More information about her height is not available at this moment. During the 1992–1993 season, KRON-TV, along with KCRA-TV, participated in the "Early Prime" experiment in which prime time programs aired one hour earlier (mirroring the scheduling of the network's primetime lineup in the Central and Mountain time zones), the half-hour late evening newscast also moved from 11:00 to 10:00 p.m. as a result. She also served as the Executive Producer for “Indiana Trailblazers”, a 2015 documentary about the history of civil rights in Indiana produced for PBS. When she’s not at work, she enjoys hiking on some of the Bay Areas’ toughest trails. In the 1950s and 1960s, local programs produced by KRON-TV included the award-winning documentary series Assignment Four, Fireman Frank with George Lemont (died October 1985 at the age of 63)[45] and his puppets (including Scat the Cat, Rhode Island Red, and Karl the Karrot), and a live children's program hosted by Art Finley as Mayor Art. On February 13, 2009, the company declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In 2000, the Indiana Democratic Party provided coordinated campaign support for the reelection of Governor Frank O’Bannon and maintaining leadership in the Indiana House of Representatives. The station's call letters come from a modification of the Chronicle's nickname, "The Chron". Thanks for becoming a fan of KRON4, the Bay Area's Local News Station! Realizing this and refocusing on the entire market enabled KRON-TV to become the dominant station in the Bay Area. Unlike most news-producing stations that have become independent after losing a network affiliation or that have switched to one of the post-1986 broadcast networks, KRON originally kept its late newscast in the 11 p.m. timeslot instead of moving it to or adding one at 10 p.m. (avoiding direct competition with KTVU's long-dominant primetime newscast, though KRON's late news remained in competition against KGO, KNTV and KPIX's late evening newscasts); the station also added a primetime newscast at 9 p.m. To this day, KRON maintains a newscast schedule similar to the one it had as an NBC affiliate. NBC was seen as the frontrunner to buy the station, but it was outbid at the last minute on November 16, 1999. That ended KRON-TV's 52-year affiliation with the NBC network.[14]. [7][8] Young's purchase price for the station ($750 million at the outset, rising to $820 million by closing) was a record price for a single station that stands to this day. After a brief stint as a lobbyist for higher education in her native Pennsylvania, Winston returned to Louisville and served as assistant director of St. Benedict’s Center for Early Childhood Education, a United Way-funded not-for-profit. KRON-TV, virtual channel 4 (digital channel 38), is a television station in San Francisco, California, serving as the Bay Area affiliate of the MyNetworkTV programming service; the station is owned by Young Broadcasting. Robin Winston is an American journalist from Bay Area currently working as fill-in traffic and weather reporter for KRON 4 News since 2009. Former KRON weather anchor Mark Thompson served as the host during the program's early years. By early 1972, the station ran newscasts at noon, 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m. on weekdays and 6 and 11 p.m. on weekends, it also ran a late newscast that aired (then) immediately after The Tonight Show called the Newswatch Sign-Off Edition. [43] The over-the-air channel was replaced by Sky Link TV on September 29, 2015, and the online live stream was shut down on the same date. [27] KRON, WATE-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, and WLNS-TV in Lansing, Michigan (the latter two, unlike KRON, compete with Gray-owned stations in their respective markets), were the only stations not included in the management deal. Despite this, KRON occasionally preempted NBC programming. This program frequently presented features from KRON's news bureaus in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, the only Bay Area station to maintain bureaus (which were later deemed to be too expensive and were shut down by the end of the decade). With regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest newscast output of any television station in the San Francisco Bay Area. However, Young's asking price for the station was $735 million, only slightly less than what it paid to buy the station from Chronicle. BayTV debuted on July 4, 1994, as a 24-hour cable news channel that was operated by KRON-TV in association with AT&T Broadband (now Comcast Xfinity). [31] The move made KRON-TV the largest station by market size owned by Media General as well as the company's only station west of the Rocky Mountains. By about 1991, this evolved into the "circle 4" logo in use to this day, with the "4" keeping the bridge design. The proposal ultimately fell apart by September 1983. During the 1980s, KRON continued its dominance by airing top-rated syndicated programs, including the Merv Griffin-produced game shows Jeopardy! At KRON, Moore was assigned to report on medical issues for “4 Your Health” segments and was a host of “Health Matters,” a … Currently (December 2020), MyNetwork programming airs from Midnight to 2 AM. Bob McCarthy, Rita Cohen and Janice Huff were among the personalities who reported from Telecopter 4. KRON-TV maintains studios on Front Street immediately west of San Francisco's Embarcadero north of the city's Financial District, in the same building as ABC owned-and-operated station (O&O) KGO-TV, channel 7 (but with completely separate operations from that station). The program, which generally aired on Sunday evenings, featured hosts such as Jerry Graham and Doug McConnell. More information about her age is not available at this moment. With ABC, CBS, UPN and now NBC carrying their programming locally on owned-and-operated stations (KGO-TV, KPIX, KBHK—channel 44, now KBCW—and KNTV respectively), and Fox and The WB under contract with KTVU and KBWB respectively, KRON-TV became an independent station by default. [12] It did so primarily as a stopgap in case NBC failed in its bid to buy KRON from Young. [34] Prior to the announcement it was rumored that Fox had considered buying KRON-TV and moving Fox network programming to channel 4. Other West Coast television stations joined KRON in some years (including KCAL-TV/Los Angeles, KING-TV/Seattle, KCRA/Sacramento, KNSD/San