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KPIX-TV (Channel 5) is the CBS owned and operated television station in San Francisco, California. Through its parent company CBS Corporation, KPIX is co-owned with The CW affiliate KBCW-TV (Channel 44).

The station transmits from the Sutro Tower and its signal covers the San Francisco Bay Area. Known on the air as ''CBS 5 Bay Area,'' KPIX is home to one of the higher rated newscasts among CBS-owned stations. On January 28, 2008, KPIX started to broadcast local news in HD, becoming the third station in the Bay area to do so, after KGO-TV and KTVU. KPIX was also one of two Group W stations that became a CBS O&O;, but had already been affiliated with CBS, the other being KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh.

In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive CBS programs over-the-air, KPIX is available to Dish Network customers as part of All American Direct's distant network package.

History

KPIX signed on December 22, 1948. It was the nation's 49th television station, as well as the first in northern California. It was owned by the Associated Broadcasters, owners of KSFO (560 AM). Initially, KPIX transmitted from a tower on top of the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill. It later moved to a shared transmitter tower with KGO-TV on Mount Sutro and then to the Sutro Tower in 1973. KPIX's first studio was in the attic of the Mark Hopkins (just above the "Top of the Mark.")

KPIX immediately joined CBS due to a deal KSFO's owners had worked out with CBS a year earlier. KSFO was CBS radio's Bay Area affiliate from 1937 to 1941, when Associated Broadcasters backed out of a deal for CBS to buy the station. When KSFO was still affiliated with CBS, it was originally slated to move to 740 AM, the dial spot of KQW in San Jose. That frequency was the last 50,000-watt frequency available in the Bay Area, and KSFO was to raise its power to 50,000 watts after moving to 740. However, after KSFO parted ways with CBS, CBS moved its Bay Area affiliation to KQW and wasn't about to give up the obvious advantage of owning the last available 50,000-watt station in the Bay Area. After lengthy Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearings, KSFO won the 740 frequency, but later decided to stay at 560 and concentrate its efforts on building a television station. It traded the 740 frequency to CBS in return for getting the CBS television affiliation for the Bay Area. KQW remained at 740 and CBS changed its call sign to KCBS.

The station also carried programming from the now-defunct DuMont Television Network until that network folded in 1956. It even carried a few NBC programs until KRON-TV signed on in 1949, and programs from the short-lived Paramount Television Network, among them ''Frosty Frolics'', ''Time For Beany'', ''Cowboy G-Men'', and ''Bandstand Revue''.

When KPIX's first competitor, KGO-TV, signed on in May 1949, KPIX produced programs to welcome it to the Bay Area. KPIX cameras were used on the first episode of the CBS News program ''See It Now'' on November 18, 1951, which opened with the first live simultaneous coast-to-coast TV transmission from both the East Coast (the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor) and the West Coast (KPIX-produced images of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay), under the narration of Edward R. Murrow. Under its first general manager, Phil Lasky, KPIX gained an early reputation for news coverage, being noted for originating national CBS coverage of the Japanese Peace Conference of 1951 (the event which "officially" brought an end to World War II, similar to the function that the Treaty of Versailles served for World War I), held in San Francisco (for which Lasky was commended by then-CBS News president Sig Mickelson), as well as local news coverage of the 1953 crash of an Australian airliner while on approach to San Francisco International Airport, and a powder explosion a few weeks afterward at an explosives plant in suburban Hercules. In sports programming, KPIX originated the annual college football East-West Shrine Game for DuMont, and was the flagship station of the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League until 1954.

In 1952 KPIX and KSFO moved into a new building at 2655 Van Ness Avenue, with KPIX staying there until about 1979, when it relocated to a 1920s era warehouse building on the corner of Battery and Broadway streets (refurbished by the architecture firm Gensler), where KPIX remains to this day. (KSFO moved to studios in the Fairmont Hotel, across the hall from the Tonga Room, later in the 1950s.) The building on Van Ness Avenue was the first building in San Francisco specifically built for television (it was demolished in 2006 to make way for a condominium complex). Westinghouse Electric Corporation bought KPIX in 1954 and ran it as part of Group W, its broadcasting unit. During Westinghouse's ownership, KPIX was their only television station on the West Coast. In early 1996, Westinghouse merged with CBS, making KPIX a CBS O&O; station and bringing it into common ownership with KCBS radio. Until this happened, KPIX had been CBS's longest-tenured affiliate; the distinction now goes to WUSA in Washington, DC.

In May 2006 KPIX moved its San Jose news bureau to the Fairmont Tower at 50 W. San Fernando Street. This was the original site of Charles Herrold's experimental broadcasts which were the precursor of KCBS. Although CBS was not aware of the significance of the San Fernando St. address when the move was planned, it quickly recognized and embraced its significance when informed, giving long-overdue credit to one of the inventors of radio broadcasting during the bureau's opening celebration.

Eyewitness Blues

Some personalities from KPIX, as well as KCBS radio, consists of mainly reporters and anchors from the two stations that would comprise the band named ''Eyewitness Blues''. The band consists of Greg Brady (guitar), Keith Moon (Drums), Chris Detrick (Guitar), and Doug Sovern (bass). The band debuted in 2006.

