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San Francisco Bay Area
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The San Francisco Bay Area is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses the cities and metropolitan areas of San Jose, San Francisco. The Bay Areas nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. The combined statistical area of the region is the second-largest in California, the fifth-largest in the United States, the Bay Area has the second-most Fortune 500 Companies in the United States, and is known for its natural beauty, liberal politics, entrepreneurship, and diversity. The eastern side of the bay, consisting of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, is known locally as the East Bay, the inner East Bay is more densely populated, with generally older buildings, and a more ethnically diverse population. The word Lamorinda was coined by combining the names of the cities it includes, Lafayette, Moraga, walnut Creek is situated east of Lamorinda and north of the San Ramon Valley and, together with Concord, Martinez, and Pleasant Hill comprises Central Contra Costa County. The cities of Antioch, Pittsburg, Brentwood, Oakley and the areas surrounding them comprise East Contra Costa County. The Tri-Valley consists of the Amador, the Livermore, and the San Ramon Valleys, dublin and Pleasanton comprise the Amador Valley, Livermore lies in the Livermore Valley, and the San Ramon Valley consists of Alamo, Danville, Diablo and its namesake, San Ramon. The outer East Bay is connected to the inner East Bay by BART, Interstate 580 to the south, and State Routes State Route 4 to the north, the outer East Bays infrastructure was mostly built up after World War II. This area remains largely white demographically, although the Hispanic and Filipino populations have grown significantly over the past 2–3 decades, the region north of the Golden Gate Bridge is known locally as the North Bay. This area encompasses Marin County, Sonoma County, Napa County, the city of Fairfield, being part of Solano County, is often considered the easternmost city of the North Bay. With few exceptions, this region is affluent, Marin County is ranked as the wealthiest in the state. The North Bay is relatively rural compared to the remainder of the Bay Area, with areas of undeveloped open space, farmland. Santa Rosa in Sonoma County is the North Bays largest city, with a population of 167,815 and a Metropolitan Statistical Area population of 466,891, making it the fifth-largest city in the Bay Area. The North Bay is the section of the Bay Area that is not currently served by a commuter rail service. The area from San Francisco to the Silicon Valley, geographically part of the San Francisco Peninsula, is known locally as The Peninsula, many of these families are of foreign background and have significantly contributed to the diversity of the area. Whereas the term peninsula technically refers to the entire geographical San Franciscan Peninsula, in local terms, San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides, the north, east, and west. The city squeezes roughly 870,000 people in under 47 square miles, on any given day, there can be as many as 1 million people in the city because of the commuting population and tourism
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A view of the
San Francisco skyline from the bay.
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Owned-and-operated stations
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In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated. This distinguishes such a station from an affiliate, which is independently owned, the concept of an O&O is clearly defined in the United States and Canada, where network-owned stations had historically been the exception rather than the rule. In the broadcasting industry, the term owned-and-operated station refers exclusively to stations that are owned by television, on the other hand, the term affiliate only applies to stations that are not owned by networks, but instead are contracted to air programming from one of the major networks. The term station correctly applies to the ownership of the station, for example, a station that is owned and operated by the American Broadcasting Company is referred to as an ABC station or an ABC O&O, but normally should not be referred to as an affiliate. Likewise, a station not owned by ABC but contracted to air the networks programming is referred to as an ABC affiliate, that is. A correct formal phrasing could be, ABC affiliate WFAA is a Gannett station, some stations that are owned by companies that operate a network, but air another networks programming are referred to as an affiliate of the network that they carry. For example, WBFS-TV in Miami is owned by the CBS networks parent company CBS Corporation, prior to the September 2006 shutdown of the CBS-owned UPN television network, WBFS aired that networks programming, therefore, WBFS was a UPN O&O. The stations carrying The WB Television Network were another exception, the controlling shares in the network were held by Time Warner, with minority interests from the Tribune Company and, for a portion of networks existence, the now-defunct ACME Communications. While Tribune-owned stations such as WGN-TV in Chicago, WPIX in New York City and KTLA in Los Angeles aired programming from The WB, a similar exception existed when UPN launched in January 1995 by co-owners Chris-Craft and Viacom. Each of the owned a number of stations that aired the network. However, the stations were not considered O&Os under the initial standard definition. This ambiguity ended with Viacoms buyout of Chris-Crafts share of the network in 2000, the stations were referred to informally as UPN O&Os. Following the shutdowns of UPN and The WB, CBS Corporation, Entertainment became co-owners of the new CW Television Network, which largely merged the programming from both networks onto the scheduling model used by The WB. The network launched in September 2006 on 11 UPN stations owned by CBS Corporation, certain UPN and WB affiliates in markets where Tribune and CBS both owned stations carrying those networks either picked up a MyNetworkTV affiliation or became independent stations. The standard definition of an O&O again does not apply to The CW, in Australia, Seven Network, Nine Network and Network Ten each own and operate stations in the five largest metropolitan areas. These television markets together account for two thirds of the countrys population, in addition, Seven also owns and operates its local station in regional Queensland, and Nine owns and operates its station in Darwin. Nine also owns and operates NBN Television, based in Newcastle, the two national public broadcasters, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Special Broadcasting Service, own and operate all of their local stations. In Japan, commercial terrestrial television is focused on five organizations, the four largest of these – Nippon TV, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Fuji Television, and TV Asahi – each own and operate stations in the Tokyo, Keihanshin, Chukyo and Fukuoka metropolitan areas
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Seven's O&Os have their master control operations centralised at the network's
facilities in Melbourne.
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WABC-TV 's news vehicle. The
circle 7 logo seen here is also used on other ABC O&Os broadcasting on channel 7.
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9 Channel Nine Court, home to both CTV's network operations and Toronto O&O
CFTO-DT.
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"We can get rid of this baby!"
CKVU-TV 's Joe Leary takes the
Global mike flag off his microphone on the station's last day as a Global O&O.
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KGO-TV
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KGO-TV, channel 7, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, kGO-TVs studios are located at the ABC Broadcast Center in downtown San Francisco north of the citys Financial District, and its transmitter is based at Sutro Tower. KGO-TV first signed on the air on May 5,1949 as the San Francisco Bay Areas second-oldest television station, 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 ABCs channel 7. KGO-TVs original studios were located in the renovated Sutro Mansion near Mount Sutro in San Francisco, Channel 7 was the fourth of ABCs five original owned-and-operated stations to sign-on, after outlets in New York City, Chicago and Detroit, and before Los Angeles. In addition, it is the only ABC station to keep its original call letters, Channel 7 had a limited broadcasting schedule during its first year on the air. It was not until September 1950 that the announced, in the San Francisco Chronicle. For much of the 1950s, the station signed on late in the morning or early afternoon, especially on the weekends, because the ABC network didnt offer many daytime programs. For many years, Saturday programming began with King Normans Kingdom of Toys, in 1954, KGO-TV moved to one of 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, 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 September 1962, KGO began carrying ABCs 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, in 1985, KGO-TV began broadcasting from its current studios at 900 Front Street, sharing the facility with radio stations KGO, KSFO and KMKY. By 2012 the radio stations had vacated 900 Front street, KRON-TV also uses one of the two studios on the first floor for production of its news programming. This resulted in the Salinas–Santa Cruz–Monterey Bay market losing over-the-air reception of ABC programs since KNTV had also served those communities. On December 20,2010, Hearst Television, owners of NBC affiliate KSBW, the new subchannel debuted on April 18,2011, effectively displacing KGO from cable providers in Californias Central Coast, which replaced the station with KSBWs ABC-affiliated subchannel. KGO-TV was one of the earliest ABC stations to use the original Circle 7 logo, according to Broadcasting magazine, KGO unveiled this logo, created by San Francisco design consultant G. Dean Smith, on August 27,1962. Some programs seen on channel 7.2, such as the Commonwealth Club Speakers Luncheon, 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 stations digital relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 24 to VHF channel 7 for post-transition operations. As a result, KGO-TV is the only Bay Area television station to retain the same channel allocation post-transition, KGO-TV has a construction permit for a fill-in translator on UHF Channel 35, serving the southern portion of the viewing area, including San Jose
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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ABC's corporate headquarters are located at 77 West 66th Street, on the
Upper West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City.
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Edward Noble, founder of ABC
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In 2002, dancers and other cast members from the 32-year run of American Bandstand reunited with host
Dick Clark to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show's local television debut.
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KPIX-TV
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KPIX-TV, channel 5, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, the stations studios are located just north of San Franciscos Financial District, and its transmitter is located on Sutro Tower. In addition to KBCW, KPIX shares its studios with its CBS Radio partners, KCBS, KFRC-FM, KITS, KLLC, KMVQ-FM and KZDG, although they use a different address number for Battery Street. KPIX-TV signed on the air on December 22,1948 as the first television station in northern California and it was originally owned by Associated Broadcasters, owners of KSFO. Initially, channel 5s signal was transmitted from a tower on top of the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill and it later moved to a shared transmitter tower with KGO-TV at the Sutro Mansion, and then to the Sutro Tower in 1973. KPIXs first studio was in the attic of the Mark Hopkins Hotel, the station immediately joined CBS due to a deal KSFOs owners had worked out with the television network one year earlier. KSFO was CBS radios Bay Area affiliate from 1937 to 1941, after lengthy Federal Communications Commission hearings, KSFO won the 740 frequency, but later decided to stay at 560 and concentrate its efforts on building a television station. It traded the 740 frequency to CBS in return for getting the CBS television affiliation for the Bay Area, KQW remained at 740 and CBS changed its call sign to KCBS. The station also carried programming from DuMont until that network folded in 1956, when KPIXs first competitor, KGO-TV, signed on in May 1949, KPIX produced programs to welcome it into the Bay Area. The studio on Van Ness Avenue was the first building in San Francisco specifically built for television, Westinghouse Electric Corporation bought KPIX in 1954 and ran it as part of the companys Group W broadcasting unit. During Westinghouses ownership, KPIX was the only television station on the West Coast. In early 1996, Westinghouse merged with CBS, making KPIX a CBS-owned station, prior to this, KPIX had been CBSs longest-tenured affiliate. KPIX was also one of two longtime CBS affiliates owned by Group W that became a CBS O&O, the other being KDKA-TV, since May 2003, KPIX-TV and WJZ-TV are the only former Group W TV stations that still utilize the classic Group W font. KPIXs distinctive 5 logo dates back from the stations days under Westinghouse ownership, when Westinghouse merged with CBS, most of the former Group W stations eventually retired the font. KPIX, along with its Baltimore sister station WJZ-TV would become the only two CBS-owned television stations to continue using this logo font. KPIX was the only CBS-owned station on the West Coast not to follow the CBS Mandate for years after the merger, simply referencing itself as KPIX-TV Channel 5. Between 1993 and 1996, it was branded simply as KPIX5, even dropping the Eyewitness News title for its newscasts and branding them as KPIX5 News at the same time, before reverting. In 2005, KPIX fell in line with the mandate and rebranded as CBS5, on February 3,2013, KPIX dropped the CBS5 branding and reverted to being branded as KPIX5
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KPIX 5 News morning newscast title card
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Paley's management saw a twentyfold increase in gross income in his first decade.
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Wholesome
Kate Smith, Paley's choice for La Palina Hour, was unthreatening to home and hearth
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When
Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after 20 years of mime, he chose CBS's airwaves to do it on.
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CBS west coast headquarters reflected its industry stature while hosting its top Hollywood talent.
