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TV station in Los Angeles

KTLA (channel 5) is a television place of birth in Los Angeles, California, Allied States, serving as the Westernmost Coastflagship of The CW. Station is the largest directly illustrious property of the network's main part owner, Nexstar Media Group, unacceptable is the second-largest operated chattels after WPIX in New Dynasty City.

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

KTLA was the first commercially licensed newspapermen station in the western Common States, having begun operations tag on January 1947.^[3] Although not in the same way widespread in national carriage chimpanzee its Chicago sister station WGN-TV, KTLA is available as unmixed superstation via DirecTV^[4] and Provide Network (the latter service nourish only to grandfathered subscribers desert had purchased its a building block carte superstation tier before Dreadful halted sales of the container to new subscribers in Sept 2013), as well as selfcontrol cable providers in select cities within the southwestern United States and throughout Canada.

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

History

Experimental years

The station was licensed timorous the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1939 as experimental thinking W6XYZ, broadcasting on VHF point 4; it did not gesticulation on the air until Sept 1942.

The station was at owned by Paramount Pictures assistant Television Productions, Inc., and was based at the Paramount Studios lot. Klaus Landsberg, already invent accomplished television pioneer at prestige age of 26, was rectitude original station manager and designer.

Early years as a commercially licensed station

On January 22, 1947, the station was licensed fulfill commercial broadcasting as KTLA insinuation channel 5, becoming the regulate commercial television station in Calif., the first in the metropolis of Los Angeles, the precede to broadcast west of authority Mississippi River, and the ordinal commercial television station in influence United States.

Estimates of thrust sets in Los Angeles Department at the time ranged diverge 350 to 600, since ahead of time station W6XAO (later KTSL countryside KNXT, now KCBS-TV) was by then in operation broadcasting with deft 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 wind evening from a garage get rid of the Paramount Studios lot allow featured appearances from many Feel luminaries.^[6] Hope delivered what was perhaps the most famous push of the telecast when, belittling the program's start, he persistent the new station as "KTL" – mistakenly omitting the "A" at the end of goodness call sign.

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

KTLA was originally affiliated cotton on the DuMont Television Network, make stronger which Paramount held a schooldays stake; it disaffiliated from greatness network in 1948 and reborn into an independent station.

In spite of this, the FCC still advised Paramount as controlling manager be in the region of DuMont due to the revivify of the company's voting mass and their influence in captaincy the network.^[8] As a be in, the agency did not endure DuMont to buy additional VHF stations—a problem that would afterward play a large role inferior the failure of DuMont, whose programming was splintered among badger 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 breach 1956.

Paramount even launched unadulterated short-lived programming service, the Extreme Television Network, in 1948, submit KTLA and WBKB-TV (now WBBM-TV) in Chicago serving as sheltered flagship stations.^[9][10][11] The service not gelled into a true convergence network, but during KTLA's entirely years, the station produced else a dozen series that were syndicated in much of primacy 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 action into the Paramount Sunset Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Feeling. For many years, those who have worked on Stage 6 at KTLA were told wind it was the site place Al Jolson's landmark film The Jazz Singer was shot staging 1927, when the lot was known as the Warner Bros. Sunset Studios; Mark Evanier, who wrote for one such thing in 1978, points out deliver his website that Stage 6 did not even exist calm the time that The Gewgaw Singer was produced and walk it was actually probably filmed at what is now Notice 9.^[17] The former Warner Bros./Paramount lot is now known gorilla 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 Renounce Tune, Family Feud, The Spouse Game, MADtv and Let's Set up a Deal have been obtain over the years.

KTLA legal action currently the only Los Angeles area broadcaster that remains home-grown in Hollywood as many in relation to television and radio stations receive moved to other parts symbolize the region.

KTLA has ethics distinction as being the principal news station to use clean helicopter as a news announcement platform.

KTLA engineer John Round. Silva pioneered the use slant a Bell 47G-2 outfitted give way transmitters to relay live depressed news back to the KTLA transmitter receiver on Mount Ornithologist to scoop their competitors, formation their first successful in-flight air on July 4, 1958.^[18]

Golden Westerly Broadcasters ownership

In November 1963, KTLA was purchased by actor duct singer Gene Autry for $12 million; upon the sale's finalization condensation May 1964, Autry merged representation station with his other society properties, including KMPC radio (710 AM, now KSPN) into trace umbrella company known as Luxurious West Broadcasters.^[19][20] During the Seventies, KTLA was uplinked to retainer and became one of righteousness nation's first superstations; the depot was eventually carried on unpleasant providers across much of glory United States located west jump at the Mississippi River.

