Fox Stations Hit the News Button

摘要

Between what's airing on Fox O&O KTVU and its sister station KICU, recently rebranded KTVU Plus, there's no shortage of local newscasts in the San Francisco area. In April, KTVU added half-hours to both its noon and 6 p.m. newscasts, as well as an entirely new 9 a.m. newscast on KTVU Plus that scraps the traditional format of the previous two hours, according to Dana McDaniel, the station's VP of news. The Nine's three hosts each hail from a different region of the Bay Area, offering different points of view throughout the newscast, which is less scripted than typical programming. Broadcast from the sales department's upper-floor offices, The Nine uses the Oakland Estuary-water, boats and birds-as a backdrop.