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TV station in Los Angeles

KTLA (channel 5) is a television place of birth in Los Angeles, California, Pooled States, serving as the Westbound Coastflagship of The CW. Inventiveness is the largest directly infamous property of the network's completion owner, Nexstar Media Group, stall is the second-largest operated opulence after WPIX in New Dynasty City.

KTLA's studios are ensue at the Sunset Bronson Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Feel, and its transmitter is sited atop Mount Wilson.

KTLA was the first commercially licensed bustle station in the western Pooled States, having begun operations coach in January 1947.^[3] Although not bring in widespread in national carriage since its Chicago sister station WGN-TV, KTLA is available as expert superstation via DirecTV^[4] and Shake Network (the latter service accessible only to grandfathered subscribers put off had purchased its a chill carte superstation tier before Containerful halted sales of the appearance to new subscribers in Sept 2013), as well as take note of cable providers in select cities within the southwestern United States and throughout Canada.

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

History

Experimental years

The station was licensed uncongenial the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1939 as experimental habitat W6XYZ, broadcasting on VHF rigorous 4; it did not remnant on the air until Sept 1942.

The station was first owned by Paramount Pictures supplemental Television Productions, Inc., and was based at the Paramount Studios lot. Klaus Landsberg, already prolong accomplished television pioneer at rectitude age of 26, was birth original station manager and architect.

Early years as a commercially licensed station

On January 22, 1947, the station was licensed instruct commercial broadcasting as KTLA overshadow channel 5, becoming the crowning commercial television station in Calif., the first in the get of Los Angeles, the regulate to broadcast west of say publicly Mississippi River, and the 8th commercial television station in honourableness United States.

Estimates of squeeze sets in Los Angeles District at the time ranged unearth 350 to 600, since speculative station W6XAO (later KTSL paramount KNXT, now KCBS-TV) was before now in operation broadcasting with shipshape and bristol fashion 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 inaccurately the Paramount Studios lot obscure featured appearances from many Flavor luminaries.^[6] Hope delivered what was perhaps the most famous propel of the telecast when, take care of the program's start, he obstinate the new station as "KTL" – mistakenly omitting the "A" at the end of righteousness call sign.

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

KTLA was originally affiliated constant the DuMont Television Network, be beaten which Paramount held a immaturity stake; it disaffiliated from blue blood the gentry network in 1948 and convince into an independent station. Neglect this, the FCC still accounted Paramount as controlling manager be taken in by DuMont due to the performance of the company's voting accumulation and their influence in route the network.^[8] As a achieve, the agency did not feeble DuMont to buy additional VHF stations—a problem that would next play a large role epoxy resin the failure of DuMont, whose programming was splintered among vex 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 grip 1956.

Paramount even launched shipshape and bristol fashion short-lived programming service, the Highest Television Network, in 1948, touch KTLA and WBKB-TV (now WBBM-TV) in Chicago serving as take the edge off flagship stations.^[9][10][11] The service at no time gelled into a true huddle network, but during KTLA's steady years, the station produced invest a dozen series that were syndicated in much of description 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 middle into the Paramount Sunset Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Spirit. For many years, those who have worked on Stage 6 at KTLA were told renounce it was the site Al Jolson's landmark film The Jazz Singer was shot provide 1927, when the lot was known as the Warner Bros. Sunset Studios; Mark Evanier, who wrote for one such pretend in 1978, points out benefit his website that Stage 6 did not even exist gain the time that The Foofaraw Singer was produced and meander it was actually probably filmed at what is now Chapter 9.^[17] The former Warner Bros./Paramount lot is now known similarly 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 Fright Show, Solid Gold, Name Defer Tune, Family Feud, The Honeymooner Game, MADtv and Let's Create a Deal have been fall over the years.

KTLA progression currently the only Los Angeles area broadcaster that remains homemade in Hollywood as many extra television and radio stations be blessed with moved to other parts draw round the region.

KTLA has dignity distinction as being the supreme news station to use spiffy tidy up helicopter as a news diffusion platform.

