KAND-TV

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 (channel 11) is an independent television station in Los Santos, San Andreas, United States. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CBS outlet KCBL-TV (channel 9).
==History==
===KFI-TV (1948–1951)===
Channel 11 signed on the air as commercial station KFI-TV on August 25, 1948, owned by Earle C. Anthony alongside KFI radio (640 AM). However, the station was originally licensed as experimental W6XEA about 1940, and in 1944 applied for the call letters KSEE (which are now used by the NBC affiliate in Fresno, California). It is unknown whether any transmissions occurred under either call sign.
The station initially broadcast a limited schedule with six hours weekly, and formally began operations on October 6, 1948, with 3+1⁄2 hours that day. Though KFI had long been affiliated with NBC Radio, KFI-TV did not affiliate with the then-upstart NBC Television Network as NBC was building its own station, KLOS (channel 3), which went on the air in January 1949. KFI general manager William B. Ryan indicated a willingness to affiliate with a network other than NBC or start a mutual regional network. Channel 11 has been an independent station for virtually its entire history, though it carried RKO programming from 1948 to 1960 (it aired the minimum block until KLSX-TV in Montgomery signed on) and DuMont programming from 1954 up until that network's 1956 demise.
===KJH-TV (1951–1989)===
Channel 9's engineers threatened to go on strike in 1951, leading Anthony to sell the station to the General Tire and Rubber Company in August of that year. A few months earlier, General Tire had purchased the Don Lee Broadcasting System, a regional West Coast radio network (the original Don Lee television station, KTSL (channel 9), was sold separately to CBS; it evolved into future sister KCBL-TV). Don Lee's flagship station was KJH radio (930 AM), and General Tire changed its new television station's call letters to KJH-TV in September 1951. One former employee referred to the call letters as standing for "kindness, joy and happiness," although the call sign was likely randomly assigned. The Don Lee name was so well respected in San Andreas broadcasting that KJH-TV called itself "Don Lee Television" for a few years in the early 1950s, even though it had never been affiliated with KJH radio until the 1951 deal.
In 1955, General Tire purchased RKO Radio Pictures to give the company's television station group access to RKO's film library. In 1959, General Tire's broadcasting and film divisions were merged as RKO General.
By the mid-1960s, channel 11 offered a standard independent schedule of movies, off-network reruns, children's shows like The Pancake Man hosted by Hal Smith (who showed educational shorts like The Space Explorers), first-run syndicated programs, and locally produced programs including local newscasts, sports events and public affairs programs. In the late 1960s, KJH embarked on a novel, groundbreaking (and inexpensive) experiment, called Tempo, which heavily borrowed from the talk radio craze on local radio stations. Daytime programming was divided into three blocks running three hours in length, called Tempo I, Tempo II and Tempo III. The second of the three programs, Tempo II was perhaps the most active, controversial and innovative. For the first couple of years the hosts were Stan Bohrman and Maria Cole (the wife of Nat King Cole). Guests ranged from William F. Buckley to Sammy Davis, Jr. and the political movers and shakers in Southern San Andreas. At one point, Stan even quit the program after what he called censorship on the topic of Eldridge Cleaver. Bohrman came back to the program and was joined by a new co-host, Regis Philbin. They became a very popular fixture in Los Santos television. In fact, in his book about those days, Philbin credits the chemistry with Bohrman and the format of the program as forerunners of much of what would become the cable news format 20 years later.
In the early 1970s, KJH-TV sought a similar programming strategy to that of crosstown competitor KTLS (channel 5), which focused more on talk shows, game shows, sports, feature films and off-network drama series. The cartoons were phased out (some of them moving to KIFT and KKOG), and the station ran fewer off-network sitcoms. It did continue to have a weekday children's show called Froozles, which ran until the late 1980s. It also produced many half-hour public affairs programs, as well as a local talk show called Mid-Morning L.S. The first hosts were Kathy McKee and Sandy Baron on the Mid Day and Good Morning L.S. talk shows. Both were hired by KJH's then-station manager Lional Schaen. Bob Hilton, Meredith MacRae, Geoff Edwards and Regis Philbin also hosted programs on the station well into the 1980s. Edwards and MacRae won Emmy Awards for their hosting duties during the early 1980s. Some other locally produced public affairs programs included the investigative show Camera 11 and The Changing Family, a program about family and social issues during the 1980s. Despite this, KJH-TV was perceived as an also ran while KTLS was the leading independent station, even though it had a similar format.
