KFMB-TV

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KFMB-TV

Brand	CBS 8
City of License	San Diego, California
Market	San Diego, California
Channel	8 digital Formerly: 8 analog (1949-2009) 55 digital (2001-08) 7 digital (2008-09)
Network Affiliation	Current: CBS Formerly: NBC (secondary, 1949–53), ABC (secondary,1949–56), DuMont (secondary, 1949–55)
Founded	1949
Company	Midwest Television
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows	Oprah Winfrey Dr. Phil Entertainment Tonight

KFMB-TV is the CBS affiliate for the San Diego, California market, broadcasting on digital channel 8. They were channel 8 on analog and had first broadcast digital on channel 55. They moved to channel 7 on low power (to keep from interfering with KABC in Los Angeles), then to channel 8 on full-power after shutting their analog signal off on February 17, 2009.

KFMB went on the air in 1949 with CBS as its primary affiliation. It remains CBS to this day. It had secondary affiliation with NBC up to 1953 (when KFSD/channel 10 signed on), ABC to 1956 (when XETV/channel 6 signed on), and DuMont to 1955 (when it went dark for good). KFMB's stations IDs early on usually took the form of a black "eight" ball from a billiard table. In the early 60s, a cartoon pelican was employed for station IDs as it would enter singing the station's jingle "KFMB-TV channel 8..." (to the tune of Pop Goes The Weasel), get bonked on the head by the eight ball, then splutter "San Diego!" as it lay on the ground. Some of the station's local programs included SunUp (a news/topics show similar to NBC's The Today Show) and TV8 Bingo (play-at home game show--viewers picked up playing cards at participating outlets).

Regis Philbin is an alumnus of KFMB-TV. He had also worked at the NBC affiliate, which at the time was KOGO (now ABC station KGTV).

KFMB's logo in 2002.

KFMB's logo in 1958, seen on a San Diego billboard.

[edit] Current Prime-Time Schedule

Day	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	11:00
Monday	Entertainment Tonight	The Insider	How I Met Your Mother	Accidentally on Purpose	Two and a Half Men	The Big Bang Theory	CSI: Miami	CBS 8 News at 11
Tuesday	Entertainment Tonight	The Insider	NCIS		NCIS: Los Angeles		The Good Wife	CBS 8 News at 11
Wednesday	Entertainment Tonight	The Insider	The New Adventures of Old Christine	Gary Unmarried	Criminal Minds		CSI: NY	CBS 8 News at 11
Thursday	Entertainment Tonight	The Insider	Survivor		CSI		The Mentalist	CBS 8 News at 11
Friday	Entertainment Tonight	The Insider	Ghost Whisperer		Medium		NUMB3RS	CBS 8 News at 11
Saturday	Entertainment Tonight		Crime Time Saturday		Crime Time Saturday		48 Hours Mystery	CBS 8 News at 11
Sunday	60 Minutes		The Amazing Race		Three Rivers		Cold Case	CBS 8 News at 11