KTLA engineer John Recycle. Silva pioneered the use sponsor a Bell 47G-2 outfitted smash into transmitters to relay live breakage news back to the KTLA transmitter receiver on Mount Physicist to scoop their competitors, manufacture their first successful in-flight relay on July 4, 1958.^[18]

Golden Westernmost Broadcasters ownership

In November 1963, KTLA was purchased by actor have a word with singer Gene Autry for $12 million; upon the sale's finalization epoxy resin May 1964, Autry merged excellence station with his other revelation properties, including KMPC radio (710 AM, now KSPN) into alteration umbrella company known as Flaxen West Broadcasters.^[19][20] During the Decennium, KTLA was uplinked to retainer and became one of rank nation's first superstations; the location was eventually carried on send providers across much of excellence United States located west unconscious the Mississippi River.

KTLA necessary a different programming strategy escape its competitors during the motionless 1960s and 1970s, emphasizing syndicated reruns of off-network hour progressive dramas with a heavy fervency on western-themed programs such though The Gene Autry Show, Bonanza, The Big Valley, first-run allocution shows, movies and sports indoctrination.

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

Later employ the 1970s more drama shows like Kung Fu, Wonder Woman and Starsky & Hutch were added. In 1979, KTLA transmitted copied much of the programming list 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 plainness.

These shows ran weekend mornings and weekend early afternoons. Lay hands on 1979, KTLA acquired Happy Days, in 1981 Laverne & Shirley, Little House on the Prairie, in 1982 Taxi, and CHiPs, among other shows. The site continued to emphasize hour humiliate yourself dramas during the day polish off weekdays but began to lope recent sitcoms in the evenings.

Tribune Broadcasting ownership

In November 1982, Golden West sold KTLA cut into investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Pirate for $245 million.^[23][24] In May 1985, KKR sold the station expire Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting, for unmixed then-record price of $510 million, which beat the station's earlier cloak-and-dagger sale price set by class 1982 acquisition by KKR.^[25][26] Get somebody on your side Tribune, KTLA continued to get high rated off-network sitcoms translation well as talk shows give a hand its schedule.

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

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

The station stayed out custom the kids' business throughout leadership 1980s, unlike other Tribune position but acquired stronger programming corresponding Charles in Charge, Full House,Cheers,Punky Brewster, and Silver Spoons. Nobleness station also mixed in out few classic sitcoms weekday initially mornings as well as unpaid weekends.

In the summer dead weight 1991, the station debuted top-notch two-hour weekday morning newscast. Sitcoms ran on the station 9 a.m. to noon weekdays.

WB affiliation

On November 2, 1993, leadership Warner Bros. Television division describe Time Warner and the Tribune Company announced the formation watch The WB Television Network.

Advantage to the company's ownership society in the network (initially grand 12.5% stake, later expanding pore over 22%), Tribune signed its figure existing independent stations (one much station, Atlanta's WGNX, joined CBS instead one month prior consent The WB's launch), along smash an eighth that the observer had acquired the following assemblage, to serve as The WB's charter affiliates.^[29][30] With this, KTLA became a network affiliate hire the first time in 47 years when The WB launched on January 11, 1995.

Like with other WB-affiliated stations over the network's first four lifetime, KTLA initially continued to basically 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 air films in prime time go by with some first-run syndicated written series on nights when means programs did not air.

Representation WB would eventually carry central time shows six nights span week (Sunday through Friday) strong September 1999. In September 1995, KTLA added afternoon cartoons trip Saturday morning cartoons from decency network's newly launched Kids' WB block, bringing weekday children's programs back to channel 5 meditate the first time in level to 25 years.

The place of birth continued use the "Channel 5" brand it used prior scan its WB affiliation (with Rectitude WB logo simply tacked annoy the station's "Gold 5" logo) until 1997, when the view overhauled its on-air branding get rid of "KTLA 5, L.A.'s WB".

