PM Magazine (Jayverse)

PM/Evening Magazine was a television series with a news and entertainment format. It was syndicated to stations throughout the United States. In most areas, Evening/PM Magazine was broadcast from the late 1970s into the late 1980s.
==Origins==
During the summer of 1976, KPIX in San Francisco, California, a CBS affiliate then owned by Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting, premiered a local weeknight television news and entertainment series titled Evening: The MTWTF Show. The show was designed to add localism as suggested by the newly enacted "Prime Time Access Rule." At its inception, the rule was created by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to give back the half-hour preceding primetime (7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones; 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Central and Mountain time zones) to local network-affiliated stations in the top fifty television markets, prohibiting them from accepting network-originated programming (and later on, syndicated reruns of network programs) in that time slot.
===KPIX's Evening Magazine===
KPIX's Evening Magazine was first hosted by San Francisco radio personality Jan Yanehiro, journalist Steve Fox and Detroit news anchor and reporter Erik Smith. According to the tenth-anniversary special, Smith lasted 13 weeks before heading back to Detroit and returning to WXYZ-TV, where he remained until 2010. It was the first of a new breed of television show shot totally on videotape, rather than the then-standard 16mm film, taking advantage of new minicam technology. The format called for the local hosts to have on-location wraparounds (in and around their local communities) and introduce short feature stories about ordinary and interesting people doing extraordinary and quite newsworthy things.
===Expansion===
At the time, Westinghouse owned four other stations around the country, and with the success of Evening Magazine in the San Francisco market, it was expanded to their other properties. Soon, Group W stations in Baltimore (WJZ-TV), Boston (WBZ-TV), Philadelphia (KYW-TV), and Pittsburgh (KDKA-TV) were all doing their own local versions of the Evening format. The show's format allowed the stations to share their feature stories among each other. For example, a feature that aired in San Francisco could also be shown in Baltimore, and vice versa. The success of the format on the Group W stations gave the company management a bigger idea. Group W decided to expand and syndicate the format to other markets where they didn't own stations. The shows in non-Group W markets would generally use the name "PM Magazine."
At the end of the 1970s, with Evening and PM now all over the country, Group W Productions created a large production office in San Francisco at 855 Battery Street. This was on the bottom floor of KPIX-TV. Dick Crew was the National Executive Producer, with the following production staff: Dick Newton, Sally Jewett, Andrew Schorr, Melanie Chilek, Bill Geddie, Diane Heditsian, John Norton, Larry Emsweller, Vanita Cillo, Jim Ziegler, David Baxter, Mellen O'Keefe, Gary Cooper and Joe Tobin. Their function was to watch all of the stories being produced by the new local PM and Evening Magazine stations and create a weekly "national reel" for stations to run in local markets. Depending on local station budgets they could produce as much or as little feature material as they wanted, but still have a local show starring local talent. The cooperative production model created by Evening/PM remains unique to this day.
===Breeding ground for television on-air and production talent===
Evening/PM was also a "breeding ground" for television on-air and production talent. Matt Lauer, Tom Bergeron, Nancy Glass, Leeza Gibbons, Henry Tenenbaum and Jerry Penacoli were among those who became well-known because of their work with the PM/Evening programs. In Pittsburgh, KDKA-TV's broadcast of Evening Magazine featured a young Dennis Miller providing a "humorous" closing piece, similar to Andy Rooney's commentary on 60 Minutes. In its more than a decade run, the show's local market producers traveled all over the country and the world, producing fun and memorable television. PM Magazine was a launching point for the career of actor-meteorologist Mike Randall, who co-hosted the Hartford version from 1982 to 1983, and Miami Dolphins wide receiver Jimmy Cefalo began his broadcasting career with the local edition on WTVJ.
===Departments===
Two long features were augmented each day by a block of "departments", featuring special tips for daily living—generally, two or three departments were featured in each program, each with a different host. In the early 1980s, "Captain Carrot" (Cary Nosler) presented the "Self" department, on healthier living; Judi Sheppard Missett presented "Jazzercise" in the "Exercise" department; Dr. James Wasco presented medical issues in the "Health" department; Chef Tell gave new "very simple, very easy" food ideas in the "Cooking" department; the "Animal" department featured Joan Embery and animals from the San Diego Zoo; Fred McBurney hosted "Outdoor Leisure", featuring tips related to hunting & fishing; and in the "Travel" department, Linda Harris visited various parts of the globe.
===Special editions===
Occasionally, PM Magazine would feature a prime-time "Special Edition" special, focusing on a single subject for an entire hour. These specials were hosted not by local hosts, but by better-known personalities, such as Bill Rafferty, who hosted a 1980 special edition on "Mating and Dating in the '80s"; and a 1982 "Star-Studded Super Special" hosted by Robert Guillaume.
==Stations that carried Evening/PM Magazine==
Notes: This is an incomplete list. Information on local hosts of this program may be found within the individual stations' articles. Stations marked with an asterisk were owned by Group W. 
