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KGTV
San Diego, California
Branding	San Diego's 10/10News
Slogan	San Diego's News Leader / Your News. Your Way. On Your Side.
Channels	10 (VHF) analog, 25 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ABC (secondary 1953-56, sole affiliate since 1977)
Owner	McGraw-Hill
Founded	September 13, 1953 (as KFSD-TV)
Call letters meaning	KGTV = K Great TeleVision
Former callsigns	KFSD-TV (1953-1961) KOGO-TV (1961-1972)
Former affiliations	NBC (1953-77)
Transmitter Power	316 kW/227 m (analog) 1000 kW/205 m (digital)
Website	www.10news.com

KGTV is the ABC television affiliate in San Diego, California. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 10, and its digital signal on UHF channel 25. It is currently owned by McGraw-Hill. Its transmitter is located in La Jolla, California.

The station went on the air on September 13, 1953 as KFSD-TV (First in San Diego), and was affiliated at the time with NBC. It aired some ABC programs until 1956, when XETV-TV in Tijuana took over the ABC affiliation full-time. In 1961, KFSD-TV and its then-sister radio station KFSD-AM 600 changed their call letters to KOGO-TV and KOGO-AM. The broadcasting division of the Time-Life magazine company purchased the stations, which also included a FM station, in 1962 from a locally based firm, Fox, Wells & Rogers.

In 1972, the McGraw-Hill publishing company purchased Channel 10 (along with Indianapolis' WFBM-TV Channel 6, now WRTV) and changed its call letters to the present KGTV. The radio stations were sold separately to other interests. KGTV joined ABC in 1977, after ABC chose to disaffiliate itself from UHF station KCST Channel 39 (now KNSD). Channel 10 has remained with ABC since then.

Famous KGTV alumni include Regis Philbin, who hosted his first talk show on KGTV in the 1960s.

Station General Manager: Derek Dalton
News Director: Gary Brown

Weekdays

• 10News Live at 5AM - 5:00-6:00AM
• 10News Live at 6AM - 6:00-7:00AM
• 10News Live at 11AM - 11:00AM-12:00PM
• 10News Live at 4pm- 4:00-5:00PM
• 10News Live at 5PM - 5:00-6:00PM
• 10News Live at 6:30PM - 6:30-7:00PM

Nightly

• 10News Live at 11PM - 11:00-11:35PM

Saturday

• 10News Live at 9AM on The 10NewsChannel - 9:00-9:30AM
• 10News Live at 5PM - 5:00-6:00PM
• 10News Live at 6:30PM - 6:30-7:00PM

Sundays

• 10News Live at 7AM - 7:00-8:00AM
• 10News Live at 5PM - 5:00-6:00PM
• 10News Live at 6:30PM - 6:30-7:00PM

Anchors

• Steve Atkinson - 5 p.m. weekdays; also Special Assignment reporter at 11 p.m.
• Fred Blankenship - early evening weekends and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings
• Hal Clement - 6:30 p.m. weeknights and 11 p.m. Sunday thru Thursdays
• Bill Griffith - weekday mornings
• Nina Jimenez - weekend mornings
• Lee Ann Kim - 4 p.m. weekdays
• Lisa Lake - weekday mornings
• Carol LeBeau - 4 and 5 p.m. weekdays, 11 p.m. Sunday thru Thursdays; also medical reporter
• Kerstin Lindquist - weekend mornings
• Elizabeth Sanchez - early evening weekends and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings

Reporters

• Michael Chen - also a Digital Correspondent
• Marti Emerald - Troubleshooter
• Steve Fiorina
• Michael Gleeson - Digital Correspondent
• Bob Lawrence
• Rett Lawrence - photojournalist/Digital Correspondent
• Claudia Llausas - Digital Correspondent (in Spanish)
• Kyle Majors - Digital Correspondent
• Lauren Reynolds
• Erica Simpson - Digital Correspondent
• Juliette Vara

Weather

• Geni Cavitt - early evening weekends, 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday
• Gary Kelley - weekdend mornings
• Loren Nancarrow - early evening weekdays and 11 p.m. Sunday thru Thursdays
• James Quiñones - weekday mornings

Sports

• Ben Higgins - early evening weekdays and 11 p.m. Sunday thru Thursdays
• Steve Smith - early evening weekends, 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday

• Adrienne Alpert - longtime anchor/reporter (1978-1997, now at KABC-TV in Los Angeles)
• Mike Ambrose - weather anchor (1973-2001)
• Herb Cawthorne - reporter (1990-2002)
• Stephen Clark - anchor (1989-1997, now at WXYZ-TV in Detroit)
• John Culea - reporter/anchor (1975-1977)
• Kim Edwards-reporter/digital correspondent (1997-2007)
• Susan Farrell - anchor (1976-1986)
• Gene Gleeson - anchor (1976-1980, now at KABC-TV in Los Angeles)
• Harold Greene - anchor/reporter (1977-1982, now at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles)
• Byron Harlan - reporter (1986-1994, now at WFLD-TV in Chicago)
• Kimberly Hunt - anchor (1987-2003, now at KUSI)
• Paul Magers (1981-1983, now at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles)
• Mark Matthews (1987-2003, now at KGO-TV in San Francisco)
• Susan McBride - anchor/reporter (1979-1987, now Susan McPeters at WQPT-TV in Moline, IL)
• Regis Philbin - hosted his first talk show at this station (1961-1964)
• Sarah Purcell - talk show host (late 1970s)
• Margaret Radford - reporter (1986-1994, now at KNSD)
• Salvador Rivera - Reporter/digital correspondent
• Larry Roberts - anchor/reporter (1982-1989)
• Danny Romero - weathercaster (1994-1995, now at KABC-TV in Los Angeles)
• Larry Sacknoff - sportscaster (1978-1992)
• Billy Ray Smith - sportscaster (1993-1997)
• Mike Smith (1982-1986, now a partner in Ad-Lib Productions)
• Michael Tuck - anchor (1984-1990, now at KUSI)
• Leonard Villareal - reporter/anchor (1976-2004, now at KUSI)
• Bree Walker - anchor/reporter (1980-1987)
• Jack White - anchor (1967-2002)
• Melanie Wingo - reporter (2004-2006)

• KZSD-LP (Azteca America affiliate owned and operated by KGTV)

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