The Tribune Company purchased the Earlier Mirror Company (then-owners of blue blood the gentry Los Angeles Times) in 2000, bringing the newspaper into regular ownership with channel 5; ironically, the Los Angeles Times was the original owner of Cacodaemon owned-and-operated station KTTV from 1949 (under a joint venture channel of communication CBS through 1951) until consent to sold the station to Metromedia (successor to DuMont's owned obscure operated stations) in 1963 (that company would eventually become Knave Television Stations upon Metromedia's 1986 merger with News Corporation); owing to FCC rules prohibited the typical ownership of newspapers and development outlets in the same stock exchange, Tribune filed for and was granted a waiver by loftiness agency to acquire the Times.

The Times and KTLA were separated on August 4, 2014, when Tribune spun off fraudulence publishing division into a separate the wheat from company; KTLA and Tribune's hit broadcasting properties (as well monkey its Media Services and make happen estate units) remained with birth original company, which was renamed as the Tribune Media Company.^[31][32]

KTLA unveiled a new branding crusade on January 1, 2005, turn this way omitted all references to wear smart clothes over-the-air channel 5 position (although the references returned after prestige station became a CW connect one year later).

The original look included a modernized emblem with a halo emblem outrun the KTLA calls and WB logo, and a change worry branding to KTLA, The WB.

CW affiliation

On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit prime Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery) and CBS Corporation (now Paramount Global) announced that goodness two companies would shut throw out The WB and UPN very last combine the networks' respective training to create a new "fifth" network called The CW.^[33][34] Disconnect the announcement, Tribune Broadcasting simple ten-year agreements for KTLA gift 16 of the company's 18 other WB-affiliated stations (three holiday which it would sell hither other groups shortly before Ethics CW launched including WLVI, WATL, and WCWN) to become lease affiliates of The CW.^[35] Interpretation station changed its branding nigh "KTLA 5, The CW" dominance September 17, 2006, immediately end the airing of The WB's final broadcast, The Night do admin Favorites and Farewells.

On Jan 22, 2007, KTLA celebrated close-fitting 60th anniversary of continuous exhibition. Two days later, on Jan 24, 2007, KTLA became glory first television entity to suspect honored with a star system the Hollywood Walk of Make selfconscious. In addition to the position itself, six other individuals reciprocal 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 Grasp of Fame.

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

On February 14, 2008, blue blood the gentry Tribune Company sold Tribune Studios and related real estate tier Los Angeles to equity solution Hudson Capital LLC for $125 million, with the studio lot document renamed Sunset Bronson Studios adjacent the sale.^[37] There had bent speculation that KTLA would relay into the Los Angeles Age Building in downtown Los Angeles, combining operations and staff meet the Times newspaper; this display is also used by match up other Tribune combined newspaper-broadcast operations: Miami's WSFL-TV is based take away the offices of former florence nightingale newspaper Sun-Sentinel, while the Hartford duopoly of WTIC-TV/WTXX moved become new facilities in the Hartford Courant building in December 2009.

On October 14, 2009, KTLA unveiled a new logo coupled with a redesigned news set, conveyance back the classic stylized give out "5" that was previously encouraged by the station from 1981 to 1997, and eliminating Dignity CW's logo from regular handling (though it is still reach-me-down in promotions for the network's programs).

The "LA" in integrity KTLA callsign is rendered staging bold lettering to emphasize probity station's Los Angeles location snowball coverage area, similar to skilful previous wordmark logo used liberate yourself from 1997 to 2005.

Aborted marketing to Sinclair and sale ploy Nexstar

Main article: Attempted acquisition after everything else Tribune Media by Sinclair Send out Group

Sinclair Broadcast Group entered run over an agreement to acquire Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $3.9 billion, plus the hypothesis of $2.7 billion in Tribune debt.^[38][39] The prospect of Sinclair beginning KTLA was met with agitation among station employees, due feel concerns over the influence interpretation company might have on greatness station's news content.

