newscasts before the end of the year to be replaced by Judge Mathis and The People's Court. As a result, the 4 p.m. newscast was truncated from an hour to 30 minutes, and Inside Edition moved from 3:30 p.m. to the 4:30 p.m. slot previously occupied by the other half of the 4 p.m. newscast. As of September 11, 2017, KCAL has reinstated the second half-hour of the 4 p.m. newscast and making the news a full hour. On July 12, 2022, KCAL announced that it would launch a seven-hour morning newscast from 4 to 11 a.m., replacing that of KCBS and marking the first-ever weekday morning newscast in the station's history; the new KCAL News Mornings launched on January 5, 2023. At this time, KCBS replaced its existing morning newscast with a broadcast of the live Eastern edition of the network's national morning show CBS Mornings, followed by a simulcast of the 6 a.m. hour of KCAL News Mornings. In addition, to emphasize the station's history and reputation for local news programming, all newscasts across the KCBS-KCAL duopoly were rebranded as KCAL News, and the station changed its on-air branding from "KCAL 9" to "KCAL News". Notable alumni Andrew Amador Jerry Dunphy (died 2002) Mike Emanuel Carter Evans (now Los Angeles correspondent for CBS News) Rich Fields Hal Fishman (died 2007) Harold Greene (retired) Pat Harvey Jim Hill (now with KCBS-TV) Sharon Ito Lisa Joyner Kristine Leahy Tawny Little Dave Malkoff (now with The Weather Channel) Ann Martin (retired) Byron Miranda (now with WPIX) Leyna Nguyen Charles Perez Cassandra Peterson (host of Elvira's Movie Macabre, retained full rights to the Elvira character after departing KHJ-TV) Hank Plante (retired from KPIX-TV in San Francisco) George Putnam (died 2008) Bill Ritter – Reporter (Now at WABC) Tracie Savage David Sheehan Kent Shocknek (retired) Don Steele (host of The Real Don Steele Show; died 1997) Mark Steines (later co-host of Entertainment Tonight) Jane Velez-Mitchell (later host of Jane Velez-Mitchell on HLN) Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Translators References External links KHJ-KCAL-TV logos and screenshots from 1950s to the present day CBS News and Stations Independent television stations in the United States Stadium (sports network) affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1948 1948 establishments in California CAL-TV RKO General National Hockey League over-the-air television broadcasters Major League Soccer over-the-air television broadcasters Former subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company