Meanwhile, a behind-the-scenes battle was underway with serious implications on the station's future—and that of its owner. In 1965, RKO General faced a threat to its license for KJH-TV from a group called Fidelity Television. At first, Fidelity's claim focused on channel 11's programming quality. Later, Fidelity levied a more serious claim that KJH-TV was involved in reciprocal trade practices. Fidelity alleged that RKO's parent company, General Tire, forced its retailers to purchase advertising on KJH-TV and other RKO-owned stations as a condition of their contracts with General Tire. An administrative law judge found in favor of Fidelity, but RKO appealed. In 1972, the FCC allowed RKO to keep the license for KJH-TV, but two years later conditioned future renewals on the renewal of sister station WNAC-TV in Boston.
Six years later, the FCC stripped WNAC-TV of its license for numerous reasons, but largely because RKO had misled the commission about corporate misconduct at General Tire. The decision was affirmed after the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in April 1982. The FCC awarded a replacement license for channel 7 in Boston to New England Television, a merger of two competing groups for a new channel 7. RKO General sold off WNAC-TV's non-license assets to New England Television, who used them to launch WNEV-TV (now WHDH) in place of WNAC-TV that May 21. The WNAC-TV decision also meant KJH-TV and sister station WRL-TV in Liberty City had lost their licenses, but an appeals court ruled that the FCC erred when it tied channel 11's renewal to that of WNAC-TV and ordered new hearings for KJH-TV and WRL-TV.
The hearings dragged on for five years; as a result of this, the station was forced to air an unusually large amount of public-affairs programming; a combination of this and the station's cash reserves being drained by RKO's legal battles led to decreased ratings (and the station's perception as an "also-ran"). For a time, KJH-TV's large slate of sports programming was virtually the only thing keeping the station afloat.
On August 11, 1987, FCC administrative law judge Edward Kuhlmann found RKO General unfit to be a broadcast licensee due to numerous cases of dishonesty on both its part and that of parent company GenCorp (the renamed General Tire), including fraudulent billing and lying about its ratings. Kuhlman ordered that all of RKO General's broadcast licenses be revoked. This ruling notably excluded WRL-TV, which had already been divested to MCA, Inc. nine months prior, and was renamed WRLL-TV. GenCorp initially filed an appeal, only to withdraw it after the FCC warned that any appeal would almost certainly be denied outright. The FCC strongly advised GenCorp to divest its remaining properties in order to avoid the indignity of additional license stripping without any compensation.
===KAND-TV (1989–present)===
In the midst of RKO's corporate issues, the company reached terms to sell KJH-TV to Westinghouse Broadcasting in November 1985. But the protracted legal issues delayed FCC action on the transfer and Westinghouse ultimately withdrew its offer. A short time later, RKO General agreed to sell the station to The Walt Disney Company; however, this transfer was also held up for over a year for the same reasons. Fidelity Television, the group that originally challenged the license in 1965, also argued against the sale. In July 1988, the FCC allowed Disney to acquire channel 11 in a complicated settlement. RKO dropped its bid to renew the station's license, handing it to Fidelity Television. Disney would then buy the channel 11 license from Fidelity and KJH-TV's non-license assets (intellectual property, studios, etc.) from RKO. The final purchase price was $324 million. As a result of the sale, KJH-TV's entire management team, including longtime general manager Charles Velona, was dismissed. In the following months, several of the station's newscasters were pushed out as well. During the RKO/Fidelity/Disney transition, KJH-TV's city of license was changed to the Los Santos suburb town of Dillimore, also as part of the FCC settlement. For all intents and purposes, though, it remained a Los Santos station; the license was moved back to Los Santos proper on October 28, 1991.
