KTVU San Francisco

ABC/Disney-owned KGO is the juggernaut among local media on social in San Francisco according to Shareablee data. It holds a comfortable lead in both total actions and fans/followers with Fox’s KTVU as its most viable competitor.

Mornings on 2 at 9 a.m. will debut on Sept. 14 on Fox-owned KTVU San Francisco (DMA 6) and will be hosted by Bay Area natives Gasia Mikaelian, Mike Mibach […]

Ross Palombo will join Fox O&O KTVU San Francisco (DMA 6) as weekend co-anchor for KTVU’s Mornings on 2, effective Aug. 5. He will also serve as a political and […]

News crews from NBC’s KNTV and Fox’s KTVU were robbed of cameras Thursday morning and a camera operator was pistol-whipped as they reported on a homicide at Pier 14 in San Francisco.

Fox O&O KTVU San Francisco (DMA 6) launched a 30-minute, weekly sports program Sports Wrap on Sunday, June 7. Hosted by KTVU Sports Director Mark Ibanez and sports anchor Joe […]

Fox-owned KTVU San Francisco (DMA 6) has named Keba Arnold anchor of Fox 2 News at 4 p.m. and Fox 2 News at 7 p.m. Arnold will also contribute regularly […]

With these two moves, the Fox O&O in San Francisco-Oakland adds 7.5 hours of local news per week.

Fox Television Stations has hired Kerry Lewis as the new local sales manager at its KTVU (Fox)-KICU (ind.) San Francisco (DMA 6). She came on board March 30. Lewis has […]

Two men in masks assaulted a reporter and photographer from the Fox O&O before taking a live transmission unit and a microphone.

The Bay Area station sale is expected to close this week. In an email obtained by TVSpy, Abernethy told staffers WFXT Boston GM Gregg Kelley will be named VP-GM of KTVU-KICU while Dana Hahn from Fox’s WTTG Washington will be named VP-news director.

Lee Rosenthal, currently news director at Cox Media Group’s KTVU San Francisco-Oakland, is being transferred by Cox to WFXT Boston. Cox is acquiring that station (and WHBQ Memphis) from Fox, in exchange for KTVU.

Fox gets Cox’s KTVU-KICU duopoly in San Francisco, with Cox taking over WHBQ Memphis and WFXT Boston, both of which will remain Fox affiliates.

KTVU-KICU, the Cox-owned Fox-indie duo in San Francisco, announced that Lisa Yokota rejoins it as community and public affairs director, while Steve Poitras returns to lead the stations’ marketing teams. […]

KTVU Oakland, Calif. (DMA 6), Director of Community Affairs and Public Service Rosy Chu announced today that she will retire from the Cox Media Fox affiliate in December after more […]

Cox Media’s Fox affiliate KTVU San Francisco (DMA 6) today named Amber Eikel managing editor. Eikel’s first day will be Monday, Sept. 30. Eikel joins KTVU from Cox Media Group’s […]

Roland De Wolk, Cristina Gastelu and Brad Belstock were let go after an anchor read offensive, phony names of the ill-fated flight’s pilots.

After its racist gaffe following the San Francisco plane crash, KTVU uses the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to have clips of the event removed from the Internet.

Asiana Airlines has decided not to sue Cox’s San Francisco Fox affiliate over a broadcast in which the station falsely reported racist and offensive names for the pilots in the the airline’s crash landing in San Francisco, according to reports today.

It was great sport all last weekend for media critics to excoriate KTVU-TV in San Francisco for its announcement of fake, offensive pilot names in the Asiana Airlines crash. There’s no denying KTVU made a big mistake. But when admitting to its mistakes, the station took an approach that other journalists should replicate.

There’s little question that the KTVU report disparaged Asians and conveyed false information. That’s unfortunate. It doesn’t, however, give Asiana Airlines a cause of action against KTVU. To win a judgment against the television station, the airline must prove that the false report so injured its reputation that it resulted in the loss of business. That, it will never be able to do.

Both San Francisco Fox affiliate KTVU and the National Transportation Safety Board have apologized for airing and confirming the fake racist pilot names that KTVU aired during its Friday noon broadcast. Now the airline is suing the station, claiming its reputation has been damaged by the bogus report.

Cox Media Fox affiliate KTVU San Francisco (DMA 6) announced that Associate News Director Janice S. Gin will be leaving the station on July 12 after 13 years with the […]

Cox Media Group taps WXIN Indianapolis’ ND to lead its operations in San Francisco.

The news chief at Cox’s San Francisco Fox affiliate is leaving after 10 years.

Bay Area TV stations are up in arms over what they say is a breach of protocol by perennial market leader, KTVU involving what they say was pool coverage of the arrest of a kidnapping suspect.

Bill Hoffman (right) moves from head of the Atlanta ABC affiliate to oversee Cox Media Group’s TV, radio and newspaper operations. He’s succeeded at WSB by Tim McVay, now VP-GM of Cox’s KTVU Oakland.

TV stations, the No. 1 news source for people in the Bay Area, are scrambling to adapt their news formats and slash budgets to fend off the triple threat of diminishing ad revenue, growing Internet adoption and cable news.