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KICU also began airing an hour-long rebroadcast of the 9 a.m. hour of Mornings on 2 during the 10 a.m. hour, and in September 2020 also began airing an hour-long rebroadcast of KTVU's weekday noon newscast during the 1 p.m. hour. [27] On September 4, 2023, the 7 p.m. newscast was shifted to KTVU itself and KICU no longer airs news at that hour.
The May 1999 retirement of Zehnder brought changes to the newsroom; however, KTVU was ranked as the highest quality local newscast in the nation in 2000 by the Project for Excellence in Journalism under his immediate successor, Andrew Finlayson (who began his tenure at KTVU as a noon news producer in 1988 and left the station in 2003), while ...
Pat McCormick (born c. 1933) [1] is a retired American local television personality and puppeteer who worked for San Francisco's KGO-TV, and Oakland's KTVU channel 2, where among many jobs he was the nightly news' weatherman, hosted the midday movie Dialing for Dollars program, and co-hosted the local edition of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon.
He became co-anchor of KTVU's morning news program in 1992 and was the first anchor of the 5 p.m. newscast when it launched in 2005. In 2008, he was named co-anchor of the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts, replacing 40-year veteran Dennis Richmond. [5]
The news department featured well-known news personalities such as Terry Miller, Hank Henry, George Warren, Leon Hunsaker (also previously of KOBI and theDove TV), Marvin Rhodes, Pete Belcastro, Fred Inglis (formerly of KTVU), Milt Radford (also previously of KDRV) and, most notably, Ann Curry (who went on to become host of NBC's Today Show in ...
In January 2004, Sidner joined KTVU in Oakland, California, where she served as a weekend co-anchor of KTVU Channel 2 News at 6 and The Ten O’Clock News. She also served as a weekday reporter for the station. [3] Sidner has received many journalism awards. These include a Regional Emmy Award, a Lone Star Award, and several Associated Press ...
Tuck returned to KFMB-TV in 1999 and resumed his position as anchor for News 8, which later became Local 8 News from 2001 to 2005. He departed KFMB-TV in late 2004 and in the following year, joined KUSI-TV as news anchor for their daily afternoon and evening newscasts alongside his KGTV colleague Kimberly Hunt. [6] Tuck departed KUSI-TV in 2007 ...
By the time of his retirement, Richmond had become the highly respected dean of Bay Area TV news anchors, the longest-serving anchor in the Bay Area's history. His final show garnered 400,000 viewers, giving the newscast a 15.6 Nielsen rating and making him "more popular than Oprah". [ 5 ]