KSWB-TV
Encyclopedia
KSWB-TV, virtual channel
69, is a Fox
-affiliated television station
in San Diego, California
. It broadcasts a 720p
high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter southeast of Spring Valley. Owned by the Tribune Company
, the station has studios on Engineer Road in the Kearny Mesa
section of the city.
KSWB can be seen on AT&T U-verse, Time Warner Cable
, and Cox Communications
on channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 705 for Cox Communications
and Time Warner Cable
customers, while on AT&T
U-verse
, the high definition channel can be seen on channel 1005. Since the station is aired on cable channel 5, it is known on-air as Fox 5 San Diego; however in newscasts, the station's logo bug rotates between its virtual digital channel of 69 and its advertised cable channel position of 5.
Digital channels>
Channel
Video
Format
Programming
69.1
720p
16:9
Main KSWB programming / FOX
69.2
480i
4:3
Antenna TV
69.3
This TV
In the analog era upon receiving Fox affiliation, KSWB surpassed WSYT
in Syracuse, New York
(Channel 68) as the Fox affiliate with highest channel number (and was tied with WUPA
in Atlanta for highest CW channel number). It retains the highest PSIP channel position in the digital age.
On October 1, 2010, the station began to carry This TV
on their DT2 subchannel, the first time since a short carriage of The Tube Music Network before they ended operations in October 2007 the station carried a digital subchannel
. KSWB then added Tribune's Antenna TV
classic television channel to their DT3 subchannel on that network's first day, January 1, 2011.
. It ran a general entertainment format featuring dramas, old movies, cartoons, and religious programming that was passed on by other stations. KTTY also aired a great deal of paid programming. The station continued to be a low rated independent station until January 11, 1995 when it became a charter affiliate of the new WB network.
Tribune's broadcasting division purchased the station from local interests in September 1996 and shortly thereafter changed its call letters to the present KSWB. The company added many off-network sitcoms to the schedule. Throughout the rest of the 1990s, talk and court shows were mixed into the schedule as well.
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN
announced they would end broadcasting and merge. The newly combined network would be called The CW
. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents, CBS
(the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
unit of Time Warner
. The merger took effect on-air on September 18 and KSWB became the San Diego affiliate. Former UPN station XHUPN-TV, licensed to Tecate, Mexico
and owned by Entravision is now MyNetworkTV
affiliate XHDTV-TV (identified on-air as XDTV). KSWB's call letters
reference the former network. Unlike many other former WB affiliates that also had call signs relating to its former network, this station has retained them.
In a seminar by Sam Zell in March 2008, it was revealed that KSWB would be affiliating with Fox. The change happened on August 1, 2008 assuming the network from XETV
(channel 6). At first, there was speculation that CW programming in the San Diego market would most likely come from KTLA
(channel 5) in Los Angeles
, which is seen only on Cox
cable channel 14, while two other scenarios were being entertained. This included the possibility that KUSI (channel 51) would pick up The CW or the network landing on KSWB's second digital subchannel which has been silent since The Tube shut down in 2007.
On July 2, 2008, XETV announced that it would be the new home of The CW on the same day KSWB became a Fox station. The station used to be the market
's home of the NBA
's Los Angeles Clippers
until it switched networks. All games were produced by sister station
KTLA in high definition. However that station, to this day, still airs the games.
programming broadcast on KSWB includes: The Dr. Oz Show
, Two and a Half Men
, Family Guy
, Everybody Loves Raymond
, Bones
, Jerry Springer
, The Bill Cunningham Show
, Swift Justice with Jackie Glass and 30 Rock
.
In addition, the station also produces one locally-produced program outside of its newscasts: a local version of former Fox series America's Most Wanted
(whose first-run broadcast rights were acquired by cable network Lifetime in August 2011), called San Diego's Most Wanted, which airs Saturday nights before Fox primetime programming and is rebroadcast on Sunday nights after the 10 p.m. newscast.
Currently, KSWB broadcasts a total of 44½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 8½ hours on weekdays and one hour on weekends), the second most of any station in the San Diego market, behind independent station KUSI (which carries 50½ hours of local news per week).
