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  Station Branding NBC 4 (general)<br>The Channel 4 News (newscasts)
  Analog 4 ( VHF )
  Digital 36 ( UHF )
  Other Chs
  Affiliations NBC <br> NBC Weather Plus (DT2)
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  Founded January 16 , 1949
  Location Los Angeles, California
  Callsign Meaning '''K'''<br>'''N'''ational<br>'''B'''roadcasting<br>'''C'''ompany
  Former Callsigns KNBH (1949-1954)<br>KRCA-TV (1954-1960)
  Former Channel Numbers
  Owner NBC Universal
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  Sister Stations KVEA , KWHY-TV
  Former Affiliations
  Effective Radiated Power 437 KW (analog)<br>380 kW (digital)
  HAAT 984 M (analog)<br>991 m (digital)
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  Facility Id 47906
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  Homepage wwwknbccom


KNBC (Channel 4) is the West Coast flagship station of the NBC television network, serving the Greater Los Angeles Area . Its studios and offices are located at the NBC West Coast headquarters at 3000 West Alameda Avenue in suburban Burbank . KNBC serves as the sister station to Telemundo ’s KVEA (Channel 52), Spanish-language independent KWHY (Channel 22), and houses the master control of local television station, KPXN (Channel 30), as well as San Jose's KNTV , KSTS , and San Diego's KNSD . The station’s transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson , located just north of the city of Pasadena.

KNBC’s standard and high definition signals are available nationally through DirecTV and Dish Network . It is only available nationally for only those DBS subscribers that reside in an area where they cannot over-the-air reception of network programming.


HISTORY


Channel 4 in Los Angeles was the next to last VHF station (among seven) to sign-on in the area, beating the then-KECA-TV (Channel 7; now KABC-TV ) on the air by exactly eight months. The station then known as KNBH (for "NBc Hollywood" -- the KNBC call letters were Already In Use in San Francisco radio) went on the air for the first time on January 16, 1949. Channel 4 originally broadcast from the NBC Radio City Studios at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, and became the permanent Los Angeles outlet for NBC television, after taking over for KFI-TV (Channel 9; now KCAL-TV ), who had originally signed-on in August 1948. The station changed its call letters from KNBH to KRCA in February 1954, around the same time its New York City sister station, WNBT (Channel 4; now WNBC ) changed theirs to WRCA-TV. The “RCA” in the calls stood for Radio Corporation Of America , NBC’s original owner. Again following suit with what happened with New York City’s Channel 4, Los Angeles’ Channel 4 changed its call letters to the present-day KNBC in 1960. The KRCA call letters were resurrected years later on another local outlet, the Spanish-language independent station on the Riverside-licensed Channel 62.

In 1962, After 13 years broadcasting from Hollywood, KNBC relocated to the network’s color broadcast studio facility in suburban Burbank. NBC Color City , as it was then known, was already in operation since March 1955, and was at least four to five times larger than Radio City, and could easily accommodate KNBC’s locally-produced studio programming. NBC Radio’s West Coast operations eventually followed KNBC to Burbank not too long after.

For over the last 30 years, it has battled fellow network stations, KNXT/KCBS-TV (Channel 2) and KABC, for the top position for the #1 news operation in greater Los Angeles, although KCBS hasn’t been more of a factor until 2006. Throughout the late 1980s and in to the early 2000s, KNBC's newscasts were top-ranked in the region, beating out every other station for news ratings and coinciding with the network's ratings. Currently, KNBC’s 11pm newscast sits in third place (mostly thanks to NBC’s less than stellar primetime ratings, as well as shake-ups in the station’s higher management). However, most of the station’s other newscasts, including its popular morning news program, Today In LA (the area’s first local morning newscast, starting up in 1986), rates at or near the top of the local news ratings.

Among the branding names that KNBC has used over the years, they include “The Ford News” (1950-54; sponsored by the Ford Motor Company ), “Jack Latham & The News” (1954-60), The “5th”, “6th”, and “11th” Hour Reports (1960-71; those titles were also used at WNBC during this time period), “KNBC News Service” (1971-75), “NewsCenter 4” (1975-81), “News 4 L.A.” (1981-85), and the present “Channel 4 News” (1985 to present).

Although the news was branded as “Channel 4 News”, the station adopted “NBC 4” (or the long-form “NBC 4 Los Angeles”) as the station’s branding name in 1995. It was among the first stations in the market to use the network-channel number (or region) as its identification (Fox’s KTTV was the first, in 1986-87).

KNBC has been long active in community events, including airing the annual Kingdom Day Parade (honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ’s birthday) in South Los Angeles, sponsoring an annual two-day Health & Fitness Expo Fair at the Los Angeles Convention Center every summer, and since 2001 has been the exclusive local English-language carrier of the annual Los Angeles Marathon (sister station KVEA carries a Spanish-language version of the event). Sports director and lead sports anchor Fred Roggin ’s production company, in conjunction with KNBC/KVEA, produces coverage of the Marathon.


