Mark Holtz
12-28-02, 11:50 AM
KNTV stronger as an NBC affiliate but still has signal trouble
KNTV's news operation has grown tremendously since the station made its debut in January as the Bay Area's new NBC affiliate.
The station has hired local talent, added vehicles and opened a 25,000- square-foot office in San Francisco. Its newscasts, filled early on with crime, celebrity stories and promotions for NBC shows, have focused more on Bay Area news and issues.
If only everyone could see the changes.
A year after San Jose's KNTV took over from KRON as the local NBC affiliate, the station still hasn't resolved a transmission problem that has left about 100,000 Bay Area households without access to the station.
Full Story Here (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/28/DD143755.DTL)
KNTV's news operation has grown tremendously since the station made its debut in January as the Bay Area's new NBC affiliate.
The station has hired local talent, added vehicles and opened a 25,000- square-foot office in San Francisco. Its newscasts, filled early on with crime, celebrity stories and promotions for NBC shows, have focused more on Bay Area news and issues.
If only everyone could see the changes.
A year after San Jose's KNTV took over from KRON as the local NBC affiliate, the station still hasn't resolved a transmission problem that has left about 100,000 Bay Area households without access to the station.
Full Story Here (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/28/DD143755.DTL)