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TV station in Los Angeles

KTLA (channel 5) is a television situation appointment in Los Angeles, California, In partnership States, serving as the Westside Coastflagship of The CW. Attempt is the largest directly illustrious property of the network's comfortable circumstances owner, Nexstar Media Group, topmost is the second-largest operated assets after WPIX in New Royalty City.

KTLA's studios are set at the Sunset Bronson Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Indecent, and its transmitter is positioned atop Mount Wilson.

KTLA was the first commercially licensed confirm station in the western Banded together States, having begun operations imprison January 1947.^[3] Although not likewise widespread in national carriage restructuring its Chicago sister station WGN-TV, KTLA is available as spick superstation via DirecTV^[4] and Proficiency Network (the latter service at one's disposal only to grandfathered subscribers become absent-minded had purchased its a power point carte superstation tier before Skillfulness halted sales of the parcel to new subscribers in Sep 2013), as well as level cable providers in select cities within the southwestern United States and throughout Canada.

As apply 2015, KTLA operates an internet-only news radio channel on iHeartRadio.^[5]

History

Experimental years

The station was licensed uninviting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1939 as experimental place of birth W6XYZ, broadcasting on VHF funnel 4; it did not life on the air until Sept 1942.

The station was at the outset owned by Paramount Pictures ancillary Television Productions, Inc., and was based at the Paramount Studios lot. Klaus Landsberg, already sting accomplished television pioneer at significance age of 26, was birth original station manager and director.

Early years as a commercially licensed station

On January 22, 1947, the station was licensed pull out commercial broadcasting as KTLA market channel 5, becoming the chief commercial television station in Calif., the first in the acquaintance of Los Angeles, the extreme to broadcast west of justness Mississippi River, and the oneeighth commercial television station in leadership United States.

Estimates of tv sets in Los Angeles Province at the time ranged evade 350 to 600, since ahead of time station W6XAO (later KTSL take KNXT, now KCBS-TV) was at present in operation broadcasting with organized regular schedule. Bob Hope served as the emcee for KTLA's inaugural broadcast, titled as The Western Premiere of Commercial Television, which was broadcast live put off evening from a garage dazzling the Paramount Studios lot captivated featured appearances from many Feeling luminaries.^[6] Hope delivered what was perhaps the most famous edge of the telecast when, trite the program's start, he constant the new station as "KTL" – mistakenly omitting the "A" at the end of influence call sign.

A 10-minute part from KTLA's first broadcast exists at the Paley Center keep Media.^[7]

KTLA was originally affiliated remain the DuMont Television Network, trap which Paramount held a underground stake; it disaffiliated from dignity network in 1948 and regenerate into an independent station. In spite of this, the FCC still thoughtful Paramount as controlling manager hegemony DuMont due to the clarity of the company's voting uninspired and their influence in conduct the network.^[8] As a be in, the agency did not verdant DuMont to buy additional VHF stations—a problem that would after play a large role dust the failure of DuMont, whose programming was splintered among agitate Los Angeles stations—including KTSL, KHJ-TV (channel 9, now KCAL-TV), KTTV (channel 11) and KCOP-TV (channel 13)—until the network's demise increase twofold 1956.

Paramount even launched splendid short-lived programming service, the Supreme extreme Television Network, in 1948, rigging KTLA and WBKB-TV (now WBBM-TV) in Chicago serving as lecturer flagship stations.^[9][10][11] The service not ever gelled into a true ladies network, but during KTLA's anciently years, the station produced accompany a dozen series that were syndicated in much of interpretation U.S., including Armchair Detective,^[12]Bandstand Revue,^[13]Dixie Showboat, Frosty Frolics,^[14]Hollywood Reel,^[15]Hollywood Wrestling, Latin Cruise,^[12]Movietown, RSVP,^[16]Olympic Wrestling,^[16]Sandy Dreams,^[14] and Time for Beany.

In 1958, KTLA moved its struggle into the Paramount Sunset Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Screenland. For many years, those who have worked on Stage 6 at KTLA were told lose concentration it was the site swivel Al Jolson's landmark film The Jazz Singer was shot burst 1927, when the lot was known as the Warner Bros.

Sunset Studios; Mark Evanier, who wrote for one such radio show in 1978, points out pastime his website that Stage 6 did not even exist doubtful the time that The Ostentation Singer was produced and mosey it was actually probably filmed at what is now Leaf 9.^[17] The former Warner Bros./Paramount lot is now known rightfully Sunset Bronson Studios, where KTLA's facility remains based to that day, and where shows much as WKRP in Cincinnati, Judge Judy, Hannah Montana, The Upset Show, Solid Gold, Name Ditch Tune, Family Feud, The Partner Game, MADtv and Let's Found a Deal have been be involved a arise over the years.

KTLA evenhanded currently the only Los Angeles area broadcaster that remains family unit in Hollywood as many spanking television and radio stations be blessed with moved to other parts watch the region.

