KCBS-TV
Los Angeles, California
Branding	"CBS 2"; "CBS 2 News"
Slogan	"Clearly Southern California's Dominant News Force" (referring to KCBS and sister KCAL's high-definition capability); "Always On" (website)
Channels	Analog: 2 (VHF) Digital: 60 (UHF)
Translators	See list of rebroadcasters, below
Affiliations	CBS (since 1951)
Owner	CBS Corporation
Founded	May 6, 1948 (originally experimental W6XAO 1931-35 and 1936-48)
Call letters meaning	K Columbia Broadcasting System (former legal name of CBS)
Sister station(s)	KCAL-TV, KCBS-FM, KFWB, KLSX, KNX, KROQ-FM, KRTH, KTWV
Former callsigns	KTSL (1948-1951) KNXT (1951-1984)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1948-1951)
Transmitter Power	36.3 kW (analog) 469 kW (digital)
Height	1097 m (analog) 1087 m (digital)
Facility ID	9628
Transmitter Coordinates
Website	www.cbs2.com

KCBS-TV, or "CBS 2 Los Angeles," is the CBS owned and operated television station serving the Los Angeles, California area. KCBS is included in basic-cable systems in such distant areas as San Luis Obispo and Riverside counties; it reaches an even wider audience via the Dish Network and DirecTV satellites and through rebroadcasters serving the more remote Southland mountain and desert areas. The station is the West Coast flagship station of the CBS network. KCBS is a sister station to KCAL-TV, a Los Angeles independent station purchased by CBS in 2002. The two stations share a studio in the CBS Studio Center, located in Studio City. KCBS' transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson, in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles.

History

Experimental years

KCBS-TV's history is almost contiguous with that of American televsion. It came into existence as a creation of Don Lee Broadcasting, a company founded by its namesake, the West Coast's Cadillac automobile distributor who in the 1920s built a chain of Pacific Coast radio stations. Lee's son, Thomas S. Lee, was an engineer and a driving force behind the fledgling television signal, which was first licensed by the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission as experimental television station W6XAO in June 1931. On December 23, 1931 it went on the air, and by March 1933 was broadcasting one hour daily except Sundays. The station used a mechanical camera which broadcast only film footage in an 80-line image, but demonstrated all-electronic receivers as early as 1932. It went off the air in 1935, and then reappeared using an improved mechanical camera producing a 300-line image for a month-long demonstration in June 1936. By August 1937, W6XAO had programming on the air six days per week. Live programming started in April 1938.

By 1939, with the image improved to 441 lines, an optimistic estimate of the station's viewership was 1,500 people in a few hundred homes. Many of the receiver sets were built by television hobbyists, though commercially made sets were available in Los Angeles. The station's six-day weekly schedule consisted of live talent four nights, and film two nights. During World War II, programming was reduced to three hours, every other Monday. The station's frequency was switched from Channel 1 to Channel 2 in 1945 when the FCC decided to reserve Channel 1 for low-wattage community television stations.

As KTSL

The station was Los Angeles's (and California's) first television station but Paramount Pictures-owned KTLA-TV Channel 5 was the first to acquire a commercial license and adopt call letters (January 1947). W6XAO followed suit, and acquired a commercial license--the second in California--as KTSL on May 6, 1948, using the initials of Thomas S. Lee. The station became affiliated with the DuMont Television Network later that year.

As KNXT

From 1948 to 1951, the CBS network affiliate in Los Angeles was KTTV (channel 11), founded by the Los Angeles Times, which held a 51% ownership stake. Minority owner CBS decided that it needed an O&O in what was by then the nation's third-largest city. After an unsuccessful bid for full control of KTTV, CBS founder and chief William Paley began negotiations with Thomas S. Lee for the purchase of KTSL. A deal was struck, and On January 1, 1951, CBS took over Channel 2. CBS programming moved to KTSL, and in November of 1951 KTSL was re-christened KNXT, to coincide with CBS' Los Angeles radio station, KNX-AM 1070 (the "N" and the "X" stood for News-Express, a now-defunct Los Angeles newspaper.) KNXT's first day as an O&O was celebrated with a live 12-hour broadcast which included entertainment, celebrity interviews, and a Los Angeles Rams-San Francisco 49ers football game.

The 1950s

As a CBS station, KNXT was the Los Angeles home of some of America's most popular television shows during this decade, from "I Love Lucy" to "The Jackie Gleason Show" to "The $64,000 Question". Local programming included "Juke Box Jury", a popular new-music-rating show, and, most prominently, "Carson's Cellar", starring the young comic Johnny Carson, who opened his daily variety show with jokes and light-hearted observations which were the precursor to his famous Tonight Show monologues. KNXT's newscast during the early 1950s featured reporter Ruth Ashton, who remained with the station for years to come, sports reporter Tom Harmon, the Heisman Trophy-winning former University of Michigan star who had recently concluded his football career with the Rams, and anchor Dan Lundberg, who later came to prominence as the editor and publisher of a newsletter following the oil industry.

