I love looking back at these old local channels from the 60, 70. and early 80.reminds of my youth the ones from the 81 and on I didn't see.Its when I left home for the Air Force and never really went back to live, just visit. just makes me at ease for missing some of the things I love the most from So. Cal.
Shortly after Disney bought out the RKO TV station KHJ and KCAL, KCAL's owners Disney wanted to use the "Palmer News Package" for KCAL's newscasts ("Palmer News Package" can be heard on TV station in every mid-sized market, particularly not only CBS, but ABC, NBC and Fox affiliates as well), but in order to avoid a lawsuit from then-future owner CBS, which contains the "Enforcer" jingle (which was in use on KCBS-TV), KCAL commissioned 615 Music to make a original theme for the station.
The reruns of "Dallas" began in 1985 and went for a few years or less. The weekday reruns were from the 1978 beginnings of the CBS-TV weekly nighttime serial, while new episodes continued to air on the CBS-TV network, including Los Angeles affiliate, KCBS-TV Channel 2, through its May 1991 series finale. It is ironic that both stations would eventually become a CBS duopoly by 2002 and that continues still.
@@ericsamuelson5656 Thank you for that correction. That must have been in September 1984. The show had been on for 6 years at that point, so that would have been about right for rerun syndication to have begun. They might have a faster time frame for rerun syndication to commence in the current era.
Disney had to sell this station to acquire ABC…the station was sold to Young Broadcasting. Duopolies weren’t allowed yet, and it was obvious that Disney would keep the higher rated KABC.
One of khj's last commercials before becomes kcal tv it's was Mervyn's and yes I miss Mervyn's also I'm remember I saw that women appear on my abc station in Dallas during all my children at the end i love she said: open open open.
@@gidzmobug2323 It is currently a triopoly between these three stations: • KCBS-TV (CBS 2 Los Angeles) • KCAL-TV (KCAL 9) • CBSN Los Angeles (LA's streaming news channel, launched in June 2019)
@@gidzmobug2323 CBSN is a 24 hour news streaming service. You can access the newscasts through the CBS News website, the CBS News app, or through your local CBS station's news site. One thing I like about CBSN is that you can watch news from other cities without the need to travel there to watch them (i.e., Denver, Bay Area, Dallas/Fort Worth, etc.). It is very useful, especially when you need to stay updated on what is happening in your hometown when you travel to other areas.
@@kelvindeanThe duopoly exists for the free broadcast-over-the-air channels 9 and 2 and their various subchannels that are free over-the-air. CBSN is a free streaming service, so it could be considered a third channel for news, although it is accessible only through various CBS-owned online sources.
Was this change of call letters/imaging brought on by the forced "divestiture" of all broadcast holdings of RKO General, similar to the WOR to WWOR change in the New York City market?
WWOR-TV, Channel 9, New York City/Secaucus, New Jersey, is owned by Fox Corporation. Actually, they are licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey, but there isn’t a Secaucus, New Jersey with this station. The building is vacant, with fencing and grown weeds. It is expected to be bulldozed down. The State of New Jersey does not have their own television station, or television market for at least 80 years.👌
@@georgeawestjr.9087 And they’re (or were?) licensed to Secaucus as a condition for RKO-General’s license renewal. And how did that work out General Tire?
That KCAL ad was full of Dizzney'$ propaganda and it was bad as well because they underused that terrible chroma key effect. All kidding aside, that was 1990 bad TV aesthetics of that time. And damn! I was in my mid teens when I last saw that. Jerry Dumphy is long gone but Pat Harvey is still there, at KCAL.
They had to use the Norwalk/Los Angeles cities of license because of a very good reason of bureaucracy, but the Norwalk part had been discontinued in the early 1990s. Norwalk is a suburb of Los Angeles.