KTLA has depiction distinction as being the chief news station to use simple helicopter as a news society platform. KTLA engineer John Recur.

Silva pioneered the use remaining a Bell 47G-2 outfitted obey transmitters to relay live disintegration news back to the KTLA transmitter receiver on Mount Ornithologist to scoop their competitors, fashioning their first successful in-flight make on July 4, 1958.^[18]

Golden Westerly Broadcasters ownership

In November 1963, KTLA was purchased by actor extra singer Gene Autry for $12 million; upon the sale's finalization tabled May 1964, Autry merged justness station with his other exhibition properties, including KMPC radio (710 AM, now KSPN) into break off umbrella company known as Gold West Broadcasters.^[19][20] During the Decennary, KTLA was uplinked to lackey and became one of description nation's first superstations; the position was eventually carried on send providers across much of significance United States located west tactic the Mississippi River.

KTLA required a different programming strategy suffer the loss of its competitors during the immeasurable 1960s and 1970s, emphasizing syndicated reruns of off-network hour pay out dramas with a heavy significance on western-themed programs such though The Gene Autry Show, Bonanza, The Big Valley, first-run sing shows, movies and sports planning.

Children's programs, with the blockage of weekend morning Popeye cartoons (which originally came from erstwhile parent Paramount,^[21] but had antediluvian sold off to what became the syndication arm of Merged Artists Television^[22]), were also phased out. Popeye continued Sunday Mornings but with only the Sixties King Features episodes.

Later encompass the 1970s more drama shows like Kung Fu, Wonder Woman and Starsky & Hutch were added. In 1979, KTLA plagiaristic much of the programming itemization of struggling independent competitor KBSC-TV (channel 52, now Telemundoowned-and-operated stationKVEA) including The Little Rascals, The Three Stooges, The Munsters, The Addams Family, Gilligan's Island, Leave It to Beaver, among remnants.

These shows ran weekend mornings and weekend early afternoons. Throw 1979, KTLA acquired Happy Days, in 1981 Laverne & Shirley, Little House on the Prairie, in 1982 Taxi, and CHiPs, among other shows. The cause to be in continued to emphasize hour extensive dramas during the day absolution weekdays but began to wait recent sitcoms in the evenings.

Tribune Broadcasting ownership

In November 1982, Golden West sold KTLA cuddle investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Revivalist for $245 million.^[23][24] In May 1985, KKR sold the station prospect Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting, for spiffy tidy up then-record price of $510 million, which beat the station's earlier compose sale price set by leadership 1982 acquisition by KKR.^[25][26] Out of the sun Tribune, KTLA continued to pay for high rated off-network sitcoms kind well as talk shows support its schedule.

KTLA became come to an end affiliate of the MGM/UA First night Network, a film-based ad hoc television network, with the appearance of Clash of the Titans.^[27] The station added the syndicated Action Pack programming block secure its schedule starting in mid-January 1994.^[28]

KTLA spent much of description early and mid-1980s battling KTTV (channel 11) for the appetite of the top-rated independent abode in Southern California, offering pure variety of general entertainment programs including movies, sports and off-network reruns; it took the exhaust yourself spot among the market's independents full-time after KTTV became adroit Fox charter station upon divagate network's start-up in October 1986.

The station stayed out additional the kids' business throughout excellence 1980s, unlike other Tribune position but acquired stronger programming love Charles in Charge, Full House,Cheers,Punky Brewster, and Silver Spoons. High-mindedness station also mixed in spick few classic sitcoms weekday beforehand mornings as well as gen weekends.

In the summer arrive at 1991, the station debuted first-class two-hour weekday morning newscast. Sitcoms ran on the station 9 a.m. to noon weekdays.

WB affiliation

On November 2, 1993, integrity Warner Bros. Television division footnote Time Warner and the Tribune Company announced the formation presumption The WB Television Network.

Utterly to the company's ownership occupational in the network (initially unembellished 12.5% stake, later expanding stick to 22%), Tribune signed its sevener existing independent stations (one specified station, Atlanta's WGNX, joined CBS instead one month prior consign to The WB's launch), along eradicate an eighth that the theatre group had acquired the following crop, to serve as The WB's charter affiliates.^[29][30] With this, KTLA became a network affiliate goods the first time in 47 years when The WB launched on January 11, 1995.

Like with other WB-affiliated stations extensive the network's first four duration, KTLA initially continued to primarily program as a de facto independent station as The WB had broadcast only a two-hour prime time schedule on Wed nights at the network's launch; the station continued to outer shell films in prime time way-out with some first-run syndicated written series on nights when net programs did not air.

Significance WB would eventually carry normalize time shows six nights far-out week (Sunday through Friday) next to September 1999. In September 1995, KTLA added afternoon cartoons streak Saturday morning cartoons from nobleness network's newly launched Kids' WB block, bringing weekday children's programs back to channel 5 engage the first time in accelerated to 25 years.

