KNTV

KNTV, channel 11, is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to San Jose, California and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Also known on-air by the branding NBC Bay Area, KNTV shares its main office and studio facility in San Jose with NBC Universal's other outlet in the area, Telemundo station KSTS (channel 48), as well as CNBC's Silicon Valley bureau. The station's transmitter is located on San Bruno Mountain, just south of San Francisco. KNTV is one of five Bay Area market television stations that is licensed to San Jose.

On cable, KNTV is broadcast on cable channel 3 on Comcast cable systems in the Bay Area market. In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive NBC programs over-the-air, KNTV is available as part of All American Direct's standard definition distant network package.

The early years (1955-1999)
KNTV signed on the air on September 12, 1955. It was the first television station in the South Bay, originally owned by Sunlite Bakery. KNTV was originally an independent station, intended to cover the California coastal area from Monterey north to San Francisco. Its transmitter was located on Loma Prieta Peak, some 60 miles (100 km) south of San Francisco. It often aired CBS, DuMont and NBC shows that were turned down by San Francisco's KPIX and KRON-TV respectively, as well as some ABC shows that also aired on KGO-TV.

However, the station was not viable as an independent, and the going got even more difficult when Oakland-based KTVU signed on in 1958. However, due to its transmitter location, its signal could be received fairly well in the nearby Monterey Bay area (Monterey and Salinas). Taking advantage of this, KNTV sought and was granted the ABC affiliation for the San Jose and Monterey Bay areas, on condition that it reduce its power so as not to overlap with KGO-TV. Previously, all three networks had been shoehorned onto Salinas-based KSBW (channel 8). KNTV thus became one of the few stations located outside the market it served.

Channel 11 was then purchased by Gill Cable, the local cable operator for San Jose. Even as an ABC affiliate, KNTV occasionally preempted a few ABC programs. KGO-TV, as an ABC owned and operated station, cleared the entire ABC schedule, so this often gave San Jose and Silicon Valley Area residents a second choice for viewing preempted ABC programming.

Gill Cable sold KNTV to Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises LLC) in 1978. Twelve years later, Landmark sold the station to the Granite Broadcasting Corporation, a minority-owned firm.

The end of the ABC era (1999–2001)
In 1999, KGO-TV agreed to pay Granite a substantial fee to stop the station from running ABC programming when its affiliation contract expired. ABC's parent, the Walt Disney Company, saw the need to expand KGO-TV's exclusive advertising market share to San Jose for this reason, and it felt KNTV was taking away from the share. On July 3, 2000, KNTV terminated its ABC affiliation, and temporarily carried WB programming (simulcast with then co-owned KBWB-TV, now KOFY-TV). The move cost the Monterey Bay area an ABC affiliate, so to compensate for the loss, KGO-TV was then added to cable systems in that market, with certain syndicated programs carried by the station replaced due to SyndEx rules. However, on December 20, 2010, nearly ten years after KNTV terminated its affiliation with ABC, KSBW announced that it will carry ABC programming beginning April 18, 2011 over on its second digital subchannel.

The early years as an NBC affiliate (2001–2004)
In March 2001, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that KNTV was officially part of the San Jose/San Francisco/Oakland designated market area. Nielsen Media Research had reclassified KNTV as part of the then fifth-largest market in September 2000 and KNTV had fulfilled FCC regulatory requirements to be considered part of the market by doubling its signal power to better cover the Bay Area.

In 2000, the deYoung family, owners of longtime affiliate KRON-TV, had put all of its properties up for sale. NBC, which had been in the midst of renewing its affiliation agreement with KRON, jumped into the bidding, but narrowly lost to Young Broadcasting. NBC responded by threatening to yank its programming from KRON unless Young agreed to run it under the conventions of an NBC owned-and-operated station. The network also made the unprecedented demand that Young pay the network $10 million a year to remain affiliated with NBC. Young refused, and announced that it would end KRON's 52-year affiliation with NBC at the end of 2001.

Soon afterward, Granite contacted NBC and offered to pay an average of $37 million annually (totaling roughly $362 million over 10 years) for the rights to broadcast NBC programs on KNTV. This agreement was ground-breaking and notable, as KNTV became the first major market affiliate to pay a network for programming. This reversed a long-standing model whereby networks paid affiliates to carry their programming. NBC accepted the deal, which was due to take effect in 2002.

