KXTV, channel 10, is an ABC affiliate in Sacramento, California. It is owned and operated by the Gannett Company. Its transmitter tower (shared with KOVR) is located in Walnut Grove, California, and studios are located on Broadway, just south of Business Loop 80 at the south edge of downtown Sacramento. Its broadcasting tower is among the tallest man-made structures in the world.

History

The station went on the air on March 19, 1955 as KBET, owned by locally-based Sacramento Telecasters. Four years later, the call letters became KXTV (the "X" being the Roman numeral for the VHF channel it broadcasts on, channel 10) when Corinthian Broadcasting bought the station. Corinthian became part of Dun & Bradstreet in 1971. The A.H. Belo Corporation bought all of Dun & Bradstreet's television stations (except for two in Indiana, which went to LIN Broadcasting) in February 1984.

From its founding until 1995, KXTV was an affiliate of CBS. As a CBS affiliate, the station preempted some lower-rated daytime (the 9-10am block in the 1980s and early 90's) and late night (from the late 1980s until the arrival of The Late Show with David Letterman in 1993) programs. KXTV also preempted Sunday morning cartoons that CBS offered from the 60's until the early 80's. In 1991, KXTV dropped Price Is Right, due to the abundance of syndicated programming commitments. After several months of complaints, KXTV reinstated "Price Is Right, but to make room for syndicated programming it was committed to carry, dropped Guiding Light due to low ratings in the early 1990s. While most CBS stations would air The Young and The Restless from 11 a.m.-NOON, KXTV moved it to the 3 p.m. timeslot in 1994 where the soap did well.

Then, on March 6, 1995, in an unprecedented move in local television, KXTV swapped affiliations with KOVR, switching networks from CBS to ABC. As an ABC affiliate, the station preempted the half-hour soap airing in the 12:30 timeslot (Loving/The City/Port Charles), at some point running it on overnights; but when the network axed the programming block outright in the early 2000s; KXTV has aired the entire schedule of ABC programming since then. For the first 6 months as an ABC affiliate, KXTV preempted an hour of ABC Saturday morning cartoons, but since the Fall of 1995 has run the entire Saturday morning block. On another note, KXTV aired All My Children at 3 p.m. in the early years as an ABC affiliate (probably because they previously aired a soap from CBS in that timeslot and to maintain a similar type of show in that slot), before finally following the niche of airing it at Noon alongside majority of the ABC stations -- only after the midday newscast moved an hour earlier from Noon to 11 a.m..

Four years later, in 1999, Belo traded KXTV to Gannett for that company's KVUE in Austin, Texas. (This actually marked a re-entry into the Sacramento television market for Gannett, which briefly owned KOVR during the late 1950s.) That same year, KXTV began digital broadcasts on a new and separate HDTV channel called 10.1. Then, in 2001, to reflect the station's commitment to its news coverage, KXTV decided to become better known as "News10". In 2006 News 10 started broadcasting a 24 hour weather channel on its second HDTV channel called 10.2.

Until recently, KXTV had first choice on all King World programs offered locally--King World has since become CBS Television Distribution and acquisition policies may have now changed. Nevertheless, KXTV holds the local syndication rights to Jeopardy!, Inside Edition, and Wheel of Fortune (all King World-turned-CBS properties). Until 2002, the station also held the local syndication rights to The Oprah Winfrey Show (now another CBS property seen locally on KCRA/KQCA). It is these shows that have made News10 one of the highest-rated local stations in daytime television. Since 2002-2003, KXTV has been the local television home of the Sacramento Kings, the city's National Basketball Association franchise, which coincides with their network's coverage of NBA games. The station picked up the rights to Kings telecasts in the middle of the 2002-03 season due to the contractual dispute between the team and its then-rights holder, ex-UPN station KMAX.

In the late '00s, KXTV heavily promoted its weather coverage as part of its "Connected to Our Community" marketing campaign. Over-the-air promotions introduced weather presenters and touted weather coverage on the internet (news10.net), on its dedicated digital weather channel (channel 10.2, referred to as "ten-dot-two"), and "on the 10s" (at :10, :20, :30, etc.) on "News 10 Good Morning," its 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. newscast.