As a WB affiliate, the station launched a news department and began producing a 10 p.m. local newscast in 1999 entitled The WB News at 10; this was to counter against rivals KUSI-TV
and another start-up operation at XETV. Its news slogan was "All the News, Just 30 Minutes" as it was San Diego's only half-hour primetime newscast. In March 2005, KSWB joined the morning news race launching The WB Morning Show which was made up of a simulcast of the morning news program from sister station KTLA
in Los Angeles. It originated from that station's studios on West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. There were local cut-ins from KSWB's San Diego studios every half hour by a solo anchor.
At the end of 2005, the in-house 10 p.m. news operation ceased and was handed over in October to NBC
station KNSD
(channel 39). After KSWB ceased producing the 10 p.m. newscast, everyone from the news department was let go except for anchor Jeff Powers who continued to anchor until he left the station. The WB News at 10 began to be produced by and broadcast from KNSD's studios on Broadway in downtown San Diego. However, weekday morning local updates continued to be done from KSWB's studios.
On September 18, 2006, to correspond with the change to The CW, the morning news was remamed The CW Morning Show and the 10 o'clock broadcast became known as CW News at 10. KNSD reporter Anne State
assumed co-anchoring duties until April 2008 when she left for CBS-owned WBBM-TV
(channel 2) in Chicago
. Vic Salazar then solo anchored the 10 o'clock broadcast. The KNSD news on KSWB was a similar operation to other Tribune-outsourced newscasts that are still seen on WPHL-TV
in Philadelphia and KRCW-TV
in Portland, Oregon. In addition, the station also produced a Sunday night public affairs show called Take 5 that aired at 10:30 p.m.
After becoming a Fox affiliate on August 1, 2008, KSWB once again established an in-house news operation. The station debuted a brand new weekday morning newscast which airs from 5 to 9 a.m. and also debuted a new hour-long, nightly 10 o'clock newscast with three anchors: Kathleen Bade and Kendis Gibson, and Chief Meteorologist Kyle Hunter. Weekends at 10:45 p.m., the station airs a 15-minute sports highlight show called Game On. All of the station's newscasts are presented in high definition.
On September 14, 2009, KSWB debuted an hour-long 6 p.m. newscast that competes against half-hour 6 p.m. newscasts on KNSD
and KGTV
, a half-hour 6:30 p.m. newscast on KFMB
, their national network evening newscasts, and with the 6 p.m. newscast on KUSI-TV
. This was part of a company-wide expansion of early evening (and in some cases, midday newscasts) for the majority of Tribune's Fox stations (however Seattle Fox station KCPQ
(channel 13) was the only Tribune-owned Fox station that did not add any newscasts, it would not be until June 2011 before KCPQ added an early evening 5 p.m. newscast). On September 26, 2011, KSWB launched an hour-long weeknight 5 p.m. newscast, this gives the station a total of 8½ hours of local newscasts each weekday.
Weather team
Sports team
Reporters
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....
69, is a Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
-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...
in San Diego, California
San Diego, California
San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
. It broadcasts a 720p
720p
720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...
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...
digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter southeast of Spring Valley. Owned by the Tribune Company
Tribune Company
The Tribune Company is a large American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, with ten daily newspapers and commuter tabloids including Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida...
, the station has studios on Engineer Road in the Kearny Mesa
Kearny Mesa
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section of the city.
KSWB can be seen on AT&T U-verse, Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
, and 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...
on channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 705 for 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 Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
customers, while on AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
U-verse
U-Verse
AT&T U-verse is a registered service mark under which AT&T offers Internet access, television, and telephone services in various parts of the United States. It began in 2008 to serve mostly residences and small businesses in urban and suburban areas.-Services:...
, the high definition channel can be seen on channel 1005. Since the station is aired on cable channel 5, it is known on-air as Fox 5 San Diego; however in newscasts, the station's logo bug rotates between its virtual digital channel of 69 and its advertised cable channel position of 5.
Digital television
720p
720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...
16:9
16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...
480i
480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC...
Antenna TV
Antenna TV is an American digital broadcast television network, primarily featuring classic television series from the 1950s to the 1990s, along with some feature films. It is owned by Tribune Broadcasting, a division of the Chicago-based Tribune Company...
