KTVI
KTVI | |
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St. Louis, Missouri | |
Branding | FOX 2 |
Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On St. Louis' Newsroom The Most Powerful Name In Local News |
Channels | Analog: 2 (VHF) Digital: 43 (HDTV, UHF) |
Affiliations | Fox (since 1995) |
Owner | Fox Television Stations |
Founded | August 13, 1953 |
Call letters meaning | K Tele- Vision Illinois (station originally licensed to Belleville, Illinois) |
Former callsigns | WTVI (1953-55) |
Former channel number(s) | 54 (1953-1955) 36 (1955-1957) |
Former affiliations | CBS (1953-54) ABC (1955-95) DuMont(secondary, 1953-56) ABC (secondary, 1953-55) |
Website | www.myfoxstl.com |
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.
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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, a former stakeholder in The WB network. When that network merged into The CW (which Tribune did not hold stake in) in 2006, KTVI went back to being the only network-owned station in town.
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. [citation needed]
Before retired in December 2005, all four of KTVI's main male anchors (Dick Ford, , and ) were once anchors at KSDK.
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.
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-present)
Station Slogans
- Here's 2 St. Louis (1990s)
- The Home Team (1989-1994)
- Coverage You Can Count On (1997-present)
- St. Louis' Newsroom (1997-present)
- The Most Powerful Name In Local News (2006-present)
Spirit of St. Louis
Personalities
Current On-Air Talent
FOX2 Anchors
- : Weeknight Reporter/Saturday Morning Anchor
- : Reporter/Friday 10PM Anchor
- : "You Paid For It" Reporter/Friday and Saturday Evening Anchor
- : 7AM-9AM Anchor
- : 5PM Weekday Anchor/Weeknight Reporter
- : Weekday Morning Reporter/Weekend Morning Anchor
- Sandy Miller: 6PM Weekday and Sunday-Thursday 10PM Anchor
- : 5PM and 9PM Anchor/Reporter
- : 5AM-7AM Anchor/Reporter
- : 6PM and 9PM Sunday-Thursday Evening and 5PM Sunday Anchor/Health Reporter
- : 7AM-9AM Anchor
- : Midday Anchor/Weekday Morning Reporter
- : Weeknight Reporter/Sunday Morning Anchor
- : 5AM-7AM Anchor/Reporter
- : Reporter/Friday and Saturday Evening Anchor
FOX2 Reporters
- : General Assignment Reporter
- : General Assignment Reporter
- : General Assignment Reporter
- J.C. Corcoran: Personal Commentary
- : General Assignment Reporter
- : Feature Reporter
- : General Assignment Reporter
- : Investigative Reporter
- Charles Jaco: War Correspondent; host: The Jaco Report
- : General Assignment Reporter
- : General Assignment Reporter
- : Home & Garden Reporter
- : General Assignment Reporter
- Smash: Feature Reporter
- : "Contact 2" Reporter
- : General Assignment Reporter
FOX2 Meteorologists
In addition to providing forecasts on KTVI-TV, the FOX2 Weather Team also provides forecasts for KTRS-AM, KPNT-FM, and KIHT-FM radio.
- (AMS Seal of Approval): Chief Meteorologist, seen weekday evenings; also Home & Garden Reporter
- (AMS's Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM), Seal): Weekend Evening Meteorologist
- : Weekend Morning Meteorologist/Weather Producer
- (AMS Seal of Approval): Weekday Morning and Midday Meteorologist
- : Fill-in Meteorologist
FOX2 Traffic
- : "" Pilot
FOX2 Sports
- : Sports Director, seen Sunday-Thursday/Co-Host of "Rams Weekly with Scott Linehan"
- : Friday and Saturday Evening Anchor/Sunday-Thursday Reporter
- : Weekend Morning Anchor/Weekday Reporter
- : Sports Producer/Reporter
Former On-Air Talent
- : Anchor/Reporter (currently at KTRS-AM)
- : Anchor (currently at WCAU in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania)
- : Anchor (currently at WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois)
- : Reporter
- : Reporter
- : Meteorologist (currently at KMBC in Kansas City)
- : Anchor (currently at KXAS-TV/KXAS-DT in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas)
- : Anchor (currently at KMOV)
- Ron Corning: Reporter (currently at WNYW-TV in New York, New York)
- : Reporter
- : Sports Director (1990-1995; KPNX-TV in Phoenix, Arizona)
- : Reporter (currently with Fox News)
- : Reporter
- : Traffic Reporter (currently at KSDK)
- : Consumer Reporter
- : Anchor (currently retired)
- : Reporter
- : Sports Reporter
- : Sports Reporter (currently at Fox Sports Net Midwest)
- : Anchor/Reporter
- Iola Johnson: Anchor
- : Anchor (currently at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, California)
- Stu Klitenic: Sports Director
- : Reporter
- Don Lemon: Investigative Reporter (currently at CNN)
- : Reporter
- : Reporter
- Russ Mitchell: Reporter (currently at CBS News)
- : Chief Meteorologist (currently at KBAK-TV in Bakersfield, California)
- : Anchor/Reporter (c.1995-2005)
- : Sports Director (currently at KMTV-TV in Omaha, Nebraska)
- : Meteorologist
- : Reporter
- : Anchor
- : Sports Director
- : Reporter (currently at KMOV)
- : Weather Anchor/Producer (currently at KMOV)
- : Anchor
- : Anchor/Reporter (currently at WOFL-TV in Orlando, Florida)
- : Anchor ( -c.2000; currently at CNN)
- : Anchor
- Len Turner: Reporter/"St. Louis' Most Wanted" Reporter (currently at News 12 New Jersey)
- : Reporter
- : Meteorologist
External links
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KTVI 2 (Fox) - KMOV 4 (CBS) - KSDK 5 (NBC) (NBC WX+ on DT2) - KPTN-CA 7 (HSN) - KETC 9 (PBS) - KPLR 11 (The CW) - KNLC 24 (FamilyNet) - (EWTN) - KDNL 30 (ABC) - K33GU 33 / K22HG 22 (TBN) - WRBU 46 (MNTV) - W50CH 50 (REL) - KUMO-LP 51 (RTN) - KDTL-LP 64 (DS) Local cable television channels |
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KTVI 2 (St. Louis) - WDAF 4 (Kansas City) - KBSI 23 (Cape Girardeau) - KSFX 27 (Springfield) - K38II 38 (Jefferson City) |
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Missouri |