Also in the late '00s, KXTV intensively covered local high school football, especially during Friday news broadcasts. In 2007, for example, the segments were known as "Friday Night Football." The station's helicopter flew from one high school to another to capture aerial shots of the various games. KCRA had its own version called "High School Playbook."

On September 12, 2005, KXTV launched a morning program called Sacramento & Company (shows like this are on a number of Gannett stations) hosted by Kristen Simoes and Guy Farris. Sacramento & Co. is a local morning lifestyles and entertainment show that is sponsored by local companies. The show airs weekdays from 9-10 AM and is available online. [89756]

KXTV became the market's only commercial station to remain on the VHF dial when the FCC completed the digital transition on June 12, 2009. [89757]

News10 Weather Tower

The News 10 weather tower was debuted on August 24, 2001, the same day the California State Fair opened. It was completed on October 11, 2000, but News10 decided to debut it later because of the rolling blackouts at that time. It was built and designed by Nacht & Lewis Architects based in downtown Sacramento. The television station, an anchor facility and active proponent of improvements to the Broadway Street Corridor, elected not to construct a conventional broadcast tower, examples of which may be seen throughout Sacramento. The proposed design melds the rather demanding engineering requirements for communications towers with sensitivity to the suggestions of the surrounding residents while creating an icon and gateway for the Broadway Corridor. The top glows with a different color based on the weather conditions or the result of a Sacramento Kings or the Sacramento Monarchs win.

Color	Description
Yellow	Sunny or clear conditions forecast for tomorrow
Green	Rain is in the area, but there is no severe weather.
Blue	High winds are in the area, but a severe weather watch has not been issued.
White	Cloudy
Red	The temperatures are above 100 degrees or a severe weather watch or warning has been issued.
Purple	The Sacramento Kings (during the NBA season) or the Sacramento Monarchs (during the WNBA season) have won their latest game.

Information Center

The Information center located in the News10 newsroom debuted on February 5th, 2007 where the News10 Now updates are conducted, online stories are written for the web site and where is Live_Online is produced. On June 12th, 2008 News10 revealed a new website that lets viewers create a profile and become members of News10.net that allows them to post comments, pictures, write blogs and communicate to News10 people provided by SiteLife.

Newscasts

Prior to adopting the current News10 newscast branding in 1983; KXTV's newscasts had successively identified as Shell News, The Big News, Channel 10 News, Newservice 10 (in the 1970s), and Eyewitness News (early 80's [89758]). For the past two decades (dating back to its time as a CBS affiliate), KXTV has been a distant runner-up to KCRA. In the past two years, KXTV's 11 p.m. newscast has frequently finished in last place in total households among all of the major stations' late-night newscasts (not counting the KCRA-produced 10 p.m. newscast on KQCA).

Current Personalities/ Joined Date

Anchors

• Dan Elliott- News 10 Good Morning Anchor 5-7am, and Midday at 11am Weekdays (1989)
• Dana Howard- Sunday Anchor 6 and 11pm/ Weekday Reporter Mon-Thurs (1992)
• Kelly Jackson- News 10 Good Morning Anchor 5-7am (2007)
• Alicia Malaby- Saturday Anchor 6 and 11pm, Weekday Reporter Mon-Weds (1999)
• Cristina Mendonsa- Weekday Evening Anchor 5, 6, 11pm (1995)
• Dale Schornack- Weekday Evening Anchor 5, 6, 11pm (1997)

Weather

• Darla Givens - Weekend Evenings, Weds and Fri at 11am on Midday, News10 Good Morning Free Fridays 5-7am (1999)
• Monica Woods- News10 Good Morning Weekdays 5-7am (2001)
• Harry Stockman, Former News10 Meteorologist, and Fill-in Weather anchor

Sports

• Bryan May - Anchor/Reporter Weekdays (1999)
• Ryan Yamamoto - Anchor/Reporter Weekends (2005)

Traffic Team

• Melissa Crowley- News10 Good Morning 5-7am (2001)