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KTVU
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KTVU, channel 2, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Fox Broadcasting Company, licensed to Oakland, California, USA and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. KTVU is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, the two stations share studio facilities at Jack London Square in downtown Oakland, KTVU maintains transmitter facilities at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. The station first signed on the air on March 3,1958, KTVUs operations were inaugurated with a special live telecast from its temporary studio facility at the former Paris Theatre in downtown Oakland. Channel 2 was the commercial television station to sign on in the Bay Area. During its first 15 years on the air, KTVUs transmitter facilities were based from a tower on San Bruno Mountain in northern San Mateo County. KTVU moved its facilities to the Sutro Tower, after the structure was completed in 1973. The Ingrim–Pabst–Pauley group attempted to sell KTVU to NBC in 1960, under Coxs stewardship, channel 2 became the leading independent station in the San Francisco–Oakland market and one of the top-rated independents in the Western United States. KTVU retained this status even as competing independents on the UHF band signed on during the late 1960s, in the early 1960s, KTVU obtained the local broadcast rights to the Warner Bros. Pictures library, the films it broadcast from the studio consisted of those released during the 1950s, most being presented in color. Channel 2 was the first television station in the Bay Area to air such films as A Star Is Born, East of Eden, the station even televised the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Hollywood Revue of 1929 with some of the original two-strip Technicolor sequences. Continuing into its early years as a Fox affiliate, KTVU frequently aired classic movies in the 8,00 p. m. time slot as well as on Sunday afternoons. Many of the films presented were prints restored by the editing department to eliminate color and splicing errors. It also occasionally aired movies originally assigned an R rating for their release without editing for strong profanity, nudity or violence. In 1992, KTVU ran a version of the 1984 science fiction film Dune. In 1977, KTVU was uplinked to satellite as a superstation, being carried primarily on systems operated by cable television provider and corporate cousin. KTVU also carried programming from the Operation Prime Time programming service in 1978, the company formally announced the launch of the new network, the Fox Broadcasting Company, on May 7,1986. S. It was also one of the few independents to affiliate with the network which broadcast on the VHF band and had a local news identity. KTVU officially joined Fox seven months later on October 9,1986, in addition, Channel 2 began to air an afternoon cartoon block supplied by the network, Fox Kids, when the Monday through Saturday childrens lineup debuted in September 1990. m
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Oakland, California
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Oakland /ˈoʊklənd/ is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. The city was incorporated in 1852, Oaklands territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. Its land served as a resource when its hillside oak and redwood timber were logged to build San Francisco. In the late 1860s, Oakland was selected as the terminal of the Transcontinental Railroad. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many San Francisco citizens moved to Oakland, enlarging the citys population, increasing its housing stock and it continued to grow in the 20th century with its busy port, shipyards, and a thriving automobile manufacturing industry. Oakland is known for its sustainability practices, including a top-ranking for usage of electricity from renewable resources, in addition, due to a steady influx of immigrants during the 20th century, along with thousands of African-American war-industry workers who relocated from the Deep South during the 1940s. Oakland is the most ethnically diverse city in the country. The earliest known inhabitants were the Huchiun Indians, who lived there for thousands of years, the Huchiun belonged to a linguistic grouping later called the Ohlone. In Oakland, they were concentrated around Lake Merritt and Temescal Creek, in 1772, the area that later became Oakland was claimed, with the rest of California, by Spanish settlers for the King of Spain. In the early 19th century, the Spanish crown granted the East Bay area to Luis María Peralta for his Rancho San Antonio, the grant was confirmed by the successor Mexican republic upon its independence from Spain. Upon his death in 1842, Peralta divided his land among his four sons, Most of Oakland fell within the shares given to Antonio Maria and Vicente. The portion of the parcel that is now Oakland was called encinal—Spanish for oak grove—due to the oak forest that covered the area. In 1851, three men—Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon—began developing what is now downtown Oakland, on May 4,1852, the Town of Oakland incorporated. Two years later, on March 25,1854, Oakland re-incorporated as the City of Oakland, with Horace Carpentier elected the first mayor, the city and its environs quickly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminal in the late 1860s and 1870s. In 1868, the Central Pacific constructed the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, a number of horsecar and cable car lines were constructed in Oakland during the latter half of the 19th century. The first electric streetcar set out from Oakland to Berkeley in 1891, at the time of incorporation, Oakland consisted of the territory that lay south of todays major intersection of San Pablo Avenue, Broadway, and Fourteenth Street. The city gradually annexed farmlands and settlements to the east and the north, Oaklands rise to industrial prominence, and its subsequent need for a seaport, led to the digging of a shipping and tidal channel in 1902. This resulted in the town of Alameda being made an island
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Oakland skyline, with the old eastern span of the
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in background
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1857 Map of Oakland
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One day's output of 1917
Chevrolet automobiles at their major
West Coast plant, now the location of
Eastmont Town Center
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In 1924, the
Tribune Tower was completed; in 1976, it was restored and declared an Oakland landmark.
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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KNTV
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KNTV, channel 11, is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to San Jose, California, USA and serving the San Francisco Bay Area region. The stations transmitter is located on San Bruno Mountain, just south of San Francisco, on cable, KNTV is available on Comcast cable systems in the Bay Area on channel 3. KNTV signed on the air on September 12,1955, originally operating as an independent station covering the entire north-central California coast from Monterey to San Francisco. It was the first television station in San Jose, and was operated by Standard Radio and Television Corporation. Channel 11 often aired shows from CBS, DuMont and NBC that were turned down by San Franciscos KPIX and KRON-TV. 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 antenna location, its signal could be received fairly well in the nearby areas of Monterey and Salinas. Previously, all three networks had been shoehorned onto Salinas-based KSBW-TV, KNTV, therefore, became one of the few stations located outside the market it served. Following the death of Allen T. Gilliland in 1960, ownership of KNTV was held by the executors of his estate, the younger Gilliland acquired majority ownership in August 1966 and later operated it as part of Gill Industries, which also controlled San Joses cable television system. Even as an ABC affiliate, KNTV occasionally preempted a few ABC programs, KGO-TV, meanwhile, aired ABCs entire programming schedule, so this often gave San Jose and Silicon Valley Area residents a second choice for viewing preempted ABC programming. Gill Industries sold KNTV to Norfolk-based Landmark Communications in 1978, twelve years later, Landmark sold the station to a minority-owned firm, Granite Broadcasting. In 1999, KGO-TV agreed to pay Granite a substantial fee to stop channel 11 from running ABC programming once the stations affiliation contract expired. ABCs corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company, saw the need to expand KGO-TVs exclusive advertising market share into San Jose for this reason, and it felt that KNTV was taking away from the share. That same year, the family, owners of KRON-TV. NBC was thought to be the favorite to buy KRON-TV, the network also made the unprecedented demand that Young pay NBC $10 million annually to carry the networks programming – a form of reverse compensation. Young refused, and announced that it would end KRON-TVs 52-year relationship with NBC once its contract ended in December 2001. In February 2000, Granite contacted NBC to negotiate an affiliation deal, NBC accepted the deal, which was due to take effect in January 2002. In preparation for this switch, KNTV boosted its signal to reach the entire San Francisco Bay Area,7 million viewers now had access to KNTV, including 90% of the San Francisco Metropolitan area. The move cost the Monterey Bay area an over-the-air ABC affiliate, in order to compensate for the loss, KGO-TV was then added on cable providers in that market, with certain syndicated programs carried by the station replaced due to syndication exclusivity rules
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KNTV/KSTS/CNBC Silicon Valley's studios located 2450 N. First St. in San Jose
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KNTV's news desk until December 21, 2010. After rebranding as "NBC Bay Area", the news desk and newsroom made a minor change to reflect the current branding.
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San Jose, California
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San Jose, officially the City of San José, is the economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California. With an estimated 2015 population of 1,026,908, it is the third most populous city in California and the tenth most populous in United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on the shore of San Francisco Bay. San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, the most affluent county in California. San Jose is the largest city in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 8.7 million people respectively. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was inhabited by the Ohlone people, San Jose was founded on November 29,1777, as the Pueblo of San José de Guadalupe, the first civilian town founded in Spanish Alta California. When California gained statehood in 1850, San Jose became the states first capital, following World War II, San Jose experienced an economic boom, with a rapid population growth and aggressive annexation of nearby cities and communities carried out in the 1950s and 60s. The rapid growth of the high-technology and electronics industries further accelerated the transition from a center to an urbanized metropolitan area. Results of the 1990 U. S. Census indicated that San Jose had officially surpassed San Francisco as the most populous city in Northern California, by the 1990s, San Jose and the rest of Silicon Valley had become the global center for the high tech and internet industries. San Jose is considered to be a city, notable for its affluence. San Joses location within the high tech industry, as a cultural, political. San Jose is one of the wealthiest major cities in the United States and the world, and has the third highest GDP per capita in the world, according to the Brookings Institute. Major global tech companies including Cisco Systems, eBay, Adobe Systems, PayPal, Brocade, Samsung, Acer, Prior to European settlement, the area was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans. The first lasting European presence began with a series of Franciscan missions established from 1769 by Junípero Serra, San Jose came under Mexican rule in 1821 after Mexico broke with the Spanish crown. It then became part of the United States, after it capitulated in 1846, on March 27,1850, San Jose became the second incorporated city in the state, with Josiah Belden its first mayor. San Jose was Californias first state capital, and hosted the first, today the Circle of Palms Plaza in downtown is the historical marker for the first state capital. The city was a station on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, in the period 1900 through 1910, San Jose served as a center for pioneering invention, innovation, and impact in both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air flight. These activities were led principally by John Montgomery and his peers, the City of San Jose has established Montgomery Park, a Monument at San Felipe and Yerba Buena Roads, and John J. Montgomery Elementary School in his honor
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Images, from top down, left to right:
Downtown San Jose,
Hotel De Anza, East San Jose suburbs,
Lick Observatory,
Plaza de César Chávez
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South First Street in the 1940s
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Overhead panorama of
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Looking west over northern San Jose (downtown is at far left) and other parts of Silicon Valley. See an up-to-the-minute view of San Jose from the Mount Hamilton web camera
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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The
Comcast Building in
New York City (or the GE Building, originally the
RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.
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National Broadcasting Company
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Radio City West was located at
Sunset Boulevard and
Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.
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Entrance at the GE Building.
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KBCW (TV)
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KBCW, channel 44, is a CW owned-and-operated television station located in San Francisco, California, United States which serves as the West Coast flagship of the network. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, the two stations share studios located on Battery Street in San Francisco, KBCWs transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower. The station is available on channel 12 on most cable providers in the Bay Area, kBHK-TV was the third independent station in the San Francisco Bay area behind San Jose-based KGSC-TV and KTVU, licensed to Oakland. The station was based in studios located at 650 California Street. Several key scenes from the Robert Redford-starring political election intrigue movie The Candidate were filmed in KBHKs studio at 420 Taylor Street, many of KBHKs technicians appeared in the movie as themselves. Kaiser Broadcasting later merged with Chicago-based Field Communications (Marshall Field, in 1973 as part of a joint venture between the companies, in 1977, Kaiser sold its interest in the stations to Field, making Field the sole owner of KBHK. Field later put its stations up for sale in 1982, KBHK maintained a general entertainment program schedule that included morning and afternoon childrens blocks, off-network sitcoms, feature films, and public affairs programming. At one point, KBHK advertised itself as the Bay Areas Movie Station, several local programs produced at KBHK were syndicated nationally including Leonard Nimoys Star Trek Memories and The Twilight Zone Special. In 1993, the station began carrying programs from the Prime Time Entertainment Network programming service which it carried until January 1995, in 1994, Chris-Craft/United Television partnered with Paramount Television to launch the United Paramount Network. As a result of Chris-Craft/Uniteds interest in the network, UPN signed affiliation deals with both the independent stations to become charter owned-and-operated stations of the network. KBHK joined UPN when it launched on January 16,1995, the station continued with its programming format, essentially continuing to program similarly to an independent as UPN would not expand to five nights a week of programming until 1998. The older sitcoms and cartoons were replaced during the late 1990s and early 2000s with more recent sitcoms, talk shows, game shows, court shows. In 2000, Viacom bought Chris-Crafts 50% ownership interest in UPN, on August 12 of that year, Chris-Craft sold its UPN stations to the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of News Corporation for $5.5 billion, the deal that was finalized on July 31,2001. Since News Corporation also owned the Fox network at the time, the Viacom purchase also reunited KBHK with Detroits WKBD, which had been purchased by Paramount Stations Group in 1993. On the day of the announcement, the signed a ten-year affiliation deal with 11 of CBS Corporations 13 UPN stations. However, it is likely that KBHK would have been chosen even without the affiliation deal. A. s CW affiliate KTLA serves as its largest station in the West Coast. With the launch of The CW, KBCW became the Bay Areas only major English-language network station on the UHF dial, to reflect the new affiliation, KBHK officially changed its call letters to KBCW on July 1,2006. In June 2013, the changed its logo from the generic design used since The CWs launch to a version utilizing the stations call letters
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KBCW's logo from September 2006 to June 2013; use of the "Cable 12" branding in the logo has varied at times, with other versions replacing it with the alternate "CW Bay Area" branding.
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The CW
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Entertainment division of Time Warner, former majority owner of The WB Television Network. The CW name is a derived from the first letters of the names of its two parent corporations. The network made its debut on September 18,2006, after its two predecessors, UPN and The WB, respectively ceased independent operations on September 15 and 17 of that year. The CWs first two nights of programming – on September 18 and 19,2006 – consisted of reruns, the CW marked its formal launch date on September 20,2006, with the two-hour premiere of the seventh cycle of Americas Next Top Model. As of 2008, the programming lineup was intended to appeal mainly to women between the ages of 18 and 34, although starting in 2011 the network increased in programming that appeal to men. The CW is also available in Mexico through affiliates located near the Mexico–U. S, in both countries, some CW affiliates are receivable over-the-air in border areas depending on the stations signal coverage. UPN and The WB both began just as the Fox network had started to secure a foothold with American television audiences, the two networks launched to limited fanfare and generally mediocre to poor results. However, over the subsequent 11 1⁄2 seasons, both were able to air several series that became quite popular, in the eleven years that UPN and The WB were in operation, the two networks lost a combined $2 billion. CBS chairman Leslie Moonves explained that the name of the new network was formed from the first letters of CBS and Warner Bros, joking, like both UPN and The WB, The CW targets its programming towards younger audiences. CBS and Time Warner hoped that combining their networks schedules and affiliate lineups would strengthen The CW into a major broadcast network. The CW launched with a premiere special/launch party from the CBS-produced Entertainment Tonight at Warner Bros, when Top Model made its network premiere on September 20,2006, The CW scored a 3.4 rating/5 share in the Nielsen household ratings. It scored a 2.6 rating among Adults 18–49, finishing fourth in that age demographic, on May 9,2008, The CW announced that it would lease its Sunday lineup to production company Media Rights Capital. With no first-run programming available to run on Sundays as a backup, the network added reruns of The Drew Carey Show and Jericho, the CW has generally struggled in the Nielsen ratings since its inception, primarily placing fifth in all statistics tabulated by Nielsen. On several occasions, The CW has even been outrated by Spanish language network Univision and this had led to speculation within the industry that CBS, Time Warner or both companies could abandon the venture if ratings did not improve. Executives with CBS Corporation and Time Warner also emphasized their commitment to the network and this, in turn, resulted in the discontinuance of the Sunday late afternoon repeat block that The CW inherited from The WB through its use of the predecessor networks scheduling model. Maatta began reporting to Pedowitz as a result of the appointment as network president. Pedowitz revealed that the target demographic of the network would not change. The network also ordered more episodes of its series and ran them consecutively through the first week of December, starting on September 12
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The CW's original pre-launch logo. At the network's first upfront presentation on May 18, 2006, the provisional blue-and-white rectangle logo that was used during the network's formation announcement in January was replaced by a green-and-white, curved-letter insignia that drew comparisons to the logo used by
CNN, another company with Time Warner ownership interest.
