KLAS-TV
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KLAS-TV, virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....

 8 (digital channel
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...

 7), is the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 serving the Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

 market; it is owned and operated by Landmark Media Enterprises. The station's studios are located at 3228 Channel 8 Drive, and its transmitter is located on Mount Arden in Henderson
Henderson, Nevada
-Demographics:According to the 2000 census, there were 175,381 people, 66,331 households, and 47,095 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,200.8 people per square mile . There were 71,149 housing units at an average density of 892.8 per square mile...

.

History

KLAS was the first TV station in Nevada (beating KOLO-TV
KOLO-TV
KOLO-TV Channel 8 is the ABC affiliate serving Reno, Nevada and the surrounding areas. It is owned by Gray Television and operates on digital channel 8. Syndicated programing on KOLO-TV includes Dr...

 in Reno
Reno, Nevada
Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area...

 by two months and five days) and was started by Hank Greenspun
Hank Greenspun
Herman "Hank" Milton Greenspun was the longtime, and often controversial, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. He purchased the Sun in 1949, and served as its editor and publisher until his death...

 on July 22, 1953. Greenspun also owned the Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas Sun
The Las Vegas Sun is a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper. It is one of Las Vegas, Nevada's two daily newspapers. It is owned by the Greenspun family and is affiliated with Greenspun Media Group....

.
Greenspun sold it to aviation magnate Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world...

 in 1968, reportedly because the tycoon was dismayed that the station never played his favorite late-night movies. Some time after Hughes' death in 1976, the station was sold to its current owner, Landmark Communications. Landmark Communications renamed itself to Landmark Media Enterprises in September 2008.

On April 16, 1996, KLAS-TV became the first commercial station in Nevada (and one of the first in the United States) to carry a digital broadcast signal. This was for the National Association of Broadcasters
National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association, workers union, and lobby group representing the interests of for-profit, over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States...

 annual convention. A little more than four years later on April 6, 2000 the first scheduled high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

 network broadcasts in Las Vegas began on KLAS' digital signal.

On January 30, 2008, Landmark announced its intention to sell KLAS, along with its other TV station WTVF
WTVF
WTVF is the CBS-affiliated television station for Middle Tennessee that is licensed to Nashville. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 5 from a transmitter north of downtown along I-24. Owned by Landmark Media Enterprises, the station has studios on James Robertson Parkway...

 in Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

. No suitable buyer for KLAS was found until Landmark took most of its properties off the market in October 2008 due to the credit crisis. KLAS and WTVF will remain owned by Landmark for the foreseeable future.

Digital television

Channel Programming
8.1 Main KLAS-TV programming / CBS
8.2 MeTV
MeTV
Me-TV is a television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that airs classic television sitcoms, dramas and classic commercials from the 1950s through the 1980s. The network is a sister network to This TV...



After the digital television transition
DTV transition in the United States
The DTV transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...

 date of June 12, 2009, KLAS-TV's digital broadcasts remained on channel 7, but through the use of PSIP, digital television will display KLAS-TV's virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....

 as 8.

News operation

KLAS' newscasts are generally named "8 News Now". KLAS previously branded its newscasts as Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...

, taking over the name from 1982 after KVBC discontinued using the branding until late 2009. Originally, its newscasts were branded as Newscenter 8, and used the opening Phenix Horns
Phenix Horns
are Earth, Wind & Fire, Phil Collins and Genesis's brass main section. The four members were Don Myrick on saxophones, Louis "Lui Lui" Satterfield on trombone, Rahmlee Michael Davis on trumpet and Michael Harris on trumpet.-The Pharaohs:...

 music of Earth Wind & Fire's 1979 single In The Stone for two years. In addition, all KLAS newscasts are simulcast and later rebroadcast on Las Vegas ONE, a regional news channel jointly operated by KLAS, Cox Communications
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...

, and the Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas Sun
The Las Vegas Sun is a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper. It is one of Las Vegas, Nevada's two daily newspapers. It is owned by the Greenspun family and is affiliated with Greenspun Media Group....

.

For years, KLAS produced a daily interview show, Face to Face with business and political writer Jon Ralston, on sister channel Las Vegas One. Face to Face moved to KVBC Channel 3 in January 2010. Channel 8 has been the ratings leader in Las Vegas for most of its history. On September 21, 1981, KLAS-TV became the first station in Nevada to provide hour-long newscasts.