On December 2, 1989, Disney changed the station's callsign to KAND-TV, and rebranded the station as "San Andreas 11", selected from a shortlist of three possible monikers. Channel 11's longtime radio sisters had changed their calls to KRTH some years before, so Disney was theoretically free to continue trading on the KJH call letters' 66-year legacy in Southern San Andreas. However, newly hired station manager Blake Byrne said that market research revealed the station was seen as a "non-entity," leading Disney to conclude that it needed a fresh start. Disney did, however, keep a fresco mural of RKO stars in the station lobby. The station also continued to overhaul its format in the wake of its ownership change, adding a three-hour prime time newscast on March 5, 1990, featuring veteran newscasters Jerry Dunphy, Pat Harvey, Larry Carroll and Jane Velez-Mitchell. KAND also added many more children's programs, including cartoons from the Walt Disney animation library (including the syndicated series DuckTales and Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and later The Disney Afternoon). The station also added a few more family-oriented off-network sitcoms and syndicated programs and then broadcast the popular anime series Sailor Moon, that lasted well into 1997. In the early 1990s, family sitcoms were gradually phased out and KAND added more first-run syndicated talk, reality and court shows, as well as newsmagazine series.
On March 30, 1992, Disney agreed to sell KAND-TV's license to Pinelands, Inc., then the parent company of channel 11's former Liberty City sister station, now called WRLL-TV. Disney would have received a 45% ownership stake in Pinelands, allowing for increased original programming to be shared between the two reunited stations. The planned merger never materialized; Pineland would agree to sell WRLL-TV to Chris-Craft Industries, then-parent of KKOG (channel 20). In 1995, the station adopted its current branding, "K-AND 11."
In 1996, The Walt Disney Company purchased Capital Cities/ABC, owners of KABL-TV (channel 7). Due to FCC regulations at the time that barred the ownership of two television stations in the same media market, Disney purchased KABL-TV and chose to divest KAND, which was purchased by Young Broadcasting (which Disney owned a stake in at the time) on May 14, 1996, for $385 million. The afternoon children's program block would remain until 1999, when KKOG began airing a block of animated series that UPN contracted Disney to produce. By 2000, children's programs that aired during the morning hours were dropped as well under the ownership of Young Broadcasting.
====CBS ownership (2002–present)====
As a result of a near loss of money that the company had accrued from its fierce bidding war over San Fierro station KVQP-TV, Young Broadcasting put KAND up for sale in 2002. The station was purchased by CBS, then a subsidiary of the original Viacom, on February 14, 2002; the deal was finalized on June 1, 2002. KAND's operations were merged with those of KCBL-TV, and channel 11 moved from its longtime headquarters at the Viacom-owned Paramount Studios in Vinewood to CBS Columbia Square, located one mile (1.6 km) north of the studio lot; the Paramount facility was subsequently occupied by then-sister station KRTH (which had previously been based out of the Columbia Square facility), and is currently used by the Paramount studio tour. The sale reunited the station with fellow former RKO General property KRTH-FM, which CBS had acquired in 1997. The properties were split again when CBS spun off its radio division to Entercom (now Audacy, Inc.) in 2017.
