American TV series or program
Evening Magazine
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Also known as
| PM Magazine
(for non Group W-owned stations, except KING-TV or WWOR)
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Country of origin
| United States
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No.
of seasons
| 16 for original San Francisco series; ongoing for Seattle
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No.
of episodes
| 2,652 for San Francisco
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Running time
| 30 minutes
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Release
| August 9, 1976
(
1976-08-09
)
?
August 30, 1991
(
1991-08-30
)
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Evening Magazine
is the name of various news and entertainment-style local television shows in different markets in the United States.
Concept
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On August 9, 1976,
[1]
Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting
-owned
KPIX
in
San Francisco
debuted a locally-produced magazine program called
Evening: The MTWTF Show
, changing the name to
Evening Magazine
within a few years. The award-winning series ran for 14 years. It was also the first non-primetime series to be shot entirely on videotape. The series dealt with lifestyles, leisure time, pop culture, famous people, fascinating places, consumer tips and information about modern city living.
KPIX's
Evening Magazine
was first hosted by San Francisco radio personality
Jan Yanehiro
,
[1]
journalist
Steve Fox
and Detroit news anchor and reporter Erik Smith. Yanehiro stayed with the series throughout its original run, while Fox stayed for three years and Smith for only the first 13 weeks. Smith had come from
WXYZ-TV
in
Detroit, Michigan
and returned there, becoming the anchor of that station's weekday morning newscast. The original KPIX version would go on to air more than 3,000 episodes.
Richard Hart
joined the series after Steve Fox left and stayed until the "final" episode in 1989. Jan Yanehiro was then joined by
Loren Nancarrow
and
Mike Jerrick
for a rebooted series titled
Evening
, which was later renamed
Evening Magazine
. This continuation ran for a little over 200 episodes.
In the late 1980s,
Joe Montana
and his wife Jennifer served as special guest hosts, hosting segments from around the country, the
San Francisco Bay Area
, and
Disney World
.
The original San Francisco version was so popular, Group W decided to export the
Evening Magazine
format to its other owned-and-operated stations. When Group W decided to expand the format to stations outside of their group, the existence of another locally produced program in
Seattle, Washington
(where Group W did not own a TV station), already named
Evening Magazine
, prompted them to create an alternate name for the national roll-out?
PM Magazine
.
Seattle
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The current
Evening
that airs in the Seattle area is still produced to this day by
Tegna-owned
NBC
affiliate
KING-TV
. It launched on that station on August 25, 1986, with original hosts Brian Tracey and Penny LeGate.
[2]
The show currently airs at 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The show focuses on local people, events, places, and human-interest stories. When
Evening Magazine / PM Magazine
was still on the air nationwide, KING would use some stories from the national feed for their own
Evening
.
The show's longtime host, John Curley,
[3]
emotionally signed off for the last time on April 23, 2009, after hosting nearly 4,000 shows over 14 years.
On December 9, 2009, former
KING 5 Morning News
traffic anchor Meeghan Black became the new host of
Evening Magazine
, while remaining as co-host of
Gardening with Ciscoe
. The program celebrated its silver anniversary throughout the 2011 season, while Black ended her "Evening" host run in November 2013, when a revolving cast consisting of "Evening" reporters Jim Dever, Saint Bryan, Kim Holcomb, and Michael King took over hosting duties. Although the format continues to evolve, the show's hosts typically present one show each week as a team, then front the other shows for the week as solo hosts, or occasionally in pairs. When hosting as a team, the group also pre-records segments to be used throughout the week, including "Inbox," "WeighIn," and "Raves," which make use of viewer comments and off-the-cuff interactions between the hosts.
Longtime reporter and host Michael King left the program on December 6, 2019; his replacement, former
KIRO-TV
news anchor and
Take 5
host Angela Poe Russell joined the program on March 2, 2020. Her final show was broadcast on Saint Patrick's Day, March 17, 2023. The current hosting lineup consists of Dever, Bryan, and Holcomb, with multimedia journalist Jose Cedeno also providing content.
