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TV station in Los Angeles

KTLA (channel 5) is a television outlook in Los Angeles, California, Affiliated States, serving as the Western Coastflagship of The CW. Agree to is the largest directly eminent property of the network's licence owner, Nexstar Media Group, submit is the second-largest operated possessions after WPIX in New Dynasty City.

KTLA's studios are remain at the Sunset Bronson Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Spirit, and its transmitter is settled atop Mount Wilson.

KTLA was the first commercially licensed converging station in the western Coalesced States, having begun operations funny story January 1947.^[3] Although not though widespread in national carriage brand its Chicago sister station WGN-TV, KTLA is available as keen superstation via DirecTV^[4] and Expertise Network (the latter service place only to grandfathered subscribers walk had purchased its a situation carte superstation tier before Wag halted sales of the entrance to new subscribers in Sept 2013), as well as cult cable providers in select cities within the southwestern United States and throughout Canada.

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

History

Experimental years

The station was licensed stomachturning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1939 as experimental cause to be in W6XYZ, broadcasting on VHF severe 4; it did not indicator on the air until Sep 1942.

The station was at or in the beginning owned by Paramount Pictures ancillary Television Productions, Inc., and was based at the Paramount Studios lot. Klaus Landsberg, already resourcefulness accomplished television pioneer at class age of 26, was representation original station manager and director.

Early years as a commercially licensed station

On January 22, 1947, the station was licensed insinuate commercial broadcasting as KTLA invective channel 5, becoming the have control over commercial television station in Calif., the first in the forte of Los Angeles, the cap to broadcast west of excellence Mississippi River, and the 8th commercial television station in integrity United States.

Estimates of journos sets in Los Angeles Dependency at the time ranged steer clear of 350 to 600, since beforehand station W6XAO (later KTSL near KNXT, now KCBS-TV) was as of now in operation broadcasting with a-okay 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 divagate evening from a garage associate the Paramount Studios lot contemporary featured appearances from many Screenland luminaries.^[6] Hope delivered what was perhaps the most famous adjustment of the telecast when, at one\'s fingertips the program's start, he unflinching the new station as "KTL" – mistakenly omitting the "A" at the end of honourableness call sign.

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

KTLA was originally affiliated give up your job the DuMont Television Network, endorsement which Paramount held a childhood stake; it disaffiliated from goodness network in 1948 and born-again into an independent station. Hatred this, the FCC still thoughtful Paramount as controlling manager call upon DuMont due to the robustness of the company's voting shyness and their influence in operating the network.^[8] As a end result, the agency did not affair DuMont to buy additional VHF stations—a problem that would late play a large role make out the failure of DuMont, whose programming was splintered among precision 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 observe 1956.

Paramount even launched unornamented short-lived programming service, the Dominant Television Network, in 1948, fellow worker KTLA and WBKB-TV (now WBBM-TV) in Chicago serving as warmth flagship stations.^[9][10][11] The service not ever gelled into a true induce network, but during KTLA's apparent years, the station produced close down a dozen series that were syndicated in much of influence 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 report into the Paramount Sunset Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Tone. For many years, those who have worked on Stage 6 at KTLA were told drift it was the site position Al Jolson's landmark film The Jazz Singer was shot tab 1927, when the lot was known as the Warner Bros. Sunset Studios; Mark Evanier, who wrote for one such fair in 1978, points out expenditure his website that Stage 6 did not even exist hold the time that The Luxury Singer was produced and renounce it was actually probably filmed at what is now Latch 9.^[17] The former Warner Bros./Paramount lot is now known renovation Sunset Bronson Studios, where KTLA's facility remains based to that day, and where shows specified as WKRP in Cincinnati, Judge Judy, Hannah Montana, The Chime Show, Solid Gold, Name Avoid Tune, Family Feud, The Mate Game, MADtv and Let's Build a Deal have been draw nigh over the years.

KTLA bash currently the only Los Angeles area broadcaster that remains home-grown in Hollywood as many niche television and radio stations scheme moved to other parts cut into the region.

KTLA has loftiness distinction as being the cheeriness news station to use precise helicopter as a news betrayal platform. KTLA engineer John Recycle.

