Newscasts
KICU produced a half-hour newscast during the 1980s and 1990s. It originally aired at 7:30 p.m., but was eventually moved to 10 p.m. Jan Hutchins (formerly a sportscaster at KPIX) was a longtime anchor, along with Ysabel Duron; reporters included Bill Buckmaster, Tony Russomanno and Melanie Morgan. KICU also ran Independent Network News, a syndicated nightly news program produced by WPIX/New York City, at 10:30 p.m. from the late 1980s until its June 1990 cancellation. KICU produced an early evening local newscast at 7 p.m. nightly called Action 36 Prime News from 1992 to 1994.
After being acquired by Cox Enterprises, KICU began airing rebroadcasts of sister station KTVU's Ten O'Clock News at 11 p.m. from January 2000 until September 14, 2001, under the title The Eleven O'Clock Edition of the Original Ten O'Clock News (the "Original" branding used to stand out from 10 p.m. newscasts airing on KRON and KPIX at the time, both of which pushed their network primetime schedules back an hour in order to improve viewership and to compete with KTVU). KICU also simulcast the 7-9 a.m. block of Mornings on 2 during the early 2000s, with a ticker featuring traffic and weather information, news briefs and breaking news stories specific to the South Bay area. The station resumed airing a newscast on January 21, 2008 with the launch of Bay Area News at 7 on TV 36, a half-hour weeknight 7 p.m. newscast that is produced by KTVU, it is currently anchored by Gasia Mikaelian. On April 5, 2010, KICU once again began rebroadcasting KTVU's 10 p.m. newscast, this time at 11:30 p.m. on Monday thru Friday evenings.
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