[4]
[5]
Other Group W markets
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Local versions of
Evening Magazine
were produced at four other Westinghouse-owned stations. WPCQ-TV (now
WCNC-TV
) in
Charlotte
, owned by Westinghouse from 1980 until 1984, was the only Group W station that did not air its own version of
Evening Magazine
. Then-
Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting
-owned
WBTV
held the Charlotte rights to the franchise and aired it as
PM Magazine
from September 1979 until November 1990.
Baltimore
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In
Baltimore
,
WJZ-TV
's edition of
Evening Magazine
aired from August 29, 1977 until December 28, 1990. It was hosted initially by Linnea Anderson, Dave Sisson,
Tim White
, Jeff Pylant, Donna Hamilton and Steve Aveson.
Maria Shriver
served as a contributor early in her career.
Boston
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Boston
's version of
Evening Magazine
was produced at
WBZ-TV
, featuring
Robin Young
and
Marty Sender
, later hosts and contributors included
Sara Edwards
,
Barry Nolan
, Candace Hacey, and
Tom Bergeron
. It was the first version to be produced outside of San Francisco, premiering on April 18, 1977, and ending on December 17, 1990, with a special entitled "An Evening to Remember," featuring a history of the show, augmented with staff and viewer comments.
Philadelphia
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At
KYW-TV
in
Philadelphia
, the hosts included Ray Murray, Larry Angelo and Teresa Brown. Featured contributors included Susie Pevaroff, Nancy Glass, Mary Ann Grabavoy,
Jerry Penacoli
,
Pat Ciarrocchi
, and other stars of KYW-TV's
Eyewitness News
. This edition ran from July 11, 1977 until September 4, 1992, and was the last
Evening Magazine
version to air on a Westinghouse-owned station.
Pittsburgh
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The
Pittsburgh
version of
Evening Magazine
aired on
KDKA-TV
from August 1, 1977, until October 12, 1990. Hosts included
Dave Durian
,
Donna Hanover
, Liz Miles, Jon Burnett and Mary Robb Jackson. Contributors to the show included Bob Kmetz and
Dennis Miller
(in his first broadcast experience, prior to joining
Saturday Night Live
).
KPIX revival
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A similar show with the same name aired on KPIX (now
owned and operated
by CBS, which acquired the
Evening Magazine
and
PM Magazine
trademarks as part of the purchase of CBS by Westinghouse in 1995) from 1998 to 2005. This one is well known because it was hosted by the now-popular
Discovery Channel
personality,
Mike Rowe
. The Bay Area
Evening Magazine
aired on weeknights prior to Mike Rowe's move to
Dirty Jobs
. The show was later replaced by
Eye on the Bay
, which left Rowe's former
Evening Magazine
co-host,
Malou Nubla
, on the outs with the TV station. Chuck Barney, the TV critic for the Bay Area "Times" newspapers said in a March 2006 article:
Turns out Nubla was displeased when Channel 5 (KPIX) scrapped
Evening Magazine
in favor of
Eye on the Bay
?a move that diminished her onscreen role. Her contract, however, ran through this month, and she insists she intended to be a good team player and honor it. But then a heated exchange with a station exec (that Nubla says was initiated by the "irate" exec) quickly torpedoed those plans, and she was out of there.
See also
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References
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- ^
a
b
Vaughn, S.L. (2007).
Encyclopedia of American Journalism
. Taylor & Francis. p. 35.
ISBN
978-1-135-88020-0
. Retrieved
June 21,
2016
.
- ^
Staff, KING 5.
"Evening Magazine celebrates 28th anniversary"
.
KING5.com
. TEGNA, Inc
. Retrieved
6 August
2020
.
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Rahner, Mark (2009-04-24).
"Television | John Curley, "Evening Magazine" host, signs off | Seattle Times Newspaper"
. Seattletimes.nwsource.com
. Retrieved
2013-04-07
.
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Holcomb, Kim.
"After 25 years, Michael King bids farewell to KING 5"
.
KING5.com
. TEGNA, Inc
. Retrieved
6 August
2020
.
- ^
Staff, KING 5.
"Angela Poe Russell joins Evening"
.
KING5.com
. TEGNA, Inc
. Retrieved
6 August
2020
.
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link
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Further reading
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