Local news coverage of San Jose events was cut and the station's news coverage rebuilt to target the larger Bay Area audience. For Granite Broadcasting, the deal was expensive; the company showed a net loss of $44 million for the first three quarters of 2001, more than double its same-period losses one year previous. In an attempt to reduce debts, Granite started looking for a buyer for Detroit WB affiliate WDWB in October 2001.

In December 2001, NBC announced another twist on the deal: this time to purchase the station from cash-strapped Granite for $230 million. The network already owned Telemundo station KSTS-TV in San Jose and wanted to create a duopoly in the Bay Area.

KNTV officially joined NBC at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day 2002. Jay Leno officially welcomed NBC's newest station in a ceremony on The Tonight Show, followed later by The Today Show, where Al Roker introduced the anchors of KNTV at its former studios. With KRON's loss of the affiliation, NBC was the only major network in the Bay Area to switch from one station to another. KNTV is the third Bay Area station to affiliate with NBC as primary CBS affiliate KPIX-TV had the affiliation first (as a secondary) in 1948 upon its launch until KRON was launched the year after. NBC formally took control of KNTV in April 2002.

After the switch to NBC affiliation, KNTV was rebranded as "NBC3" to reflect its position on cable channel 3 on nearly every cable system in the Bay Area. The "NBC3" branding was Granite's idea, but backfired due to confusion with Sacramento's longtime NBC affiliate KCRA-TV, which is viewable over the air and on cable in parts of the North Bay and East Bay as channel 3. NBC was moreover unimpressed with the "virtual channel" approach, and rebranded the station to "NBC11" in fall 2002. While KNTV is the only VHF station in the region not to have a cable channel match the analog, the station contracted with cable provider AT&T Broadband (now Comcast) for the cable 3 allocation, previously unused by any other local station. It has always been on channel 3 on cable in San Jose, dating back to its first days. The marketing mishap meant that cities that carried KNTV on cable channel 11 had to move it down to channel 3 within months of the switch. During the 2004 Summer Olympics, the station heavily promoted channel 11 through its "i11uminating" marketing campaign (with the number "11" used in place of the "L" letters).

Even in the early years as the new NBC affiliate, KNTV aired NBC's daytime drama lineup much later in the afternoon than most affiliates. KRON had done this for years as an NBC affiliate. Soon enough by August 2004, KNTV fell in line with the network's recommended time slot and now airs Days of our Lives (NBC's remaining afternoon daytime drama) at the recommended 1pm timeslot.

New office and transmitter location (2004–2007)
During 2004, NBC converted vacant North San Jose office space into a state-of-the-art, all-digital facility for KNTV and KSTS. On December 13 of that year, KNTV moved from its cramped, original studios on Park Avenue in downtown San Jose to the new location. As part of a corporate-wide environmental initiative (known today as "Green is Universal"), the facility is entirely powered by wind energy.

In the early years as an NBC station, KNTV still broadcast from its longtime transmitter location on Loma Prieta Peak (located between San Jose and Santa Cruz), but did not increase its power to improve its coverage in San Francisco and Oakland. This caused two problems. First, the signal could not be seen over the air in much of the Bay Area north of San Mateo County, including much of San Francisco itself. Second, because of the affiliation and market switches, it was dropped from or had NBC programming blocked in many cable systems in the Monterey Bay Area (Salinas/Monterey DMA) under SyndEx guidelines; even so, the signal was still overlapping with KSBW.

That all changed on September 12, 2005, when KNTV was able to finally move its transmitter to San Bruno Mountain, giving it a signal comparable to the other major Bay Area stations. The move came after years of objection from Young Broadcasting, owner of KRON, which in its filings alleged that KNTV would cease to serve thousands of San Jose residents by moving closer to San Francisco.

Some San Francisco residents, especially in the Sunset and Richmond districts of San Francisco, still found it difficult to receive an adequate off-air signal because they are shielded by San Bruno Mountain. Most of the other Bay Area stations operate from the Sutro Tower, which has a better overall view of San Francisco proper, although at the expense of those in northern San Mateo County, where San Bruno Mountain acts as a shield. However, most of the Bay Area is covered with a strong signal from all of the stations.