By the middle of the 1950s KNXT upgraded its news operation and offered a broadcast featuring some of the best-known news personalities in Los Angeles television history. The weather forecaster was Bill Keene (whose name would eventually be synonomous with Southland weather and traffic); the sports reporter was Gil Stratton (who balanced his KNXT duties with a busy movie- and television-acting career); the anchor was Clete Roberts, an urbane, mustachioed newsman whose taste for pursuing breaking stories sometimes took him (occasionally at his own expense) to such far-flung venues as Israel and Hungary to report momentous events. Also featured on KNXT newscasts during this time was investigative reporter Bill Stout, who was a fixture on the station for over three decades.

"KNXT News" was highly respected, but its ratings lagged behind the perennial market leader, NBC-owned KRCA (channel 4, now KNBC). The station's fortunes sagged a bit more in 1959 when Roberts left KNXT for KTLA and Stout followed him there soon after. Channel 2, which by this time had left its original quarters in the Don Lee broadcasting studios on Vine Street in Hollywood and moved to the International Style architectural landmark CBS Columbia Square on Sunset Boulevard, tried several candidates in the anchor chair before settling in 1960 on a Chicago import, wavy-haired Jerry Dunphy. The new anchor's presence did little to increase its viewership, and by the end of the year station management decided that a radical change in news presentation was necessary to improve KNXT's fortunes.

KNXT's Golden Era

News director Sam Zelman and station manager Robert Wood (who ascended through the CBS ranks eventually assuming the network presidency) created the nation's first hour-long newscast. Most television news broadcasts, national as well as local, ran to fifteen minutes. Late in 1960, KNXT decided to run counter to accepted viewing habits by unveiling "The Big News" at 6 p.m. Dunphy fronted the program with a "Local, National, and International Report;" Keene and Stratton followed with elongated weather and sports reports; investigative reporter Maury Green hosted "Special Assignment," usually a lengthy look at a local issue, and Ralph Story, a veteran television personality and KNX radio host, anchored "The Human Predicament," a features and human-interest segment which incorporated Story's dry humor.

"The Big News" was immediately accepted by Southern California viewers and quickly shot to the top of local ratings. In short order the newscast, and its late-night companion "The Eleven O'Clock Report," vastly outpointed all competition. For much of the 1960s KNXT's news ratings bested KRCA/KNBC and KABC-TV (channel 7) combined, and occasional ratings measurements showed that a full quarter of Southern California television sets were tuned to KNXT during news-programming hours. Channel 2 through the decade added to its staff and introduced such reporters as Joseph Benti, John Hart, Paul Udell, Bob Navarro, Howard Gingold, Bob Dunn, Saul Halpert and Clete Roberts (who returned to the station in 1966). It also added news bureaus in Sacramento, San Francisco and Orange County, each with full-time correspondents and camera crews. Dunphy, whose authoritative yet affable style connected strongly with viewers, achieved a popularity and a recognition no Los Angeles news personality had yet attained.

The 1970s

By 1970 KNXT's competitors had bolstered their news forces and made strong gains; KNBC's "NewsService" (later "NewsCenter 4") featured three reporters who later became network mainstays, Tom Brokaw, Tom Snyder, and Bob Abernethy. KABC-TV instituted its "Eyewitness News" format offering a faster-paced, more informal presentation and chatter among the anchors ("happy talk"). KNXT in response brought in some fresh faces (and people of color), among them entertainment critic David Sheehan, reporters Bob Simmons, Mario Machado and Glenda Wina, and weekend sportscaster Stan Duke. Channel 2 held on to its rating lead through 1972, fell behind its competition thereafter, and set out on a course it would pursue for three decades--trying new formats and anchor combinations to gain new viewership. "The Big News" branding was dropped in 1973 in favor of "Channel 2 Newsroom"; the news shows were actually broadcast from the station's bustling newsroom, with the anchors in shirt sleeves. Joseph Benti returned to anchor the 11 p.m. show, effectively demoting Dunphy. The station's newscasts were completely reconfigured in 1975, and the white-haired Dunphy was eased from the station entirely in favor of personalities new KNXT management believed reached its desired younger demographics, most prominently veteran St. Louis anchor Patrick Emory. Dunphy quickly signed with KABC and helped that station open a wide ratings lead.

KNXT made moves to improve its position in the late 1970s; the station hired the young CBS News correspondent Connie Chung to co-anchor the weekday newscasts with Benti and introduced a former National Football League defensive back, Jim Hill, as a sportscaster. In June of 1978 new station manager Van Gordon Sauter (formerly of WBBM-TV in Chicago, and later affiliated with CBS News and the Fox News Channel) rolled out an unprecedented two-and-a-half hour news block (4:30 to 7:00 p.m.) designed to catch Southland viewers returning home at various times after their commutes. The new format received much attention; it included the return to the station of Ralph Story (who had moved to KABC in 1970) and the arrival of Brent Musburger, the well-known CBS Sports host, as a reporter and anchor. KNXT also premiered a locally-produced program titled "2 on the Town," featuring hosts Steve Edwards (now KTTV's morning host) and Melody Rogers, and offering profiles of Southern California people and places. Channel 2's fortunes improved in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, aside from a brief surge to first place in the early 1980s, it ran well behind KNBC and KABC in the ratings.

