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''Evening Magazine'' is the name of various news and entertainment-style local television shows in different markets.


Concept

On August 9, 1976, Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting-owned
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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, 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
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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
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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,
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and his wife Jennifer served as special guest hosts, hosting segments from around the country, the
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, and
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. 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
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(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—''
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''.


Seattle

The current ''Evening'' that airs in the Seattle area is still produced to this day by Tegna-owned
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affiliate
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. It launched on that station on August 25, 1986, with original hosts Brian Tracey and Penny LeGate. 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, 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. A revolving cast consisting of "Evening" reporters Jim Dever, Saint Bryan and Kim Holcomb took over hosting duties, instead of a single main host and co-host reporters. The show's 30th anniversary was celebrated throughout 2016. Evening's Reporters' Roundtable occurs on Monday evenings, while the reporters exchange hosting duties every Tuesday to Friday. Longtime reporter and host Michael King left the program on December 6, 2019; his replacement, former
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news anchor and ''Take 5'' host Angela Poe Russell joined the program on March 2, 2020.


Other Group W markets

Local versions of ''Evening Magazine'' were produced at four other Westinghouse-owned stations. WPCQ-TV (now
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) in
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, 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
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held the Charlotte rights to the franchise and aired it as ''PM Magazine'' from September 1979 until November 1990.


Baltimore

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's edition of ''Evening Magazine'' aired from August 29, 1977 until December 28, 1990. It was hosted initially by Linnea Anderson, Dave Sisson, Jeff Pylant, Donna Hamilton and Steve Aveson.
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served as a contributor early in her career.


Boston

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's version of ''Evening Magazine'' was produced at
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, featuring
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, later hosts and contributors included
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, Candace Hacey, and
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. 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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, the hosts included Ray Murray, Larry Angelo and Teresa Brown. Featured contributors included Susie Pevaroff, Nancy Glass, Mary Ann Grabavoy,
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''. 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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version of ''Evening Magazine'' aired on
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from August 1, 1977, until October 12, 1990. Hosts included Dave Durian,
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, Liz Miles, Jon Burnett and Mary Robb Jackson. Contributors to the show included Bob Kmetz and
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'').


KPIX revival

A similar show with the same name aired on KPIX (now
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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
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. The Bay Area ''Evening Magazine'' aired on weeknights prior to Mike Rowe's move to ''
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''. 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

* ''
PM Magazine ''PM/Evening Magazine'' is a television series with a news and entertainment format. It was syndicated to stations throughout the United States. In most areas, ''Evening/PM Magazine'' was broadcast from the late 1970s into the late 1980s. Origi ...
''


References

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Further reading


History of Group W's ''Evening Magazine'', mainly from the WBZ-TV/Boston perspectiveChuck Barney's 2006 article about Malou Nubla's departure from KPIX
Franchised television formats Local television programming in the United States 1976 American television series debuts Television in the San Francisco Bay Area 1991 American television series endings