KTVI

'KTVI' is the Fox owned and operated station in St. Louis, Missouri. Its transmitter is located in Sappington, Missouri; in a field behind Lindbergh High School. Its studios are located off Interstate 64/U.S. 40 at the intersection of Berthold, Oakland, and Hampton Avenues in the Clayton-Tamm/Dogtown neighborhood of western St. Louis.
KTVI runs about 40 hours a week of locally produced newscasts, as well as first-run prime time and sports programming from Fox. It also runs off-network sitcoms, talk shows, reality shows, sports, and court shows.
KTVI broadcasts in stereo and broadcasts a Secondary Audio Program (SAP) channel, used mainly for Descriptive Video Service (DVS). KTVI airs also about 42 hours of local news per week.
On June 13, 2007, Fox's parent company, News Corporation announced its intent to sell the station, along with eight other owned and operated stations.[1]
=History=
KTVI began on August 13, 1953 as WTVI, channel 54 in Belleville, Illinois; a suburb of St. Louis. It was the St. Louis area's second television station. It was the original CBS affiliate for St. Louis, with a secondary ABC affiliation. Studios were located in Alton.
When KWK-TV (later KMOX-TV and now KMOV) signed on and took the CBS affiliation, WTVI dropped CBS and became a ABC affiliate. It moved its studios and license across the Mississippi River to St. Louis on April 9 1955 changing its calls to KTVI. It also moved to channel 36. DuMont went off the air in 1956, making KTVI an exclusive ABC affiliate. KTVI moved to channel 2 on April 15, 1957; where it remains to this day. The station had actually tried to move to channel 2 soon after moving across the Mississippi; the channel 2 allocation had been moved from Springfield, Illinois under pressure from the White House.
The WTVI calls currently reside on the PBS member station in Charlotte.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Times Mirror owned the station. As part of a group deal, KTVI was sold to Argyle Broadcasting in 1993. In 1994, the Fox network took over the contract from CBS to carry the NFC game package. This inspired a conglomerate called New World Communications to reach an affiliation agreement with the network by switching all of its stations to Fox in the winter of 1994. Then New World bought out Argyle, and cut another deal to switch KTVI and sister stations KDFW in Dallas, and KTBC in Austin in the summer of 1995.
The new owners moved Fox programming to KTVI on August 7, 1995, allowing the former Fox affiliate, KDNL channel 30, to become St. Louis' ABC affiliate. New World merged with Fox Television Stations Group in 1996, and KTVI was the first major network O&O in St. Louis since KMOX-TV was sold by CBS to Viacom, and became KMOV in 1986. It stayed that way until 2003 when KPLR was sold to Tribune.
KTVI didn't pick up Fox Kids at first, so it moved to KNLC. However, in the fall of 1996, due to Reverend Larry Rice's refusal to air commercials on Fox Kids (replacing them with ministry messages), Fox pulled Fox Kids from KNLC and moved it to KTVI. KTVI was the only New World station to take Fox Kids. Shortly thereafter, KTVI and the New World Fox affiliates were sold to Fox' parent, News Corporation, becoming Fox O&Os. However, the New World name still survives as a holding company under Fox' corporate structure, as evidenced by the fact that KTVI's licensee is officially "New World Communications of St. Louis." Programming changed very slightly as Fox began buying more expensive syndicated shows for KTVI.
In the fall of 1998, KTVI reduced the weekday Fox Kids programs to just two hours (from three) and, in 2000, dropped weekday Fox Kids completely while Saturday mornings were continued. At the end of 2001, Fox Kids weekdays ended nationwide, and the weekends were revamped as 4Kids TV. KTVI now airs Fox's entire schedule including 4Kids TV; as of Fall 2006 it airs 2 hours earlier than most affiliates now to accommodate an expanded newscast lineup on Saturday mornings.
KTVI's introduced its current logo on April 10, 2006. The station is the fourth to use this logo style (which is similar to that of the Fox News Channel), which is gradually being adopted by the other Fox O&Os.
=News Operations=
For most of the time since joining Fox, KTVI has led the 9 p.m. news ratings race against KPLR-TV. KTVI is able to emphasize a broad array of stories from major national and local reports to small-town local stories/investigations because of the many extra hours of news (7.5 hours per day as opposed to 5 on KSDK and KMOV) that need to be filled. Also because of this, the station features more regular segments such as ''The Jaco Report'', a segment where noted reporter Charles Jaco gives either an editorial or introduces an investigative piece, or ''You Paid For It'', where Elliot Davis finds tax abuse in local governments and closes the segment by giving the phone number of the mayor's office in that municipality, signing off with the locally famous line "Call and speak your mind: after all, you paid for it." KTVI devotes a larger segment of its sports coverage to local high-school sports (once joining with the ''Post-Dispatch'' to air the "Prep Sports Show" on Saturdays, now cancelled) and is the home of Scott Linehan's weekly St. Louis Rams review show on Mondays. The station's morning news program is 4 hours, 5:00am - 9:00am and another hour from 11:00am-12:00. Since 1998, Fox 2 News In The Morning has been the fastest growing newscast in St. Louis morning Television.
Beginning September 9th KTVI will return their 10pm Newscast titled "News Edge." format from sister station WTVT in Tampa. with Sandy Miller as Solo Weeknight Anchor.
Before Dick Ford retired in December 2005, all four of KTVI's main male anchors (Dick Ford, Tom O'Neal, Dan Gray and John Pertzborn) were once anchors at KSDK.

