WBRC, channel 6, is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the Birmingham, Alabama designated market area. The station is owned by Raycom Media, and its transmitter is located atop Red Mountain in Birmingham. The station broadcasts on digital channel 50, although through the use of PSIP technology, the station's virtual channel number appears as 6.1.

WBRC is a more news-intensive Fox station with 45 hours a week of locally-produced newscasts, as well as first-run prime time, sports and Saturday late night programming from Fox. WBRC also runs off-network syndicated sitcoms, talk shows, reality shows and court shows.

Digital television[link]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed. On September 26, 2011, WBRC added Bounce TV as part of the network's affiliation agreement with WBRC owner Raycom Media.^[1]

History[link]

Early history[link]

WBRC-TV began operation on July 1, 1949, on channel 4.^[2] It was a primary NBC affiliate, and also carried secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont. It was Alabama's second television station, signing on a few months after WAFM-TV (channel 13, now WVTM-TV). During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.^[3]

At its outset, WBRC-TV was owned by Eloise D. Hanna and her Birmingham Broadcasting Company along with WBRC radio (960 AM). The station's call letters stand for Bell Radio Company, after J.C. Bell, the founder of WBRC radio.^[4] In 1953, WBRC-TV was moved to channel 6 as part of an FCC-ordered frequency realignment resulting from the 1952 Sixth Report and Order. This move was made in order for WBRC-TV to avoid interference with WSM-TV (now WSMV) in Nashville, which also operated on channel 4; the two stations' respective signals suffered from interference problems in northern Alabama.

Later on in 1953, Eloise Hanna also sold the WBRC stations to Storer Broadcasting. George B. Storer, the company's founder and chairman, was a member of the CBS board of directors, and most of his stations operated as CBS affiliates. Storer may have used his leverage to secure a primary CBS affiliation for WBRC-TV in 1954. The NBC affiliation moved to channel 13, then known as WABT, and both stations retained a secondary affiliation with ABC. Also in 1954, the WBRC stations moved to a new studio built by Storer, where channel 6 remains today. The studio, like many of those built by Storer, resembled an antebellum mansion. Unusually for commercial broadcasters, Storer supported educational television, and the company gave two transmitters and frequencies in the general Birmingham area (channels 7 and 10) to Alabama Educational Television.

In 1957 Storer sold the WBRC stations to Radio Cincinnati Inc., the forerunner of what would become Taft Broadcasting. Storer had to sell its Birmingham cluster after it purchased WIBG (990 AM, now WNTP) in Philadelphia and WPFH (channel 12, virtual channel number now occupied by WHYY-TV) in Wilmington, Delaware in order to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's ownership limits in effect at the time.

In 1961, WBRC took the ABC affiliation full-time, leaving channel 13 (by then known as WAPI-TV) to share CBS and NBC. This was very unusual for a market with only two commercial stations. Usually, one or both stations carried ABC as a secondary affiliation, since ABC would not be on anything resembling an equal footing with CBS and NBC until the 1970s. However, Taft was establishing good relations with ABC: Taft's flagship station, WKRC-TV (channel 12) in Cincinnati, had also switched from CBS to ABC that same year, and Taft's chairman was a personal friend of the ABC president Leonard Goldenson. Taft later bought ABC's former syndication arm, Worldvision Enterprises, in 1979 (ABC spun off this division in 1973 as a result of fin-syn laws that are now repealed).

Another factor, though supposedly not as important as the Taft-Goldenson relationship, was CBS News' apparent strong support of the Civil Rights Movement, which did not sit well with a large segment of WBRC's audience. ABC had very few full-time affiliates south of Washington, D.C. at the time, but now it had the full benefit of one of the South's strongest signals, best antenna locations, and largest coverage areas.

In 1972, Taft sold WBRC-AM-FM, which changed their call letters to WERC-AM-FM. That FM station is now WBPT. WBRC was one of ABC's strongest affiliates for years. For a time, it lodged the ABC dot logo inside its own "6" logo (just as it had done with the CBS eye in the 1950s).

In late 1987, Taft was restructured into Great American Broadcasting after a hostile takeover. In December 1993, Great American Broadcasting was restructured again after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and became known as Citicasters. Citicasters then decided to put most of its television stations up for sale.

