. Anchors would often give their own personal comments in between stories. Primo used

3445-509: The station—along with several other ABC stations broadcasting on channel 7 that used the original version of the Circle 7 logo—simply attached the ABC logo to the Circle 7. The station carries a high-profile lineup of daytime programming with shows such as Live with Kelly and Mark , Tamron Hall , Jeopardy! , and Wheel of Fortune (the first two programs are distributed by the station's corporate cousin, Disney Media Distribution , while

3510-688: The summer of 1995 as well, even though the program originated from WNBC's studios at Rockefeller Center until being ousted and relocated to new studios in Manhattan to finish its final season). KGO also airs the pre-show of the Academy Awards (which is produced by Los Angeles sister station KABC-TV). The station had sometimes aired the Bay to Breakers race during the 1980s, and the KGO Cure-a-thon with its radio partner, KGO-AM 810. KGO-TV

3575-677: The third floor that had been occupied by the radio stations. KRON-TV, which became a CW owned-and-operated station in 2023, also uses one of the two studios on the first floor for production of its news programming. In 1999, KGO-TV—seeking to gain advertising revenue in the South Bay —reached an agreement with the Granite Broadcasting Corporation , then-owner of San Jose 's ABC affiliate KNTV to pay Granite to drop KNTV's ABC affiliation, resulting in KGO-TV becoming

3640-431: The timeslot formerly held by The Oprah Winfrey Show (which ended its 25-year syndication run the previous day). On September 10, 2011, KGO-TV expanded its weekend 11 p.m. newscasts to one hour. KGO broadcast a special seven-minute "minicast" at midnight during the 2012 Summer Olympics , called ABC 7 News Special Edition , as an effort to counterprogram the special midnight local newscast on NBC-owned KNTV that followed

3705-632: The title Eyewitness ), which was combined with the then 15-minute national newscast. The name was then adopted for use by Westinghouse's other television stations – KPIX in San Francisco ; WJZ-TV in Baltimore ; WBZ-TV in Boston ; and KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh – for their local newscasts. After the KYW-TV call letters, management, and some staffers moved from Cleveland to Philadelphia in 1965,

3770-625: The transmitter tower it shared with KPIX. KGO-TV was the fourth of ABC's five original owned-and-operated stations to sign-on, after WABC-TV in New York City, WLS-TV in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit, and before KABC-TV in Los Angeles. The call letters were inherited from KGO radio (810 AM). In addition to airing ABC programming, KGO-TV also aired syndicated programs from the Paramount Television Network ; among

3835-586: Was already using the Eyewitness News name, KGO titled its newscasts as Channel 7 NewsScene in 1969 and by 1983 simply Channel 7 News , while WXYZ used the Action News name since rival WJBK-TV was using the Eyewitness News name for its newscasts; KABC and WLS were free to use the Eyewitness News name as did WABC-TV). Ironically, WPVI, which developed the Action News format, is also now an ABC owned-and-operated station. In addition, U.S. Spanish-language stations also use their own version of Eyewitness News , called Noticias de Primera Plana ( Headline News ,

3900-472: Was later adopted by other stations in the Network Ten group ( SAS-10 in 1976 and TVQ-0/10 in 1978) as BTQ-7 and NWS-9 later relinquished the brand in their respective cities. Regional affiliates for Network Ten also used the Eyewitness News name. The Australian version of Eyewitness News more closely resembled Weinstein's version than the original format, but it became one of the ratings winners in

3965-560: Was originally a half-hour program, before expanding to 35 minutes in the early 1990s. In the 2000s, a staple of the 11 pm. Sunday newscast was Richard Hart's segment about technological developments, alternatively titled "Next Step" and "Drive to Discover". The station previously used the market's first helicopter equipped to shoot and transmit high definition video, branded as "Sky 7HD", which made its on-air debut in February 2006. Due to logistical and equipment limitations, video from

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4030-448: Was the first station to produce documentaries of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake on April 8, 2006. In the 1970s and 1980s, KGO-TV produced weekday talk/variety shows in the 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. timeslot following Good Morning America . A.M. San Francisco ran from 1975 to 1987/1988, when it was replaced by Good Morning, Bay Area , hosted by Susan Sikora. Hosts of A.M. San Francisco included

4095-711: Was the only network-owned television station in the Bay Area, even throughout the time when ABC underwent ownership changes: Capital Cities Communications bought out ABC and merged with the network in 1985, the combined company Capital Cities/ABC was then sold to The Walt Disney Company in 1996. As such, the station did not heavily preempt network programming unlike its local competitors or its sister stations—such as Philadelphia's WPVI-TV , Houston's KTRK-TV and Fresno's KFSN-TV —which were known for doing so in those days (as of 2007, some exceptions to this policy may be made when breaking news events or selected ABC Sports programs warrant exclusive coverage). The distinction of being

4160-578: Was used on WKBW as well as other Capital Cities stations where the Action News name was in use by another station, such as WTVD in Durham, North Carolina . It was also used on a few stations not owned by Capital Cities, including WOKR (now WHAM-TV ) in Rochester, New York . Despite its familiarity as a format on ABC owned-and-operated stations, it is actually CBS that owns the rights to the Eyewitness News name, as it originated from KYW-TV. WKBW dropped

4225-497: Was young reporter Geraldo Rivera , a comical and entertaining weatherman in Tex Antoine , and Bill Beutel and Roger Grimsby as anchormen of contrasting yet complementing styles. Primo also criticized the then-standard practice of "three white men" "preaching the news" at viewers and included women and persons of color to reflect the diversity of the viewing audience. WABC-TV has kept the name and format since then, and has been

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