@@gidzmobug2323 Yes, it was bureaucracy with Fidelity and the FCC. Fidelity had begun to pursue KHJ-TV 9 as early as 1965 and had questioned the quality of programming and, later on, reciprocal trade practices that involved the General Tire And Rubber Company forcing associated companies to purchase commercial time on KHJ-TV 9 and other RKO General television stations. Some stations had their licenses stripped entirely. KHJ-TV 9 temporarily lost its license and was on a probationary period during the 1970s as there were 5 years of court challenges. It wound up in the Supreme Court by 1982. The FCC forced a sale of KHJ-TV 9. Westinghouse nearly purchased it in late 1985, but due to the entanglements between Fidelity, the FCC, and RKO General, the deal fell through. Disney purchases the station in 1988, but the FCC bureaucracy held the conversion to KCAL-TV up by a year. Fidelity purchased the KHJ license, then sold it to Disney in 1988. A stipulation that the FCC imposed was that for some time, the licensed city would be Norwalk, beginning in 1988 as KHJ. The Norwalk license designation ended in late October 1991, by which time the station had been KCAL-TV since December 2, 1989, nearly 2 years. That is a summary of the history of that and more about Channel 9 Los Angeles as found on Wikipedia and sources about Los Angeles television media. Some used to think that KHJ stood for kindness, happiness, and joy. So much for that. However, KCAL-TV came out a winner in the long run.
RKO-General was stripped of their license due to the sins of parent General Tire. The station license was awarded to one of the challengers to the license holder, Fidelity Television which applied for Norwalk to be city of license and the station was immediately sold to Disney.
@@barryobrien7935 Yes, that about describes it. The Norwalk city designation had been removed from KCAL-TV/9 by October 1991. Disney owned the station from its conversion from KHJ-TV to KCAL-TV in December 1989 through 1996, when Young Broadcasting of Los Angeles had purchased the station due to the Disney purchase of the ABC-TV network and that gave it KABC-TV/7 as a Disney-owned station. Duopolies were not yet legal and KCAL-TV/9 remained an independent station through 2002, when it became part of the CBS-TV duopoly with KCBS-TV/2, as duopolies became legal. By 2023, the CBS2 KCBS-TV/2 name became combined, as far as news operations go, with KCAL-TV/9, in an arrangement known as KCAL News, as KCAL-TV has more of an identity recognition than KCBS-TV in the Los Angeles region. That kind of brings it back full circle. Both KCAL-TV/9 and KCBS-TV/2 have been airing CBS national television programs since 2002, but only since 2023 have both, as far as local news, been combined under the KCAL News nomenclature.
KHJ is History It is Los Angeles....Why Thay gave up their Call Letters that has been a L A trade mark for generations of People in Southern California...Thay should go back to KHJ and drop this Shitty Name California 9....as the Call Letters stinks 😩... Channel 9 will always be KHJ ... for me...I am born and raised in L A...
The original call letters for KHJ-TV were KFI-TV, based on the KFI AM 640 radio station and then they became KHJ-TV, associated with KHJ radio AM 93, current AM 930, and has been KCAL-TV since the 1990s. There is an unrelated KCAL-FM radio station located in the Inland Empire region of southern California as well.
The FCC got rid of the 3-letter call letters years ago (I don't know why that was done). The station was sold once General Tire lost the license, so the call letters had to be changed.
Yes, it was owned by RKO till they were practically ORDERED by the FCC to sell all of their radio and television stations. RKO and parent company GenCorp got caught in what is called "reciprocal trade practices". Then they admitted guilt to a long list of charges.
@@gidzmobug2323The General in RKO General was from the General Tire And Rubber Company. That had its effects as well. I liked their old logo and its accompanying sounds as well.
@@gidzmobug2323Yes, KCAL-TV Channel 9 became linked with KCBS-TV Channel 2 in 2002 as a duopoly, both being CBS-owned, but KCAL-TV considered still to be somewhat independent, as they carry some CBS network programs and their local news divisions share reporters and anchors and have since 2002. Just recently, the national "CBS Mornings" news show airs live on KCBS-TV Channel 2 from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. and then again on its traditional 3-hour tape-delay broadcast from New York City from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. During the live weekday broadcasts, KCAL-TV Channel 9 carries the local news coverage from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. that had been aired on KCBS-TV Channel 2 and the entire local news broadcasts on both channels have been combined into KCAL News. There have been changes to the websites as well, but the local free live feed for local southern California news is still online. Pat Harvey, who had been from CNN and the syndicated late night broadcast from KWGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois, is still with both stations, but mainly KCBS-TV Channel 2. October 30th is Pat Harvey Day in Los Angeles since 2009, as that had been her 20th anniversary beginning with the old KHJ-TV Channel 9 before it had become KCAL-TV Channel 9. She has been with either or both stations for over 33 years, since 1989. She was with KCAL-TV through the 1990s and 2000s, then mostly KCBS-TV since 2009. The old 5515 Melrose Avenue studios of KHJ-TV and KCAL-TV were relocated to Radford Avenue at the CBS Studio Center in April 2007, where KCBS-TV had relocated from Columbia Square at 6221 Sunset Boulevard in the Hollywood region of Los Angeles in 2005, after radio sister station KNX-1070 AM had moved from their Columbia Square studios and had their last broadcast there on August 12, 2005, as the moved to a Wilshire Boulevard Miracle Mile studio where they are still located. Columbia Square later on was converted into other uses that were non-broadcast related. Columbia Square dated back to about 1940. Much radio and television history had occurred at that location.