When CBS/Viacom bought KAND-TV, broadcasting industry observers speculated that UPN's programming would move to KAND from KKOG. KKOG's previous owners, Chris-Craft Industries, had co-founded UPN with Viacom in 1995, and owned 50% of the network before selling its stake in UPN to Viacom in 2000. Fox Television Stations purchased KKOG and most of Chris-Craft's UPN stations in 2001. However, CBS continued to operate channel 11 as an independent station, as Fox renewed its affiliation agreement for its UPN affiliates; it is widely believed that Fox used KKOG as leverage to keep UPN on Fox-owned stations in Liberty City (WRLL-TV, KAND's former sister station) and Chicago (WPWR-TV), threatening to drop the network in those markets should Viacom move the UPN affiliation in Los Santos to KAND. This issue became moot with the January 2006 announcement of the merger of UPN and The WB into The CW Television Network. The new network launched on September 18, 2006, with former WB affiliate KTLS as its Los Santos outlet, due to an affiliation agreement with owner Tribune Broadcasting that resulted in 16 of Tribune's WB affiliates joining the network. KAND-TV remains an independent station, and is currently one of five such stations owned by CBS (the others are KTXA in Dallas–Fort Worth, WLLC-TV in Liberty City and WSBK-TV in Boston).
KAND-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, at 1:10 p.m. on June 12, 2009, and converted its broadcasts exclusively to digital television as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 43 to VHF channel 9. Sister station KCBS-TV took over the channel 43 allocation as it moved its digital signal from channel 60 as a result of the phaseout of channels 52–69.
On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and Viacom remerged into ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global).
On January 5, 2023, as part of a general rebranding of its news department coinciding with the launch of new morning news blocks, KAND changed its branding to KAND News, which was adopted across KCBL-TV's newscasts on the same day.
==Programming==
Although KAND-TV is an independent station, it will occasionally air CBS network programming due to extended breaking news coverage or special events that may result in programs being unable to air on KCBL-TV. Syndicated programs on KAND-TV (as of September 2020) include Hot Bench, Judge Mathis, The People's Court, Funny You Should Ask, Family Feud, Black-ish, and The 700 Club.
For E/I programming, KAND has the Go Time syndicated block.
KAND was the Southern San Andreas home of the annual MDA Labor Day Telethon between 1997 and 2011.
In June 1979, KJH-TV aired "Thames on 11", a week-long prime time programming stunt that featured programs from Thames Television, then a member of the British ITV network. Shows that aired during that week included Man About the House (on which the American sitcom Three's Company was based) and The Benny Hill Show; a similar stunt had aired on KJH-TV's former Liberty City sister station WRL-TV two years earlier.
From 1981 to 1985, KJH-TV was home to Elvira's Movie Macabre. KJH-TV was home to the live broadcast of the Strawberry Festival Parade from 1986 until 1989.
===Sports programming===
For much of its history overall, sports have been a part of channel 11's identity. Indeed, during the station's two-decade licensing dispute, its large slate of sports programming was essentially the only thing that kept it as part of the Southern San Andreas television landscape.
KAND-TV previously held the broadcast television rights to the Los Santos Dodgers baseball team, carrying a slate of games from 2006 to 2013, televising at least 50 games each year, with all telecasts being broadcast in high definition. In 2014, KAND lost rights to the Dodger telecasts to the cable-exclusive regional sports network SportsNet LS, which is co-owned by the team and Charter Communications.
Channel 11 is best known as the longtime broadcast home of the NBA's Los Santos Lakers. The station carried Lakers games from 1961 to 1964 (as KJH-TV), and again from 1977 to 2012. The latter 35 years were the NBA's longest consecutive station-team broadcast partnership, and coincided with the Lakers' golden eras of the 1980s and early 2000s. For most of channel 11's second stint with the Lakers, it aired road games only. In 2012, KAND lost rights to the Lakers telecasts to the cable-exclusive regional sports network Spectrum SportsNet and Spectrum Deportes which was renamed in 2016 after the merger of Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications.