Video Journalists

• Cornell Barnard- San Joaquin Valley Reporter Weekdays at 11pm/ Fill-in Anchor (1997)
• Angel Cardenas- Fill in-Traffic anchor/ Sports Reporter (Engineer in 2001, On-air job 2006)
• Tim Daly- San Joaquin Valley Chief reporter (1991)
• Will Frampton- Multi-media Journalist(2008)
• Sharon Ito- Weekday Online Chat room moderator 11 a.m. (1985 and again 1996)
• Dave Marquis- Sun-Thurs weeknight Reporter (1993)
• Karen Massie- Educational Reporter (1987)
• Jonathan Mumm- "Mumm @ the Movies" critic, Weekday Reporter, "California Postcard in HD" Segment (1983)
• George Warren- Multi-media Journalist (1981)

Past news personalities

Name	Position at KXTV	Years Active	Whereabouts
Dan Adams	News10 Reporter	1981-2008 (27 years)	Now retired, Living in Mexico
Beth Duncan	News10 Good Morning Traffic Anchor	1998-2001	Local Radio Traffic
Justin Allen	Fill-in Sports Anchor	Few months in late 2005	Now at WTSP in Tampa Bay
Rene Apple	Fill-in Traffic Anchor	Few months in 2002	Metro Traffic Radio in Sacramento
Cecil King	News10 Good Morning pilot	2004- Early 2005	Private Sacramento Pilot
Jim Frazier	Sports Anchor	1995-1998 and again freelanced in late 2002	Radio Sports Show Talk Host
Rob Marshall	Air 10 Pilot	1990s- Nov. 2003	Now at KDVR-TV in Denver, CO
J.D Maher	Weekend Meteorologist	January 2000- June 2005	Now at KTXL-40 Freelancing
Kym McNicholas	Fill-in Sports Anchor	Few months in 2002	Now at Sacramento Comcast Cable Sports
Julie Durda	Traffic Anchor/ Air10 Traffic reporter	Intern since 2003, on-air job summer 2005- July 2006.	Now at KPHO-TV in Phoenix
Marcey Brightwell	Political Reporter/ Fill-in Anchor	Oct. 2001- Jan. 2009	Deputy Managing Director at R&K Grayling Communications in Sacramento
Will Selva	Sports Anchor	Mar. 2003-Mar. 2005	Sports Anchor CNN Headline News in Atlanta
Kiran Chetry	Morning Anchor/ Reporter	1998-2001	Now at CNN in New York City
John Delatorre	Morning Meteorologist	1998-2001	Now President of Deladiep, Inc. & Fun Stix Magnets, Inc.
Jane McCarthy	Reporter/ Fill-in Anchor	1999- Apr. 2004	Now at KING-TV in Seattle, WA; Married to former KTXL anchor Tim Robinson
Tom Helmer	Fill-in Sports Anchor	Few months in 2003	Host of FSN's nationally televised BCS Breakdown and FSN Baseball Report
Dick Cable	Anchor	1969-1998	Currently retired in Sacramento
Sande Drew	Anchor/ Reporter	1970-1975	Public Relations
Jerome Gray	Reporter	1987-1991	Now at KPRC-TV Houston
Mark Hedlund	Reporter	1981- 2009	Works in State Government
Dana Jacobson	Weekend Sports Anchor	1998- Oct. 2002	Former ESPN host of Cold Pizza and now host of ESPN First Take
Elissa Lynn	Chief Meteorologist	1996-2006	California Department of Water Resources
Steve Newman	Meteorologist	1975-1978	Moved to WFAA 1978-1980 then several San Francisco TV stations until retiring in 2001. Now writes ' 'Earthweek'' distributed by Universal Press Syndicate.
Beth Ruyak	Anchor	1992-1995	Hosts "Pulse" and "Your Health" shows on KCRA
Creighton Sanders	Sports Anchor	1960-1980	Jumped ship to KCRA-TV, then retired
Aimee Sporer	Nightside anchor	1989-1992	Anchored at KCNC-TV 1992-2002, now a stay-at-home mom [89759]
Stuart Satow	Sports Director Anchor	1980-2002	Now with CPS services in Sacramento
Jonathan Masaki	Freelance Reporter	2004-2007 (Was stationed in Iraq for a year)	Now with the National Guard
Kim Herlihy	Morning Traffic	2000 (6 months)	English Elk Grove High Teacher
Hank Thronley	First News10 Anchor	1955-1960	Retired
Ken Wayne	Morning Anchor	1998-2000	Now at KTVU-TV Oakland, Ca weekend anchor
Alan Frio	Anchor	1970s-1997	Now at WSMV-TV
Lex Boyd	Anchor	1950s-19??	Now retired
Pamela Tom	Freelance Reporter	Few months in late 2002-early 2003	Now at KGO-TV Freelancing
Mary Pae	Freelance Reporter	Few months in late 2002	Unknown
Deborah Pacyna	State Reporter	1984-2001	Fleishman Hillard Public Relations in Sacramento
Kelly Brothers	Financial Reporter	Jan. 2006-Oct. 2007	Now at KCRA again (Morning financial expert)
Monika Diaz	General Assignment Reporter	Oct. 2003- Nov. 2007	Now at WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas
Jaime Garza	News 10 Good Morning Anchor and reporter	October, 1991-June, 1995	Later anchor/reporter at CBS2/KCAL 9 LA (1995-2008), now main weeknight anchor at KTXL
Thea Tio	General Assignment Reporter	?-2007	Now at WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, NY
Larry Palmer Goodwin	General Assignment Reporter	1978-1984	Now retired and living in Southern California
* Patty Souza	Chief Meteorologist	April, 2006-September, 2009	Left while on vacation at KXTV in July, offically announced her resignation from KXTV in October, 2009.
Gregg Lalka	Meteorologist	July, 2005-August, 2009	Now weekend weather anchor at KSBW in Salinas/Monterey
* Cristi Jessee	General Assignment Reporter	2005 as assignment editor, 2008 on-air job-2009	Now News Director at KSAX, Alexandria, MN

