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KGTV, digital channel 10, is the ABC television affiliate in San Diego, California. The station can be seen on Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T U-verse on cable channel 10 in standard definition. Time Warner Cable carries its high definition signal on cable channel 710, while AT&T U-verse and Cox Communications carry its HD signal on channel 1010. The station is also available on its customary channel 10 position (in both standard definition and in high definition) on both of DirecTV and Dish Network's local channels packages.

It is owned by The E.W. Scripps Company, which also owns Azteca America affiliate KZSD-LP. KGTV's transmitter is located atop Mount Soledad above La Jolla, California.

History[link]

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The station went on the air on September 13, 1953 as KFSD-TV, and was affiliated at the time with NBC. KFVW/KFSD-FM radio (1220/620/600 AM) was the first full time commercial radio station in San Diego which signed on June 3, 1925. KFBC/KGB signed on July 14, 1922, but was only on the air part-time as an amateur station at 833.3 Kilocycles. Channel 10's call letters followed the AM and FM stations to make it a complete combo AM/FM/TV. In 1961, the stations changed their call letters to KOGO, as the format of the AM station changed to MOR (Middle of the Road).

The broadcasting division of the Time-Life magazine company purchased the KOGO stations, KOGO-AM-FM-TV, in 1962 from a locally based firm, Fox, Wells & Rogers.

In 1972, McGraw-Hill purchased KOGO-TV (along with the rest of Time-Life's broadcasting properties) and changed its call letters to the present KGTV (to reflect KOGO-TV). The radio stations were sold separately, and AM 600 retained the KOGO call letters, and was sold to Retlaw (which is Walter spelled backwards, and was a broadcast company owned by members of Walt Disney's family, specifically his children and his brother. These holdings were separate from the Walt Disney Studios). 94.1 went back to the KFSD calls, and went through a series of owners. In 1977, the station dropped its affiliation with NBC and switched to ABC. NBC had crashed to last place while ABC had become the #1 network in the country with hit shows (Happy Days, Three's Company, Laverne & Shriley, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Starsky and Hutch, etc. ) and specials (Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots). KCST-TV (channel 39, now KNSD) picked up NBC and is now a NBC majority-owned-and-operated station.

In April 2009, KGTV rebranded itself as "ABC 10" and launched new graphics and a new logo.^{[citation needed]}

On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced it was selling its entire television station group, including KGTV and Azteca America affiliate KZSD-LP, to The E.W. Scripps Company for $212 million.^[1] The deal was completed on December 30, 2011.^[2]

Digital Television[link]

Analog-to-digital conversion[link]

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion on February 17, 2009,^[3] KGTV moved its digital signal from channel 25 to channel 10.^[4] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers continue to display KGTV's virtual channel as 10. Since KGTV is an ABC network affiliate, it broadcasts in 720p high definition.

Programming[link]

Syndicated programing on KGTV includes Rachael Ray, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Doctors, and Inside Edition.

News operation[link]

KGTV first began to challenge KFMB's dominance in the mid-1970s when anchormen Jack White and Harold Greene, along with popular weatherman "Captain Mike" Ambrose and sportscasters Al Coupee and Hal Clement, led The News to popularity, albeit briefly.

Even with the brief return of Greene following his stints in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the station fell back to second place behind KFMB in the early 1980s. However, management succeeded in acquiring the services of popular anchorman Michael Tuck from KFMB in 1984; the move resulted in KGTV reclaiming first place and giving the station credibility by way of Tuck's infamous nightly commentaries titled "Perspectives."

KGTV also made history by being the first station in San Diego with a female anchor team with its 11 p.m. newscast, featuring Carol LeBeau and Bree Walker. After Walker left in 1987, Kimberly Hunt would team with LeBeau and form the city's longest-running anchor duo at 15 years. During that time, LeBeau and Hunt would anchor alongside Tuck (who left for Los Angeles in 1990, only to return to San Diego on KFMB), Stephen Clark (now at WXYZ-TV in Detroit), Steve Wolford, and a returning Hal Clement (who had switched from sports to news in 1983 while at KFMB).