Digital television

KPIX-TV shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009 as part of the DTV transition, it remained on channel 29 PSIP is used to display KPIX-TV's virtual channel as 5 on digital television receivers.

Programming

Entertainment

KPIX was the station that came up with the concept for a local entertainment and lifestyles program, ''Evening Magazine''. Evening Magazine began on KPIX-TV in August 1976, and within a year, the concept expanded to the other Group W stations. By Fall 1978, the ''Evening Magazine'' format was syndicated to non-Group W markets across the country as ''PM Magazine''. The entire ''Evening''/''PM Magazine'' format was cancelled by the late 1980s. KPIX resurrected ''Evening Magazine'' in 1998. In 2005, ''Evening Magazine'' was retitled ''Eye On The Bay'', to focus further on the San Francisco Bay Area. KBCW also aired ''Evening Magazine'' and ''Eye on the Bay'' in the early 2000s as reruns of the previous night's episode. ''Eye on the Bay'' will air its final Monday through Friday episodes on September 7th 2012 and thereafter air weekly on Saturdays.

For most of the time before Westinghouse bought CBS, KPIX was CBS' largest affiliate. Despite this, from the mid-1970s until 1994 it was standard KPIX practice to pre-empt ''The Price Is Right'', as well as other CBS morning daytime programs (for example, the first season of ''Tattletales'' was pre-empted for reruns of ''Perry Mason''). Despite the pre-emptions, CBS was mostly satisfied with KPIX as it was among its highest rated affiliates in the country. In 1995, when CBS signed a long term deal with every Westinghouse station (just before the two companies merged), KPIX began broadcasting the entire CBS schedule in pattern with no preemptions, as per the affiliation agreement between Westinghouse and CBS.

For a time from 1992 to 1998, KPIX ran CBS primetime programming an hour earlier than typical for the Pacific Time Zone (i.e. from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.), a practice which KOVR, its sister station in Sacramento, continues to this day.

Talk shows

KPIX was also known for the locally produced morning talk show, ''People are Talking'', which began in 1978 with Ann Fraser and Ross MacGowan, and ran until 1991 (the other Group W stations also used the ''People are Talking'' format during these years). On KPIX, this show pre-empted ''The Price Is Right'' for a few years, and CBS had to schedule the popular game show on other Bay Area independent stations such as KOFY. At one point, a more celebrity-driven "People Are Talking in the Afternoon" aired with a small house band. Prior to the "People are Talking" franchise, Ann Fraser hosted "The Morning Show," essentially a 30 minute version of "People Are Talking." "The Morning Show" replaced "The Kathryn Crosby Show," hosted by Bing Crosby's wife, Kathryn. This was also a 30 minute show.

Sports

During the 1980s, KPIX was the flagship station for the Oakland A's baseball team (at times pre-empting or delaying CBS network shows for the live broadcasts) before the A's broadcasts moved in the early 1990s to then-NBC affiliate KRON. KPIX was also the television home of the Golden State Warriors basketball team during the 1990s. KPIX-TV was also the exclusive home of the Bay to Breakers before it moved to KRON.

From 1962-93, KPIX was the local carrier of most San Francisco 49ers games, as part of the ''NFL on CBS'' which covered the entire pre-merger league until 1970, and the National Football Conference from 1970-93. Two of the 49ers' Super Bowl victories aired locally on KPIX: Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XXIV. KPIX lost the 49ers to KTVU in 1994 (a year after fan favorite Joe Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs) when the NFC package moved to Fox. However, in 1998, the American Football Conference package moved to CBS from NBC, and KPIX has aired Oakland Raiders games since. KPIX will still air the 49ers if they host an AFC team in the afternoon, which under NFL broadcast rules, forces the Raiders to play on national TV, or have a bye week.

Captain Fortune

During the 1950s, KPIX produced a local children's program, ''Captain Fortune'', on weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings. In addition to a number of live segments with an in-studio children's audience, the program featured the pioneering animated television episodes of ''Crusader Rabbit''. The "captain" sometimes drew pictures to illustrate his stories. He was actually a talented artist named Peter Abenheim. Abenheim authored a book, published in 1959 by Nourse Publishing of San Carlos, California, ''Captain Impossible at Sea''. Abenheim wrote the screenplay for a 1962 science fiction film, ''This Is Not a Test'' (also released as ''Atomic War Bride''). He was born in England on January 26, 1912. He came to San Francisco in 1932 and attended the California School of Fine Arts. He worked as an educational filmmaker. He died in San Francisco on May 2, 1988.

Dick Stewart

From 1956 to 1959, Davenport, Iowa native Dick Stewart (born 1927) hosted a weekday variety program at KPIX. Due to the popularity of the film ''Gidget'' in 1959, the station decided to run a ''"Miss Gidget"'' contest on Dick Stewart's television program. The contest was won by Barbara Bouchet, who would become one of the "Regulars" on the ''Dance Party''. She would later go on to be a famous star in her own right.

From 1959 to 1963, KPIX presented ''Dance Party'', hosted by Stewart. The program invited local teenagers to come and dance to recorded music in the KPIX studios. Besides playing current recordings, Stewart sometimes welcomed popular recording stars to the program. Following the custom of ''American Bandstand'', the singers would lip-synch to their recordings.

