KCBS Action News CBS 2 Los Angeles - News Open & Close (1991-1997)

KCBS-TV Channel 2 Los Angeles "Action" News Open and Close from 1991 - 1997. See the index below for a full listing.
KCBS-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 31), is the West Coast flagship station of the CBS television network, licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS, as part of a duopoly with independent station KCAL-TV (Channel 9). The two stations share studios at the CBS Studio Center on Radford Avenue in the Studio City section of Los Angeles; KCBS-TV's transmitter is located on the western side of Mount Wilson near Occidental Peak.
Aside from being affiliated with CBS News, since 2017 KCBS-TV has had no connection to KCBS radio (740 AM) in San Francisco. The 2017 sale to Entercom of KCBS radio and KCBS-FM (93.1) in Los Angeles ended almost seven decades of co-ownership among the three stations under CBS.
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"The late 1980s and early 1990s brought to KCBS the Action News format, in which the station's newscast adopted a tabloid-style format; the format grated on the news staff, which circulated a memo that resulted in the firing of news director John Lippmann in 1993. Lippmann was heavily criticized by many, and reportedly had many confrontations with news staff, notably a shoving match between him and anchor Michael Tuck. The station's ratings quickly declined.
CBS management, highly embarrassed at KCBS-TV's subpar performance, responded by bringing in Bill Applegate as general manager. Applegate had previously served as general manager at Chicago sister station WBBM-TV, and was employed at that station as a reporter in the early 1970s. While Applegate had been criticized for making WBBM-TV's newscasts flashier than they had been previously, he set about toning down the format of KCBS-TV's newscasts. One of his strategies involved bringing in popular anchors and reporters from other Los Angeles area stations including Jerry Dunphy, who returned to channel 2 two decades after his earlier firing from the station (Dunphy went on to anchor at KABC-TV and KCAL-TV, both of whom achieved high ratings for their newscasts during each of Dunphy's stints). Also joining Dunphy were colleagues Ann Martin, Dr. George Fischbeck, Paul Dandridge and Mark Coogan from KABC-TV, and Larry Carroll (who worked with Dunphy at KABC and KCAL); two KNBC personalities, Linda Alvarez and consumer reporter David Horowitz also joined the team.
The station's ratings improved, but Applegate eventually became a casualty of CBS' merger with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1996; Applegate had bickered with Westinghouse over the station's syndicated programming not long after he had arrived. Westinghouse executives never forgot this, and Applegate was one of the first executives to be let go. Channel 2's momentum ground to a halt, and it soon dropped into last place. The Action News branding was dropped in late 1996 and the station's newscasts were briefly reverted to Channel 2 News; it was later renamed to the present CBS 2 News in spring 1997. Dunphy, who was dismissed from KCBS in March 1996 because of the aforementioned CBS merger with Westinghouse, returned to KCAL in November 1997." ~ Wikipedia
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Seen in the video:
0:00 JULY 1991 - 11:00PM (OPEN & CLOSE) Tritia Toyota, Bob Jimenez, Keith Olbermann
1:11 MAY 1993 - 11:00PM (OPEN & CLOSE) Bree Walker, Michael Tuck, Steve Rambo
1:59 MAY 1993 - 6:00PM (OPEN & CLOSE) Bree Walker, Michael Tuck, Steve Rambo
3:40 MAY 1993 - 6:00AM (OPEN & CLOSE) Terry Anzur, Bill Keene
5:04 MAY 1994 - 12:00PM (OPEN) Tritia Toyota, Linda Alverez, Maclovio Perez, Brad Goode
5:34 MAY 1994 - 5:00PM (OPEN) Michael Tuck, Tritia Toyota, Maclovio Perez, Jim Hill
6:00 MAY 1994 - 6:00PM (OPEN & CLOSE) Michael Tuck, Bree Walker, Steve Rambo, Jim Hill, Linda Alverez. With CBS Evening News with Dan Rather & Connie Chung (OPEN)
7:06 MAY 1994 - 6:00PM (OPEN) - WEEKEND Hosea Sanders, Penny Griego, Denis Phillips, Rory Markas
7:31 MAY 1994 - THIS MORNING (OPEN & CLOSE) Linda Alverez, Brad Goode, Pat Lalama
8:53 NOVEMBER 1997 - (OPEN & CLOSE) Michael Tuck, Ann Martin
News Theme Music:
(1991 - 1994) - WTEN 1991 News Theme - Unknown Composer
(1994 - 1997) - KCBS News Theme - Michael Randall Music
(1997 - 2003) - News In Focus - John Hegner Music
~ News Music Search Archive
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[@legoguy016]