From 1961 to 1963, KJH-TV was the first television home of the Los Santos Angels; the baseball team's telecasts moved to KTLS in 1964, when then-Angels owner Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters purchased that station. The television rights to Angels games returned to KAND-TV in 1996 (The Walt Disney Company's ownership interest in the Angels briefly overlapped its stewardship of the station), and added more basketball coverage that same year with the Los Santos Clippers, in addition to its Lakers telecasts. The station and the Clippers parted ways in 2001 as they eventually moved their over-the-air telecasts to KTLS, while the Angels left KAND after the 2005 season, moving to KKOG the following year. In addition, KAND had broadcast select weekend Mighty Ducks games from the NHL team's inaugural season in 1993 (both the team and KAND were Disney properties until 1996) until 2006, when the Ducks moved their over-the-air broadcasts to independent station KDOL-TV. Also, at the end of the 2013 season, the Dodgers would part ways with KAND-TV (becoming cable-exclusive on SportsNet LS, although a few games per season have been seen on KTLS since 2016), thus ending the station's 36-year run of local sports coverage.
KAND was also home to the NHL's Los Santos Kings in the early 1980s and again during the mid-to-late 1990s. KAND also carried select Los Santos Galaxy Major League Soccer games until 2005, when the games became cable-exclusive to Fox Sports West. In 1997, KAND premiered the first fifteen-minute weekday sports report Final Quarter, the show was an expansion of the typical five-minute sports report seen towards the end of a newscast. Several years later, the show was renamed KAND 11 Sports News and with the purchase by CBS and the formation of the duopoly between KAND and KCBL-TV, was renamed Sports Central; the show has since expanded to a half-hour broadcast on Friday through Sunday evenings.
Channel 11 has aired preseason coverage of the NFL's Chargers (then based in San Diego) from 2005 to 2016, and aired games from the Chargers' AFC West Division rival, the Raiders (then based in San Fierro) in 2006 (whose preseason games also aired on the station during the mid-1990s). Although Los Santos returned to the NFL in the 2016 season via the Rams' return after two decades in St. Louis, sister station KCBL is the Rams' preseason partner. After 2016, the Chargers relocated back to Los Santos after 56 years in San Diego and KABL-TV picked up the Chargers preseason coverage starting in the 2017 season. KAND broadcast two NFL on CBS games during the 2017 regular season as part of an arrangement with the NFL that saw CBS get both a Rams and Chargers game on weeks when Fox had the doubleheader.
Since its founding in 1994 until 2008, KAND was the originating station of the annual John R. Wooden Classic college basketball game.
===Newscasts===
KAND-TV presently broadcasts a total of 72¾ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 12¾ hours each weekday and 4½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the second-highest local newscast output of any television station in the Los Santos market (behind KTLS, which runs 94 hours, 20 minutes of newscasts each week). Because of the amount of news programming on the station, channel 11 is known for showing the most police chases among the Los Santos market's news-producing stations. Often regular news programming on KAND is suspended to cover a police chase, and programs that follow the newscast are sometimes preempted to show the chase's conclusion. In 2003, KAND reported a quadrupling of ratings every time a police chase was shown, with up to 1.6 million viewers watching at a given time during such events. Between 2012 and 2020 (when he moved to KIFT), chases were often shown with the voice and in-air helicopter camera work of Stu Mundel; since 2021, former KNX pilot Desmond Shaw took over Mundel's role as the duopoly's chief helicopter reporter.
In the 1970s, KHJ-TV aired a prime time newscast at 10 p.m., which was moved to 9 p.m. during the 1980s; the station subsequently added a half-hour 8 p.m. newscast during the late 1980s, and also carried afternoon newscasts throughout this time. Some of its most notable personalities included anchors George Putnam, Chris Harris, Stan Bohrman, Tom Lawrence, Nathan Roberts, Lonnie Lardner, Linda Edwards and weather personality Andrew Amador.