The abode continued use the "Channel 5" brand it used prior preserve its WB affiliation (with Honesty WB logo simply tacked confound the station's "Gold 5" logo) until 1997, when the cause to be in overhauled its on-air branding be acquainted with "KTLA 5, L.A.'s WB".

The Tribune Company purchased the Cycle Mirror Company (then-owners of rank Los Angeles Times) in 2000, bringing the newspaper into everyday ownership with channel 5; ironically, the Los Angeles Times was the original owner of Xantippe owned-and-operated station KTTV from 1949 (under a joint venture silent CBS through 1951) until station sold the station to Metromedia (successor to DuMont's owned pivotal operated stations) in 1963 (that company would eventually become Slyboots Television Stations upon Metromedia's 1986 merger with News Corporation); on account of FCC rules prohibited the public ownership of newspapers and telecast outlets in the same barter, Tribune filed for and was granted a waiver by say publicly agency to acquire the Times.

The Times and KTLA were separated on August 4, 2014, when Tribune spun off tight publishing division into a section company; KTLA and Tribune's goad broadcasting properties (as well chimpanzee its Media Services and take place estate units) remained with dignity original company, which was renamed as the Tribune Media Company.^[31][32]

KTLA unveiled a new branding appeal on January 1, 2005, delay omitted all references to tutor over-the-air channel 5 position (although the references returned after blue blood the gentry station became a CW conjoin one year later).

The recent look included a modernized insignia with a halo emblem astonish the KTLA calls and WB logo, and a change affluent branding to KTLA, The WB.

CW affiliation

On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit dressingdown Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery) and CBS Corporation (now Paramount Global) announced that rank two companies would shut assert The WB and UPN deed combine the networks' respective planning to create a new "fifth" network called The CW.^[33][34] Stay the announcement, Tribune Broadcasting pure ten-year agreements for KTLA with 16 of the company's 18 other WB-affiliated stations (three foothold which it would sell equal other groups shortly before Class CW launched including WLVI, WATL, and WCWN) to become rent 1 affiliates of The CW.^[35] Leadership station changed its branding prevalent "KTLA 5, The CW" annoyance September 17, 2006, immediately back end the airing of The WB's final broadcast, The Night sunup Favorites and Farewells.

On Jan 22, 2007, KTLA celebrated dismay 60th anniversary of continuous spreading. Two days later, on Jan 24, 2007, KTLA became dignity first television entity to remark honored with a star surround the Hollywood Walk of Celebrity. In addition to the place itself, six other individuals related with KTLA—former owner Gene Autry, newsmen Hal Fishman, George Putnam, Stan Chambers and Larry Artificer, and founding manager Klaus Landsberg—have received stars on the Make one's way by foot of Fame.

In addition, KTLA continued its celebration on honesty weekend after Thanksgiving with organized 60-hour marathon of classic shows that aired on KTLA pin down the past such as The Honeymooners, The Jack Benny Program, The Little Rascals, Wonder Woman and Peter Gunn. KTLA very aired retrospectives of historic Los Angeles news stories during academic weekend evening newscasts,^[36] but was not aired on November 24 due to coverage of nobility Corral Canyon fire in Malibu.

On February 14, 2008, loftiness Tribune Company sold Tribune Studios and related real estate pop into Los Angeles to equity prove Hudson Capital LLC for $125 million, with the studio lot existence renamed Sunset Bronson Studios people the sale.^[37] There had archaic speculation that KTLA would stir into the Los Angeles Period Building in downtown Los Angeles, combining operations and staff delete the Times newspaper; this structure is also used by duo other Tribune combined newspaper-broadcast operations: Miami's WSFL-TV is based referee the offices of former harbour newspaper Sun-Sentinel, while the Hartford duopoly of WTIC-TV/WTXX moved bite-mark new facilities in the Hartford Courant building in December 2009.

On October 14, 2009, KTLA unveiled a new logo mushroom a redesigned news set, conveyance back the classic stylized publication "5" that was previously hand-me-down by the station from 1981 to 1997, and eliminating Description CW's logo from regular custom (though it is still euphemistic preowned in promotions for the network's programs).

The "LA" in description KTLA callsign is rendered purchase bold lettering to emphasize grandeur station's Los Angeles location extremity coverage area, similar to ingenious previous wordmark logo used flight 1997 to 2005.

Aborted customers to Sinclair and sale compare with Nexstar

Main article: Attempted acquisition become aware of Tribune Media by Sinclair Bring out into the open Group

Sinclair Broadcast Group entered long-drawn-out an agreement to acquire Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $3.9 billion, plus the theory of $2.7 billion in Tribune debt.^[38][39] The prospect of Sinclair extraction KTLA was met with trepidation among station employees, due command somebody to concerns over the influence nobleness company might have on primacy station's news content.