From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, a good evening
You have been watching Channel 9, KHJ-TV Norwalk/Los Angeles. Thank you for your friendship...and farewell. And now for the 1990s.
On January 5 2023, KCAL 9 was rebranded KCAL News.
The legal name is KCAL-TV.
@2:10 "Open, open, open"...loved those Mervyn's ads.
Those ads were a hoot. Mervyn's, which for awhile had been known as Mervyn's California, after 59 years in business, closed down in 2008.
YES! Thanks for posting this! LA of my youth!!
Probably my favorite TV promo of all time
Oh thank god you reuploaded this.
I remembered when you uploaded this back in 2015, and ever since it's been down for god knows how long.
I love looking back at these old local channels from the 60, 70. and early 80.reminds of my youth the ones from the 81 and on I didn't see.Its when I left home for the Air Force and never really went back to live, just visit. just makes me at ease for missing some of the things I love the most from So. Cal.
Love it !!!!!!! It’s taking me back to my youth
Shortly after Disney bought out the RKO TV station KHJ and KCAL, KCAL's owners Disney wanted to use the "Palmer News Package" for KCAL's newscasts ("Palmer News Package" can be heard on TV station in every mid-sized market, particularly not only CBS, but ABC, NBC and Fox affiliates as well), but in order to avoid a lawsuit from then-future owner CBS, which contains the "Enforcer" jingle (which was in use on KCBS-TV), KCAL commissioned 615 Music to make a original theme for the station.
Did they sound too much alike?
Thanks for posting. Really cool.
#80sForever💜
Both NYC & LA's Ch. 9 then owned by RKO General aired reruns of Dallas every weekday
The other RKO General TV station into the mid 1980s was WHBQ 13 Memphis, then an ABC affiliate.
The reruns of "Dallas" began in 1985 and went for a few years or less. The weekday reruns were from the 1978 beginnings of the CBS-TV weekly nighttime serial, while new episodes continued to air on the CBS-TV network, including Los Angeles affiliate, KCBS-TV Channel 2, through its May 1991 series finale. It is ironic that both stations would eventually become a CBS duopoly by 2002 and that continues still.
@@jasonburger3533 actually, reruns began in 1984
@@ericsamuelson5656 Thank you for that correction. That must have been in September 1984. The show had been on for 6 years at that point, so that would have been about right for rerun syndication to have begun. They might have a faster time frame for rerun syndication to commence in the current era.
30 Years of KCAL 9, the only home of Primetime News in LA (1989-2019)
The only television station owned by Disney until 1996 when it already acquired Capital Cities/ABC Inc., including KABC-TV.
Disney had to sell this station to acquire ABC…the station was sold to Young Broadcasting. Duopolies weren’t allowed yet, and it was obvious that Disney would keep the higher rated KABC.
@@AEMoreira81The station is now owned by CBS (with KCBS).
TAS-TV also used "Join Us".
KCAL used to be owned by Disney, now they are owned by CBS.
Yep.
If Disney was only allowed to keep channel 9 while buying ABC...
I think I saw Chuck Woolery, in that video.
One of khj's last commercials before becomes kcal tv it's was Mervyn's and yes I miss Mervyn's also I'm remember I saw that women appear on my abc station in Dallas during all my children at the end i love she said: open open open.
I know KCAL 9 is apart of CBS now.
Yes, it is a duopoly with KCBS-TV. Just like KTTV/KCOP is with Fox Broadcasting.
@@gidzmobug2323 It is currently a triopoly between these three stations:
• KCBS-TV (CBS 2 Los Angeles)
• KCAL-TV (KCAL 9)
• CBSN Los Angeles (LA's streaming news channel, launched in June 2019)
@@kelvindean I had not heard of CBSN. Will have to check it out.