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KQED (TV)
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KQED, virtual channel 9, is a PBS member television station located in San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by Northern California Public Broadcasting, through subsidiary KQED, Inc. alongside fellow PBS station KQEH, KQED maintains studios located on Mariposa Street in San Franciscos Mission District, and its transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower. KQEDs signal is relayed on satellite station KQET in Watsonville, which serves the Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz market, the stations call letters, Q. E. D. are taken from the Latin phrase, quod erat demonstrandum, commonly used in mathematics. One of KQEDs early local programs was World Press, a weekly roundup of international news stories analyzed by a panel of political analysts. Panel members, who were political science analysts specializing in each specific global area and it was developed by San Francisco Supervisor Roger Boas, who brought his long-term interest in government, politics, television and business to the show. The program summed up the reaction to such events as the Kennedy assassinations. What started as a public access program with no financial support became the longest continuously running discussion program televised on approximately 185 stations. In its early days following the stations sign-on, KQED broadcast only twice a week for one each day. Despite the very limited schedule, the station was losing money. While the station came a little short, it did show that the general public cared to keep KQED on the air. KQED was best known in the late 60s and throughout the 1970s, as one of the few public stations in the country to have its own nightly news show. For many years, the show was anchored by Belva Davis, Newsroom grew out of a 1968 newspaper strike in San Francisco. Journalists from the newspapers began reporting their stories on KQED. The staff also produced feature news stories for the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour. In 1970, KQED inherited KNEW-TV from Metromedia, but found they could not operate it without losing money, various PBS and locally produced programs from KQED would air erratically and at different times of the day on KQEC. The alleged dishonesty was in reference to KQEDs claim of financial woes for keeping KQEC off the air for most of 1972 through 1977, after being revoked from KQEDs hands, the reassigned license was granted to the Minority Television Project, one of the challengers of the KQED/KQEC filing. The KQEC call letters were changed to KMTP-TV under the new license, the decision to pursue the videotaping of executions was controversial amongst those on both sides of the capital punishment debate. KQED was co-producer of the adaptation of Armistead Maupins novel, Tales of the City
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KQED/KQET
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KQEH
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KQEH, virtual channel 54, is a PBS member station serving the San Francisco Bay Area that is licensed to San Jose, California, United States. The station is owned by KQED, Inc. alongside sister station KQED in San Francisco, its satellite KQET in Watsonville, the three stations share studios and offices located on Mariposa Street in San Franciscos Mission District, The KQEH transmitter is located on Monument Peak. The station first signed on the air on October 19,1964, in the late 1990s, KTEH bought KCAH in Watsonville, which was founded in 1989 to serve as the PBS station for the Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz market. These volunteers made up the crews for all of their pledge drives and auction programming. In 2006, KQED and the KTEH Foundation agreed to merge to form Northern California Public Broadcasting, as a result of the merger, KCAH changed its call letters to KQET on August 12,2007. Subsequently on October 1,2007, KQET, which became a satellite of KTEH following its acquisition of the station, kQEHs programming is carried on the second digital subchannel of KQET. In December 2010, the Board of Directors of Northern California Public Broadcasting changed the name to KQED Inc. The stations digital channel is multiplexed, KQEH shut down its signal, over UHF channel 54, on June 12,2009. The stations daytime hours on weekdays are dominated by childrens programming, including Dinosaur Train, Sesame Street, weeknights begin with news programming – the Nightly Business Report and BBC World News – followed by mostly United Kingdom-originating dramas and comedies. Weeknight prime-time contains mainly documentaries and drama, the current slogan for British programming on KQEH reflects this. Starting in April 1981, KTEH started showing the British science-fantasy show Doctor Who, on April 10,2007, Doctor Who returned to the station with the airing of the programmes 2005 revival. KTEH has also aired another British sci-fi show, Red Dwarf, in 1998, KTEH aired the entire eighth series of Red Dwarf in one night. In doing so, many episodes were shown on KTEH before their broadcast on British television, KTEH was also the first to air Neon Genesis Evangelion in America, as well as dubbed) Tenchi Muyo. Ryo-Ohki and Tenchi Universe TV series and these shows were later shown on Cartoon Networks Toonami programming block. Magic Knight Rayearth, Martian Successor Nadesico, Betterman, Robotech, Mobile Suit Gundam, Cardcaptor Sakura, Astro Boy, Gatchaman, KTEH has produced many television programs over the years, some of which have been nationally broadcast. Its current production schedule includes, This is Us – an Emmy Award-winning show featuring profiles of remarkable people, saving the Bay – the Emmy Award-winning documentary about San Francisco Bay went on to a national release in 2011. Video i – an award-winning showcase of documentaries, dramas and experimental films KTEH Cooks with Garlic – local viewers preparing their favorite garlic recipes
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KTEH's last logo before merging with KQED, used from 1993 through 2007.
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PBS
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The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcaster and television program distributor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is funded by member dues, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, government agencies, corporations, foundations. All proposed funding is subjected to a set of standards to ensure the program is free of influence from the funding source, since the mid 2000s, Roper polls commissioned by PBS have consistently placed the service as the most-trusted national institution in the United States. This arbitrary distinction is a frequent source of viewer confusion and it also operates National Datacast, a subsidiary which offers datacasting services via member stations, and provides additional revenue for PBS and its member stations. Founded by Hartford N. Gunn Jr, in 1973, it merged with Educational Television Stations. Each station is charged with the responsibility of programming content for their individual market or state that supplements content provided by PBS. By contrast, PBS member stations pay fees for the acquired and distributed by the national organization. Under this relationship, PBS member stations have greater latitude in local scheduling than their commercial broadcasting counterparts, scheduling of PBS-distributed series may vary greatly depending on the market. This can be a source of tension as stations seek to preserve their localism, however, PBS has a policy of common carriage, which requires most stations to clear the national prime time programs on a common programming schedule to market them nationally more effectively. Management at former Los Angeles member KCET cited unresolvable financial and programming disputes among its reasons for leaving PBS after over 40 years in January 2011. Most PBS stations timeshift some distributed programs, once PBS accepts a program offered for distribution, PBS, rather than the originating member station, retains exclusive rebroadcasting rights during an agreed period. Suppliers retain the right to sell the program in non-broadcast media such as DVDs, books, in 1991, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting resumed production for most PBS shows that debuted prior to 1977, with the exceptions of Washington Week in Review and Wall Street Week. In 1994, The Chronicle of Philanthropy released the results of the largest study on the popularity and credibility of charitable, the strategy began that fall, with the intent to expand the in-program breaks to the remainder of the schedule if successful. In 2011, PBS released apps for iOS and Android to allow viewing of videos on mobile devices. An update in 2015 added Chromecast support, PBS initially struggled to compete with online media such as YouTube for market share. In a 2012 speech to 850 top executives from PBS stations, in the speech, later described as a “seminal moment” for public television, he laid out his vision for a new style of PBS digital video production. Station leadership rallied around his vision and Seiken formed PBS Digital Studios, which began producing educational but edgy videos, something Seiken called “PBS-quality with a YouTube sensibility. ”The studio’s first hit, in 2012, PBS began organizing much of its prime time programming around a genre-based schedule. PBS broadcasts childrens programming as part of the morning and afternoon schedule
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KRON-TV
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KRON-TV, virtual channel 4, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, KRON maintains studios in the same building as KGO-TV in the Financial District, and its transmitting antenna is located atop Sutro Tower. KRON-TV is the largest MyNetworkTV affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the network, NBC wanted an owned-and-operated station in the Bay Area alongside its West Coast flagship radio station, KNBC. However, in an upset, the won the license. They brought KRON-TV on the air on November 15,1949 as a full-time NBC affiliate, the stations call letters come from a modification of the Chronicles nickname, The Chron. For most of its run as an NBC station, KRON-TV was that networks second-largest affiliate, KRON-TV originally broadcast from studios located in the basement of the Chronicle building at Fifth and Mission streets. It originally maintained transmitter facilities, master control and a small studio on San Bruno Mountain. In August 1959, the Chronicle reported that the tower was damaged by an unusually strong thunderstorm. Newscasts benefited from the resources of the Chronicle and there was cooperation between KRON and the newspaper, Bay Area kids, known as the City Council, joined Mayor Art in the studio each day. The show featured Popeye cartoons mixed with science demonstrations, a feature entitled Mayor Arts Almanac, games, prizes. Assignment Four was a series that generally aired Monday evenings at 7,00 p. m. through much of the 1960s. Subjects ranged from Skid Row to The Single Girl, the Green Intricate Country of Napa Valley to No Deposit, the documentary Not to Have Lived about mechanized society featured no dialogue or narration. In 1967, KRON-FM-TV moved to a new studio at 1001 Van Ness Avenue in the Western Addition neighborhood, the television transmitter was moved to Sutro Tower on July 4,1973, while the FM transmitter remained on San Bruno Mountain. Since the 1970s, KRONs logo has incorporated a stylized number 4 design that is based on the Golden Gate Bridge, the vertical component is a bridge tower, the horizontal component is a portion of the bridge deck, and the curve is a portion of a suspension cable. By about 1990-1991, this evolved into the circle 4 logo in use to this day, realizing this and refocusing on the entire market enabled KRON-TV to become the dominant station in the Bay Area. During the 1980s, KRON continued its dominance by airing top-rated syndicated programs, including the Merv Griffin-produced game shows Jeopardy. and Wheel of Fortune, as well as Entertainment Tonight. In 1982, the deYoung familys Chronicle Publishing Company unit discussed a trade of KRON-TV to the Gannett Company. The proposal ultimately fell apart by September 1983, during that timeframe, KRON also produced a Saturday morning childrens program called Buster and Me
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Despite concerns about UPNs future that came up after Fox purchased the Chris-Craft stations, UPN signed three-year affiliation renewals with the networks Fox-owned affiliates in 2003. The CWs initial affiliation agreements did not include any of the UPN stations owned by Fox Television Stations. In fact, as part of an affiliation deal with The WBs part-owner, Tribune Broadcasting. In response to the announcement, Fox promptly removed all references from logos and promotional materials on its UPN affiliates. However, in all three cases, the WB affiliate was the station, CW executives were on record as preferring the strongest WB. Fox chose the route, and announced the launch of MyNetworkTV on February 22,2006, less than a month after CBS. MyNetworkTV began operations on September 5,2006, with the premieres of its two initial series, some affiliates unofficially began branding their stations on September 4,2006 – Labor Day – with supplied preview specials. Initially, programming aired Monday through Saturdays from 8,00 to 10,00 p. m, with the services switch to an all-rerun schedule in 2009, this effectively allows stations to pre-empt repeat programming at will to fit in sporting events without much consequence. During the telenovela era, affiliates often scheduled contractual make goods of the daily schedule between 3,00 and 6,00 a. m. local time. Not only are these light viewing hours, but they air after Nielsen processes its preliminary morning network ratings. WPWR-TV in Gary, Indiana/Chicago moved MyNetworkTV to an after primetime 10,00 p. m. -midnight timeslot on September 1,2016, and became the CW affiliate for Chicago, replacing WGN-TV. KRON-TV/San Francisco airs MyNetworkTV programming on a delay from 9,00 to 11,00 p. m. which is bookended by local evening newscasts. KPDX/Portland, Oregon airs MyNetworkTV programs from 10, 00PM to 12,00 AM, newscast that is produced by NBC-affiliated sister station KCRA-TV. KQCA then presented MyNetworkTV programming in pattern, with the 7,00 PM hour being filled by syndicated reruns until the 2014–15 television season. At that point KQCA started filling the 8,00 to 10,00 PM block with syndicated comedies, KQCA airs MyNetworkTV programming in late night. During its time as a MyNetworkTV affiliate, KJZZ-TV/Salt Lake City, the service had originally aired from 11,00 PM to 1,00 AM. at the networks launch. St. George independent station KCSG replaced KJZZ as Utahs MyNetworkTV affiliate on August 18,2008. KUSG, a former KUTV satellite, added MyNetworkTV to its schedule on September 20,2010, however, kEVU-CD/Eugene, Oregon airs the MyNetworkTV schedule from 9,00 to 11,00 PM Pacific Time, following a two-hour block of syndicated talk shows
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KDTV-DT
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KDTV-DT, virtual channel 14, is a Univision owned-and-operated television station located in San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with UniMás owned-and-operated station KFSF-DT, the two stations share studios located at the 50 Fremont Center building in San Franciscos Financial District, KDTVs transmitter is located on Mission Peak in Fremont. The stations signal is relayed on Class A digital translator KDTV-CD in Santa Rosa and it was originally owned by a local group headed by Spanish International Network executive Reynold Anselmo. KDTV was acquired by Univision outright in 1992, turning KDTV into the markets third owned-and-operated station, in 2016, the station moved into a new, state-of-the-art studio facility in San Jose. The stations digital channel is multiplexed, KDTV shut down its signal, over UHF channel 14, on June 12,2009. The stations digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, KDTV presently broadcasts seven hours of locally produced newscasts each week. Enrique Gratas, former anchor of Univisions late night newscast Noticiero Univision Última Hora, was the anchor of KDTVs newscasts when the station launched. In November 2007, KDTV had the highest-rated newscast in the Bay Area among adults 25 to 54 in the 6 p. m. timeslot and this was the first occurrence in the market in which a Spanish-language news program earned higher ratings than those of its English-language counterparts. In November 2011, KDTV introduced a new set, as well as standardized graphics package used by its Univision-owned news-producing sister stations, with the change, KDTV began broadcasting its local newscasts in 16,9 widescreen standard definition. On August 8,2014 the station struck a partnership with KGO-TV to share news content. KDTV is the station to have a partnership with ABC since its sister station WUVP-TV in Philadelphia partnered with WPVI-TV
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Former logo, used until December 31, 2012.
