News Operation
KNXV-TV presently broadcasts a total of 29 hours of local newscasts each week (with five hours on weekdays, and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Unlike most ABC affiliates, KNXV does not carry a newscast on weekend mornings. KNXV is one of ten television stations that air consumer reports from John Matarese of fellow ABC affiliate (and Scripps sister station) WCPO/Cincinnati.
At the time that KNXV had been named Phoenix's new ABC affiliate in 1994, the station already been building a news department under news director Raymond Hunt. Plans for KNXV's new newscast, originally built to match the Fox feel, included a futuristic purple set and liberal use of special effects. After ABC came to KNXV, the style was toned down, though the set remained. The station's newscasts debuted at last on August 1, 1994, under the News 15 brand name with an 85-person news staff (larger than the 30 that the news department was originally planned to have). By September 1995, KNXV was airing daily newscasts at 6 and 11 a.m. in the morning, and evenings at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
In 2006, KNXV debuted the first 4 p.m. newscast in the market, replacing a Jeopardy! rerun, and in June 2007, it became the fourth station in Arizona (after area NBC affiliate KPNX, KTVK and Tucson NBC affiliate KVOA-TV) to produce their local newscasts high-definition. In 2009, KNXV began training its staff of photojournalists and reporters to take on the role of a multimedia journalist, this is commonly referred to in the industry as a "one man band" operation. Employees in this classification generate story ideas, shoot, edit, write and publish the content.
On April 1, 2009, the E. W. Scripps Company and Fox Television Stations announced the formation of the Local News Service model between stations owned by the two station groups in the Phoenix, Detroit and Tampa markets. The service allows the pooling of newsgathering efforts for local news events and each station provides employees to the pool service in exchange for the sharing of video. Meredith Corporation-owned CBS affiliate KPHO-TV eventually joined the Phoenix LNS agreeement shortly after the announcement.
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