Contents

News Sets/Graphics Packages

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

Station Slogans

Personalities

Current On-Air Talent

Former On-Air Talent

News Sets/Graphics Packages

On March 31, 2006, KTVI used their set, originally constructed in 1998, for the last time; at 10:00 p.m. crews began tearing down the set and weather center. Fox 2 broadcast from the newsroom and a temporary set while a new set and weather center were under construction in the old studio. The old news desk was donated to Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the old weather center was donated to the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The new set, along with new graphics, music, and a new logo, debuted for ''FOX2 News at 9'' on Monday, April 10, 2006.
The theme music that KTVI uses is OSI Music's FOX O&O News Theme. This theme is being used by other FOX O&O stations that have made identical modifications to their identity.
With the new set, music, and graphics that first aired in April 2006, the weather graphics were altered in September 2006 with a new background, and other features to better fit the MyFox theme.
By the time Fox sells KTVI, WHBQ and WJW in Cleveland would have been the only three stations to have their look upgraded to the Fox News influence.

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

★ ''Action News'' (1971-1975)

★ ''Channel 2 News'' (1975-Mid 1980s)

★ ''2 News Team'' (Mid 1980s-1995)

★ ''FOX 2 News'' (1995-2007)

Station Slogans

★ ''Here's 2 St. Louis'' (1990s)

★ ''Coverage You Can Count On'' (1997-present)

★ ''St. Louis' Newsroom'' (1997-present)

★ ''The Most Powerful Name In Local News'' (2006-present)

Personalities

Current On-Air Talent

'FOX2 Anchors'

★ Andy Banker: Saturday Morning Anchor/Weeknight Reporter

★ Elliot Davis: Friday and Saturday Evening Anchor/"You Paid For It" Reporter

★ Margie Ellisor: 7AM-9AM Anchor/Consumer Reporter

★ Dan Gray: 5PM Weekday Anchor/Weeknight Reporter

★ Shawn Lindsey: Weekend Morning Anchor/Weekday Morning Reporter

★ Sandy Miller: 6PM Weekday Anchor

★ Mandy Murphey: 5PM and 9PM Anchor/Reporter

★ Randi Naughton: 5AM-7AM Anchor/Reporter

★ Tom O'Neal: 6PM and 9PM Sunday-Thursday Evening and 5PM Sunday Anchor/Health Reporter

★ John Pertzborn: 7AM-9AM Anchor

★ April Simpson: Midday Anchor/Weekday Morning Reporter

★ Paul Schankman: Sunday Morning Anchor/Weeknight Reporter

★ Kevin Steincross: 5AM-7AM Anchor/Reporter

★ Shirley Washington: Friday and Saturday Evening Anchor/Reporter
'FOX2 Reporters'

★ John Auble: General Assignment Reporter

★ Betsey Bruce: General Assignment Reporter

★ Sean Conroy: General Assignment Reporter

★ J.C. Corcoran: Personal Commentary

★ Bonita Cornute: General Assignment Reporter

★ Tim Ezell: Feature Reporter

★ John Gadson: General Assignment Reporter

★ Chris Hayes: Investigative Reporter

★ Charles Jaco: War Correspondent; host: ''The Jaco Report''

