The PM/Evening Magazine format was created as a locally-produced light news, entertainment, and informational show, and was syndicated to local stations throughout the United States. In most markets, Evening/PM Magazine aired from the late 1970s into the late 1980s.

In the summer of 1976, San Francisco's KPIX, then a CBS affiliate owned by Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting, premiered a local weeknight television magazine series titled "Evening: The MTWTF Show." The show was designed to add localism as suggested by the newly-enacted "Prime Time Access Rule". At its inception, the rule was created by the Federal Communications Commission to give back the half-hour preceding primetime (7:30 to 8 p.m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones; 6:30 to 7 p.m. in the Central and Mountain time zones) to local network-affiliated stations in the top fifty television markets, prohibiting them from accepting network-originated programming (and later on, syndicated reruns of network programs) in that time slot. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... KPIX (channel 5) is Viacoms CBS-owned and operated television station based in San Francisco, California. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was a division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. ... The Prime Time Access Rule (PTAR) was instituted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to restrict the amount of network programming that local television stations owned by or affiliated with a network may air during prime time. The first PTAR was issued in 1970 and was implemented at the beginning... The FCCs official seal. ... EST (shown in yellow) is UTC-5 The Eastern Time Zone (ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of Northern America and the west coast of South America. ... PST is UTC-8 The Pacific Standard Time Zone (PST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) resulting in UTC-8. ...  CST or UTC-6 The Central Standard Time Zone (CST) is a geographic region in the Americas that keeps time by subtracting six hours from UTC (UTC-6). ... MST is UTC-7 The Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), resulting in UTC-7. ... A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area, DMA or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content. ...

KPIX's Evening Magazine was first hosted by San Francisco radio personality Jan Yanehiro and journalist Steve Fox. It was the first of a new breed of television show shot totally on videotape, rather than 16mm film, taking advantage of new minicam technology. The format called for the local hosts to have on-location wraparounds (in and around their local communities) and introduce short feature stories about ordinary and interesting people doing extraordinary and quite newsworthy things. Jan Yanehiro is a broadcast journalist. ... Steve Fox is a fictional young British boxer in the fighting game series Tekken. ...

Two long features were augmented each day by a block of "departments", featuring special tips for daily living -- generally, two or three departments were featured in each program, each with a different host. In the early 1980s, "Captain Carrot" presented the "Self" department, on healthier living; Judi Sheppard Missett presented "Jazzercise" in the "Exercise" department; Dr. James Wasco presents medical issues in the "Health" department; Chef Tell gives new food ideas in the "Cooking" department; the "animal" department featured Joan Embery and animals from the San Diego Zoo; and in the "Travel" department, the host (unknown at present) visits various parts of the globe. Jazzercise is a fitness program that combines elements of jazz dance into aerobic exercise. ... The world-famous San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California is one of the largest, most progressive zoos in the world with over 4,000 animals of more than 800 species. ...

At the time, Group W owned four other stations around the country, and with the success of Evening Magazine in the San Francisco market, it was expanded to their other properties. Soon, Boston's WBZ-TV, Philadelphia's KYW-TV, Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV, and Baltimore's WJZ-TV were all doing their own local versions of the Evening format. The show's format allowed the stations to share their feature stories among each other. For example, a feature that aired in San Francisco could also be shown in Baltimore, and vice versa. The success of the format on the Group W stations gave the company management a bigger idea. Group W decided to expand and syndicate the format to other markets where they didn't own stations. The first market that was interested in producing their own Evening, KING-TV in Seattle, already had a program on the air called Evening Magazine, which airs on that station to this day. However, Group W came up with another title that could be cleared in other markets: PM Magazine. Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... WBZ-TV is the CBS owned-and-operated television station serving the Boston, Massachusetts television market. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Cradle of Liberty, the City That Loves You Back, the Quaker City, The Birthplace of America Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Government... KYW-TV, channel 3, is the CBS owned-and-operated television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... City nickname: The Steel City Location in the state of Pennsylvania Founded 1758 Mayor Tom Murphy (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 151. ... KDKA-TV is the CBS owned and operated (O&O) television station in Pittsburgh. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates , Government Country State County United... WJZ-TV channel 13 is a CBS owned-and-operated television station in Baltimore, Maryland. ... KING-TV (KING 5) is a television station in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is affiliated with the NBC network, and broadcasts on analog VHF channel 5 and digital UHF channel 48. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ...

At the end of 1970's, with Evening and PM now all over the country, Group W Productions created a large production office in San Francisco. Its job was to watch all of the stories being produced by the new local PM and Evening Magazine stations and create a weekly "national reel" for stations to run in local markets. Depending on local station budgets they could produce as much or as little feature material as they wanted, but still have a local show starring local talent. The cooperative production model created by Evening/PM remains unique to this day.