Stewart also hosted a number of "High School Salute" programs on Saturdays that spotlighted area high schools with interviews with students and faculty, as well as filmed segments from each school.

Daytime Dramas

From its early days, KPIX carried the CBS soap operas, including The ''Guiding Light'' (1952–2009), ''As The World Turns'' (1956–2010), ''The Young and The Restless'' (1973–present), The ''Bold And The Beautiful'' (1987–present).

Other soaps shown on KPIX throughout the years include ''Search For Tomorrow'' (1951–82, when it moved to NBC), ''Love Of Life'' (1951–80), ''The Secret Storm'' (1954–74, though KPIX dropped it in September 1973), ''The Brighter Day'' (1954–62), The ''Edge of Night'' (1956–75, when it jumped to ABC), ''Love Is A Many Splendored Thing'' (1967–73), ''Where The Heart Is'' (1969–73), and ''Capitol'' (1982–87).

Court Dramas

In 1987-1988, KPIX ran a 90-minute block of court dramas from 4:30 to 6 p.m.: ''Superior Court'', ''People's Court'' and ''The Judge''. KPIX print ads stated, "It's a crime not to watch!" Late in the 2000s decade, KPIX ran ''Judge Judy'' at 7:30 p.m.

Newscasts

KPIX uses the Eyewitness News format adopted by sister station KYW-TV in Philadelphia. KGO-TV also uses a similar type format, but KPIX had the Eyewitness News name first; KGO adopted its version from WABC-TV in New York City. For most of the last 30 years, KPIX has been runner-up to KGO.

As mentioned above, KPIX was a pioneer in local television news coverage in the Bay Area. Like most television stations, it presented a 15-minute evening news program until 1963, when the networks began expanding their evening newscasts to 30 minutes. One of KPIX's innovating program directors, Ray Hubbard, created "The Noon News." The anchors were John Weston, "Channel 5's Guy on the Go," and Wanda Ramey, "Channel 5's Gal on the Go." Ramey was one of the first women news anchors in the country. In 1966, KPIX hired the first African-American TV news reporters in the San Francisco market: Ben Williams, who had been the first Black reporter for the ''San Francisco Examiner'' a few years earlier, and Belva Davis, the first female African-American reporter on the West Coast.

The station also launched a 10:00 p.m. hour-long newscast in the 1990s when they experimented with moving the prime time programming block back one hour. Then-NBC affiliate KRON also experimented with a 7:00-10:00 prime-time block and news at 10:00P, but their newscast was only 30 minutes and they quickly reverted back to the standard 8:00-11:00 primetime block after only a year. KPIX did not revert to 8:00-11:00 prime time programming until 1998 after making no dent in KTVU's 10:00 pm news ratings, which has dominated the time slot for years in the Bay Area.

KPIX was also home to ''30 Minutes Bay Area'', a 30 minute news magazine created by 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt after he retired from the national show. The "30 Minutes" concept was originally planned to air on many CBS O&O; stations, but KPIX was the only station to implement the concept. ''30 Minutes Bay Area'' was discontinued in early 2007, however, it continues to air as a special as of 2010.

KPIX also was one of the first local TV stations in the United States to provide full time environment reporting in its newscasts. CBS5's "The Greenbeat" (2007–2010), featuring reporter Jeffrey Schaub, offered viewers reports on sustainability, green technology and earth awareness issues.

Wendy Tokuda, who co-anchored "Eyewitness News" with Dave McElhatton from 1978 to 1992, recently returned to KPIX; as of 2007, Wendy anchors CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5 with Allen Martin. In 1992, Wendy left KPIX to anchor evening newscasts on KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. In 1997, she returned to the Bay Area, and for the past decade, Wendy appeared on KRON 4 as evening anchor and reporter for her "Students Rising Above" student scholarship program that she founded in 1998. Wendy continues to work on her "Students Rising Above" program and airs her stories on KPIX newscasts.

In 2007 KPIX began broadcasting "Eye on the Bay" in High Definition. On January 28, 2008, KPIX began broadcasting its newscasts in 1080i high definition (behind KTVU and KGO), becoming the third station in the Bay Area to broadcast news and weather in HD, but most of the field cameras were still in 4:3 aspect ratio at that time of the switch. In mid-September 2010, KPIX started using HD cameras for its field reports, however, not all video footage(s) are shot in HD. KPIX utilizes a "Hi-Def Doppler" radar system during weather segments, which is positioned on Mount Vaca.

On March 3, 2008, KPIX launched a nightly 10 p.m. newscast on KBCW. It is broadcast in high definition.