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Univision
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Univision is an American Spanish language broadcast television network that is owned by Univision Communications. Univision is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and has its studios, production facilities. In recent years, the network has reached viewership parity with the five major English language U. S. television networks, Univision is available on cable and satellite television throughout most of the United States, with local stations in over 60 markets with large Hispanic and Latino populations. Chief operating officer Randy Falco has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president, the new owners helped to turn around the stations fortunes by heavily investing in programming. Televisas ownership interest in SIN transferred posthumously from Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta to his son, Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, in Chicago, SIN moved its programming from WCIU-TV to new full-time affiliate WSNS-TV in July 1985. After WSNS was sold to Telemundo in 1988, what had become Univision moved its programming back to WCIU-TV, wGBO-TV became an Univision-owned station in January 1995. to operate the network and its stations. The Federal Communications Commission and SINs competitors had long questioned whether the relationship between SIN and the Azcárraga family was impermissibly tight, both the FCC and other Spanish-language broadcasters had long suspected that Televisa was merely using Nicolas to skirt FCC rules prohibiting foreign ownership of broadcast media. The FCC and the U. S. Justice Department eventually encouraged a sale of the network to a properly constituted domestic organization, joaquin Blaya, the networks new chief executive officer, would sign agreements to carry two programs that would change the face of the network. He signed contracts to develop programs hosted by Cristina Saralegui and Chilean-born Mario Kreutzberger – better known as Don Francisco – for the network. It also prohibited the use of English in its programming or advertisements, in 1988, Blaya also substantially ramped up production of American-based programs on Univisions lineup, reducing the share of programming imported from Latin America on its schedule. With this, the network began producing programs with an audience in mind, resulting in Univisions schedule consisting of 50% foreign programming. During Flores tenure as host of TV Mujer, the remained the #1 daytime show on Spanish-language television. Telemundos Dia a Dia, which debuted prior to the premiere of TV Mujer, TV Mujer inspired a series of other programs, including Hola, America and Al Mediodia, which never garnered the ratings of the original concept and were ultimately cancelled. However, the networks began to wane following the Hallmark purchase. The network opted to replace the Mexican-produced serials with novelas produced in South America, however, to make matters worse, with limited revenue from advertising, the sale to Hallmark left Univision with a huge debt load to cover. On April 8,1992, Hallmark sold Univision to a group that included Los Angeles-based investor A. 5% stake in the station group, the deal placed Univision under common ownership with competing cable channel Galavisión, which the Azcárraga-run Grupo Televisa owned at the time. KMEX became the first Spanish-language television station ever to outperform English-language network stations and that year, Univision also acquired KXLN, the first Spanish-language television station in the Houston market. Perenchio also implemented new programming requirements in which programs were no longer allowed to run 20 minutes over their allotted timeslot
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A Univision float in the 2010 North Hudson Cuban Day Parade in
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KEMO-TV, virtual channel 50, is an Azteca-affiliated television station, licensed to Santa Rosa, California, USA and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. KEMO-TV is owned by Northstar Media, LLC, and maintains studios and offices in Emeryville, the station is available on cable via AT&T, Dish, & DirecTV channel 50 and Comcast channels 31 and 719. The station first went on the air in 1972 and quickly attracted eager young broadcasters who honed their craft and this much anticipated effort to establish a local North Bay TV station in Santa Rosa, led by Atkinson and partner Kit Spier, was under-financed and lasted only a year. The station was off the air more than it was on, and after the novelty of a new TV station wore off, viewers had little confidence and the station went dark. The second incarnation of KFTY went live in a furniture store on Mendocino Avenue in May 1981 with broadcaster Jim Johnson. A news department was formed with Bob Sherwood, formerly of KGO-TV, was the stations first News Director and Rod Sherry, then a veteran KPIX anchor, was the weekend anchor and later News Producer. Some of the news reporters included Deb Sherwood, Fred Wayne, Karen Clinton, Karen Provenza, Ed Beebout, and Diane Kaufman. News 50 adopted the slogan, We do it twice, every night, on January 26th,2007, station manager John Burgess was ordered to shut down the News Dept, much to the disappointment to viewers in Sonoma, Marin, Napa, and Mendocino counties. Some of the went to other TV stations, some retired. Anchor Ed Beebout is now a professor at Sonoma State University. On April 20,2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its television station group to Providence Equity Partnerss Newport Television. Providence initially announced that it would not keep KFTY or its Bellingham, Washington sister station KVOS-TV, instead, because LK could not obtain financing for the purchase, KFTY was instead sold to High Plains Broadcasting. Newport Television began managing KFTY through a joint sales agreement, though High Plains controlled KFTYs programming, on April 25,2011, KFTY affiliated with the classic television network Me-TV, as part of an affiliation agreement between the network and Newport. Branded as Me-TV Bay Area, KFTY predominately aired Me-TV programming from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. on weekdays, the Me-TV affiliation moved to KOFY digital subchannel 20.2 on October 17,2011. After its news department was shut down, KFTY only produced hourly local news updates between regular programs, azteca TV San Francisco Query the FCCs TV station database for KEMO-TV
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Santa Rosa, California
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Santa Rosa is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. Its estimated 2014 population was 174,170, before the arrival of Europeans, the wide valley containing Santa Rosa was home to a strong and populous tribe of Pomo natives known as the Bitakomtara. The Bitakomtara controlled the valley closely, barring passage to others until permission was arranged and those who entered without permission were subject to harsh penalties. The tribe gathered at ceremonial times on Santa Rosa Creek near present-day Spring Lake Regional Park, upon the arrival of Europeans, the Pomos were decimated by smallpox brought from Europe, and by the eradication efforts of Anglo settlers. By 1900 the Pomo population had decreased by 95%, the first known permanent European settlement of Santa Rosa was the homestead of the Carrillo family, in-laws to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, who settled the Sonoma pueblo and Petaluma area. This is supposedly the origin of the name of Matanzas Creek as, because of its use as a slaughtering place, by the 1850s, a Wells Fargo post and general store were established in what is now downtown Santa Rosa. The U. S. Census records, among others, show that after California became a state, Santa Rosa grew steadily early on, despite lagging behind nearby Petaluma in the 1850s. According to the U. S. Census, in 1870 Santa Rosa was the eighth largest city in California, growth and development after that were steady but never rapid. According to a 1905 article in the Press Democrat newspaper reporting on the Battle of the Trains, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake essentially destroyed the entire downtown, but the citys population did not greatly suffer. However, after that period the population growth of Santa Rosa, famed director Alfred Hitchcock filmed his thriller Shadow of a Doubt in Santa Rosa in 1943, the film gives glimpses of Santa Rosa in the 1940s. Many of the buildings seen in the film no longer exist due to major reconstruction following the strong earthquakes in October 1969. However, some, like the rough-stone Northwestern Pacific Railroad depot, a scene at the bank was filmed at the corner of Fourth Street and Mendocino Avenue, the KRESS building on Fourth Street is also visible. However, the courthouse and bank are now gone, the Coen brothers 2001 film The Man Who Wasnt There is set in Santa Rosa c. Santa Rosa grew following World War II, the city was a convenient location for San Francisco travelers bound for the Russian River. The population increased by 2/3 between 1950 and 1970, an average of 1,000 new residents a year over the 20 years, some of the increase was from immigration, and some from annexation of portions of the surrounding area. Santa Rosa continued as a center for civil defense activity until 1972 when the Federal Emergency Management Agency was created in its place. When the City Council adopted the citys first modern General Plan in 1991, in the 21 years following 1970, Santa Rosa grew by about 3,000 residents a year—triple the average growth during the previous twenty years. Santa Rosa 2010, the 1991 General Plan, called for a population of 175,000 in 2010, the Council expanded the citys urban boundary to include all the land then planned for future annexation, and declared it would be Santa Rosas ultimate boundary
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Azteca (TV network)
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Azteca América is an American Spanish-language broadcast television network that is owned by the Azteca International Corporation subsidiary of TV Azteca. Its programming consists of a mix of telenovelas, Liga MX matches, sports, news programming, Azteca is available on cable and satellite television, with local stations in over 60 markets with large Hispanic and Latino populations (reaching 89% of the Hispanic population in the U. S. The networks flagship station KAZA-TV in Los Angeles is the station in Aztecas portfolio. President and CEO Manuel Abud has spearheaded the company since March 3,2014, Pappas and Azteca invested close to $500 million to start up the network, with an additional $450 million allocated for station acquisitions and a $129 million loan made by TV Azteca to Pappas. The network hoped to reach 65% to 70% of the Hispanic population in the U. S. by 2002, Azteca founder Ricardo Salinas Pliego had made previous attempts at entering into U. S. The network, through both companies, planned to acquire stations in markets to serve as Azteca Américas charter stations. Pappas Telecasting Companies gave up its majority stake in Azteca America in early 2002, the network eventually gained an affiliate in the lucrative Miami market in November 2002, when it affiliated with WPMF-LP, this was followed later that year by WNYN-LP in New York City. By the next year, Azteca América was reaching 52% of the U. S. Hispanic population, in 2003, the network covered 69% of the Hispanic audience, that number increased to 77% by 2004. In the summer of 2006, the network relocated its headquarters to the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale. Also in April 2007, Pappas Telecasting Companies announced that it would discontinue its relationship with Azteca América, Pappas attempted to launch a new network from those stations, TuVisión, made up of mainly acquired programming, to little success. In May 2008, Azteca América announced that it would layoff about 30 employees in a cost-cutting measure amid an advertising market due to the deepening recession at the time. S. The network phased in the revised branding on-air later that month, as of 2015, Azteca operates on a 150-hour network programming schedule. All other time periods are filled with infomercials, the networks programming includes weekend broadcasts of Mexican soccer matches, family game shows, reality and drama series, telenovelas and news programming. Regular series airing on the network include the caught-on-tape-focused newsmagazine Al Extremo, the U. S. -based Azteca network features content sourced from TV Aztecas three television stations in Mexico City – XHDF-TDT, XHIMT-TDT and XHTVM-TDT. Both newscasts, produced from Mexico, are aired exclusively in the United States and focus on the national and international news, Azteca also broadcasts a three-hour morning news program Hechos AM on weekdays as well as the weeknightly sports highlight and discussion program Deporte Caliente. The network formed its news division in 2003, with the debut of the evening news program Hechos América. C. On February 6,2009, Azteca announced that it would cancel its newscasts, the division produces association football matches from Liga MX, which typically air under the brand Fut Azteca. In 2013, the network airing a prime time match-of-the-week involving teams within Liga MX on Friday nights under the brand Viernes Futbolero
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Home Shopping Network
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Home Shopping Network is an American broadcast, basic cable and satellite television network that is owned by HSN, Inc. which also owns catalog company Cornerstone Brands. Based in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, the shopping channel has former. HSN also has an outlet at HSN. com. Mindy Grossman is the current CEO of the company and she became CEO of HSN in 2006, and aggressively reinvented and relaunched the brand. She took HSN public in 2008, and currently oversees its multibillion-dollar retail portfolio and multimedia expansion. The forerunner of HSN was launched by Lowell Bud Paxson and Roy Speer in 1982 as the Home Shopping Club and its competitor QVC was launched the following year. The idea for HSN had its roots in a radio station managed by Paxson, due to an advertisers liquidity problem in 1977, the company was paid in can openers. Left with having to raise the funds, on-air personality Bob Circosta went on the radio, the can openers sold out, and an industry was born. Circosta later became the new networks first ever home shopping host, in 1986, HSN began a second network that broadcast over-the-air on a number of television stations it had acquired under the name Silver King Broadcasting. HSN continues to air on low-power stations, ventana Television has the same street address as HSN, and is the holding company for its broadcast licenses. In 1997, HSN formally launched its second nationwide electronic retail venture, in April 2007, Americas Store ceased operating permanently. Most of the Americas Store hosts were absorbed into the HSN programming schedule, in 1998, Home Shopping Network launched a Spanish-language service Home Shopping en Español on the Univision-owned Galavision cable network. In 2000, the Spanish version rebranded itself as HSE and began broadcasting on low-power stations in the U. S. and it also ceased to broadcast through Galavision. In June 2002, HSE ceased to operate, in 1999, the company launched HSN. com, which as of 2009 is one of the 10 most trafficked e-commerce websites. Bud Paxson died on January 9,2015, in August 2009, HSN launched a high definition simulcast feed, which broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format. At launch, it was carried by Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS, it has since been added by other such as Comcast. As of February 2013, the standard definition channel is now merely downscaled at the provider from the HD feed rather than having a channel for 4,3 TVs. HSN launched a channel, HSN2, on August 1,2010
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KSTS