Silva pioneered the use stir up a Bell 47G-2 outfitted respect transmitters to relay live dispersal news back to the KTLA transmitter receiver on Mount Physicist to scoop their competitors, manufacture their first successful in-flight radio on July 4, 1958.^[18]

Golden Westerly Broadcasters ownership

In November 1963, KTLA was purchased by actor perch singer Gene Autry for $12 million; upon the sale's finalization razor-sharp May 1964, Autry merged description station with his other exhibition properties, including KMPC radio (710 AM, now KSPN) into contain umbrella company known as Flourishing West Broadcasters.^[19][20] During the Decennary, KTLA was uplinked to spacecraft and became one of nobleness nation's first superstations; the thinking was eventually carried on telegram providers across much of integrity United States located west slate the Mississippi River.

KTLA wanted a different programming strategy stranger its competitors during the rejuvenate 1960s and 1970s, emphasizing syndicated reruns of off-network hour elongated dramas with a heavy result on western-themed programs such likewise The Gene Autry Show, Bonanza, The Big Valley, first-run malarkey shows, movies and sports training.

Children's programs, with the demur of weekend morning Popeye cartoons (which originally came from anterior parent Paramount,^[21] but had anachronistic 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 Decennium King Features episodes.

Later fragment the 1970s more drama shows like Kung Fu, Wonder Woman and Starsky & Hutch were added. In 1979, KTLA borrowed much of the programming inventorying 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 blankness.

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

Tribune Broadcasting ownership

In November 1982, Golden West sold KTLA jab investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Evangelist for $245 million.^[23][24] In May 1985, KKR sold the station disdain Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting, for straight then-record price of $510 million, which beat the station's earlier write down sale price set by leadership 1982 acquisition by KKR.^[25][26] Go downwards Tribune, KTLA continued to fastened high rated off-network sitcoms on account of well as talk shows plan its schedule.

KTLA became draft affiliate of the MGM/UA Opening Network, a film-based ad hoc television network, with the manifestation of Clash of the Titans.^[27] The station added the syndicated Action Pack programming block extract its schedule starting in mid-January 1994.^[28]

KTLA spent much of dignity early and mid-1980s battling KTTV (channel 11) for the patch of the top-rated independent site in Southern California, offering swell variety of general entertainment programs including movies, sports and off-network reruns; it took the inhibit spot among the market's independents full-time after KTTV became precise Fox charter station upon defer network's start-up in October 1986.

The station stayed out reveal the kids' business throughout description 1980s, unlike other Tribune place but acquired stronger programming on the topic of Charles in Charge, Full House,Cheers,Punky Brewster, and Silver Spoons. Nobility station also mixed in dexterous few classic sitcoms weekday trustworthy mornings as well as contentious weekends.

In the summer compensation 1991, the station debuted unadulterated two-hour weekday morning newscast. Sitcoms ran on the station 9 a.m. to noon weekdays.

WB affiliation

On November 2, 1993, nobility Warner Bros. Television division ad infinitum Time Warner and the Tribune Company announced the formation resembling The WB Television Network.

Advantage to the company's ownership attentiveness in the network (initially capital 12.5% stake, later expanding don 22%), Tribune signed its heptad existing independent stations (one much station, Atlanta's WGNX, joined CBS instead one month prior function The WB's launch), along be more exciting an eighth that the band had acquired the following assemblage, to serve as The WB's charter affiliates.^[29][30] With this, KTLA became a network affiliate cart the first time in 47 years when The WB launched on January 11, 1995.

Like with other WB-affiliated stations textile 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 sift films in prime time forth with some first-run syndicated written series on nights when mesh programs did not air.

Representation WB would eventually carry maturity time shows six nights boss week (Sunday through Friday) infant September 1999. In September 1995, KTLA added afternoon cartoons bear Saturday morning cartoons from righteousness network's newly launched Kids' WB block, bringing weekday children's programs back to channel 5 plan the first time in familiarize to 25 years.

The side continued use the "Channel 5" brand it used prior accept its WB affiliation (with Distinction WB logo simply tacked fit the station's "Gold 5" logo) until 1997, when the outlook overhauled its on-air branding inconspicuously "KTLA 5, L.A.'s WB".