As a Fox station[link]

In early 1994, Citicasters agreed to sell four of its stations to New World Communications -- WBRC, WDAF-TV (channel 4) in Kansas City, KSAZ-TV (channel 10) in Phoenix and WGHP (channel 8) in High Point, North Carolina. However, a month before, New World agreed to buy four stations owned by Argyle Communications, including Birmingham's WVTM (although the transfer/assignment applications of the Argyle stations were not filed with the FCC until after New World's purchases of the Citicasters stations were already completed). FCC rules at the time dictated that one company could not own two stations in the same market. In addition, the acquisitions put New World three television stations over the FCC-mandated 12-station limit in effect at the time. As a result, Citicasters changed its plans for WBRC and WGHP and decided to sell the two stations directly to Fox instead. However, since Fox was unable to immediately purchase the two stations outright due to questions over the US citizenship of Rupert Murdoch, the CEO and owner of News Corporation (Fox's parent company), New World decided to acquire the stations but place them in an outside trust company.

In May 1994, New World agreed to affiliate all of its stations with Fox except for WVTM and KNSD (channel 39) in San Diego which remained affiliated with NBC; this pair was subsequently purchased by that network. WSBK-TV (channel 38) in Boston was also left out of the New World–Fox affiliation deal (in this case, it was due to Fox's pending re-purchase of its existing Boston affiliate WFXT (channel 25)); it remained an independent station and was subsequently sold to the Paramount Stations Group to become a charter UPN station. New World closed on its purchases of WDAF and KSAZ on September 9, 1994. On that same day, WGHP was placed in the trust; WBRC followed suit on October 12. As a result, New World only held control of the licenses of WBRC and WGHP during the interim as Citicasters continued to operate the two stations. Fox then took over the operations of WBRC and WGHP from Citicasters in September 1995 through time brokerage agreements, and closed on the purchase on January 17, 1996 (a year later, most of the other New World stations were reunited with WBRC and WGHP when Fox bought out New World; by that time, the FCC had loosened most restrictions on television station ownership). Since WBRC's affiliation agreement with ABC did not expire until September 1996, Fox had to run WBRC as an ABC affiliate for over a year. This also gave ABC time to find another affiliate to serve central Alabama.

WBRC was originally going to run Fox Kids in the 1 to 4 p.m. slot, but once it was determined that soon to be former Fox affiliate WTTO (channel 21) would be left an independent, it opted to let WTTO keep the Fox Kids programming. As a Fox affiliate, WBRC has aired only the prime-time and weekend sports programming of the Fox network. Even in 2000 when WTTO dropped Fox Kids, WBRC still did not pick it up. Fox offered a Saturday Morning kids lineup programmed by 4Kids Entertainment until the programming block (FoxBox/4Kids TV) went off the air on December 27, 2008; WBRC never picked it up. 4Kids TV has since been succeeded by the new Weekend Marketplace infomercial block, but WBRC still declined to pick it up; it currently airs on MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM (channel 68). Since the affiliation switch, the station has been known as Fox 6. After formally joining Fox, the station added an hour-long 9 p.m. newscast, in addition to its half-hour 10 p.m. newscast.

WBRC is one of only a few stations in the country to have had primary affiliations with all of the Big Three networks, and the only one in the country to have had primary affiliations with all four current major networks. The station was also one of the first Fox O&O's to launch a website using the new MyFox platform developed by Fox Interactive Media — which featured more streaming video and user-contributed content.

When Media General completed its acquisition of WVTM from NBC on June 26, 2006, WBRC became the only network O&O in the Birmingham/Tuscaloosa/Anniston market. However, on December 22, 2007, Fox announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell WBRC and seven other Fox O&O stations^[5] to Oak Hill Capital Partners' Local TV, which was built around the former television division of The New York Times Company. The sale of the station to Local TV became official on Monday, July 14, 2008.