This TV
This TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies....
In the analog era upon receiving Fox affiliation, KSWB surpassed WSYT
WSYT
WSYT is the Fox-affiliated television station for Central New York State that is licensed to Syracuse. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter west of LaFayette. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station operates MyNetworkTV affiliate WNYS-TV ...
in Syracuse, New York
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603...
(Channel 68) as the Fox affiliate with highest channel number (and was tied with WUPA
WUPA
WUPA, channel 69, is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia. An owned and operated station of the The CW Television Network, it identifies itself as "CW 69". It is owned by CBS Corporation, which is half-owner of The CW. Founded November 10, 1980, the station is broadcast locally in...
in Atlanta for highest CW channel number). It retains the highest PSIP channel position in the digital age.
On October 1, 2010, the station began to carry This TV
This TV
This TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies....
on their DT2 subchannel, the first time since a short carriage of The Tube Music Network before they ended operations in October 2007 the station carried a digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
. KSWB then added Tribune's Antenna TV
Antenna TV
Antenna TV is an American digital broadcast television network, primarily featuring classic television series from the 1950s to the 1990s, along with some feature films. It is owned by Tribune Broadcasting, a division of the Chicago-based Tribune Company...
classic television channel to their DT3 subchannel on that network's first day, January 1, 2011.
History
The station went on-the-air as KTTY on October 1, 1984 as a new independent stationIndependent station
An independent station is in the category of television terminology used to describe a television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any television network....
. It ran a general entertainment format featuring dramas, old movies, cartoons, and religious programming that was passed on by other stations. KTTY also aired a great deal of paid programming. The station continued to be a low rated independent station until January 11, 1995 when it became a charter affiliate of the new WB network.
Tribune's broadcasting division purchased the station from local interests in September 1996 and shortly thereafter changed its call letters to the present KSWB. The company added many off-network sitcoms to the schedule. Throughout the rest of the 1990s, talk and court shows were mixed into the schedule as well.
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...
announced they would end broadcasting and merge. The newly combined network would be called The CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents, 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...
(the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
unit of Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
. The merger took effect on-air on September 18 and KSWB became the San Diego affiliate. Former UPN station XHUPN-TV, licensed to Tecate, Mexico
Tecate
Tecate is a small city in Baja California, Mexico and the municipal seat of Tecate Municipality. It is located on the border with Tecate, California, United States in the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. There is a small port of entry betwixt the sister cities that serves as a calmer...
and owned by Entravision is now MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
affiliate XHDTV-TV (identified on-air as XDTV). KSWB's call letters
Call sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...
reference the former network. Unlike many other former WB affiliates that also had call signs relating to its former network, this station has retained them.
In a seminar by Sam Zell in March 2008, it was revealed that KSWB would be affiliating with Fox. The change happened on August 1, 2008 assuming the network from XETV
XETV
XETV is a television station licensed to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, serving as the CW Television Network affiliate for the San Diego, California area across the international border in the United States...
(channel 6). At first, there was speculation that CW programming in the San Diego market would most likely come from KTLA
KTLA
KTLA, virtual channel 5, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, USA. Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of the CW Television Network. KTLA's studios are on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson...
(channel 5) in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, which is seen only on Cox
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
cable channel 14, while two other scenarios were being entertained. This included the possibility that KUSI (channel 51) would pick up The CW or the network landing on KSWB's second digital subchannel which has been silent since The Tube shut down in 2007.
On July 2, 2008, XETV announced that it would be the new home of The CW on the same day KSWB became a Fox station. The station used to be the market
Media market
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's home of the NBA
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
's Los Angeles Clippers
Los Angeles Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, United States. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...
until it switched networks. All games were produced by sister station
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership....
KTLA in high definition. However that station, to this day, still airs the games.
Programming
SyndicatedTelevision syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming broadcast on KSWB includes: The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....
, Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake...
, Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
, Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
, Bones
Bones (TV series)
Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...
, Jerry Springer
The Jerry Springer Show
The Jerry Springer Show is a syndicated television tabloid talk show hosted by Jerry Springer, a former politician, broadcast in the United States and other countries...
