NEED 315 TO DEMAND TRUTH FROM KDKA... HUFFINGTON POST COOBORATION, CLICK HERE. 15202 FLEETWOOD MAC JITNEY FOR LIFE...412-313-3080 JAMES RACK (of Downtown Pittsburgh) FOR Governor of PENNSYLVANIA... A HEART TRANSPLANT for HARRISBURG! 2/01/11...RITA FRAUDULENTLY ADMITTED TO AGH. 16 AUGUST 2011...JUDGE EMERY HELPS HIGHMARK MURDER RITA VIA GUARDIANSHIP FRAUD. (THE APPOINTED GUARDIAN NEVER EXISTED) 17 AUGUST 2011...WHY IS KRISTIN HIDING THE DATE? 17 AUGUST 2011...KRISTIN EMERY POSTS RESUME. 9/10/11...AGH GIVES RITA MORPHINE OVERDOSE. MAY 2012...KRISTIN EMERY GETS KDKA JOB. JUNE 2012...KDKA DOES FEATURE OF JUDGE EMERY. AMA WILL MURDER YOU FOR ORGAN $$$, OR TO SAVE $$$ PER "BAD INSURANCE" (OR BOTH)... AND, in Rita's case, to SHUT UP a healthy "patient" who KNOWS she was terrorized 24/7 for 222 days from 211 to 911, by terrorist Syed Rasheedullah Hussaini, FROM 2/01/11 UNTIL 9/10/11 H E L L O ??? Start machine gun at 3:11 of FOO. This is # people killed by AMA per day. So HOW LONG will this SQUABBLE between HIGHMARK/AHN (WPAHS) AND UPMC go on??? UNTIL EXACTLY 9/11/2018... WHEN THE AMA CAN LEGALLY DESTROY RITA'S WPAHS MEDICAL RECORDS... DUH???!!! KDKA... YOU TELL YOUR BILDERBERG BANKER BUDDIES I WANT 222 MILLION USD AFTER TAXES (for terrorizing RITA to death), OR YOU'RE OUTTA BUSINESS BEFORE 2020. And you can take THAT to the BANK. KDKA WORKS FOR ELITE MURDERING SCUM... NOT FOR YOU! MEDIA HELPS ELITE AVOID THE LAW COMPLETELY! KATHERINE EMERY IS MURDERING JUDGE... KRISTIN EMERY IS MURDERING WEATHER MAN... BOTH VERY UGLY IN THEIR OWN WAY. BLESSED BE THE MEEK??? BLESSED BE THE PEACEMAKERS??? THE ELITE FUCK YOU UP YOUR ASS, THEN HAVE THEIR CLERGY MAKE YOU TAKE IT LIKE A MAN???!!! Can you spell P A T H E T I C ? OF COURSE YOU CAN! FOWARDS BACKWARDS UPWARDS DOWNWARDS SIDEWAYS AND CATTY-CORNERED... WITH NO GREASE AND YOU LOVE IT, DON'T YOU? HEIL AMA, YOU GOVERNMENT-SCHOOL-CHURCH CORPORATE-MEDIA-BANKER ZOMBIES... AGAIN NO OFFENSE, AND OH YEA... USA...USA...USA...!!!!!!!!!!