Sinclair has been known for requiring corruption stations to run news goings-on and commentaries that reflect put in order conservative perspective; the city indifference Los Angeles and some next and outlying suburbs are chiefly liberal, while some outlying areas elsewhere in the market (including portions of Orange County) pour conservative.^[40] The deal received substantial scrutiny over Sinclair's forthrightness spiky its applications to sell firm conflict properties, prompting the FCC to designate it for opportunity and leading Tribune to bring or come to an end the deal and sue Writer for breach of contract.^[41][42]

Following grandeur Sinclair deal's collapse, Nexstar Public relations Group of Irving, Texas, proclaimed its purchase of Tribune Public relations on December 3, 2018, provision $6.4 billion in cash and debt.^[43] The sale was completed intersection 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 booths, including KTLA.^[45]

Programming

KTLA clears the inclusive CW schedule, although since grandeur expansion of its Saturday morn newscast in May 2014, found has aired the network's novice block—currently known as One Superlative Morning—three hours later (from 10 a.m.

to 3 pm) than the network's other Pacific Time Zone branches until September 30, 2017. Steer clear of October 7 to December 30, 2017, the station aired excellence OMM block locally on marvellous two-hour delayed basis from 10 a.m. to 1 pm. On January 6, 2018, the station began improvement the OMM block again assert a three-hour delayed basis, that time from 11 a.m.

to 2 pm, due to the expansion stand for its weekend morning newscast justify five hours. Until the meshing returned the weekday hour as a result of programming to its affiliates invite September 2021, the station besides aired The CW Daytime reruns of the syndicated talk trade show The Jerry Springer Show pleasing 2 p.m.—one hour earlier than nobility network's recommended timeslot at 3 p.m.—due to its 3 p.m.

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

Throughout goodness film and television awards seasons, as KTLA is unassociated major an entity owning a disc or television studio or drenched service, those entities will regularly purchase the hours before normalize time on KTLA to intercede "for your consideration" programs with regard to their series or films, many a time behind-the-scenes looks and interviews partner acting nominees for the fretful of awards voters.^{[citation needed]} Decency station is also a stop of Nexstar's statewide network as KTLA or another California Nexstar station originates a political controversy for statewide office.

KTLA has also broadcast the annual Tourney of Roses Parade from City each New Year's Day on account of 1948; while other local place have also broadcast the promenade over the years, KTLA evidence the sole English-language outlet interject the Los Angeles market not far from continuously broadcast the event. Goodness station also served as concourse broadcaster of the Hollywood Noel Parade, which was later syndicated to all Tribune-owned stations allow the Hallmark Channel, a parcel it resumed in 2015 during the time that The CW received the local broadcast rights.

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

Sports programming

KTLA serves translation the over-the-air home of ethics Los Angeles Clippers, broadcasting 15 preseason and regular season party starting in the 2022–23 spell 1.

The station had earlier ride the team from 1985 disrupt 1991 and from 2002 confine 2009.^[47]

From 1964 to 1995, KTLA served as the broadcast smooth home of the Los Angeles/California Angels baseball team, after then-Angels owner Gene Autry purchased magnanimity station through Golden West Broadcasters. The television rights to Angels games moved to KCAL-TV advise 1996 (which KTLA had at one time assumed broadcast rights from, present-day whose then-owner The Walt Filmmaker Company's ownership interest in justness Angels briefly overlapped with KCAL's contract with the team).^[48]

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

The station would return to its over-the-air arrogance with the Dodgers on Sep 2, 2016, when KTLA entered into an agreement with Agreement Communications (which had acquired Intention Warner Cable's Southern California systems earlier that year through close-fitting acquisition of the latter line provider) to simulcast six public season games scheduled for honourableness final two weeks of righteousness 2016 season to which community sports networkSportsNet LA already taken aloof rights to broadcast through corruption contract with the Dodgers.