Evening/PM was also a breeding ground for television on-air and production talent. Matt Lauer, Tom Bergeron, and Leeza Gibbons were among those who got their big breaks on the PM/Evening formats. In its more than a decade run, the show's local market producers traveled all over the country and the world, producing fun and memorable television. Matthew Todd Lauer (December 30, 1957) is an American television personality. ... Tom Bergeron (born May 6, 1955 in Haverhill, Massachusetts) is an American television personality and a popular one-time game show host, best known to the public as the host of Americas Funniest Home Videos, which he has hosted since 2001, as well as the TV game show Hollywood... Leeza Kim Gibbons (born March 26, 1957) is an American talk show host. ...

By 1990, when Group W decided to cancel the format, Evening/PM had been edged out in many of its local time slots in favor of tabloid TV news/investigation programs, many with little or no local content. Shows such as A Current Affair, Hard Copy, and Inside Edition, along with the lighter-edged Entertainment Tonight filled up the prime time access available spots and ended Evening/PM's run, although KPIX would resurrect its own version of Evening Magazine once again, this time in the mid-1990s. During this run, one of the hosts was Mike Rowe, who has sinced moved on to host several cable-TV series, including Worst Case Scenarios and Dirty Jobs, as well as narrating American Chopper. KPIX continued to air its version of Evening Magazine weeknights before CBS's primetime programs up until 2005, when the show's name was changed to Eye on the Bay, and the program's hosts also changed after a short transition. A Current Affair logo A Current Affair is a television magazine that ran from 1986 to 1996 before reappearing in 2005. ... Hard Copy was a tabloid news infotainment magazine show similar to Inside Edition and A Current Affair. ... Inside Edition is a syndicated news program, on the air since January 9, 1989. ... Entertainment Tonight is a daily television entertainment news show that is syndicated by CBS Paramount Domestic Television throughout the United States, Canada, on the Nine Network in Australia and on UBC Inside in Thailand. ... Mike Gregory Rowe (pronounced: ) (born March 18, 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland) is the host of the television show Dirty Jobs and the narrator of several television shows, primarily on the Discovery Channel. ... Dirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult and/or messy occupational duties alongside professional workers. ... American Chopper: The Series is a Learning Channel reality television series produced by Pilgrim Films & Television Inc. ...

Stations that carried Evening/PM Magazine

(a partial listing, arranged by market ranking based on data compiled by Nielsen Media Research)
Note: Information on local hosts of this program can be found within the individual station's articles. Map of United States Designated Market Areas (DMAs). ... Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is a U.S. firm, headquartered in New York City, and operating primarily from Oldsmar, FL, which measures media audiences, including television, radio and newspapers. ...

• New York City: WNEW-TV/WNYW, WWOR-TV
• Los Angeles: KTTV
• Chicago: WFLD-TV
• Philadelphia: KYW-TV
• San Francisco: KPIX
• Dallas-Fort Worth: WFAA-TV, KDFW-TV
• Boston: WBZ-TV
• Washington, D.C.: WTTG, WDVM-TV/WUSA
• Atlanta: WAGA-TV
• Houston: KHTV
• Detroit: WJBK-TV
• Tampa-Saint Petersburg: WTOG-TV, WTSP
• Phoenix: KTVK
• Seattle-Tacoma: KING-TV
• Minneapolis/St. Paul: WCCO-TV
• Miami-Fort Lauderdale: WTVJ
• Cleveland: WJW-TV
• Denver: KOA-TV/KCNC-TV
• Orlando-Daytona Beach: WDBO-TV/WCPX-TV
• Sacramento-Stockton: KXTV, KOVR-TV, KCRA-TV [1]
• Saint Louis: KTVI
• Pittsburgh: KDKA-TV
• Portland, Oregon: KGW-TV [2]
• Baltimore: WJZ-TV
• Indianapolis: WISH-TV
• Charlotte: WBTV
• San Diego: KFMB-TV
• Hartford-New Haven: WFSB
• Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville: WRAL-TV
• Nashville: WKRN-TV
• Kansas City: KMBC-TV
• Columbus, Ohio: WCMH-TV
• Cincinnati: WKRC-TV
• Milwaukee: WISN-TV
• Salt Lake City: KUTV
• Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville: WFBC-TV/WYFF, WLOS
• San Antonio: KSAT-TV
• Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek: WZZM-TV
• Harrisburg-Lancaster-York-Lebanon: WGAL-TV
• Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News: WTKR
• Las Vegas: KLAS-TV
• Albuquerque: KOB-TV, KGGM-TV
• Oklahoma City: KTVY/KFOR-TV
• Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem: WFMY-TV
• Louisville: WHAS-TV
• Buffalo: WIVB-TV, WGRZ-TV
• Jacksonville: WJXT
• Providence-New Bedford: WJAR-TV
• Scranton-Wilkes-Barre: WNEP-TV
• Knoxville: WATE-TV
• New Orleans: WWL-TV
• Dayton, Ohio: WDTN
• Richmond, Virginia: WXEX-TV
• Tulsa: KOTV
• Lexington, Kentucky: WKYT-TV
• Charleston-Huntington: WSAZ-TV
• Flint-Saginaw-Bay City: WNEM-TV
• Roanoke-Lynchburg, Virginia: WDBJ
• Green Bay, Wisconsin: WFRV-TV
• Omaha: WOWT
• Spokane, Washington: KHQ-TV
• Rochester, New York: WOKR
• Syracuse, New York: WTVH
• Shreveport, Louisiana: KSLA-TV
• Champaign-Urbana-Springfield, Illinois: WCIA
• Columbia, South Carolina: WIS-TV
• Madison, Wisconsin: WMTV
• Chattanooga: WRCB-TV
• Jackson, Mississippi: WJTV
• Davenport, Iowa: WOC-TV/KWQC-TV
• Youngstown, Ohio: WKBN-TV
• Fort Wayne, Indiana: WANE-TV
• Lansing, Michigan: WJIM-TV
• Traverse City-Cadillac-Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan: WGTU-WGTQ
• Toledo: WTOL-TV
• Des Moines: WHO-TV
• Wichita Falls, Texas: KAUZ-TV