@@gidzmobug2323 CBSN is a 24 hour news streaming service. You can access the newscasts through the CBS News website, the CBS News app, or through your local CBS station's news site. One thing I like about CBSN is that you can watch news from other cities without the need to travel there to watch them (i.e., Denver, Bay Area, Dallas/Fort Worth, etc.). It is very useful, especially when you need to stay updated on what is happening in your hometown when you travel to other areas.
@@kelvindeanThe duopoly exists for the free broadcast-over-the-air channels 9 and 2 and their various subchannels that are free over-the-air. CBSN is a free streaming service, so it could be considered a third channel for news, although it is accessible only through various CBS-owned online sources.
30 Years Later
Does Pat Harvey age? Gees Louise, she looks the same!
Pat Harvey is 69 years old, according to reliable sources.
Was this change of call letters/imaging brought on by the forced "divestiture" of all broadcast holdings of RKO General, similar to the WOR to WWOR change in the New York City market?
Oh yes indeed. RKO-General was stripped of all their broadcast properties.
WWOR-TV, Channel 9, New York City/Secaucus, New Jersey, is owned by Fox Corporation.
Actually, they are licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey, but there isn’t a Secaucus, New Jersey with this station. The building is vacant, with fencing and grown weeds. It is expected to be bulldozed down.
The State of New Jersey does not have their own television station, or television market for at least 80 years.👌
@@georgeawestjr.9087 And they’re (or were?) licensed to Secaucus as a condition for RKO-General’s license renewal. And how did that work out General Tire?
That KCAL ad was full of Dizzney'$ propaganda and it was bad as well because they underused that terrible chroma key effect.
All kidding aside, that was 1990 bad TV aesthetics of that time. And damn! I was in my mid teens when I last saw that. Jerry Dumphy is long gone but Pat Harvey is still there, at KCAL.
Rest in peace khj tv.
Well said, Matthew. 🙏🏻
How did Norwalk get in? The city of license is LA.
They had to use the Norwalk/Los Angeles cities of license because of a very good reason of bureaucracy, but the Norwalk part had been discontinued in the early 1990s. Norwalk is a suburb of Los Angeles.
@@jasonburger3533 Bureaucracy?
@@gidzmobug2323 Yes, it was bureaucracy with Fidelity and the FCC. Fidelity had begun to pursue KHJ-TV 9 as early as 1965 and had questioned the quality of programming and, later on, reciprocal trade practices that involved the General Tire And Rubber Company forcing associated companies to purchase commercial time on KHJ-TV 9 and other RKO General television stations. Some stations had their licenses stripped entirely. KHJ-TV 9 temporarily lost its license and was on a probationary period during the 1970s as there were 5 years of court challenges. It wound up in the Supreme Court by 1982. The FCC forced a sale of KHJ-TV 9. Westinghouse nearly purchased it in late 1985, but due to the entanglements between Fidelity, the FCC, and RKO General, the deal fell through. Disney purchases the station in 1988, but the FCC bureaucracy held the conversion to KCAL-TV up by a year. Fidelity purchased the KHJ license, then sold it to Disney in 1988. A stipulation that the FCC imposed was that for some time, the licensed city would be Norwalk, beginning in 1988 as KHJ. The Norwalk license designation ended in late October 1991, by which time the station had been KCAL-TV since December 2, 1989, nearly 2 years. That is a summary of the history of that and more about Channel 9 Los Angeles as found on Wikipedia and sources about Los Angeles television media. Some used to think that KHJ stood for kindness, happiness, and joy. So much for that. However, KCAL-TV came out a winner in the long run.
RKO-General was stripped of their license due to the sins of parent General Tire. The station license was awarded to one of the challengers to the license holder, Fidelity Television which applied for Norwalk to be city of license and the station was immediately sold to Disney.
@@barryobrien7935 Yes, that about describes it. The Norwalk city designation had been removed from KCAL-TV/9 by October 1991. Disney owned the station from its conversion from KHJ-TV to KCAL-TV in December 1989 through 1996, when Young Broadcasting of Los Angeles had purchased the station due to the Disney purchase of the ABC-TV network and that gave it KABC-TV/7 as a Disney-owned station. Duopolies were not yet legal and KCAL-TV/9 remained an independent station through 2002, when it became part of the CBS-TV duopoly with KCBS-TV/2, as duopolies became legal. By 2023, the CBS2 KCBS-TV/2 name became combined, as far as news operations go, with KCAL-TV/9, in an arrangement known as KCAL News, as KCAL-TV has more of an identity recognition than KCBS-TV in the Los Angeles region. That kind of brings it back full circle. Both KCAL-TV/9 and KCBS-TV/2 have been airing CBS national television programs since 2002, but only since 2023 have both, as far as local news, been combined under the KCAL News nomenclature.
