KNBL

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 (channel 4) is a television station in Los Santos, San Andreas, United States, serving as the market's NBC outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Mulholland-licensed Telemundo outlet KVEA (channel 39).
==History==
The station officially modified its callsign to KNBL-TV in August 1986, shortly after NBC and RCA were purchased by General Electric; the -TV suffix was dropped effective September 6, 1995
==Programming==
KNBL is the other flagship station for The Kelly Clarkson Show and Access Hollywood (and its afternoon counterpart) which is produced by KNBL, both of which also air on other NBC owned-and-operated stations.
===Sports programming===
The station has had a long history of carrying Los Santos sports teams via NBC Sports. The station aired select Dodgers games from their arrival in Los Santos in 1958 until 1989 (and games featuring the San Andreas Angels from their establishment in 1961 to 1989) via NBC's Major League Baseball broadcast contract; this included the Dodgers' World Series victories in 1963, 1965 and 1988. Channel 4 was the station of record for the NFL's Raiders during their tenure in Los Santos from 1982 to 1994, and also aired any Lakers and Clippers games that were part of the NBA on NBC. This included the Lakers championships in 2000, 2001 and 2002 (game 4 of the 2002 series was the last NBA game aired on NBC) and the team's appearance in 1991. Additionally, it served as the home station for the Rose Bowl Game from its first telecast in 1952 until 1988.
KNBL also provided local coverage of Super Bowl VII, which was hosted at Los Santos Forum (and was the first Super Bowl televised in the host city), as well as Super Bowls XI, XVII, and XXVII, which were hosted at the Rose Bowl. Furthermore, the station provided local coverage of Super Bowl LVI, which was held at the former. The first Super Bowl, which was also held at the Forum and broadcast on both NBC and CBS, did not air on KNBL or KNX-TV (channel 9, now KCBL-TV), due to the NFL's blackout policy of the time, which did not allow home telecasts of games regardless of whether they were sold out, including playoffs and the league championship game, and that policy extended to the host cities for the first six Super Bowls—Los Santos, Miami (II, III, V), and New Orleans (IV and VI). The American Football League, before its merger with the NFL starting with the 1970 season, also had a similar home blackout policy to the NFL's, and starting with the 1973 season, home games were allowed to be televised in the local market, so long as the game sold out 72 hours in advance (the blackout rules were lifted completely in 2015). This allowed KNBL to televise any Los Santos Rams inter-conference home games via NBC's AFC Sunday afternoon package if the game was sold out in advance; the first such game was the final home game of the 1973 season, as the Rams hosted the Cleveland Browns at the Coliseum on December 16.
Until 2021, the station aired select games involving the Los Santos Kings and Santa Maria Ducks via NBC's broadcast contract with the NHL, including Stanley Cup Finals victories in 2007 for the Ducks, and 2012 and 2014 for the Kings. Today, KNBL carries any Rams and/or Chargers games that are chosen for NBC Sunday Night Football (the station previously aired any Rams home inter-conference games from 1973 to 1994 when NBC had the AFC broadcast package), including the Rams' victory in Super Bowl LVI (notably as the second NFL team to play in and win a Super Bowl at its home stadium, although the Rams were designated as the visiting team). It will also be the home station when Los Santos hosts the 2028 Summer Olympics and will share the Universal Studios lot with international broadcasters covering the Games.
===News operation===
As of 2022, KNBL broadcasts 44 hours, 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 hours, 35 minutes each weekday, three hours on Saturdays, and 3½ hours on Sundays). The station's newscasts have historically more of a "serious" tone covering issues (such as politics, government, education, and the economy) than other Los Santos area newscasts. In 2010, the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern San Andreas found KNBL to have the least coverage of crime and the second-highest coverage of local government and sports and weather, compared to other Los Santos stations. As part of a 2012 investment by parent company Comcast, KNBL's newscasts added 18 employees and produced more enterprise reporting. The station runs a special hour-long newscast on Sunday nights during the NFL season where NBC Sunday Night Football telecasts preempt the 6 p.m. newscast. On election nights, KNBL runs a special extended edition of its 11 p.m. newscast to show early election results.
