Feb 22, 2008 4:15 pm US/Pacific
CBS 5 (KPIX-TV) Eyewitness News Launches 10pm News
For Immediate Release February 22, 2008
CBS 5 (KPIX-TV) Eyewitness News Launches 10pm
Newscast on The CW 44/Cable12 (KBCW-TV)
San Jose-Oakland-San Francisco—CBS 5 (KPIX-TV) Eyewitness News will launch a nightly 10 pm newscast on its sister station, The CW 44/Cable12 (KBCW-TV), beginning Monday, March 3. The newscast will be 30 minutes in length and will be broadcast in high definition.
Monday through Friday anchors will include CBS 5's 11 pm team of anchors Dana King, Ken Bastida, Dennis O'Donnell, sports director, and Roberta Gonzales, lead weather anchor. Saturday and Sunday nights include CBS 5's 11 pm team of anchor Ann Notarangelo and Lawrence Karnow, weather anchor. Rick Quan will be the sports anchor on Saturday nights and Dennis O'Donnell on Sunday nights.
"Viewers wanting news at 10 pm will now have a choice. We hope many of them will choose to watch our 30-minute newscast on The CW44cable12, which features the same award-winning group of broadcasters as our top-rated 11 pm news on CBS 5" said Vice President and News Director, Dan Rosenheim.
Viewers can watch the HD newscasts over the air on channel 44.1, on Direct TV on channel 44, and on Comcast Cable on channel 712 weeknights at 10 pm.
CBS 5/The CW 44/Cable 12 are part of the CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation (http:// www.cbscorporation.com ).
CBS 5 (
http://www.cbs5.com) began in 1948 as the first television station in Northern California.
The CW 44/Cable 12(
http://www.kbcwtv.com) began in 1968 as the first UHF station in the Bay area. The two stations became a duopoly in 2002.
Media Contact: Akilah Monifa, Director of Communications (415) 765 8842 amonifa@cbs.com.
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