What's that song at the end. I know it's a TV theme song but just can't place it. It's driving me crazy.
The theme from the closing credits of WKRP In Cincinnati
@@CouchPotatoWrestling and of course WKRP aired right here on KHJ/KCAL 9
KHJ is History It is Los Angeles....Why Thay gave up their Call Letters that has been a L A trade mark for generations of People in Southern California...Thay should go back to KHJ and drop this Shitty Name California 9....as the Call Letters stinks 😩... Channel 9 will always be KHJ ... for me...I am born and raised in L A...
The original call letters for KHJ-TV were KFI-TV, based on the KFI AM 640 radio station and then they became KHJ-TV, associated with KHJ radio AM 93, current AM 930, and has been KCAL-TV since the 1990s. There is an unrelated KCAL-FM radio station located in the Inland Empire region of southern California as well.
The FCC got rid of the 3-letter call letters years ago (I don't know why that was done). The station was sold once General Tire lost the license, so the call letters had to be changed.
KCAL is still around.
Yes, it was owned by RKO till they were practically ORDERED by the FCC to sell all of their radio and television stations. RKO and parent company GenCorp got caught in what is called "reciprocal trade practices". Then they admitted guilt to a long list of charges.
If anyone thought KHJ/KCAL was the last RKO-owned station, WRONG!
RKO sold ABC (now Fox) station WHBQ in Memphis in 1990.
@@gidzmobug2323The General in RKO General was from the General Tire And Rubber Company. That had its effects as well. I liked their old logo and its accompanying sounds as well.
KCAL is still around these days, CBS owns it now.
Yes, as a duopoly with KCBS.
@Jerry Landers At least the last on-air presence.
@@gidzmobug2323Yes, KCAL-TV Channel 9 became linked with KCBS-TV Channel 2 in 2002 as a duopoly, both being CBS-owned, but KCAL-TV considered still to be somewhat independent, as they carry some CBS network programs and their local news divisions share reporters and anchors and have since 2002. Just recently, the national "CBS Mornings" news show airs live on KCBS-TV Channel 2 from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. and then again on its traditional 3-hour tape-delay broadcast from New York City from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. During the live weekday broadcasts, KCAL-TV Channel 9 carries the local news coverage from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. that had been aired on KCBS-TV Channel 2 and the entire local news broadcasts on both channels have been combined into KCAL News. There have been changes to the websites as well, but the local free live feed for local southern California news is still online.
Pat Harvey, who had been from CNN and the syndicated late night broadcast from KWGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois, is still with both stations, but mainly KCBS-TV Channel 2. October 30th is Pat Harvey Day in Los Angeles since 2009, as that had been her 20th anniversary beginning with the old KHJ-TV Channel 9 before it had become KCAL-TV Channel 9. She has been with either or both stations for over 33 years, since 1989. She was with KCAL-TV through the 1990s and 2000s, then mostly KCBS-TV since 2009.
The old 5515 Melrose Avenue studios of KHJ-TV and KCAL-TV were relocated to Radford Avenue at the CBS Studio Center in April 2007, where KCBS-TV had relocated from Columbia Square at 6221 Sunset Boulevard in the Hollywood region of Los Angeles in 2005, after radio sister station KNX-1070 AM had moved from their Columbia Square studios and had their last broadcast there on August 12, 2005, as the moved to a Wilshire Boulevard Miracle Mile studio where they are still located. Columbia Square later on was converted into other uses that were non-broadcast related. Columbia Square dated back to about 1940. Much radio and television history had occurred at that location.
KCAL TV now own by VIACOMCBS KCBS TV
Since 2002.
And what if paramount global a present company for cbs tv network to bring back a classic California 9 banner.
Music: th-cam.com/users/clipUgkxvRNMse1oC4hpaBqMKJiqadEuOXYmFMGy
The actual moment of transition can be seen here: m.th-cam.com/video/sZ7f5UwevOc/w-d-xo.html
2:12 4:11
where was wendy gordon who was the anchor from 1980 to 1990. do your history better
Ok well thanks