FEEL BETTER? GOOD, NOW BEND OVER... HILLARY'S COMING...ALL OVER YOU. The Bilderberg Club (through its US Government) has fed Americans nothing but BULLSHIT over and over since 1913, and you've sucked it all down, LIKE THE LITTLE WORMS YOU ALL ARE...(One last time, NO OFFENSE). I wonder NOW, IF I TELL YOU THE TRUTH over and over, whether YOU WILL WAKE THE FUCK UP???!!! If you get a good look at me in the old Caddy, you'll notice that I AM NOT HOLDING MY BREATH. These shoe-people know the truth... WHY DON'T YOU? THE ROCKEFELLER/ROTHSCHILD/BUSH/CLINTON/CHENEY BILDERBERG CLUB USES AL-QAEDA AND MAFIA AND THEIR PUPPET US GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA AS TOOLS TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM THEIR OWN TERRORISM, TO KEEP YOU ASSHOLES DISTRACTED, WHILE THE CLUB LITTERALLY SUCKS THE LAST DROP OF BLOOD OUT OF US. This is ONE act of Domestic Terrorism that JANET NAPOLITANO will not GET AWAY WITH. IT'S TIME TO RACK THE BALLS AND BUST THE BULLSHIT WIDE OPEN! AND FUCK YOU KDKA who ENABLES AMA SACRIFICE 0F THE 47% FOR THE SOCIETAL SCUM THAT OWNS US. NOBODY is signing Tom Corbett's Death Warrant per BILDERBERG-KILL-FOR-THRILL terrorist murder of Rita Joanne Conley from 211 until 911 (as in BOHEMIAN GROVE 10TH ANNIVERSARY), the 222-day 24/7 terrorism of a healthy woman ENTIRELY presided over by ATTORNEYS GENERAL TOM W CORBETT AND LINDA L KELLY, whom Tom dragged with him to Harrisburg to cover his smelly ASS! Corbett SPEAKS at RNC as his REWARD. Is this woman Ralph Iannotti??? And why does Sue Corbett look like Jerry Sandusky WITH A WIG ON? Is THAT why TOM COVERED FOR JERRY...JUST LIKE A CARTOON BTW...Did Corbett give a 3 million dollar Grant to JERRY SANDUSKY's Second Mile Charity (AND forget about prosecuting Jerry for 3 years), just because Jerry looks like his wife SUE (with short hair) and because they are BOTH so INTERESTED IN CHILDREN??? or simply because they both have decent TITS? BTW...Where does Kristine Sorensen fit in per this KDKA STORY (featuring JUDGE EMERY), AFTER KRISTIN EMERY GETS KDKA JOB IN EXCHANGE FOR JUDGE KATHEREINE B EMERY'S ENSURING RITA'S MURDER, TO COVER UP FOR HIGHMARK/HUSSAINI TERRORISM FROM 211-911? Notice how trach-aspiration videos ALWAYS use a DUMMY, as it is a horrendously hideous procedure (performed 6 times daily), ESPECIALLY WHEN "PATIENT" NEVER NEEDED A TRACH OR A VENT IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE, AND TORTURE GOES ON FOR UP TO DECADES, before Guardian caves in, has plug pulled, followed by quick Morphine Overdose TO COVER THE WHOLE FUCKING THING UP!!! Sorry...U S A!!! U S A!!! U S A!!! Feel better? No? Then talk to your Priest or Minister... He'll show you exactly how to SHOVE YOUR HEAD UP YOUR ASS. Pick a medical scam...any scam below: *********************************** *********************************** *********************************** *********************************** ***********************************
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KDKA-TV
KDKA.png
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
United States
Branding
KDKA (general)
KDKA-TV News (newscasts)
Slogan
Expect more (general/news)
Your Steeler station (during NFL season)
Channels
Digital: 25 (UHF)
Virtual: 2 (PSIP)
Subchannels
2.1 CBS
Affiliations
CBS (O&O)
Owner
CBS Corporation
(CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)
First air date
January 11, 1949; 65 years ago
Call letters' meaning
derived from sister station KDKA radio
Sister station(s)
KDKA, KDKA-FM, WBZZ, WDSY-FM, WPCW
Former callsigns
WDTV (1949–1955)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
3 (VHF, 1949–1952)
2 (VHF, 1952–2009)
Former affiliations
DuMont (1949–1955)
NBC (secondary, 1949–1957)
ABC (secondary, 1949–1958)
Transmitter power
1000 kW
Height
311 m (1,020 ft)
Facility ID
25454
Transmitter coordinates
40°29′38″N 80°1′9″W
Licensing authority
FCC
Public license information:
Profile
CDBS
Website
pittsburgh.cbslocal.com
KDKA-TV, channel 2, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CW station WPCW (channel 19). The two stations share studios located at the Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh, KDKA-TV's transmitter located in the Perry North neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
KDKA-TV is available on cable television in the Johnstown, Altoona, and Wheeling areas, as well as several other out-of-market cable systems in northwestern Pennsylvania, northwestern Maryland, northeastern Ohio, and North-Central West Virginia. The furthest south KDKA is carried on cable is in Beverly, West Virginia.[1]
Contents
[hide] 1 Early history 1.1 DuMont origins
1.2 Dealing with competition
1.3 Westinghouse enters
2 Digital television 2.1 Digital channels
2.2 Analog-to-digital conversion
3 Programming 3.1 Syndicated talk shows
3.2 Local shows
3.3 Seasonal
3.4 Former
3.5 Pittsburgh Steelers
4 News operation 4.1 Ratings
4.2 News/Station Presentation
4.3 Newscast Titles
4.4 Station Slogans
4.5 News Music Packages
4.6 On-air staff 4.6.1 Current on-air staff[20]
4.6.2 Notable former on-air staff
5 References
6 External links
Early history[edit]
DuMont origins[edit]
WDTV broadcast of We, the People on April 18, 1952. The guest is New York Yankees player Bill Bevens.