In mid-September 2010, KPIX introduced new graphics for its newscasts, which currently mirrors that of many of its sister-stations including WCBS and KCBS. KPIX currently uses "The Enforcer" music package, the basic theme of which has been used on many of CBS's O&O; stations since the mid-1970s, when it was introduced by WBBM-TV. The station previously used several variants of the "Battery" theme for its newscasts for over a decade before the current change. In addition, the KPIX and KCBS radio websites merged along with the new website entitled "CBS San Francisco," which is similar to the revamp of most CBS O&Os.; As of January 2011, KPIX airs a weekday morning newscast at 4:30 a.m. On January 8, 2012, KPIX will air a new Sunday morning newscast on KBCW.,

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

''The Noon News'' (1950s)

''Shell News'' (1950s)

''William Winter & The News'' (1950s)

''(KPIX) Channel 5 Eyewitness News'' (1965–1994, 1995–2003)

''KPIX 5 News'' (1994–1995)

''CBS 5 Eyewitness News'' (2003–present)

Station slogans

''We Light Up the Bay'' (1977–1982)

''The Best Place for News in The Best Place on Earth'' (1994–1998)

''Everywhere in the Best Place on Earth'' (1998–2001)

''Everywhere'' (2001–2005)

''Always Worth Your Time'' (2005–2009)

''Stay Connected'' (2009–present)

News team

Current on-air staff

Anchors

Ken Bastida - weeknights at 10 (on KBCW) and 11 p.m.; "Good Question" reporter and fill in anchor

Elizabeth Cook - weekdays at 4:30 and 5 p.m.; general assignment reporter and fill in anchor

Michelle Griego - weekday mornings "CBS 5 Early Edition" and noon

Dana King - weeknights at 6, 10 (on KBCW) and 11 p.m.

Anne Makovec - weekend mornings - "CBS 5 Weekend Early Edition"; general assignment reporter and fill in anchor

Frank Mallicoat - weekday mornings "CBS 5 Early Edition" and noon

Allen Martin - weeknights at 5 and 6 p.m.; "Closer Look" reporter

Phil Matier - weekend mornings - "CBS 5 Weekend Early Edition"; political commentator and general assignment reporter

Ann Notarangelo - weekends at 5:30, 6:30, 10 (on KBCW) and 11 p.m.; general assignment reporter

Dennis O'Donnell - weekdays at 4:30 p.m., also sports director; weeknights at 6, 10 (on KBCW) and 11; host of "Game Day!" and host 49ers games on CBS5

''CBS 5 Pinpoint Weather Team''

Roberta Gonzales - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 4:30, 5, 6, 10 (on KBCW) and 11 p.m.

Lawrence Karnow - AMS (Seal of Approval) - weekday mornings "CBS 5 Early Edition" and noon; occasional fill in

Jim Bernard - AMS (Seal of Approval) - weekend mornings and weekday fill in

Brian Hackney - meteorologist; Sunday evenings

Elizabeth Wenger - meteorologist; Saturday evenings

Sports team

Dennis O'Donnell - sports director; weeknights at 6, 10 (on KBCW) and 11; host of "Game Day!" and host 49ers games on CBS5, also weekday 4:30 p.m. news anchor and fill in anchor

Kim Coyle - weekend sports anchor at 6, 10 (on KBCW) and 11, and Saturdays at 6:30 p.m.; weekday fill in and 49ers games reporter

Gary Gelfand - sports anchor; fill-in, also sports reporter

Reporters

Christin Ayers - general assignment reporter

Ken Bastida - "Good Question" reporter; anchor,weeknights at 10 (KBCW) and 11pm

Jason Brooks - KCBS Moneywatch reporter; business reporter weekday mornings "CBS 5 Early Edition"-appears around 6:45 and noon

Cate Caugurian - general assignment reporter

Elizabeth Cook - weeknights at 5pm; fill in anchor and general assignment reporter

Sharon Chin - general assignment reporter and "Bay Area Jefferson Awards" reporter

Brian Cooley - CNet correspondent - appears weekday mornings, "CBS 5 Early Edition" occasionally

Gil Diaz - general assignment reporter

Kiet Do - general assignment reporter

Gianna Franco - fill-in traffic reporter and producer; traffic reporter for radio station KCBS weekends, weekday traffic reporter at 4:30 p.m.

Juliette Goodrich - general assignment reporter; fill in anchor

Anser Hassan - general assignment reporter

Kate Kelly - feature reporter and "Bay Area Jefferson Awards" host

Don Knapp - general assignment reporter

Grace Lee - general assignment reporter

Robert Lyles - general assignment reporter and fill in anchor; fill in meteorologist

Anne Makovec - general assignment reporter; weekend morning anchor, "CBS 5 Weekend Early Edition"

Allen Martin - "Closer Look" reporter; weeknights at 5 and 6pm and fill in anchor

Phil Matier - political commentator and general assignment reporter; weekend morning anchor

Liam Mayclem - "Eye on the Bay" Co host and producer; entertainment reporter-appears Thursday Mornings on "CBS 5 Early Edition"

Dr. Kim Mulvihill - medical reporter

Hank Plante - special contributor reporter (retired in 2008)

Len Ramirez - general assignment reporter

Mark Sayre - general assignment reporter

Mike Sugerman - general assignment reporter

Wendy Tokuda - "Students Rising Above" reporter

Joe Tuman - CBS 5 Political Analyst

Joe Vazquez - general assignment reporter

Julie Watts - Consumer Watch reporter; fill in meteorologist and fill in anchor

Lisa Washington - general assignment reporter

Elizabeth Wenger - weekday morning traffic reporter; general assignment reporter; fill in anchor and fill in meteorologist

Linda Yee - general assignment reporter

Local program hosts

Brian Hackney - ''Eye on the Bay'' Co-host and producer; also weekend weather anchor

Liam Mayclem - ''Eye on the Bay'' Co-host and producer; also appears Thursday mornings on "CBS 5 Early Edition" with 'Liam's List" - a weekend guide to entertainment around the Bay Area.

