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KMOV Channel 4 and KSDK Channel 5 each claimed multiple ratings period titles during the November sweeps month, according to Nielsen Media Research.

KMOV took the top 10 p.m. newscast slot with a 14.3 rating compared to KSDK's rating of 13.0 and KTVI Channel 2's 4.3 rating. KTVI premiered its 10 p.m. newscast in September.

At noon, KMOV was also the No. 1 newscast in St. Louis. Its half-hour newscast drew a 6.7 rating. KSDK's full-hour noon to 1 p.m. newscast had a 6.6 rating. KTVI does not have a noon newscast. Its 11 a.m. to noon newscast drew a 3.3 rating.

KSDK was No. 1 in St. Louis for both the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts. The station pulled in a 12.7 rating for its 5 p.m. newscast beating KMOV's 9.2 and KTVI's hour-long newscast rating of 6.4.

At 6 p.m., KSDK had a rating of 13.2 compared to KMOV's 8.7 and KTVI's 4.6.

KTVI's hour-long 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. newscast drew an 8.8 rating. The other local news competition during that period is CW 11, which had a 3.6 rating for its 9 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. newscast.

Regarding the morning newscasts, from 5 a.m. to 5:30 a.m., KSDK pulled in a 4.1 rating with KTVI's 2.3 rating in second. From 5:30 a.m. to 6 a.m., KSDK recorded a 4.7 rating compared to KTVI's 3.5. KMOV's hour-long broadcast from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. drew a 1.8 rating.

KSDK, KTVI and KMOV each have an hour-long newscast from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. During that period, KSDK was again No. 1 with a 7.5 rating followed by KTVI's 5.1 and KMOV's 3.8.

Each rating point represents 1 percent of viewers in the surveyed area. Ratings information from last year was not immediately available.

KTVI
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KTVI

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 46 hours of local news per week.




Contents
1 History
2 News Operations
2.1 News Sets/Graphics Packages
2.2 News/Station Presentation
2.2.1 Newscast Titles
2.2.2 Station Slogans
2.3 Personalities
2.3.1 Current On-Air Talent
2.3.2 Former On-Air Talent
3 External links



[edit] 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.


[edit] 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 Dick Ford retired in December 2005, all four of KTVI's main male anchors (Dick Ford, Tom O'Neal, Dan Gray and John Pertzborn) were once anchors at KSDK.


[edit] 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.