On January 6, 2009, Local TV announced that it would be swapping WBRC to Raycom Media in exchange for that company's WTVR-TV (channel 6) in Richmond, Virginia. ^[6] Raycom is headquartered in Montgomery, the market just to the south of Birmingham, and also owns that market's NBC affiliate WSFA (channel 12) as well as WAFF (channel 48), the NBC affiliate in Huntsville, the market just to the north of Birmingham. The transfer closed on March 31, 2009 ^[7].

In late January 2009, most of the former Fox O&Os now owned by Local TV migrated their websites to the Tribune Interactive platform. This was a result of the broadcast management agreement between Local TV and Tribune Broadcasting which was announced in late 2007 and officially launched in mid-2008. However, WBRC's website remained on the MyFox platform until June 2009, when the site (still using its MyFox address) was migrated to WorldNow, Raycom's interactive partner.

Programming[link]

Like many network affiliates, WBRC-TV would pre-empt ABC programming occasionally or regularly, in some cases. For example, the station initially turned down the sitcom Bewitched, not because it was concerned about witchcraft, but because it concerned a mixed marriage (between a witch and a mortal); there were fears that Bewitched would encourage what some segregationists referred to as "cross-breeding"; WBRC only started to clear Bewitched for broadcast on the station in 1967.

Soon after WBRC switched to Fox, it ceased production and broadcasting of local segments of the United Cerebral Palsy Telethon; WBRC was the first station to broadcast the telethon starting back in the 1940s. National celebrities would fly in to appear on this telethon and it was from WBRC that it moved to national prominence. Even in its waning moments at WBRC, the UCP Telethon would air locally produced mini-documentaries from WBRC (produced by Randy Mize and Tom Stovall).

WBRC produces a weekly law advice program, "FOX6 WBRC Law Call"; the program is a call-in format, in which viewers phone in and ask legal advice from a legal panel (usually personal injury attorneys). It is hosted by former WBRC reporter Tiffany Bittner, and airs live after the station's 10 p.m. newscast on Sunday nights.

News operation[link]

This section requires expansion with: further information on WBRC's news department, especially prior to the Fox affiliation switch.

WBRC broadcasts a total of 45½ hours of local news a week (7½ hours on weekdays, 3½ hours on Saturdays and 4½ hours on Sundays), more than any other television station in the Birmingham television market and the most of any station in the state of Alabama. News programming on WBRC ranges from a traditional 10 p.m. newscast, to a 90-minute early evening news block, to an hour-long 9 p.m. newscast, to 4½ hours (4:30-9 a.m.) of weekday morning newscasts.

After WBRC became a Fox affiliate in 1996, the station has placed more emphasis on its newscasts, maintaining a newscast schedule very similar to a ABC, CBS or NBC affiliate, along with additional 7-9 a.m. and 5:30-6 p.m. newscasts, and what was at first a 30-minute primetime 9 p.m. newscast. The 9 p.m. newscast was expanded to a full hour by 1999. The station is one of a steadily growing number of Fox stations with a newscast in the traditional late news timeslot (at 10 p.m. Central time, in WBRC's case; and one of the few Fox stations running a 10 p.m. (or 11 p.m.) newscast seven nights a week), in addition to the primetime (9 p.m.) newscast, along with one of the few to continue their Big Three-era 10 p.m. newscast after the affiliation switch.

WBRC is part of the Raycom News Network, a system designed to rapidly share information among Raycom's widespread group of television stations and websites; the regional network also involves Columbus/Phenix City ABC affiliate WTVM, Montgomery NBC affiliate WSFA and Huntsville NBC affiliate WAFF in which stations share information, equipment such as satellite trucks or even reporters' stories. Between them, the four stations cover the state of Alabama. The four stations also comprise the Raycom Weather Network and the Raycom Alabama Weather Blog, where meteorologists from all four stations post forecasts and storm reports, as well as live feeds from all of the cameras that the four stations operate; the site also has live feeds of the four stations' doppler radar systems: WBRC, WTVM, WSFA, and WAFF. The only Raycom station in Alabama not participating in the arrangement is WDFX-TV in the Dothan area, which receives its news programming from WSFA.

On July 14, 2009, the Saturday evening 6 p.m. newscast was eliminated, as part of cutbacks at the station.^[8] On October 26, 2009 WBRC began broadcasting its local newscasts in High Definition, making WBRC the third television station in the entire state of Alabama—and the second station in the Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston market after WVTM-TV—to do so. The news set and the graphics were also redesigned in the transition to HD.