KGTV's Sky10 news helicopter

Eventually, KGTV would decline after Hunt left to anchor the news at KUSI-TV alongside Tuck, at one point falling to third as KNSD rose to number one at 11 p.m. The Hunt-Lebeau team reunited in early 2008, before LeBeau retired the following year. On August 30, 2008, KGTV became the third station, behind KFMB-TV and KSWB-TV, to launch local news in High Definition.

KGTV is among the few United States television stations that broadcast local news programs at 7:00 p.m. on weeknights. In May 2010, the newscast was the top rated early evening newscast in the market in the 25-54 demographic.

News/station presentation[link]

Newscast titles[link]

• KFSD-TV News (1953–1961)
• KOGO News (1961–1965)
• Eyewitness News (1965–1977)
• The News (1977–1981)
• NewsWatch 10 (1981–1984)
• 10 News (1984–present)^[5]

Station slogans[link]

• "The Team That Stands for San Diego" (1988–1994)
• "The Team You Count On Everyday" (1994–1998)
• "See What Leadership Can Do for You" (2000–2004)
• "San Diego's (Local) News Leader" (2004–2008)
• "San Diego's News Source" (2011–present)

News team[link]

[edit] Current on-air staff^[6]

Anchors

• Steve Atkinson - weeknights at 5, 7 and 11 p.m.
• Virginia Cha - weeknights at 5:30 p.m.
• Bill Griffith - weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.) and midday (11 a.m.)
• Kimberly Hunt - weeknights at 5, 6, 7 and 11 p.m.
• Itica Milanes - weekends at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.; also weeknight reporter and fill-in anchor
• Chris Murphy - weekends at 5, 6, and 11 p.m.; also weeknight reporter and fill-in anchor
• Kaushal Patel - weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.) and midday (11 a.m.)

10 News Pinpoint Weather

• Pat Brown - chief weather anchor; weeknights at 5, 5:30, 6, 7 and 11 p.m.
• Robert Santos - weather anchor; weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.), midday (11 a.m.), and fill-in news anchor
• Craig Herrera (AMS Seal of Approval) - weather anchor; weekends at 5, 6 and 11 p.m., also weeknight reporter
• Natasha Stenbock (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; fill-in

Sports team

• Ben Higgins - sports director; Sunday-Thursdays at 6 and 11 p.m.
• Steve Smith - sports anchor; Fridays and Saturdays at 6 and 11 p.m.

10 News TimeSaver Traffic

• Phil Konstantin - Sky10 reporter
• Melissa Mecija - weekday morning traffic anchor
• Larry Landeros - CHP traffic officer
• Jesse Udovich - CHP traffic officer

Reporters

• Allison Ash - Downtown Courthouse and general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
• Rachel Bianco - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
• Mitch Blacher - "I-Team" investigative reporter
• John Carroll - general assignment reporter
• Michael Chen - general assignment reporter
• Tory Dunnan - U.S. Capitol reporter
• Ariana Duarte - general assignment reporter
• Steve Fiorina - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
• Vanessa Van Hyfte - freelance general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
• Jennifer Jensen - general assignment reporter
• Bob Lawrence - Military and general assignment reporter
• Joe Little - South Bay and general assignment reporter
• MaryAnn Martinez - general assignment reporter
• Melissa Mecija - general assignment reporter
• Nannette Miranda - State Capitol reporter
• Hannah Mullens - general assignment reporter
• Preston Phillips - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor

Former on-air staff[link]

• Sandy Castelblanco
• Alejandra Cerball
• Cary Chow
• Hal Clement
• Luis Cruz
• Harold Greene - anchor/reporter (1974–1977 and 1980–1982; later at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, now retired)
• Nina Jimenez
• Lisa Kim - anchor (1986–1994; last at KNTV in San Jose/San Francisco)
• Lisa Lake - weekday morning and midday anchor (1995-2008)
• Carol LeBeau
• Kerstin Lindquist
• Mike Kirsch
• Paul Magers (1981–1983; now at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles)
• Bryon Miranda
• Kent Ninomiya - reporter (1991–1993)
• Regis Philbin - KGTV talk show (1961–1964; later a talk and game show host,Live with Regis and Kelly and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; now retired)
• Sarah Purcell - talk show host (late 1970s, later co-hosted NBC's Real People)
• Lauren Reynolds
• Angele Ringo
• Salvador Rivera
• Larry Sacknoff - sportscaster (1978–1992)^[7]
• Billy Ray Smith - sportscaster (1993–1997, now at XX Sports Radio)
• Bree Walker - anchor/reporter (1980–1987)

