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KXTV, "News10" is an ABC affiliate in Sacramento, California. The station went on the air on March 19, 1955 as KBET. Four years later, with an ownership change, the call letters became KXTV (the "X" being the Roman numeral for the VHF channel it broadcasts on, channel 10). From its founding until 1995, KXTV was an affiliate of CBS. As a CBS affiliate, the station preempted some lower-rated daytime (the 9-10am block in the 1980's and early 90's) and late night (from the late 1980's until the arrival of The Late Show with David Letterman in 1993) programs; and eventually dropped Guiding Light due to low ratings in the early 1990s. While most CBS stations would air The Young and The Restless from 11 a.m.-NOON, KXTV moved it to the 3 p.m. timeslot in 1994. Then, on March 6, 1995, in an unprecedented move in local television, KXTV swapped affiliations with KOVR, switching networks to ABC. As an ABC affiliate, the station preempted the half-hour soap airing in the 12:30 timeslot (Loving/The City/Port Charles); but when the network axed the programming block outright in the early 2000's; KXTV has aired the entire schedule of ABC programming since then. On another note, KXTV aired All My Children at 3 p.m. in the early years as an ABC affiliate, before finally following the niche of airing it at Noon alongside majority of the ABC stations -- only after the midday newscast moved an hour earlier from Noon to 11 a.m.. Four years later, in 1999, KXTV began digital broadcasts on a new and separate HDTV channel. Then, in 2001, to reflect the station's commitment to its news coverage, KXTV decided to become better known as "News10". KXTV has first choice on all King World programs offered locally, currently holding the local syndication rights to Jeopardy!, Inside Edition, and Wheel of Fortune. Until 2002, the station also held the local syndication rights to The Oprah Winfrey Show. It is these shows that have made News10 one of the highest-rated local stations in daytime television. Since 2002-2003, KXTV has been the local television home of the Sacramento Kings, the city's National Basketball Association franchise, which coincides with their network's coverage of NBA games. The station picked up the rights to Kings telecasts in the middle of the 2002-03 season due to the contractual dispute between the team and its then-rights holder, UPN station KMAX. Gannett Corporation (which also owns the USA Today newspaper) has owned KXTV since 1999, when it obtained the station in a swap with Belo Corporation in exchange for Austin ABC affiliate KVUE. The station's transmitter, the KXTV/KOVR Tower (shared with KOVR channel 13), is located in Walnut Grove. The tower is among the tallest in the world and is likely the tallest structure in California. KXTV will be the market's only commercial station to remain on the VHF dial once the FCC completes the digital transition on February 17, 2009. *
Newscasts Over the years as a CBS or ABC affiliate; KXTV's newscasts (which successively identified as Shell News, The Big News, Channel 10 News, Newservice 10 (in the 1970's), and Eyewitness News (early 80's) before adopting the present News 10 moniker in the mid-to-late 80's *) have traditionally placed a somewhat distant second in the local TV news ratings. However, in recent ratings periods, its newscasts have shown considerable ratings gains (particularly in the critical 11 p.m. race), eroding at the longtime dominance of local news ratings kingpin KCRA. News10 airs local newscasts in the following time slots. MONDAY-FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Other Current Personalities Former Personalities This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it. High Definition News10 (KXTV) is currently producing Sacramento Kings basketball games, Friday Night Football highlights, and Jonathan Mumm's California Postcard reports in High Definition. KXTV recently produced The Future Is HDTV on News 10, an HD produced special, profiling the FCC's imposed transition from Standard Definition to High Definition. The special also show-cased the HD produced shows from ABC, as well as some syndicated shows. Rumors have suggested that KXTV coud be next in line to begin a full HD produced newscast, and following the lead of 7 other Gannett-owned stations, which are now producing their newscasts in high definition. Those stations include KARE (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN - Debuted in April, 2006), KPNX (Phoenix, AZ - Debuted on November 2, 2006), KSDK (St. Louis, MO - Debuted on February 6, 2006), KUSA (Denver, CO - Debuted in April, 2004), WKYC (Cleveland, OH - Debuted in May, 2006), WUSA (Washington, DC - Debuted on May 2, 2005), and WXIA (Atlanta, GA - Debuted on February 2, 2006). Trivia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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