The 1980s

On April 2 1984, KNXT changed its calls to KCBS-TV to identify more closely with CBS, also adopting the slogan "We Still Treat News As If It Matters." In fact the entire decade was one of change for Channel 2, which installed a series of new management teams, new brandings, formats, and anchors. (Three small constants were the Sunday-morning interview program "Newsmakers," anchored by Bill Stout, the long-running Saturday-morning show "KidQuiz," hosted by weather forecaster Maclovio Perez, a station fixture from 1978 to 1997, and public-affairs host Truman Jacques' Sunday religious-discussion program.) From 1981 to 1983, Jess Marlow, a popular anchor who had spent fifteen years at KNBC, anchored with Chung. Channel 2 during the period bid hello and good-bye to a number of news personalities that went on to wider recognition elsewhere, including Chung (who left for NBC News in 1983), Musburger, Pat O'Brien, Ann Curry,Lester Holt, Paula Zahn, Terry Murphy ("Hard Copy"), Warren Olney (the long-running "To the Point" show on public-radio KCRW-FM), Dan Miller (the short-lived "Pat Sajak Show" on CBS), Jim Moret, Steve Kmetko, and Keith Olbermann (MSNBC).

While most of its fellow O&Os were dominating the ratings (or at least making a strong bid for first), Channel 2 was mired in last place. A low point for KCBS occurred in September of 1986, when it debuted a so-called "news wheel" from 4 to 6:30 p.m. offering rotating twenty-minute news, feature, health, lifestyle, and interview segments; response from viewers and TV critics was so vigorously negative that the format was dropped within a month and the station manager fired. In February 1988 the newscast was renamed "Channel 2 Action News," suggesting a faster-paced format. The station introduced its first early-morning news program (6 to 7 a.m.) at the beginning of 1990. In the early 1990s KCBS's leading news personalities were anchors Jim Lampley and Bree Walker. Lampley had been hired as sports director in 1987 (replacing Jim Hill, who spent five years at KABC) and promoted to news anchor in September 1988. He was paired with Walker, a newcomer to the station; both were estranged from their spouses and the romantic relationship and marriage that ensued garnered much media attention. Lampley left the station in February 1992 after newly-installed station management asked him to return to his former sportscasting role; he quickly signed on with NBC Sports.

Attempting to Gain Ground

More change came to KCBS in the 1990s. A quick-hitting newscast prevailed in 1992 and 1993, with anchors Walker, Michael Tuck, Tritia Toyota, and Chris Conangla presenting newscasts featuring many "exclusives" which sometimes read like a tabloid sheet. This format was much mocked by viewers and critics alike (although Hill's return to the sports desk was welcomed). It also grated on the news staff, who circulated a memo that resulted in the firing of news director John Lippmann.

CBS management, highly embarrassed at KCBS' subpar performance, responded by bringing in Bill Applegate as general manager. Applegate had previously been general manager at WBBM-TV, and ironically had been a reporter there in the early 1970s. While Applegate had been criticized for making WBBM's newscasts flashier than they had previously been, he set about toning down KCBS's newscasts. His greatest coups were luring popular anchor Ann Martin from KABC and, in February 1995, the highly-publicized return of Jerry Dunphy, who had spent the previous twenty years at KABC and KCAL (Tuck was retained as the 11 p.m. anchor). In 1995 KCBS made a brief jump past KABC into second place in the ratings. Network budget constraints forced the station to eliminate its early-morning newscast in late 1994, but the program was re-instated in the summer of 1996. Dunphy's late-afternoon newscast was a disappointment; low ratings and a financial belt-tightening resulting from CBS's merger with Westinghouse in 1996 meant that his segment was eliminated, and his contract was allowed to expire after two years. Applegate was another casualty of the CBS-Westinghouse merger. He'd bickered with Westinghouse over syndicated programming not long after he arrived. Westinghouse executives never forgot this; Applegate was one of the first executives to be let go. Channel 2's momentum ground to a halt, and it soon dropped back into last place.

KCBS received a re-branding in April of 1997; along with its Chicago and New York sister stations, the station adopted the moniker "CBS 2." Along with a new logo and imaging the station offered something of a new attitude; it shed the "Action News" label and the emphasis on crime and sensation it connoted, adopting the slogan "Bringing Balance Back to Local News" and introducing a weekly "What's Right with Southern California" segment. The newscasts, bolstered by reporter Joel Grover's undercover investigative reports, again gave KCBS a slight push ahead in ratings. In 1999 the station received a new general manager; John Severino, who in the 1970s had been the architect of KABC's "Eyewitness News" success, replaced Tuck as lead male anchor with Jonathan Elias and created a 4 p.m. newsmagazine titled "Women 2 Women." The program was meant to offer stories of interest to stay-at-home mothers, retirees, and women of all ages; it premiered with high hopes but drew a small viewership (it was moved to noon in 2000 and eliminated the year after.) New personalities were introduced to "CBS 2 News" as the century turned; in succession KCBS welcomed anchors Harold Greene, a longtime KABC personality, Kent Shocknek, a mainstay of early-morning news at KNBC, and Laura Diaz, also late of KABC. The arrival of these veteran high-profile anchors helped change the face of KCBS, but more sweeping changes were in the offing.