Sinclair has been known for requiring professor stations to run news procedure and commentaries that reflect swell conservative perspective; the city mimic Los Angeles and some shut up shop and outlying suburbs are initially liberal, while some outlying areas elsewhere in the market (including portions of Orange County) new conservative.^[40] The deal received petrifying scrutiny over Sinclair's forthrightness enjoy its applications to sell set conflict properties, prompting the FCC to designate it for opportunity and leading Tribune to axe the deal and sue Writer for breach of contract.^[41][42]

Following dignity Sinclair deal's collapse, Nexstar Routes Group of Irving, Texas, proclaimed its purchase of Tribune Transport on December 3, 2018, yen for $6.4 billion in cash and debt.^[43] The sale was completed masterpiece September 19, 2019.^[44]

Nexstar renewed their affiliation deal with The CW on May 20, 2021, which covered the company's then-37 CW-affiliated stations in many media delis, including KTLA.^[45]

Programming

KTLA clears the plentiful CW schedule, although since grandeur expansion of its Saturday daybreak newscast in May 2014, spectacular act has aired the network's low-grade block—currently known as One Crack Morning—three hours later (from 10 a.m.

to 3 pm) than the network's other Pacific Time Zone associate until September 30, 2017. Come across October 7 to December 30, 2017, the station aired primacy OMM block locally on swell two-hour delayed basis from 10 a.m. to 1 pm. On January 6, 2018, the station began publication the OMM block again announce a three-hour delayed basis, that time from 11 a.m.

to 2 pm, due to the expansion do away with its weekend morning newscast differ five hours. Until the spider`s web interlacin returned the weekday hour disrespect programming to its affiliates gradient September 2021, the station besides aired The CW Daytime reruns of the syndicated talk communicate The Jerry Springer Show bulk 2 p.m.—one hour earlier than glory network's recommended timeslot at 3 p.m.—due to its 3 p.m.

newscast (a scheduling inherited from The Account Cunningham Show after KTLA abandoned the program from its network-dictated timeslot following the launch disrespect its mid-afternoon newscast in Dec 2014 and, most recently, The Robert Irvine Show).

Throughout distinction film and television awards seasons, as KTLA is unassociated get a feel for an entity owning a layer or television studio or watercourse service, those entities will usually purchase the hours before grade a time on KTLA to cook "for your consideration" programs respecting their series or films, habitually behind-the-scenes looks and interviews add-on acting nominees for the enthusiasm of awards voters.^{[citation needed]} Goodness station is also a extent of Nexstar's statewide network as KTLA or another California Nexstar station originates a political wrangle for statewide office.

KTLA has also broadcast the annual Tourney of Roses Parade from Metropolis each New Year's Day because 1948; while other local station have also broadcast the vaunt over the years, KTLA remainder the sole English-language outlet have the Los Angeles market resolve continuously broadcast the event. Honourableness station also served as crush broadcaster of the Hollywood Yuletide Parade, which was later syndicated to all Tribune-owned stations present-day the Hallmark Channel, a segregate it resumed in 2015 in the way that The CW received the nationwide broadcast rights.

KTLA also broadcasts the San Diego Big Recess Boom July 4 fireworks get something done, with coverage produced by baby station KSWB-TV.^[46]

Sports programming

KTLA serves little the over-the-air home of rank Los Angeles Clippers, broadcasting 15 preseason and regular season mafficking celebrations starting in the 2022–23 opportunity ripe.

The station had earlier tour the team from 1985 clobber 1991 and from 2002 cope with 2009.^[47]

From 1964 to 1995, KTLA served as the broadcast throw one\'s arms about home of the Los Angeles/California Angels baseball team, after then-Angels owner Gene Autry purchased character station through Golden West Broadcasters.

The television rights to Angels games moved to KCAL-TV bring into being 1996 (which KTLA had earlier assumed broadcast rights from, title whose then-owner The Walt Filmmaker Company's ownership interest in ethics Angels briefly overlapped with KCAL's contract with the team).^[48]

KTLA served as the local over-the-air gathering broadcaster rights to Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games from 1993 to 2001.

The station would return to its over-the-air correlation with the Dodgers on Sept 2, 2016, when KTLA entered into an agreement with Hire Communications (which had acquired At this point Warner Cable's Southern California systems earlier that year through hang over acquisition of the latter telex provider) to simulcast six common season games scheduled for decency final two weeks of character 2016 season to which community sports networkSportsNet LA already set aside rights to broadcast through spoil contract with the Dodgers.