See also[link]

• KGTV Tower

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Station Index @ TVJobs.com
• KGTV Talent @ TVJobs.com
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGTV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KGTV-TV

Lee Ann Kim is a first-generation Korean American who was an anchor and general assignment reporter for KGTV Channel 10, the San Diego, California ABC television affiliate. She worked at KGTV from 1996 to 2008. She is also the executive director of the San Diego Asian Film Foundation[1], which presents the annual San Diego Asian Film Festival, an event she founded in 2000 with the Asian American Journalists Association of San Diego. She has been married to Louis Song since 1997, with whom she has two sons.

Background[link]

Lee Ann Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea and her family emigrated to Chicago in 1971 where she spent most of her childhood life with her three younger sisters, her mother, and her father, who is a doctor. She majored in broadcast journalism with a minor in Spanish at the University of Maryland.

After discussing it for many years, a story she saw on former National Football League quarterback Dan Marino's own family, prompted Lee Ann and her husband to adopt a child while having a birth child of their own. They contacted Holt International adoption agency and were matched with a boy in March, 2005. However, when the agency was notified that Kim was to give birth in July, 2005, the agency put a stop to the adoption process and reassigned the boy to another family. This was devastating for Kim, who had already named the boy Samuel.

Her birth child, Weston Yongwon Song, was born in July 2005.

Lee Ann and Louis Song continued to pursue adoption as soon as her first son was born. On June 16, 2006, they were introduced to 4 month old Samuel Hyungwon Song, her newly adopted son, at Los Angeles International Airport. Samuel was born in February, 2006.

Professional career[link]

While a senior at the University of Maryland, she was a bureau reporter for four Washington D.C. area radio stations, covering Maryland state politics in Annapolis for Capitol News Service.

In 1993, she landed her first TV job at the nation's first all-news local broadcast station, KNWS-TV in Houston, Texas. She went on to become the main anchor at the CBS station in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In 1995, she then moved to Springfield, Missouri to work at KYTV, the local NBC affiliate, where she became the first person of color to anchor the news in the Ozarks. In 1996, she accepted an offer from KGTV to work in San Diego.

Since joining KGTV news, Kim has covered Santana and Granite Hills high school shootings, the search for Danielle Van Dam, the Heaven's Gate suicides, and the 1996 Republican National Convention.

In 2005, she was promoted to the 5:30 pm weekday anchor position. In 2006, she was named as co-host of the newly created hour-long 4:00 pm news program called 10-4 San Diego. In August 2008, Lee Ann chose not to accept the station's offer of a lower salary and left the news business.^[1]

She has received numerous awards for her work including an Emmy Award for investigative reporting, the California Teacher's Association award for best educational reporting for her coverage of bilingual education, and best news report by the California Chicano News Media Association, and two national Asian American Journalists Association awards for best reporting in Asian and non-Asian related issues. She is currently the executive director of a nonprofit organization she founded, the San Diego Asian Film Foundation.

Since leaving KGTV, Lee Ann has been honored for her nonprofit work including being awarded the 2010 KPBS Hero of the Month award, 10News Leadership Award, San Diego Magazine's Top 50 People to Watch in 2009, and gracing the cover of San Diego Family Magazine in May 2010.

References[link]

• KGTV 10 News bio

External links[link]

• [2]
• [3]
• [4]
• [5]
• KGTV 10 News
• 10-4 San Diego
• Xanga site
• San Diego Asian Film Foundation
• USA Talent at TVJobs.com

D'Juan Hart (born January 15, 1979), better known by his stage name Young Dro, is an American Southern rap artist from Atlanta, Georgia. Young Dro's major label debut Best Thang Smokin' was released in August 2006.^[1]

Discography[link]

Studio albums

• Best Thang Smokin' (2006)
• P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once) (2012)

Independent albums

• I Got That Dro (2001)