The station went on the air on January 11, 1949, as WDTV ("W DuMont TeleVision") on channel 3, it was owned and operated by the DuMont Television Network.[2] It was the 51st television station in the U.S. and the third and last DuMont-owned station to sign on the air, behind WABD (now WNYW) in New York City and WTTG in Washington, D.C. To mark the occasion, a live television special aired that day from 8:30 to 11 p.m. ET on WDTV, which began with a one-hour local program broadcast from Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh. The remainder of the show featured live segments from DuMont, CBS, NBC, and ABC with Arthur Godfrey, Milton Berle, DuMont host Ted Steele, and many other celebrities.[3]
The station also represented a milestone in the television industry, providing the first "network" that included Pittsburgh and 13 other cities from Boston to St. Louis.[4] WDTV was one of the last stations to receive a construction permit before the Federal Communications Commission-imposed four-year freeze on new television station licenses.
When the release of the FCC's Sixth Report and Order ended the license freeze in 1952, DuMont was forced to give up its channel 3 allocation to alleviate interference with nearby stations broadcasting on the frequency. WDTV moved its facilities to channel 2 on November 23, 1952.[5] Shortly after moving, it was the first station in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week, advertising that its 1:00-7:00 a.m. "Swing Shift Theatre" served the "200,000 workers [in their viewing area] who finish shift work at midnight."[6] DuMont's network of stations on coaxial cable stretched from Boston to St. Louis. These stations were linked together via AT&T's coaxial cable feed with the sign-on of WDTV allowing the network to broadcast live programming to all the stations at the same time. Stations not yet connected to the coaxial cable received kinescope recordings via physical delivery.[citation needed]
The DuMont Television Network in 1949.
Dealing with competition[edit]
Until the end of the freeze, WDTV's only competition came in the form of distant signals from stations in Johnstown, Altoona, Wheeling, West Virginia and Youngstown, Ohio. However, Pittsburgh saw two UHF stations launch during 1953 – ABC affiliate WENS-TV (channel 16, later to become WINP-TV), and WKJF-TV (channel 53, later to become WPGH-TV), an independent station. At the time, UHF stations could not be viewed without the aid of an expensive, set-top converter, and the picture quality was marginal at best with one. UHF stations in the area faced an additional problem because Pittsburgh is located in a somewhat rugged dissected plateau, and the reception of UHF stations is usually poor in such terrain. These factors played a role in the short-lived existences of both WKJF and WENS.[citation needed]
Although Pittsburgh was the sixth largest market in the country (behind New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington-Baltimore), the other VHF stations in town were slow to develop. This was because the major cities in the Upper Ohio Valley are so close together that they must share the VHF band. After the FCC lifted the license freeze in 1952, it refused to grant any new commercial VHF construction permits to Pittsburgh in order to give the smaller cities in the area a chance to get on the air. WDTV had a de facto monopoly on Pittsburgh television. Like its sister stations WABD and WTTG, it was far stronger than the DuMont network as a whole. According to network general manager Ted Bergmann, WDTV brought in $4 million a year, which was more than enough to keep the network afloat. Owning the only readily viewable station in such a large market gave DuMont considerable leverage in getting its programs cleared in large markets where it did not have an affiliate. As CBS, NBC and ABC had secondary affiliations with WDTV, this was a strong incentive to stations in large markets to clear DuMont's programs or risk losing valuable advertising in the sixth-largest market. Also, NBC affiliates from Johnstown (WJAC-TV) and Wheeling (WTRF-TV, itself now affiliated with CBS) were able to be received in Pittsburgh and a CBS affiliate from Steubenville, Ohio (WSTV-TV, now NBC affiliate WTOV-TV) was also able to be received there as well. CBS, in fact, actually attempted to purchase WSTV-TV's license before it went on the air and move its license to Pittsburgh due to the close proximity between Pittsburgh and Steubenville (At the time less than an hour apart by car; the completion of the Penn-Lincoln Parkway in 1964 reduced that time to about a half hour driving time today.), but the FCC turned CBS down. The Wheeling/Steubenville TV market, despite its very close proximity to Pittsburgh and overlapping signals, remains a separate market by FCC standards today.