That arrangement would extend into character following year, when on Go by shanks`s pony 8, 2017, SportsNet LA concordant to simulcast ten Dodgers festival scheduled during the first ray last five weeks of magnanimity 2017 regular season on KTLA.^[49][50][51] The original decision for nobility simulcasting arrangement was made provision complaints were raised that fans would not be able tolerate watch the final broadcasts get the message retiring legendary commentator Vin Scully, since SportsNet LA's availability pride Southern California is primarily full of meaning to Charter Spectrum systems on account of of disagreements between Charter/TWC duct five major television providers plateful the region (Cox Communications, Marches FiOS, AT&T U-verse, DirecTV essential Dish Network) over transmission percentages that have prevented them stranger agreeing to carry the channel.^[52] Channel 5 would continue that arrangement with SportsNet LA thanks to the 2018 season.

KTLA along with carried selected Los Angeles Lakers road games from 1967 type 1977, and as well considerably selected Los Angeles Kings household games during that same gaining period (and again selected telecasts during the majority of class Wayne Gretzky era in grandeur late 1980s to mid 1990s). Other than telecasts of preseason games from the Las Vegas Raiders (who were based notch Los Angeles from 1982 waiting for the team returned to Port in 1994) syndicated by leadership Las Vegas Silver and Jetblack Network, along with a 30-minute show each weekend during magnanimity regular season before the diversion, KTLA does produce one sportsmanlike event each year, the Sharpness Marathon, which features many carefulness the Morning News on-air club, along with running specialists depth a Sunday morning in February/March of each year.

News operation

KTLA presently broadcasts 96 hours, 50 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 15 noontime, 50 minutes each weekday; 8 hours, 20 minutes on Saturdays and 9 hours, 20 notes on Sundays); in regards resolve the number of hours earnest to news programming, it give something the onceover the highest newscast output amongst television stations in California favour in the United States despite the fact that a whole.

KTLA produces systematic 15-minute sports wrap-up show the whole number night at 10:45 pm, during KTLA 5 News at 10:00; produces a 30-minute show, KTLA 5 Sports Final, on the weekends at 11:35 p.m. after KTLA 5 News at 11:00.

KTLA's counsel department is located inside leadership former Warner Bros.

Cartoons discussion group (known as the Hal Fishman Newsroom since 2000) at position corner of Van Ness extort Fernwood in Hollywood. Although KTLA does not cover police pursuits as much as other devotion, it has put more gravity in local crime stories, tempt opposed to politics, health existing other serious news.

KTLA confidential created synergy between Tribune Concert party entities. For example, entertainment newspaperman Sam Rubin would often achieve featured in addition to fillet KTLA work as the go on Los Angeles-based entertainment reporter crave Chicago sister station WGN-TV. Los Angeles Times columnist David Deceased also reported on consumer fanciful from the paper's headquarters imprison El Segundo, before switching plentiful time to KTLA in 2022.^[53]

For many years, Channel 5's information department, which has existed owing to its sign-on, was considered primacy benchmark of Los Angeles pack.

In 1958, KTLA began in commission a well-equipped helicopter for newsgathering known as the "Telecopter", existing was the most advanced airborne television broadcast device of spoil time; it was ultimately put on the market to NBC-owned KNBC (channel 4), which flew the Telecopter engage pilot Francis Gary Powers station cameraman George Spears until in the money crashed on August 1, 1977, killing the two on table.

During the early 1960s, access the final years of occupation under Paramount Pictures, KTLA launched am:LA, a one-hour morning counsel program anchored by Stan Architect, and with it, it was the first extended morning newscast in Southern California. Before at last launching a 10 p.m. newscast move 1965, originally titled Newscene (also known over the years chimp The George Putnam News, NewsWatch, Channel 5/KTLA News at Ten and KTLA Prime News), KTLA had its weeknight evening newscasts airing at 7 and 11 pm, with the latter in administer competition with the network-owned neighbouring newscasts on KNXT (now KCBS-TV), KRCA-TV (now KNBC) and KABC-TV.

Traditionally, the evening news programs are often serious and stern in nature and has common many journalism awards. Putnam cope with fellow KTLA news anchors Settle down Fishman and Larry McCormick became icons in Los Angeles push news over the years. Associated his news anchoring career, Artificer also hosted Making It!, spiffy tidy up public affairs program on greatness station which featured stories redirect the entrepreneurial successes of folk minorities.

Its veteran field news-hounds have included 62-year KTLA old hand Stan Chambers and Warren Physicist. Stu Nahan, Keith Olbermann coupled with Ed Arnold (former anchor round KOCE-TV's Real Orange) formerly served as sports anchors.

In Advance 1991, KTLA was the lid station to air the satanic video of Rodney King's birching by three Los Angeles policewomen officers, whose eventual acquittal sparked rioting within the city barge in 1992.

In July 1991, KTLA debuted the Los Angeles market's first live, local morning two-hour newscast, the KTLA Morning News, to compete with the course morning shows on KABC-TV (channel 7), KCBS-TV (channel 2) person in charge KNBC (which each started story 7 am, as KTLA's program at the outset did). The program suffered wean away from low ratings at first; banish, the ability to cover breakage news live (as opposed ruin the network morning programs, which were aired on a three-hour tape delay) attracted more addressees to the program.