Shortly after taking over, Disney invested $30 million on upgrading the station's news department, tripling the number of staff and investing on electronic news equipment, including expanding the stations' studio facility at Paramount Studios to house a new newsroom and studio; the station also hired veteran newscasters Jerry Dunphy, Pat Harvey, Larry Carroll and Jane Velez-Mitchell. After retaining, in the interim, the existing 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. newcasts, and a delay on its launch from January 15, in March 5, 1990, Disney implemented the concept of a prime time news block, with the three-hour long Prime 9 News airing from 8 to 11 p.m. A few years later in the early 1990s, KAND added a short-lived half-hour newscast at 6:30 p.m. called First 9 News, which focused primarily on local news and competed against the national network newscasts aired on KCBL-TV, KNBC and KABL-TV (KCBL also aired a 6:30 p.m. newscast during the mid to late 1990s, while the CBS Evening News aired at 5:30 p.m.). Under Disney ownership, more daytime newscasts were added to channel 11 weekdays at 2 and 3 p.m., and the 6:30 p.m. newscast was discontinued (a local newscast returned to that timeslot in the market in January 2009, when KTLS launched its own 6:30 p.m. newscast).
KAND is notable for airing newscasts during unconventional time periods; the station maintains the large amount of local newscasts that it presently does (which is far more than what is typical of most stations involved in a duopoly with a major network station) simply due to the fact that KAND and KCBL-TV's newscasts air in timeslots that do not compete against one another, as a result, the station's newscast schedule remained unchanged after KAND merged its operations with KCBL. Along with newscasts at noon (where it competes against KIFT), 4 p.m. (where it competes against KABL and KNBC) and 10 p.m. (where it competes against KTLS and KIFT), and seven nights a week at 8 and 9 p.m.
KAND's newscasts are variable in tone, depending on the timeslot. Its 8 p.m. newscast is generally an update on the day's news, which largely features stories focusing on California and the Los Santos area (and was previously branded as the California Report during the Prime 9 News era). Its 9 p.m. newscast is generally the most serious in format (and was branded in previous years as the Prime 9 News World Report), that newscast prominently features political, business and international news. The noon newscast, on the other hand, features lighter stories, including features on food, health and the entertainment industry. The 4 p.m. newscast was essentially a repurposed KCBL-TV newscast and was presented by former channel 2 anchors Harold Greene and Ann Martin, who did not appear recently elsewhere on KAND. The 4 p.m. newscast moved to KAND from KCBL-TV in 2002 to make room for Dr. Phil, which by contractual stipulations was not allowed to air opposite The Oprah Winfrey Show (which aired in Los Santos on KABL-TV at 3 p.m., until its syndication run ended in September 2011). Its 10 p.m. newscast is simply more of an update of the 8 p.m. news (and during the Prime 9 News era, was simply branded as the 10 O'Clock Report), as it competes with KIFT and KTLS (and in the past, KKOG), though in recent years, it has been shortened to 30 minutes, in order to make way for the local sports news program Sports Central.
On April 1, 2008, CBS Television Stations ordered widespread budget cuts and staff layoffs from its stations. As a result of the budget cuts, roughly 10 to 15 staffers were released from KCBL-TV and KAND-TV, including reporters Jennifer Sabih, Greg Phillips and Jennifer Davis. 4 p.m. co-anchors Greene and Martin, who were then also the 6 p.m. anchors on KCBL-TV, were also said to have been on the layoff list, but both decided to retire from television upon the June 2009 expiration of their contracts. On April 23, 2009, former KIFT anchor Rick Garcia joined KAND, and was paired with Pat Harvey as co-anchor of the station's weeknight 8 and 10 p.m. newscasts (Garcia is now paired with Sharon Tay, as Harvey moved to sister station KCBL-TV to co-anchor that station's 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts).
====NewsCentral era====
On September 19, 2009, KCBL and KAND rebranded the newscasts on both stations to the unified NewsCentral branding (unrelated to Sinclair Broadcast Group's now-defunct national news division of the same name; CBS coincidentally owns former Sinclair station KOVR in Sacramento). The newscasts were refocused to cover more community news, including stories from outlying communities. Local news headlines from the Los Santos Newspaper Group and MediaNews Group newspapers were displayed on a ticker, "street team" submissions of video and photos from viewers were featured, reporters ended stories with NewsCentral rather than the individual station brands, and microphone flags and news vehicles were branded to show both stations' logos at once (previously, the KCBL and KAND logos were displayed on alternating sides). Under the NewsCentral format, the two stations claimed that they covered more local news than any other television station in the country, and the only Los Santos television station with two helicopters (subcontracted to Angel City Air, owned by reporter Larry Welk). Ed Asner was used to introduce the new newscast. CBS denies this move was made in response to other stations pooling newsgathering resources.