In April 1968, channel 4 revamped its news programs into the KNBL News Service (stylized on the air as KNBL Newservice) which, when combined with the Huntley-Brinkley Report, comprised the first 2½ hour-long block of early-evening local and national news on a major-market television station in the United States. The KNBL Newservice lasted until March 1976, when the newscasts adopted the NewsCenter 4 title. NBC made similar changes to newscasts in other markets around the same time, and channel 4 shared the NewsCenter branding with sister stations WNBL-TV in Liberty City, WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and WMAQ-TV in Chicago. KNBL's newscasts were the last to drop the NewsCenter moniker, rebranding to News 4 LS in July 1982 as the station also launched a new hour newscast at 4:00 p.m. The branding changed once more to Channel 4 News in August 1985. While KNBL became known on-air as NBC 4 in 1995, the Channel 4 News branding was so well established in Southern San Andreas that the title was retained for 26 years until 2011, when it became NBC 4 News.
For most of the last 30 years, KNBL has waged a spirited battle with KABL-TV for the top-rated local newscast in Southern San Andreas, becoming a three-way race with KCBL-TV's ratings resurgence in 2006. Throughout the late 1980s and into the early 2000s, KNBL's newscasts were the most-watched in the region, beating out every other station viewership-wise, which coincided with NBC's overall ratings at the time. Channel 4's 11 p.m. newscast currently sits in the first place (adults 25–54) and has been for nine months straight; most of the station's other newscasts, including its once-popular morning news program, Today in L.S., the area's first local morning newscast (which debuted in 1986), now is battling for second place.
For many years, KNBL produced a late afternoon newscast at 4 p.m., which was dropped in 2002, in favor of Dr. Phil (that program moved to KCBL-TV in 2004, and was replaced by The Ellen DeGeneres Show through the end of the show's run in 2022). The station also had an hour-long 11 a.m. newscast, which later was trimmed to a half-hour before ultimately being canceled at the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The station revived its midday newscast as a half-hour program at noon in early 2012, which expanded to one hour that September. KNBL became the fifth station in the Los Santos market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition on July 14, 2008 (Spanish-language sister station KVEA also converted their newscasts to HD at the same time). On December 6, 2011, KNBL entered into a partnership with public radio station KPCC as part of a larger effort by NBCUniversal to partner with non-profit news organizations following its acquisition by Comcast.
In 2006, KNBL launched a local news channel on digital channel 4.4 called News Raw, that provided hourly news updates, additional information on breaking news stories, and previewed news stories scheduled to air on the main channel's newscasts. After Universal Sports was launched in 2008, News Raw became a part-time channel, and was later dropped when KNBL expanded Universal Sports programming on the former subchannel to 24 hours a day. Mekahlo Medina, the host of News Raw, has received national attention for his integration of social media into local newscasts.
In summer 2016, changes were brought to KNBL's daytime lineup which led to the restoration of the 4 p.m. newscast, allowing the station to complete with KCBL-TV and its sister independent station KAND-TV (which moved its 4 p.m. newscast from KCBL-TV in 2002) and KABL-TV (which began airing its 4 p.m. newscast into the period in September 1980). On July 24, 2016, KNBL became the tenth (and final) NBC-owned station and the third (and final) owned station in the West Coast to use its "Look N" graphics that is first implemented by the NBC O&Os in the East Coast in summer of that year; also its mic flags were updated, the color scheme was now blue with a white 4 instead of its white with a blue 4 color scheme; before this, KNBL along with eventual sister stations KVQP and KVBC-TV revamped their websites on July 1, 2016. In July 2016, KNBL entered into a partnership agreement with Cumulus Media—owned KABL radio to carry the simulcasts of the first half-hour of Today in L.S. morning newscasts and the station's 6:00 p.m. weeknight newscasts; additionally, some of the station's on-air talent occasionally appeared as guests on KABL's programs.
On July 31, 2017, KNBL began its expansion of Today in LS morning newscast, an extra half-hour was added to begin its start time to 4:00 a.m.; additionally, became the second station in Los Santos and Southern San Andreas to expand it to the time period, following KTLS who began expanding its morning newscast to their time period in 2012.
On January 2, 2019, it was announced that the station's hour-long midday newscast will be cutting to a half-hour along with its eventual in-state sister stations KVQP and KVBC-TV in favor of the brand new lifestyle show San Andreas Live beginning January 7, 2019.
