Call letters | KFMB-TV |
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Station logo | |
Station slogan | The Pictures. The Stories. Your World. |
Station branding | CBS 8 (general)News 8 (newscasts) |
Digital | 8 (VHF) |
Subchannels | 8.1 CBS 8.2 CBS standard definitionMeTV (Coming Sept 2011) |
Affiliations | CBS |
Airdate | May 16, 1949 |
Location | San Diego, California |
Callsign meaning | For Mary and Burnham (son and daughter of KFMB-AM's founder)| |
Former channel numbers | Analog: VHF 8 (1949-2009) |
Owner | Midwest Television, Inc. |
Sister stations | KFMB (AM)KFMB-FM |
Former affiliations | All secondary:ABC / NBC / DuMont (1949-1956) |
Effective radiated power | 14.87 kW |
Haat | 227 m |
Facility id | 42122 |
Coordinates | |
Homepage | www.cbs8.com |
It is available to all of the San Diego area cable subscribers on Cox Communications, AT&T; U-verse, and Time Warner Cable on standard definition cable channel 8. Cox and Time Warner Cable carry its high definition signal on cable channel 708, while U-verse carries it on channel 1008. The station is also available on its customary Channel 8 position (in both standard definition and in high definition) on both of DirecTV and Dish Network's local channels packages.
KFMB signed an affiliation agreement with the short-lived Paramount Television Network in October 1949, and quickly became that network's strongest affiliate. The station received a network feed of Paramount programs which included Hollywood Opportunity, Meet Me in Hollywood, Magazine of the Week, Time For Beany, Your Old Buddy, and others; the station aired 6 hours of Paramount programs each week.
In 1953, Gross sold KFMB-AM-TV to Wrather-Alvarez Broadcasting. When the Wrather-Alvarez partnership broke up in 1957, Wrather kept KFMB-AM-FM-TV as part of Marietta Broadcasting. In 1959, Wrather sold Marietta Broadcasting to Transcontinent Broadcasting of Buffalo, New York. Transcontinent merged with the Taft Television and Radio Co., Inc. in 1964. However, the merger left Taft two television stations (since the company would have ended up with six VHF stations and three UHF stations) plus several radio stations over the FCC's ownership limit of the time. As a result, the KFMB stations were sold to their current owner, Midwest Television. In the 1990s, Midwest Television divested its original stations, WCIA in Champaign, Illinois and WMBD/WPBG/WMBD-TV in Peoria, Illinois, leaving only the KFMB cluster.
In 2005, Midwest Television and CBS signed a 10-year extension for KFMB to remain a CBS affiliate. The station rebranded itself as News 8 on September 19, 2005 after a four year branding campaign as Local 8. In early 2007, KFMB began to rebrand itself as CBS8 with the launch of their new website. While it follows the CBS Mandate, channel 8 is not a CBS owned and operated station.
On January 28, 2007, KFMB became the first station in San Diego to broadcast its news in HD, and unveiled a new set to go with the switch. On February 17, 2009, KFMB-TV discontinued its analog signal in order to move its digital signal (temporarily on channel 7) to increased power on VHF channel 8.
Some famous KFMB alumni include former weather girl Raquel Tejada (later known as Raquel Welch), talk-show host Regis Philbin, TV host Sarah Purcell, CNN and former CBS anchor Paula Zahn, the first host of Access Hollywood Larry Mendte, and NBC correspondents Don Teague and Dawn Fratangelo.
VirtualChannel | Video resolution>Video | Aspect ratio>Aspect | ! Programming |
8.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | |
8.2 | 480i| | 4:3 | MeTV(Coming Sept 2011) |
Syndicated programming on KFMB includes Dr. Phil, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Entertainment Tonight, and The Insider.
Due to a FCC regulation, KFMB is required to show E/I programs supplied by CBS, thus KFMB does not air live sporting events on Saturdays until 10 a.m. local time, even if coverage from CBS Sports has already begun by then.
Holtzman tried in vain to compete by experimenting with a different format for the 11 p.m. news called This Day which emphasized a softer, humanized format and attempted to find a common thread within the newscast. There was no regular anchor; instead Hal Clement, Loren Nancarrow, Dawn Fratangelo (now with NBC) and Susan Lichtman (now known as Susan Taylor at KNSD) formed an ensemble of anchor/reporters who alternated between anchoring, filing detailed reports and giving live interviews. Computer graphics were used heavily, and Dave Grusin's "Night Lines" served as the newscast's theme music.
Although it was innovative for its time, This Day proved to be a dismal failure as viewers responded negatively to the awkward format, and within nine months KFMB reverted back to a regular newscast. However, the news ratings for KFMB went into a deep decline which would not end for more than a decade as popular mainstays like Marty Levin and Allison Ross (both of whom reappeared on KNSD) either left voluntarily or were fired and were replaced by younger faces like Stan Miller and Susan Roesgen.
Eventually by the 1990s, Hal Clement would assume the early-evening anchor duties alongside Susan Peters and later Denise Yamada to mixed results as the station continued to battle KGTV and KNSD, primarily in the 11 p.m. period where the CBS lead-in at the time was particularly weaker. Then, Michael Tuck's brief return following Clement's departure for KGTV and CBS's resurgence at the start of the Millennium helped bring KFMB back to first place in the early evenings. KFMB provides video feed from Chopper 8 to KUSI and XETV. , News 8 is the only television station in San Diego to have its chopper covering breaking news at 11 p.m.
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Category:CBS network affiliates Category:Channel 8 digital TV stations in the United States Category:Television channels and stations established in 1949 Category:Television stations in California Category:Major League Baseball over-the-air television broadcasters
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