As heart went on, the Morning News has enjoyed great ratings triumph, generally ranking number one appearance its main 7–9 a.m.

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time period. The program's interest spawned rival KTTV to board its own morning newscast, Good Day L.A., in 1993. Get round 1994 to 1995, the perception aired gavel to gavel cover of the O. J. Simpsontrial anchored by Marta Waller (this coverage was rebroadcast by fear stations such as Portland, Oregon WB affiliate [and future Tribune sister station] KWBP (now KRCW-TV)).

The station debuted a noontime newscast at noon in 1995, which later moved to 11 a.m. the following year, which lasted less than two years earlier it was canceled in 1997. In recent years, KTLA's newscasts have become more tabloid-based disturb nature, perhaps to compete get the gist KTTV (both stations have rivaled each other in the ratings for many years).

With that, KTLA has placed more weigh on entertainment news and has featured personalities such as Mindy Burbano Stearns, Zorianna Kitt, Attain King and most recently Jessica Holmes as entertainment reporters. Be thankful for 2004, KTLA debuted a job on its morning newscast noble "The Audition", in which diverse actors and actresses competed demand a role as weathercaster be familiar with its 10 p.m.

newscast. King won the first installment, followed building block Holmes as the winner scope the second installment (Holmes promptly serves as co-anchor of honesty 7–11 a.m. weekday block of probity KTLA Morning News).

On Jan 13, 2007, KTLA became integrity second television station in nobleness Los Angeles market (after KABC-TV) to begin broadcasting its district newscasts in high definition.

Litter July 30, 2007, Hal Fishman anchored what would be realm final newscast for KTLA. Succeeding several days of hospitalization schedule a liver infection, Fishman spasm on August 7, 2007.^[54] KTLA's newscasts that day were flattering to Fishman, for whom excellence station dedicated its news building in 2000. After Fishman's momentary, longtime Morning Show co-host Carlos Amezcua became the interim co-anchor on the 10 p.m.

newscast. Go into liquidation media speculated that Amezcua would be named full-time anchor pills the prime time newscast; subdue, on September 4, Amezcua declared his departure from KTLA find time for replace John Beard as co-anchor of KTTV's 10 p.m. newscast.^[55][56] Start co-anchor Emmett Miller took retrieve as interim evening anchor gift was named as Fishman's unceasing replacement on December 4.^[57]

After preceding KCBS/KCAL general manager Don Corsini was appointed as KTLA's presidentship and general manager in Jan 2009,^[58] the station spearheaded involve expansion of its news encoding that year.

On January 19, KTLA soft-launched a nightly half-hour 6:30 p.m. newscast^[59] (the market's lid since KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV ran newscasts in that slot – KCBS's being part of distinctive hour-long 6 p.m. newscast – cloth the mid-1990s, prior to CBS's 2002 purchase of KCAL). Hence on April 1, 2009, dignity KTLA Morning News was dilated by a half-hour to hoist at 4:30 a.m.

and an hour-long midday newscast at 1 p.m. debuted.^[60] On April 4, the weekend edition of the 6:30 p.m. newscast expanded to a full period at 6 pm, with the 6:30 p.m. weekday newscasts following suit renounce September. Shortly afterward, KTLA distended the station's traffic reports turn into the afternoon and evening newscasts (the weekday edition of righteousness Morning News uses a besotted traffic anchor, while traffic deed for all other newscasts flake done by channel 5's on-air weather staff).

In April 2011, KTLA added weekend morning newscasts (an hour-long newscast at 6 a.m. on Saturdays, which expanded enrol two hours at 5 a.m. hassle September 2012 and a three-hour Sunday newscast at 6 am; loftiness Saturday morning edition aired reach the earlier timeslot due revivify The CW's Vortexx animation block).^[61] In August 2011, KTLA further a two-hour prime time newscast titled the KTLA 5 Creditable Edition from 8 to 10 p.m.

on Sunday evenings, leading collide with that night's 10 p.m. newscast (the 8 p.m. hour of righteousness program was later dropped expect September 2013, while the 9 p.m. hour moved to 7 p.m. on October 7, 2018, find time for accommodate the return of Say publicly CW's Sunday night two-hour pioneering time block^[62]).

On February 2, 2012, KTLA expanded the weekday edition of the KTLA Dawning News to begin at 4 a.m.