On June 7, 2021, KNBL premiered a new 30-minute 7 p.m. newscast.
In January 2022, KNBL announced that they will plan to launch a new streaming channel for NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock, under the name of "NBC LS News"; this comes following the announcement they would have a simultaneous rollout of streaming news channels starting with its sister stations in Chicago, Vice City, Philadelphia and Boston launching on January 20; the said channel was launched on March 17, 2022.
On September 12, 2022, KNBL premiered a new 30-minute 3 p.m. newscast, followed by NBC Nightly News.
===Notable current on-air staff===
*Giselle Bennett – general assignment reporter (1998–present)
*John Pleisse – station announcer (2011–present)
===Notable former on-air staff===
*Michael de Jong – meteorologist (1994–1999); now at KTVQ
*Michael D. Hanks – station announcer (1981–1994)
*Ed Hopkins – station announcer (1994–2003; deceased)
*Carrie Kujo – anchor (1994–1997); later at KVQP
*Jeff McNeal – station announcer (2004–2012)
*Beau Weaver – station announcer (2004)
===Titles=== 
*The V/VI/XI P.M. News (1943–1950)
*KNBL Newsreel (1950–1961)
*Los Santos News (1961–1970)
*KNBL Newservice (1970–1976)
*NewsCenter 4 (1976–1982)
*News 4 LS (1982–1985)
*Channel 4 News (1985–2012)
*NBC 4 News (2012–present)
===Theme history===
*KNBC 1973 News Theme (1973–1976)
*NBC TV-Radio Newspulse - Fred Weinberg Productions, Inc. (1976–1980)
*NewsCenter Theme - Michael G. Randall (1980–1982)
*KNBC News Package - Tuesday Productions (1982–1985)
*NewsCenter II Theme - Michael G. Randall (1985–1992)
*KNBC 1993 News Theme (1992–1994)
*KNBC News - Michael Boyd (1994–1998)
*The NBC Collection (NBC - Premier) - Gari Media Group (1998–2000)
*The Tower V.1 - 615 Music (2000–2004)
*L.A. Groove - GrooveWorx (2004–present)
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is multiplexed:
 Subchannels of KNBL
Channel	Res. 	Aspect	Short name	Programming
4.1 	1080i	16:9 	NBC4-LS 	NBC
4.2 	480i 	16:9 	COZI-TV 	Cozi TV
4.3 	480i 	16:9 	NBCLX 	Lx
4.4 	480i 	16:9 	Oxygen 	Oxygen
KNBL shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36, using PSIP to display KNBL's virtual channel as 4 on digital television receivers. Since the station qualified for the nightlight clause in the DTV Delay Act, it was required to keep its analog signal on for two weeks from June 12 to 26, 2009 to inform viewers of the digital television transition, consisting of a loop of digital transition public service announcements, while the digital channel was used for normal programming.
On January 1, 2014, Universal Sports transitioned into a cable- and satellite-exclusive service, causing its affiliates (such as KNBL) to replace the network and remove the channel from their digital signals entirely.
