SF News Three KTVU Producers Fired Over Asiana Reporting Debacle KTVU sacked three producers over the on-air reporting mess that named the pilots in the Asiana 214 crash as "Captain Sum Ting Wong," "We To Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow.
SF News KTVU Has Fake Asiana Pilot Names Clip Pulled (But Not Really) And just like that, it's gone. No wait, it's not. See, in an effort to squelch the fake Asian pilot name scandal, KTVU filed copyright infringement notices with YouTube regarding the now infamous
SF News Now Asiana Airlines Wants To Drop KTVU Lawsuit Asiana Airlines has now decided to drop its lawsuit against KTVU for reporting false and racially insensitive names, including "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Low," and "Ho Lee Fuk." The airline, wanting to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Stephen Colbert Takes On KTVU's Asiana Airlines Coverage Although he was out on vacation last week, it was only a matter of time before Stephen Colbert chimed in on the recent coverage of the Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash. "Everyone affected
SF News Asiana Suing KTVU Over Pilot-Naming Snafu [Update] Asiana Airlines said today that they will sue Bay Area station KTVU for accidentally broadcasting the now-infamous fake pilot names of flight 214. This comes one week after the airline caused the death
SF News NTSB Blames Intern For 'Erroneous' Asiana Airlines Crew Names In today's incredibly unfortunate Asiana Airlines media mishap, the National Transportation Safety Board has issued a statement apologizing for "inaccurate and offensive names" like "Ho Lee Fuk" and "Sum Ting Wong" that were
SF News Vacaville School Terrorized By Huge Swarm Of Bees Did you know it's swarming season for bees right now?!?! Those of us who don't live in the country maybe don't have to worry quite so much, but with all the various rooftop
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour We here at SFist are unabashed fans of KTVU's Sal Castaneda. After all, he's a great reporter and on-air personality. Our godson, however, has his reservations.
SF News Oakland Police: Too Bad-Ass For Boxing The International Boxing Association has banned the Oakland Police Department from future fights in the "Badge vs. Badge" police boxing series pending an investigation of the causes of an audience brawl Friday night
SF News KTVU's Ross McGowan to Retire Next to La King, Ross McGowan is one of our favorite local on-air personalities. Why? Because he smolders. Also, that low, appropriately condescending voice of his makes "Mornings On Two" that more special.
SF News A Ton of Fireworks Seized; KTVU Against All Things Sparkly and Fun Seeing as they are our local FOX affiliate, KTVU already has a TV segment in the works about how fireworks aren't good for anything except misery and conjuring up early childhood trauma. ALSO,
SF News Quote du Jour: KTVU's Sal Castaneda Calls <i>American Idol</i> Winner During this morning's Mornings On 2 (do do do do do dooooo), KTVU traffic guru Sal Castaneda tells us who he think might win tonight's American Idol competition, the gay screecher or the
SF News People Really Liked Dennis Richmond, Did You? We love this tribute, which was found by Flickr user tingley at 24th Street at Osage Alley. It even lit up at night. Sniff. So, did you watch his final broadcast? Check out
misc Does this Screenshot Look Familiar? Update: This is a only a problem on KTVU's HD channel, 702. 002 is normal. We're also guessing this may be exclusive to Comcast subscribers.
misc Claudine Wong Gushes Over B-List Celebs We apologize for our recent obsession with KTVU, but we just couldn't resist this one. Mornings on 2 programming this morning included frequent and uncomfortably long live coverage of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am
misc KTVU Wishes Pregnant Women a Relaxing Weekend After women were again chastised warned about drinking coffee during early pregnancy last month in a Kaiser study, it looks like the media is ready to strike again, but now taking it to
SF News Dennis Richmond and His Moustache Sail Off Into the Sunset To say Richmond has been a mainstay would be an understatement. We've lived here for years and we can't really remember a time when Richmond wasn't on TV. We also can't remember a
misc KTVU Doesn't Know Who Steve Jobs Is, Says TV Screen In addition to unveiling the MacBook Air, le Jobs also premiered a new look. Or not. Seamus over at Rangelife picked up on this minor broadcasting muddle over at KTVU. Dennis Richmond will