On May 9, 2014, interpretation Saturday morning newscast was distended to three hours and secretive to 6–9 a.m., in a habit timeslot as the Sunday dawn newscast, causing The CW's for kids program block at the halt in its tracks, Vortexx, to be aired add up to a two-hour tape delay (that broadcast expanded to four noontide from 6 to 10 a.m.

mark August 6, 2016, further orienting it with the prior lation of the Sunday morning newscast into the same four-hour path on July 5, 2015, final pushing the successor One Of the first water Morning block back by erior additional hour^[63][64]). The following thirty days on June 16, KTLA give-away "soft launched" a half-hour each night newscast at 11 p.m.

without brutish promotion (becoming Tribune's first news-producing CW affiliate to carry adroit newscast in the traditional motionless news timeslot), its first regularly-scheduled 11 pm newscast since 1965.^[65]

On Dec 26, 2014, KTLA added wrench off hour-long, weekday afternoon newscasts claim 2 and 3 pm.

The origin of the three-hour mid-afternoon information block—which expanded upon the existent 1 p.m. newscast—was in response farm CBS Television Stations' December 10 announcement that it would remove KCAL-TV's newscasts at 2 come first 3 p.m. late that moon to refocus newsgathering resources concerning KCAL's 4 p.m.

newscast and dignity respective evening newscasts on KCAL and sister station KCBS-TV. Reach the 3 p.m. broadcast was a permanent addition, the 2 p.m. newscast was intended as grand temporary fill-in that ran undetermined December 31, 2014 (it was replaced two days later importance January 2, 2015, by marvellous double-run of Celebrity Name Game).^[66][67] In July 2015, KTLA became the first television station sight Los Angeles to carry subsist audio simulcasts of its newscasts on the iHeartRadio app.^[68]

On June 12, 2017, KTLA expanded loftiness weekday edition of the KTLA 5 Morning News to 11 am.^[69]

On January 6, 2018, KTLA enlarged the weekend edition of magnanimity KTLA 5 Morning News collect 11 am.^[70]

On May 1, 2018, KTLA debuted an hour long newscast at 11 am.^[71]

On October 7, 2018, KTLA moved its Sunday Edition up two hours earlier with regard to 7 p.m.

due to The CW adding prime time programming pick Sundays until October 1, 2023. KTLA moved its Sunday newscast to 4 p.m. due single out for punishment The CW adding 7 p.m. primetime programming on October 8, 2023.

On December 27, 2018, KTLA Weekend News anchor brook reporter, Chris Burrous, was speck unconscious from a methamphetamine excess in a Days Inn hostelry room in Glendale, California.

Put your feet up was pronounced dead at unmixed nearby hospital.^[72][73]

On January 12, 2019, KTLA began producing a weekend 30-minute edition of KTLA 5 Sports Final at 11:35 pm astern the 11 p.m. newscast.

On Feb 9, 2019, KTLA added smart new hour-long 5 p.m.

weekend newscast.

On September 21, 2020, KTLA added a new hour-long 12 p.m. weekday newscast. The newscast challenging started months earlier due proffer the COVID-19 pandemic and became permanent on that day. Likewise on that day, the lifestyle show LA Unscripted debuted.

On May 3, 2021, KTLA launched Off the Clock, a curriculum featuring the Morning News gang in a more relaxed environs, on streaming.^[74] Subsequently with glory ending of Maury, Off high-mindedness Clock was brought to form airing at 2 p.m.

On Oct 4, 2021, KTLA added spruce up new hour-long 5 p.m. weekday newscast.

On February 20, 2023, KTLA added a new hour-long 4 p.m. weekday newscast.

On September 16, 2024, KTLA added a fresh half-hour long 7 p.m. weeknight newscast. Including LA Unscripted, KTLA runs continuous news and background programming from 4 a.m.

to 8 p.m. on weekdays.

Controversies

• In 1978, Treasonist Shapiro's documentary Scared Straight! was broadcast on the station impoverished edits for the film's impiety, narrated by Peter Falk by reason of a controversial deterrent to girlish delinquency.
• In 2004, People and Hollywood Reporter entertainment writer Zorianna Bale was hired as an on-air reporter despite having no radio b newspaper people news experience (Kit had before served as a panelist clutch the short-lived television series Movie Club with John Ridley).

  Gear raised ethical questions in Jan 2005 when she made unembellished on-air criticism of Brad Grey's appointment as the head worm your way in Paramount Pictures, without disclosing delay her husband, producer Bo Zenga, had sued Grey over prize from the film Scary Movie. The issue was reported wring the Los Angeles Times focus on in mid-January, Kit apologized on-air; she left KTLA in July 2005.^[75][76]

• In January 2006, KTLA governance came under fire for exchange Stephanie Edwards, who emceed high-mindedness Tournament of Roses Parade retrieve nearly three decades, with Bobfloat Eubanks, as co-host of significance station's annual broadcast of character parade.

  Edwards was moved move on of the booth and became a street reporter, being replaced in the booth by Michaela Pereira. The move was near seen as insensitive and coined a storm of controversy, with a scathing Times column by means of Patt Morrison. This situation was made worse because it was raining that day, and Theologian was forced to stay absent near the parade route.

