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The station first signed on the air on March 3, 1958, originally operating as an independent station.The station was originally owned by San Francisco–Oakland Television, Inc., a local firm whose principals were William D. Pabst and Ward D. Ingrim, former executives at the Don Lee Network and KFRC radio; and Edwin W. Pauley, a Bay Area businessman who had led a separate group which competed ...
He became co-anchor of KTVU's morning news program in 1992 and was the first anchor of the 5 p.m. newscast when it launched in 2005. In 2008, he was named co-anchor of the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts, replacing 40-year veteran Dennis Richmond .
By the time of his retirement, Richmond had become the highly respected dean of Bay Area TV news anchors, the longest-serving anchor in the Bay Area's history. His final show garnered 400,000 viewers, giving the newscast a 15.6 Nielsen rating and making him "more popular than Oprah". [ 5 ]
Vu is a seven-time Emmy Award winner and recipient of an Edward R. Murrow award. [2] She was named by the San Jose Mercury News and East Bay Times as one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most Inspiring Women. Vu has been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, CBS-5, San Francisco Chronicle, and Bay Area News Group.
Pat McCormick (born c. 1933) [1] is a retired American local television personality and puppeteer who worked for San Francisco's KGO-TV, and Oakland's KTVU channel 2, where among many jobs he was the nightly news' weatherman, hosted the midday movie Dialing for Dollars program, and co-hosted the local edition of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon.
KICU-TV (channel 36), branded as KTVU Plus, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Oakland-licensed Fox outlet KTVU (channel 2).
Barbara Simpson was a prominent television news anchor at KTVU, Channel 2, in Oakland, KQED, Channel 9, and KOFY-TV Channel 20 (both in San Francisco), and later in Los Angeles, from the late 1970s through the 1990s.
In 1986 she became a weekend reporter and anchor at KTVU in Oakland, California; in March 1996 she became co-anchor of the Ten O'Clock News with Dennis Richmond. [2] [3] For nine years she was sole anchor of the weekend news; on her 25th birthday, she was in Moscow reporting on the Cold War. She resigned from the station in 2006, after 22 years ...