WDTV aired all DuMont network shows live and "cherry-picked" the best shows from the other networks, airing them on kinescope on an every-other-week basis. WDTV's sign-on was also significant because it was now possible to feed live programs from the East to the Midwest and vice versa. In fact, its second broadcast was the activation of the coaxial cable linking New York City and Chicago. It would be another two years before the West Coast received live programming, but this was the beginning of the modern era of network television.[citation needed]
Westinghouse enters[edit]
KDKA-TV's studio building at One Gateway Center in Pittsburgh. The station has been housed in this facility since 1956.[7]
By 1954, DuMont was in serious financial trouble. Paramount Pictures, which owned a stake in DuMont, vetoed a merger with ABC, who had merged with Paramount's former theater division United Paramount Theaters a year before. A few years earlier, the FCC had ruled that Paramount controlled DuMont and there were still lingering questions about whether UPT had actually broken off from Paramount. Paramount did not want to risk the FCC's wrath.
Meanwhile, Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation had been competing with local politicians to acquire the non-commercial channel 13 license from the FCC, as no other Pittsburgh-allocated VHF station would be signing on for the foreseeable future. After launching WBZ-TV in Boston in 1948 and purchasing two other television stations, Westinghouse was growing impatient with not having a station in its own home market. Westinghouse later offered a compromise plan to the FCC, in which the Commission would grant Westinghouse the channel 13 license; Westinghouse would then "share" the facility with the educational licensee. Finding the terms unacceptable, Pittsburgh attorney Leland Hazard called Westinghouse CEO Gwilym Price to ask him if he should give up on his fight for public television. Price said that Hazard should keep fighting for it, giving Westinghouse backing for the station that would eventually become WQED.[8]
Westinghouse then turned its attention to WDTV, offering DuMont a then-record $9.75 million for the station in late 1954. Desperate for cash, DuMont promptly accepted Westinghouse's offer.[9] While the sale gave DuMont a short-term cash infusion, it eliminated DuMont's leverage in getting clearances in other major markets. Within two years, the DuMont network was no more. After the sale closed in January 1955, Westinghouse changed WDTV's call letters to KDKA-TV, after Westinghouse's pioneering radio station KDKA (1020 AM).[10] As such, it became one of the few stations east of the Mississippi River with a "K" call sign. The WDTV calls now reside on a CBS affiliate located 130 miles south of Pittsburgh in Weston, West Virginia, which is unrelated to the current KDKA-TV. That station, which signed on after KDKA-TV adopted its current callsign, adopted those calls "in honor" of KDKA-TV.
As KDKA radio had long been an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network (Westinghouse was a co-founder of RCA, NBC's then-parent company), it was expected that KDKA-TV would eventually become a primary affiliate of the NBC television network. But the network was seeking to purchase Westinghouse's Philadelphia stations, KYW radio and WPTZ (now KYW-TV). When Westinghouse balked, NBC threatened to pull its programming from WPTZ and Boston's WBZ-TV unless Westinghouse agreed to trade its Philadelphia properties for NBC's WTAM-AM-FM and WNBK in Cleveland. The decision would lead to an acrimonious relationship between Westinghouse and NBC in later years.[11][12] Two years after the ownership change, channel 2 became a primary affiliate of the higher-rated CBS network instead.[13] KDKA-TV retained secondary affiliations with NBC until WIIC-TV (channel 11, now WPXI) signed on in 1957, and ABC until WTAE-TV (channel 4) signed on in 1958. KDKA-TV became the flagship station of Westinghouse's broadcasting arm, Group W. On November 22, 1963, newscaster Bill Burns provided almost three hours of live coverage after the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.[14]
Over the years, channel 2 pre-empted moderate amounts of CBS programming. At one point, from the early 1960s to July 1990, the station did not clear As The World Turns. At the same time, WTAJ-TV in Altoona had run the program and was viewable in the eastern part of the Pittsburgh market. Also, CBS affiliate WTRF-TV in Wheeling, West Virginia was viewable in Pittsburgh and to the west. Until 1978, the show ran on WPGH and for a few years after that, it ran on WPTT-TV (channel 22). KDKA-TV also preempted the daytime game shows and reruns from CBS at various points during the 1970s. KDKA also produced plenty of local programs such as Evening Magazine, Pittsburgh Talks, and local newscasts. The station also occasionally preempted CBS primetime programs for a syndicated movie, local news special, or sports during the years the station had broadcast rights to Pittsburgh Pirates baseball and Pittsburgh Penguins hockey. Weekend pre-emptions included a small portion of Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons, and Sunday morning religious programs.
