KNBC - NBC 4 News (Los Angeles) Thread

[JTT 113]

Who has been filling in for the station now that Fred Roggin left the station?  Mario does the weekday sports segments.   Who does the weekend sports segments?

[MD TV 277]

Annabelle Sedano has been hired as a new 3PM and 5PM anchor:

 

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/community/nbc4-names-annabelle-sedano-as-news-anchor/3115314/

[JTT 113]

Why didn't they promote Robert Kovacik to the 3 and 5pm newscast? I think when his contract is up, he'll be leaving the station.

I thought either Kovacik or Brownlee were next in line to be promoted.

[JoseRM303 171]

So we now know who will sit next to Colleen at 5pm, but do we have any word on who sits next to her at 11 pm and who’s going to sit next to Carolyn at 6 pm?

[FiveNews 378]

I assume Colleen will continue solo at 11pm. She definitely has the chops to lead the 11pm on her own, she already does it at 7pm. KCBS/KCAL has Pat Harvey anchor solo at 11pm (6pm as well). Marc Brown anchors KABCs 11pm solo. KNBC could complete the big three network trifecta with this arrangement.

[fan of la tv 47]

18 hours ago, MD TV said:

Annabelle Sedano has been hired as a new 3PM and 5PM anchor:

 

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/community/nbc4-names-annabelle-sedano-as-news-anchor/3115314/

 

I'm confused by their press release. Is there two meteorologists at 3 p.m.? This is what the release says:

 

"Weekdays at 3 p.m., Sedano will anchor NBC4 News kicking off the station's afternoon news block alongside Meteorologists Shanna Mendiola and Stephanie Olmo."

[24994J 5619]

25 minutes ago, fan of la tv said:

 

I'm confused by their press release. Is there two meteorologists at 3 p.m.? This is what the release says:

 

"Weekdays at 3 p.m., Sedano will anchor NBC4 News kicking off the station's afternoon news block alongside Meteorologists Shanna Mendiola and Stephanie Olmo."

 

The weekend weather anchors split that 3pm shift. One works like M-W, and the other takes Th-F, or something like that. I believe they do the same thing at 11am, too, and it's a pretty normal thing at many other stations.

[JTT 113]

Her bio states that Sedano used to work for Univision in Los Angeles at KMEX 34.  Will NBCLA have her anchor at Telemundo KVEA 52 in the future as well?  If the anchors and reporters are bilingual,  why not utilize that and have them report for both stations.   That will help with their budget.

 

Does anyone believe that Kovacik may get 6pm co anchor spot and be given the 7pm anchor spot while Williams go back to co anchor the 5pm and anchor the 11pm news?

[JTT 113]

What is the TV audience of the 7pm newscasts?

[fan of la tv 47]

On 3/16/2023 at 8:43 AM, 24994J said:

 

The weekend weather anchors split that 3pm shift. One works like M-W, and the other takes Th-F, or something like that. I believe they do the same thing at 11am, too, and it's a pretty normal thing at many other stations.

 

Got it. I don't watch KNBC at those times so I didn't realize they split it which is why I was confused about the statement. I know KTLA does the same for its midday newscasts.

[JTT 113]

Why do they do that by having 2 weathercasters split the weekdays duties in the mid afternoon?  Why does a station need 5 permanent weathercasters? 

 

I remember a while back, all KNBC had was Christopher Nance doing the morning newscasts weather and Fritz Coleman doing the evening newscast.   On the weekends,  they would have one of the co anchors reading the weather report with the weather maps on the screen.  A few years later, Paul Johnson was asked to work 7 days a week,  m - f doing traffic,  and on the weekends the weather.

 

I can understand the station having 4 weather casters,  but not 5.  If one of the 4 calls in sick, they can have a temp fill in.  Or they can have one of the other 3 fill in for the person that called in sick.

Edited March 20, 2023 by JTT

[JTT 113]

Why doesn't NBCLA have an anchor who is of Asian background?  Ted Chen used to be an anchor on the weekend morning news, but that was years ago.

