KVPT adds the channel Create TV

KVPT (Channel 18.1) adds the new channel Create TV (Channel 18.2) to its digital lineup at 6 a.m. Sunday. You may already have seen the channel during test runs before the official launch.

Create TV is the second new service offered by the local public television station. It launched the Spanish-language V-me (Channel 18.3) in February 2007. The new channel can be seen via an antenna or on Comcast Cable channel 194. Read more →

Newsman shares how assignment left impact

Former KGPE (Channel 47.1) news anchor Kevin Walsh has covered thousands of stories working as a reporter in Honolulu, Fresno, Philadelphia and now Boston.

In a new book "The Marrow in Me" (Sports Challenge Network, $19.95), he writes about how a routine assignment in 1996 changed his life. Read more →

TV Beat: KAIL rolls out two spooky specials

Halloween comes early on KAIL (Channel 7.1) with two locally produced spooky specials airing this weekend. “Eye on Horror,” at 8 p.m. Sunday, explores several central San Joaquin Valley haunts and offers a sneak peek at the locally produced horror film, “Stricken.” Sharon Kille Jenkins hosts.

It’ll be followed at 9 p.m. by “Hauntings in Central California: The Sierra Sky Ranch” where the Central California Paranormal Investigators look for proof that Sierra Sky Ranch is haunted. Read more →

Bullard grad works magic with effects

Fresno's Colin Feist was behind hundreds of cars crashed on Los Angeles' 110 Freeway. His fingerprints also are all over several downed buildings, multiple deaths and raging fires.

It's his job. Feist creates the carnage as a compositing supervisor for Zoic Studios, a company that does special effects for TV shows. He was in charge of visual effects for the spectacular opening episode of ABC's "FlashForward." Read more →

John Muir expert shares the spotlight

Lee Stetson has portrayed naturalist and author John Muir for the National Park Service for 27 years.

Until now, the only way you could see his work was to travel to Yosemite National Park or attend one of his tour stops. Read more →

Bullard High grads snag Emmys

It's an accomplishment to win back-to-back Emmy Awards and even more impressive when they are won in different categories.

Last year, Robert Vargas, a Bullard High graduate and former member of the Good Company Players, won the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Design for the public television educational series "Word World." He picked up another Emmy this year for Outstanding Writing in Animation on that same series. Read more →

KSEE adds 7 p.m. newscast

New KSEE (Channel 24.1) President/General Manager Matt Rosenfeld decided a few weeks ago to stop producing a 10 p.m. weekday newscast for KAIL (Channel 7.1) to concentrate the station's resources solely on content for the local NBC affiliate.

One example of how he is using those resources is to launch a 7 p.m. weekday newscast starting Monday. Read more →