In 1993, KDKA stopped running CBS This Morning and instead ran Disney's syndicated cartoon block. Less than a year later, Westinghouse made a long-term deal with CBS to convert the entire five-station Group W television unit to a group-wide CBS affiliation. Part of this agreement included a deal to stop preempting any CBS shows, except for extended breaking news coverage or local news events beginning in 1995. KDKA-TV continued preempting moderate amounts of programming into 1995. In the fall of 1995, channel 2 began running the entire CBS lineup in pattern, as it, and sister station KPIX-TV in San Francisco, were already affiliated with the network.
In early 1996, Westinghouse acquired CBS, making KDKA-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station, after four decades as being simply a CBS affiliate. In 1997, Westinghouse became CBS Corporation, which would then merge with Viacom (which, ironically, has been Paramount's parent since 1994) in 2000, making KDKA a sister station with Pittsburgh UPN affiliate WNPA-TV (channel 19, now CW station WPCW). Five years later, Viacom became CBS Corporation and spun off a new Viacom.
In August 2007, KDKA-TV unveiled a new image campaign, entitled Your Home, with music and lyrics performed by singer-songwriter Bill Deasy. The promo features scenes of Pittsburgh and its surrounding areas, as well as three of the station's personalites. In September 2007, the station unveiled another promo featuring the Joe Grushecky song "Coming Home". Later, a third spot, "Long Way Home", was introduced, featuring the voice of Kelsey Friday.[15]
Digital television[edit]
Digital channels[edit]
Channel
Video
Aspect
PSIP Short Name
Programming[16]
2.1 1080i 16:9 KDKA 2. Main KDKA-TV programming / CBS
Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]
KDKA-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate, during that night's broadcast of the Late Show with David Letterman. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 25.[17] Before they turned off their analog signal and go to nightlight, they show a clip of what they were om the present to the time WDTV aired. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 2.
In July 2009, the station applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate two repeater signals: channel 31 in Morgantown, West Virginia and channel 40 in Johnstown.[18]
Programming[edit]
Syndicated talk shows[edit]
As a Westinghouse-owned station, KDKA carried the numerous syndicated talk shows produced by its parent company, including The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and Hour Magazine.
Later, KDKA carried The Oprah Winfrey Show during its first 9 nationally syndicated seasons (1986-1995), airing the show weekdays at 5 PM. In 1989, KDKA acquired the rights to The Sally Jessy Raphael Show, airing it weekdays at 9 AM and Phil Donahue weekdays at 4 PM, respectively. However, due to the poor ratings of Donahue in the Pittsburgh market, KDKA showed strong interest in new talk shows such as The Ricki Lake Show and The Gordon Elliott Show. Due to KDKA being owned by CBS, the station airs the entire network lineup in order.
Sally & Donahue moved to WTAE in 1993, and two years later, KDKA debuted a 5:00 PM newscast, at which point Oprah Winfrey also moved to WTAE, airing at 4:00 PM. In 1997, The Sally Jessy Raphael Show returned to KDKA, and once again was given the 9 AM time slot, where it remained until its cancellation in 2002. Sally was a success in the Pittsburgh area, even beating Montel Williams on WPXI in the 1990s.