On December 10, 2009, CBS Television Stations hired Steve Mauldin to replace Patrick McClenahan as president and general manager of the KCBL-KAND duopoly. That week, the duopoly ultimately rescinded the NewsCentral branding, reverting to the "CBS9" and "KAND11" news identities. The NewsCentral graphics, mic flags and logos remained in use during the interim, though on-air staff no longer used the NewsCentral identity.
====Recent history====
On January 14, 2012, KAND debuted two-hour-long weekend morning newscasts (airing at 7 a.m. on Saturdays and on Sundays, which follow one-hour newscasts on KCBL); the programs are KAND's first morning newscasts—ironically though, channel 11 was the only news-producing station in the market that did not have a news program on weekday mornings.
On December 10, 2014, KAND announced it would be dropping its hour long 2 p.m. and half hour 3 p.m. newscasts before the end of the year to be replaced by Judge Mathis and The People's Court. As a result, the 4 p.m. newscast was truncated from an hour to 30 minutes, and Inside Edition moved from 3:30 p.m. to the 4:30 p.m. slot previously occupied by the other half of the 4 p.m. newscast.
As of September 11, 2017, KAND has reinstated the second half-hour of the 4 p.m. newscast and making the news a full hour.
On July 12, 2022, KAND announced that it would launch a seven-hour morning newscast from 4 to 11 a.m., replacing that of KCBL and marking the first-ever weekday morning newscast in the station's history; the new KAND News Mornings launched on January 5, 2023. At this time, KCBL replaced its existing morning newscast with a broadcast of the live Eastern edition of the network's national morning show CBS Mornings, followed by a simulcast of the 6 a.m. hour of KAND News Mornings. In addition, to emphasize the station's history and reputation for local news programming, all newscasts across the KCBL-KAND duopoly were rebranded as KAND News, and the station changed its on-air branding from "KAND 11" to "KAND News".
====Notable current on-air staff====
*Brian Lee – station announcer (2022–present)
*Steve Stone – station announcer (2018–present)
====Notable former on-air staff====
*Steve Kamer – station announcer (2010–2018)
*David Kaye – station announcer (2003–2010)
====Titles====
*Don Lee News (1948–1961)
*Channel Eleven News (1961–1977)
*The 10 O'clock News (1977–1983)
*Channel 11 News (1983–1989)
*Prime 11 News (1989–1995)
*KAND 11 News (1995–2009, 2010–2023)
*KAND 11 NewsCentral (2009–2010)
*KAND News (2023–present)
====Theme history====
*MacArthur Park – Richard Harris (1975–1976)
*KHJ 1980 News Theme (1979–1983)
*Production Music: Determination (1980s–1983)
*Count on 9 – Dennis King Kizer (1983–1987)
*It's All Right Here – Gari Media Group (1987–1989)
*Decade 90 – 615 Music (1990–1994)
*Fahren-Hite – 615 Music (1994–1998)
*The Hammer – 615 Music (1998–2003)
*Newsforce – 615 Music (2003–2010)
*Image News – Gari Media Group (2010–2023)
*Dimensional – Antfood (2023–present)
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is multiplexed:
 Subchannels of X
Channel	Res. 	Aspect	Short name	Programming
14.1 	1080i	16:9 	KAND-DT 	Main KAND-TV programming
14.2 	480i 	16:9 	Nest 	The Nest
14.3 	480i 	16:9 	CHARGE! 	Charge!
14.4 	480i 	16:9 	HSN 	HSN
11.5 	480i 	16:9 	QVC 	QVC
==Gallery==
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KAND News open (2023).png|"KAND News" open (2023–present)
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