Diego and KLAS-TV/Las Vegas in December 1990), featuring midnight countdown events in other cities, such as Las Vegas casinos and at the Seattle Space Needle. In 2012, she was selected as a member of the Presidential Electoral College. In addition, Winston worked with other Democrats to raise a record amount of funds to support party-building and outreach activities across Indiana. [25][26] Instead of auctioning off the stations, Young and its secured lenders reached a deal where the lenders (among them Wachovia and Credit Suisse) would take control of the company, and Gray Television would manage seven of Young's ten stations. It operated from a studio inside the Chronicle building at Fifth & Mission streets (the station's news department was located 30 feet from the Chronicle city desk). KRON aired coverage of the Raiders' victories in Super Bowl XI and Super Bowl XV. Channel 4 also preempted some of the network's prime time programs. However, we shall update it as soon as possible. Meet Vicki Liviakis, KRON4 News Anchor. In September 2008, KRON dropped its 5 p.m. newscast after the syndicated daytime talk show Dr. Phil was moved to the slot, the program's former 8 p.m. timeslot (which Dr. Phil held locally since the show's 2002 premiere) was replaced by an hour-long primetime newscast; this would be undone in September 2009, with the cancellation of the 8 p.m. newscast and Dr. Phil's return to the 8 p.m. slot, along with the reinstatement of a 5:30 p.m. newscast (which expanded back to 5 p.m. by 2010). KRON-TV originally broadcast from studios located in the basement of the Chronicle Building at Fifth and Mission Streets. The San Francisco Chronicle, meanwhile, was acquired by the Hearst Corporation in a $295 million deal in October of that year.[6]. Bay Area kids, known as the "City Council," joined Mayor Art in the studio each day. Most recently, she was the drive time traffic reporter at KGO Radio in San Francisco where she reported for 10 years. Live segments were used for late bulletins from the Chronicle city desk or for local and regional stories not suitable for film treatment. (In turn, NBC would stop making annual payments to KRON of $7.5 million to carry the network's programming.) As a full-time producer, James managed a number of newscasts including the KRON4 Morning News and KRON4 News Weekend. The vertical component is a bridge tower, the horizontal component is a portion of the bridge deck, and the curve is a portion of a suspension cable. In 1981, KRON launched its first morning newscast with a seven-minute program (at 6:53 a.m.), the program was cancelled by late 1982. The show featured Popeye cartoons mixed with science demonstrations, a newsreel feature entitled "Mayor Art's Almanac", games, prizes, and a sock puppet named "Ring-A-Ding. However, also at that time, KRON's 11 p.m. news was shortened to 15 minutes until it was dropped when KRON launched a new 9 p.m. newscast on August 21, 2017, which competed with KGO's 9 p.m. newscast for KOFY-TV until KGO cancelled it. Starting in 2011, Gary Radnich joined Heenan as host at various locations in San Francisco each year. In 1967, KRON-FM-TV moved to a new studio at 1001 Van Ness Avenue in the Western Addition neighborhood (a location that formerly served as the site of the Roman Catholic cathedral of San Francisco). She maintained close working relationships with the State Director of the campaign and assisted on logistics for events held in Indiana. In Lisa Kron's plays, joy and sorrow share the stage. Terrence O'Flaherty, "All the News That's Fit to Squint," San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 1981, p. 54. moratorium on new television station licenses, federally mandated transition from analog to digital television, "KRON Ready to Move in With KGO Next Week", "Chronicle board puts paper, KRON-TV, other properties up for sale", "Chronicle Publishing Sells Newspaper for $295 Million", "$823 Million Purchase Of KRON-TV / Young Broadcasting outbids media giants", "KCAL's Owner Outbids NBC for S.F. Fun Home was also awarded the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015 and the 2014 Obie Award for writing for musical theater. Moore joined KRON 4 News in March 1991. Walker Award for Leadership, recognized as Emerging Business Owner of the Year by the Indiana Black Chamber of Commerce and was honored as Man of the Year by the Circle City Chapter of the Links, Inc. That made NBC the only major broadcast network to have switched from one Bay Area station to another. KRON's now-defunct 9 p.m. newscast originally debuted on BayTV in the late 1990s and lasted until the cable channel ceased operations on August 30, 2001. KRON-TV, virtual channel 4 (VHF digital channel 7), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1999, she made history when she became the first African-American to chair a major political party in Indiana. Historically, NBC was far less tolerant of preemptions than the other networks, but has recently eased its standards. ", Assignment Four was a documentary series that generally aired Monday evenings at 7:00 p.m. through much of the 1960s (beginning in February 1960). More information about her children is not available at this moment. NBC accepted KNTV's deal in February 2000. [19] One month later on February 13, Young made a filing to place the company under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. [42] Using PSIP, KRON-TV's virtual channel is displayed as channel 4 on digital television receivers. However like with RTV, TCN was never carried by the station, and the network was dropped from all of New Young Broadcasting's stations by November 2011. [23][24] At the last minute, Young cancelled a planned auction of all 10 of its stations five months later on July 14, a move believed to have been made due to a lack of suitable bids. Two NBC daytime game shows, 50 Grand Slam and Just Men!, were never seen in the Bay Area. [50] The station's newscasts were branded as NewsCenter 4 from 1977 until 2001, when it was changed to the current KRON 4 News. Using personal funds, Winston started a scholarship program for inner-city public school students who planned to attend college. In August 1959, the Chronicle reported that the tower was severely damaged by an unusually strong thunderstorm, requiring major repairs before KRON-TV could return to the air. 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