The year closed, however, with a devastating fire at the retired transmitting facility on Loma Prieta Peak. The fire was quickly extinguished on the afternoon of December 31. However, the fire re-ignited after firefighters had left the scene, and destroyed the formerly-primary analog and digital transmitters, which had only been retired a few months earlier and were in backup status, as well as a variety of other communications gear.

New leadership and decline (2007–present)
In January 2007 CNBC moved its Silicon Valley bureau, formerly located at the Wall Street Journal in Palo Alto, into the NBC11/T48 San Jose studios. Jim Goldman (a former reporter at the pre-NBC KNTV and then-NBC KRON) is the bureau chief, and the main CNBC reporter covering the financial aspects of Silicon Valley. Its set (seen daily nationally on CNBC) occupies a portion of the KNTV newsroom. In May 2007, Rich Cerussi, Executive Vice President of the NBC Station Group's national sales organization in New York was named KNTV President and General Manager, succeeding Linda Sullivan, who was named President and General Manager of KNBC in Los Angeles. Cerussi had previously served as KNTV's general sales manager under both Granite and NBC ownership.

Falling in line with many of the NBC Universal job layoffs of the past two years, on June 29, 2009, KNTV trimmed the jobs of San Francisco/Oakland Reporters Noelle Walker, Ethan Harp, Christien Kafton, and San Jose reporter Daniel Garza. Other behind-the-scenes jobs were cut involving production, engineering, clerical staff and Control Room Operations.

For the first half of 2009, the recession forced NBC to direct KNTV to continue its cost cutting. KNTV extended its job cuts with additional rounds of lay-offs. These lay-offs went deep into the organization, forcing KNTV to shed some of its most valuable talent, including Chief Weatherman John Farley, who left the station in late-March 2009. Cost cutting included closing the Sacramento bureau, and the layoff of NBC Sacramento Bureau Chief Mike Luery. NBC closed its San Francisco sales office, closing the KNTV bureau. The Oakland mini-bureau, located near Oakland Coliseum, was also closed. The last day of video footage from the stations helicopter in which the station purchased a helicopter in 2006 was on April 30, 2009. After former chief meteorologist John Farley had left KNTV, weekend weather segments originated from the NBC News West Coast Headquarters in Burbank, leaving with only two meteorologists at the time of Farley's departure. The station had to rely on KNBC meteorologist Pablo Pereira on weekends for a time being until on May 22, 2009, when TVNewser reported that Jeff Ranieri was leaving NBC News in New York to join KNTV. Ranieri currently serves as chief meteorologist.

With the Giants being broadcast on KNTV for the 2010 season, former NBC station KRON-TV began to broadcast NBC programming as a secondary affiliation, which is the first time in eight years that KRON has done this. This comes after a shared services agreement was discussed between KRON, NBC Universal, and KRON's owner, Young Broadcasting. Ultimately, the SSA never materialized, and KRON's secondary NBC affiliation ended in 2012 when KICU reassumed those duties. However, as a result, the schedule lineups are altered to accommodate any San Francisco Giants game.

On April 13, 2010, KNTV became the subject of Stephen Colbert's program, The Colbert Report, where Colbert played a clip read by weekend anchor Diane Dwyer on the issue of "unpaid internships". Colbert would eventually use that given clip to set the stage for laughs based on unpaid interns.

On October 12, 2010, KNTV hosted its first debate since becoming owned by NBC Universal. Its 5, 6, and 11 pm newscast was broadcast live at San Rafael's Dominican University of California, though the latter newscast were used as a wrap-up of the debate. The debate between California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown was moderated by NBC News special correspondent Tom Brokaw. This program was simulcast on both NBC O&O KNBC and KNSD, as well as on Hearst Television owned KCRA and KSBW, and several other NBC stations within California.

Digital television
KNTV also has a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 11.1, broadcasting at 1.83 Mbit/s.

California Nonstop
NBC Plus, formerly NBC Weather Plus, is carried as subchannel 11.2; the national network is defunct as of December 2008; however, a computer-updated loop of satellite/radar images, current weather conditions and temperatures, and daily forecasts for major regions of the country was shown after the shutdown, along with the continued use of the "L" Bar, which gave weather conditions in the Bay Area and a five-day forecast. KNTV, along with both KNBC and KNSD, was expected to launch NBC California Nonstop somewhere between December 2010 and January 2011 on their second digital subchannels, which will replace NBC Plus. It contains live news, public affairs programming, and some of KNTV's locally produced programs such as In Wine Country. After several months of delays, California Nonstop began transmission on May 3, 2011, with additional newscasts such as an hour-long 7 p.m. newscast, which will be anchored in the Bay Area by Brent Cannon.