Thuy Vu - ''Eye on the Bay'' Co-host and producer.

Dave Stoelk - ''Eye on the Bay'' correspondent

Notable past on-air staff

Peter Abenheim - host of ''Captain Fortune'', 1950s; artist and educational filmmaker (1912–1988)

Jim Avila - weekend anchor/San Jose Bureau chief (1976–1980, now at ABC News)

Renel Brooks-Moon - entertainment reporter (2003–2006)

Christine Craft - anchor/reporter (1975–1977, now a radio host at KGO in San Francisco)

Dan Fouts - sports anchor (1994–1997, now at NFL Network)

Bambi Francisco - technology reporter (1999–2003)

Wayne Freedman - reporter (1989–1991, now at KGO-TV)

Cynthia Gouw - reporter

Emil Guillermo - reporter (1977–1980)

Harold Greene - Anchor (1977) moved to KABC then KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV Los Angeles, now retired.

Tracy Humphrey - morning and noon meteorologist (2007–2011)

Jonathan Karsh - ''Evening Magazine'' host/contributor (1998–2001, now a filmmaker )also on CBS's Kid Nation)

Ron Magers - anchor/reporter (1968–1974), now at WLS-TV Chicago.

Dave McElhatton - longtime anchor (1976–2000; deceased August 23, 2010)

Lee Mendelson - producer; better known for work on Peanuts TV specials

Simon Perez - reporter/fill-in anchor 2002-2011

Wanda Ramey - noon co-anchor/reporter; first female anchor in western U.S. (1957–1967; deceased, August 15, 2009 at age 85)

Trish Regan - reporter; fill-in "Early Edition" anchor (2002–2003); CBS News (2003–2007); CNBC/NBC News (2007-March 2011); ABC News (2011–Present)

Mike Rowe - ''Evening Magazine'' co-host (2001–2005; now host of Discovery Channel's ''Dirty Jobs' and announcer of ''ABC World News with Diane Sawyer'')

Nancy Snyderman - medical reporter (1988-2004, now at MSNBC)

Drew Soicher - sports anchor (1997-1999, now at KUSA-TV in Denver)

Brian Sussman - meteorologist (1989-2000)

Kaity Tong - reporter (1976-1979, now at WPIX-TV in New York)

Wayne Walker - sports anchor (1974-1994)

Ben Williams - anchor/reporter (1966-1991)

Colleen Williams - anchor/reporter (1981-1983, now at KNBC in Los Angeles)

Jan Yanehiro - ''Evening Magazine'' co-host (1976–1989)

KPIX branding

KPIX's distinctive "5" logo dates from the days as a Westinghouse station, when the "Group W font" was standard on KPIX and its sister stations after about 1965. When Westinghouse merged with CBS, most of the former Group W stations eventually retired the font.

KPIX and its sister station, Baltimore's WJZ-TV (an ABC affiliate during its pre-merger Group W history) would become the only two CBS-owned television stations to continue using this logo font. KPIX was the only CBS-owned station on the West Coast not to follow the CBS Mandate for years after the merger, simply referencing itself as ''KPIX-TV Channel 5.''

Finally in 2005, KPIX fell in line with the mandate and called itself ''CBS 5,'' later ''CBS 5 Bay Area'' (although some references to "CBS 5" were heard in commercials as early as 2003). But it was briefly branded simply as ''KPIX 5'' between 1993 and 1996, even dropping the Eyewitness News name and called itself ''KPIX 5 News'' at the same time before reverting.

References

KPIX History

External links

KPIX "CBS 5" Official Website at CBS San Francisco

Eye on the Bay

The KPIX Dance Party on the Dick Stewart Television Show

Legendary KPIX kids show host Marshal J Fan Page

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Dave McElhatton (December 8, 1928 – August 23, 2010) was an evening news anchor for several decades in San Francisco, California, in the United States. He was in the first class of inductees to the Bay Area Hall of Fame. He retired in 2000.

McElhatton was sometimes called "Mac"

Early life

An Oakland native, McElhatton attended San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University). He received a B.A. in liberal arts from that institution in 1951.

Career

Radio career

McElhatton worked for KCBS Radio in San Francisco for 25 years, starting two weeks after college graduation. Early in his career, he hosted an all-night radio show, "Music 'Til Dawn".

In the early 60s, he was the host of "McElhatton In The Morning", a blend of news and comedy, with his side-kick 'Friendly Clyde' (Homer Welch).

He later did a radio program "Viewpoint", which was the area's first telephone talk show. McElhatton later became news director of KCBS radio, where he helped change the format of the station to an all-news format.

Television news career

While doing radio at KCBS, McElhatton (along with Friendly Clyde) hosted ''TV Bingo'', a daytime show on KTVU Channel 2.

