Los Angeles Channels 4, 5 and 11 Pool Resources

KNBC, KTLA and KTTV will begin a local news service share, Mediaweek reports. Each station will contribute photographers and assignment editors. “It’s an efficient way to help us put on a better newscast, ” said KTTV GM Kevin Hall. Not only is it efficient, but it is cost effective in these tough economic times. The arrangement will cover 7 days a week but not overnights and is set to start on June 15.

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KNBC Celebrates 60 Years of Television

NBC4 began broadcasting as KNBH on January 16, 1948. It was the last of five original stations built from the ground up by the National Broadcasting Company. The station debuted with three hours and forty minutes of programming, which followed a fifteen-minute test pattern-and-music session. Inauguration night launched with an eighteen-minute newsreel, “Review of 1948,” the market’s first variety program “On With the Show,” and station’s first live program “The Pickard Family,” featuring Dad and Mom Pickard and their four children singing familiar American songs. By October 1949, KNBH had extended its operating schedule from five to seven days a week, with approximately twenty-six hours of television programming each week. [Click for MORE] Sphere: Related Content