PERSONALITIES

Longtime '' NBC Nightly News '' anchor Tom Brokaw began his long association with NBC, as an anchor and reporter for KNBC, starting in 1966 . He left the station to work exclusively for the network in 1973 , as a correspondent. Others that have started their careers at KNBC include Bryant Gumbel , Pat Sajak , Kent Shocknek , David Horowitz , John Beard & Tom Snyder . Horowitz's long-running syndicated series, ''Fight Back!'', originated from KNBC, aired on many NBC-owned and affiliated stations, and was produced and distributed by NBC and Group W Broadcasting .

In 1987 during a KNBC afternoon newscast, a gun-wielding mental patient gained access to NBC Studios, and took Horowitz hostage live on the air. With the gun pressed on his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements on camera. The unidentified man was caught with a toy gun, and was arrested by local police. It led Horowitz to start a successful campaign to ban "look-alike" toy guns in several states, including California and New York. {Link without Title}

Current KNBC personalities include Paul Moyer , Colleen Williams , Chuck Henry , chief weathercaster Fritz Coleman , and sports director Fred Roggin . Moyer, Williams, Coleman, and Roggin make up the station's 5 and 11PM Monday-Friday news team, while Henry co-anchors the 6 PM weeknight newscasts with Ana Garcia . Roggin and Coleman are KNBC's most notable current personalities. Roggin is nationally known because of his work with NBC Sports and for his appearances on '' The Tonight Show .'' Roggin also hosted a syndicated program, '' Roggin's Heroes '' and can also be seen on ''Early Today.'' Roggin also is a sports announcer for the Olympic Games. Coleman also makes occasional appearances on the Tonight Show, and once hosted a locally-produced late night variety "It's Fritz" which aired on KNBC from 1989 and into the early 90's.

As with its East coast sister WNBC, KNBC has a very stable news team. There have been some changes among the reporting staff in recent years, but the anchors have remained unchanged. Williams, Roggin, and Coleman have been at KNBC for at least 20 years each, while Moyer arrived from rival KABC-TV in July 1992, replacing veteran anchor John Beard who anchored at KNBC for many years. Moyer started his Los Angeles broadcasting career at KNBC in 1972, as an anchor and reporter, before beginning a 13-year stint at KABC in 1979. Much like Moyer, Chuck Henry was also a mainstay at KABC, before making the move to Burbank in January 1994. He currently produces (through his self-titled production company) the travelouge series, ''Travel Cafe,'' which airs weekends on KNBC.

The most controversial departure was that of Christopher Nance, a popular longtime weathercaster on the weekend and, later, Today in L.A. newscasts. In 2002 Nance was fired from KNBC after years of what some say was "menacing and profane off-air behavior" contrary to Nance's on-air flamboyant and cheerful nature, a popular staple at KNBC, a reason for Today in L.A.'s high ratings. Shortly after he was fired, Los Angeles Magazine published an article on Nance and KNBC, further detailing his behavioral problems, including allegations that he had been involved with an intern at KNBC, and had been in altercations with many staff members. He alleges that the station fired him because of his religious beliefs. He is a Christian, and was known to have read the Bible during breaks, according to his website and the article on Los Angeles Magazine. In 2004 Nance sued his former employer citing he was fired due to racial and religious discrimination. {Link without Title} {Link without Title}


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NEWSCASTS


KNBC produces many hours of news. It is notable in the Los Angeles area for ''not'' showing Car Chase s. Thus, when direct competitors KCBS-TV and KABC-TV switch to police chase coverage, KNBC continues on its regularly scheduled newscast, while staffers prepare a regular news story on the pursuit for airing on a later newscast.

The newscasts generally take a more "serious" tone covering the issues, including politics, government, education, and the economy, than other Los Angeles newscasts. On election nights, KNBC runs a special extended edition of their 11PM newscast to show early election results. KNBC's newscasts are well known in Los Angeles for the longetivity of their anchors and reporters, and based on that experience and serious coverage, they has been very competitive in the ratings.

In 2006 KNBC embarked on an all-news channel called ''News Raw'', hosted by Mekahlo Medina. The news channel, on digital channel 4.4 and also on many local digital cable systems, provides news updates every hour, teases news stories in future newscasts on standard channel 4, and provides additional information about breaking news stories. Currently, ''News Raw'' runs the . The program was cancelled in September to make way for '' The Ellen DeGeneres Show '' but still airs online. In October, the program returned to the airwaves, airing at 4:30 p.m, but was removed again in mid-November for good.

In September 2006, a new program called ''YourLA TV'' began. The program features videos about interesting things happening in the Southern California area. User-submitted videos and comments via MySpace are mixed with profiles of ordinary people similar to '' PM Magazine ''.

The station's radar is called "Live Weather Plus Doppler."

For many years, KNBC had a 4 p.m. newscast. It was dropped in 2002, in favor of Dr. Phil which moved to KCBS-TV in 2005, that slot was replaced by '' The Ellen DeGeneres Show ''.

Sometime in 2007, KNBC will follow the lead of sister station aspect ratio.


INVESTIGATIONS

KNBC is famous for their hard-hitting large scale investigations. One of them is their Home Depot investigation, uncovering internal problems in the company. That investigation is on their website . In another investigation , the team uncovers Jiffy Lube overcharging its customers.


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PROGRAMMING NOTES

In Los Angeles, national news from the three major networks air at 6:30 PM instead of earlier, as in other West Coast cities. This includes '' NBC Nightly News '' here on KNBC.


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REBROADCASTERS

KNBC is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:



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