, The Bill Cunningham Show
The Bill Cunningham Show
The Bill Cunningham Show is an American first-run syndicated talk show that is hosted by conservative radio host Bill Cunningham, who also serves as co-producer in his first foray into daytime talk television...
, Swift Justice with Jackie Glass and 30 Rock
30 Rock
30 Rock is an American television comedy series created by Tina Fey that airs on NBC. The series is loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live...
.
In addition, the station also produces one locally-produced program outside of its newscasts: a local version of former Fox series America's Most Wanted
America's Most Wanted
America's Most Wanted is an American television program produced by 20th Television, and was the longest-running program of any kind in the history of the Fox Television Network until it was announced on May 16, 2011 that the series was canceled after twenty-three years, with the final episode...
(whose first-run broadcast rights were acquired by cable network Lifetime in August 2011), called San Diego's Most Wanted, which airs Saturday nights before Fox primetime programming and is rebroadcast on Sunday nights after the 10 p.m. newscast.
News operation
As a WB affiliate, the station launched a news department and began producing a 10 p.m. local newscast in 1999 entitled The WB News at 10; this was to counter against rivals KUSI-TV
KUSI-TV
KUSI-TV, virtual channel 51.1, is an independent television station based in San Diego, California. The station is owned and operated by Channel 51 of San Diego, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of McKinnon Broadcasting...
and another start-up operation at XETV. Its news slogan was "All the News, Just 30 Minutes" as it was San Diego's only half-hour primetime newscast. In March 2005, KSWB joined the morning news race launching The WB Morning Show which was made up of a simulcast of the morning news program from sister station KTLA
KTLA
KTLA, virtual channel 5, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, USA. Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of the CW Television Network. KTLA's studios are on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson...
in Los Angeles. It originated from that station's studios on West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. There were local cut-ins from KSWB's San Diego studios every half hour by a solo anchor.
At the end of 2005, the in-house 10 p.m. news operation ceased and was handed over in October to NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
station KNSD
KNSD
KNSD is the NBC television station based in San Diego, California. It is owned by a joint venture of NBCUniversal and LIN TV . However, because NBCUniversal has majority control, KNSD is run as an NBC owned and operated station...
(channel 39). After KSWB ceased producing the 10 p.m. newscast, everyone from the news department was let go except for anchor Jeff Powers who continued to anchor until he left the station. The WB News at 10 began to be produced by and broadcast from KNSD's studios on Broadway in downtown San Diego. However, weekday morning local updates continued to be done from KSWB's studios.
Anne State
Anne M. State is an American television news anchor at WITI-TV in Milwaukee, WI and was one of the two principal news anchors at WBBM-TV in Chicago from 2008 to 2010.- Early life and education :...
assumed co-anchoring duties until April 2008 when she left for CBS-owned WBBM-TV
WBBM-TV
WBBM-TV, virtual channel 2 , is the CBS owned-and-operated television station in Chicago, Illinois. WBBM-TV's main studios and offices are located in The Loop section of Chicago, as part of the development at Block 37, and its transmitter is atop the Willis Tower.-History:WBBM-TV traces its history...
(channel 2) in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. Vic Salazar then solo anchored the 10 o'clock broadcast. The KNSD news on KSWB was a similar operation to other Tribune-outsourced newscasts that are still seen on WPHL-TV
WPHL-TV
WPHL-TV, channel 17, is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, owned by the Tribune Company and currently affiliated with the News Corporation-owned MyNetworkTV television network. This makes it the largest non-O&O station of the network...
in Philadelphia and KRCW-TV
KRCW-TV
KRCW-TV is the CW-affiliated television station for Portland, Oregon that is licensed to Salem. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 33 from a transmitter in the Sylvan-Highlands section of Portland. Owned by the Tribune Company, KRCW has studios on Southwest Arctic Drive...
in Portland, Oregon. In addition, the station also produced a Sunday night public affairs show called Take 5 that aired at 10:30 p.m.