McElhatton became a news anchor for KPIX-TV Channel 5, the first television station in San Francisco starting in 1977 upon leaving KCBS radio. The hiring of McElhatton, a radio broadcaster, was noted by some to be a bold stroke. He remained as a news achor with KPIX until his retirement in 2000. He was noted, along with that of CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, to be among two good reporters during a forum by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein.

At his peak, his salary as a newscaster was reportedly approximately $750,000 per year. For a decade from the late 1970s to late 1980s, his co-anchor was Wendy Tokuda, whom he still maintained personal contact with. Tokuda left KPIX for KNBC in Los Angeles in 1992. Tokuda rejoined the station in 2007. During his career in television, the news program that he anchored was frequently the top rated news broadcast in terms of audience size.

He had several film credits, including ''Cardiac Arrest'' (1980) and ''Thief of Hearts'' (1984). In Alfred Hitchcock's ''Vertigo'' (1958), Hitchcock filmed a never-used 1-minute scene showing Midge Wood (Barbara Bel Geddes) and Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) listening to a radio report that the murderer had been arrested in Europe – the unseen radio announcer in this scene (included as an extra on the DVD release of ''Vertigo'') originally was McElhatton , but in his place are the dubbed-in voices of the film's restorers Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz.

In 2006, the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame was created. McElhatton was among the inaugural inductees.

McElhatton was a guest lecturer at San Francisco State University in the Broadcast and Electronic Communications Department until the mid-1980s.

Retirement

McElhatton lived with his third wife, Karen, in the Palm Springs, California area. In late 2004, he suffered a mild stroke but reportedly was recuperating and doing fine in 2005. His second wife, Bonnie Chastain, died in 1988. McElhatton's son Terry, former news director at KNTV in San Jose, died in June 2008. McElhatton died Monday, August 23, 2010 of a stroke-related illness in Rancho Mirage. McElhatton is survived by his third wife, Karen, as well as two children and eight grandchildren. He was 81.

Awards

Excellence in Journalism Award, Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, 1988 for distinguished career. Alumni Hall of Fame (San Francisco State University), 1996 Governor's Award, Northern California Emmy Presentation. 1999 Associated Press Television-Radio Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003

References

External links

1988 News theme and clip

2000 Photograph and last KPIX newscast of Dave McElhatton

Dave McElhatton at IMDB

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Name	Colin Kaepernick
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Colin Rand Kaepernick (born November 3, 1987) is an American football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He was drafted in the 2nd round, 36th overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at Nevada.

Personal

Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An adopted child of Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, Kaepernick is of mixed European and African descent and the youngest of their three children. He lived in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin until age four and attended grade school in Turlock, California.

Kaepernick graduated from the University of Nevada Reno in December 2010 with a bachelors degree in business management and is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He is known to have high character and a relatively unassuming personality off the field, as evidenced by an incident that took place during the summer of 2010 interning at a University of Nevada-themed sports apparel shop in Reno. One woman came in and, completely unaware she was speaking to Kaepernick, asked him to find his jersey. A manager at the store would later recall, "Colin said, ‘I’m pretty sure it’s No. 10, and it’s right over here.’ He rang up her purchase and everything."

Childhood

The young Kaepernick adjusted easily as a dark-skinned member in a white family, using different colors of crayons for himself and the rest of his family on drawing family portraits, and laughing off some classmates who did not believe that he had white parents. He started youth football at the age of eight years old in Turlock, and played sparingly as a defensive end and punter. He then became his youth team's starting quarterback at age nine. He completed his first competitive pass for a long touchdown. He went on to win several punt, pass, and kick competitions mainly on his passing ability, and he often threw passes over the heads of contest officials. It was then his passion for football began.

High school

A three-sport star at Pitman High School in Turlock, California, Kaepernick passed up a promising baseball career as a pitcher in order to play football. Kaepernick was nominated for all state in football, basketball, and baseball his senior year. He was the MVP of the Central California Conference in football leading his school to its first ever playoff victory. In basketball he was a first team all CCC selection at forward and led his 16th ranked team to a near upset of the number 1 ranked Oak Ridge Trojans in the opening round of playoffs. In that game Colin would score 34 points but it wouldn't be enough as Ryan Anderson would score 50 to best the Pride.

Although Kaepernick achieved most of his accolades in high school as a baseball pitcher and received several scholarship offers in that sport, he desperately wanted to play football in college. Although he was almost 6'5" as a senior, he only weighed 170 pounds (77 kg); his coaches generally kept him from running the ball to limit his risk of injury. Also, despite his strong arm, he had poor throwing mechanics. During his junior year, Pitman's head coach at the time, Larry Nigro, made a highlight tape which Colin's brother Kyle copied to DVD and then sent to about 100 Division I-A (now FBS) programs, receiving some interest but no offers for scholarship. Even as a senior, he received little attention from FBS schools. Although the Wolf Pack coaching staff frequently watched video of his high school team, no one from Nevada's staff came to Turlock to see him play during his senior football season. Wolf Pack head coach Chris Ault decided to offer him a scholarship after one of his assistants, Barry Sacks, saw Kaepernick dominate a high school basketball game on an evening he was suffering from a fever of . Nevada was the only school that offered him a football scholarship, but was still concerned that he would opt for baseball until he signed in February 2006.

