KPIX-TV in San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose presently broadcasts 35 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (6 hours on weekdays, and 2½ hours on weekends). As the Bay Area's first television station, KPIX was a pioneer in local television news coverage in the region, and it presented a 15-minute evening news program until 1963. One of Channel 5's innovating program directors, Ray Hubbard, created "The Noon News". The anchors at that time were John Weston aka "Channel 5's Guy to Go" and Wanda Ramsey (who became one of the first female news anchors in the United States and joined the station in 1957) aka "Channel 5's Gal to Go." In 1965, Channel 5 first began used the "Eyewitness News" format. Also in 1965, Bob Fouts joined the station as sports anchor. In 1966, Channel 5 hired the first African-American reporters in the San Francisco television market, and one of them was Belva Davis. In 1968, the station hired Ron Magers as reporter/anchor. Also in 1968, Channel 5 hired Barry Tompkins as sports director. In the 1970s, the station hired Bill Schechner as reporter, and had his own feature "Schencher's Journal". In 1975, Christine Craft joined KPIX-TV as "all around" reporter, and then she left in 1977. In 1976, Dave McElhatton was hired by KPIX as main weekday evening anchor. And in 1977, Harold Greene joined the station for a brief period as McElhatton's co-anchor of the weeknight newscasts before he left. Also in 1977, Wendy Tokuda first joined the team as reporter (who would also be lead news anchorwoman). In 1980, Fred McLeod joined KPIX as sports anchor/reporter and then he left in November 1982. In February 1992, Channel 5 moved its 11 p.m. newscast 10 p.m. and expanded the program to one-hour. In 1994, Channel 5 rebranded its newscast titles from "Eyewitness News" to KPIX 5 News for just one year. In 1995, Channel 5 rebranded its newscasts back to "Eyewitness News". On July 7, 1997, Dana King joined KPIX-TV as Dave McElhatton's co-anchor on the 10 p.m. weeknight newscast. On August 14, 2000, Channel 5 hired Dennis O'Donnell as anchor of the 6:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. weeknight newscast. On October 31, 2000, Channel 5 hired John Kessler to anchor the "Early Edition" weekday morning newscast. On November 30, 2000, Dave McElhatton retired from the station after anchoring his final newscast which was the 5 p.m newscast. On June 18, 2001, Channel 5 launched a 4:30 p.m. weekday newscast, with Kate Kelly and Barbara Rodgers as anchors. In 2003, KPIX changed its newscasts titles to "CBS 5 Eyewitness News". On January 28, 2008, KPIX became the third television station in the Bay Area to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. On February 3, 2013, Channel 5 rebranded all its newscast from "Eyewitness News" (this time for good) to "KPIX 5 News", starting with the 11 p.m. weekend newscast. On December 19, 2022, KPIX rebranded its newscasts titles as "CBS News Bay Area" (similar to its local streaming 24/7 news channel), beginning with the noon newscast.