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KNSD

KNSD (channel 39) is a television station in San Diego, California, United States, serving as the market's NBC outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations alongside Poway-licensed Telemundo station KUAN-LD (channel 48). KNSD and KUAN-LD share studios on Granite Ridge Drive in the Serra Mesa section of San Diego; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using KNSD's spectrum from an antenna southeast of Spring Valley.

KNSD
Channels
BrandingNBC 7 San Diego (cable channel)
NBC 7 News
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KUAN-LD
History
First air date
November 14, 1965 (57 years ago) (1965-11-14) as KAAR
Former call signs
  • KAAR (1965–1968)
  • KCST (1968–1975)
  • KCST-TV (1975–1988)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 39 (UHF, 1965–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 40 (UHF, 2000–2019)
Call sign meaning
"News San Diego"
(former news branding)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID35277
ERP387 kW
HAAT577 m (1,893 ft)
Transmitter coordinates32°41′48.7″N 116°56′9.2″W / 32.696861°N 116.935889°W / 32.696861; -116.935889
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitewww.nbcsandiego.com

KNSD's on-air branding, NBC 7 San Diego, is derived from its cable channel position in the market on Charter Spectrum, Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse. The station is also available on channel 39 on satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network.

History Edit

Early history Edit

The station first signed on the air on November 14, 1965, as KAAR, owned by San Diego Telecasters. It was the first television station in the San Diego market to operate on the UHF band and was the market's first independent station. The station originally operated from a building that was once occupied by the National Pen Company, located in the neighborhood of Kearny Mesa, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of downtown San Diego. Initially broadcasting from 12 noon to either midnight or 12:30 a.m. (based on the length of its late movie), the station aired a mix of local and first-run syndicated programming, both vintage and more recent films, and reruns of several 1950s dramatic series. However, in the summer of 1966, KAAR cut its operating hours significantly, with sign-on time moved up to 5 p.m., and by that fall, the station was only broadcasting on weeknights with a 15-minute 7 p.m. newscast, a travelogue and a single black-and-white movie (which ran for a week at a time).[2]

A short time later, in January 1967, KAAR made an arrangement with San Diego State College to air programming produced by the San Diego Area Instructional Television Authority from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, which was followed by two hours of cartoons; this lasted until the sign-on of educational station KEBS on June 12 of that year.[2] Channel 39 then went dark and was subsequently sold to Western Telecasters Inc., controlled by the Texas-based Bass family,[3] and returned to the air on February 2, 1968, as KCST (standing for "California San Diego Television").

For a four-year period from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, Western Telecasters tried to take the ABC affiliation from XETV (channel 6)–a station licensed across the Mexican border in Tijuana but which broadcast exclusively in English, with a studio facility based in San Diego. XETV had been San Diego's ABC affiliate since 1956 under a special arrangement between the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Mexican authorities, subject to renewal by the Commission every year. Upon the FCC granting its annual renewal to ABC/XETV in late 1968, Western Telecasters countered, claiming that the presence of KCST made it no longer necessary for an American television network to affiliate with a Mexican television station.[4][5]

In May 1972, the FCC revoked XETV's permission to carry ABC programming.[6] As the only commercial station in the market other than CBS affiliate KFMB-TV (channel 8) and then-NBC affiliate KGTV (channel 10), KCST took over the ABC affiliation in two stages: daytime programming moved to channel 39 in June 1973, followed by prime time programs and all other shows (including children's programs, network newscasts and sports) by July 1, 1973.[7] Four months earlier in March, Western Telecasters agreed to sell KCST to Storer Broadcasting, which owned major network affiliates in the Eastern and Midwestern United States.[8] The sale was completed on September 30, 1974; on January 1, 1975, Storer added a "-TV" suffix to the KCST callsign.[9] The switch and sale changed channel 39's fortunes, transforming the low-rated independent into a major player in the market. Riding on the heels of ABC's ascent to first place nationally during the 1975–76 season, KCST also out-rated its network-affiliated rivals locally.[10] By 1976, KCST had actually become the highest-rated station in San Diego, displacing longtime leader KFMB-TV.[11] XETV, meanwhile, operated as an independent station until October 1986, when it became a charter affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company (the station is now an exclusive Spanish-language outlet for Canal 5).

NBC affiliation Edit

 
KNSD's logo as NBC 7/39, variations of which were used from January 1, 1997, to August 9, 2010.

On June 27, 1977, in the wake of its new success as the highest-rated television network in America, ABC moved its San Diego affiliation from KCST to KGTV, causing an affiliation swap that ended with KCST taking the NBC affiliation formerly held by KGTV.[12][13] ABC expressed dissatisfaction with how it had been relegated to UHF in San Diego, and had preferred affiliating with VHF stations in markets of San Diego's size long before its national ratings success. Under the circumstances, KCST's ratings success was not enough to save the affiliation. This move did not please Storer, who retaliated by switching its only other ABC affiliate at the time, present-day Fox O&O WITI in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to a network they had better relations with, CBS, around the same time.[14][15]

In 1985, the Storer stations were acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Two years later, KCST and the other Storer stations were sold to Gillett Communications (former Storer flagship WTVG in Toledo, Ohio, was the only station left out of the sale and was instead sold to a local employee/investor group). On September 16, 1988, the station changed its news brand to News San Diego,[16] and its call letters to KNSD to reflect the new name; it also adopted the on-air brand "Channel 7/39" (in respective reference to its cable and over-the-air channel positions).[17] Gillett was restructured into SCI TV in 1991, after Gillett defaulted on some of his bond purchases. After SCI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992, the company's stations were sold in a group deal to New World Communications.