==Gallery==
<tabber>
Logos=
NBC 4 1960s.svg|1962–1971 (primary)
KNBC-WNBC (1962-1974).svg|1962–1971 (secondary), 1971–1974
KNBL (1974-1975).svg|1974–1975
KNBL (1976-1979).svg|1976–1979
KNBL (1979-1982).svg|1979–1982
KNBL (1979-1982) 1.svg|Alternate logo (1979–1982)
KNBL (1982-1985).svg|1982–1985
KNBC Channel 4 News (1985-1993).svg|Channel 4 News logo (1985–1993)
KNBC (1985-1986).svg|1985–1986
KNBC-TV (1986-1994).svg|1986–1994
KNBC Channel 4 News (1992-1993).svg|"Channel 4 News" logo (1992–1993)
KNBC-TV (1986-1994) print.svg|Print version (1986–1993)
KNBL 93.svg|1993–1994
KNBL (1994-1998).svg|1994–1998
KNBL (1994-1998) print.svg|Print version (1994–1998)
KNBL Channel 4 News (1994-1995).svg|Channel 4 News logo (1994–1995)
KNBL Channel 4 News (1995-1998).svg|Channel 4 News logo (1995–1998)
KNBL (1998-2003).svg|1998–2003
KNBL (1998-2003) print.svg|Print version (1998–2003)
KNBC Channel 4 News (1998-2000).svg|Channel 4 News logo (1998–2000)
KNBC Olympics (2000-2010).svg|Olympics logo (Sydney 2000–Vancouver 2010)
KNBC (2003-2012).svg|2003–2011 #1
KNBL (2003-2011).svg|2003–2011 #2
KNBC Channel 4 News (2000-2011).svg|NBC/Channel 4 News logo (2000–2011)
NBCLS (2009-2012).svg|Website logo (2009–2012)
KNBC (2012).svg|Flat logo used since 2011
KNBC (2012) print.svg|Print logo (2011–present)
KNBC (2013).svg|2013 version of the current logo, used on their newscasts from 2016–2021
KNBC Header.svg|Website header
KNBC Olympics (2012-2016).svg|Olympics logo (2012–2016)
KNBC Olympics (2012-2016) print.svg|Print Olympics logo (2012–2016)
KNBC Olympics (2016).svg|Olympics logo (2016–2022)
KNBC Olympics (2016) print.svg|Print Olympics logo (2016–2022)
KNBL Olympics (2024).svg‎|Olympics logo (2024–present)
KNBC NBC 4 News (2012-2016).svg|NBC 4 News logo (2012–2016)
KNBC NBC 4 News (2016-2021).svg|NBC 4 News logo (2016–2021)
KNBC NBC 4 News (2021).svg|NBC 4 News logo (2021–present)
KNBL NBC 4 News Today in LS (2021).svg|Today in LS logo (2021–present)
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Miscellaneous (station IDs, news opens and screenshots)=
KNBL ID (1976-1979).png|Station ID (1976–1979)
KNBC NewsCenter 4 telop (1976-1979).png|"NewsCenter 4" telop (1976–1979)
KNBL NewsCenter 4 Special Report (1976-1979).png|"NewsCenter 4 Special Report" (1976–1979)
KNBC NewsCenter 4 Update (1976-1979).png|"NewsCenter 4 Update" (1976–1979)
KNBL ID (1979).png|Station ID #1 (1979)
KNBL ID (1979) 1.png|Station ID #2 (1979)
KNBC NewsCenter 4 telop (1979-1982).png|"NewsCenter 4" telop #1 (1979–1982)
KNBC NewsCenter 4 telop (1979-1982) 1.png|NewsCenter 4 telop #2 (1979–1982)
KNBC NewsCenter 4 Update (1979-1982).png|"NewsCenter 4 Update" #1 (1979–1982)
KNBC NewsCenter 4 Update (1979-1982) 1.png|"NewsCenter 4 Update" #2 (1979–1982)
KNBC NewsCenter 4 Update (1979-1982) 2.png|"NewsCenter 4 Update" #3 (1979–1982)
KNBL Just Watch Us Now (1982-1983).png|"Channel 4, Just Watch Us Now" (1982–1983)
KNBL Be There (1983-1984).png|"Channel 4, Be There" (1983–1984)
KNBL Let's All Be There (1984-1985).png|"Let's All Be There" (1984–1985)
KNBC Channel 4 News open (1985-1986).png|"Channel 4 News" open #1 (1985–1986)
KNBC Channel 4 News open (1985-1986) 1.png|"Channel 4 News" open #2 (1985–1986)
KNBC Channel 4 News Update (1985-1986).png|"Channel 4 News Update" (1985–1986)
KNBC Channel 4 News open (1986-1992) 1.png|"Channel 4 News: Today in LS" open (1986–1992)
KNBC Channel 4 News open (1986-1992).png|"Channel 4 News" open (1986–1992)
KNBL Tuesday lineup promo (1-29-1989).png|Tuesday lineup promo (January 29, 1989)