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

• Shell News (1950s)
• KXTV News (1960s)
• The Wilson-Gray Report (1960s)
• Channel 10 News (1960s-1970s)
• Newservice 10 (1970s)
• Eyewitness News (1970s-1986)
• News10 (1986-present)

Station Slogans

• The Spirit of California (1986-2005)
• Committed to News and Connected to Our Community (2005-present)

High Definition & Digital TV

News10 (KXTV) produces Friday Night Football highlights, and Jonathan Mumm's California Postcard reports in High Definition.

KXTV recently produced The Future Is HDTV on News 10, an HD produced special, profiling the FCC's imposed transition from an Analog television signal to a Digital television signal. The special also show-cased the HD produced shows from ABC, as well as some syndicated shows.

On KXTV's digital subchannel 61.2 (known as 10.2), The AccuWeather Channel broadcasts live National weather, plus local KXTV weather. It is available online.

On November 16, 2009, it was announced that in a few weeks News 10 will be upgrading to an HD news set and HD weather center. KXTV will then be the third Sacramento market station to broadcast their news in High Definition, following KCRA and KOVR.

For now, KXTV's news shows are shot in standard-definition, but stylized-pillarboxing is used instead of normal pillarboxing.

Digital Television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

KXTV-DT

KXTV-DT broadcasts on digital channel 10.Digital channels

Channel	Name	Programming
10.1	KXTV-DT	News10/ABC HD Programming
10.2	The Local AccuWeather Channel	News10.2

Analog-to-Digital Conversion

After the analog television shutdown on June 12, 2009 , KXTV moved back to channel 10.

Other station notes

• As a CBS affiliate, KXTV's station ID would include an electronic alarm like version of the infamous CBS "ding".
• KXTV is the third station in Sacramento to affiliate with ABC. Low-performing ABC affiliate KCCC Channel 40 (now the home of KTXL) had it first before shutting down and the network moved to KOVR.
• Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune have aired on KXTV since the mid-80s (back when it was CBS). Until 2002, The Oprah Winfrey Show also aired on KXTV, but it has since moved to KCRA.
• KXTV can be seen on cable in eastern portions of the Bay Area and in all of Butte County as a competitior to KGO and KRCR, respectively.

References

External links

• Official News10 website
• News10 50th Anniversary
• Infamous Halloween scare on News10 Good morning