NBC switched its affiliation to San Jose station
KNTV, which previously hadn't had a news department -- and NBC ultimately purchased this station.
KNTV co-anchor Terilyn Joe is the subject of police report alleging she pelted workers with eggs and tomatoes.
31, NBC dropped its affiliation with San Francisco-based KRON after the network bought
KNTV in mid-December, according to The Associated Press.
NBC then announced that
KNTV, 50 miles south in San Jose, would become NBC's home in the Bay Area.
Before KIRO, Mokhtari worked at KNBC for a year as Managing Editor and as Assistant News Director for NBC's San Francisco-San Jose O&O
KNTV from 2002 to 2006.
"No doubt about it," Gary Miller of Napa, the 2013 winner, told San Francisco Bay Area news station
KNTV. He entered a 1,303-pound pumpkin.
AP said San Francisco-area broadcasters
KNTV, KCBS and KTVU have reported there were fatalities.
For one thing, the NBC-owned and -operated affils are getting shaken up with the addition of San Jose, Calif.'s
KNTV to the group.
In that transaction, Granite agreed to pay NBC $362 million in nine annual payments, with the first payment of $61 million due on January 1, 2002, in exchange for Granite's station,
KNTV, becoming the television network's station for the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California, market over the next 10 years.
So, the NBC crown instead goes to
KNTV (Channel 11), an ABC affiliate, which draws viewers from the Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz market south of the city.