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The sometimes-abrasive executive who expanded the NBC-owned station with a news subchannel, announced in an email to fellow employees Friday that she was leaving the station after a little more than a year and a half.

NBC’s Los Angeles station is calling itself NBC4 Southern California and as part of the makeover, is unveiling a larger news set with a separate weather station, large monitors behind the anchor desk and state-of-the-art graphics.

Growing morning commutes and earlier newscasts have given traffic reporting a new importance, not only on-air. And as traffic information from alternative sources grows, TV stations are working to remain the top destination for traffic news. They are developing new ways of tracking traffic in real time and are also delivering the information to commuters through email, social media and mobile devices. This is the third of four articles that will appear this week and that collectively constitute a TVNewsCheck Special Report on Traffic Reporting.

News-Press & Gazette Company and Journal Broadcast Corp. convinced the FCC to uphold their nonduplication claims against KNBC and KCBS Los Angeles in favor of their KESQ and KMIR, respectively.

[vzaarthumb:847358]The Los Angeles O&O promoted a special news series with a rapidly produced collage using never-before-seen photos, postcards and handwritten notes of such rock ’n’ roll greats as the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and, most notably, the Beatles.

The GM of KUTV/KMYU Salt Lake City will succeed Craig Robinson as head of NBC’s Los Angeles O&O. Robinson is moving to corporate as EVP-chief diversity officer. Carlston is leaving the Salt Lake tandem just as it is being taken over by Sinclair as part of its $200-million purchase of Four Points Media.

Latino groups raise an issue with KNBC Los Angeles, and NBC’s fall schedule shows a reversal from characters’ ethnic diversity last season.

Robert Kovacik, reporter and interim solo anchor of weekend newscasts at NBC-owned KNBC Los Angeles, and former CNN Business News correspondent Stephanie Elam will anchor the station’s 6 and 11 […]

Lucy Noland, who recently joined the KNBC Los Angeles news team, will anchor the station’s 6 p.m. weekday newscast, beginning today, Monday, July 25. Noland replaces Ana Garcia, who is joining Joel Grover to produce […]

In the City of Angels, it’s the usual players — main daily the Los Angeles Times and the top TV stations — that dominate the local online media landscape. And while AOL’s Patch has made its presence felt, few other indie sites have had any impact in L.A.

Lucy Noland joins NBC-owned KNBC Los Angeles as an anchor and reporter effective July 11. She comes to the station from CBS affiliate KHOU Houston, where she was the co-anchor of […]

Starting this week, NBC is launching three more 24-hour news multicast channels on WTVJ Miami, KXAS Dallas and its trio of California stations — KNBC Los Angeles, KNTV San Francisco and KNSD San Diego. WTVJ will also add an hour-long newscast at 5 p.m. to replace a half-hour newscast at 7on its main channel. It’s all part of promises that Comcast made to the FCC to win its approval of its takeover of NBCU in January.

Veteran Meteorologist Byron Miranda will join NBC O&O KNBC Los Angeles as a weekend meteorologist on May 2, it was announced today by Vickie Burns, VP news and content. In […]