Controversy[link]

David Neal lawsuit[link]

In May 2008, former chief meteorologist and Gadsden native David Neal filed a breach-of-contract and fraud lawsuit against the station and members of the management team. According to lawsuit filings, Neal was fired in March. The station had taken him off the air without explanation the previous month.^[9] The station denied wrongdoing, and began defending the lawsuit.^[10] In July 2008, the station announced that Neal's permanent replacement would be James-Paul Dice, formerly of WHNT-TV, the CBS affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama.^[11] On July 29, 2008, the parties to the lawsuit filed a stipulation of dismissal, stating that the dispute had been resolved in mediation. Terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed.^[12]

Ratings[link]

For most of the last decade, FOX6 News at 9:00 has been one of the highest-rated primetime newscasts in the country.^{[citation needed]} It also airs 43 hours of locally produced news programming per week, the most in the market. It has been the ratings leader in the market for most of the last quarter-century, dating to its time with ABC.

Newscasts[link]

Weekdays

• Good Day Alabama - 4:30–9 a.m.
• Fox 6 News at Noon - 12–1 p.m.
• Fox 6 News at 5 - 5–5:30 p.m.
• Fox 6 News at 5:30 - 5:30–6 p.m.
• Fox 6 News at 6 - 6–6:30 p.m.
• Fox 6 News at 9 - 9–10 p.m.
• Fox 6 News at 10 - 10–10:35 p.m.

Saturdays

• Fox 6 News Saturday Morning - 7–9 a.m.
• Fox 6 News at 9 - 9–10 p.m.
• Fox 6 News at 10 - 10–10:30 p.m.

Sundays

• Fox 6 News Sunday Morning - 7–9 a.m.
• Fox 6 News at 9 - 9–10 p.m.
• Fox 6 News at 10 - 10–10:30 p.m.

News/station presentation[link]

Newscast titles[link]

• Your Esso Reporter (1949–1953)
• Alabama Newsreel (1953–1960)
• The Alabama Report (1960–1964)
• TV-6 News (1964–1976)
• Total News (1976–1981)^[13]
• Channel 6 News (1981–1983 and 1986–1996; presented on-air as "6 24 Hour News" from 1992 to 1996)^[14]
• BRC-6 News (1983–1986)
• Fox 6 News (1996–present)^[15]

Station slogans[link]

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News team[link]

[edit] Current on-air staff^[18]

Current anchors

• Karen Church - weekend mornings, and weekends at 9 and 10 p.m.
• Steve Crocker - weeknights at 6 and 9 p.m.
• Janet Hall - weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.
• Rick Journey - weekday mornings Good Day Alabama (7-9 a.m.)
• Janice Rogers - weekday mornings Good Day Alabama (4:30-7 a.m.) and noon
• Scott Richards - weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 10 p.m.
• Beth Shelburne - weeknights at 9 and 10 p.m.
• Sarah Verser - weekday mornings Good Day Alabama (7-9 a.m.)

Fox 6 StormWarn Weather

• J-P Dice (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seals of Approval) – chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 5:30, 6, 9 and 10 p.m.
• Mickey Ferguson - weather anchor; weekday mornings Good Day Alabama and noon
• Fred Hunter (NWA Seal of Approval) – meteorologist; weekends at 9 and 10 p.m., also "Absolutely Alabama" feature reporter
• Wes Wyatt (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) – meteorologist; weekend mornings
• Dennis Washington - meteorologist; fill-in

Sports team

• Rick Karle - sports director; weeknights at 5, 6, 9 and 10 p.m.
• Sheldon Haygood - sports anchor; weekends at 9 and 10 p.m.
• Jeh Jeh Pruitt - sports anchor; weekdays at noon
• Mike Dubberly - sports reporter