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WBZ-TV is the CBS owned-and-operated television station serving the Boston, Massachusetts television market. ... WTTG, FOX5 DC is an owned and operated TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. ... WUSA has several meanings: Womens United Soccer Association. ... WAGA-TV (Channel 5) is a television station in the city of Atlanta. ... KHCW is the CW affiliate for Houston, Texas, broadcasting on UHF channel 39. ... WJBK (FOX2) is the Fox-owned and operated television station in Detroit, Michigan. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... WTSP, Tampa Bays 10 is a CBS-affiliate television station on the west coast of Florida (Tampa–St. ... KTVK (known on-air as 3TV) is an independent television station in Phoenix, Arizona. ... KING-TV (KING 5) is a television station in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is affiliated with the NBC network, and broadcasts on analog VHF channel 5 and digital UHF channel 48. ... WCCO redirects here. ... WTVJ is an NBC-owned-and-operated station (O&O) licensed to Miami, Florida. ... WJW, also known on-air as FOX8, is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, broadcasting on VHF channel 8. ... KCNC-TV is the CBS owned-and-operated television station (O&O) in Denver, Colorado. ... WKMG-TV, channel six, is the CBS network affiliate serving the entire Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Florida metropolitan area. ... KXTV, News10 is an ABC affiliate in Sacramento, California. ... KOVR (CBS13) is the CBS owned-and-operated television station (O&O) in Sacramento, California. ... KCRA is a television station in Sacramento, California owned by Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. ... KTVI is the Fox owned and operated station in St. ... KDKA-TV is the CBS owned and operated (O&O) television station in Pittsburgh. ... KGW-TV, Northwest Newschannel 8 is an NBC affiliate serving the Portland, Oregon area. ... WJZ-TV channel 13 is a CBS owned-and-operated television station in Baltimore, Maryland. ... WISH-TV channel 8 is the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana. ... WBTV, known on-air as WBTV 3, is the CBS affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. ... KFMB-TV is the local CBS television affiliate of San Diego. ... WFSB is an affiliate of the CBS television network serving the state of Connecticut except Fairfield County. ... WRAL-TV is a broadcast television station based in Raleigh, North Carolina. ... WKRN-TV channel 2 is the ABC affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee. ... KMBC-TV, KMBC 9 is the ABC affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri (and also for Kansas City, Kansas) owned by Hearst-Argyle Broadcasting. ... WCMH-TV, channel four, is the NBC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. ... WKRC-TV is a television station based in Cincinnati, Ohio, owned by Clear Channel Communications. ... WISN-TV is a television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ... KUTV is the CBS owned and operated station serving the greater Salt Lake City, Utah metro area. ... WYFF-TV is the NBC television affiliate based in Greenville, South Carolina. ... WLOS channel 13 is the ABC television affiliate in Asheville, North Carolina. ... KSAT-TV, KSAT 12 (pronounced K-Sat) is the local ABC affiliate on Channel 12 in the greater San Antonio area. ... WZZM-TV, WZZM 13 is a television station affiliated with the ABC network, broadcasting on channel 13 in the Grand Rapids, Michigan metropolitan area. ... WGAL is the NBC television affiliate serving the Lancaster/Harrisburg/York (Susquehanna Valley) region of Pennsylvania. ... WTKR is the CBS affiliate serving the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, officially known as the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News DMA. The station is licensed to Norfolk and broadcasts on channel 3. ... KLAS (Channel 8 analog, 7 digital) is the CBS station serving the Las Vegas, Nevada market. ... KOB redirects here. ... KRQE is a local television news station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ... KFOR-TV, referred to on-air as Oklahomas NewsChannel4 