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Evening Magazine is the name of various different news and entertainment style local television shows in different markets.

In August of 1976, KPIX-TV, the CBS owned-and-operated station in the San Francisco Bay Area, debuted a locally-produced magazine program called "Evening Magazine." The award-winning primetime series ran for 14 years. It was the first program in the U.S. to introduce the magazine format for television. The series dealt with lifestyles, leisure time, pop culture, famous people, fascinating places, consumer tips and information about modern city living. KPIX's Evening Magazine was first hosted by San Francisco radio personality Jan Yanehiro and journalist Steve Fox.

A similar show with the same name aired on KPIX-TV from 1998 to 2005. This one is well known because it was hosted by the popular Discovery Channel personality, Mike Rowe. The Bay Area Evening Magazine aired on weeknights prior to Mike Rowe's move to Dirty Jobs. The show has since been replaced by Eye on the Bay, which has left Rowe's former Evening Magazine co-host, Malou Nubla, on the outs with the TV station. Chuck Barney, the TV critic for the Bay Area "Times" newspapers said in a March 2006 article:

Turns out Nubla was displeased when Channel 5 scrapped "Evening Magazine" in favor of "Eye on the Bay" -- a move that diminished her onscreen role. Her contract, however, ran through this month, and she insists she intended to be a good team player and honor it. But then a heated exchange with a station exec (that Nubla says was initiated by the "irate" exec) quickly torpedoed those plans, and she was out of there.

Evening Magazine was also the name of Group W's daily local magazine show, as seen on Group W owned-and-operated stations (including KPIX). When Group W decided to expand their Evening Magazine format to stations outside of their group, the existence of KING's Evening Magazine prompted them to create an alternate name for the national roll-out -- PM Magazine.

The current "Evening Magazine" that airs in the Pacific Northwest is produced by KING-TV in Seattle, Washington, USA. The show airs at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time, with a replay airing later on sister cable station Northwest Cable News. The show focuses on local events, places, and people with interesting stories.

Evening Magazine was also the name of a local program in Phildelphia which was produced by KYW-TV, Channel 3, NBC affiliate at the time. It was hosted by Ray Murray for a long time and also featured Nancy Glass, Jerry Penacoli, Pat Chiroci and other stars of KYW's Eyewitness News. It was cancelled in the 1990's.

• Chuck Barney's 2006 article about Malou Nubla's departure from KPIX