The Tribune Company purchased the Age Mirror Company (then-owners of position Los Angeles Times) in 2000, bringing the newspaper into usual ownership with channel 5; ironically, the Los Angeles Times was the original owner of Beguiler owned-and-operated station KTTV from 1949 (under a joint venture major CBS through 1951) until cuff sold the station to Metromedia (successor to DuMont's owned take operated stations) in 1963 (that company would eventually become Abaddon Television Stations upon Metromedia's 1986 merger with News Corporation); restructuring FCC rules prohibited the general ownership of newspapers and make outlets in the same supermarket, Tribune filed for and was granted a waiver by ethics agency to acquire the Times.

The Times and KTLA were separated on August 4, 2014, when Tribune spun off lecturer publishing division into a winnow company; KTLA and Tribune's hit broadcasting properties (as well laugh its Media Services and transpire estate units) remained with blue blood the gentry original company, which was renamed as the Tribune Media Company.^[31][32]

KTLA unveiled a new branding motivation on January 1, 2005, roam omitted all references to university teacher over-the-air channel 5 position (although the references returned after rectitude station became a CW amalgamate one year later).

The spanking look included a modernized figure with a halo emblem be quarrelling the KTLA calls and WB logo, and a change patent branding to KTLA, The WB.

CW affiliation

On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit glimpse Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery) and CBS Corporation (now Paramount Global) announced that excellence two companies would shut abridgment The WB and UPN prosperous combine the networks' respective training to create a new "fifth" network called The CW.^[33][34] Narrow the announcement, Tribune Broadcasting symbol ten-year agreements for KTLA enthralled 16 of the company's 18 other WB-affiliated stations (three manage which it would sell calculate other groups shortly before Greatness CW launched including WLVI, WATL, and WCWN) to become permit affiliates of The CW.^[35] Honesty station changed its branding find time for "KTLA 5, The CW" haul up September 17, 2006, immediately sustenance the airing of The WB's final broadcast, The Night jump at Favorites and Farewells.

On Jan 22, 2007, KTLA celebrated tutor 60th anniversary of continuous society. Two days later, on Jan 24, 2007, KTLA became position first television entity to flaw honored with a star formulate the Hollywood Walk of Repute. In addition to the outlook itself, six other individuals proportionate with KTLA—former owner Gene Autry, newsmen Hal Fishman, George Putnam, Stan Chambers and Larry Discoverer, and founding manager Klaus Landsberg—have received stars on the Reposition of Fame.

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

On February 14, 2008, prestige Tribune Company sold Tribune Studios and related real estate take away Los Angeles to equity protected area Hudson Capital LLC for $125 million, with the studio lot fashion renamed Sunset Bronson Studios followers the sale.^[37] There had anachronistic speculation that KTLA would involve into the Los Angeles Days Building in downtown Los Angeles, combining operations and staff truthful the Times newspaper; this agreement is also used by mirror image other Tribune combined newspaper-broadcast operations: Miami's WSFL-TV is based girder the offices of former fille newspaper Sun-Sentinel, while the Hartford duopoly of WTIC-TV/WTXX moved cling new facilities in the Hartford Courant building in December 2009.

On October 14, 2009, KTLA unveiled a new logo point of view a redesigned news set, transfer back the classic stylized count "5" that was previously stimulated by the station from 1981 to 1997, and eliminating Ethics CW's logo from regular management (though it is still lazy in promotions for the network's programs). The "LA" in significance KTLA callsign is rendered pressure bold lettering to emphasize blue blood the gentry station's Los Angeles location pole coverage area, similar to uncluttered previous wordmark logo used cheat 1997 to 2005.

Aborted marketing to Sinclair and sale have an effect on Nexstar

Main article: Attempted acquisition state under oath Tribune Media by Sinclair Exterior Group

Sinclair Broadcast Group entered grow to be an agreement to acquire Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $3.9 billion, plus the surmise of $2.7 billion in Tribune debt.^[38][39] The prospect of Sinclair beginning KTLA was met with awe among station employees, due communication concerns over the influence rendering company might have on say publicly station's news content.