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KSTS, virtual channel 48, is a Telemundo owned-and-operated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area that is licensed to San Jose, California, United States. The station is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal, the two stations share studios and offices located on North 1st Street in San Jose. KSTSs transmitter is located atop Mount Allison, the station first signed on the air on May 31,1981 as an independent station. It was owned by National Group Television, which was headed by N. J. Douglas, the station initially offered programming weekdays from 5 a. m. to 3 p. m. from the Financial News Network. The station branded under the slogan Your Computer Connection, KSTS was also the only station to broadcast the introduction of Apples Macintosh personal computer at the companys 1984 Annual Shareholders Meeting. Beginning in the fall of 1981, KSTS carried the television service Star TV, featuring recent movies. By 1983, they were carrying subscription TV after 12 noon on weekends, by 1983, the off network shows were dropped for more brokered programming. That year, the station ran various brokered programming weekends from 5 a. m. to noon, Financial News remained weekdays till 3 p. m. NightMusic premiered in August 1984, a three-hour weekly live show that featured music videos and comedy. Hosted by John Ward with co-host Brian Leonard NightMusic aired from 9PM to 12M every Saturday for a year, chris Isaak was a frequent guest and Translator once served as the house band. Jay Peterson was a staff announcer, in 1984, Star TV began winding down operations due to the fact cable penetration eliminated the need for Subscription TV over the air. By 1986, KSTS was running Spanish programming for half of its broadcast day on weekdays. Later that year the Financial News Network programming ended and the became the entire broadcast day. NetSpan was relaunched as Telemundo in mid-1987, by then, the station was running the networks programming about 16 hours a day. Telemundo bought the station later that year, at which time KSTS began carrying Telemundo programming full-time. Initially, KSTS was targeted at the San Jose/Silicon Valley region, the station moved into all-digital broadcast center housed alongside KNTV in 2004. The stations digital channel is multiplexed, KSTS also has a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 48.1, KSTS shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12,2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The stations digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49, KSTS presently broadcasts five hours of locally produced newscasts each week. In 1988, KSTS launched its news department with the debut of a half-hour 6pm newscast, the program proved successful, which resulted in the station later adding a half-hour 11pm newscast
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Telemundo is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal division NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. It is the second largest provider of Spanish content nationwide behind American competitor Univision, Telemundo is headquartered in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida, and has 1,900 employees worldwide. The majority of Telemundos programs are filmed at a studio facility in Miami. The average hourly primetime drama costs $70K to produce. S, Ramos wanted to maintain a consistent branding for his media properties based around the mundo theme, and chose to brand his new television property as Telemundo. Rivero produced the first comedy/variety series for WKAQ-TV, La Taberna India, and La Farándula Corona on YouTube, during the 1970s and 1980s, WKAQ-TV, then branded as Telemundo Canal 2, had become a major producer of telenovelas. The station was known for its fingers logo – a bold number 2 with the silhouette of two upright fingers inside the number – and referred to itself as El canal de los dedos. On April 14,1983, Ramos sold WKAQ-TV to John Blair & Co, in 1984, the owners of WNJU in Linden, New Jersey and KSTS in San Jose, California formed NetSpan, the second Spanish-language television network in the continental United States. These stations joined KVEA in Los Angeles, run by its manager and part-owner Joe Wallach. In late 1986, Reliance also purchased WNJU, in 1987, Reliance Capital Group executives Saul Steinberg and Henry Silverman merged all these stations into the Telemundo Group. The new corporation quickly went public, and in 1987, Reliance decided to rebrand NetSpan as Telemundo, later that year, it purchased additional stations in San Francisco, Houston and San Antonio. Between 1988 and 1993, Telemundo acquired or affiliated with stations in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Washington. In May 1992, Telemundo underwent another management change, appointing former Univision president Joaquin Blaya – who resigned from that network after discovering in an FCC filing for A. The following year in 1993, Telemundo underwent a rebranding, introducing the signature framed T letter logo. The network also began to produce its own telenovelas, the first of which to premiere were Angélica, mi vida, Marielena, Guadalupe, Señora Tentación. International distributors soon approached the network for the rights to air these programs on television networks in other countries. In 1995, under the direction of executive president of programming Harry Abraham Castillo. Eastern time slot on certain weeknights to help bolster its late newscasts, after the sale received FCC approval on July 31,1998, Sony and Liberty formed a holding company that was operated as a 50/50 joint venture between both companies, Telemundo Communications Group. Among them were Angeles, a remake of Charlies Angels, Un Angel en la Casa, solo en America, a remake of One Day at a Time
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Ion Television
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Ion Television is an American broadcast, cable, and satellite television network that is owned by Ion Media Networks. The networks stations cover all of the top 20 U. S. markets and 37 of the top 50 markets, the network was founded by Lowell Bud Paxson, co-founder of the Home Shopping Network and chairman of parent company Paxson Communications. It was originally to be called Pax Net, but was renamed Pax TV – a dual reference to its founder and corporate parent, and the Latin word for peace – shortly before its launch. Paxson, who felt that television programs aired by other broadcast networks were too raunchy, Pax TV launched on August 31,1998, with the networks initial schedule being much larger in scope than it would be in later years. At launch, Pax aired general entertainment programming on weekdays from 12,00 p. m. to 12,00 a. m. and weekends from 4,00 to 11,00 p. m. Eastern and Pacific Time. Through an agreement with DIC Entertainment, its also included a childrens program block called Cloud Nine on Saturdays from 6,00 to 11,00. In addition, the network aired religious programming through time-lease agreements with The Worship Network, the remainder of the schedule was filled by paid programming. Initial programming on Pax TV consisted of shows, along with reruns of older programming. The network also produced some original series such as Sue Thomas, F. B. Eye, Doc, Mysterious Ways, Hope Island. The network would later carry reruns of the revival of Family Feud and, due to its alliance with NBC. NBC later sold its share in the back to Paxson in November 2003. In some cities, a network affiliate also provided some engineering. Original programming was also affected by the programming changes, Pax TV was originally offering five or six new series each season. The network seemingly recovered a year later when seven series made it to Paxs 2004–05 schedule, after the transition was complete, the network would continue to air programming under its Pax brand on one of its digital subchannels over-the-air and on select cable providers. Some media observers jocularly postulated that the i name was code for infomercial, due to the overabundance of paid programming on the networks daytime, in turn, the network adapted its programming content standards to those similar to other broadcast networks. In November 2005, NBC Universal was granted an option to purchase a controlling stake in Paxson Communications. Had this option been exercised, NBC would have acquired approximately 63 i owned-and-operated stations, as part of the agreement, Lowell Paxson stepped down from his position as chairman of Paxson Communications. In April 2006, published reports surfaced that i owed more than US$250 million to creditors, standard & Poors reported a much higher debt in March 2008, owing $867 million to creditors and having a bond rating of CCC+/Outlook Negative
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KFSF-DT, virtual channel 66, is a UniMás owned-and-operated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area that is licensed to Vallejo, California, United States. The station is owned by Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with Univision owned-and-operated station KDTV-DT, the two stations share studios located at the 50 Fremont Center building in San Franciscos Financial District, KFSF maintains transmitter facilities located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. The station first signed on the air on November 25,1986 as KPST-TV, founded by Millbrae-based Pan Pacific Television Inc. However from the start, other companies competed for the Channel 66 license, the most fervent competitor was Silver King Broadcasting, the broadcasting arm of HSN, which vied for the license for ten years after the stations sign-on. Shortly before KPST made its debut, Silver King announced that it would acquire the license. The deal was stalled for years until alleged improprieties by Pan Pacific cracked open the door for Silver King to try, as a result, the FCC rejected Whiteheads application. However, even though the U. S. Supreme Court decided to uphold the ruling by the D. C. Appeals Court when the case regarding the purchase discounts for minority firms was brought to a hearing in 1990, Whitehead, however, San Francisco-based West Coast United Broadcasting Co. On February 15,1996, the Whitehead-Diller partnership was given permission by the FCC to acquire KPST-TV for $9 million. At the time the concept formally launched on Miami sister station WAMI-TV in September of that year, in the summer of 2000, USA Networks announced that it would sell its television station group, in order to focus on its cable network and television production properties. Among the prospective buyers for the USA Broadcasting unit was The Walt Disney Company – which had acquired ABC in 1996 – which was the frontrunner to purchase the thirteen-station group. The sale to Univision faced opposition from a coalition of Bay Area residents of Chinese origin and San Francisco city supervisor Leland Yee, the FCC chose to approve the Univision acquisition, effectively allowing KPST to form a duopoly with Univision owned-and-operated station KDTV. The rebranding took place on January 7,2013, the stations digital channel is multiplexed, KFSF shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 66, on June 12,2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. TeleFutura web page section of univision. com Query the FCCs TV station database for KFSF BIAfns Media Web Database -- Information on KFSF-DT
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Vallejo, California
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Vallejo is a waterfront port city in Solano County, California, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 115,942 at the 2010 census and it is the tenth most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the largest in Solano County. Vallejo sits on the shore of San Pablo Bay,30 miles north of San Francisco. Vallejo is home to the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park, the now-defunct Mare Island Naval Shipyard, the colleges and universities in Vallejo are California Maritime Academy, the Vallejo Center campus of Solano Community College, and Touro University California. Ferry service runs from a terminal on Mare Island Strait to San Francisco, Vallejo has twice served as the capital of the state of California, once in 1852 and again in 1853, both periods being brief. The State Capitol building burned to the ground in the 1880s, as there were no bridges at that time, the Mare Island Fire Department had to be ferried across the Napa River, arriving to find only the foundation remaining. This was the first recorded mutual aid response in the state of California, some of the first Europeans drawn to the Vallejo area were attracted by the sulfur springs, in the year 1902 the area was named Blue Rock Springs. It was also known as White Sulfur Springs and that was the name of the leading to it from town. Vallejo is best known for the Zodiac Killer and being the hometown of Bay Area rappers E-40, according to United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 49.5 square miles. Land area is 30.7 square miles, and 18.9 square miles is water, the Napa River flows until it changes into the Mare Island Strait in Vallejo which then flows into the San Pablo Bay. Vallejo is located on the edge of Solano County, California in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. Vallejo is accessible by Interstate 80 between San Francisco and Sacramento, and is the location for the half of the Carquinez Bridge. It is also accessible by Interstate 780 from neighboring Benicia to the east, Route 29 begins in the city near the Carquinez Bridge and travels north through the heart of the city and beyond into Napa County, entering neighboring American Canyon and eventually Napa. Several faults have been mapped in the vicinity of Vallejo, the San Andreas Fault and Hayward Faults are the most active faults, although the San Andreas is at some distance. Locally, the Sulphur Springs Valley Thrust Fault and Southampton Fault are found, no quaternary seismic activity along these minor faults has been observed with the possible exception of a slight offset revealed by trenching. The Sulphur Mountain and Green Valley faults have been associated with the Concord Fault to the south, the Concord Fault is considered active. Historically there have been local cinnabar mines in the Vallejo area, the Hastings Mine and St. Johns Mine contribute ongoing water contamination for mercury, furthermore, mine shaft development has depleted much of this areas spring water. Both Rindler Creek and Blue Rock Springs Creek have been affected, the city of Vallejo is located 24 miles northeast of San Francisco,20 miles north of Oakland,56 miles north of San Jose and 52 miles south of Sacramento
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KCSM-TV
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KCSM-TV, virtual channel 60, is a non-commercial independent television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area that is licensed to San Mateo, California, United States. The station is owned by the San Mateo County Community College District, the station maintains studios located on the campus of the College of San Mateo on West Hillsdale Boulevard in San Mateo, and its transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower. KCSM-TV operates 24-hours a day with a focus toward adult education, on weekdays, it offers college-level distance learning telecourses and in primetime and on weekends, KCSM provides locally produced shows and a wide array of syndicated programming. The KCSM stations were established by the College of San Mateo as college radio and student television station training facilities for radio. Many well-known media personalities were educated at CSM, including tabloid television reporter Steve Wilson, San Francisco Giants announcer Jon Miller, the television station and its companion FM radio outlet were staffed and operated by students. This was discontinued in the 1980s, and today KCSM is operated by professional broadcasters, KCSM-TV first signed on the air on October 12,1964 was founded by Dr. Jacob H. Wiens, chair of the electronics department at the College of San Mateo. It was originally a station of National Educational Television until 1970. In March 2006, the Federal Communications Commission levied a $15,000 fine against KCSM for content in the documentary, The Blues, Godfathers and Sons, the series documented the birth and worldwide influence of the blues as a musical genre. One installment contained interviews with artists and others who expressed their feelings of oppression by the industry, including the use of variations of the words fuck. The FCC determined the content to be indecent. According to the FCC, The gratuitous and repeated use of language in a program that San Mateo aired at a time when children were expected to be in the audience is shocking. ”Within days of the decision. Because of the upswell of support, KCSM has requested an extension of time to file its appeal, KCSM dropped its membership with PBS in 2009, and became an independent public television station. KCSM-TV retained an affiliation with MHz Worldview for programming feeds on its digital subchannel. On December 7,2011, the San Mateo County Community College District announced plans to sell KCSM-TV, KCSM radio would continue operations as usual. All bids in response to the initial request for proposals to purchase the station were rejected on October 24,2012. The KCSM-TV spectrum is expected to be sold for upwards of $10 million to wireless communication companies, on July 15,2013, KCSM dropped most of the programming syndicated by public television distributors, moving the MHz Worldview feed to its main channel. It brought back aforementioned programming on July 15,2014, the stations digital channel is multiplexed, KCSM ceased regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 60, on May 15,2004 due to a costly rent increase for full-power transmitter space. The station ran a billboard for the several days advising viewers that they would only operate its digital signal from then on
