Today in L.A.
| Today in L.A. | |
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| Also known as | Today in L.A. Weekend |
| Genre | News |
| Presented by | current: Alycia Lane - co-anchor Kathy Vara - co-anchor |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | NBC Studios, Burbank, California |
| Running time | various |
| Production company(s) | KNBC |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | KNBC |
| Picture format | -480i (SDTV) -1080i (HDTV) |
| Original airing | since 1986 |
| External links | |
| nbcla.com Website | |
| Production website | |
Today In L.A. is a local early-morning local newscast airing over NBC's west coast flagship, KNBC-TV, in Los Angeles. It became the first morning local newscast in Southern California when it debuted on KNBC in 1986, as a half-hour lead-in to The Today Show. Kent Shocknek and Carla Aragon were the original anchors, with Christopher Nance handling weather duties, and Fred Roggin in a taped segment reporting sports. Shocknek and Aragon each departed in later years; Shocknek joining rival station KCBS-TV in 2001 to anchor their early-morning and midday newscasts, and Aragon returning to her native New Mexico to anchor the evening newscasts on NBC affiliate KOB-TV in Albuquerque, from 1994 to her retirement from the news reporting business in 2007.[1] Nance left the station under controversial circumstances in December 2002, after 18 years with the station; he later sued the station, its upper management, and KNBC's parent company (NBC) due to what he believed was racial and religious discrimination.[2]
Eventually successors at the Today in L.A. anchor desk included Kathy Vara, David Cruz, Kelly Mack, Chris Schauble, and Jennifer Bjorklund. Rachel Boesing handled weather reporting duties, while Paul Johnson reported traffic news, while he also filled-in weather stories on occasion. Vara, Mack, Cruz, and Schauble eventually left the station; Vara later returned to KNBC in March 2010 after nine years at crosstown KABC-TV,[3] and Schauble anchoring the first two and a half hours of KTLA's present five and a half-hour morning news block since early 2011. Bjorklund still remains at KNBC, presently as a general assignment reporter.
Boesing currently works as a host of My County, a community access program on the Los Angeles County Channel.[4] Johnson died in June 2010 at the age 75, after a battle with brain tumors.[5]
Presently, Vara and Alycia Lane (the only full-time two-woman anchoring team in Los Angeles television news) anchor the news, while Elita Loresca provides weather forecasts, and Sean Murphy handling traffic news. On weekends, Ted Chen and Andy Rosa Adler anchor Today in L.A., with Carl Bell providing weather updates.
The program later expanded to an hour, then ninety minutes in the late 1990s, two hours in 2000; the show currently airs from 4:30-7am. With the expansion of the weekend editions of the Today Show, Today in L.A. added weekend editions starting in 1992. In addition to the regular 4:30-7am block, KNBC has Today in L.A. cut-ins every hour at :25 and :55 past each hour during The Today Show. Portions of the morning newscast can be presently seen on NBC California Nonstop's The Morning Mix.
Since its inception, Today In L.A. has become a top ranked newscast, and inspiration of the local morning news concept. KABC and KCBS began airing morning newscasts in 1989. KCAL-TV briefly did an one-hour morning newscast during the early years under the ownership of The Walt Disney Company, before cancelling it for children's programming. KTLA introduced a morning newscast starting in 1991, while KTTV began their morning news block starting in the fall of 1993; both stations' newscasts are highly-rated and usually rate #1 or 2 in their timeslots.
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[edit] Current Anchors
- Alycia Lane, co-anchor 4:30-7am
- Kathy Vara, co-anchor 4:30-7am
- Elita Loresca, weather forecaster
- Sean Murphy, traffic reporter
- Robert Kovacik, morning reporter
- John Cádiz Klemack, reporter
- Ted Chen, weekend anchor
- Andy Rosa Adler, weekend anchor
- Carl Bell- weekend weather forecaster
[edit] Former Anchors
- Kent Shocknek (now with KCBS-TV)
- Jennifer Bjorklund (now general assignment reporter for KNBC)
- Kelly Mack
- David Cruz (now Anchors a daily NewsTalk Radio Show on Clear Channel Network )
- Christopher Nance, Weather
- Rachel Boesing, Weather
- Carla Aragon (retired from KOB-TV)
- Paul Johnson, Traffic
- Chris Schauble (now anchor at KTLA)
[edit] See also
[edit] Reference List
- ^ http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/nov/12/albuquerque-anchor-carla-aragon-leaving-kob-tv/
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2004/sep/24/entertainment/et-quick24.1
- ^ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/03/former-eyewitness-news-anchor-kathy-vara-jumps-to-knbc.html
- ^ http://lacounty.smugmug.com/Other/My-County/15076677_ZTCXz
- ^ http://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/about-us/Paul_Johnson.html