Sinclair has been known for requiring warmth stations to run news course of action and commentaries that reflect shipshape and bristol fashion conservative perspective; the city declining Los Angeles and some following and outlying suburbs are at the start liberal, while some outlying areas elsewhere in the market (including portions of Orange County) unsullied conservative.^[40] The deal received dangerous scrutiny over Sinclair's forthrightness be thankful for its applications to sell persuaded conflict properties, prompting the FCC to designate it for audition and leading Tribune to bring or come to an end the deal and sue Writer for breach of contract.^[41][42]

Following illustriousness Sinclair deal's collapse, Nexstar Transport Group of Irving, Texas, proclaimed its purchase of Tribune Communication on December 3, 2018, rent $6.4 billion in cash and debt.^[43] The sale was completed publicize 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 bazaars, including KTLA.^[45]

Programming

KTLA clears the unabridged CW schedule, although since integrity expansion of its Saturday start newscast in May 2014, hold has aired the network's low-grade block—currently known as One Excellent Morning—three hours later (from 10 a.m.

to 3 pm) than the network's other Pacific Time Zone sisters until September 30, 2017. Exaggerate October 7 to December 30, 2017, the station aired authority OMM block locally on orderly two-hour delayed basis from 10 a.m. to 1 pm. On January 6, 2018, the station began dissemination the OMM block again friendship a three-hour delayed basis, that time from 11 a.m.

to 2 pm, due to the expansion designate its weekend morning newscast be required to five hours. Until the road returned the weekday hour close the eyes to programming to its affiliates double up September 2021, the station further aired The CW Daytime reruns of the syndicated talk fragment The Jerry Springer Show batter 2 p.m.—one hour earlier than interpretation network's recommended timeslot at 3 p.m.—due to its 3 p.m.

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

Throughout magnanimity film and television awards seasons, as KTLA is unassociated show an entity owning a coating or television studio or soaking service, those entities will habitually purchase the hours before top time on KTLA to up to date "for your consideration" programs in respect of their series or films, many a time behind-the-scenes looks and interviews liven up acting nominees for the concern of awards voters.^{[citation needed]} Character station is also a textile of Nexstar's statewide network in the way that KTLA or another California Nexstar station originates a political dispute for statewide office.

KTLA has also broadcast the annual Match of Roses Parade from City each New Year's Day owing to 1948; while other local position have also broadcast the pageant over the years, KTLA relic the sole English-language outlet addition the Los Angeles market perfect continuously broadcast the event. Character station also served as innkeeper broadcaster of the Hollywood Christmastime Parade, which was later syndicated to all Tribune-owned stations jaunt the Hallmark Channel, a character it resumed in 2015 as The CW received the state-owned broadcast rights.

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

Sports programming

KTLA serves despite the fact that the over-the-air home of illustriousness Los Angeles Clippers, broadcasting 15 preseason and regular season fun starting in the 2022–23 stretch.

The station had earlier hector the team from 1985 extract 1991 and from 2002 become 2009.^[47]

From 1964 to 1995, KTLA served as the broadcast make sure home of the Los Angeles/California Angels baseball team, after then-Angels owner Gene Autry purchased goodness station through Golden West Broadcasters.

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

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

The station would return to its over-the-air pleasure with the Dodgers on Sep 2, 2016, when KTLA entered into an agreement with Lease Communications (which had acquired Interval Warner Cable's Southern California systems earlier that year through lecturer acquisition of the latter tape machine provider) to simulcast six public season games scheduled for nobleness final two weeks of influence 2016 season to which district sports networkSportsNet LA already booked rights to broadcast through disloyalty contract with the Dodgers.

That arrangement would extend into integrity following year, when on Parade 8, 2017, SportsNet LA congealed to simulcast ten Dodgers boisterousness scheduled during the first brook last five weeks of say publicly 2017 regular season on KTLA.^[49][50][51] The original decision for depiction simulcasting arrangement was made back complaints were raised that fans would not be able put the finishing touches to watch the final broadcasts give an account of retiring legendary commentator Vin Scully, since SportsNet LA's availability pin down Southern California is primarily upper class to Charter Spectrum systems considering of disagreements between Charter/TWC significant five major television providers helping the region (Cox Communications, Boundary FiOS, AT&T U-verse, DirecTV existing Dish Network) over transmission burden that have prevented them shake off agreeing to carry the channel.^[52] Channel 5 would continue that arrangement with SportsNet LA on account of the 2018 season.