Reporters

• Arielle Clay - general assignment reporter
• Alan Collins - general assignment reporter
• Jonathan Hardison - nightside reporter
• Sherea Harris - general assignment reporter
• Dixon Hayes - Anniston bureau videojournalist
• Katie Herrea - Gadsden bureau videojournalist
• Emily Luxen - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
• Doug Luzader - Fox News Washington D.C. correspondent
• Melanie Posey - general assignment reporter
• Max Reiss - Raycom political reporter (based out of WSFA in Montgomery)
• Kelvin Reynolds - Tuscaloosa bureau reporter
• Ronda Robinson - "Fox 6 On Your Side" investigative reporter

Former on-air staff[link]

• Bill Bolen – anchor (retired)
• Dave Bondy – reporter (now at WPXI in Pittsburgh)
• Wynette Byrd (Tammy Wynette) – was a regular performer on WBRC's Country Boy Eddie Show, prior to her move to Nashville (deceased)
• John Carroll - meteorologist (currently at KREX-TV in Grand Junction, CO)
• Bruce Cunningham - sports director (now at WBFF-TV in Baltimore)
• Fannie Flagg – co-host of The Morning Show (1960s)
• Eli Gold – sports anchor (currently the voice of University of Alabama football, morning drive co-host on WZNN & hosts the weekly NASCAR Live radio call in show on MRN)|
• Mike Hogewood – sports anchor (currently lead broadcaster for the Atlantic Coast Conference)
• Larry Langford – reporter (former mayor of Birmingham)
• Joe Langston – anchor (retired)
• Harry Mabry – anchor (deceased)
• Ashley Nix - general assignment reporter
• James Spann – meteorologist (now at WBMA-LD/WCFT/WJSU)
• Sally Wiggin – anchor/reporter (now at WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh)
• Tom York – sports anchor/host of WBRC's long-running The Morning Show

References[link]

External links[link]

• MyFoxAL.com (Official Website)
• FoxAlabamaLive.com
• Birmingham Rewound: Radio-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WBRC
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WBRC-TV
• Program Information for WBRC at TitanTV.com
• Huntsville Rewound-Huntsville AL TV Memories
• Benny Carle-Classic Alabama TV(on WBRC from 1954-1964)

Kat Von D
Kat Von D tattooing
Born	Katherine von Drachenberg (1982-03-08) March 8, 1982 (age 30) Montemorelos, Nuevo León, Mexico
Other names	Kat Von D
Occupation	Tattoo artist, television personality
Spouse	Oliver Peck (2003–2007)
Website
www.katvond.net

Katherine von Drachenberg,^[1] best known under her registered trademark Kat Von D^[2] (born March 8, 1982),^[3] is an American tattoo artist, model and television personality. She is best known for her work as a tattoo artist on the TLC reality television show LA Ink, which premiered August 7, 2007, in the United States and ran four seasons.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Kat Von D was born in Montemorelos^[4], Nuevo León, Mexico.^[3] Her missionary^[5] parents, father René and mother Sylvia^[3] or Silvia^[6] Galeano, were born in Argentina,^[3][7] of German descent and Italian and Spanish descent, respectively.^[3] Von D has a sister, Karoline^[8] and a brother, Michael.^[8] She moved with her family to the Los Angeles area at age 4 and grew up in Colton, California.^[3] Von D was classically trained in piano beginning at age 6.^[9] She particularly appreciates Ludwig van Beethoven.^[9]

Von D credits her grandmother, Clara von Drachenberg, as an inspiration for her in music and art,^[10] and the Latino culture of Los Angeles as a major influence on her tattoo art and style.^[11] She began listening to the Ramones, Misfits and other punk rock bands at the age of 12. She got her first tattoo at 14 and quit school at 16 to become a tattoo artist.^[5][12]

Career[link]

Von D was asked to work at 305 Ink in Miami^[13] when Darren Brass broke his elbow,^[14] preventing him from tattooing. She appeared in the first four seasons of Miami Ink, the reality TV show taped there for the cable network TLC. She had a falling out with Ami James which led to her being asked to leave the shop.^[15]