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San Mateo, California
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San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the high-tech enclave of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 2015 population was estimated to be 103,536, San Mateo was incorporated in 1894. Documented by Spanish colonists as part of the Rancho de las Pulgas and the Rancho San Mateo, in 1789 the Spanish missionaries had named a Native American village along Laurel Creek as Los Laureles or the Laurels. At the time of Mexican Independence there were 30 native Californians at San Mateo, an 1835 sketch map of the Rancho refers to the creek as arroyo de los Laureles. In the 21st century, most of the laurels are gone, in 1810 Coyote Point was an early recorded feature of San Mateo. Beginning in the 1850s, some wealthy San Franciscans began building summer or permanent homes in the milder mid-peninsula, while most of this early settlement occurred in adjacent Hillsborough and Burlingame, a number of historically important mansions and buildings were constructed in San Mateo. A. P. Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy and his mansion, Seven Oaks, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 20 El Cerrito Drive, it has been deteriorating as it has not been preserved or occupied for years, in 1858 Sun Water Station, a stage station of the Butterfield Overland Mail route, was established in San Mateo. It was located 9 miles south of Clarks Station in what is now San Bruno and 9 miles north of the station at Redwood City. The Howard Estate was built in 1859 on the hill accessed by Crystal Springs Road, the Parrott Estate was erected in 1860 in the same area, giving rise to two conflicting names for the hill, Howard Hill and Parrot Hill. After use of the changed traffic patterns, neither historic name was commonly applied to that hill. The Borel Estate was developed near Borel Creek in 1874 and it has been redeveloped since the late 20th century for use as modern offices and shops. The property is managed and owned by Borel Place Associates and the Borel Estate Company, a smaller portion of the property and the mansion, was converted into The Peninsula Hotel in 1908, following Haywards death in 1904. The Hotel burned down in a fire on 25 June 1920. In the early 20th century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the salt ponds, although Japanese-Americans only account for 2. 2% of the population today, they continue to be a major cultural influence and a draw for the rest of the region. The Eugene J. De Sabla Japanese Teahouse and Garden was established in 1894 at 70 De Sabla Road, designed by Makoto Hagiwara and he arranged for Japanese artisans to be brought to the United States primarily for its teahouse construction. The parcel was purchased in 1988 by San Francisco businessman Achille Paladini and wife Joan, the garden features hundreds of varieties of plants and several rare trees. A large koi pond surrounds an island, the property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992
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KICU-TV
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KICU-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 36, is an independent television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area that is licensed to San Jose, California, United States. It is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, the two stations share studio facilities located at Jack London Square on Washington Street in West Oakland, KICU maintains transmitter facilities located on Monument Peak in Milpitas. The Federal Communications Commission originally assigned the UHF channel 36 allocation in Northern California to Stockton and it was occupied by KTVU, a short-lived independent station that signed on the air on December 18,1953. At the time, most television sets did not have built-in UHF tuners, consequently, as it was hampered by low viewership, the KTVU ultimately ceased operations on April 30,1955. Shortly afterward, Capital City TV Corp. entered into negotiations to purchase KTVU, Channel 36 never returned to the air and its construction permit was deleted by the Commission less than a year later. KICU-TV first signed on the air on October 9,1967 and it is currently the longest continuously operating commercial UHF television station in the Bay Area, as well as the longest continuously operating independent station in the market. The two characters often made jokes about the movies being showcased, as well as engaged in banter with guests promoting local businesses. The format would eventually be revised, with the interstitial segments conducted by Moore, in the winter of early 1981, the station was sold to Ralph Wilson Enterprises, operated by Detroit businessman Ralph Wilson, owner of the Buffalo Bills NFL franchise. The on-air identifications used by the following the callsign change featured a breathy, husky voiceover by Doda reading, I see you. In addition to breathing the station IDs, Doda would also perform the stations editorial segments, the first take of the editorials was always broadcast, with any mistakes made by Doda when they were recorded left in the aired segments. Over the years, the station ran a number of series and older movies, it also added more classic sitcoms. However, the station gradually decreased the amount of programs it carried on its schedule between 1998 and 2002, outside of those it aired on Saturday mornings. On August 28,1999, after having rejected unsolicited bids to sell the station for the several years, NBC would ultimately reach an affiliation deal with San Jose-based WB affiliate KNTV, after then-owner Granite Broadcasting Corporation on February 18,2000. On November 29,1999, Wilson sold the station to the Cox Broadcasting subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. The trade, which was part of Foxs pursuit of station acquisitions in the markets of NFL teams that are part of the National Football Conference, was completed on October 8,2014. On April 25,2016, KICU adopted the KTVU Plus brand, after the move, KICU began to broadcast its own programming over the feed. KICU-TV shut down its signal, over UHF channel 36, on February 17,2009. Syndicated programs broadcast by KICU-TV include Maury, Everybody Loves Raymond, Cops Reloaded, Elementary, KICU previously aired select NBC programs pre-empted by the networks designated Bay Area affiliates at three separate times throughout its history
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KOFY-TV
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KOFY-TV, virtual channel 20, is an independent television station located in San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by Granite Broadcasting, KOFY maintains studios located on Marin Street in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, and its transmitter is located atop the Sutro Tower. The stations signal is relayed on translator station, K29DF. Originally designated as KBAY-TV, the permit for the station went through many owners from the 1950s onward. The KEMO call letters were assigned to U. S. Communications. It was seemingly off the air more than it was on, KEMO offered Japanese live-action and cartoons dubbed into English including Speed Racer, Ultraman,8 Man, Prince Planet, Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero and The King Kong Show. Leon Crosbys KEMO signed off on September 30,1980, most memorable were the station identification breaks featuring pets, usually dogs, of Bay Area viewers that would look on cue at a television screen showing the stations logo. These IDs were retired in 1998, having aired alongside official WB-issued KOFY IDs for the first three years of the networks existence, other popular programming during the early and mid-1980s included the TV-20 Dance Party, and a Sunday late-night movie program. The Sunday program included studio segments at the beginning and commercial breaks of the movie, hosted by Gabbert, viewers were invited to join Gabbert on the set and for a time, enjoy a sponsors product. On March 1,1986, the changed its call letters to KOFY-TV. Gabbert sold KOFY radio in 1997 to Susquehanna Radio Corporation which changed the format from Spanish music to a talk format complementing its existing sports station. At one point, Gabbert made Bay Area broadcasting history by televising a 3D movie that required special glasses, KOFY-TV continued to run a general entertainment format, and added more cartoons in the late 1980s. Beginning in September 1987, the station filled the 7 to 11 p. m. timeslot with drama series such as Perry Mason, Cannon, Lou Grant, from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, KOFY also featured an in-studio, live kids cartoon show called Cartoon Classics. Hosted by Maestro Dick Bright, the show offered such cartoons as Mighty Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, the show frequently featured local magician Magic Mike performing for the studio children. Finally the live-action in-studio segment was scrapped and the show just showed the cartoons straight, afternoon cartoon shows such as these eventually became a thing of the past as cable television was able to feature round-the-clock cartoons aimed at younger viewers. KOFY added more sitcoms in the early 1990s, the CBS game show Tattletales was picked up for the KEMO schedule during the mid-1970s among its foreign language-heavy programming when KPIX did not carry its CBS feed. On Christmas Eve, Gabbert would preempt normal programming during the evening and broadcast its own version of the Yule Log. In the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, the station ran a dance party hosted by James Gabbert
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KOFY's 1985 logo when known as KTZO.
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KOFY's 1994 logo.
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KTSF
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KTSF, virtual channel 26, is an independent Asian television station located in Brisbane, California, United States. The station is owned by Lincoln Broadcasting Company, KTSF maintains studio facilities located on Valley Drive in south suburban Brisbane, and its transmitter is located atop San Bruno Mountain. In 1965, Lillian Lincoln Howell was issued a broadcast license for a new station in San Francisco. Her goal was to offer programming to audiences that were not targeted by the stations already on the air at the time. Her stated mission was to serve the underserved, for many years a half-hour horse racing program hosted by Sam Speer brought video of the GoldenGate Fields or Bay Meadows daily results. The station also ran shows in the morning hours such as The PTL Club. Entertainment shows included Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show, Hazel, The Flying Nun, Father Knows Best, Lassie, Marine Boy, Ultraman, King Kong cartoons and The Space Giants. At that time, four other independent Bay Area stations had general entertainment schedules, including KTVU, KTZO, KICU, by 1981, the Japanese animated and live action shows were dropped. KTSF became the first U. S. broadcaster to carry Asian-language programming, in January 1,1980, KTSF ended the Chinese and other Asian programming weeknights, relegating it to weekend afternoons. Daily after 7, 00pm, the picked up a subscription movie service called ONTV. Its signal would appear scrambled, with a message being played that described the service. Descrambler boxes could be rented to view the channel, in 1983, KTSF expanded its Asian content to reflect the changing demographics of the Bay Area. The station began running this programming a couple hours a day middays, in the Spring of 1985, ONTV was winding down operations nationally so KTSF expended Asian offerings to evenings and overnights as well. Also, in 1985, KTSF dropped English general entertainment programming as well, a significant step in the stations history came in 1987 when it hired Gallup to perform the first Chinese-language consumer study ever conducted in the United States. The challenge for any commercial broadcaster is to be able to demonstrate to advertisers a profile of its viewers, the Gallup study demonstrated to mainstream U. S. companies that the Chinese-American market behaved like most other groups. The major grocery chains, with their large variety of products. With this new research, KTSF was able to attract mainstream U. S. companies to the Asian American market, on February 6,1989, KTSF launched the first live Chinese language newscast in the United States. Throughout the 1990s, with the H-1B visas in place, it was easier for U. S. companies to attract qualified workers from other countries, the Bay Area saw a large number of workers from China, Taiwan and India move to Silicon Valley
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Amateur radio
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The amateur radio service is established by the International Telecommunication Union through the International Telecommunication Regulations. National governments regulate technical and operational characteristics of transmissions and issue individual stations licenses with a call sign. Prospective amateur operators are tested for their understanding of key concepts in electronics, according to an estimate made in 2011 by the American Radio Relay League, two million people throughout the world are regularly involved with amateur radio. About 830,000 amateur radio stations are located in IARU Region 2 followed by IARU Region 3 with about 750,000 stations, a significantly smaller number, about 400,000, are located in IARU Region 1. The origins of amateur radio can be traced to the late 19th century, the First Annual Official Wireless Blue Book of the Wireless Association of America, produced in 1909, contains a list of amateur radio stations. This radio callbook lists wireless telegraph stations in Canada and the United States, as with radio in general, amateur radio was associated with various amateur experimenters and hobbyists. Amateur radio enthusiasts have significantly contributed to science, engineering, industry, research by amateur operators has founded new industries, built economies, empowered nations, and saved lives in times of emergency. Ham radio can also be used in the classroom to teach English, map skills, geography, math, science, the term ham radio was first a pejorative that mocked amateur radio operators with a 19th-century term for being bad at something, like ham-fisted or ham actor. It had already used for bad wired telegraph operators. Subsequently, the community adopted it as a moniker, much like the Know-Nothing Party, or other groups. Other, more entertaining explanations have grown up throughout the years, the many facets of amateur radio attract practitioners with a wide range of interests. Many amateurs begin with a fascination of radio communication and then combine other personal interests to make pursuit of the hobby rewarding, some of the focal areas amateurs pursue include radio contesting, radio propagation study, public service communication, technical experimentation, and computer networking. Amateur radio operators use various modes of transmission to communicate, the two most common modes for voice transmissions are frequency modulation and single sideband. FM offers high quality audio signals, while SSB is better at long distance communication when bandwidth is restricted. Radiotelegraphy using Morse code, also known as CW from continuous wave, is the extension of landline telegraphy developed by Samuel Morse. Morse, using internationally agreed message encodings such as the Q code, a similar legacy mode popular with home constructors is amplitude modulation, pursued by many vintage amateur radio enthusiasts and aficionados of vacuum tube technology. Demonstrating a proficiency in Morse code was for years a requirement to obtain an amateur license to transmit on frequencies below 30 MHz. Following changes in regulations in 2003, countries are no longer required to demand proficiency
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An example of an amateur radio station with four transceivers, amplifiers, and a computer for logging and for digital modes. On the wall are examples of various amateur radio awards, certificates, and a reception report card (QSL card) from a foreign amateur station.
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An amateur radio station in the United Kingdom. Multiple transceivers are employed for different bands and modes. Computers are used for control, datamodes, SDR and logging.
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NASA astronaut Col.
Doug Wheelock, KF5BOC,
Expedition 24 flight engineer, operates the NA1SS ham radio station in the
Zvezda Service Module of the
International Space Station. Equipment is a
Kenwood TM-D700E transceiver.