[JTT 113]

Annabelle Sedano first day on the job was today.  I saw her anchor the 3pm newscast,  but I did not see her at 5pm, as Carolyn Johnson co-anchored the newscast with Colleen Williams.   Does anyone know why wasn't Annabelle anchoring the 5pm news with Colleen?

Edited April 8, 2023 by JTT

[bmasters1 408]

On 3/16/2023 at 9:39 AM, FiveNews said:

I assume Colleen will continue solo at 11pm. She definitely has the chops to lead the 11pm on her own, she already does it at 7pm. KCBS/KCAL has Pat Harvey anchor solo at 11pm (6pm as well). Marc Brown anchors KABCs 11pm solo. KNBC could complete the big three network trifecta with this arrangement.

 

Why is Colleen Williams running a solo act on KNBC's late edition (as well as mid-evening at 7)?

[FiveNews 378]

$$$$$$

[FiveNews 378]

KNBCs refreshed studio is now up and running. No big changes. A few new large monitors and it appears the station has ditched the augmented reality for weather.

[CraigViewer 79]

Don't see this instance on local TV stations everyday, which is very rare in Los Angeles, for that matter.  Though, given it was Christmas Day yesterday, it was understandable, for sure.  I came across a weatherperson from KNSD in San Diego filling-in for Belen DeLeon while watching "Today in LA" yesterday.

Edited December 26, 2023 by CraigViewer

[JTT 113]

What happened to Tony Shin?  His bio is not on the stations website anymore.

Edited January 30, 2024 by JTT

[bogusabc7breakingnews 60]

Idk  

 

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/1/16/gone-in-la?format=amp

[SFTV 529]

On 12/26/2023 at 3:41 AM, CraigViewer said:

Don't see this instance on local TV stations everyday, which is very rare in Los Angeles, for that matter.  Though, given it was Christmas Day yesterday, it was understandable, for sure.  I came across a weatherperson from KNSD in San Diego filling-in for Belen DeLeon while watching "Today in LA" yesterday.

My have the tables have turned. It used to be the other way around.

 

 

 

[JTT 113]

The station posted that they have a new sports anchor Olivia Garvey for the weekends.  Does this mean that Mario Solis is the weekday sports anchor?  His bio on the station website still says he's weekday reporter and weekend sports anchor. 

[JTT 113]

Will the station expand today in LA weekend?  If they do, the station should put a newscast on both Saturday and Sunday before the today show, then their regular scheduled newscast at 7am, then add a late newscast on Sundays after newsconference if there are no scheduled sports programming from the network. 

[JTT 113]

Is Tony Guinyard leaving the station?  I don't see her bio on the station website. 

[JTT 113]

Since Olivia Garvey join the station, will they create a new sports show with Mario & Olivia  following NFL & their college football coverage.  They're also probably going to get rights to the NBA soon as well.  It would make sense that they would create a new local sports program.  I don't like program the challenge. 

[GraphicsMan 120]

On 3/20/2023 at 4:22 AM, JTT said:

I remember a while back, all KNBC had was Christopher Nance doing the morning newscasts weather and Fritz Coleman doing the evening newscast.   On the weekends,  they would have one of the co anchors reading the weather report with the weather maps on the screen.  A few years later, Paul Johnson was asked to work 7 days a week,  m - f doing traffic,  and on the weekends the weather.

 

I feel like it’s an LA thing that there used to be not enough weather anchors. Like KABC owned the weather coverage with Dallas Raines a great meteorologist and a very funny person imo. But ya know I was studying the Spanish stations and it was like a decade I noticed then that KVEA only had one weather anchor and KMEX had only 2 they both now have meteorologist covering all newscast. But my question was with LA crazy climate why wasn’t weather not taken seriously. I remember watching a vintage video from the 1991 or 1990 of KTLA and I saw their 10pm news intro from back then and I noticed there was no weather anchor, when they launched the morning news Mark Kristi (I believe his name was) did weather and traffic, but there no weather anchor at 10. I always wondered why some tv stations don’t feature weather anchors for their evening shows. Maybe it because I’m not from California and I live in a state with wild weather but it felt weird for me.