Improved local content operations offer the Southern California market another selling point.
San Diego News Helicopter Makes ‘Troubled’ Landing
Leon Clark New VP-GM Of KGTV San Diego
Scripps moves him from KGUN-KWBA Tucson, Ariz., to lead its ABC affiliate in San Diego beginning next month.
KGTV Crew Attacked During Live Shot
Every Employee Drives KGTV On Facebook
Contributions from all employees fuels KGTV’s performance to lead the San Diego market on Facebook. KGTV, the Scripps ABC affiliate, is first in social media actions in the market over the last six months according to data from audience insight firm Shareablee. The station’s overall focus of its Facebook strategy is to provide great, memorable content on social media, and he thinks that will translate into TV news viewers.
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KGTV Million Meals Campaign To Feed 400,000
Ed Chapuis Named KGTV News Director
He’s joining the Scripps ABC Affiliate in San Diego from KTXL Sacramento, Calif., where he’s been ND since 2013.
With XETV, the Mexico-based former CW affiliate whose signal reaches the San Diego market, no longer offering local news, the other stations are circling the waters hoping to lure in viewers. KFMB, KGTV and KNSD began airing promos acknowledging the demise of XETV and encouraging viewers to tune into their newscasts.
Scripps Promotes Joel Davis to KGTV VP-GM
He succeeds Jeff Block as head of the San Diego ABC affiliate, movingup from the station manager slot.
KGTV Reporter, Photographer Hit By Toppling Tree
While covering severe weather Monday morning, two employees of KGTV San Diego (DMA 28) were injured by a falling tree. Marie Coronel, news reporter, and Mike Gold, news photographer, were […]
Leila Stilwell Named Marketing Director At KGTV
E.W. Scripps-owned ABC affiliate KGTV San Diego (DMA 28) has hired Adam Racusin, as an investigative reporter. A Los Angeles native, Racusin joins KGTV from KEYE Austin, Texas, where he […]
KGTV Launches New Newscast, ‘The Now San Diego’
The Now San Diego debuts Sept. 14 and will feature anchors Ariel Wesler and Anne State, with meteorologist Angelica Campos.
Touting Weather Accuracy In San Diego, Of All Places
Meteorologist Angelica Campos Joins KGTV
E.W. Scripps-owned ABC affiliate KGTV San Diego (DMA 28) has hired meteorologist Angelica Campos to be its weeknight weather forecaster. Campos is making the move from WJW Cleveland, and will […]
KGTV News At 11, From Second To First
KGTV Live Streams San Diego County Spelling Bee
E.W. Scripps Co.’s ABC affiliate KGTV San Diego (DMA 28) said today that morning and midday anchor Bill Griffith will be retiring after 39 years at the station. Griffith has been […]
Retiring Newsman Revisits Career in an RV
KGTV’s Griffith Sets Out On ‘Excellent Adventure’
Scripps-owned ABC affiliate KGTV San Diego (DMA 28) is sending veteran anchor Bill Griffith on Bill’s Excellent Adventure, which the station calls “a farewell tour de force” by Bill Griffith, […]
Tiffani Lupenski Named KGTV News Director
The Scripps ABC affiliate in San Diego chooses the former KATU Portland, Ore., news chief to succeed Joel Davis who was upped to station manager last October.
KGTV Investigative Journalist J.W. August To Retire
E.W. Scripps-owned ABC affiliate KGTV San Diego (DMA 28) announced today that reporter J.W. August will retire at the end of 2014, after 33 years with the station. The cornerstone of the […]
KGTV Ups ND Joel Davis To Station Mgr.
The promotion is effective Oct. 13 and comes after serving as head of news at the San Diego ABC affiliate since 2009.
Daily newspaper U-T San Diego is making an ambitious move into the video space with an all-news TV station — streaming online and running on cable — that will soon run original programming 24-hours per day. The newspaper is hoping its $3 million investment in equipment and personnel will pay off in a big way.
Two Former KGTV Staffers Die Over Weekend
Scripps Buys McGraw-Hill Station Group
The four ABC affiliates in Denver, San Diego, Bakersfield, Calif., and Indianapolis and five low-power Azteca affiliates go for $212 million in cash. “We are energized by the addition of good people at good stations in good markets,” says Scripps SVP Brian Lawlor.
Rival Stations Join Together During Blackout
With power outage causing problems in San Diego earlier this month, KUSI and KGTV helped each other get news coverage out to viewers.
McKinnon Has His Eye On McGraw-Hill TVs
Mike McKinnon has put in a bid for the four stations, but is particularly interested in ABC affiliates KGTV San Diego, which he could pair with his KUSI independent, and KERO Bakersfield, Calif. The McGraw-Hill group also includes KMGH Denver and WRTV Indianapolis.
Daily newspaper U-T San Diego is making an ambitious move into the video space with an all-news TV station — streaming online and running on cable — that will soon run original programming 24-hours per day. The newspaper is hoping its $3 million investment in equipment and personnel will pay off in a big way.