Analog-to-digital conversion
KNTV shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009 as part of the DTV transition, it remained on channel 12 PSIP is used to display KNTV's virtual channel as 11 on digital television receivers. KNTV is now the largest NBC affiliate on the VHF band — and the only NBC O&O to broadcast on VHF.

Locally-produced programs
Since being owned by NBC Universal, KNTV has produced its own programs both locally and nationally. Two of KNTV's national and regional distributed programs to NBC stations are Tech Now! and In Wine Country, both of which also airs on California Nonstop. KNTV is one of three NBC O&O stations to distribute programs nationally and/or regionally as of 2010, along with KNBC and WNBC.
 * Tech Now is a show that covers the latest in technology and gadgets that generally airs each week. The show is hosted by Scott Budman and produced by Scott McGrew.  It started on September 19, 1998 under Granite Broadcasting ownership before KNTV was purchased by NBC Universal, and the show at one time was popular in Ghana.
 * In Wine Country
 * San Jose Holiday Parade

Sports
For most of the late 1990s, 2000s, and even today, KNTV is well known for its local sports coverage. KNTV occasionally broadcasts local sports when they occasionally preempt network programming, most recently the San Francisco Giants, which they have signed a contract with the Giants when KTVU's contract has ended due to a preemption dispute. KNTV also broadcasts San Jose Sharks hockey when they are broadcast on NBC as part of the NHL on NBC package, as well as local sports coverage also carried by NBC Sports. Also, KNTV would air a special edition of a newscasts or "Sports Sunday" primarily for local post-game highlights, such as the US Open at Pebble Beach in 2010, and most recently, the post-game highlights of the NFL's San Francisco 49ers and/or Oakland Raiders if they are part of NBC Sunday Night Football.

Sports Sunday
KNTV currently produces a local Sunday night sports program, called Xfinity Sports Sunday Primetime and Sports Sunday: Late Edition, which is hosted by Sports Director Raj Mathai, but if the show is taken on the road, another sports anchor would be stationed in the studio to take it for the remainder of the show. Regular segments include sports highlights and interviews with players from all Bay Area sports teams, including the Giants, A's, Sharks, 49ers and Raiders. Guest co-hosts regularly join Mathai in the studio. During the time that NBC Sunday Night Football is broadcast, Jerry Rice and Nnamdi Asomugha also co-host the program during the season. Before a commercial break, if a guest cameraman is in the KNTV studio, Mathai also mentions them, and notable guest cameramen that were mentioned includes players from a Bay Area sports team and St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa.

New Partnerships
On November 1, 2007, KNTV announced that it would become the new flagship station for the San Francisco Giants' for the next three years, through 2010. The Giants had aired their games on KTVU since moving to the Bay Area in 1958. The debut on KNTV was on April 1, 2008, the day after the rebranding from FSN Bay Area to CSN Bay Area.

KNTV broadcasts 20 to 40 San Francisco Giants baseball games a year, which are produced by CSN Bay Area. On game nights during KNTV's 6pm newscast, a preview of the game is shown usually during sports segments, with Raj Mathai usually at the ballpark, and Jeff Ranieri giving the forecast specifically for the game. The pregame segments would continue up to the broadcast following the newscasts. During the broadcast, the "peacock" logo is inserted into the top-right hand of the scoreboard in lieu of the "CSN" logo. The music package heard on KNTV differs from the packages heard on CSN Bay Area or CSN California. Jon Miller and Mike Krukow normally serve as host of the telecasts, but occasionally, Dave Flemming, Duane Kuiper, and Greg Papa would also fill-in. During games with the Oakland A's, broadcaster Ray Fosse would also join in, particularly when Giants baseball is only aired on KNTV and not on either CSN Bay Area or CSN California. In addition to the broadcast, KNTV also airs "Giants Clubhouse" on weekends. In this case, all of the Giant's broadcast are currently in HD. During a Giants' telecast on KNTV, promos will often air, such as upcoming newscasts and NBC Sports coverage that is scheduled to air. Giants' baseball are preempted when the Summer Olympics are held due to NBC currently holding the rights to the Olympics (an example of this is the 2008 Beijing Olympics).