After becoming a Fox affiliate on August 1, 2008, KSWB once again established an in-house news operation. The station debuted a brand new weekday morning newscast which airs from 5 to 9 a.m. and also debuted a new hour-long, nightly 10 o'clock newscast with three anchors: Kathleen Bade and Kendis Gibson, and Chief Meteorologist Kyle Hunter. Weekends at 10:45 p.m., the station airs a 15-minute sports highlight show called Game On. All of the station's newscasts are presented in high definition.
On September 14, 2009, KSWB debuted an hour-long 6 p.m. newscast that competes against half-hour 6 p.m. newscasts on KNSD
KNSD
KNSD is the NBC television station based in San Diego, California. It is owned by a joint venture of NBCUniversal and LIN TV . However, because NBCUniversal has majority control, KNSD is run as an NBC owned and operated station...
and KGTV
KGTV
KGTV, digital channel 10, is the ABC television affiliate in San Diego, California. The station can be seen on Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T U-verse on cable channel 10 in standard definition. Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable carry its high definition signal on cable...
, a half-hour 6:30 p.m. newscast on KFMB
KFMB-TV
KFMB-TV is the local CBS television affiliate in San Diego, California. Its studios are located on Engineer Road in the Kearny Mesa area of San Diego along with its sister radio stations, AM 760 and FM 100.7...
, their national network evening newscasts, and with the 6 p.m. newscast on KUSI-TV
KUSI-TV
KUSI-TV, virtual channel 51.1, is an independent television station based in San Diego, California. The station is owned and operated by Channel 51 of San Diego, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of McKinnon Broadcasting...
. This was part of a company-wide expansion of early evening (and in some cases, midday newscasts) for the majority of Tribune's Fox stations (however Seattle Fox station KCPQ
KCPQ
KCPQ, channel 13, is the Fox television affiliate licensed to Tacoma, Washington serving the Seattle/Tacoma television market, owned by the Tribune Company...
(channel 13) was the only Tribune-owned Fox station that did not add any newscasts, it would not be until June 2011 before KCPQ added an early evening 5 p.m. newscast). On September 26, 2011, KSWB launched an hour-long weeknight 5 p.m. newscast, this gives the station a total of 8½ hours of local newscasts each weekday.
Newscast titles
- The WB News at Ten (1999–2006; replaced by a newscast of the same name produced by KNSD in 2006)
- The WB Morning Show (2005–2006; simulcast of morning newscast from sister station KTLA in Los Angeles)
- CW5 News at Ten (2006–2008)
- The CW Morning Show (2006–2008; simulcast of morning newscast from KTLA)
- Fox 5 News (2008–present)
Current on-air staff (as of September 29, 2011)
Anchors- Kathleen Bade - weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
- Paul Bloom - freelance anchor
- Erica Fox - weekday mornings (9-10 a.m.); also reporter
- Jenn Karlman - weeknights at 5 p.m.; also 10 p.m. reporter
- Susan Lennon - weekends at 10 p.m.
- Walter Makaula - weekends at 10 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
- Raoul Martinez - weekday mornings (5-10 a.m.)
- Loren Nancarrow - weeknights (5-7 p.m.) and 10 p.m.; also environmental reporter
- Shally Zomorodi - weekday mornings (4:30-9 a.m.)
Weather team
- Aloha Taylor (AMSAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe 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...
Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. - Chrissy Russo - weather anchor; weekday mornings, also traffic reporter and host of Chrissy Russo Live! (on leave)
- Brad Wills (NWANational Weather AssociationThe National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...
Seal of Approval) - weather anchor; weekends at 10 p.m., also weeknight reporter - Kyle Hunter - freelance weather anchor
Sports team
- Ross Shimabuku - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
- Troy Hirsch - sports reporter; also Game On host
Reporters
- Rick Boone- general assignment reporter
- Jaime Chambers- general assignment reporter
- Rich DeMuro- technology reporter
- Ali Fedotowsky - features/lifestyle reporter
- Heather Ford - weekday morning reporter
- Perette Godwin - general assignment reporter
- Jenny Hamel - general assignment reporter
- Matt Johnson - general assignment reporter
- James Koh - general assignment reporter
- John Langeler - general assignment reporter
- Kristina Lee - general assignment
- Walter Morris- general assignment reporter
- Lynn Stuart - general assignment reporter
- Juliette Vara - freelance reporter