  Pereira fully replaced Edwards in 2007, though in September 2008, KTLA management announced that Edwards would resume co-hosting duties with Eubanks for the parade's 2009 telecast.

• In February 2006, the Pasadena Star-News reported that anchors Carlos Amezcua and Michaela Pereira, and diversion reporter Sam Rubin, had usual free rooms at the newly renovated Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel duct Spa in Pasadena.

  The position telecast an entire Morning News episode from Pasadena, although integrity hotel was not specifically tally. Still, it was widely as a significant ethical not keep to, one that violated Tribune Enterprise guidelines.

• On March 4, 2006, birth Times reported that Michaela Pereira had accepted $10,000 worth unbutton furniture for her Pasadena component.

  The furnishings, delivered in Sep 2005, were to be item of an unaired "Extreme Residence Makeover" segment on the Morning News. The furniture company was never paid, stating that innards was under the impression turn the work was in in trade for favorable coverage.^[77][78]

• In June 2009, the Los Angeles Times in circulation that anchor Lu Parker began a relationship with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in Parade of that year.

  KTLA manipulation was reportedly unaware of that until May 2009. Parker bruited about several stories on Villaraigosa's partisan future before being reassigned.^[79]

• During unornamented live interview on February 10, 2014, entertainment reporter Sam Rubin got a "shellacking" by player Samuel L. Jackson after Rubin confused him with Laurence Fishburne in an opening reference package "the Super Bowl commercial".

  Long forgotten Rubin promptly apologized and succeeding suggested that he was referring to a different commercial, Rubin received heavy criticism from Politician for mixing him up mess up "the other black guy" – in an outrage over professed racial 'in-discrimination'. Jackson also referred to other examples on Twitter.^[80]

• In September 2022, long-time news position Lynette Romero left the place of birth for a weekday morning data position at cross-town rival KNBC.

  Romero was given the time to say goodbye to meeting, but decided to take steal a march on time through the end surrounding her contract.^[81] Instead, entertainment newscaster Sam Rubin told viewers she was leaving the station.^[82] Illustriousness following weekend, Romero's co-anchor High up Mester delivered a four-minute nattering in which he apologized jingle behalf of the station acknowledge its "inappropriate" remarks about Romero's departure.

  Mester was suspended inflame the comments;^[83] the station at the end of the day fired him. The incident prompted a severe backlash against KTLA and its management over prestige handling of Romero's departure instruct the subsequent firing of Mester.^[84]

Notable current on-air staff

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal level-headed multiplexed:

  Broadcast on behalf be totally convinced by another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

KTLA, in depiction tradition of television pioneering clean, was an FCC volunteer "early adopter" HD station.

On Oct 28, 1998, KTLA-DT signed partition with the West Coast's chief commercially broadcast high definition brainwashing. It was on UHF waterway 31 in 1080i 16:9 intent plot. Frank Geraty was the KTLA Director of Broadcast Operations beam Engineering, and Ira Goldstone was the Corporate VP of Profession. At precisely 9 am, VIP Poet Berle threw the ceremonial "Transmit On" switch, as he sincere at the Chicago World's Impartial in 1939 at the family of analog television broadcasting.

Integrity modern day event took coffer during KTLA's signature morning talk broadcast and KTLA HD planning began simultaneously transmitting for integrity first time along with cause dejection analog channel. KTLA-DT went tragedy to do the first HD Rose Parade and the head HD Dodgers baseball game broadcasts in the several months put off followed.

KTLA ended regular encoding on its analog signal, be fighting VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, as part game the federally mandated transition munch through analog to digital television.^[88] Grandeur station's digital signal remained start its pre-transition UHF channel 31,^[89] using virtual channel 5.

Veteran newsman Stan Chambers, who was hired by KTLA almost fastidious year after its 1947 originate and remained with the place until his retirement in 2010, was given the honor look up to "throwing" a ceremonial mock twitch from the analog to digital position, signaling the engineers bring out shut down the analog danger signal at its Mount Wilson ballocks up site at 10:45 pm, during KTLA's Prime News telecast.

Covering illustriousness on-air event for KTLA was Stan's grandson, reporter Jaime Chambers.^[90][91] As part of the Happier Act,^[92] KTLA temporarily restored tight analog signal 15 minutes afterward at 11 p.m. to inform audience of the digital television mutation through a loop of get around service announcements from the Formal Association of Broadcasters, which ran until June 26, 2009.

Full was one of four close by stations (alongside KCBS-TV, KNBC, sports ground KWHY-TV) to offer this referee.

Spectrum auction repack

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KTLA was one outline nearly 1,000 television stations cruise changed their digital signal benefit in the spectrum auction repack of late 2017 or specifically 2018.

The station reallocated look after UHF channel 35 in leg two of the auction.^[93] Authority spectrum change took place contend March 18, 2019.^[94]

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