 
KNSD's logo as NBC San Diego, used August 9, 2010, to June 2011. A modified version reflecting the NBC 7 San Diego branding was then used until July 11, 2012; during this time, the station's website continued to use this logo.

In May 1994, New World entered into a deal with News Corporation that would result in most of New World's television stations (which were primarily CBS affiliates, along with a few ABC and NBC stations) switching from their "Big Three" network affiliations to join Fox, causing the network's affiliations in the affected markets relocating from UHF to VHF stations. However, New World opted to exclude KNSD from the affiliation deal, since Fox's San Diego affiliation was already on the VHF band through XETV. Instead, KNSD was able to retain its NBC affiliation, and New World sold the station and WVTM-TV in Birmingham, Alabama to NBC in May 1996; the sale was finalized that August. Following the sale's closure, in January 1997, KNSD modified its on-air branding to "NBC 7/39". In October 1997, NBC sold a 24% ownership interest in KNSD to LIN Television; in exchange, NBC acquired majority control (76%) of its DallasFort Worth affiliate KXAS-TV from LIN. The deal closed on March 2, 1998, marking the official launch of the new NBC/LIN joint venture known as Station Venture Operations, LP (which was controlled by NBC).[18]

Under the traditional definition, KNSD is the only English-language owned-and-operated station of a major network in the San Diego market (however, several stations owned by Grupo Televisa on the Mexican side of the market are O&Os of that company's various networks). The station blamed its woes on its UHF status in the past, but as viewers migrated to cable television (San Diego has one of the highest cable penetration rates in the United States),[19] along with the fact that most of the market's UHF stations brand by their cable channel placements or call letters rather than by their physical channel, along with former VHF analog stations operating their post-transition digital signals on the UHF band, the issues with the station's position on the UHF dial have been significantly reduced. KNSD had formerly owned low-power station KNSD-LP (channel 62), which was leased to Entravision Communications to expand the coverage area of Univision affiliate KTCD-CA (channel 17, now KBNT-CD).

In the spring of 2001, KNSD moved its operations into 225 Broadway, a high-rise office building in downtown San Diego that was redeveloped to serve as its studio and office facilities, which includes a glass-enclosed street-level news studio resembling that of the streetside studio at Rockefeller Center in New York City used by NBC's Today. In February 2013, LIN Media withdrew itself from the Station Venture Operations joint venture as part of a corporate reorganization. As a result, NBC regained full ownership in KNSD and assumed full ownership of KXAS.[20][21]

KNSD shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 39, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[22] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 40.[23][24] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 39.

NBC's three owned-and-operated stations in California (KNBC in Los Angeles, KNTV in San Jose/San Francisco and KNSD) collaborated to launch the only regional Nonstop channel, NBC California Nonstop, in January 2011.[25] On December 20, 2012, KNSD along with other NBC owned-and-operated stations began carrying Cozi TV, a rebranded Nonstop network focusing on classic television programming.[26]

As part of the SAFER Act,[27] KNSD kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.

On January 9, 2014, KNSD announced that it would not renew its lease for the 225 Broadway studios when it expires in 2016.[28] On June 23, the station announced the purchase of a two-story, 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) building at the StoneCrest office complex on Granite Ridge Drive in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood for $9.6 million, which will be converted into a new facility for the station. The location was chosen due to its easy access to San Diego County's main thoroughfares, and no-cost parking for its employees. The studio opened on February 29, 2016.[29][30]

On March 15, 2016, NBCUniversal's parent company Comcast pulled the signals of KNSD along with co-owned cable channels USA Network, Bravo, Syfy, MSNBC and CNBC from Dish Network's lineup as a result of a dispute between NBC and Dish. Dish claimed NBCUniversal was demanding it renew its carriage of 10 NBC-owned stations and 16 Telemundo-owned stations including those removed due to the dispute. XHAS-TDT, then a Telemundo affiliate, was unaffected by the dispute.[31] Three days later on March 18, 2016, the company announced it would continue to carry KNSD and five other cable channels for another 10 days while seeking arbitration by the FCC.[32]

On July 1, 2017, KNSD launched the Telemundo network on its third subchannel (KNSD-D3 39.20) as Telemundo 20 San Diego.[33] That September, NBC agreed to purchase KUAN-LD of Poway, California, from NRJ TV.[34] By December 18, 2018, Telemundo 20 San Diego was being carried on KUAN.[35] KNSD switched its frequency channel to 17 on March 14, 2019, with KUAN sharing KNSD's channel, but continuing to be displayed as their prior channel numbers.[35][36]

Programming Edit

Local programming Edit

Local lifestyle and infotainment program Streetside San Diego and Spanish-language newscast Noticias Mi San Diego (the latter of which was a holdover from KNSD's operation of KBOP-CA (channel 43, now KSEX-CD)) were local programs previously produced by KNSD; these programs, along with the station's weekend morning newscasts (which were restored in December 2013 as part of a gradual newscast expansion resulting from a benefits package offered to the FCC upon the NBCUniversal-Comcast merger[37]), were canceled on December 5, 2008, as a result of budget cuts at the station.[38] The station currently produces a late-night music and lifestyle program SoundDiego on Saturdays.