In March 2006, KLAS revamped Eyewitness News This Morning. At the time, Casey Smith and Charlotte Evans anchored the newscasts, with Sherry Swensk doing the weather, and Dayna Roselli and Justin Cooper (who is no longer with KLAS for non-conflicting reasons) with "Skywitness Traffic". Casey Smith left the station "to further pursue his professional career," while Charlotte Evans moved to the noon and 4:30 p.m. newscasts. Smith was thanked for his "dedication and contributions." In their place, the station promoted longtime sports director Dave McCann to fill one anchoring spot. Denise Valdez, who had just joined the station in January 2006, swapped positions with Charlotte, leaving the noon and 4:30 p.m. newscasts. Smith joined ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 affiliate KTNV
KTNV
KTNV-TV, channel 13, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada which is owned by Journal Broadcast Group and serves as the ABC affiliate for the Las Vegas Valley, Southern Nevada and northwest Arizona...

 (channel 13) a short time later and is now that station's morning and midday anchor. Evans was let go from the station during a massive reorganization in 2008.

Later that year, the station kept its name going. Longtime Metereologist Kevin Janison left the station before re-surfacing (after sitting out a year) at NBC affiliate, KVBC (now KSNV). Gina Cancelliere, Kevin's replacement, joined the station in September 2006. Cancelliere did not stay with the station long. After having a baby, she left to be a stay at home Mom and KLAS brought in Darren Miller as her replacement. On September 17, 2006 KLAS became the first station in the Las Vegas market and the state of Nevada, and the eleventh station in the United States, to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

.

KLAS produced a 10 p.m. newscast for KTUD-CA
KTUD-CA
KTUD-LD, virtual channel 25.1 , is an independent television station serving the Las Vegas, Nevada market owned and operated by the Greenspun Broadcasting, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Greenspun Corporation...

 called UPN Eyewitness News, anchored by Denise Saunders. In the fall of 2006 when UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

 and The WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...

 merged, KTUD became "Vegas TV" and the newscasts was renamed to suit the new identity. Shortly after the merger however, the station dropped the 10 p.m. newscast and Sanders would later go to KTNV (KTUD later revived its 10 p.m. newscast, produced by KSNV, from October 2009 to August 2010).

Newscasts

Weekdays
  • 8 News Now This Morning - 4-7 a.m.
  • 8 News Now at Noon - 12-12:30 p.m.
  • 8 News Now at 4 - 4-4:30 p.m.
  • 8 News Now at 4:30 - 4:30-5 p.m.
  • 8 News Now at 5 - 5-5:30 p.m.
  • 8 News Now at 6 - 6-6:30 p.m.
  • 8 News Now at 11 - 11-11:35 p.m.


Saturdays
  • 8 News Now at 5 - 5-5:30 p.m.
  • 8 News Now at 6:30 - 6:30-7 p.m.
  • 8 News Now at 11 - 11-11:35 p.m.


Sundays
  • 8 News Now Sunday Morning at 6 AM - 6-6:30 a.m.
  • 8 News Now Sunday Morning at 8 AM - 8-8:30 a.m.
  • 8 News Now at 5 - 5-5:30 p.m.
  • 8 News Now at 6:30 - 6:30-7 p.m.
  • 8 News Now at 11 - 11-11:35 p.m.

Newscast titles

  • Shell News (1953–1957)
  • KLAS-TV News (1957–1966)
  • The Big News
  • Channel 8 News (1966–1974)
  • TV-8 News (1974–1980)
  • NewsCenter 8 (1980–1982)
  • Eyewitness News
    Eyewitness News
    Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...

     8
    (1982–1989)
  • Channel 8 Eyewitness News
    Eyewitness News
    Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...

    (1989–2009)
  • Channel 8 Eyewitness News
    Eyewitness News
    Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...

     HD
    (2006–2009)
  • 8 News Now (2009–present)

Station slogans

  • Channel 8 News, in Color (late 1960s-early 1970s)
  • Turn to Channel 8 (early 1970s)
  • Count on the TV-8 News (late 1970s)
  • Join the Team, on NewsCenter 8 (early 1980s)
  • The NewsChannel for Southern Nevada (mid-1980s)
  • Southern Nevada's 24-Hour News Source
    24 Hour News Source
    The 24 Hour News Source brand was a common name used by American television stations starting in the early 1990s for brief hourly news updates, usually running 30 seconds to a minute in length. At its peak, dozens of stations across the U.S. were producing these brief news updates...

