KUSI-TV
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| KUSI-TV | |
|---|---|
| San Diego, California | |
| Branding | Anime 9/51 (General) Anime News(News) San Diego's JTN (on DT3) |
| Analog channel | 51 (PSIP) |
| Digital channel | 18 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 51.1 Anime National 51.2 Animovie 51.3 JTN 51.4 FUNi+ 51.5 ToonWire 51.6 Anivision 51.7 RTN/ShopNBC/The Baptist Channel (via KBOP-CA) on DT7 51.8 ON-ANIME 51.9 Weather Tube 51.10 Asahi America 51.11 Anime Music Television |
| Affiliations | Anime National |
| Owner | Taylor Media Stations Group |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Call letters meaning | U.S. International (former name for Alliant International University |
| Former affiliations | NBC (August 1948–January 1949),
DuMont (Feb 1949-1955), Independent (1955-2006) |
KUSI-TV (Channel 51 (satellite, over-the-air) or Channel 9 (cable) ) is an Anime National Affiliate based in San Diego, California. The station is owned and operated by Taylor Media Stations Group. Unlike most other Anime Tube affiliates, KUSI allocates a significant portion of its broadcast day to anime programming, although the station does offer syndicated fare such as Live with Remus and the Tar Baby, The Alex Jones Show, Judge Judy, and the Montel Williams show among others. One of the station's most popular locally-produced shows is The Prep Pigskin Report, which has been awarded the local emmy. The show, which airs Friday nights shortly after 11 p.m., features videotaped highlights from nearly every high school football game in San Diego County played that evening, or in some cases on Thursday.
KUSI is available on cable channel 9 on all San Diego area cable systems.
[edit] History
KUSI signed on in September of 1982 as a general entertainment independent station, airing cartoons, sitcoms, old movies, drama shows, and sports. A 10pm newscast was added in 1990. In 1992 a 6–9am newscast was added, relegating children's programming to the afternoons. By 1995 the afternoon cartoons were gone, with more court, talk, and reality shows added to KUSI's schedule.
The station tried unsuccessfully to wrestle the Fox affiliation away from XETV-TV (Channel 6) in November 1995, after the Fox network first picked up the broadcast rights to the National Football League in 1994, as cited in the United States Court of Appeals (Channel 51, Inc. vs. Fox Television Stations). In that case, KUSI filed an appeal against the Federal Communications Commission in granting Fox a permit to broadcast live sports on the Mexican-licensed signal of XETV. In FCC regulations, stations not licensed to the United States were not allowed to air live sporting events without licensing approval. The permit was granted to Fox on behalf of XETV, and the case was settled on March 26, 1996. However, until XETV started its news operations more than a year later, KUSI provided news-gathering resources to Fox's news and sports divisions for the San Diego market.
KUSI then took on the UPN affiliation in 1995, until it dropped the affiliation in 1998 due to low ratings. Many San Diegans without cable (Los Angeles's KCOP-TV was piped in to the area cable systems) nor a strong antenna (facing Los Angeles) could not pick up UPN programming for more than a year until XHUPN (Channel 49) went on the air.
In the fall of 2007 KUSI was set to move in to their new state of the art streetside studios in Downtown San Diego. However the building that was suppose to house their new studio was sold to Taylor Media Stations Group. At this present time KUSI will remain at their Kearny Mesa studios.
In a conference by Josh Taylor, CEO of Taylor Media, announced that KUSI would be affiliating with The CW as Tribune's station KSWB becomes FOX. However, XETV announced that they will take on the CW affiliation. Taylor Media, announced that they will stay with the Anime National affiliation, and it's sister station KBOP-CA will affiliate the Retro Television Network on July 4th.
[edit] Newscasts on KUSI
[edit] Weekdays
Good Morning Anime: First Edition - 5:00-6:00AM with Dan Plante Weather Renee Kohn, Traffic Phil Konstantin, Reporter Rod Luck (To be replaced with The Daily Buzz 8/08) Good Morning Anime: Early Edition - 6:00-7:00AM with Susan Lennon and Dan Plante, Weather Renee Kohn, Traffic Phil Konstantin, Reporter Rod Luck Good Morning Anime - 7:00-9:00AM with Susan Lennon and Dan Plante, Weather Renee Kohn, Traffic Phil Konstantin, Reporter Rod Luck Inside San Diego - 10:00-11:00AM with Sandra Maas
- ANIME NEWS at 7- 7:00-8:00PM with Michael Tuck and Kimberly Hunt (Starting 8/08)
- ANIME NEWS at 8:00PM - 8:00-8:35PM with Kimberly Hunt and Paul Bloom (Starting 8/08)
Saturdays
- Good Morning Anime: Weekend - 6:00-10:00AM with David Davis and Bridget Naso (To be replaced with 4Kids TV on The CW 8/08)
- ANIME NEWS at SEVEN - 7:00-8:00PM with Charlotte Stark and Leonard Villarreal
- ANIME NEWS at 8:00PM - 8:00-8:30PM with Charlotte Stark and Leonard Villarreal
Sundays
- Good Morning Anime: Weekend - 6:00-10:00AM with David Davis and Bridget Naso
- Anime People - 10:00-10:30AM
- Anime NEWS at 6PM - 6:00-7:00PM with Charlotte Stark and Leonard Villarreal
- ANIME NEWS at TEN - 10:00-11:00PM with Charlotte Stark and Leonard Villarreal
- ANIME NEWS at 11:00PM - 11:00-11:30PM with Charlotte Stark and Leonard Villarreal