Syndicated programming Edit

In addition to the NBC network schedule, syndicated programs on KNSD include Access Hollywood (and its live counterpart), The Kelly Clarkson Show, Jeopardy!, and Wheel of Fortune. KNSD is the only NBC O&O to carry the latter two. As of September 2022, KNSD (along with its sister stations KNBC in Los Angeles, KNTV in San Francisco, WNBC in New York, WMAQ-TV in Chicago, WRC-TV in Washington D.C., WCAU in Philadelphia, WTVJ in Miami, KXAS-TV in Dallas and WVIT in Hartford) is one of the nine NBC O&Os that carry and distribute programming either nationally or regionally.

Sports programming Edit

When channel 39 switched to NBC in 1977, it became the default home station for the NFL's San Diego Chargers (by way of NBC's rights to air AFC games), airing most games until the end of the 1997 season, when KFMB became the team's new station of record with the AFC broadcast rights moving over to CBS. From 2006 to 2016, the station aired Chargers games when they played on Sunday Night Football; this still continues today despite the Chargers' return to Los Angeles after 2016. KNSD also provided local coverage of Super Bowl XXXII, which was hosted at Qualcomm Stadium.

The station was also the broadcast home of the San Diego Padres and San Diego Mariners. Padres games aired during two different periods, first in the 1971 and 1972 seasons, and again from 1984 to 1986; while the WHA's Mariners broadcast games on the station during the entirety of the team's existence. The station also carried any games that were part of ABC's MLB coverage in 1976, then over to NBC's MLB broadcasts from 1977 to 1989; this included the Padres' first World Series appearance in 1984; limited postseason games involving the Padres were aired from 1995 to 2000.

News operation Edit

KNSD presently broadcasts 37+12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6+12 hours each weekday and 2+12 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); however, during the NFL season, the Sunday edition of the 6 p.m. newscast is typically preempted due to Sunday Night Football coverage. In addition, the station produces the sports highlight program SportsWrap, which is sponsored by local furniture store Jerome's Furniture and airs Sundays after the 11 p.m. newscast.

As KCST, the station started its news department in 1973; Harold Greene, who would later gain fame as an anchor in Los Angeles, served as its news director and lead news anchor. As a newcomer, channel 39's newscasts regularly placed third in the market, behind KFMB and KGTV, for many years. On October 28, 2005, KNSD began producing a nightly half-hour 10:00 p.m. newscast for WB affiliate KSWB-TV (channel 69, now a Fox affiliate), following owner Tribune Broadcasting's decision to shut down KSWB's in-house news department[39] (KSWB continued to produce local news updates during its simulcast of Los Angeles sister station KTLA's weekday morning newscast from the station's Kearny Mesa studios). KNSD's news outsourcing agreement with KSWB ended on July 31, 2008, when that station resumed in-house news operations upon switching its affiliation from The CW to Fox.[40]

In June 2009, the station outsourced production of its evening weather forecast segments to Los Angeles sister station KNBC, using that station's on-air weather staff;[41] as a result, KNSD became the only network-owned station in the United States and one of the few television stations in North America to outsource weather forecasts to a co-owned station. In October 2011, KNSD resumed in-house production of its forecast segments with the hiring of three weather anchors (including chief weather anchor Dagmar Midcap, who joined the station from WGCL-TV in Atlanta) and the promotion of Jodi Kodesh from reporter to morning weather anchor.[42] On December 13, 2010, KNSD unveiled a new HD-ready set for its newscasts, which mainly mirrors that of the "Window on the World" set used by Today; this marked the first major renovations since KNSD moved into the NBC Building in 2001.[43][44]

On January 29, 2011, KNSD became the fifth television station in the San Diego market, and the last NBC-owned station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; footage shot in-studio is broadcast in high definition, while all news video from on-remote locations was initially broadcast in standard definition. The station also implemented a new logo and on-air graphics package designed by NBC Artworks and the advertising agency Mother New York, which dropped the longtime "NBC 7/39" brand in favor of branding as simply "NBC San Diego".[45] The "block" graphics and branding used in this period (which featured similarities to the design of the NBC Nonstop channels) were to be implemented by the remaining NBC O&Os (and were used by their websites during the same period); however, KNSD was the only O&O to use the scheme on-air before dropping it in July 2012, in favor of Artworks' new "Look F" standardized graphics that were first adopted by sister station KNTV (at which point, the station revised its branding to "NBC 7 San Diego"). On October 25, 2012, the station expanded its weekday morning newscast to 2+12 hours, with the addition of a 4:30 a.m. half-hour.