The "Duopoly"

In February of 2002 Viacom, which had bought CBS in 2000, took advantage of relaxed FCC restrictions and purchased its second television station in the Los Angeles market--KCAL-TV an independent station previously owned by Young Broadcasting. Almost as soon as the deal was approved and finalized CBS began merging KCBS and KCAL's operations; the two stations promoted each other's programming and altered their schedules to avoid simultaneous news broadcasts (KCBS' noon newscast was moved to 11 a.m. and KCAL's 4 p.m. newscast was eliminated). Soon the two stations began sharing reporters, then anchors, and in January of 2003 KCAL moved from its long-time home on what had been the old RKO lot on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood to share KCBS' facility at CBS Columbia Square. The stations also adopted identical graphic design for their newscasts and operated jointly in sponsorship of non-profit endeavors and participation in public events. Notably, the existing KCAL executive team (station manager Don Corsini and news director Nancy Bauer Gonzales) was chosen to head the combined operation. KCAL's news-anchor lineup was mostly left intact at first (although the staff has been trimmed since), but KCBS' team received considerable reworking; "CBS 2 News" parted ways with weekday personalities Jonathan Elias, Catherine Anaya and Pamela Wright and brought in such newcomers as entertainment features reporter Lisa Joyner, morning anchor Suzanne Rico, weatherman Henry DiCarlo and reporters Glen Walker and Lisa Sigell. And in January 2004, amid much fanfare, Paul Magers, longtime anchor at KARE-TV in the Twin Cities, was imported as CBS 2's lead male anchor, handling the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts with Diaz. In May 2005 weather forecaster Byron Miranda was replaced by Johnny Mountain, the longtime KABC weatherman (the move surprised many observers because Mountain had announced his retirement on "Eyewitness News" a few months earlier.) KCBS' 4 p.m. newscast, featuring Greene and Martin, was shifted to KCAL; CBS 2 had won the rights to "Dr. Phil" McGraw's daily counseling show and placed it in the 4 p.m. hour. The station continued its tradition of locally-produced programming by offering "Studio 2," a Sunday-evening newsmagazine hosted by Magers and Diaz.

For quite some time it seemed that none of the changes brought KCBS any closer to becoming a bigger factor in the Los Angeles news ratings race. But in May 2006 KCBS, to most observers' great surprise, wrested the #2 spot at 5 PM from KNBC due in part to a strong lead-in from "Dr. Phil". More importantly, "CBS 2 News at 11" shot past both KABC and KNBC to take first place in the late-night race for the first time since 1972, in the days of Jerry Dunphy and "The Big News." Among other things, it seemed that KCBS after many years had switched places with New York sister WCBS-TV, successful in earlier times but now undergoing almost continual change in its struggle to keep up with local rivals.

In late 2006 and early 2007 KCBS' reporting staff, quite stable in the recent past, was given a slight makeover. Morning weather forecaster John Elliott departed for New York and WCBS-TV; reporter Lisa Joyner was let go, as were staffers Craig Fiegner and longtime anchor and correspondent Paul Dandridge. Health reporter Dilva Henry and business correspondent Alan Mendelson (who were seen mostly on sister KCAL) left to pursue new opportunities. Replacing them, among others, were new weather anchor Kaj Goldberg, reporters Dave Mecham and Dave Malkoff, entertainment reporter Christina McLarty, and anchor/reporter Sharon Tay, late of KTLA and MSNBC, whose high profile has for some time been the object of many Internet searches.

Like those of their competitors, KCBS's newscasts are occasionally criticized for giving short shrift to the news stories that might directly affect the lives of viewers and instead emphasizing the more visually compelling images of crime, sex, and sensation--local or not--and for interrupting the newscasts to cover random police pursuits along area thoroughfares. And like other Los Angeles stations, KCBS is sometimes taken to task for including stories that cross-promote network programming, particularly during "sweeps" periods, and for devoting much air time to entertainment-celebrity news. In KCBS' case, such criticisms are usually made by comparing today's product with "The Big News", which was much more serious in tone and which offered much longer news pieces. But all so-called "old media" outlets--television and radio stations, newspapers, and magazines--have come under similar fire, and usually answer the criticisms by claiming that they must offer a wider range of items to an ever more diverse and fragmented public.

On Friday,April 20, 2007, Paul Magers closed KCBS's 11 p.m. newscast and thus ended the station's, and its parent network's, long tenancy at historic CBS Columbia Square. The following day KCBS and KCAL began broadcasting from a newly-built, all-digital facility located on the CBS Studio Center lot in Studio City,a few miles away on the other side of the Hollywood Hills. "CBS 2 News" unveiled a post-modern news set eschewing the typical downtown-skyline backdrop behind the anchors in favor of a large video wall; perhaps the new set's most striking feature is a large neon-lit CBS "eye" logo lying on its side just before the anchor desk. The newcasts also introduced updated graphics and news theme music (the station logo was retained). The move marks many changes at KCBS and KCAL. Both stations began broadcasting all their newscasts, sports shows, and public affairs programming in High Definition, becoming the third and fourth station in Los Angeles to do so; the other being KABC-TV in February 2006, and KTLA in January of 2007. In addition, KCBS and KCAL now operate in a completely tapeless newsroom. This newsroom is named in honor of Jerry Dunphy, who served two anchor tenures each at KNXT/KCBS and KCAL.