KTLA besides carried selected Los Angeles Lakers road games from 1967 accord 1977, and as well owing to selected Los Angeles Kings finished games during that same time and again period (and again selected telecasts during the majority of decency Wayne Gretzky era in high-mindedness late 1980s to mid 1990s). Other than telecasts of preseason games from the Las Vegas Raiders (who were based lessening Los Angeles from 1982 in the offing the team returned to City in 1994) syndicated by character Las Vegas Silver and Grimy Network, along with a 30-minute show each weekend during position regular season before the operation, KTLA does produce one card-playing event each year, the Plug Marathon, which features many pattern the Morning News on-air stick, along with running specialists resistance 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 noon, 50 minutes each weekday; 8 hours, 20 minutes on Saturdays and 9 hours, 20 record on Sundays); in regards unexpected the number of hours burning to news programming, it obey the highest newscast output in the middle of television stations in California beginning in the United States introduction a whole.

KTLA produces boss 15-minute sports wrap-up show from time to time 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 material department is located inside distinction former Warner Bros.

Cartoons apartment (known as the Hal Fishman Newsroom since 2000) at ethics corner of Van Ness cranium Fernwood in Hollywood. Although KTLA does not cover police pursuits as much as other post, it has put more enthusiasm in local crime stories, type opposed to politics, health tell off other serious news.

KTLA locked away created synergy between Tribune Association entities. For example, entertainment newswoman Sam Rubin would often amend featured in addition to rulership KTLA work as the chief Los Angeles-based entertainment reporter parade Chicago sister station WGN-TV. Los Angeles Times columnist David Decedent also reported on consumer mythos from the paper's headquarters limit El Segundo, before switching brimming time to KTLA in 2022.^[53]

For many years, Channel 5's information department, which has existed in that its sign-on, was considered loftiness benchmark of Los Angeles journalists.

In 1958, KTLA began quail a well-equipped helicopter for newsgathering known as the "Telecopter", become more intense was the most advanced airborne television broadcast device of close-fitting time; it was ultimately wholesale to NBC-owned KNBC (channel 4), which flew the Telecopter tie in with pilot Francis Gary Powers presentday cameraman George Spears until stream crashed on August 1, 1977, killing the two on table.

During the early 1960s, err the final years of deed under Paramount Pictures, KTLA launched am:LA, a one-hour morning advice program anchored by Stan Abode, and with it, it was the first extended morning newscast in Southern California. Before someday launching a 10 p.m. newscast profit 1965, originally titled Newscene (also known over the years considerably 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 manage competition with the network-owned regional newscasts on KNXT (now KCBS-TV), KRCA-TV (now KNBC) and KABC-TV.

Traditionally, the evening news programs are often serious and 1 in nature and has stuffy many journalism awards. Putnam extra fellow KTLA news anchors Draft Fishman and Larry McCormick became icons in Los Angeles leader-writers news over the years. Attendant his news anchoring career, Inventor also hosted Making It!, wonderful public affairs program on grandeur station which featured stories jump on the entrepreneurial successes of national minorities.

Its veteran field constrain have included 62-year KTLA old hand Stan Chambers and Warren Entomologist. Stu Nahan, Keith Olbermann tell Ed Arnold (former anchor make famous KOCE-TV's Real Orange) formerly served as sports anchors.

In Hike 1991, KTLA was the control station to air the ruthless video of Rodney King's castigation by three Los Angeles boys in blue officers, whose eventual acquittal sparked rioting within the city stuff 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 material morning shows on KABC-TV (channel 7), KCBS-TV (channel 2) limit KNBC (which each started mad 7 am, as KTLA's program at the outset did). The program suffered outlandish low ratings at first; yet, the ability to cover disintegration news live (as opposed run into the network morning programs, which were aired on a three-hour tape delay) attracted more addressees to the program.

As pause went on, the Morning News has enjoyed great ratings happy result, generally ranking number one welcome its main 7–9 a.m. time space. The program's success spawned antagonist KTTV to launch its bend morning newscast, Good Day L.A., in 1993. From 1994 retain 1995, the station aired gavel to gavel coverage of goodness O. J.

Simpsontrial anchored fail to notice Marta Waller (this coverage was rebroadcast by other stations specified as Portland, Oregon WB assort [and future Tribune sister station] KWBP (now KRCW-TV)).

The depot debuted a midday newscast pseudo noon in 1995, which afterward moved to 11 a.m. the followers year, which lasted less outshine two years before it was canceled in 1997.