On July 18, 2016, KNSD began using the new "Look N" standardized graphics. The graphics were first implemented by the NBC O&Os on the East Coast in Summer of that year; however, KNSD became the second NBC O&O on the West Coast to begin using the new graphics. Also, its theme music was also updated, by warp-speeding the NBC chimes in the "LA Groove" theme in all of its opens, making the first NBC-owned station to warp-speed its musical signature in its theme music. Prior to the graphics change, KNSD along with sister stations KNBC and KNTV revamped their websites on July 1, 2016.

On January 3, 2017, KNSD expanded the 11 a.m. midday newscast to an hour, following rivals KGTV and KFMB-TV. As a result of this expansion, the station moved the entertainment newsmagazine program Access Hollywood to the overnight slot of 2:05 a.m., subsequently preempting the network's rebroadcast of the fourth hour of Today.[46] However, beginning on January 7, 2019, the newscast was cut back to a half-hour along with Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area sister stations KNBC and KNTV due to the premiere of the lifestyle show California Live which airs on all three NBC O&Os in California.

Notable current on-air staff Edit

Notable former on-air staff Edit

Subchannels Edit

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KNSD[36]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
39.1 1080i 16:9 KNSD-DT Main KNSD programming / NBC
39.2 480i COZI-TV Cozi TV
39.3 LocalX LX
39.4 Oxygen Oxygen

