KNBC-TV marked the broadcast station's 70th anniversary at the station in Universal City on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2019.
On Jan. 16, 1949, Channel 4 marked the debut of NBC's programs on the West Coast, broadcasting in black and white from the NBC Radio City Studios on Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood.
Initially known as KNBH (NBC Hollywood), the station would later change its call name to KRCA (for NBC's then-parent company the Radio Corporation of America) and eventually to KNBC in 1962.
In Feb. 2014, the station moved from its legendary Burbank studios to an all-digital facility on the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot in Universal City. Shortly thereafter, KNBC's new Los Angeles newsroom was named the Brokaw News Center, dedicated to former KNBC and NBC News anchor/reporter Tom Brokaw.
Here's a look back at the station's history and the legends who have made this place so special to Southern California over the last 70 years.
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KNBC-TV marked the broadcast station's 70th anniversary at the station in Universal City on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Take a look back at the station's history in photos. Pictured above: KNBC in Burbank in 1952.
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KNBC signage photographed in 1969.
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Legendary NBC news anchor/reporter Tom Brokaw on set in 1974.
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Legendary NBC news anchor/reporter Tom Brokaw photographed in Feb. 1967.
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Legendary NBC news anchor/reporter Tom Brokaw in the newsroom in 1974.
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Legendary NBC news anchor/reporter Tom Brokaw in the newsroom in 1974.
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Legendary NBC news anchor/reporter Tom Brokaw in the newsroom in 1974.
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Longtime KNBC weathercaster Fritz Coleman poses with a Channel 4 News billboard: "Fritz said it would be like this."
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Longtime KNBC weathercaster Fritz Coleman and longtime KNBC sports anchor Fred Roggin.
