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The station's signal is currently carried by a cable television-only ABC affiliate in the Salinas/Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay area. Until 2000, the local ABC station from San Jose was KNTV channel 11, and served the Monterey Bay Area until its transition to NBC.
For antenna viewers, KGO-DT was available over-the-air on RF channel 24 until the digital transition. It has since returned to RF channel 7.
In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive ABC programs over-the-air, KGO is available to Dish Network customers as part of All American Direct's distant network package.
KGO is ABC's oldest original O&O; station on the West Coast, as its sister station KECA-TV (now KABC-TV), also operating on channel 7, did not sign on the air until September 1949. In addition, it is the only ABC station to keep its original call letters which were inherited from KGO radio (AM 810 and FM 103.7, now KKSF). KGO was the fourth original ABC O&O; (after WABC-TV, WLS-TV and WXYZ-TV in New York, Chicago, and Detroit, respectively) to begin broadcasting. In addition to airing ABC programming, KGO also aired syndicated programs from the Paramount Television Network. Among the Paramount programs aired were Time For Beany, Hollywood Reel, Sandy Dreams, Hollywood Wrestling, and Cowboy G-Men.
Channel 7 had a limited broadcasting schedule during its first year on the air. It wasn't until September 1950 that the station announced, in the San Francisco Chronicle, that it would finally broadcast seven days a week. For much of the 1950s, the station signed on late in the morning, especially on the weekends.
In 1954, KGO-TV moved to one of the most modern broadcasting facilities on the West Coast (at the time), at 277 Golden Gate Avenue.
For many years, Saturday programming began with King Norman's Kingdom of Toys, a popular children's program hosted by the owner of a San Francisco toy store, Norman Rosenberg. Born in 1918, Rosenberg was a former naval officer when he began the program in 1954, joined by his wife Doris as Page Joy. It ran until 1961. The Rosenbergs eventually owned a chain of 21 stores in three states. Doris Rosenberg died from colon cancer on January 10, 2009, at the age of 85.
As an ABC O&O; station, KGO-TV originated some daytime network shows, including programs hosted by fitness advocate Jack La Lanne, singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, and entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee. Syndicated game shows Oh My Word and The Anniversary Game were also produced at KGO-TV for Circle Seven Productions. In the mid-1950s, KGO-TV telecast live week night variety shows hosted by KSFO disc jockey Don Sherwood, until Sherwood was fired for making a political commentary in defiance of a warning from the station's management. Today, KGO-TV broadcasts from studios at 900 Front Street, which it has occupied since 1985. It shares the facility with KGO Radio (AM 810), KSFO and KMKY, although the former two are now owned by Citadel Broadcasting.
In 1962, KGO began carrying ABC's first color program, the animated series The Flintstones, followed by The Jetsons. In the mid 1960s KGO became the first Bay Area station to transmit local programs in compatible color, including its newscasts.
In 1973, KGO joined the other major Bay Area television stations in moving its transmitter to the Sutro Tower, located on a ridge between Mount Sutro and Twin Peaks.
For most of its existence, KGO-TV was the only network-owned-and-operated station in the Bay Area, even throughout the time when ABC was going through ownership changes when Capital Cities Communications bought out ABC and merged with the network in 1985 before being sold to Disney in 1996. As such, the station did not heavily pre-empt network programming unlike its local competitors or its sister stations -- such as Philadelphia's WPVI-TV, Houston's KTRK-TV and Fresno's KFSN-TV -- which were known for doing so in those days. The distinction ended in 1995 when several other stations over the next ten years became network-owned stations--notably KBHK (today's KBCW) becoming a charter member of UPN (which the station's then-owner was a partner in), KPIX becoming a CBS O&O; and KNTV becoming an NBC O&O;, in that order. (As of 2007, some exceptions to this policy may be made when breaking news events or selected ABC Sports programs warrant exclusive coverage, in which case Granite Broadcasting Corporation's independent station, KOFY, may pick up the pre-empted ABC programming scheduled for the time period.)
KGO-TV was the first station to transmit images of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake through ABC News and ABC Sports. At the time, ABC was televising the third game of the 1989 World Series, which was interrupted by the quake. Subsequent coverage of the earthquake won the station that year's Peabody Award.
In 1999, KGO-TV reached an agreement with the Granite Broadcasting Corporation, then owner of San Jose's ABC affiliate KNTV. KGO-TV agreed to pay Granite in exchange for dropping ABC programming from KNTV, and as a result, KGO-TV became the exclusive ABC outlet in the Bay Area. The agreement, however, also saw the Salinas/Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay area lose over-the-air reception of ABC programming since KNTV (before the 1999 agreement) had also served those communities. In response, a cable-only ABC affiliate was set up for the Salinas/Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay area. The station simulcasts the signal from KGO-TV (including ABC programming and local newscasts) for part of the day and opts out of the station's signal during programming which KGO-TV is only allowed to show within the San Francisco Bay Area under syndication exclusivity.