    (late 1980s)
  • Southern Nevada's Number One News Team (early 1990s)
  • People You Can Count On (1992–1995)
  • The News Leader (1995–2006)
  • The First Local News in HD (2006–2009)
  • This Is Where Experience Counts! (2009)
  • Anytime. Anywhere. (2009–present; secondary slogan)
  • Nevada's First Choice for News (2009–present; primary slogan)


Current on-air staff

This Morning Anchors
  • Dave McCann
    Dave McCann (sportscaster)
    Dave McCann is a morning anchor for KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he has been for the past 19 years. He is also the studio host for BYUtv's True Blue, is one of the hosts of the Countdown to Kickoff Pregame Show along with Alema Harrington and David Nixon, and is the lead sports announcer for...

     – weekday mornings "8 News Now This Morning"
  • Dayna Roselli – weekday mornings "8 News Now This Morning"
  • Sherry Swensk – weather anchor; weekday mornings "8 News Now This Morning" and noon
  • Tedd Florendo (AMS and NWA member) – meteorologist; Sunday mornings "8 News Now This Morning", and weekends at 5, 6:30 and 11 p.m., also reporter
  • Brian Loftus – traffic reporter; weekday mornings "8 News Now This Morning"
  • Ken Smith – "Chopper 8" reporter; weekday mornings "8 News Now This Morning", weekdays at 4 and weeknights at 5 p.m.
    • Patranya Bhoolsuwan– Sunday mornings "8 News Now This Morning"; fill in anchor morning

12 Anchors
  • Gary Waddell – weekdays at noon and 4 and 4:30 p.m
  • Denise Valdez – weekdays at noon, 4 and 4:30 p.m.
  • Sherry Swensk – weather anchor; weekday mornings "8 News Now This Morning" and noon

4,5&6,11 Anchors
  • Dave Courvoisier – weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.
  • Paula Francis
    Paula Francis
    Paula Francis is a Las Vegas news anchor for KLAS-TV.Francis was born in Queens, New York. Paula's TV news career started in Madison, Wisconsin and later moved to Las Vegas in 1985 where she started at KTNV as the evening anchor until she joined KLAS-TV in 1990 as the evening anchor alongside Gary...

     – weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m
  • Chris Saldana – weekends at 5, 6:30 and 11 p.m.
  • Darren Miller (AMS
    American Meteorological Society
    The American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...

     member; NWA
    National Weather Association
    The National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...

     member) – chief meteorologist; weekdays at 4 and 4:30, and weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.
  • Tedd Florendo (AMS and NWA member) – meteorologist; Sunday mornings "8 News Now This Morning", and weekends at 5, 6:30 and 11 p.m., also reporter

Sports team
  • Chris Maathuis – sports director; weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m.
  • Scott Bemis - sports anchor; weekends at 6:30 and 11 p.m.

I-Team
  • George Knapp
    George Knapp (journalist)
    George Knapp is an award-winning American investigative journalist.A longtime fixture in Las Vegas media, he works at KLAS-TV and is also a frequent host of the Sunday night/Monday morning Coast To Coast AM syndicated radio show...

     – senior investigative reporter
  • Collen McCarty – investigative reporter
  • Steve Sebelius – investigative reporter
  • Nathan Baca – investigative reporter

Reporters
  • Zahid Arab 4,5,6,11
  • Calvert Collins 4,5,6,11
  • Aaron Drawhorn 4-6pm 11
  • Jamie Guirola 4-6 pm 11
  • Patranya Bhoolsuwan 4pm 5pm 6pm
  • Sharie Harvin 4,5,6

Notable former on-air staff

  • Cindy Cesare
    Cindy Cesare
    Cindy Cesare is the President and CEO of CinCity Media, a video production company in Las Vegas, Nevada.-History:Prior to starting CinCity in 2006, Cesare spent 14 years in the television news business. She worked most recently on-air as a for the CBS affiliate, KLAS-TV, in Las Vegas, Nevada...

     - Reporter (now at Cin City Media, Inc.)
  • Ned Day
    Ned Day
    Ned Day was a Las Vegas television journalist who was known for taking on mobsters who dominated Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and '80s....

     - Reporter Late 1970 to 1987 (Deceased)
  • Brian Wood (journalist)
    Brian Wood (journalist)
    Brian Wood is a television news anchor, reporter and managing editor.-Biography:Brian Wood is currently anchor and reporter for KATU-TV in Portland, OR...