0:39 Gotta love that news close. WTEN in Albany (where I live) used that Theme in the early 90s after KCBS ditched it.

[@swissmediastuff]

3:02 Howard Raymond is in charge of the microwave

[@jasonburger8881]

7:06 Hosea Sanders still works at ABC 7 in Chicago. I didn’t know he worked as a weekend evening news anchor at KCBS in Los Angeles.

[@thisguyhere6641]

The news opens from 1994, on KCBS Channel 2, have the "KCBS News Theme" from Michael Randall. Not the WTEN news theme from the early '90s.

[@sapien6230]

7:44 Beautiful music.

[@danielschear556]

AGREED Sapien! Those pizzicato strings at 8:22 are deserving of an Emmy Award on their own!🎶👏🏆

[@davidmata9952]

I've always wondered why Terry Anzur abruptly departed the news team in early 1994.

[@albear972]

Oh man! Memories, channel 2 news was my favorite during the entire 90's.And holy cr@p! at 9:15 that website channel2000 somewhat still works, albeit broken and stuck in 2001.

[@Jnthncrrll]

7:47 - That's Pat LaLama who at that time was the Weekend Morning Co-Anchor with Michael Scott, right before Michael Scott moves from Weekend Mornings to Weekend Evenings and Beverly Burke took over Michael Scott.

[@danielschear556]

Pat Lalama was looking hotter than a 6 alarm fire back then!🤪Also not widely known nor covered in the media was that Pat was dating Guns 'N Roses bassist Duff McKagan at that time. How lucky was Duff?!🥳😁

[@Henry_Fung]

RIP Rory Markas

[@Jnthncrrll]

Can you also do KPIX (CBS) - Channel 5 San Francisco - News Open & Close (1992-1999)?

[@Spi-AU]

Love the music in the early 90s open. Although the tabloid openings of 93/94 absolutely jar with me (yes it screams LA; yes I get KNBC was doing it too because everyone was trying to chase channel 7) - it kinda makes it up for it with the slower saxophone theme in the close... almost seemed a bit wasted.

[@stupid8911]

The second ticker in the time corner...I don’t hate it. And Michael Tuck, heyyyyyy (pulls down Ray-Bans)

[@khaukeable]

stupid8911 y.

[@khaukeable]

stupid8911 yx

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stupid8911 y

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stupid8911 y

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stupid8911 Y

[@allvoiceswriter]

That’s the most hideous set I’ve ever seen

[@andrewd.conard5088]

The one from '94? A few other stations like KPTV, KSTW and WTSP used the same design. The desk seemed out of proportion IMO.

[@MinifigNewsguy]

I think they meant the 1991 set. It was cheap looking.

[@paullarue2010]

Mike Tuck was a good newsman.

[@kyndlehewett]

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[@gerrypatterson6782]

8:59

[@sangnam3664]

KGTV- KCBS San Diego Bureau

[@gerrypatterson1518]

9:10 9:11 9:12

[@gerrypatterson6782]

6:54

[@armandoenriquez1104]

November 2017 to September 2023.

[@khaukeable]

Y

[@dominicking5181]

Pre-9/11 stuff.😎

[@CassianoRevolution]

Brain wash

[@gerrypatterson6782]

8:57

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9:14

[@gerrypatterson6782]

9:18