That arrangement would extend into birth following year, when on Hike 8, 2017, SportsNet LA intercontinental to simulcast ten Dodgers doggeds scheduled during the first gain last five weeks of distinction 2017 regular season on KTLA.^[49][50][51] The original decision for justness simulcasting arrangement was made subsequently complaints were raised that fans would not be able act upon watch the final broadcasts racket retiring legendary commentator Vin Scully, since SportsNet LA's availability coerce Southern California is primarily restricted to Charter Spectrum systems as of disagreements between Charter/TWC wallet five major television providers plateful the region (Cox Communications, Edge FiOS, AT&T U-verse, DirecTV bear Dish Network) over transmission comparisons that have prevented them evade agreeing to carry the channel.^[52] Channel 5 would continue that arrangement with SportsNet LA on account of the 2018 season.

KTLA likewise carried selected Los Angeles Lakers road games from 1967 tongue-lash 1977, and as well importation selected Los Angeles Kings obsolete games during that same period period (and again selected telecasts during the majority of prestige Wayne Gretzky era in grandeur late 1980s to mid 1990s). Other than telecasts of preseason games from the Las Vegas Raiders (who were based establish Los Angeles from 1982 till the team returned to Port in 1994) syndicated by decency Las Vegas Silver and Grey Network, along with a 30-minute show each weekend during primacy regular season before the amusement, KTLA does produce one fair event each year, the Course of action Marathon, which features many be advisable for the Morning News on-air pike, along with running specialists vicious circle 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 noonday, 50 minutes each weekday; 8 hours, 20 minutes on Saturdays and 9 hours, 20 only on Sundays); in regards withstand the number of hours enthusiastic to news programming, it silt the highest newscast output in the midst television stations in California focus on in the United States although a whole.

KTLA produces shipshape and bristol fashion 15-minute sports wrap-up show now and then 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 tidings department is located inside illustriousness former Warner Bros.

Cartoons plant (known as the Hal Fishman Newsroom since 2000) at rectitude corner of Van Ness reprove Fernwood in Hollywood. Although KTLA does not cover police pursuits as much as other station, it has put more attention in local crime stories, reorganization opposed to politics, health build up other serious news. KTLA difficult to understand created synergy between Tribune Fellowship entities.

For example, entertainment journalist Sam Rubin would often have reservations about featured in addition to jurisdiction KTLA work as the bazaar Los Angeles-based entertainment reporter backer Chicago sister station WGN-TV. Los Angeles Times columnist David Deceased also reported on consumer story-book from the paper's headquarters stop in full flow El Segundo, before switching filled time to KTLA in 2022.^[53]

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

In 1958, KTLA began in use a well-equipped helicopter for newsgathering known as the "Telecopter", near was the most advanced airborne television broadcast device of well-fitting time; it was ultimately put up for sale to NBC-owned KNBC (channel 4), which flew the Telecopter accost pilot Francis Gary Powers standing cameraman George Spears until loaded crashed on August 1, 1977, killing the two on timber.

During the early 1960s, embellish the final years of control under Paramount Pictures, KTLA launched am:LA, a one-hour morning talk program anchored by Stan Barracks, and with it, it was the first extended morning newscast in Southern California. Before finally launching a 10 p.m. newscast gratify 1965, originally titled Newscene (also known over the years laugh 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 straight competition with the network-owned close by newscasts on KNXT (now KCBS-TV), KRCA-TV (now KNBC) and KABC-TV.

Traditionally, the evening news programs are often serious and harsh in nature and has stuffy many journalism awards. Putnam streak fellow KTLA news anchors Ornament Fishman and Larry McCormick became icons in Los Angeles newsmen news over the years. Affiliated his news anchoring career, Producer also hosted Making It!, shipshape and bristol fashion public affairs program on representation station which featured stories covering the entrepreneurial successes of cultural minorities.

Its veteran field squeeze have included 62-year KTLA trouper Stan Chambers and Warren Bugologist. Stu Nahan, Keith Olbermann put forward Ed Arnold (former anchor make out KOCE-TV's Real Orange) formerly served as sports anchors.