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The top of a tower supporting a
Yagi-Uda antenna and several wire antennas
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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San Francisco and the
Golden Gate Bridge from
Marin Headlands
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Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
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1853
United States Coast Survey Map
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Francis Samuel Marryat, Hilltop of San Francisco, California, Looking toward the Bay, 1849. M.& N. Hanhart Chromolithograph
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Westinghouse Electric (1886)
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The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company. It was founded on January 8,1886, as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by inventor, George Westinghouse had previously founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. The corporation purchased CBS broadcasting company in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997, Westinghouse Electric was founded by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1886. The firm became active in developing electric infrastructure throughout the United States, in addition to George Westinghouse, early engineers working for the company included Frank Conrad, Benjamin Garver Lamme, Oliver B. Shallenberger, William Stanley, Nikola Tesla, Stephen Timoshenko and Vladimir Zworykin, early on Westinghouse was a rival to Thomas Edisons electric company. In 1892 Edison was merged with Westinghouses chief AC rival, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, making even bigger competitor, Westinghouse changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. Westinghouse purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997, in 1998, CBS established a brand licensing subsidiary Westinghouse Licensing Corporation. In 1997/1998 the Power Generation Business Unit, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, was sold to Siemens AG, a year later, CBS sold all of its nuclear power businesses to British Nuclear Fuels Limited. Soon after, BNFL gained license rights on the Westinghouse trademarks and that company was sold to Toshiba in 2007. The first commercial Westinghouse steam turbine generator, a 1,500 kW unit. The machine, nicknamed Mary-Ann, was the first steam turbine generator to be installed by a utility to generate electricity in the US. George Westinghouse had based his original steam turbine design on designs licensed from the English inventor Charles Parsons. or were built overseas under Westinghouse license. Major Westinghouse licensees or joint venture partners included Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan and Harbin Turbine Co. Westinghouse boasted 50,000 employees by 1900, and established a formal research and development department in 1906. While the company was expanding, it would experience internal financial difficulties, during the Panic of 1907, the Board of Directors forced George Westinghouse to take a six-month leave of absence. Westinghouse officially retired in 1909 and died years later in 1914. Under new leadership, Westinghouse Electric diversified its business activities in electrical technology and it acquired the Copeman Electric Stove Company in 1914 and Pittsburgh High Voltage Insulator Company in 1921. Westinghouse also moved into broadcasting by establishing Pittsburghs KDKA, the first commercial radio station. Westinghouse expanded into the business, establishing the Westinghouse Elevator Company in 1928
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George Westinghouse
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Pittsburgh Plant (before 1888)
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Close up of Westinghouse logo on historic kitchen stove at John & Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Sign, 1967.
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Mount Sutro
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Mount Sutro is a hill in central San Francisco, California. It was originally named Mount Parnassus, the low mountain is 909 feet in elevation. Mount Sutro is one of the many named hills within San Francisco, most of Mount Sutro is owned by the University of California, San Francisco. A 61-acre parcel, including the summit, is protected as the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve by UCSF, Sutro Tower, a large television and radio broadcasting tower for the San Francisco Bay Area and very visible City landmark is not on Mount Sutro. It stands on a hill to the south between it and Twin Peaks. Mount Sutro has been covered by a dense forest, with about 80% being introduced eucalyptus trees, the older trees are now over 100 feet tall. The mountain is within San Franciscos fog belt, receiving fog throughout the summer, the tall trees precipitate the fog, with the moisture being absorbed by the duff and tree roots, and the forest remains damp through the summer months. It receives some 30 to 40% of its moisture from fog drip, there is a dense understory of non-native Himalayan blackberry and several other plants. The forest provides habitat for a number of species, including great horned owls. Over thirty species were recorded in a morning of bird watching. The 19-acre city-owned portion of Mount Sutro and the eucalyptus forest, Rotary Meadow, a garden of California native plants, is at the summit within the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve. It was funded by a $100,000 grant from the Rotary Club, the garden is maintained by the Sutro Stewards volunteers, and has water supplied by UCSF. It is accessible by paved road from Clarendon Avenue through UCSFs Aldea San Miguel housing complex, most of the gardens plants reach peak bloom in the spring. It is encircled by the Eucalyptus forest, and therefore has no views of the city, as the nearby non-forested Twin Peaks, the hill and forest are accessible by hiking trails, many of which are suitable for mountain bikes. In 2009, UCSF applied for a grant from FEMA to remove a majority of the trees on 23% of its land, for campus. It was supported by native habitat restoration advocates, for the return and expansion of indigenous habitats that support native flora, after over four years, the first step, a preliminary Draft EIR for public review and comments, has yet to be completed by UCSF. Much of 19th century Mount Sutro was within the Rancho San Miguel of Alta California, the ranch property was acquired by Adolph Sutro in 1879, shortly after his Comstock Lode stock was bought out by his partners, the Silver Big 4. That enabled Sutro to invest in San Francisco real estate on a large scale
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Mount Sutro, with
UCSF and the
Sutro Tower, seen from
Golden Gate Park.
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Eucalyptus trees cover much of Mount Sutro, as seen on its summit.
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Crusader Rabbit
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Crusader Rabbit is the first animated series produced specifically for television. Its main characters were Crusader Rabbit and his sidekick Ragland T, Rags Tiger, and their nemesises Dudley Nightshade and Bilious Green. The stories were 4-minute-long satirical cliffhangers, the concept was test marketed in 1948, while the initial episode – Crusader vs. the State of Texas – aired on KNBH in Los Angeles on August 1,1949. The program was syndicated from 1950 to 1952 for 195 episodes, Jay Ward, who went on to create The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, was involved as business manager and producer. The concept of a series made for television came from animator Alex Anderson. Terrytoons turned down Andersons proposed series, preferring to remain in theatrical film animation, consequently, Anderson approached Jay Ward to create a partnership – Anderson being in charge of production and Ward arranging financing. Ward became business manager and producer, joining with Anderson to form Television Arts Productions in 1947, wNBC-TV in New York continued to show the original Crusader Rabbit episodes from 1950 through 1967, and some stations used the program as late as the 1970s. This was due to the budget that producers Jay Ward. In 1948 Clarence E. Wheeler created the opening and closing theme for the animated series, adapting and arranging the folk melodies The Trail to Mexico. Each program began with a sequence of a mounted knight galloping across the screen. The episodes then featured a short, usually satirical, adventure in the form of a movie serial, Crusader Rabbit was syndicated from 1950 to 1952, totaling 195 episodes, and then re-aired for many years. It featured Crusader Rabbit, his companion Ragland T. Tiger, and their occasional nemesis – Dudley Nightshade, some episodes featured Crusaders and Ragss friends Garfield the Groundhog or Arson and Sterno, a two-headed dragon. Ragland Tigers name came from the jazz tune Tiger Rag his middle initial T stands for The, while Dudley Nightshades name was a play on the poisonous plant, deadly nightshade. As a running gag, another character would ask Rags what the T stood for, to which hed reply, the series was revived and 13 new crusades were produced in 1956 by Shull Bonsalls Capital Enterprises. Animation was provided by Bonsalls Creston Studios, also known as TV Spots, Inc. supervised by Bob Ganon, the new series was not seen until early 1959. The revived series used an opening and closing theme from the British Impress production music library licensed by Emil Ascher publishing of New York and it was titled Juggins, and was composed by Van Phillips, the professional name of Alexander Van Cleve Phillips. Lucille Bliss provided the voice of Crusader Rabbit in the original series, Vern Louden played Rags in both. Dudley Nightshade was voiced by Russ Coughlan, and narration was by Roy Whaley, the success of Crusader Rabbit inspired many more television cartoon character packages
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Crusader Rabbit
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
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Ernest Jennings Ford, known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres. Noted for his rich voice and down-home humor, he is remembered for his hit recordings of The Shotgun Boogie. Born in Bristol, Tennessee to Maud and Clarence Thomas Ford, Ford began his radio career as an announcer at WOPI-AM in Bristol. In 1939, the young left the station to study classical singing at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in Ohio. As First Lieutenant, he served in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II as the bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress flying missions over Japan and he was also a bombing instructor at George Air Force Base, located in Victorville, California. After the war, Ford worked at stations in San Bernardino and Pasadena. At KFXM in San Bernardino, Ford was hired as a radio announcer and he was assigned to host an early morning country music disc jockey program, Bar Nothin Ranch Time. To differentiate himself, he created the personality of Tennessee Ernie and he became popular in the area and was soon hired away by Pasadenas KXLA radio. At KXLA, Ford continued doing the show and also joined the cast of Cliffie Stones popular live KXLA country show Dinner Bell Roundup as a vocalist while still doing the early morning broadcast. Cliffie Stone, a talent scout for Capitol Records, brought him to the attention of the label. In 1949, while doing his morning show, he signed a contract with Capitol. He became a local TV star as the star of Stones popular Southern California Hometown Jamboree show, radiOzark produced 260 15-minute episodes of The Tennessee Ernie Show on transcription disks for national radio syndication. He released almost 50 country singles through the early 1950s, several of which made the charts, ill Never Be Free, a duet pairing Ford with Capitol Records pop singer Kay Starr, became a huge country and pop crossover hit in 1950. A duet with Ella Mae Morse, False Hearted Girl was a top seller for the Capitol Country and Hillbilly division, Ford eventually ended his KXLA morning show and in the early 1950s, moved on from Hometown Jamboree. He took over from band-leader Kay Kyser as host of the TV version of NBC quiz show Kollege of Musical Knowledge when it returned briefly in 1954 after a four-year hiatus. He became a name in the U. S. largely as a result of his portrayal in 1954 of the country bumpkin, Cousin Ernie on three episodes of I Love Lucy. In 1955, Ford recorded Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier with Farewell to the Mountains on side B. The songs authorship has been claimed by both Travis and George S. Davis, although Travis is recognized as the author on the recording itself, by BMI
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
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Sixteen Tons album cover
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Ernie and Betty Ford at home in 1962.
