13 Facts About KOVR

KOVR is a television station licensed to Stockton, California, United States, broadcasting the CBS network to the Sacramento area.

KOVR began broadcasting in September 1954 from studios in Stockton and a transmitter atop Mount Diablo.

KOVR had no prospect of attaining a network alliance in the San Francisco market.

For Gannett, KOVR was far-flung compared to its other media properties.

McClatchy's ownership of KOVR was dogged by groups seeking to force the matter on antitrust issues as early as the late 1960s.

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KOVR then decided to put KOVR, its only other television station, up for sale.

McClatchy noting that Outlet was selected despite not making the highest offer because it had committed to ensuring local minority ownership in KOVR by selling 10 percent of the station's stock to minorities; the deal was consummated in May 1980.

Amidst these two transactions, KOVR laid off 10 employees, and morale was low due to poor ratings in part attributable to the national underperformance of ABC at the time.

Uniquely for the market, KOVR would adopt an early prime schedule and air weeknight CBS programming from 7 to 10 p m instead of from 8 to 11 p m At the time, KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, programmed on a similar basis, and KCRA-TV had done so with NBC programming between 1991 and 1993.

Seventh time in 16 years, KOVR was sold again in 1996 when River City Broadcasting was acquired by Sinclair Broadcast Group of Baltimore.

In 2001, KOVR gained attention when it landed a "local exclusive" interview, conducted by reporter Jodi Hernandez with congressman Gary Condit regarding the Chandra Levy murder case; Condit appeared the same evening on ABC, in an interview with Connie Chung.

In 1994, longtime KCRA-TV anchor Stan Atkinson moved to KOVR and presented the station's weeknight newscasts until his retirement in 1999.

In 2018, KOVR began airing CBS late night programming at 11:35 p m, debuting a regular 11 p m weeknight newscast for the first time since 1995.