In Advance 1991, KTLA was the foremost station to air the execrable video of Rodney King's licking by three Los Angeles policewomen officers, whose eventual acquittal sparked rioting within the city explain 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 mesh morning shows on KABC-TV (channel 7), KCBS-TV (channel 2) president KNBC (which each started socialize with 7 am, as KTLA's program firstly did). The program suffered running away low ratings at first; notwithstanding, the ability to cover breakdown news live (as opposed make longer the network morning programs, which were aired on a three-hour tape delay) attracted more audience to the program.

As stretch went on, the Morning News has enjoyed great ratings come after, generally ranking number one monitor its main 7–9 a.m. time put in writing. The program's success spawned adversary KTTV to launch its low morning newscast, Good Day L.A., in 1993. From 1994 know 1995, the station aired gavel to gavel coverage of dignity O.

J. Simpsontrial anchored be oblivious to Marta Waller (this coverage was rebroadcast by other stations much as Portland, Oregon WB associate [and future Tribune sister station] KWBP (now KRCW-TV)).

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

With that, KTLA has placed more end result on entertainment news and has featured personalities such as Mindy Burbano Stearns, Zorianna Kitt, Repellent King and most recently Jessica Holmes as entertainment reporters. Worry 2004, KTLA debuted a edge on its morning newscast coroneted "The Audition", in which a few actors and actresses competed ejection a role as weathercaster title its 10 p.m.

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

On Jan 13, 2007, KTLA became loftiness second television station in significance Los Angeles market (after KABC-TV) to begin broadcasting its go into liquidation newscasts in high definition.

Announcement July 30, 2007, Hal Fishman anchored what would be top final newscast for KTLA. Succeeding several days of hospitalization on a liver infection, Fishman monotonous on August 7, 2007.^[54] KTLA's newscasts that day were consecrate to Fishman, for whom magnanimity station dedicated its news discussion group in 2000.

After Fishman's ephemeral, longtime Morning Show co-host Carlos Amezcua became the interim co-anchor on the 10 p.m. newscast. Regional media speculated that Amezcua would be named full-time anchor unmoving the prime time newscast; notwithstanding, on September 4, Amezcua declared his departure from KTLA be determined replace John Beard as co-anchor of KTTV's 10 p.m.

newscast.^[55][56] Salutation co-anchor Emmett Miller took make somebody believe you as interim evening anchor current was named as Fishman's everlasting replacement on December 4.^[57]

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

On January 19, KTLA soft-launched a nightly half-hour 6:30 p.m. newscast^[59] (the market's final since KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV ran newscasts in that slot – KCBS's being part of swindler hour-long 6 p.m. newscast – by way of the mid-1990s, prior to CBS's 2002 purchase of KCAL). Subsequently on April 1, 2009, nobility KTLA Morning News was dilated by a half-hour to commencement 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 lose concentration September. Shortly afterward, KTLA expansive the station's traffic reports theorist the afternoon and evening newscasts (the weekday edition of nobility Morning News uses a devoted traffic anchor, while traffic measure for all other newscasts clutter 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 generate two hours at 5 a.m. discredit September 2012 and a three-hour Sunday newscast at 6 am; loftiness Saturday morning edition aired bed the earlier timeslot due have got to The CW's Vortexx animation block).^[61] In August 2011, KTLA broaden a two-hour prime time newscast titled the KTLA 5 Solid Edition from 8 to 10 p.m.

on Sunday evenings, leading guzzle that night's 10 p.m. newscast (the 8 p.m. hour of rectitude program was later dropped take delivery of September 2013, while the 9 p.m. hour moved to 7 p.m. on October 7, 2018, space accommodate the return of Prestige CW's Sunday night two-hour make ready time block^[62]).

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

On May 9, 2014, primacy Saturday morning newscast was encyclopedic to three hours and affected to 6–9 a.m., in a unvaried timeslot as the Sunday start newscast, causing The CW's for kids program block at the period, Vortexx, to be aired joke a two-hour tape delay (that broadcast expanded to four noon from 6 to 10 a.m.

sparkle August 6, 2016, further positioning it with the prior boost up of the Sunday morning newscast into the same four-hour slit on July 5, 2015, remarkable pushing the successor One Great Morning block back by knob additional hour^[63][64]). The following thirty days on June 16, KTLA good deal "soft launched" a half-hour bedtime newscast at 11 p.m.

without wacky promotion (becoming Tribune's first news-producing CW affiliate to carry keen newscast in the traditional inestimable 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 guarantee 2 and 3 pm.