Local shows[edit]
The KDKA-TV newscast logo as seen during its opening.Hometown High-Q (2000–present): airs Saturdays at 11 a.m. - "quiz bowl" format show with three teams composed of local high school students
#1 Cochran Sports Showdown (1998–present): airs Sundays at 11:35 p.m. – sports talk show
KD/PG Sunday Edition: airs Sundays at 8:30 a.m. - public affairs program
The Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show: airs Sundays at 6 a.m. - public affairs program
Pittsburgh Today Live: airs weekdays 9:00-10:00 a.m. - Kristine Sorensen and Jon Burnett are the hosts, with Dennis Bowman for weather; local general interest program
The Sunday Business Page: airs Sundays at 6:30 a.m. - public affairs program
Your Pittsburgh: airs weeknights 7:30-8:00 p.m. - hosted by Kimberly Gill and David Highfield; entertainment program
Seasonal[edit]
The Children's Hospital Free-Care Fund (1954–present; airs during the holiday season) - yearly pledge drive
Hometown Holiday Lights - Series aired during KDKA's newscasts; contest between local families with Christmas displays at their residence.
McDonald's Steeler Kickoff (during the NFL season) - Sundays at 11:30 a.m. - Pittsburgh Steelers pre-game show hosted by Bob Pompeani and Edmund Nelson.
Steelers Huddle (September 19, 2009–present; airs during the NFL season) - Saturdays at 11:35 p.m. - Bob Pompeani and a rotating member of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Steelers Trivia Challenge (July 16, 2005–present) - Saturdays at 11:35 p.m. - Bob Pompeani hosts a "quiz bowl" format, modeled after Hometown High-Q, with three teams composed of three Pittsburgh Steelers fans who answer team-related trivia questions. The show runs for nine weeks (mid-July to mid-September).
Verizon Extra Point (airs during the NFL season) - Pittsburgh Steelers post-game show after CBS broadcasts, hosted by Bob Pompeani and Edmund Nelson.
Former[edit]
Evening Magazine (August 1, 1977 – October 12, 1990)
Giant Eagle High School Sports Advantage
The Jerome Bettis Show (September 12, 1998 – February 4, 2006)
The Hines Ward Show (September 2, 2006 – January 31, 2009)
Mario Lemieux Celebrity Golf Invitational
Pittsburgh 2Day (1978–January 19, 1990)
Pittsburgh Pirates baseball (1957–1994)
Pittsburgh Penguins hockey (1989–1997)
Wake Up With Larry Richert (1988–1990)
Pittsburgh Steelers[edit]
As CBS holds the broadcast contract with the NFL to show games involving AFC teams, KDKA-TV has been the official broadcaster of most Pittsburgh Steelers games since 1998, and serves as the team's flagship station. The team's preseason games that are not nationally televised are also shown on KDKA. KDKA began its relationship with the Steelers in 1962, when CBS first started the leaguewide television package. The Steelers are one of three AFC teams that predate the AFC's basis league, the American Football League, and so KDKA, and not WTAE-TV or WIIC-TV (now WPXI), carried Steelers road games (home games were blacked out locally under all circumstances until 1973, when sold-out home games began to be allowed on local television) – the AFL had television contracts with ABC, and later, NBC.
Due to the NFL rules of the time, after the AFL-NFL merger, KDKA did not broadcast any Steelers games from 1970 to 1972. Beginning in 1973, KDKA was allowed to air any Steelers games in which they hosted a team from the National Football Conference, which contained most of the old-line National Football League teams. KDKA also broadcast two Steeler championship wins, Super Bowl X in 1976 and Super Bowl XIV in 1980. Since the Steelers have sold out every home game starting in 1972, no blackouts have been required. In the meantime, from 1970 to 1997, channel 11 aired most Steelers games.
When the NFC package moved from CBS to Fox in 1994, WPGH-TV aired the Steelers games that had before aired on KDKA, leaving the senior station without Steelers games for four years. Today, and in general since 1970, the only exceptions to all the above are when the Steelers play at night. Their Monday Night Football games have always aired locally on WTAE, first when ABC had the rights, and since 2006, on ESPN. WTAE also aired simulcasts of their games aired as part of ESPN Sunday Night Football from 1987 to 2005. The NFL requires games on cable channels to be simulcast over-the-air in the markets of the participating teams (again with the home team's broadcast subject to blackout). WTAE has simulcast ESPN-aired games because ESPN is 20% owned by WTAE's owners, Hearst Corporation – their ABC stations have right of first refusal for these simulcasts. Games on TNT and NFL Network have aired on various stations in the area.[citation needed]
News operation[edit]
[icon] This section requires expansion with: further information on the history of KDKA-TV's news department. (August 2013)
KDKA-TV presently broadcasts 34½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours on weekdays, three hours on Saturdays and 1½ hours on Sundays); KDKA also produces 27 hours of local newscasts each week for CW owned-and-operated sister station WPCW, in the form of an hour-long extension of KDKA's weekday morning newscast at 7 a.m. and a nightly 35-minute newscast at 10 p.m.