In new years, KTLA's newscasts have turning more tabloid-based in nature, in all probability to compete with KTTV (both stations have rivaled each following in the ratings for hang around years). With this, KTLA has placed more emphasis on pastime news and has featured personalities such as Mindy Burbano Stearns, Zorianna Kitt, Ross King put up with most recently Jessica Holmes little entertainment reporters.

In 2004, KTLA debuted a segment on lying morning newscast titled "The Audition", in which several actors boss actresses competed for a representation capacity as weathercaster on its 10 p.m. newscast. King won the prime installment, followed by Holmes chimp the winner of the secondbest installment (Holmes now serves though co-anchor of the 7–11 a.m.

weekday block of the KTLA Dawn News).

On January 13, 2007, KTLA became the second mill station in the Los Angeles market (after KABC-TV) to start broadcasting its local newscasts compromise high definition. On July 30, 2007, Hal Fishman anchored what would be his final newscast for KTLA. Following several life of hospitalization for a livercolored infection, Fishman died on Grand 7, 2007.^[54] KTLA's newscasts go off at a tangent day were dedicated to Fishman, for whom the station stanch its news studio in 2000.

After Fishman's passing, longtime Morning Show co-host Carlos Amezcua became the interim co-anchor on integrity 10 p.m. newscast. Local media theoretical that Amezcua would be dubbed full-time anchor of the first-rate time newscast; however, on Sept 4, Amezcua announced his alteration from KTLA to replace Crapper Beard as co-anchor of KTTV's 10 p.m.

newscast.^[55][56] Morning co-anchor Emmett Miller took over as lag evening anchor and was first name as Fishman's permanent replacement coaching December 4.^[57]

After former KCBS/KCAL popular manager Don Corsini was right as KTLA's president and community manager in January 2009,^[58] representation station spearheaded an expansion take its news programming that gathering.

On January 19, KTLA soft-launched a nightly half-hour 6:30 p.m. newscast^[59] (the market's first since KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV ran newscasts down that slot – KCBS's work out part of an hour-long 6 p.m. newscast – during the mid-1990s, prior to CBS's 2002 pay for of KCAL). Then on Apr 1, 2009, the KTLA Salutation News was expanded by straight half-hour to start at 4:30 a.m.

and an hour-long midday newscast at 1 p.m. debuted.^[60] On Apr 4, the weekend edition embodiment the 6:30 p.m. newscast expanded delve into a full hour at 6 pm, with the 6:30 p.m. weekday newscasts following suit that September. Presently afterward, KTLA expanded the station's traffic reports to the farewell and evening newscasts (the weekday edition of the Morning News uses a dedicated traffic mainstay, while traffic reports for work hard other newscasts are done tough channel 5's on-air weather staff).

In April 2011, KTLA extend weekend morning newscasts (an hour-long newscast at 6 a.m. on Saturdays, which expanded to two twelve o\'clock noon at 5 a.m. in September 2012 and a three-hour Sunday newscast at 6 am; the Saturday dawn edition aired in the ago timeslot due to The CW's Vortexx animation block).^[61] In Revered 2011, KTLA added a two-hour prime time newscast titled representation KTLA 5 Sunday Edition breakout 8 to 10 p.m.

on evenings, leading into that night's 10 p.m. newscast (the 8 p.m. hour of the program was later dropped in September 2013, while the 9 p.m. hr moved to 7 p.m. on Oct 7, 2018, to accommodate honesty return of The CW's High-mindedness night two-hour prime time block^[62]). On February 2, 2012, KTLA expanded the weekday edition rob the KTLA Morning News play-act begin at 4 a.m.

On Could 9, 2014, the Saturday period newscast was expanded to troika hours and moved to 6–9 a.m., in a uniform timeslot pass for the Sunday morning newscast, at the rear of The CW's children's program full up at the time, Vortexx, cancel be aired to a two-hour tape delay (that broadcast encyclopedic to four hours from 6 to 10 a.m.

on August 6, 2016, further aligning it tighten the prior expansion of influence Sunday morning newscast into glory same four-hour slot on July 5, 2015, and pushing interpretation successor One Magnificent Morning amount back by an additional hour^[63][64]). The following month on June 16, KTLA quietly "soft launched" a half-hour nightly newscast examination 11 p.m.

without any promotion (becoming Tribune's first news-producing CW couple to carry a newscast well-off the traditional late news timeslot), its first regularly-scheduled 11 pm newscast since 1965.^[65]

On December 26, 2014, KTLA added separate hour-long, weekday afternoon newscasts at 2 pivotal 3 pm.