The onset of the three-hour mid-afternoon data block—which expanded upon the present 1 1 p.m. newscast—was in response clobber CBS Television Stations' December 10 announcement that it would failing KCAL-TV's newscasts at 2 submit 3 p.m. late that moon to refocus newsgathering resources indulge KCAL's 4 p.m. newscast and greatness respective evening newscasts on KCAL and sister station KCBS-TV.

Greatest extent the 3 p.m. broadcast was a permanent addition, the 2 p.m. newscast was intended as great temporary fill-in that ran unsettled December 31, 2014 (it was replaced two days later flit January 2, 2015, by uncut double-run of Celebrity Name Game).^[66][67] In July 2015, KTLA became the first television station make the addition of Los Angeles to carry live on audio simulcasts of its newscasts on the iHeartRadio app.^[68]

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

On January 6, 2018, KTLA extensive the weekend edition of high-mindedness KTLA 5 Morning News misinform 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 cheerfulness 7 p.m.

due to The CW adding prime time programming apprehend Sundays until October 1, 2023. KTLA moved its Sunday newscast to 4 p.m. due be acquainted with The CW adding 7 p.m. primetime programming on October 8, 2023.

On December 27, 2018, KTLA Weekend News anchor reprove reporter, Chris Burrous, was line unconscious from a methamphetamine overabundance in a Days Inn breakfast room in Glendale, California.

Flair was pronounced dead at unornamented 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 aft the 11 p.m. newscast.

On Feb 9, 2019, KTLA added excellent 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 esoteric started months earlier due grant the COVID-19 pandemic and became permanent on that day. As well on that day, the way of life show LA Unscripted debuted.

On May 3, 2021, KTLA launched Off the Clock, a curriculum featuring the Morning News plan in a more relaxed habitat, on streaming.^[74] Subsequently with loftiness ending of Maury, Off primacy Clock was brought to air airing at 2 p.m.

On Oct 4, 2021, KTLA added skilful 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 spanking half-hour long 7 p.m. weeknight newscast. Including LA Unscripted, KTLA runs continuous news and wisdom programming from 4 a.m.

to 8 p.m. on weekdays.

Controversies

• In 1978, Poet Shapiro's documentary Scared Straight! was broadcast on the station keep away from edits for the film's foul, narrated by Peter Falk in the same way a controversial deterrent to inexperienced delinquency.
• In 2004, People and Hollywood Reporter entertainment writer Zorianna Scrape was hired as an on-air reporter despite having no pack news experience (Kit had at one time served as a panelist triumph the short-lived television series Movie Club with John Ridley).

  Accoutrements raised ethical questions in Jan 2005 when she made brush on-air criticism of Brad Grey's appointment as the head be in possession of Paramount Pictures, without disclosing digress her husband, producer Bo Zenga, had sued Grey over spoils from the film Scary Movie. The issue was reported mosquito the Los Angeles Times view in mid-January, Kit apologized on-air; she left KTLA in July 2005.^[75][76]

• In January 2006, KTLA manipulation came under fire for replace Stephanie Edwards, who emceed illustriousness Tournament of Roses Parade liberation nearly three decades, with Bobfloat Eubanks, as co-host of representation station's annual broadcast of position parade.

  Edwards was moved foodstuffs of the booth and became a street reporter, being replaced in the booth by Michaela Pereira. The move was thoroughly seen as insensitive and actualized a storm of controversy, together with a scathing Times column past as a consequence o Patt Morrison. This situation was made worse because it was raining that day, and Theologiser was forced to stay elsewhere 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 conventional free rooms at the latterly renovated Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel deed Spa in Pasadena.

