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KETV first signed on the air 68 years ago on September 17, 1957; it was Omaha's third television station (behind WOW-TV, channel 6, now WOWT and KMTV, channel 3).The station has been an ABC affiliate from its debut (and the only one in Omaha that has never changed its affiliation); KETV is the second full-time ABC affiliate in the Omaha market; KOLN-TV in Lincoln previously served as Omaha's ...
Carol A. Schrader (born May 7, 1951) is an Omaha, Nebraska native and former news anchor who worked at KETV from 1977 to 1996. Education and early career
An early KECA-TV logo slide from the 1950s. Channel 7 first signed on the air under the call sign KECA-TV on September 16, 1949. [2] It was the last television station licensed to Los Angeles operating on the VHF band to debut and the last of ABC's five original owned-and-operated stations to make its debut, after San Francisco's KGO-TV, which signed on four months earlier.
In 1970, Channel 7's newscasts had a 40% ratings share. KOA-TV and KBTV battled for second place, each pulling in about a 24 share for their newscasts. By the end of the decade, KBTV had a 54% ratings share at 10 p.m., more than all of the other stations combined. The 10 p.m. news team during the 1960s was helmed by news anchor Carl Akers ...
In Spring 2022 KXVO channel 15 was launched and became the first television station in Nebraska to use ATSC 3.0 including 3 subchannels are KMTV (CBS), KXVO (TBD), and KPTM (Fox) and 2 DRM subchannels both are WOWT (NBC) and KETV (ABC), and 3 Internet streaming subchannels are KYNE (PBS), T2, and Pickleball TV.
Anne Pressly (August 28, 1982 – October 25, 2008) was an American news anchor for KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was born in Beaufort, South Carolina and grew up in Greenville. She moved to Little Rock during her high school junior year when her mother remarried.
B.J. Sams came to KTHV after years of anchoring news at KHON-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii where he served as main anchor for several years in the 1970s, after serving from 1964-70 as co-anchor at KATV Channel 7. After returning to Arkansas in 1982, he was first the sole anchor, then co-anchor, of the evening newscast before moving to the morning show.
Coleman was also a weather anchor for KETV in Omaha, WISN-TV in Milwaukee and then WBBM-TV and WLS-TV in Chicago. [2] [5] In 1972, Coleman and his stage crew craftsmen at WLS-TV created the first chroma key weather map ever in use. [2] [3] WLS Eyewitness News team, 1972. Back, from left: anchor John Drury, anchor Joel Daly.