*Albany: WTEN-TV
*Albuquerque: KOB-TV, KGGM-TV
*Amarillo, Texas: KFDA-TV
*Anchorage: KTBY
*Asheville, North Carolina: WLOS
*Atlanta: WAGA-TV
*Austin: KTBC-TV
*Baton Rouge: WBRZ-TV
*Baltimore: WJZ-TV*
*Beaumont, Texas: KFDM
*Birmingham: WBRC-TV
*Boston: WBZ-TV*
*Buffalo: WIVB-TV, WGRZ-TV
*Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, Iowa: KWWL-TV
*Champaign/Urbana/Springfield, Illinois: WCIA
*Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia: WSAZ-TV
*Charleston, South Carolina: WCBD-TV
*Charlotte: WBTV
*Chattanooga: WRCB-TV
*Chicago: WBBM
*Cincinnati: WKRC-TV, WIII-TV (final season; now WSTR-TV)
*Cleveland: WJW-TV
*Colorado Springs, Colorado: KXRM-TV
*Columbia, South Carolina: WIS-TV
*Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri: KCBJ-TV
*Columbus, Ohio: WCMH-TV
*Corpus Christi,TX:KIII-TV
*Dallas/Fort Worth: WFAA-TV, KDFW-TV, KTVT
*Davenport, Iowa: WOC-TV/KWQC-TV
*Dayton, Ohio: WDTN
*Denver: KOA-TV/KCNC-TV
*Des Moines: WHO-TV
*Detroit: WJBK (as "PM Magazine Detroit" and "PM Detroit"), WWJ
*El Paso, Texas: KVIA-TV
*Evansville, Indiana: WEHT-TV
*Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, Michigan: WNEM-TV
*Fort Myers/Naples, Florida: WINK-TV
*Fort Wayne, Indiana: WANE-TV
*Fresno, CA: KSEE, KJEO, KAIL
*Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo/Battle Creek: WZZM-TV
*Green Bay, Wisconsin: WFRV-TV
*Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem: WFMY-TV
*Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville: WFBC-TV/WYFF, WLOS
*Harrisburg/Lancaster/York/Lebanon: WGAL-TV
*Hartford/New Haven: WFSB
*Houston: KHOU, KHTV
*Huntington, West Virginia: WSAZ
*Indianapolis: WTHR, WISH-TV
*Jackson, Mississippi: WJTV
*Jacksonville: WJXT
*Johnstown, Pennsylvania: WJAC-TV
*Kansas City: KMBC-TV
*Knoxville: WATE-TV (as Knoxville's PM Magazine)
*Lafayette, Louisiana: KLFY-TV
*Lansing, Michigan: WJIM-TV
*Las Vegas: KLAS-TV
*Lexington, Kentucky: WKYT-TV
*Los Angeles: KNXT (later KCBS)
*Louisville: WHAS-TV
*Lubbock, Texas: KCBD
*Madison, Wisconsin: WMTV
*Memphis: WHBQ-TV
*Miami/Fort Lauderdale: WTVJ
*Milwaukee: WISN-TV, WVTV (1985-1986), WITI, WDJT
*Minneapolis/St. Paul: WCCO-TV, KMSP (as PMSP which ran from 1986-1992)
*Mobile/Pensacola: WALA-TV
*Mount Vernon, IL: WCEE-TV
*Nashville: WKRN-TV
*New Bern, North Carolina: WCTI-TV
*New Orleans: WWL-TV
*New York City: WCBS
*Norfolk/Portsmouth/Newport News: WTKR
*Oklahoma City: KTVY/KFOR-TV
*Omaha: WOWT
*Orlando/Daytona Beach: WDBO-TV/WCPX-TV
*Peoria: WMBD-TV
*Philadelphia: KYW-TV*
*Phoenix: KTVK
*Pittsburgh: KDKA-TV*
*Portland, Oregon: KGW-TV
*Providence/New Bedford: WJAR-TV, WPRI, WLNE
*Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville: WRAL-TV
*Reno, Nevada: KTVN-TV
*Richmond, Virginia: WXEX-TV
*Roanoke/Lynchburg, Virginia: WDBJ
*Rochester, New York: WOKR
*Sacramento/Stockton: KXTV, KOVR, KCRA-TV ()
*Saint Louis: KTVI
*Salt Lake City: KUTV
*San Antonio: KSAT-TV
*San Diego: KFMB-TV
*San Francisco: KPIX*
*Scranton/Wilkes-Barre: WNEP-TV
*Seattle/Tacoma: KIRO-TV (PM Magazine), KING-TV (Evening Magazine); KING-TV version still on-air today
*Shreveport, Louisiana: KSLA-TV
*Spokane, Washington: KHQ-TV
*St. Louis, Missouri: KTVI-TV
*Syracuse, New York: WTVH, WIXT
*Tampa/Saint Petersburg: WTOG-TV, WTSP
*Toledo, Ohio: WTOL-TV, WDHO-TV
*Traverse City/Cadillac/Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan: WGTU-WGTQ
*Tucson: KOLD ()
*Tulsa: KOTV
*Utica, New York WKTV
*Waco, Texas KWTX-TV
*Washington, D.C.: WDVM-TV/WUSA
*West Palm Beach/Ft. Pierce: WPEC-TV
*Wichita, Kansas: KAKE-TV
*Wichita Falls, Texas: KAUZ-TV
*Youngstown, Ohio: WKBN-TV
==See also==
*Living, a similar lifestyle show format with a mixture of local and syndicated segments; aired by CBC Television in Canada from 2007–2009
*Better, a similar show produced by Meredith's television stations, slanted towards women.
*Evening Magazine
==References==
==External links==
*History of Group W's Evening/PM Magazine, mainly from the WBZ-TV/Boston perspective
*PM Magazine segments from Beaumont's KFDM on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image