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KCBS-TV is the oldest continuously operating television station in the Western United States. [citation needed] It was signed on by Don Lee Broadcasting, which owned a chain of radio stations on the Pacific coast, and was first licensed by the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as experimental television station W6XAO in June 1931.
The station launched September 2, 2002, and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 38. Prior to its sign-on as the Coachella Valley's first ever CBS affiliate, programming from the network came into the market via cable or antenna (in some areas) through Los Angeles owned-and-operated station KCBS-TV.
From 2016-2019, CBS affiliate KCBS-TV served as the team's preseason television home. Both stations, in conjunction with the Rams, also had produce ancillary team programming, with KCBS airing the Rams on 2:The Coaches Show (hosted by KCBS-TV sports anchor and director Jim Hill ) on Saturday evenings during game weeks.
He was then hired as news director at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles in 1992; it was a position he held until 1993, when he was fired amid reports of being "disliked by almost everyone who works in the newsroom" [12] [14] [15] [2] In 1983–85, he was a staff writer and an assistant editor of The Fifth Estate Broadcasting.
He left KCBS in 1987, and spent a near five-year stint at rival KABC-TV, where he anchored the sports segments on its 5, 6, and 11 p.m. editions of Eyewitness News. He also worked for ABC Sports's coverage of the 1988 Winter Olympics as a Correspondent in Calgary and as Sideline Reporter for the Super Bowl XXII (1988). He returned to KCBS in ...
Bill Keene (1927 – April 5, 2000) was a television and radio personality who became famous in the Los Angeles, California, market as a traffic and weather announcer. He was particularly known for his colorful, humorous traffic reports which included numerous puns and he became a fixture in Los Angeles broadcasting.
O'Brien started his career working for KSOO TV-Radio in his hometown of Sioux Falls. [citation needed] After graduating from college in 1970, he worked as a researcher at NBC News in Washington, D.C., [5] and was a production assistant for The Huntley-Brinkley Report. [6] He then served as an anchor and reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago.
However in May 2005, he joined KCBS-TV to reunite with his former KABC partners Ann Martin (1994), Harold Greene (2001), Laura Diaz (2002) and sportcaster Jim Hill (who first joined in 1976, then rejoined in 1992). Mountain retired in March 2010 as part of a "restructuring" of KCBS news operations. [1]