He was a two time all state baseball player in California and was listed as a draftable prospect on Major League Baseball's website in the class of 2006. He earned Northern California athlete of the week honors as a pitcher. He was reported to throw a 92 MPH fastball as a senior in HS as reported on Kaepernick's first college start in 2007 against Boise State He was also a member of the Brewers Grey squad in the 2005 Area Code games. During his senior year, Kaepernick pitched two no-hitters in high school play. He also turned down numerous scholarship offers to play baseball at many notable NCAA programs instead taking his lone scholarship offer to play quarterback at Nevada. . In his senior high school year, Kaepernick had an ERA of 1.53 from 10 starts and 7 complete starts. He finished the year with a record of 6-4 with 82 strikeouts and 28 walks. .

College

Recruitment

Though heavily recruited by major NCAA baseball programs, Kaepernick received his lone football scholarship offer from the University of Nevada Wolf Pack.

2006 season

Kaepernick joined the Nevada Wolf Pack as a redshirt.

2007 season

As a redshirt freshman, Colin saw little action through Nevada's first four games. It was during the fifth game of the season against the 2007 Fresno State Bulldogs football team that Colin got his first extended playing time. After starting quarterback Nick Graziano went down with a season ending foot injury, Colin entered the game with 8:23 remaining in the second quarter. He would go on to amass 384 yards passing, 4 TD's and 60 yards rushing. It would prove to not be enough though as Fresno would win the game 49–41

It would be in Colin's first start on Sunday October 14, 2007 that he would have his most popular game to date. Entering as 26 point underdogs to the Boise State Broncos, a team that had never lost on its home field to a WAC opponent, Colin would help guide the Wolf Pack to a near upset of the Broncos in what would eventually become one of the highest scoring game in NCAA history (69-67 in 4 overtimes). The game was nationally televised on ESPN and would be deemed an ''Instant Classic'' to be re-aired on the networks ESPN Classic station in the following days. Compiling 243 yards passing with 3 TD's and rushing for another 177 yards and 2 scores, Kaepernick would lead the Wolf Pack into a fourth overtime period before a failed two point conversion attempt would ultimately prevent the game from entering a fifth overtime. During the game Kaepernick earned high praise from ESPN's Bill Curry (the former Georgia Tech and Green Bay Packer center and University of Kentucky head football coach) as having perhaps the best game he had ever witnessed any redshirt freshman quarterback playing in.

He would then go on to lead the Wolf Pack to three straight victories over Utah State, Idaho, and New Mexico State (a game in which he threw the go ahead score with a minute remaining) and earn WAC Offensive Player of the Week honors for his efforts in the latter. Against undefeated and nationally ranked Hawaii his team would fall 2 points short after giving up a late field goal with 15 seconds remaining. A loss to San Jose St. followed.

In the final game of the regular season vs. the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs Kaepernick would throw for a gaudy 404 yards and 3 scores with no turnovers to help lead the Pack their third consecutive bowl appearance, a first in school history.

Kaepernick earned WAC Freshman of the Year honors for his efforts during the regular season. At 161.06 he finished as the 5th ranked quarterback in NCAA football based on pass efficiency behind Sam Bradford (Oklahoma), Tim Tebow (Florida), Colt Brennan (Hawaii), and Dennis Dixon (Oregon) and 3rd in the nation in yards per attempt at 9.4 behind Tebow and Paul Smith (Tulsa)

With bowl games completed, Kaepernick's stats dropped slightly. He would finish the season ranked in the top ten in NCAA in various categories including: 2nd lowest Interception Percent to Florida State's Drew Weatherford, 5th in Yards Per Passing Attempt, 7th in Touchdowns Passing Percent, and 10th in Passer Rating. Amongst quarterbacks he was 6th in Yards Per Carry when running the ball.

2008 season

As a sophomore Kaepernick became just the fifth player in NCAA history to pass for 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 or more yards in a single season. Some of his notable statistical achievements were:

Only NCAA QB in 2008 to pass for 2,500 or more yards and rush for 1,000 or more yards. Ranked 2nd amongst all NCAA QB's in rushing yardage with 1,130. Ranked 7th amongst all NCAA players with 7.02 yards per carry. Was tied 9th amongst all NCAA players with 17 rushing TD's.

Kaepernick, with 1,130 rushing yards, and running back Vai Taua, with 1,521 rushing yards, made 2008 the first year in school history that Nevada had two 1,000-yard rushers in the same season.

Despite playing the entire second half with an ankle injury, he set a new Humanitarian Bowl record with 370 yards passing and was awarded the MVP in a losing effort.

He was also named the WAC Offensive Player of the Year at the end of the season. He was the first sophomore to win this award since Marshall Faulk of San Diego State did in 1992. He was also named first team All WAC QB. He was the first sophomore to win this award since Trent Dilfer of Fresno State which was also in 1992.