She subsequently acquired her own TLC series, LA Ink, which chronicled her work at her tattoo shop, High Voltage Tattoo, in Hollywood, California. On the show, she gained the Guinness World Record of most tattoos given by a single person in 24 hours, with a total of 400.^[16] Accomplished in December 2007, it involved a Von D-designed logo for the city of Los Angeles, with proceeds going to the children's-blindness charity Vitamin Angels.^[17] Her record was subsequently broken by her ex-husband, Oliver Peck (415) on June 13 2008,^[17] followed by others; as of November 2008 the record is held by Hollis Cantrell from Artistic Tattoo in Phoenix, Arizona, with 801.^[18] LA Ink ran four seasons, ending September 15, 2011; TLC announced the cancellation on August 18, 2011.^[19] Von D maintained on her Twitter page that it was she who chose "to not continue doing LA Ink".^[20]

Her first book, High Voltage Tattoo, compiling her artworks and tattoos, with a foreword by Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx, was released in January 2009 and reached #6 on The New York Times Best Seller list.^[21] Von D described the book as "not an autobiography, you know, 'cause I'm too young to do that. But this is just kind of like a picture-driven outline of my career as an artist. So, you see everything from my drawings when I was six to tattoos that have never before been seen."^[22] Her second book, The Tattoo Chronicles, an illustrated diary following a year in her life, was released October 26, 2010, and reached #3 on The New York Times "Hardcover Advice & Misc." best-seller list.^[23]

In 2008, Von D created and launched a make-up line for Sephora.^[3] She has released new collections every year and has expanded her line to include fragrances. She is the creator of the MusInk Tattoo Convention and Music Festival,^[24][25] which began in 2008.^[26]

On September 2, 2010, Von D opened the art gallery and boutique Wonderland Gallery in the space next door to High Voltage Tattoo.^[27]

Personal life[link]

Von D married fellow tattoo artist Oliver Peck in 2003,^[28] but they were separated and preparing for divorce by August 2007.^[29] She and Peck finalized their divorce that year.^[30] She dated Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx from 2008 to August 2010, when Sixx issued a statement^{[citation needed]} that their relationship had dissolved. She later began dating motorcycle customizer, West Coast Choppers CEO and reality-show star Jesse James.^[29] On August 19, 2010, Von D confirmed media reports that she and James were dating, tweeting "I think it's pretty obvious that we're dating. "^[31] Von D and James announced their engagement on January 20, 2011.^[32] Von D announced their split via Twitter on July 26, 2011.^[33][34] On August 18, 2011, the two announced their engagement was back on.^[35] On September 24, 2011, she announced that she and James split again.^[36]

Von D has tattooed herself with the emblems of the bands HIM, Misfits, Turbonegro, ZZ Top, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Slayer, Mike Got Spiked and "Slutallica", a modified Metallica logo.^[9] She appeared in the music video of HIM's Killing Loneliness, as well as Alkaline Trio's "Help Me". Other musical artists that Von D lists among her favorites include The Mars Volta and Selena.^[37]

Media[link]

Von D was referred to in the Eagles of Death Metal song "High Voltage", which was named after her shop and is featured on their third album, Heart On. In an interview, Eagles of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes said, "I wrote that for Kat Von D, because that girl's bad ass."^[38]

Television[link]

As well as cameos and various chat show appearances, TV, film, and video game appearances include:

• Miami Ink, 2005–2006
• LA Ink, 2007–2011
• MADtv, April 5, 2008
• Bam Margera Presents: Where the ♯$&% Is Santa?, 2008
• Pimp My Ride, 2004
• The Bleeding as Vanya^[39]
• Tony Hawk: Ride (video game) unlockable skater, November 17, 2009^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kat Von D

• Official website
• Kat Von D at the Internet Movie Database
• Kat Von D interview, Inked
• Kat Von D podcast interview at Juliland.com
• Kat Von D Biographical Feature and Tattoo Gallery at TattooDesigns.net
• Loeffler, Shawn. "Interview: Kat Von D". AskMen.com. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. http://www.askmen.com/celebs/interview_250/288_kat_von_d_interview.html. Retrieved 2010-09-20. 
• Mandell, Andrea (October 28, 2010). "Kat Von D's life, relationship and work, is heavily in the ink". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2010-10-28-katvond28_ST_N.htm. 
• Kaufman, Amy (January 08, 2008). "Marked sensation: Kat Von D and tattoo crew are back and all the buzz on 'LA Ink'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on September 10, 2010. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/08/entertainment/et-laink8.