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Anchors Dave Walker and Lois Hart on Channel 3's set, which will be razed after today's 11 p.m. newscast.

Say goodbye to Channel 3's familiar wood-paneled set.

Starting tonight, KCRA newscasts will broadcast from a temporary set in "Studio B" while designers tear down and design a fancy new set to coincide with the station's foray into high definition broadcasting. (The noon news still will be beamed from a studio at the Arden Fair mall.)

Elliott Troshinsky, president of KCRA, won't reveal specifics, but Channel 3 will become the first local TV station to broadcast its entire newscast in HD sometime in February. (Currently, Channel 10 uses HD for some sports reports and a weekly travel segment.)

Be sure to read the Media Savvy column in Tuesday's Scene section of The Bee for more details. We'll present something of a requiem for Channel 3's old set and answer the question that viewers have been dying to know for years: Where does that winding stairway behind the anchor desk lead?