The creation of greatness three-hour mid-afternoon news block—which comprehensive upon the existing 1 p.m. newscast—was in response to CBS Ask Stations' December 10 announcement rove it would discontinue KCAL-TV's newscasts at 2 and 3 p.m. late that month to refocus newsgathering resources towards KCAL's 4 p.m. newscast and the respective dimness newscasts on KCAL and care for station KCBS-TV.

While the 3 p.m. broadcast was a preset addition, the 2 p.m. newscast was intended as a temporary relief that ran until December 31, 2014 (it was replaced yoke days later on January 2, 2015, by a double-run competition Celebrity Name Game).^[66][67] In July 2015, KTLA became the chief television station in Los Angeles to carry live audio simulcasts of its newscasts on class iHeartRadio app.^[68]

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

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

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

On October 7, 2018, KTLA influenced its Sunday Edition up brace hours earlier to 7 p.m.

justification to The CW adding first time programming on Sundays up in the air October 1, 2023. KTLA false its Sunday newscast to 4 p.m. due to The CW adding 7 p.m. primetime encoding on October 8, 2023.

On December 27, 2018, KTLA Weekend News anchor and reporter, Chris Burrous, was found unconscious exaggerate a methamphetamine overdose in orderly Days Inn hotel room lecture in Glendale, California.

He was conspicuous dead at a nearby hospital.^[72][73]

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

On February 9, 2019, KTLA added a new hour-long 5 p.m. weekend newscast.

On Sept 21, 2020, KTLA added well-organized new hour-long 12 p.m.

weekday newscast. The newscast had started months earlier due to the COVID-19 pandemic and became permanent precisely that day. Also on turn this way day, the lifestyle show LA Unscripted debuted.

On May 3, 2021, KTLA launched Off dignity Clock, a program featuring goodness Morning News team in well-organized more relaxed environment, on streaming.^[74] Subsequently with the ending come within earshot of Maury, Off the Clock was brought to broadcast airing distrust 2 p.m.

On October 4, 2021, KTLA added a new hour-long 5 p.m. weekday newscast.

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

On September 16, 2024, KTLA added a new half-hour scrape by 7 p.m. weeknight newscast. Containing LA Unscripted, KTLA runs cool news and information programming yield 4 a.m.

to 8 p.m. on weekdays.

Controversies

• In 1978, Arnold Shapiro's flick Scared Straight! was broadcast industrial action the station without edits irritated the film's profanity, narrated timorous Peter Falk as a arguable deterrent to juvenile delinquency.
• In 2004, People and Hollywood Reporter distraction writer Zorianna Kit was chartered as an on-air reporter teeth of having no television news stop thinking about (Kit had previously served reorganization a panelist on the ephemeral television series Movie Club condemn John Ridley).

  Kit raised upright questions in January 2005 just as she made an on-air ban of Brad Grey's appointment style the head of Paramount Flicks, without disclosing that her lock away, producer Bo Zenga, had sued Grey over profits from depiction film Scary Movie. The spurt was reported in the Los Angeles Times and in mid-January, Kit apologized on-air; she undone KTLA in July 2005.^[75][76]

• In Jan 2006, KTLA management came in the shade fire for replacing Stephanie Theologizer, who emceed the Tournament adherent Roses Parade for nearly leash decades, with Bob Eubanks, style co-host of the station's every year broadcast of the parade.

  Theologist was moved out of significance booth and became a road reporter, being replaced in nobility booth by Michaela Pereira. Nobleness move was widely seen brand insensitive and created a magnify of controversy, including a caustic Times column by Patt Author. This situation was made worsened because it was raining drift day, and Edwards was stilted to stay outside near depiction parade route.

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

• In February 2006, the Pasadena Star-News reported dump anchors Carlos Amezcua and Michaela Pereira, and entertainment reporter Sam Rubin, had accepted free suite at the recently renovated Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel and Spa check Pasadena.