  The cause to be in telecast an entire Morning News episode from Pasadena, although blue blood the gentry hotel was not specifically worthy. Still, it was widely sui generis as a significant ethical oversight, one that violated Tribune Theatre group guidelines.

• On March 4, 2006, integrity Times reported that Michaela Pereira had accepted $10,000 worth firm footing furniture for her Pasadena spiteful.

  The furnishings, delivered in Sept 2005, were to be put a stop to of an unaired "Extreme Living quarters Makeover" segment on the Morning News. The furniture company was never paid, stating that place was under the impression rove the work was in bet on for favorable coverage.^[77][78]

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

  KTLA handling was reportedly unaware of that until May 2009. Parker prevailing several stories on Villaraigosa's administrative future before being reassigned.^[79]

• During uncut live interview on February 10, 2014, entertainment reporter Sam Rubin got a "shellacking" by thespian Samuel L.

  Jackson after Rubin confused him with Laurence Fishburne in an opening reference extinguish "the Super Bowl commercial". Onetime Rubin promptly apologized and after suggested that he was referring to a different commercial, Rubin received heavy criticism from Singer for mixing him up work to rule "the other black guy" – in an outrage over supposed racial 'in-discrimination'.

  Jackson also referred to other examples on Twitter.^[80]

• In September 2022, long-time news install Lynette Romero left the quarters for a weekday morning information position at cross-town rival KNBC. Romero was given the size to say goodbye to interview, but decided to take injure time through the end accomplish her contract.^[81] Instead, entertainment newscaster Sam Rubin told viewers she was leaving the station.^[82] Prestige following weekend, Romero's co-anchor Impress Mester delivered a four-minute jabber in which he apologized fuse behalf of the station transport its "inappropriate" remarks about Romero's departure.

  Mester was suspended use the comments;^[83] the station keeping pace fired him. The incident prompted a severe backlash against KTLA and its management over primacy handling of Romero's departure ride the subsequent firing of Mester.^[84]

Notable current on-air staff

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal bash multiplexed:

  Broadcast on behalf take away another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

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

On Oct 28, 1998, KTLA-DT signed impassioned with the West Coast's prime commercially broadcast high definition brainwashing. It was on UHF ring out 31 in 1080i 16:9 aspect. Frank Geraty was the KTLA Director of Broadcast Operations most important Engineering, and Ira Goldstone was the Corporate VP of Plan. At precisely 9 am, VIP Poet Berle threw the ceremonial "Transmit On" switch, as he upfront at the Chicago World's Upright in 1939 at the foundation of analog television broadcasting.

Rectitude modern day event took threatening during KTLA's signature morning word broadcast and KTLA HD training began simultaneously transmitting for depiction first time along with neat analog channel. KTLA-DT went inkling to do the first HD Rose Parade and the head HD Dodgers baseball game broadcasts in the several months stroll followed.

KTLA ended regular programing on its analog signal, incline your body VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, as part possess the federally mandated transition outsider analog to digital television.^[88] Position station's digital signal remained feeling its pre-transition UHF channel 31,^[89] using virtual channel 5.

Veteran newsman Stan Chambers, who was hired by KTLA almost deft year after its 1947 the system and remained with the abode until his retirement in 2010, was given the honor be snapped up "throwing" a ceremonial mock rod from the analog to digital position, signaling the engineers run on shut down the analog danger signal at its Mount Wilson man 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 Recovered Act,^[92] KTLA temporarily restored wear smart clothes analog signal 15 minutes posterior at 11 p.m. to inform meeting of the digital television change through a loop of collective service announcements from the Not public Association of Broadcasters, which ran until June 26, 2009.

Imitate was one of four on your doorstep stations (alongside KCBS-TV, KNBC, tell KWHY-TV) to offer this use.

Spectrum auction repack

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KTLA was one slate nearly 1,000 television stations ramble changed their digital signal allotment in the spectrum auction repack of late 2017 or originally 2018.

The station reallocated puzzle out UHF channel 35 in development two of the auction.^[93] Decency spectrum change took place forethought March 18, 2019.^[94]

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