On July 16, 2010, for a Friday night home game against the New York Mets, sports director Raj Mathai briefly broadcast part of the first inning because Miller had to make his way to the TV booth. This is because the Giants were honoring Miller as one of the legendary broadcasters before he received the 2010 Ford Frick Award about a week later, since the coverage was on KNTV. Following the Giants winning the 2010 World Series on November 1, 2010, KNTV immediately announced that the station would have wall-to-wall coverage of the post game parade that took place in San Francisco, with live coverage beginning at 11 a.m. on November 3 in order to not interfere with election coverage. The Giants' contract with KNTV ran out at the end of the 2010 season, however, the broadcast still continues on KNTV when the 2011 schedule was released on March 6, 2011.

Many changes did take place in the sports department. The station first announced in December 2010 that Raj Mathai will move up to anchor the weeknight newscast, though Mathai did remain being the host of Sports Sunday for a while after the change while still hosting Giants' games. This comes when Comcast has already purchased a majority stake of NBC, pending approval from both the FCC and the Department of Justice, which eventually became effective later under several conditions. On January 3, 2011, KNTV introduced a new sports segment called "Xfinity Sports Desk" that airs weeknights during the 6 and 11 p.m. newscast. It uses a similar format that mirrors that of NBC Sports, although there is no content overlap between NBC Sports and the KNTV sports segment due to the fact that KNTV covers local sports.

The relationship with CSN Bay Area grew closer when on April 20, 2011, KNTV announced that CSN Bay Area will produce sports segments beginning in June, with CSN also planning a new set specifically for KNTV's segments. The move also would include elements from CSN Bay Area during KNTV sports segments. Similar to the news content used by WNBC when WNBC was the test platform for additional news coverage, KNTV would be the test base for NBC O&O stations which include WNBC, along with WMAQ in Chicago, WCAU in Philadelphia, and WRC in Washington D.C.; those also have its cable sports networks. The new segment would make the first such station to replace a traditional sports segment, in which CSN has 140 reporters on staff. The new segment commenced on June 13, 2011.

Other syndicated shows
Syndicated programming currently includes Access Hollywood Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Extra.

Development
As an NBC O&O station, KNTV's owner, NBC Universal, announced that on September 13, 2010, they obtained the rights to broadcast The Real Housewives and The Nate Berkus Show; the latter is produced by Sony and Harpo Studios after NBC Universal and Sony Pictures Television reached an agreement. KNTV also announced the addition of Access Hollywood Live (along with both KNBC and KNSD), which debuted in HD on September 13, 2010, but Access Hollywood started broadcasting in HD on September 7, 2010. This comes following the announcement of Bonnie Hunt's cancellation and The Martha Stewart Show's move to The Hallmark Channel for the 2010-11 season. As a result, on September 6, 2010, Wendy Williams time slot moved to KOFY-TV following KNTV's acquisition announcement of the three shows.

Newscasts


On the day of the switch to HD, KNTV changed its on-air branding from "NBC11" to "NBC Bay Area", with only the "NBC" and its peacock logo on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen until mid-2009. Graphics, style and music were changed on air, similar to other NBC owned-and-operated stations (i.e., KNBC in Los Angeles & WNBC in New York). The "NBC 11" digital on-screen graphic is retained on its syndicated and local programs; additionally the station's website continued to be branded as "NBC 11" until October 16, when it was also renamed to "NBC Bay Area", which is part of a larger relaunch of the NBC O&O stations' websites and unrelated to the on-air rebrand.

New changes
On December 21, 2010, the anchors moved to a temporary set while the studio underwent renovations for the first time since moving to the current studio. Traffic and sports reports were done in the newsroom for the time being, while meteorologists are stationed at the weather center to give the forecast. A new meteorologist, Christina Loren, was introduced during Today in the Bay the following day, while at the same time, meteorologist Rob Mayeda announced on-air that he will return to the weekend shift. The changes as a result of the Comcast acquisition has eventually resulted in additions of additional personnel such as reporter Marla Tellez from KOB meteorologist Nick O'Kelly, and freelance sports anchors Justin Allen and Christine Nubla, in which all except Tellez previously had stints at KNTV.