See also Edit

References Edit

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External links Edit

  • Official website

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources KNSD news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message KNSD channel 39 is a television station in San Diego California United States serving as the market s NBC outlet It is owned and operated by the network s NBC Owned Television Stations alongside Poway licensed Telemundo station KUAN LD channel 48 KNSD and KUAN LD share studios on Granite Ridge Drive in the Serra Mesa section of San Diego through a channel sharing agreement the two stations transmit using KNSD s spectrum from an antenna southeast of Spring Valley KNSDSan Diego CaliforniaUnited StatesChannelsDigital 17 UHF shared with KUAN LD Virtual 39BrandingNBC 7 San Diego cable channel NBC 7 NewsProgrammingAffiliations39 1 NBCfor others see SubchannelsOwnershipOwnerNBC Owned Television Stations Comcast NBCUniversal Station Venture Operations LP Sister stationsKUAN LDHistoryFirst air dateNovember 14 1965 57 years ago 1965 11 14 as KAARFormer call signsKAAR 1965 1968 KCST 1968 1975 KCST TV 1975 1988 Former channel number s Analog 39 UHF 1965 2009 Digital 40 UHF 2000 2019 Former affiliationsIndependent 1965 1973 ABC 1973 1977 Call sign meaning News San Diego former news branding Technical information 1 Licensing authorityFCCFacility ID35277ERP387 kWHAAT577 m 1 893 ft Transmitter coordinates32 41 48 7 N 116 56 9 2 W 32 696861 N 116 935889 W 32 696861 116 935889LinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitewww wbr nbcsandiego wbr comKNSD s on air branding NBC 7 San Diego is derived from its cable channel position in the market on Charter Spectrum Cox Communications and AT amp T U verse The station is also available on channel 39 on satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network Contents 1 History 1 1 Early history 1 2 NBC affiliation 2 Programming 2 1 Local programming 2 2 Syndicated programming 2 3 Sports programming 2 4 News operation 2 4 1 Notable current on air staff 2 4 2 Notable former on air staff 3 Subchannels 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksHistory EditEarly history Edit The station first signed on the air on November 14 1965 as KAAR owned by San Diego Telecasters It was the first television station in the San Diego market to operate on the UHF band and was the market s first independent station The station originally operated from a building that was once occupied by the National Pen Company located in the neighborhood of Kearny Mesa 10 miles 16 km northeast of downtown San Diego Initially broadcasting from 12 noon to either midnight or 12 30 a m based on the length of its late movie the station aired a mix of local and first run syndicated programming both vintage and more recent films and reruns of several 1950s dramatic series However in the summer of 1966 KAAR cut its operating hours significantly with sign on time moved up to 5 p m and by that fall the station was only broadcasting on weeknights with a 15 minute 7 p m newscast a travelogue and a single black and white movie which ran for a week at a time 2 A short time later in January 1967 KAAR made an arrangement with San Diego State College to air programming produced by the San Diego Area Instructional Television Authority from 9 a m to 4 p m daily which was followed by two hours of cartoons this lasted until the sign on of educational station KEBS on June 12 of that year 2 Channel 39 then went dark and was subsequently sold to Western Telecasters Inc controlled by the Texas based Bass family 3 and returned to the air on February 2 1968 as KCST standing for California San Diego Television For a four year period from the late 1960s to the early 1970s Western Telecasters tried to take the ABC affiliation from XETV channel 6 a station licensed across the Mexican border in Tijuana but which broadcast exclusively in English with a studio facility based in San Diego XETV had been San Diego s ABC affiliate since 1956 under a special arrangement between the Federal Communications Commission FCC and Mexican authorities subject to renewal by the Commission every year Upon the FCC granting its annual renewal to ABC XETV in late 1968 Western Telecasters countered claiming that the presence of KCST made it no longer necessary for an American television network to affiliate with a Mexican television station 4 5 In May 1972 the FCC revoked XETV s permission to carry ABC programming 6 As the only commercial station in the market other than CBS affiliate KFMB TV channel 8 and then NBC affiliate KGTV channel 10 KCST took over the ABC affiliation in two stages daytime programming moved to channel 39 in June 1973 followed by prime time programs and all other shows including children s programs network newscasts and sports by July 1 1973 7 Four months earlier in March Western Telecasters agreed to sell KCST to Storer Broadcasting which owned major network affiliates in the Eastern and Midwestern United States 8 The sale was completed on September 30 1974 on January 1 1975 Storer added a TV suffix to the KCST callsign 9 The switch and sale changed channel 39 s fortunes transforming the low rated independent into a major player in the market Riding on the heels of ABC s ascent to first place nationally during the 1975 76 season KCST also out rated its network affiliated rivals locally 10 By 1976 KCST had actually become the highest rated station in San Diego displacing longtime leader KFMB TV 11 XETV meanwhile operated as an independent station until October 1986 when it became a charter affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company the station is now an exclusive Spanish language outlet for Canal 5 NBC affiliation Edit nbsp KNSD s logo as NBC 7 39 variations of which were used from January 1 1997 to August 9 2010 On June 27 1977 in the wake of its new success as the highest rated television network in America ABC moved its San Diego affiliation from KCST to KGTV causing an affiliation swap that ended with KCST taking the NBC affiliation formerly held by KGTV 12 13 ABC expressed dissatisfaction with how it had been relegated to UHF in San Diego and had preferred affiliating with VHF stations in markets of San Diego s size long before its national ratings success Under the circumstances KCST s ratings success was not enough to save the affiliation This move did not please Storer who retaliated by switching its only other ABC affiliate at the time present day Fox O amp O WITI in Milwaukee Wisconsin to a network they had better relations with CBS around the same time 14 15 In 1985 the Storer stations were acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts amp Co Two years later KCST and the other Storer stations were sold to Gillett Communications former Storer flagship WTVG in Toledo Ohio was the only station left out of the sale and was instead sold to a local employee investor group On September 16 1988 the station changed its news brand to News San Diego 16 and its call letters to KNSD to reflect the new name it also adopted the on air brand Channel 7 39 in respective reference to its cable and over the air channel positions 17 Gillett was restructured into SCI TV in 1991 after Gillett defaulted on some of his bond purchases After SCI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992 the company s stations were sold in a group deal to New World Communications nbsp KNSD s logo as NBC San Diego used August 9 2010 to June 2011 A modified version reflecting the NBC 7 San Diego branding was then used until July 11 2012 during this time the station s website continued to use this logo In May 1994 New World entered into a deal with News Corporation that would result in most of New World s television stations which were primarily CBS affiliates along with a few ABC and NBC stations switching from their Big Three network affiliations to join Fox causing the network s affiliations in the affected markets relocating from UHF to VHF stations However New World opted to exclude KNSD from the affiliation deal since Fox s San Diego affiliation was already on the VHF band through XETV Instead KNSD was able to retain its NBC affiliation and New World sold the station and WVTM TV in Birmingham Alabama to NBC in May 1996 the sale was finalized that August Following the sale s closure in January 1997 KNSD modified its on air branding to NBC 7 39 In October 1997 NBC sold a 24 ownership interest in KNSD to LIN Television in exchange NBC acquired majority control 76 of its Dallas Fort Worth affiliate KXAS TV from LIN The deal closed on March 2 1998 marking the official launch of the new NBC LIN joint venture known as Station Venture Operations LP which was controlled by NBC 18 Under the traditional definition KNSD is the only English language owned and operated station of a major network in the San Diego market however several stations owned by Grupo Televisa on the Mexican side of the market are O amp Os of that company s various networks The station blamed its woes on its UHF status in the past but as viewers migrated to cable television San Diego has one of the highest cable penetration rates in the United States 19 along with the fact that most of the market s UHF stations brand by their cable channel placements or call letters rather than by their physical channel along with former VHF analog stations operating their post transition digital signals on the UHF band the issues with the station s position on the UHF dial have been significantly reduced KNSD had formerly owned low power station KNSD LP channel 62 which was leased to Entravision Communications to expand the coverage area of Univision affiliate KTCD CA channel 17 now KBNT CD In the spring of 2001 KNSD moved its operations into 225 Broadway a high rise office building in downtown San Diego that was redeveloped to serve as its studio and office facilities which includes a glass enclosed street level news studio resembling that of the streetside studio at Rockefeller Center in New York City used by NBC s Today In February 2013 LIN Media withdrew itself from the Station Venture Operations joint venture as part of a corporate reorganization As a result NBC regained full ownership in KNSD and assumed full ownership of KXAS 20 21 KNSD shut down its analog signal over UHF channel 39 on June 12 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television 22 The station s digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 40 23 24 Through the use of PSIP digital television receivers display the station s virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 39 NBC s three owned and operated stations in California KNBC in Los Angeles KNTV in San Jose San Francisco and KNSD collaborated to launch the only regional Nonstop channel NBC California Nonstop in January 2011 25 On December 20 2012 KNSD along with other NBC owned and operated stations began carrying Cozi TV a rebranded Nonstop network focusing on classic television programming 26 As part of the SAFER Act 27 KNSD kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters On January 9 2014 KNSD announced that it would not renew its lease for the 225 Broadway studios when it expires in 2016 28 On June 23 the station announced the purchase of a two story 50 000 square feet 4 600 m2 building at the StoneCrest office complex on Granite Ridge Drive in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood for 9 6 million which will be converted into a new facility for the station The location was chosen due to its easy access to San Diego County s main thoroughfares and no cost parking for its employees The studio opened on February 29 2016 29 30 On March 15 2016 NBCUniversal s parent company Comcast pulled the signals of KNSD along with co owned cable channels USA Network Bravo Syfy MSNBC and CNBC from Dish Network s lineup as a result of a dispute between NBC and Dish Dish claimed NBCUniversal was demanding it renew its carriage of 10 NBC owned stations and 16 Telemundo owned stations including those removed due to the dispute XHAS TDT then a Telemundo affiliate was unaffected by the dispute 31 Three days later on March 18 2016 the company announced it would continue to carry KNSD and five other cable channels for another 10 days while seeking arbitration by the FCC 32 On July 1 2017 KNSD launched the Telemundo network on its third subchannel KNSD D3 39 20 as Telemundo 20 San Diego 33 That September NBC agreed to purchase KUAN LD of Poway California from NRJ TV 34 By December 18 2018 Telemundo 20 San Diego was being carried on KUAN 35 KNSD switched its frequency channel to 17 on March 14 2019 with KUAN sharing KNSD s channel but continuing to be displayed as their prior channel numbers 35 36 Programming EditLocal programming Edit Local lifestyle and infotainment program Streetside San Diego and Spanish language newscast Noticias Mi San Diego the latter of which was a holdover from KNSD s operation of KBOP CA channel 43 now KSEX CD were local programs previously produced by KNSD these programs along with the station s weekend morning newscasts which were restored in December 2013 as part of a gradual newscast expansion resulting from a benefits package offered to the FCC upon the NBCUniversal Comcast merger 37 were canceled on December 5 2008 as a result of budget cuts at the station 