is the NBC affiliate based out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ... WFMY-TV WFMY News2, is the CBS station for the Greensboro–High Point–Winston-Salem, North Carolina designated market area. ... WHAS-TV, WHAS 11, is the ABC affiliated station in Louisville, Kentucky. ... WIVB-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Buffalo, New York. ... WGRZ-TV is the NBC affiliate in Buffalo, New York. ... WJXT Channel 4 is an independent television station serving Jacksonville, Florida and surrounding communities. ... WJAR (NBC 10) is the NBC owned and operated television station in Rhode Island. ... WNEP-TV, is an ABC affiliate station broadcasting on channel 16 to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania DMA. Its local newscasts have been the highest-rated in northeastern and central Pennsylvania. ... WATE-TV is an affiliate of the ABC television network, serving Knoxville, Tennessee. ... WWL-TV, Channel 4, is the CBS affiliate serving New Orleans, Louisiana, southeast Louisiana and parts of southern and coastal Mississippi. ... WDTN (channel 2) is a television station in Dayton, Ohio, affiliated with the NBC network since August 30, 2004. ... WRIC-TV is the ABC affiliate for the Richmond, Virginia television market. ... KOTV, commonly referred to as KOTV 6 or The News On 6 is the CBS affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States. ... WKYT-TV, channel 27, is the CBS station in Lexington, Kentucky, serving the east-central part of Kentucky. ... WSAZ-TV is a television station in Huntington, West Virginia. ... WNEM-TV, TV 5, is the CBS television affiliate for the Mid-Michigan (Flint - Saginaw - Bay City - Midland, Michigan) television market. ... WDBJ is the CBS television network affiliate serving the Roanoke-Lynchburg television market. ... WJMN-TV redirects here. ... WOWT channel 6 is the first television station in Omaha, Nebraska. ... KHQ-TV, also known as Q6, is the NBC affiliate for Spokane, Washington. ... WHAM-TV (13 WHAM) is the ABC network television affiliate in Rochester, New York. ... WTVH is the CBS network affiliate in Syracuse, New York. ... KSLA is the call sign of a television station in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. It is a CBS network affiliate, and broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 12. ... Are you looking for: Welsh Centre for International Affairs OR WCIA-TV, CBS Affiliate ... WIS, channel 10 is the NBC television affiliate for Columbia, South Carolina. ... WMTV, channel 15, is a NBC television affiliate serving Madison, Wisconsin. ... WRCB-TV is an NBC affiliate based in Chattanooga and serving Southeastern Tennessee and Northwestern Georgia, notably the Tennessee Valley. ... WJTV (analog channel 12; digital channel 52) is Jackson, Mississippis longtime CBS affiliate, owned by Media General. ... KWQC-TV, channel 6, is the NBC affiliate for the Quad Cities television market (the Davenport, Iowa/Moline, Illinois/Rock Island, Illinois market). ... WKBN Channel 27, is the CBS affiliate in Youngstown, Ohio. ... WANE-TV is a television station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, broadcasting as a CBS affiliate on channel 15. ... WLNS-TV is the CBS television affiliate serving the Lansing/Jackson, Michigan television market in the United States. ... WGTU, channel 29, is the ABC affiliate serving the Traverse City-Cadillac, Michigan market, the largest geographic television market east of the Mississippi River. ... WTOL is the CBS television affiliate in Toledo, Ohio. ... WHO-TV is a television station that broadcasts on channel 13 in Des Moines, Iowa. ... KAUZ or NewsChannel 6 is the CBS affiliate located in Wichita Falls, Texas but also serves Lawton, Oklahoma. ...

See also

• Living, a similar lifestyle show format with a mixture of local and syndicated segments; aired by CBC Television in Canada

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External links

• History of Group W's Evening/PM Magazine, mainly from the WBZ-TV/Boston perspective
• 80's TV Theme Supersite: Evening/PM Magazine BonusPage
• For Portlanders Only (site includes a KGW-TV "PM Magazine" ad, and segments featuring Captain Carrot's "Self Department")