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This idea came up in the chat... we're making a thread listing all the TV/TV news "firsts." If you'd like to contribute to this list, please reply but have credible proof/evidence.

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KOMO- the first television station in the world to broadcast its news in HD. February 1999.

 

This has been disputed... I've heard WFAA and WRAL as well.

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WNYW: The first FOX O&O with Morning News GDNY (5-9AM) in New York City on Aug. 2 1988.

KTLA: The First Morning News in LA on July 8, 1991.

WWOR: The first 12PM News in New York (started in the WOR days) in 1971.

 

Source: Wikipedia.

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This has been disputed... I've heard WFAA and WRAL as well.

WRAL: October 13, 2000

WFAA: Unknown, so I doubt it was the first

 

It's definitely KOMO.

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WRAL: October 13, 2000

WFAA: Unknown, so I doubt it was the first

 

It's definitely KOMO.

 

I've seen online that KOMO only experimented with HD news in 1999, but did SD widescreen from there on out. I sent an email to KOMO about it a while back but they never replied.

 

WRAL did their first HD newscast on October 13, 2000 and went all-HD (studio, weather, remote, etc.) on January 28, 2001.

 

Therefore, there's no clear answer.

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KPTV: First commercial station to broadcast on a UHF channel in the world.

 

http://kptv.home.comcast.net/~kptv/History/history.htm

 

KPTV: One of Fox network's original charter affiliates in 1986.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPTV

 

KATU: One of the few television stations in the country (not counting owned and opereated stations) that has had the same call letters, the same owner and the same channel number throughout its history.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KATU

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Well if not KOMO...then KING...the first in the northwest in 1949.

 

In fact most of the first television stations out west began on Channel 5.

 

KTLA in 1947, KPIX in 1948, and KING in 1949.

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The now retired Chicago Meteorologist Harry Volkman was the very first meteorologist to ever issue an on-air tornado warning back in the 1950's. He did it in a daring move because at that time, beliefs that public panic and mayhem would result in an on-air tornado warning announcement.

 

On site: http://tulsatvmemories.com/weather.html. There are also a number of other sites out there too that mention it.

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WCVB

 

Believed first ever local morning newscast, "Eyeopener" (as early as 1978), 7am newscast starting in 1972,

 

KIRO

 

First two and a half hour morning news, 1990

 

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But The Morning Exchange was later on in the morning, and it didn't start until 8 am for a while, while WCVB's news started at 7 in the beginning, and eventually moved earlier and earlier, until it moved to 5 am in 1989.

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Ok, so I agree now, as I read on Wikipedia that WEWS's Morning Exchange started on January 3, 1972, while WCVB didn't start until March 19, so most likely, channel 5 in Cleveland had the first local morning newscast in the country.

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"Morning newscasts" back then weren't really newscasts... they were more variety/talk. I'd say that morning newscasts took the traditional newscast format in the late 80s (ex. WAVY dropped the morning news/talk program "Tidewater Today" for the current traditional-format "WAVY News 10 Today" in 1989).

 

I think the longest-running morning news show goes to WFMY... "The Good Morning Show" debuted in 1957 and is still going (http://www.digtriad.com/news/specials/gms50/default.aspx).

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May 1953: KUHT Channel 8 in Houston goes on the air as the first public television station in the United States.

 

June 1978: In Los Angeles, the nation's first 2 1/2 hour newscast is launched on KNXT Channel 2.

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WNBC - First TV Station ever to broadcast a Baseball Game (Princeton vs. Columbia) and the first to broadcast a Major League Baseball game (Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Cincinnati Reds).

 

Not sure if this really counts, but I thought I'd take a stab at it.

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