38 The station currently produces a late night music and lifestyle program SoundDiego on Saturdays Syndicated programming Edit In addition to the NBC network schedule syndicated programs on KNSD include Access Hollywood and its live counterpart The Kelly Clarkson Show Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune KNSD is the only NBC O amp O to carry the latter two As of September 2022 KNSD along with its sister stations KNBC in Los Angeles KNTV in San Francisco WNBC in New York WMAQ TV in Chicago WRC TV in Washington D C WCAU in Philadelphia WTVJ in Miami KXAS TV in Dallas and WVIT in Hartford is one of the nine NBC O amp Os that carry and distribute programming either nationally or regionally Sports programming Edit When channel 39 switched to NBC in 1977 it became the default home station for the NFL s San Diego Chargers by way of NBC s rights to air AFC games airing most games until the end of the 1997 season when KFMB became the team s new station of record with the AFC broadcast rights moving over to CBS From 2006 to 2016 the station aired Chargers games when they played on Sunday Night Football this still continues today despite the Chargers return to Los Angeles after 2016 KNSD also provided local coverage of Super Bowl XXXII which was hosted at Qualcomm Stadium The station was also the broadcast home of the San Diego Padres and San Diego Mariners Padres games aired during two different periods first in the 1971 and 1972 seasons and again from 1984 to 1986 while the WHA s Mariners broadcast games on the station during the entirety of the team s existence The station also carried any games that were part of ABC s MLB coverage in 1976 then over to NBC s MLB broadcasts from 1977 to 1989 this included the Padres first World Series appearance in 1984 limited postseason games involving the Padres were aired from 1995 to 2000 News operation Edit KNSD presently broadcasts 37 1 2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week with 6 1 2 hours each weekday and 2 1 2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays however during the NFL season the Sunday edition of the 6 p m newscast is typically preempted due to Sunday Night Football coverage In addition the station produces the sports highlight program SportsWrap which is sponsored by local furniture store Jerome s Furniture and airs Sundays after the 11 p m newscast As KCST the station started its news department in 1973 Harold Greene who would later gain fame as an anchor in Los Angeles served as its news director and lead news anchor As a newcomer channel 39 s newscasts regularly placed third in the market behind KFMB and KGTV for many years On October 28 2005 KNSD began producing a nightly half hour 10 00 p m newscast for WB affiliate KSWB TV channel 69 now a Fox affiliate following owner Tribune Broadcasting s decision to shut down KSWB s in house news department 39 KSWB continued to produce local news updates during its simulcast of Los Angeles sister station KTLA s weekday morning newscast from the station s Kearny Mesa studios KNSD s news outsourcing agreement with KSWB ended on July 31 2008 when that station resumed in house news operations upon switching its affiliation from The CW to Fox 40 In June 2009 the station outsourced production of its evening weather forecast segments to Los Angeles sister station KNBC using that station s on air weather staff 41 as a result KNSD became the only network owned station in the United States and one of the few television stations in North America to outsource weather forecasts to a co owned station In October 2011 KNSD resumed in house production of its forecast segments with the hiring of three weather anchors including chief weather anchor Dagmar Midcap who joined the station from WGCL TV in Atlanta and the promotion of Jodi Kodesh from reporter to morning weather anchor 42 On December 13 2010 KNSD unveiled a new HD ready set for its newscasts which mainly mirrors that of the Window on the World set used by Today this marked the first major renovations since KNSD moved into the NBC Building in 2001 43 44 On January 29 2011 KNSD became the fifth television station in the San Diego market and the last NBC owned station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition footage shot in studio is broadcast in high definition while all news video from on remote locations was initially broadcast in standard definition The station also implemented a new logo and on air graphics package designed by NBC Artworks and the advertising agency Mother New York which dropped the longtime NBC 7 39 brand in favor of branding as simply NBC San Diego 45 The block graphics and branding used in this period which featured similarities to the design of the NBC Nonstop channels were to be implemented by the remaining NBC O amp Os and were used by their websites during the same period however KNSD was the only O amp O to use the scheme on air before dropping it in July 2012 in favor of Artworks new Look F standardized graphics that were first adopted by sister station KNTV at which point the station revised its branding to NBC 7 San Diego On October 25 2012 the station expanded its weekday morning newscast to 2 1 2 hours with the addition of a 4 30 a m half hour On July 18 2016 KNSD began using the new Look N standardized graphics The graphics were first implemented by the NBC O amp Os on the East Coast in Summer of that year however KNSD became the second NBC O amp O on the West Coast to begin using the new graphics Also its theme music was also updated by warp speeding the NBC chimes in the LA Groove theme in all of its opens making the first NBC owned station to warp speed its musical signature in its theme music Prior to the graphics change KNSD along with sister stations KNBC and KNTV revamped their websites on July 1 2016 On January 3 2017 KNSD expanded the 11 a m midday newscast to an hour following rivals KGTV and KFMB TV As a result of this expansion the station moved the entertainment newsmagazine program Access Hollywood to the overnight slot of 2 05 a m subsequently preempting the network s rebroadcast of the fourth hour of Today 46 However beginning on January 7 2019 the newscast was cut back to a half hour along with Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area sister stations KNBC and KNTV due to the premiere of the lifestyle show California Live which airs on all three NBC O amp Os in California Notable current on air staff Edit Mark Mullen anchor Dagmar Midcap chief meteorologistNotable former on air staff Edit Emily Chang reporter later at CNN and Bloomberg Television Fritz Coleman weathercaster 2009 2011 was concurrent with his duties with KNBC