The ABC affiliate is carried on channel 7 on area cable systems including Comcast, identifies itself on-air as "ABC 7", and has its own logo. The local Comcast Spotlight website claims this is the first cable-only big three network affiliate in the United States. ABC's local station website lists Del Rey Gardens Drive in Del Ray Oaks as the studios of "ABC 7". According to the website of satellite carrier DirecTV, KGO-TV is available in the Monterey / Salinas television market. It is part of the local channel's package on DirecTV in that area while DISH Network does not have KGO-TV available (nor any other local ABC channel) since a court order in 2006 forced them to cease offering distant network stations "a la carte". However, DISH Network customers in the Monterey/Salinas television market may still be able to receive KGO-TV through All American Direct. This service leases satellite space from DISH Network to provide distant network feeds to qualifying customers and chooses San Francisco as the source market for its west coast feeds.
ABC has since gained a 2nd cable-only affiliate, TV3 Winchester.
KGO has applied for a fill-in translator on UHF Channel 35, serving the southern portion of the viewing area, including San Jose.
KGO-TV was the first station to produce earthquake documentaries of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake on April 8, 2006.
In the 1970s and 1980s, KGO-TV produced weekday talk/variety shows in the 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. timeslot, after the national Good Morning America broadcast ended each day. A.M. San Francisco was the name from about 1975 until late 1987 or early 1988, when it was replaced with Good Morning, Bay Area, hosted by Susan Sikora. Hosts of A.M. San Francisco included the husband-and-wife team of Fred LaCosse and Terry Lowry. (Other ABC owned-and-operated stations produced their own A.M. programs in the 1980s. For example, A.M. Chicago at WLS-TV evolved into the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Live with Regis and Kelly evolved from the similar A.M. program on WABC. For a week or two in the summer of 1988, A.M. Los Angeles was simulcast on KGO-TV, with a few KGO-TV produced segments.)
From early on, KGO-TV carried ABC's Daytime lineup, including General Hospital (1963-present), One Life To Live (1968-present), and All My Children (1970-present). Other soaps shown on KGO throughout the years include The Edge of Night (1975-84; had been on CBS from 1956-75), The Young Marrieds (1964-66), A Flame In The Wind (a.k.a A Time For Us, 1964-66), Never Too Young (1965-66), Dark Shadows (1966-71), A World Apart (1970-71), Ryan's Hope (1975-89), Loving (1983-95), The City (1995-97, a spin-off of Loving), and Port Charles (1997-2003, a spin-off of General Hospital).
The "7" in its logo is not the familiar "Circle 7," but instead a modification of a northeastward-pointing arrow. The program's moniker is "tv_with_attitude." The program plays off the "seven" theme by incorporating a seven-item list (referred to as "The List") into the program. "7 Live" is reminiscent of "The Site," a program on the MSNBC cable network in 1996.
The station broadcast a 4:30 p.m. newscast named Early News in 1970, anchored by Ray Tannehill and John Reed King, with Pete Giddings covering weather and Bob Fouts presenting sports. Lu Hurley provided live helicopter traffic coverage, one the first television programs in the San Francisco Bay Area to offer that feature. KGO-TV was one of the last ABC affiliates that broadcast the network evening news program in the 7:00 p.m. time slot. By early 1992, ABC World News Tonight had been displaced to 5:30 p.m, replacing the last half of the 5:00 p.m. news hour.
The station did, however, follow other aspects of news branding at the other ABC O&Os.; The station currently utilizes the market's first helicopter equipped to shoot and transmit high definition (HD) video. The helicopter branded Sky 7HD made its on-air debut in February 2006. Due to current logistical and equipment limitations, video from Sky 7HD at times is only available in standard definition television (SD) 4:3 aspect ratio. When this occurs, the helicopter is branded as Sky 7. Also following the leads of its sister stations, KGO began broadcasting ABC7 News in high definition on Saturday, February 17, 2007, becoming the second news operation in the Bay Area to make this transition following KTVU. It should be noted that the KGO-TV affiliate in the Monterey/Salinas area does not transmit a high definition signal. KGO-TV also produces a 9 p.m. newscast for independent station KOFY; the only other ABC O&O; to do this is WTVD in North Carolina.
As of August 2010, KGO is currently one of the very few ABC O&O; stations that carries a 4:30am newscast. However, ABC does not air "America This Morning" live on KGO, as it normally airs in that timeslot, so the station currently broadcasts it on a tape-delay at 4am. Since mid-2008, KGO is the second station to have a early-morning newscasts earlier than 5am, as KNTV added it's 4:30am newscasts a few months later as a result of its 11am newscasts being canceled. With that, KGO is the only station remaining in the San Francisco Bay Area to air an 11am newscast.
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