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The station first signed on the air by Signal Hill Telecasting Corporation [2] on August 10, 1953, as WTVI, broadcasting on UHF channel 54. It was originally licensed to Belleville, Illinois (across the Mississippi River from St. Louis), and was the second television station in the St. Louis market after KSD-TV (channel 5, now KSDK) on February 8, 1947.
The station first signed on the air on July 8, 1954, as KWK-TV. At its launch, channel 4 was owned by a consortium which included Robert T. Convey (28%) and the now-defunct Newhouse Newspapers–published St. Louis Globe-Democrat (23%), who jointly operated KWK radio (1380 AM, now KXFN); Elzey M. Roberts Sr., former owner of KXOK radio (630 AM, now KYFI), which had to be sold as a condition of ...
The station first signed on the air on September 7, 1957. Coincidentally, it was the fourth television station (and the third commercial station) to sign on in the New Orleans media market, behind WDSU-TV (channel 6), WJMR-TV (channel 61, now WVUE-DT on channel 8) and non-commercial WYES-TV (channel 8, now on channel 12)—all signing on in under a timeframe of nine years.
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WJBK's overall poor ratings performance following the switch also saw its 4 p.m. news eliminated and multiple staffers laid off. [305] In Austin, KTBC's news ratings slumped significantly in the years after the Fox affiliation switch, while third-place KXAN-TV there began a climb to the top; KEYE-TV even outdrew KTBC in assorted dayparts. [312 ...
Jeff Glor, a longtime anchor at CBS News, is exiting the network along with three other veteran correspondents in the most recent round of layoffs at parent company Paramount Global.. Glor has ...
Julius Kelton Hunter is an American former journalist and television news anchor, best known for his tenures on two television stations in St. Louis: KSD-TV (now KSDK), the NBC affiliate in St. Louis, and KMOX-TV (now KMOV), the CBS affiliate in St. Louis. He worked as a news reporter and anchorman from 1970 to 2002.
Molina, 41, retired in 2022 after playing 2,224 games and his entire career in St. Louis. He left the sport as the MLB leader in games played by a catcher for one team (2,184).. In his nearly two ...