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KABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship station of the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios in the Grand Central Business Centre of Glendale, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson.
In the very early years of United States TV ratings, note that radio listenership was still dominant over TV. About 0.4% of American homes had TV in 1948, rising to 55.7% in 1954 and 83.2% by 1958. [1]
2 KCBS-TV Los Angeles * 4 KNBC Los Angeles * 5 KTLA Los Angeles * 6 KHTV-CD Los Angeles * 7 KABC-TV Los Angeles * 8 KFLA-LD Los Angeles ; 9 KCAL-TV Los Angeles * 10 KIIO-LD Los Angeles (Armenian independent) 11 KTTV Los Angeles * 12 KZNO-LD Los Angeles ; 13 KCOP-TV Los Angeles (MyNetworkTV)*
Christine Lund, also known as Christine Lundstedt (born November 25, 1943, in Sweden) is a former popular Los Angeles news anchor for KABC-TV from the early 1970s to the late 1990s and consistently garnered high ratings. [1]
He was still popular when fired in 1975, yet KNXT sought to adopt a faster-paced news format (known as Channel 2 News around the time of Dunphy's firing) similar to KABC-TV's Eyewitness News. It was then that Dunphy joined KABC-TV, bringing it to the top of the ratings, making it Southern California's news leader.
Game 7 drew a 32.2 rating and 49 shares; as of 2012, no subsequent World Series game has approached either number in national TV ratings. In 1992, at 30 years of age, CBS' Sean McDonough became the youngest man to call all nine innings and games of a World Series while serving as a full network television employee.
For most of the last 30 years, KNBC has waged a spirited battle with KABC-TV for the top-rated local newscast in Southern California, becoming a three-way race with KCBS-TV's ratings resurgence in 2006. Throughout the late 1980s and into the early 2000s, KNBC's newscasts were the most-watched in the region, beating out every other station ...
While at KABC-TV, he used a 1-to-10 ratings scale (10 being the best) calling it "The Franklin Scale" for his movie reviews. [1] Franklin was an established photographer documenting major events in the 20th century and Hollywood industry personalities.