In 2001, KDKA-TV began producing a 10 p.m. newscast on WNPA (now WPCW); in 2005, it added a two-hour weekday morning newscast from 7-9 a.m. on that station (which was later reduced to one hour from 7-8 a.m.).
On June 16, 2009, KDKA-TV began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition during its noon broadcast, with the introduction of a new set and weather center. Like rival WTAE, only video from in-studio cameras is broadcast in HD while most of the content, including field reports and video footage, are in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. On September 1, 2010, KDKA-TV debuted the standardized CBS O&O graphics and music package ("The CBS Enforcer Music Collection" by Gari Media Group).
Ratings[edit]
As of February 2013, KDKA-TV is the most watched news station in the hours of noon, 4, 5, 6 and 11 p.m. However, WTAE is the most watched news program in the Pittsburgh area in the hours of 5, 6 a.m. WPXI is most watched at the 10 p.m. time slot on WPGH-TV.[19]
News/Station Presentation[edit]
Newscast Titles[edit]
The Esso Reporter (1949-1960s)
TV-2 Eyewitness News (1960s-1996)
KDKA-TV News (1996–present)
Station Slogans[edit]
Here's 2 Pittsburgh
Renaissance Two (1983)
KD and You (1986-1990)
The Tri-State News Leader
Always Taking the Lead (early 1990s-1996)
The Hometown Advantage (1996-2005)
Local News First (2005-2007)
Your Home (2007-)
Expect More (2013-)
News Music Packages[edit]
From Russia With Love: 007 (John Barry) (19??-19??)
Barbarella: The Pill (Bob Crewe, Charles Fox) (19??-19??)
WBZ 1970s Telesound Theme (Telesound) (19??-19??)
Look For Us (Telesound) (19??-19??)
We're 4 (Klein &) (1979-1984)
The News Image & The News Image Plus (Tuesday Productions) (1984-1992)
Advantage (Gari Media Group) (1992-1997)
Signature Theme Package (Jon Gorr Music) (1997-1998)
KDKA-TV Prime (SoundByte, Inc.) (1998-2010)
The CBS Enforcer Music Collection (Gari Media Group) (2010–present)
On-air staff[edit]
Current on-air staff[20][edit]
AnchorsJennifer Antkowiak - weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 on KDKA and 7:00-8:00 a.m. on WPCW)
Rick Dayton - weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 and 7:00-8:00 a.m. on WPCW)
Kimberly Gill - weekdays at noon and 4:00 p.m.; also co-host of Your Pittsburgh
Susan Koeppen - weeknights at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.; also consumer reporter
Paul Martino - Saturdays at 6:00, Sundays at 6:30 and weekends at 10:00 (WPCW) and 11:00 p.m.; also weekday reporter
Trina Orlando - Saturday mornings (6:00-8:00 a.m.); fill-in anchor
Ken Rice - weeknights at 5:00, 10:00 (WPCW) and 11:00 p.m.
Stacy Smith - weekdays at noon and 4:00 and weeknights at 6:00 p.m.; host of KD/PG Sunday Edition
Kristine Sorensen - weeknights at 5:00 p.m.; host of Pittsburgh Today Live (weekday mornings at 9:00 a.m.)
Brenda Waters - Saturday mornings (6:00-8:00 a.m.); also reporter
Weather teamJeff Verszyla - chief meteorologist; weekdays at 4:00 and weeknights at 5:00, 6:00, 10:00 (WPCW) and 11:00 p.m.
Dennis Bowman (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 on KDKA and 7:00-8:00 a.m. on WPCW) and weekdays at noon; also co-host of Pittsburgh Today Live (weekday mornings at 9:00 a.m.)
