A local television station based in Salinas abruptly shut down its news operations on Tuesday after 56 years on the air. KION-TV, which serves Monterey, Salinas and Santa Cruz regions on California’s Central Coast, announced on its website that it would no longer produce its own local newscasts. Instead, it would partner with Bay Area CBS station KPIX to air its broadcasts, effective 5 p.m. that day. KION-TV’s news anchors, producers and other employees said they were confused and blindsided by the decision to immediately lay off the more than a dozen employees involved in news operations.
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Telemundo 23, which shared a newsroom with KION-TV, is also ending operations, employees said. The evening Spanish-language show was aired to a large swath of California, including Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, in addition to Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties.