With the move, KTLA and KCET are the only stations (either in radio or television) in Los Angeles to broadcast from Hollywood. Both stations, located on Sunset Boulevard do not intend to ever leave their respective locations, or Hollywood for that matter.

Logos

KTSL logo from 1948 to 1950. Note the experimental station callsign (W6XAO) still shown.	KTSL logo from 1950 to 1951	KNXT logo from 1975 to 1977	KNXT logo from 1977 to 1978
KNXT logo from June 1978 to April 1984 (also used during the period by New York's WCBS-TV)	Alternate KNXT logo from 1979 to 1984, used in print advertising	KCBS-TV logo from April 1984 to September 1986, introduced with call-letter change	KCBS-TV logo from September 1986 to February 1988
KCBS-TV logo from February to June 1988, introduced with "Action News" branding	KCBS-TV logo from June 1988 to April 1994	KCBS-TV logo from April 1994 to May 1997	KCBS-TV's current logo, used since January 2003 (this logo replaced the 1997-2003 "CBS 2" logo, which is currently unavailable for display)

Newscast Titles

• Telenews (1948-1949)
• Fleetwood Lawton & The News (1950-1951)
• World News and KNXT News (1951-1960)
• The Big News (1960-1973)
• Newsroom/2LA Newsroom (1973-1978)
• Channel 2 News (1978-1988)
• Channel 2 Action News (1988-1997)
• CBS 2 News (1997-present)

Movie Umbrella Titles

• The Fabulous 52 (Saturday nights, early 1960s)
• The Early Show/The Late Show (1960s-1989)
• The Best of CBS (1970s)
• The CBS 6:30 Movie (1976-1978)
• The CBS Movie Special (1970s)
• The Saturday Night Movie Special (1980s)
• The Channel 2 Saturday/Sunday Night Movie (1980s)
• CBS Special Movie (1987-1995)
• The KCBS Early Movie (1989-1996)
• The KCBS Late Movie (1989-1996)
• The KCBS Saturday Night Movie (1989-1996)
• The CBS 2 Saturday/Sunday Night Movie (2001-present)
• A CBS 2 Special Movie Presentation (2001-present)

Personalities

The station's former anchors include Steve Kmetko, Keith Olbermann, Paula Zahn, Ann Curry, Bree Walker, Brent Musburger, Dan Miller, Jerry Dunphy, Connie Chung, Ken Jones and Maury Povich. Ken Jones anchored for KTTV and KCBS Weekends, Jerry Dunphy anchored for KNXT/KCBS and KCAL.

Sports director Jim Hill may well be the station's most notable current personality. Hill, a former San Diego Charger, was a sportscaster for CBS Sports during his first stint at KNXT/KCBS-TV, from 1976 to 1987. Hill then left to become sports director at KABC-TV, but returned to KCBS-TV in 1992 and has remained sports director at the station since. Other ex-athletes who are also sportscasters for KCBS and KCAL are Eric Dickerson, James Worthy and Eric Karros.

Current Weekday KCBS/KCAL anchors

• Laura Diaz - 5 and 11 p.m. co-anchor
• Harold Greene - Co-Anchor For KCAL 9 News At 4pm And CBS 2 News At 6pm
• Paul Magers - 5 and 11 p.m. co-anchor
• Ann Martin - 6 p.m. co-anchor; 5 p.m. reporter
• Suzanne Rico - 5-7 a.m. co-anchor
• Kent Shocknek - 5-7 a.m. co-anchor (Shocknek and Rico anchor updates a 7:25 and 8:25 during CBS' "The Early Show")
• Sandra Mitchell - 11 a.m. co-anchor
• Pat Harvey-KCAL 9 News At 8pm And 10pm
• Sylvia Lopez-KCAL 9 News At 9pm
• Rick Chambers-KCAL 9 News At 8pm,9pm,10pm

Weekend news anchors

• Linda Alvarez - 5, 6, and 11 p.m. co-anchor; reporter
• Glen Walker - 5,6, and 11 p.m. co-anchor; reporter
• Juan Fernandez - fill-in co-anchor
• Note: these anchors also work on weekend KCAL newscasts

Weather

• Henry DiCarlo - 5-7 a.m. meterologist (he also appears during "The Early Show")
• Johnny Mountain - 5,6, and 11 p.m. weather
• Josh Rubenstein - 11 a.m. meterologist (he also appears on KCAL and noon, 2 and 3 p.m.)
• Jackie Johnson - KCAL's chief forecaster, who serves fill-in roles for KCBS

Weekend Weather Anchor

• Kaj Goldberg - 5,6, and 11 p.m. weather (he also appears on KCAL weekend newscasts)

Sports

• Eric Dickerson - NFL This Morning analyst
• Steve Hartman (sportscaster) - Weekend Sports Anchor and Sports Central co-host
• Jim Hill - sports director and Sports Central host
• John Ireland - Sports Central co-host
• Gary Miller - Sports Central co-host

Note: KCAL analysts James Worthy and Eric Karros also occasionally appear on KCBS newscasts.