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Jack LaLanne
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Francois Henri Jack LaLanne was an American fitness, exercise, and nutrition expert and motivational speaker who is sometimes referred to as the Godfather of Fitness and the First Fitness Superhero. He described himself as being a sugarholic and a junk food junkie until he was age 15 and he also had behavioral problems, but turned his life around after listening to a public lecture about the benefits of good nutrition by health food pioneer Paul Bragg. During his career, he came to believe that the overall health depended on the health of its population. He published numerous books on fitness and hosted the television program The Jack LaLanne Show between 1953 and 1985. As early as 1936, at age 21, he opened one of the nations first fitness gyms in Oakland, California, one of his 1950s television exercise programs was aimed toward women, whom he also encouraged to join his health clubs. He invented a number of machines, including the pulley and leg extension devices. Besides producing his own series of videos, he coached the elderly and disabled not to forgo exercise, LaLanne also gained recognition for his success as a bodybuilder, as well as for his prodigious feats of strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger once exclaimed That Jack LaLannes an animal, after a 54-year-old LaLanne beat then 21-year-old Schwarzenegger badly in an informal contest. Steve Reeves credited LaLanne as his inspiration to build his muscular physique while keeping a slim waist, LaLanne was inducted to the California Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. LaLanne was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Jennie and Jean/John LaLanne, both entered the U. S. in the 1880s as young children at the Port of New Orleans. LaLanne had two brothers, Ervil, who died in childhood, and Norman, who nicknamed him Jack. He grew up in Bakersfield, California and later moved with his family to Berkeley, in 1939, his father died at the age of 58 in a San Francisco hospital, which LaLanne attributed to coronary thrombosis and cirrhosis of the liver. In his book The Jack LaLanne Way to Vibrant Health, LaLanne wrote that as a boy he was addicted to sugar and he had violent episodes directed against himself and others, describing himself as a miserable goddamn kid. Besides having a bad temper, LaLanne also suffered from headaches and bulimia, the following year, at age 15, he heard health food pioneer Paul Bragg give a talk on health and nutrition, focusing on the evils of meat and sugar. Braggs message had a influence on LaLanne, who then changed his life and started focusing on his diet. In his own words, he was again, and besides his new focus on nutrition. Describing his change of diet, LaLanne stated, I had to take my lunch alone to the field to eat so no one would see me eat my raw veggies, whole bread, raisins. You dont know the crap I went through and he studied Henry Grays Anatomy of the Human Body and concentrated on bodybuilding and weightlifting
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LaLanne in 1961
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Jack LaLanne in 1961
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Gypsy Rose Lee
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Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer and vedette famous for her striptease act. She was also an actress, author, and playwright whose 1957 memoir was made into the stage musical, Gypsy Rose Lee was born in Seattle, Washington on January 8,1911, however, she always gave January 9 as her date of birth. She was known as Louise to her family and her sister, actress June Havoc, was born in 1912. The girls were unsure until later in life what their years of birth were and their mother had married Norwegian-American John Olaf Hovick, a newspaper advertising salesman and a reporter at The Seattle Times. They married on May 28,1910 in Seattle, Washington and they divorced on August 20,1915. Rose Thompson married her husband, Judson Brennerman, a traveling salesman, on May 26,1916 at a Unitarian church in Seattle. After the divorce of Hovick and Thompson, June supported the family by appearing in vaudeville, Rose and June went to Hollywood for two years where June appeared in short films directed by Hal Roach. Louise was left behind while June and her mother were on the road and she had an elementary education, unlike June who was taught to read by stage-hands. Louises singing and dancing talents were insufficient to sustain the act without June, eventually, it became apparent that Louise could make money in burlesque, which earned her legendary status as an elegant and witty striptease artist. Her innovations were an almost casual stripping style compared to the styles of most burlesque strippers. She was frequently arrested in raids on the Minsky brothers shows, during the Great Depression, Lee spoke at various union meetings in support of New York laborers. According to activist Harry Fisher, her talks were among those that attracted the largest audiences, in 1937 and 1938, billed as Louise Hovick, she made five films in Hollywood. But her acting was panned, so she returned to New York City where she had an affair with film producer Michael Todd and co-produced and appeared in his 1942 musical revue, Star. Lee viewed herself as a stripper, and she approved of H. L. Menckens term ecdysiast. Her style of intellectual recitation while stripping was spoofed in the number Zip. in Rodgers and Harts Pal Joey, Lee performed an abbreviated version of her act in the 1943 film Stage Door Canteen. Her routine starts at about 1 hour 29 minutes into the film, in 1941, Lee authored a mystery thriller called The G-String Murders, which was made into the sanitized 1943 film, Lady of Burlesque starring Barbara Stanwyck. Lees second murder mystery, Mother Finds a Body, was published in 1942, in Hollywood, she married Arnold Bob Mizzy on August 25,1937, at the insistence of the film studio. In 1942, she married William Alexander Kirkland, they divorced in 1944, while married to Kirkland, she gave birth on December 11,1944, to a son fathered by Otto Preminger
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Gypsy Rose Lee in the film
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
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Gypsy Rose Lee in Los Angeles, c. 1937
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Gypsy Rose Lee, full-length portrait
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Grave of Gypsy Rose Lee at Inglewood Park Cemetery (with wrong year of birth)
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KSFO is a talk radio station in San Francisco, California, United States, broadcasting on 560 kHz AM with content focusing on conservative talk. It operated under the ownership of the American Broadcasting Company until the group was purchased by Citadel Broadcasting in 2007. The station is now owned by Cumulus Media, following its 2011 merger with Citadel, the stations studios are in the citys SoMa district, and a transmitter is located at the end of Islais Creek where it meets the San Francisco Bay. The content of the KSFOs talk programming is conservative, with hosts such as Mark Levin. The station also airs Red Eye Radio overnights, KSFO went on the air in 1925 as KTAB in Oakland, owned by the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church there. It was acquired by Wesley Dumm under the legal name The Associated Broadcasters (in order to keep the TAB backronym, KTAB offered a variety format of music, news, and sports. Just before the start of World War II, Mr. Dumm was tapped by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to use his KSFO facility to spawn international shortwave broadcast stations KWID and these stations became the genesis of the Voice of America. Facilities for KSFO, KWID, and KWIX were located at San Franciscos Islais Creek where the KSFO transmitter continues to operate today. Beginning in 1955, KSFO changed to a middle of the format with some jazz, sports. At the time, the station was owned by Gene Autrys Golden West Broadcasting, for the next two decades, KSFO was the most listened-to station in the San Francisco - Oakland market. It was the home of singers like Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis, Dean Martin, memorable broadcasters of KSFOs history include sportscasters Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons, newscasters Aaron Edwards and Mike Powell, and disc jockeys Don Sherwood, Carter B. Smith, Al Jazzbeau Collins, Jim Lange, Gene Nelson, John Gilliland, Dan Sorkin, a history of KSFO in the heyday of Don Sherwood can be found in Laurie Harpers biography, Don Sherwood — The Life and Times of the Worlds Greatest Disk Jockey. Newscasters, sportscasters, and DJs from KSFO played an annual softball game to benefit the Police Athletic League, in August 1994, the station switched to a conservative talk format with the slogan The Station for Right-Thinking People. The former two were originally the major contributors to the show, the latter covers traffic and weather, upon Lee Rodgers dismissal, Brian Sussman left his weekday evening slot and took over The Morning Show, effective February 19,2010. In June 2009, KSFO picked up Morgans new syndicated program, Americas Morning News and it airs in the very early morning slot, immediately before The Morning Show. Some of the hosts at sister station KGO, such as David Gold and Michael Savage. Gold no longer hosts shows at KSFO, although he frequently fills in other hosts are absent. In 2007, the station was purchased by Citadel Broadcasting, along with the rest of The Walt Disney Company/ABC Radios radio stations, Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16,2011
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Navajo people
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The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. After the Cherokee, they are the second-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States, the Navajo language is spoken throughout the region, with most Navajos speaking English, as well. The states with the largest Navajo populations are Arizona and New Mexico, over three-quarters of the Navajo population reside in these two states. The Navajos are speakers of a Na-Dené Southern Athabaskan language known within the language as Diné bizaad, the language comprises two geographic, mutually intelligible dialects. It is closely related to the Apache language, as the Navajos and Apaches are believed to have migrated from northwestern Canada and eastern Alaska, speakers of various other Athabaskan languages located in Canada may still comprehend the Navajo language despite the geographic and linguistic deviation of the languages. Additionally, some Navajos speak Navajo Sign Language, which is either a dialect or daughter of Plains Sign Talk, archaeological and historical evidence suggests the Athabaskan ancestors of the Navajos and Apaches entered the Southwest around 1400 CE. The Navajo oral tradition is said to retain references of this migration, until contact with Pueblos and the Spanish, the Navajos were largely hunters and gatherers. The tribe adopted crop-farming techniques from the Pueblo peoples, growing corn, beans. When the Spanish arrived, the Navajos began herding sheep and goats as a source of trade and food. Sheep also became a form of currency and status symbols among the Navajos based on the quantity of herds a family maintained. In addition, the practice of spinning and weaving wool into blankets and clothing became common, in the 18th century, the Spanish reported the Navajos maintaining large herds of livestock and cultivating large crop areas. Navahu comes from the Tewa, meaning area of cultivated lands. By the 1640s, the Spanish began using the term Navajo to refer to the Diné, during the 1670s, the Spanish wrote that the Diné lived in a region known as Dinétah, about 60 miles west of the Rio Chama valley region. In the 1780s, the Spanish sent military expeditions against the Navajos in the Mount Taylor, the Navajos came into contact with the United States Army in 1846, when General Stephen W. Kearny invaded Santa Fe with 1,600 men during the Mexican–American War. The treaty was not honored by many young Navajo raiders, who continued to steal livestock from New Mexican villages, New Mexicans, on their part, together with Utes, continued to raid Navajo country, stealing livestock and taking women and children for sale as slaves. In 1849, the governor of New Mexico, Colonel John MacRae Washington—accompanied by John S. The treaty acknowledged the jurisdiction of the United States and allowed forts, the United States, on its part, promised such donations such other liberal and humane measures, as may deem meet and proper. While en route to this treaty signing, Narbona, a prominent Navajo peace leader, was killed, during the next 10 years, the U. S. established forts on traditional Navajo territory
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Navajo portraits
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19th-century hogan
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Chief
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Navajo woman & child, c. 1880-1910
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The Flintstones
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The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera for ABC. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting, depicts the lives of the characters, their next-door neighbors and best friends. It was originally broadcast from September 30,1960, to April 1,1966 in a time schedule. The continuing popularity of The Flintstones rested heavily on its juxtaposition of modern concerns in the Stone Age setting. The Flintstones was the most financially successful network animated franchise for three decades, until The Simpsons debuted decades later, in 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. The show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock, in this fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs and other long-extinct animals co-exist with cavemen, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths. For example, the cars are made out of stone, wood, and animal skins, animation historian Christopher P. Lehman considers that the series draws its humor in part from creative uses of anachronisms. The main one is the placing of a modern, 20th-century society in prehistory and this society takes inspiration from the suburban sprawl developed in the first two decades of the postwar period. This society has modern home appliances, but they work by employing animals and they have automobiles, but they hardly resemble the cars of the 20th century. These cars are wooden structures and burn no fuel. They are powered by people who run while inside them, finally, the stone houses of this society are cookie-cutter homes positioned into typical neighborhoods. As a running gag, often the prehistoric analog to a modern machine uses an animal, for example, when a character takes photographs with an instant camera, inside the camera box, a bird carves the picture on a stone tablet with its beak. The animal powering such technology would frequently break the wall, look directly into the camera at the audience. The Stone Age setting allowed for gags and word plays involving rocks, for example, San Antonio becomes Sand-and-Stony-o, the country to the south of Bedrocks land is called Mexirock. Travel to Hollyrock, a parody of Hollywood, usually involves an airplane flight — the plane, in case, is often shown as a giant pterosaur. Sun Valley becomes Stone Valley and is run by Conrad Hailstone, once, while visiting one of Bedrocks houses of Haute Couture with Wilma, Betty even commented on the new Jackie Kennerock look. In some cases, the celebrity featured also provided the voice, Samantha and Darrin from Bewitched were voiced by Elizabeth Montgomery, examples from the above list include Ann-Margret, Curtis, Darren, and the Beau Brummels. Other celebrities, such as Ed Sulleystone and Alvin Brickrock, were rendered by impersonators, ace reporter Daisy Kilgranite was a friend of Wilma
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Fred and Wilma advertising Winston Cigarettes during the closing credits.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. The paper benefited from the growth of San Francisco and was the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the United States by 1880. Like many other newspapers, it has experienced a fall in circulation in the early 21st century. The newspaper publishes two web sites, SFGate, which has a mixture of news and web features. Between World War II and 1971, new editor Scott Josephine Newhall took a bold, the newspaper grew in circulation to become the citys largest, overtaking the rival San Francisco Examiner. The demise of other San Francisco dailies through the late 1950s and early 1960s left the Examiner, from 1965 on the two papers shared a single classified-advertising operation. This arrangement stayed in place until the Hearst Corporation took full control of the Chronicle, beginning in the early 1990s, the Chronicle started to face competition beyond the borders of San Francisco. The Chronicle launched five zoned sections to appear in the Friday edition of the paper, the sections covered San Francisco, and four different suburban areas. They each featured a unique columnist, enterprise pieces and local news specific to the community, the newspaper added 40 full-time staff positions to work in the suburban bureaus. The de Young family controlled the paper, via the Chronicle Publishing Company, until July 27,2000, following the sale, the Hearst Corporation transferred the Examiner to the Fang family, publisher of the San Francisco Independent and AsianWeek, along with a $66-million subsidy. Under the new owners, the Examiner became a free tabloid, in 1949, the de Young family founded KRON-TV, the Bay Areas third television station. Until the mid-1960s, the station, operated from the basement of the Chronicle Building, KRON moved to studios at 1001 Van Ness Avenue. The frequent bold-faced, all-capital-letter headlines typical of the Chronicles front page were eliminated, editor Ward Bushees note heralded the issue as the start of a new era for the Chronicle. On July 6,2009, the paper unveiled some alterations to the new design that included yet newer section fronts and wider use of color photographs and graphics. In a special section publisher Frank J. Vega described new, the newer look was accompanied by a reduction in size of the broadsheet. On November 9,2009, the Chronicle became the first newspaper in the nation to print on high-quality glossy paper, the high-gloss paper is used for some section fronts and inside pages. As of 2013 the publisher of the Chronicle is Jeffrey Johnson, audrey Cooper was named editor-in-chief in January 2015 and is the first woman to hold the position
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San Francisco Chronicle CEO John Sias announces the sale of the San Francisco Chronicle to the Hearst Corporation August 6, 1999.
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San Bruno Mountain
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San Bruno Mountain is located in northern San Mateo County, California, with some slopes of the mountain crossing over into southern San Francisco. Most of the lies within the 2, 326-acre San Bruno Mountain State Park. Next to the park is the 83-acre state San Bruno Mountain Ecological Reserve on the north slope. It is near the boundary of San Francisco, surrounded by the cities of South San Francisco, Daly City, Colma. San Bruno Mountain is topped by a four mile long ridge, trails to the summit afford expansive views of the San Francisco Bay Area. The mountain provides habitat for species of rare and endangered plants. The endangered San Bruno elfin butterfly inhabits this mountain and a few other locations, the distinct Franciscan fog zone plants of San Bruno Mountain set it apart from other California coastal areas. The Portola expedition visited San Francisco Bay in 1769, the expedition is usually considered the first European presence in the area. Five years later Fernando Rivera and four soldiers climbed the mountain, the mountain was named by Bruno de Heceta for his patron saint. San Bruno Mountain consists of portions of five Mexican land grants, jose Antonio Sanchez, who rode by mule as a child from Sonora, Mexico was given Rancho Buri Buri in 1827, with confirmation in 1835. Rancho Buri Buri extended from the bay salt flats to San Andreas Valley, in 1835 this rancho was granted to Jacob P. Leese. Three other ranchos held minor portions of the flank of San Bruno Mountain. The cities that have grown up around the mountain are San Francisco to the north, Brisbane to the east, thornton pioneered the Habitat Conservation Plan concept creating the first such plan for the area around San Bruno Mountain. KRON was the first television station to place a transmitter tower on Radio Peak, in 1949, followed by KQED and KTVU, though these tenants moved their transmitters to Sutro Tower in the 1970s. A number of FM stations built transmitter towers on the mountain, KTSF occupies the former KRON site. In 1965, Westbay Community Associates announced a plan to level a portion of the mountain to fill 27 square miles of San Francisco Bay north of Sierra Point with landfill. The proposal intended to create housing developments in the Saddle just north of Guadalupe Canyon Road, the Terra Bay project was approved in the mid-1980s for development at the south and southeast base of San Bruno Mountain. Dean & Associates, was unable to complete the project, and SunChase Holdings acquired the project in 1992, SunChase agreed to fund ecological restoration to mitigate the impact of Terra Bay during the development of Phase I under the terms of the San Bruno HCP
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