Programming
The station carries a high profile lineup of daytime programming with shows such as Live with Kelly and Michael, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. The former two programs are produced by the station's corporate cousin, Disney-ABC Domestic Television, while the latter two are produced by the now-defunct King World Productions. Other shows on KGO-TV include the ABC Studios-produced dramas Private Practice, which stars Kate Walsh, a native of San Jose, California, and Castle. Jeopardy! and the Wheel have aired on the station permanently since 1992 after moving from KRON. Only The Oprah Winfrey Show had always aired on KGO-TV throughout the program's tenure (1986–2011). At one point, it also ran Donahue since the 1980s to complement Oprah in the afternoon lineup after Donahue relocated from KTVU. However, in the fall of 1995, KGO-TV became the first affiliate in the country to drop the talk show, one year before its cancellation. (NBC-owned WNBC in New York City was the only other affiliate to drop Donahue as well shortly afterwards, even though Donahue originated from the WNBC studios during this era.) KGO also airs the pre-show of the Academy Awards (produced by sister station KABC-TV in Los Angeles). The station sometimes aired the Bay to Breakers race in the 1980s and the KGO Cure-a-thon with its radio partner, KGO-AM 810. KGO-TV was the first station to produce earthquake documentaries of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake on April 8, 2006.
In the 1970s and 1980s, KGO-TV produced weekday talk/variety shows in the 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. timeslot, after the national Good Morning America broadcast ended each day. A.M. San Francisco was the name from about 1975 until late 1987 or early 1988, when it was replaced with Good Morning, Bay Area, hosted by Susan Sikora. Hosts of A.M. San Francisco included the husband-and-wife team of Fred LaCosse and Terry Lowry. (Other ABC owned-and-operated stations produced their own A.M. programs in the 1980s. For example, A.M. Chicago at WLS-TV evolved into the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Live with Regis and Kelly evolved from the similar A.M. program on WABC. For a week or two in the summer of 1988, A.M. Los Angeles was simulcast on KGO-TV, with a few KGO-TV produced segments.)
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