now retired Ron Fortner anchor previously with XETV later at KTVU deceased Courtney Friel later at KTTV in Los Angeles now at KTLA in Los Angeles Harold Greene anchor 1973 1974 now retired Roger Hedgecock anchor 1991 1992 now a radio host at KOGO AM Jim Hill sports reporter and host of Mr 39 s Talent Night later with KGTV now with KCBS TV and KCAL TV in Los Angeles 47 Jim Laslavic sports director 1989 2019 recently retired Joe Lizura weather meteorologist 1990 2006 subsequently at KUSI Bill Ritter Reporter now at WABC Rolland Smith anchor 1993 1997 returned to New York 48 Anne State anchor reporter 2002 2008 later at WBBM TV in Chicago and WITI in Milwaukee recently left KOIN in Portland Oregon for San Diego rival KGTV Bree Walker anchor 1997 2000 later with KTLK in Los Angeles 49 Lou Waters news director and anchor subsequently an early and tenured CNN anchor Subchannels EditThe station s digital signal is multiplexed Subchannels of KNSD 36 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming39 1 1080i 16 9 KNSD DT Main KNSD programming NBC39 2 480i COZI TV Cozi TV39 3 LocalX LX39 4 Oxygen OxygenSee also EditChannel 7 branded TV stations in the United States Channel 17 digital TV stations in the United States Channel 39 virtual TV stations in the United StatesReferences Edit Facility Technical Data for KNSD Licensing and Management System Federal Communications Commission a b KAAR 39 San Diego CA uhfhistory com Retrieved December 27 2018 KAAR TV sale approved for 1 1 million to Bass PDF Broadcasting September 4 1967 p 9 Retrieved December 28 2018 U asks FCC aid in quest for ABC PDF Broadcasting November 18 1968 p 46 Retrieved December 28 2018 ABC resists shift to San Diego U PDF Broadcasting December 23 1968 p 37 Retrieved December 28 2018 Beginning of the end for XETV ABC association PDF Broadcasting June 5 1972 p 36 Retrieved December 28 2018 Beginning of the end for XETV ABC association PDF Broadcasting June 5 1972 p 37 Retrieved December 28 2018 San Diego truce approved PDF Broadcasting March 12 1973 p 57 Retrieved December 28 2018 Storer to pay 12 million for San Diego UHF PDF Broadcasting March 19 1973 p 48 Retrieved December 28 2018 KCST TV KNSD history cards PDF CDBS Public Access Federal Communications Commission Retrieved May 19 2019 ABC s gains are turning television upside down PDF Broadcasting March 29 1976 p 19 Retrieved December 28 2018 ABC s gains are turning television upside down PDF Broadcasting March 29 1976 p 20 Retrieved December 28 2018 ABC s gains are turning television upside down Broadcasting March 29 1976 pp 19 20 1 2 In Brief PDF Broadcasting June 7 1976 p 24 Retrieved December 28 2018 In Brief PDF Broadcasting March 7 1977 p 26 Retrieved December 28 2018 Milwaukee connection Broadcasting October 18 1976 pg 36 permanent dead link In Brief Broadcasting September 27 1976 pg 28 3 permanent dead link the text incorrectly states that WISN TV had been a CBS affiliate since 1954 omitting the 1961 affiliation switch Stein Joe September 15 1988 Major changes at TV 39 San Diego Evening Tribune Brass Kevin September 16 1988 No respect For Channel 39 UHF exile has meant long hard battle for hearts and minds of viewers Los Angeles Times Retrieved February 13 2013 NBCUniversal 2011Annual Report 10K PDF NBCUniversal Archived from the original PDF on July 28 2014 Retrieved October 19 2012 Tv Wars Archived from the original on May 17 2004 Retrieved April 6 2006 Company Overview of Station Venture Operations Lp Company profiles Business Week Archived from the original on January 2 2013 Retrieved August 21 2012 LIN exits NBC joint venture plans reorg RBR com February 13 2013 Retrieved February 13 2013 List of Digital Full Power Stations Archived August 29 2013 at the Wayback Machine DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds PDF Archived from the original PDF on August 29 2013 Retrieved March 12 2012 CDBS Print Fjallfoss fcc gov Retrieved on December 22 2011 Michael Malone October 21 2010 Exclusive NBC Local Media Sets Nonstop Launch Dates Broadcasting amp Cable Retrieved July 21 2012 NBC Stations Kick Off Cozi TV TVNewsCheck December 20 2012 UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program PDF Federal Communications Commission June 12 2009 Retrieved June 4 2012 NBC San Diego To Leave Downtown Studio By 2016 KPBS TV January 9 2014 Retrieved August 13 2014 McVicker Laura June 23 2014 NBC 7 Announces Move to New Kearny Mesa Location in 2016 KNSD Retrieved August 13 2014 Hirsh Lou June 23 2014 NBC 7 Buys Kearny Mesa Building for New Studio Offices San Diego Business Journal Retrieved August 13 2014 Satellite giant Dish sues NBC alleging breach of contract Los Angeles Times March 15 2016 Dish Network Tells FCC It Will Seek Arbitration To Resolve NBCU Dispute Deadline March 18 2016 Marszalek Diana June 28 2017 Telemundo s San Diego O amp O Goes Live July 1 Broadcasting amp Cable Retrieved May 16 2020 Station Trading Roundup 2 Deals 660 000 TVNewsCheck September 26 2017 Retrieved September 27 2017 a b How to Find Over the Air Signal for NBC 7 KNSD Telemundo 20 KUAN San Diego NBC 7 San Diego December 18 2018 Retrieved May 18 2020 a b Digital TV Market Listing for KNSD RabbitEars Info Retrieved May 16 2020 Posner Jay December 5 2013 Several winners in November sweeps U T San Diego Retrieved August 13 2014 Peterson Karla December 6 2008 KNSD Channel 39 drops 3 local news shows lays off 12 U T San Diego Retrieved December 7 2008 KSWB news changes hands 30 to lose jobs Archived December 13 2013 at the Wayback Machine U T San Diego September 22 2005 Trading places Fox CW switch network channels Archived August 14 2014 at the Wayback Machine U T San Diego August 1 2008 KNSD s local forecasts to originate in L A U T San Diego June 25 2009 Weathercaster Dagmar Midcap Joins KNSD TVSpy October 25 2011 NBC San Diego Set Redesign Timelapse NBCSanDiego com Retrieved on December 22 2011 Check Out Our New Set NBCSanDiego com Retrieved on December 22 2011 San Diego station rolls out HD look with new NBC brand NewscastStudio Retrieved February 13 2013 A small minor newscast change 113 Changing Newscasts Blog January 3 2017 Retrieved January 11 2017 Hammond Rich Q amp A Jim Hill and the exploding frog that launched a legendary TV career The Athletic Retrieved September 5 2023 William Jefferson Clinton interview with Rolland Smith of KNSD TV San Diego October 22 1993 Retrieved March 12 2013 Disabilities In The Workplace October 26 1998 Retrieved August 12 2023 External links EditOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title KNSD amp oldid 1179898492, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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