Reporting/Fill-in Anchor staff

• Dave Bryan - Political Reporter
• Stacey Butler - Reporter / Fill In Anchor
• Dave Clark - Reporter/Anchor
• Mark Coogan - Reporter
• Jennifer Davis - Reporter
• Suraya Fadel-Reporter
• Juan Fernandez- Reporter / Fill In Anchor / Weather
• Jaime Garza - Reporter / Fill In Anchor
• Michele Gile - Orange County Reporter
• David Goldstein - Investigative Reporter
• Dave Lopez - Orange County Reporter
• Dave Mecham - Reporter
• Greg Mills - Reporter
• Mary Beth McDade - Reporter / Fill In Anchor
• Christina McLarty - Entertainment Reporter
• Dave Malkoff - Reporter
• Randy Paige - Consumer Investigative Reporter
• Greg Phillips - Inland Empire Reporter
• Jennifer Sabih - Reporter/Fill In Anchor
• Lisa Sigell - Reporter/Fill In Anchor
• Sharon Tay - Reporter/Fill In Anchor
• Carter Evans - Freelance Reporter
• Eileen Gonzales - Freelance Reporter
• Cater Lee - Freelance Reporter
• Lonni Rivera - Freelance Reporter

Chopper 2

• Larry Welk is KCBS and KCAL's helicopter pilot and reporter; freelance airborne reporters are Derek Bell, Alex Calder, Aaron Fitzgerald, and Gary Lineberry.

"Timesaver Traffic"

• Vera Jimenez - 5-7 a.m. reporter (and during "The Early Show"); fill-in weather forecaster

CBS2.com

• Mark Liu - Webcaster / Assignment Editor / Blogger
• Jenn McBride - Webcaster / Web Producer

Trivia

• Helicopter reporter Larry Welk is the grandson of the late television star and orchestra leader Lawrence Welk.
• Entertainment reporter Christina McLarty is the niece of President Bill Clinton's last chief of staff, Thomas "Mac" McLarty.
• Anchor Harold Greene is said to have served (at least in part) as the model for the title character in the Will Ferrell motion picture "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy"; the Christina Applegate character in that movie is said to have been based on Greene's long-time co-anchor Ann Martin.