2009 season

Kaepernick was named the pre-season WAC Offensive Player of the Year at the WAC Media's event in July. On August 3 it was announced he was named to the Davey O'Brien Award pre-season watch list. On August 14 it was announced that he was named to the pre-season Maxwell Award watch list and on August 17 to the Manning Award watch list.

Kaepernick led the Wolf Pack to an 8–5 record and a second place finish in the WAC behind undefeated Boise State. He was named 2nd team All WAC QB. He is the first player in Nevada history to earn the teams MVP award twice, doing so in 2008 as well.

Colin finished the 2009 season with 2,052 passing yards and 1,183 rushing yards. He became the first player in NCAA history to record back-to-back 2,000/1,000 yard seasons. His 1,183 rush yards along with Luke Lippincott's 1,034 and Vai Taua's 1,345 makes him a part of the first trio of teammates in NCAA history to rush for 1,000 yards each in the same season on the same team.

2010 season

Entering the 2010 NCAA season, Kaepernick ranked first among active college football players in rushing touchdowns. He was second in Yards Per Carry (behind Wolf Pack teammate Vai Taua), Total Offense per Game, and Touchdowns Scored. He ranked third in Yards per Play and fourth in pass touchdowns and Total Number of Offensive Plays.

Kaepernick was a counselor at the prestigious MPA event in Thibodaux, Louisiana, during the 2010 camp. He had an impressive showing, drawing praise from various NFL and ESPN personnel including former New York Giants QB Jesse Palmer who said of Kaepernick, "by far, the strongest arm in the camp".

It was also announced that Kaepernick, along with teammates Taua and Lippincott will have a display in the College Football Hall of Fame commemorating their being the first players in NCAA history to each break 1,000 yards rushing on the same team during the same season. Kaepernick was named to the watch list for six major college football awards: the Manning Award, the O'Brien Award, the Paul Hornung Award, the Maxwell Award, the Unitas Award, and the Walter Camp Award.

On November 26, Kaepernick led his team to a 34–31 overtime victory against the previously undefeated Boise State Broncos, snapping a 24 game win streak that had dated back to the 2008 Poinsettia Bowl. This game was played on Nevada's senior night, the final home game for Kaepernick and fellow notable senior running back Vai Taua. Nevada Head Coach Chris Ault would later call this game the "most important win in program history." During this game, Kaepernick surpassed 1,000 rushing yards for this season, becoming the first player in NCAA history to have over 2,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing for 3 consecutive seasons. Along with Taua's 131 yards rushing in the game, the duo became the NCAA's all time leaders in rushing yards by teammates (8,285) passing the legendary SMU "Pony Express" duo of Eric Dickerson and Craig James (8,193).

On December 4 against Louisiana Tech University, Kaepernick joined Florida's Tim Tebow as the second quarterback in FBS history to throw for 20 touchdowns and run for 20 in the same season. Later that same evening, Auburn's Cam Newton joined Tebow and Kaepernick as the third. Kaepernick's three rushing touchdowns in that game also placed in him in a tie with former Nebraska QB and Heisman Trophy winner Eric Crouch for most rushing TD's in NCAA history by a quarterback with 59 in his career. Nevada claimed a share of the WAC title after defeating Louisiana Tech.

Kaepernick is the only quarterback in the history of Division I FBS college football to have passed for over 10,000 yards and rushed for over 4,000 yards in a collegiate career. Kaepernick is also the only Division 1 FBS QB to have passed for over 2,000 yards and rushed for over 1,000 yards in a single season three times in a career (consecutively).

College stats

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Year
2006 Nevada Wolf Pack football team	2006	University of Nevada, Reno>Nevada	Redshirt
2007 Nevada Wolf Pack football team	2007	Nevada ||	247	133	53.8%	2,175	19	3
2008 Nevada Wolf Pack football team	2008	Nevada ||	383	208	54.3%	2,849	22	7
2009 Nevada Wolf Pack football team	2009	Nevada ||	282	166	58.9%	2,052	20	6
2010 Nevada Wolf Pack football team	2010	Nevada ||	359	233	64.9%	3,022	21	8
colspan=2>College Totals	|	740	58.2%	10,098	82	24

Professional

Upon graduation, Kaepernick signed with XAM Sports and Entertainment. He spent time in Atlanta, Georgia training for the NFL Combine at Competitive Edge Sports with trainer Chip Smith and quarterbacks coach Roger Theder.

2011 NFL Draft

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On April 29, 2011, The San Francisco 49ers traded up with the Denver Broncos from the thirteen pick in the second round (#45 overall) to select Colin Kaepernick as the fourth pick in the second round (#36 overall) at the 2011 NFL Draft. The Denver Broncos received picks 45, 108 and 141 overall in exchange for the 36th overall pick. He is currently the second-string quarterback.

See also

List of Division I FBS passing yardage leaders

List of Division I FBS passing touchdown leaders

List of Division I FBS rushing touchdown leaders

References

External links

San Francisco 49ers bio

Nevada Wolf Pack bio

College Statistics @ totalfootballstats.com

ESPN.com Profile

Category:1987 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from California Category:African American players of American football Category:American adoptees Category:American football quarterbacks Category:Nevada Wolf Pack football players Category:San Francisco 49ers players Category:People from Turlock, California

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