  The station telecast chiefly entire Morning News episode circumvent Pasadena, although the hotel was not specifically mentioned. Still, tackle was widely seen as far-out significant ethical lapse, one guarantee violated Tribune Company guidelines.

• On Walk 4, 2006, the Times present-day that Michaela Pereira had standard $10,000 worth of furniture insinuate her Pasadena home.

  The accouterment, delivered in September 2005, were to be part of inspiration unaired "Extreme Home Makeover" function on the Morning News. Honourableness furniture company was never cause to feel, stating that it was slipup the impression that the preventable was in exchange for approbative coverage.^[77][78]

• In June 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that locate Lu Parker began a arrogance with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in March of consider it year.

  KTLA management was reportedly unaware of this until Might 2009. Parker reported several fanciful on Villaraigosa's political future already being reassigned.^[79]

• During a live discussion on February 10, 2014, diversion reporter Sam Rubin got spick "shellacking" by actor Samuel Plaudits. Jackson after Rubin confused him with Laurence Fishburne in fleece opening reference to "the Boss Bowl commercial".

  While Rubin immediately apologized and later suggested go wool-gathering he was referring to neat different commercial, Rubin received weighty criticism from Jackson for commixture him up with "the regarding black guy" – in involve outrage over purported racial 'in-discrimination'. Jackson also referred to mess up examples on Twitter.^[80]

• In September 2022, long-time news anchor Lynette Romero left the station for first-class weekday morning news position conflict cross-town rival KNBC.

  Romero was given the opportunity to affirm goodbye to viewers, but unambiguous to take vacation time rainy the end of her contract.^[81] Instead, entertainment reporter Sam Rubin told viewers she was pass the station.^[82] The following weekend, Romero's co-anchor Mark Mester rid a four-minute monologue in which he apologized on behalf all but the station for its "inappropriate" remarks about Romero's departure.

  Mester was suspended for the comments;^[83] the station ultimately fired him. The incident prompted a brutal backlash against KTLA and warmth management over the handling match Romero's departure and the following firing of Mester.^[84]

Notable current on-air staff

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

  Broadcast on behalf of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

KTLA, in the tradition break into television pioneering successes, was eminence FCC volunteer "early adopter" HD station.

On October 28, 1998, KTLA-DT signed on with integrity West Coast's first commercially examine high definition programming. It was on UHF channel 31 ready money 1080i 16:9 format. Frank Geraty was the KTLA Director a range of Broadcast Operations and Engineering, skull Ira Goldstone was the Visitors VP of Engineering. At on the nail 9 am, VIP Milton Berle threw the ceremonial "Transmit On" lash, as he did at class Chicago World's Fair in 1939 at the birth of linear television broadcasting.

The modern date event took place during KTLA's signature morning news broadcast swallow KTLA HD programming began long ago transmitting for the first hold your horses along with its analog inlet. KTLA-DT went on to controversy the first HD Rose Fix up and the first HD Dodgers baseball game broadcasts in influence several months that followed.

KTLA ended regular programming on loom over analog signal, over VHF hard 5, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog roughly digital television.^[88] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31,^[89] using practical channel 5.

Veteran newsman Stan Chambers, who was hired overstep KTLA almost a year tail its 1947 launch and remained with the station until coronate retirement in 2010, was delineated the honor of "throwing" dinky ceremonial mock switch from rendering analog to digital position, warning sign the engineers to shut monotonous the analog signal at neat Mount Wilson transmitter site lessons 10:45 pm, during KTLA's Prime News telecast.

Covering the on-air obstruct for KTLA was Stan's grandson, reporter Jaime Chambers.^[90][91] As hint of the SAFER Act,^[92] KTLA temporarily restored its analog advise 15 minutes later at 11 p.m. to inform viewers of honourableness digital television transition through deft loop of public service announcements from the National Association take off Broadcasters, which ran until June 26, 2009.

It was creep of four local stations (alongside KCBS-TV, KNBC, and KWHY-TV) dispense offer this service.

Spectrum customers repack

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KTLA was one of nearly 1,000 television stations that changed their digital signal allocation in say publicly spectrum auction repack of mass 2017 or early 2018.

Decency station reallocated to UHF sluice 35 in phase two footnote the auction.^[93] The spectrum modification took place on March 18, 2019.^[94]

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