On August 10, 2011, Janelle Wang replaced Jessica Aguirre as the 5 p.m. anchor. Wang and Mathai are the only Asian American weekday anchor team outside of Hawaii.

Anchors

 * Jessica Aguirre - weeknights at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.; also host of "NBC Class Action"
 * Brent Cannon - TBA
 * Laura Garcia-Cannon - weekday mornings on "Today in the Bay" (4:30-7:00 a.m.)
 * Diane Dwyer - weekends at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.
 * Jon Kelley - weekday mornings on "Today in the Bay" (4:30-7:00) and weekdays at 11:00 a.m.
 * Raj Mathai - weeknights at 5:00, 6:00, and 11:00 p.m.
 * Kris Sanchez - weekend mornings (7:00-8:00 a.m.)
 * Marla Tellez - weekdays at 11:00 a.m.
 * Janelle Wang - weeknights at 5:00 p.m.

Weather team

 * Jeff Ranieri (AMS Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.; also contributor to MSNBC and the "Today" show
 * Rob Mayeda (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend mornings on "Today in the Bay" (7:00-8:00 a.m.) and weekends at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.; also weekday fill-in and host of "Of Thin Ice"
 * Christina Loren - Meteorologist; weekday mornings on "Today in the Bay" (4:30-7:00) and weekdays at 11:00 a.m.
 * Anthony Slaughter - Meteorologist; fill-in

Sports team
(NOTE: + indicates personalities based at Comcast SportsNet Bay Area)
 * + Brodie Brazil - sports anchor, also sports reporter
 * + Jim Kozimor - sports anchor
 * + Scott Reiss - sports anchor, also sports reporter
 * Laurence Scott - host of "Sports Sunday" and reporter

Reporters

 * Scott Budman - business and technology reporter; and host of "Tech Now"
 * Jean Elle - general assignment reporter
 * Marianne Favro - health and medical reporter
 * Jodi Hernandez - general assignment reporter
 * Cheryl Hurd - Oakland bureau reporter
 * Mike Inouye - "Today in the Bay" traffic reporter (4:30-7:00 a.m.)
 * George Kiriyama - general assignment reporter
 * Tony Kovaleski - chief investigative reporter
 * Scott McGrew - morning business and technology reporter, "Tech Now" producer/reporter, "Press Here" host/moderator and weekday fill in anchor
 * Vicky Nguyen - investigative/"In Depth"/general assignment reporter; fill in anchor; "NBC At Work" host
 * Bob Redell - "Today in the Bay" reporter (4:30-7:00 a.m.)
 * Christie Smith - "Today in the Bay" reporter (4:30-7:00 a.m.)
 * Stephen Stock - investigative reporter
 * Jenna Susko - investigative reporter
 * Garvin Thomas - "Bay Area Proud" reporter; also fill-in anchor
 * Damian Trujillo - general assignment reporter; host and producer of “Comunidad Del Valle”

Notable former on-air staff

 * Chauncey Bailey (1970–1971) on-air reporter, later Post editor murdered in Oakland 2007
 * Marc Brown (1985–1987) anchor at KABC in LA
 * Jim Byrne (2004 and 2006) sub-meteorologist for Shannon O'Donnell while on maternity leave in 2004 and 2006. Still chief meteorlogist at KCOY-TV
 * Allen Denton (2000–2007) anchor, 6:00 & 11:00 p.m., now at KUSI
 * Janice Edwards, (2002-April 2009) Community Affairs and Bay Area Vista host
 * John Farley, (March 1996-March 2009)
 * Don Hayward anchor (1962–1982). Deceased
 * TJ Holmes (2003–2006) 5pm anchor; later at CNN; now with BET Networks
 * Lisa Kim - evening anchor (1999–2010)
 * David Lee sports anchor (1993–1998)
 * Jess Marlow
 * Shannon O'Donnell (2001–2007) weekend/morning weather meteorologist
 * Craig Herrera (2005–2010) weekday morning meteorologist
 * Victoria Recano anchor/reporter (January–June 2002)
 * Ric Romero (1977–1978)
 * Ted Rowlands reporter (1997-1999)
 * Catt Sadler entertainment reporter (1998–2002)