     - Anchor/Reporter (now at KATU
    KATU
    KATU, virtual channel 2, also known as K2, is an ABC-affiliated television station broadcasting on digital channel 43 in Portland, Oregon, USA. It has been owned by Fisher Communications of Seattle, Washington, which has been the owner of the Seattle's ABC affiliate KOMO-TV, ever since it began...

    )

Translator channels

KLAS' signal is relayed on the following translator channels:
  • K09FL Caliente
    Caliente, Nevada
    Caliente , formerly known as Culverwell and Calientes is a town in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States. Its elevation is 4,300 feet . The population was 1,123 at the 2000 census...

  • K24GY-D Ely
    Ely, Nevada
    Ely is the largest city and county seat of White Pine County, Nevada, United States. Ely was founded as a stagecoach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland Route. Ely's mining boom came later than the other towns along US 50, with the discovery of copper in 1906...

  • K50IY-D Ely
    Ely, Nevada
    Ely is the largest city and county seat of White Pine County, Nevada, United States. Ely was founded as a stagecoach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland Route. Ely's mining boom came later than the other towns along US 50, with the discovery of copper in 1906...

     & McGill
    McGill, Nevada
    McGill is a census-designated place in White Pine County, Nevada, United States. The population was 1,148 at the 2010 census.-Geography:McGill is located at ....

  • K51GR Eureka
    Eureka, Nevada
    Eureka is an unincorporated township in and the county seat of Eureka County, Nevada, United States. Eureka is by far the largest community in Eureka County...

  • K46GX Henderson
    Henderson, Nevada
    -Demographics:According to the 2000 census, there were 175,381 people, 66,331 households, and 47,095 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,200.8 people per square mile . There were 71,149 housing units at an average density of 892.8 per square mile...

  • K31BI Kingman, Arizona
    Kingman, Arizona
    Kingman is located in a desert climate on the edge of the Mojave Desert, but its higher elevation and location between the Colorado Plateau and the Lower Colorado River Valley tempers summer high temperatures and contributes to winter cold and rare snowfall. Summer daytime highs reach above 90 °F ...

  • K22DR Laughlin
    Laughlin, Nevada
    Laughlin is a census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States, and a port located on the Colorado River. Laughlin is south of Las Vegas, located in the far southern tip of Nevada. It is best known for its gaming, entertainment, and water recreation. As of the 2010 census, the...

  • K47HV Lund
    Lund, Nevada
    Lund is a small town and census-designated place in White Pine County, Nevada. Lund was named for Anthon H. Lund. Lund was settled in 1898. It was settled on land that the United States government had given The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in lieu of land that had been confiscated...

     & Preston
    Preston, Nevada
    Preston is a census-designated place in White Pine County, Nevada, United States. Its elevation is , and it is located at . It had a population in 2010 of 78.-References:...

  • K18IP-D Overton
    Overton, Nevada
    Overton is an Unincorporated Town located in Clark County, Nevada. The town is on the north end of Lake Mead. The town is home to Perkins Field airport and Echo Bay Airport....

  • K24BY Pahrump
    Pahrump, Nevada
    -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 24,631 people, 10,153 households, and 7,127 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 82.7 people per square mile . There were 11,651 housing units at an average density of 39.1 per square mile...

  • K49AB Pahrump
    Pahrump, Nevada
    -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 24,631 people, 10,153 households, and 7,127 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 82.7 people per square mile . There were 11,651 housing units at an average density of 39.1 per square mile...

  • K06DM Panaca
    Panaca, Nevada
    Panaca is a town in eastern Lincoln County, Nevada, on State Route 319, about 1 mile east of U.S. Route 93, near the border with Utah. Its elevation is 4,729 feet .-History:...

  • K55AO Panaca
    Panaca, Nevada
    Panaca is a town in eastern Lincoln County, Nevada, on State Route 319, about 1 mile east of U.S. Route 93, near the border with Utah. Its elevation is 4,729 feet .-History:...

  • K09FJ Pioche
    Pioche, Nevada
    -External links:*...

  • K03DS-D Ruth
    Ruth, Nevada
    Ruth is a small town in White Pine County, Nevada, that was founded in 1903. It is a census-designated place, with a population in 2010 of 440.- History :Ruth began as a settlement for workers of the White Pine Copper Company in 1903...

  • K09FK Ursine
    Ursine, Nevada
    Ursine is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States....


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