★ Summer Knowles: General Assignment Reporter

★ Doug Luzader: Washington D.C. Correspondent

★ Roche Madden: General Assignment Reporter

★ Janis Murray: Home & Garden Reporter

★ Chris Regnier: General Assignment Reporter

★ Smash: Feature Reporter

★ Elliot Weiler: "Contact 2" Reporter

★ Teresa Woodard: General Assignment Reporter
'FOX2 Meteorologists'
''In addition to providing forecasts on KTVI-TV, the FOX2 Weather team also provides forecasts for KTRS-AM radio.''

★ Dave Murray (AMS Seal of Approval): Chief Meteorologist, seen weekday evenings; also Home & Garden Reporter

★ Chris Higgins: Weekend Evening Meteorologist

★ Angela Hutti: Weekend Morning Meteorologist/Weather Producer

★ Glenn Zimmerman: Weekday Morning and Midday Meteorologist

★ Mark Geldmeier: Fill-in Meteorologist
'FOX2 Traffic'

★ Monica Adams

★ John Brubaker: "Sky FOX" Pilot
'FOX2 Sports'

★ Martin Kilcoyne: Sports Director, seen Sunday-Thursday/Co-Host of "Rams Weekly with Scott Linehan"

★ Rob Desir: Friday and Saturday Evening Anchor/Sunday-Thursday Reporter

★ Maurice Drummond: Weekend Morning Anchor/Weekday Reporter

★ Chris Pelikan: Sports Producer/Reporter

Former On-Air Talent

★ Victoria Babu: Anchor/Reporter (currently at KTRS-AM)

★ Cherie Bank: Anchor (currently at WCAU in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania)

★ Marion Brooks: Anchor (currently at WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois)

★ Lisa Brown: Reporter

★ Bebe Burns: Reporter

★ Kevin Cokely: Anchor (currently at KXAS-TV/KXAS-DT in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas)

★ Larry Conners: Anchor (currently at KMOV)

★ Ron Corning: Reporter (currently at WNYW-TV in New York, New York)

★ Lynn Cousins: Reporter

★ Mark Curtis: Sports Director (1990-1995; KPNX-TV in Phoenix, Arizona)

★ Jennifer Davis: Reporter (currently with Fox News)

★ Aviva Diamond: Reporter

★ Kathleen England: Traffic Reporter (currently at KSDK)

★ Jill Farmer: Consumer Reporter

★ Dick Ford: Anchor (currently retired)

★ Julie Gaier: Reporter

★ Greg Gizinski: Sports Reporter

★ Joel Goldberg: Sports Reporter (currently at Fox Sports Net Midwest)

★ Donn Johnson: Anchor/Reporter

★ Iola Johnson: Anchor

★ Dana King: Anchor (currently at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, California)

★ Stu Klitenic: Sports Director

★ Gina Kurre: Reporter

★ Don Lemon: Investigative Reporter (currently at CNN)

★ Brenda Madden: Reporter

★ Molly McKittrick: Reporter

★ Russ Mitchell: Reporter (currently at CBS News)

★ Miles Muzio: Chief Meteorologist (currently at KBAK-TV in Bakersfield, California)

★ Nancy Pasternak: Anchor/Reporter (c.1995-2005)

★ Pete (Greg) Peterson: Sports Director (currently at KMTV-TV in Omaha, Nebraska)

★ Joe Petrovich: Meteorologist

★ Fred Rhodes: Reporter

★ Rochelle Rowe: Anchor

★ Zip Rzeppa: Sports Director

★ Robin Smith: Reporter (currently at KMOV)

★ Melanie Streeper: Weather Anchor/Producer (currently at KMOV)

★ Howard Streeter: Anchor

★ Corrina Sullivan: Anchor/Reporter (currently at WOFL-TV in Orlando, Florida)

★ Lisa Sylvester: Anchor ( -c.2000; currently at CNN)

★ Gene Tuck: Anchor

★ Len Turner: Reporter/"St. Louis' Most Wanted" Reporter (currently at News 12 New Jersey)

★ Hillary Wicai: Reporter

★ Ron Yaros: Meteorologist
=External links=

★ Official website

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