Jon Burnett - meteorologist; Saturday mornings (6:00-8:00 a.m.) and Saturdays at 6:00, Sundays at 6:30 and weekends at 10:00 (WPCW) and 11:00 p.m.; also hosts Pittsburgh Today Live (weekday mornings at 9:00 a.m.)
Kristin Emery (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) - fill-in meteorologist
Dave Trygar (AMS Seal of Approval) - freelance/fill-in meteorologist
Sports teamBob Pompeani - sports director; weekdays at 6:00, 10:35 (The Nightly Sports Call on WPCW) and 11:00 p.m.; also host of KDKA Sunday Sports Showdown
Jory Rand - sports anchor; Saturdays at 6:00, Sundays at 6:30 and weekends at 10:35 (The Nightly Sports Call on WPCW) and 11:00 p.m., also sports reporter
Mike Zappone - fill-in sports anchor/sports reporter/producer (various times)
Reporters
Heather Abraham - general assignment reporter
Bob Allen - general assignment reporter
Sarah Arbogast - traffic/transportation reporter
Dave Crawley - "KD Country" reporter
Jon Delano - money and politics editor
Kym Gable - freelance reporter (also a spokeswoman for Comcast)
Marty Griffin - investigative reporter ("KDKA Investigators")
Ross Guidotti - general assignment reporter
Harold Hayes - general assignment reporter
Lynne Hayes-Freeland - general assignment reporter
David Highfield - general assignment reporter; also co-host of Your Pittsburgh
Ralph Iannotti - general assignment reporter
Mary Robb Jackson - general assignment reporter
Paul Martino - general assignment reporter
Trina Orlando - Westmoreland County bureau chief
Andy Sheehan - investigative reporter ("KDKA Investigators")
John Shumway - general assignment reporter; also heard on KDKA Radio
Dr. Maria Simbra - medical reporter
Notable former on-air staff[edit]
Susan Barnett - anchor (1999–2003; last at KYW-TV in Philadelphia from 2006 to 2013)[21]
Bill Burns - anchor (1953–1989; died in 1997)[22]
Patti Burns - anchor/reporter (1974–1997; died in 2001)[23]
Don Cannon - anchor/reporter (1999–2008)
Bill Currie - sports reporter (1971-1985, died on February 11, 2008)
Rehema Ellis - (She began broadcast career at KDKA)
Donna Hanover - hosted Evening Magazine (1977–1980, was first her major market television experience; Hanover served as a news anchor in New York; married New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, both have since divorced)[citation needed]
Patrice King Brown - anchor and former Pittsburgh 2Day host (1978–2011; retired on January 28, 2011)
Ron Klink - weekend anchor/reporter (1977–1991; was elected as a United States Representative (D-PA), but lost his bid for the U.S. Senate; now running a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.)
Bob Kudzma - weatherman (1968–2002)
Jim Lokay - traffic and transportation reporter (2005–2011, now at WCVB-TV in Boston)
Vic Miles - weekend anchor/reporter (1966–1971, later worked at WCBS-TV in New York City;[24] died on October 12, 2011)
Dennis Miller - contributor and guest host of Evening Magazine (got his first on air experience with KDKA)
Paul Moyer - anchor/reporter (1971; later worked at KNBC in Los Angeles)
Ron Olsen - reporter/talk show host (1976–1979; later at KTLA in Los Angeles, where he was awarded a Peabody for coverage of the Rodney King beating story; reported internationally on the O.J. Simpson trial for KTLA and Sky TV)[25]
Jay Scott - anchor (1976-1978; later anchor at KTTV in Los Angeles)
Paul Steigerwald - sports reporter (1987–1998, later the play-by-play announcer for the Penguins on Fox Sports Pittsburgh)
Dick Stockton - sports reporter (1967–1971; later play-by-play announcer for NFL on Fox)
Brian Sussman - weatherman[when?]
Marie Torre - anchor/reporter (1962–1977; died on January 3, 1997)
Yvonne Zanos - long-time correspondent from the 1970s whose last position was as KDKA-TV's consumer reporter (died January 12, 2010 at age 60 from ovarian cancer)
References[edit]
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External links[edit]
Portal icon Pittsburgh portal
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CBSPittsburgh.com - Official website
The early years of Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV
Query the FCC's TV station database for KDKA-TV
BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KDKA-TV
Program Information for KDKA at TitanTV.com
Pittsburgh Television history page
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