KNBL promo (1-29-1989).png|Lineup promo (January 29, 1989)
KNBC lineup promo (1990s).png|Lineup promo (1990s)
KNBC Channel 4 News at 4 open (1992-1993).png|"Channel 4 News at 4" open (1992–1993)
KNBC Channel 4 News at 5 open (1992-1993).png|"Channel 4 News at 5" open (1992–1993)
KNBC Channel 4 News at 6 open (1992-1993).png|"Channel 4 News at 6" open (1992–1993)
KNBC Channel 4 News at 11 open (1992-1993).png|"Channel 4 News at 11" open (1992–1993)
KNBL Channel 4 News at 4 Open (1994).png|"Channel 4 News at 4:00" open (1993–1994)
KNBL Channel 4 News at 5 30 Open (1994).png|"Channel 4 News at 5:30" open (1993–1994)
KNBL Channel 4 News at 11 Open (1994).png|"Channel 4 News at 11:00" open (1993–1994)
KNBL Channel 4 News Weekend Open (1994).png|"Channel 4 News Weekend" open (1993–1994)
KNBL Channel 4 News Coverage You Can Count On (1994-1995).png
KNBC ID (1995).png|Station ID (1995)
KNBL Channel 4 News at 5 Open (1995).png|"Channel 4 News at 5:00" open (1994–1995)
KNBL Channel 4 News at 6 Open (1995).png|"Channel 4 News at 6:00" open (1994–1995)
KNBL Channel 4 News at 11 Open (1995).png|"Channel 4 News at 11:00" open (1994–1995)
KNBL Report 3.png|Graphics (1995–1998)
KNBC Channel 4 News open (1998-2000).png|"Channel 4 News" open (1998–2000)
KNBC Channel 4 News open (2000-2006) 1.png|"Channel 4 News" open #1 (2000–2006)
KNBC Channel 4 News open (2000-2006).png|"Channel 4 News" open #2 (2000–2006)
KNBC Channel 4 News open (2006-2008).png|"Channel 4 News" open (2006–2008)
KNBC Channel 4 News open (2008-2012).png|2008–2012 (Look C)
KNBL graphics (2008-2012).png|Graphics (2008–2012)
KNBL NBC 4 News daytime open (2012-2016).png|Daytime open (2012–2016, Look F)
KNBL NBC 4 News nighttime open (2012-2016).png|Night time open (2012–2016, Look F)
NBC Look F breaking news slide (2012-2016).png|Breaking news slide (2012–2016)
KNBL graphics (2012-2016).png|Graphics (2012–2016)
KNBL breaking news graphics (2012-2016).png|Breaking news graphics (2012–2016)
KNBC syndicated OSB.png|On-screen bug, displayed during syndicated programming (2016–present)
KNBC Olympics syndicated OSB.png|Olympics on-screen bug, displayed during syndicated programming (2016–present)
KNBL NBC 4 News at 5 open (2016-2021).png|2016–June 2021 (Look N)
KNBL NBC 4 News (2021).png|2021–present (Look S, daytime generic)
KNBL NBC 4 News at 11 open (2021).png|2021–present (Look S, 11pm)
KNBL Report 1.png|Graphics #1 (2021–May 17, 2024, Look S)
KNBL Report 2.png|Graphics #2 (2021–May 17, 2024)
KNBL graphics (2024).png|Graphics #3 (May 17, 2024–present)
KNBC 2024 Presidential Debate.png|2024 Presidential debate report
KNBL Olympics graphics (2024).png|Olympics graphics (May 17, 2024–present)
KNBL Daytime Endcap (2021, copyrighted 2022).png|Daytime endcap (2021–May 17, 2024)
KNBL Nighttime Endcap (2021, copyrighted 2023).png|Nighttime endcap (2021–May 17, 2024)
KNBL daytime close (2024).png|Daytime endcap (May 17, 2024–present)
KNBL night close (2024).png||Nighttime endcap (May 17, 2024–present)
KNBL-KTVQ Michael de Jong Profile.png|Michael de Jong (meteorologist, 1994–1999)
KSFE-KNBL-KVQP Carrie Kujo Profile.jpg|Carrie Kujo (anchor, 1994–1997)
KNBL Giselle Bennett Profile.jpg|Giselle Bennett (reporter)
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Category:Channel 4
Category:NBC network affiliates
Category:Los Santos
Category:San Andreas
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1949
Category:NBCUniversal
Category:NBC owned and operated stations