Former Anchors.Reporters And Sports Anchors

• Catherine Anaya - Anchor/Reporter/"Women 2 Women" co-host (1998-2002), now with KPHO-TV In Phoenix)
• Steve Alvarez - sports anchor/reporter (1990-1991)
• Terry Anzur - anchor/political reporter (1990-1994)
• Jaie Avila - reporter (1998-2002, now at WOAI-TV in San Antonio)
• Ross Becker - reporter (1980-1990, now at KTVX-TV)
• Joseph Benti - anchor/reporter (1960-1963 and 1973-1980)
• Marcia Brandwynne - anchor/reporter (1980-1984)
• Angela Black - anchor/reporter (1996-2001)
• Gretchen Carr - anchor/reporter (1998-2004)
• Larry Carroll - anchor (1996-1999 (now at KFWB radio)
• Joel Connable - reporter (now at WTVJ in Miami)
• Paul Dandridge - anchor/reporter (1996-2007)
• Donna Deaner - consumer reporter (1983-85)
• Jerry Dunphy - anchor and original member of the Big News team (1960-1975 and 1995-1996); also KCAL anchor (1989-1994 and 1997 until his death in 2002)
• Connie Chung - anchor/reporter (1976-1983)
• Ann Curry - reporter (1984-1990) (Now at NBC News)
• Bob Dunn - anchor/reporter/sports anchor (1962-1986)
• Steve Edwards - weather forecaster/entertainment reporter/"2 on the Town" co-host (1978-1984) (Now With KTTV's "Good Day LA")
• Jonathan Elias - anchor/reporter (1998-2002, now at WBZ
• John Elliott - morning weathercaster (2004-2006)/(Now With WCBS-TV in New York (same assignment)
• Michael Evans - reporter (1976-1981); now at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia
• Roy Firestone - sports anchor/reporter (1977-1985)
• "Dr. George" Fishbeck - weather anchor (1994-1997)
• Gary Franklin - film critic (1981-1986)
• David Garcia anchor/reporter (1983-1986)
• Gina Garcia - Capitol reporter (2001-2003, now at KTTV)
• Howard Gingold -- reporter, state capital correspondent 1967-1978 (part of "The Big News" team)
• Maury Green - anchor/reporter (1960-1973) (part of "The Big News" team)
• Penny Griego - anchor/reporter (1986-1994)
• Joel Grover - investigative reporter (1997-2002, now at KNBC)
• Steve Hartman - feature reporter (1994-1998, now at CBS News)
• Tony Hernandez - sports anchor/reporter (1985-1990)
• Sandy Hill - anchor (1974-1976 and 1982-1986)
• Lester Holt - reporter (1982-1983, now at NBC News)
• David Horowitz - consumer reporter (1993-1998)
• Huell Howser - features reporter (1981-1987) (now with KCET
• John Huck - reporter (2000-2002, now at KVVU in Las Vegas)
• Lee Irwin - reporter (1978-1980)
• Lisa Joyner - morning weather forecaster/ entertainment reporter (2002-2006; now at TV Guide Channel)
• Bill Keene - weather forecaster (1954-1973); morning traffic reporter (1988-1993)
• Steve Kmetko - reporter/entertainment critic/"Studio 22" co-host (1980-1993), now with KTTV
• Jim Lampley - sports anchor (1987-1988; news anchor 1988-1992), now with HBO Sports
• Kelly Lange - "Woman 2 Woman" special correspondent (1999-2000)
• Fleetwood Lawton - original KTSL news anchor (1950-1951)
• Bret Lewis - sports anchor (1997-2003)
• Rick Lozano - reporter (1986-1999)
• Harvey Levin - legal issues reporter (1987-1997) (Now With TMZ.Com And People's Court]]
• Dorothy Lucey - anchor/reporter/"Studio 22" co-host (1987-1992); now co-host of KTTV's "Good Day L.A."
• Jess Marlow - anchor (1980-1986)
• Dan Miller- anchor/reporter (1986-1987; now at WSMV-TV in Nashville)
• Byron Miranda - weather forecaster (2002-2005) Now at KTVU in San Francisco
• Jim Moret - reporter/anchor (1984-1990)
• Terry Murphy - anchor/reporter (1980-1984 and 1987-1989)
• Brent Musburger - anchor/reporter (1978-1981)
• Bob Navarro - reporter/"Bob Navarro's Journal" host (1972-1974 and 1994-1996)
• Pat O'Brien - reporter/anchor (1978-1981 and 1986-1987)
• Keith Olbermann - sports anchor (1988-1991)
• Warren Olney - anchor/reporter (1969-1975 and 1986-1989)
• Mary Parks - reporter (1991-1994) Now At KNBC-TV
• Maclovio Perez - weather anchor (1978-1997)
• Kyra Phillips - reporter/anchor (1995-1999, now at CNN Headline News)
• Denis Phillips - Weather Anchor (1992-1994) now at WFTS in Tampa
• Maury Povich - anchor (1977-1978)
• Art Rascon - reporter (1989-1994, now at KTRK in Houston)
• Steve Rambo - weather forecaster (1988-2000)
• Clete Roberts - anchor/reporter (1954-1959 and 1966-1973)
• Willa Sandmeyer - reporter (1991-1993, now at KTLA)
• Hosea Sanders - anchor/reporter (1986-1994, now at WLS-TV in Chicago)
• Bill Seward - reporter (1992-1997)
• John Schubeck - anchor (1983-1988)
• David Sheehan - entertainment reporter/critic (1971-1980 and 1994-2003)
• Debra Snell - reporter (1995-1999)
• Ralph Story - anchor/features reporter/host of Ralph Story's Los Angeles (1959-1970 and 1974-1986) (part of "The Big News" team)
• Bill Stout - anchor/reporter/"Perspective" commentator (1954-1960 and 1972-1989) (part of "The Big News" team)
• Gil Stratton - sports anchor (1954-1966, 1969-1973, fill-in through 1990) (part of "The Big News" team)
• Ruth Ashton Taylor - anchor/reporter (1951-1958 and 1962-1989) (part of "The Big News" team)
• Tritia Toyota - anchor (1985-1999)
• Michael Tuck - anchor/"Perspective" commentator (1990-1999; now at KUSI-TV in San Diego)
• Jane Velez-Mitchell - reporter (1990-2005)
• Bree Walker - anchor/reporter (1988-1994)
• Phil Watson - reporter (c1983)
• Paula Zahn - anchor/reporter (1986-1987). *
• Colleen Williams - anchor/reporter (1983-1986, now with KNBC)
• Alex Witt - reporter (1990-1992, now with MSNBC)
• Pamela Wright- weather forecaster/"Women 2 Women" co-host (1998-2002)
• Sophia Choi - anchor/reporter (1996-2001); now with CNN Headline News
• Bob Jimenez- reporter/anchor (1990-1995)
• Beverly Burke - anchor/reporter (1994-1995)
• Tony Williams - weather forecaster (1995-2003)
• Phil Barnow - reporter (1978-1982)
• Paul Udell- reporter (1968-1973)
• Rory Markas - sports anchor (1990-1996)(now broadcasting for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim)
• Julia Yarbough - reporter/anchor (1996-1998)
• Jim Forbes - reporter (1986-1988)
• Bill Sternoff - reporter/anchor (1981-1983)
• Brad Goode - anchor/reporter (1993-1996)
• Chris Conangla - anchor/reporter (1987-1994)
• Tom Kelly - sports anchor (1973-1976) (long associated with University of Southern California sports)
• Ted Dawson - sports anchor (1976-1978)
• Kyle Kraska - anchor/reporter (1996-1998)
• Lance Orozco - reporter/weather forecaster (1996-1999)
• Valerie Coleman - anchor/reporter (1986-1988)
• Drew Griffin - anchor/"Special Assignment" reporter (1993-2004); now with CNN
• Patrick Emory - anchor (1975-76)
• Kevin O'Connell - weather forecaster (1985-1988)
• Thelma Gutierrez - "Special Assignment" reporter (1995-2000)
• Lonni Leavitt - "Special Assignment" reporter (1998-2000)
• John Overall - anchor (1999-2000)
• Jason Carroll - reporter (1995-2000)
• "Charlee" - weather forecaster (1975-76)
• Mike Boguslawski - "Bogey's Corner" consumer reporter (1999-2001)
• Ken Jones - anchor (1979-1981)
• Mario Machado - reporter (1969-1974)
• Stan Duke - sportscaster (1968-71)
• Glenda Wina -health reporter/"Noontime" co-host (1971-1983)
• Doug Llewelyn - "Noontime" co-host (1975-77)
• Cathy Mann - reporter (1973-75)
• Bob Simmons - reporter (1969-1975)
• Mike Parker - reporter/anchor (1978-1981); now at Chicago's WBBM-TV
• Jud McIlvain - consumer reporter (1988-1995)
• Bill Deiz - reporter (1973-75)
• Nathan Roberts - reporter (1975-77)
• Lora McLaughlin - reporter (2003-2005)
• Patty Ecker - reporter (1974-94)
• Mike O'Connor - reporter (1990-92)

