"Monterey County CBS affiliate KION appears to be the victim of some local TV downsizing, abruptly killing its news department Wednesday morning, and their news will now be called , which sounds like just KPIX News. What with the whole Jimmy Kimmel dust-up over the last week, some of the public is just learning about the existence of chains of local TV station owners we were not familiar with, like Nexstar and Sinclair."
"The latest of these to enter the lexicon is a Missouri-based parent company called News-Press & Gazette Company, which owns 13 small-market stations in the western US. And we learn of them as KRON4 reports that the Salinas-Monterey CBS affiliate KION has laid off their entire newsroom staff, and will be sourcing their morning and evening news out to San Francisco's KPIX, aka CBS5."
KION terminated its local news department and will outsource morning and evening newscasts to San Francisco's KPIX (CBS5). Thirteen staffers lost jobs, including anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and producers; employees at the Spanish-language sister station Telemundo 23 were also affected. News-Press & Gazette Company is a Missouri-based owner of 13 small-market stations in the western United States. KION rebranded the service as KPIX News on KION beginning at 5 pm and stated the new programming will deliver Northern and Central California stories while continuing local reporting, weather forecasts, and community updates. Community reaction described the closures as a tragic blow to local journalism.
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