Mixtapes

• Day One (2006)
• I Am Legend (2008)
• R.I.P. (I Killed That Shit) (2009)
• Black Boy Swag, White Boy Tags with Yung LA (2009)
• Equestrian Dro (2011)
• I Co-Sign Myself (Hosted by DJ Dro) (2011)
• Drocabulary (Hosted by DJ Smallz) (2011)
• We Outchea (Hosted by Bigga Rankin) (2012)

Compilation albums

• Grand Hustle Presents: In da Streetz Volume 4 (with Grand Hustle Records) (2006)

Singles[link]

Featured singles[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

Zack Hample
Hample with his baseball collection in 2008
Born	Zachary Ben Hample (1977-09-14) September 14, 1977 (age 34) New York, NY
Occupation	writer
Nationality	American
Genres	sports
www.zackhample.com

Zachary Ben Hample (born September 14, 1977, son of Stoo Hample and Naomi Cohen) is an American sports writer and Major League baseball collector. He is best known for having caught more than 5,000 baseballs in the stands at Major League stadiums.

Writing[link]

Hample has written three books. The first, How to Snag Major League Baseballs, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1999 when he was a junior at Guilford College. The second, Watching Baseball Smarter, was published by Random House in 2007 and was the 8th best selling American sports book that year. His third book, The Baseball, also published by Random House, was released on March 8, 2011. Hample, a part-time writer for minorleaguebaseball.com from 2005 to 2007, contributed the foreword to Major League Baseball: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports in 2008 and wrote the introduction for Baseball Scorekeeper in 2011.

Baseball Collection[link]

As of May 13, 2012, Hample has collected 5,912 baseballs from 49 different Major League stadiums. He acquired his first ball from a Mets reliever at Shea Stadium on June 20, 1990, snagged his 3,000th ball by using his famous baseball glove trick at Yankee Stadium on May 7, 2007, and set a personal, one-game record with 36 baseballs at Great American Ball Park on September 14th, 2011. Hample caught Barry Bonds' 724th career home run at PETCO Park on August 16, 2006 and caught the first home run of the 2007 Home Run Derby, hit by Justin Morneau at AT&T Park. On May 28, 2011, Hample caught an Alex Rios batting practice home run ball for his 5,000th baseball at Rogers Centre. He also recently visited Japan's Tokyo Dome, with a total of 12 balls at that game.

During the final week ever at the old Yankee Stadium, Hample gained worldwide recognition by catching home run balls on consecutive nights. On September 16, 2008, he made a leaping catch on a Jason Giambi home run and immediately celebrated with a goofy dance that was captured by the TV cameras. The following night, in nearly exactly the same spot in the right field bleachers, Hample reached far over a railing to make a backhanded catch on a Johnny Damon home run and celebrated with the same dance. The Yankees' announcers quickly recognized him from the previous game, and within the next 24 hours the story was covered by ESPN, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN International, Japanese TV, and many other media outlets. Yahoo! Sports initially acknowledged Hample's baseball-snagging skills, but did not know that it was he who had made the catches.^[1] Less than two weeks later, on September 28, 2008, Hample caught the last home run ever hit by a Mets player at Shea Stadium, this one off the bat of Carlos Beltran On October 8, 2008, Hample made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan to Zack Hample: 'I think you're the worst man in America'Jay Leno and followed that nearly a year later with an appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. Prior to Hample's three notable home run catches of 2008, he had been featured on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and on an episode of the John O'Hurley version of the game show To Tell The Truth, during which he managed to trick the audience and two of the four celebrity panelists.^[2]

On April 21, 2011 Hample caught Mike Nickeas' first major league career homerun. Also, on July 24, 2011 Hample caught Mike Trout's first major league career homerun.^[3]

Charity work[link]

Since 2009, Hample has been raising money for Pitch In For Baseball, a non-profit charity that provides baseball equipment to underprivileged children all over the world.^[4] With help from his friends and fans, who pledge money for every baseball that he snags at Major League stadiums, Hample has raised more than $20,000.

Video games[link]

Hample, a competitive video game player, appeared briefly in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. According to Twin Galaxies, he holds official world records on half a dozen classic video games including Breakout (896 points)^[5] and Arkanoid (1,658,110 points).^[6]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official web site
• Official blog
• NPR Interview
• ESPN.com article
• Sports Illustrated article
• New York Times article
• Associated Press article
• Deadspin article