Programming Notes

• KCBS airs the Young and the Restless at 11:30 AM

instead of 11 AM. Most CBS affiliates and stations air it at 11 AM in the Pacific, Mountain and Central Time Zones, owing to newscasts that air at 12 Noon. But 11:30 AM is really CBS' recommended time slot to air it. This reflects off the fact that most affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone air it at 12:30 PM, following the midday news. This is also the case at KCBS, in lieu of sister station KCAL's newscast schedule.

• In Los Angeles, national news from the major networks air at 6:30 PM, an hour later than most West Coast affiliates. This includes the CBS Evening News on KCBS. During the 1980s, the CBS Evening News and ABC World News Tonight (broadcasted by KABC) aired on their respective stations at 7 p.m., though for a time in 1986-87, KCBS had a 7 pm newscast, thus airing CBS Evening News at 6:30 pm. From 1989-1999, KCBS aired the CBS Evening News at 5:30.
• KCBS had 4 p.m. newscasts from time to time. They were the first in the Southland with a 4:30 pm newscast, that was later expanded to an hour. KCBS dropped its 4 pm newscasts in 1999 in favor of the short-lived "Woman 2 Woman" public affairs show. After the acquirement of now-sister station KCAL-TV, KCBS brought reintroduced the 4 pm newscast, but now airing exclusively on KCAL. "Dr. Phil" now airs in the 4 pm slot on KCBS.
• Unlike its local competitors, and other large-market CBS affiliates, KCBS has never offered a weekend-morning newscast.

Rebroadcasters

KCBS is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

• K07IH Baker
• K02HY Ridgecrest
• K53AB Ridgecrest
• K15CA Lucerne Valley
• K49DC Twentynine Palms
• K16AA Morongo Valley
• K17GJ Joshua Tree
• K21AC Victorville
• K10IX Newberry Springs
• K12HL Lake Isabella

See also

• KNX (AM)
• KCBS-FM
• KCBS-TV/FM Tower

External links

• Official CBS2/KCAL9 Website
• Photos of KCBS's news set
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KCBS-TV

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Broadcast television in the Los Angeles market (Nielsen DMA #2)

Local television stations KCBS 2 (CBS) - KNBC 4 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2, KNBC News Raw on DT4) - KTLA 5 (The CW, The Tube on DT5) - KSFV-LP 6 (Ind/Spanish/Religious) - KABC 7 (ABC, ABC+ on DT2, AccuWX TV on DT3) - KCAL 9 (Ind/CBS) - KTTV 11 (Fox) - KCOP 13 (MNTV) - KSCI 18 (Ind) - KWHY 22 (Ind/Spanish) - KIMG-LP 23 (LAT TV) - KVCR 24 (PBS) - KNET-LP 25 (Ind/Infomercials) - KNLA-LP 27 (Ind/Spanish) - KCET 28 (PBS, KCET-HD on DT2, V-me on DT3) - KPXN 30 (ION, qubo on DT2, ION Life on DT3, Worship on DT4) - KMEX 34 (UNI) - KPAL-LP 38 (Ind) - KSKJ-CA 38 / KSKP-CA 25 (Ind) - KTBN 40 (TBN, The Church Channel on DT2, JCTV on DT3, TBN Enlace on DT4, Smile of a Child on DT5) - KXLA 44 (Ind) - KLAU-LP 45 (Ind/Infomercials) - KFTR 46 (TFU) - KOCE 50 (PBS, KOCE-HD on DT2, Orange Cty. on DT3) - KVEA 52 (TEL) - KAZA 54 (AZA) - K55KD 55 (STA: Ch. 57) (Almavision) - KDOC 56 (Ind) - KJLA 57 / KSMV-LP 33 / KSGA-LP 64 (LATV) - KLCS 58 (PBS, Kids on DT2, Create! on DT3, Annenberg/CPB on DT4) - KRCA 62 (Ind, KSDX-LP on DT2) - KBEH 63 (MTV3) - KHIZ 64 (A1) - KHTV-LP 67 (HSN) - KTAV-LP 69 (Almavision)
Local digital television channels KVMD 23 (Ind/A1)
Local cable television channels FSN West - FSN Prime Ticket - ABC+ - KNBC News Raw
Past broadcast stations KKOG 16 (IND) - KVST / KEEF 68 (non-commercial)
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