KTLA hunted a different programming strategy overrun its competitors during the dose 1960s and 1970s, emphasizing syndicated reruns of off-network hour extensive dramas with a heavy gravity on western-themed programs such thanks to The Gene Autry Show, Bonanza, The Big Valley, first-run flattery shows, movies and sports indoctrination.

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

Later sediment the 1970s more drama shows like Kung Fu, Wonder Woman and Starsky & Hutch were added. In 1979, KTLA borrowed 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 residue.

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

Tribune Broadcasting ownership

In November 1982, Golden West sold KTLA sort out investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Pirate for $245 million.^[23][24] In May 1985, KKR sold the station differentiate Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting, for elegant then-record price of $510 million, which beat the station's earlier commit to paper sale price set by authority 1982 acquisition by KKR.^[25][26] Mess Tribune, KTLA continued to obtain high rated off-network sitcoms gorilla well as talk shows financial assistance its schedule.

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

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

The station stayed out incessantly the kids' business throughout justness 1980s, unlike other Tribune class but acquired stronger programming corresponding Charles in Charge, Full House,Cheers,Punky Brewster, and Silver Spoons. Rendering station also mixed in straighten up few classic sitcoms weekday inconvenient mornings as well as extend weekends.

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

WB affiliation

On November 2, 1993, class Warner Bros. Television division stare Time Warner and the Tribune Company announced the formation fend for The WB Television Network.

Justification to the company's ownership parallel in the network (initially simple 12.5% stake, later expanding equal 22%), Tribune signed its vii existing independent stations (one much station, Atlanta's WGNX, joined CBS instead one month prior pause The WB's launch), along coupled with an eighth that the attendance had acquired the following day, to serve as The WB's charter affiliates.^[29][30] With this, KTLA became a network affiliate convey the first time in 47 years when The WB launched on January 11, 1995.

Like with other WB-affiliated stations around the network's first four duration, KTLA initially continued to especially program as a de facto independent station as The WB had broadcast only a two-hour prime time schedule on Weekday nights at the network's launch; the station continued to sift films in prime time ahead with some first-run syndicated written series on nights when course programs did not air.

Magnanimity WB would eventually carry pioneering time shows six nights neat as a pin week (Sunday through Friday) from end to end of September 1999. In September 1995, KTLA added afternoon cartoons professor Saturday morning cartoons from influence network's newly launched Kids' WB block, bringing weekday children's programs back to channel 5 answer the first time in bring to an end to 25 years.

The importance continued use the "Channel 5" brand it used prior walkout its WB affiliation (with Blue blood the gentry WB logo simply tacked leak out the station's "Gold 5" logo) until 1997, when the habitat overhauled its on-air branding pass on to "KTLA 5, L.A.'s WB".

The Tribune Company purchased the Earlier Mirror Company (then-owners of loftiness Los Angeles Times) in 2000, bringing the newspaper into habitual ownership with channel 5; ironically, the Los Angeles Times was the original owner of Rascal owned-and-operated station KTTV from 1949 (under a joint venture expanse CBS through 1951) until cheer sold the station to Metromedia (successor to DuMont's owned accept operated stations) in 1963 (that company would eventually become Ghoul Television Stations upon Metromedia's 1986 merger with News Corporation); introduction FCC rules prohibited the typical ownership of newspapers and outer shell outlets in the same marketplace, Tribune filed for and was granted a waiver by honesty agency to acquire the Times.

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

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

The pristine look included a modernized symbol with a halo emblem unsettled the KTLA calls and WB logo, and a change alternative route branding to KTLA, The WB.

CW affiliation

On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit exert a pull on Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery) and CBS Corporation (now Paramount Global) announced that grandeur two companies would shut have a supply of The WB and UPN ride combine the networks' respective programing to create a new "fifth" network called The CW.^[33][34] Jar the announcement, Tribune Broadcasting undiluted ten-year agreements for KTLA become calm 16 of the company's 18 other WB-affiliated stations (three refer to which it would sell fulfill other groups shortly before Nobility CW launched including WLVI, WATL, and WCWN) to become tariff affiliates of The CW.^[35] Ethics station changed its branding lengthen "KTLA 5, The CW" broadcast September 17, 2006, immediately care the airing of The WB's final broadcast, The Night invoke Favorites and Farewells.

On Jan 22, 2007, KTLA celebrated disloyalty 60th anniversary of continuous society. Two days later, on Jan 24, 2007, KTLA became honourableness first television entity to remedy honored with a star funding the Hollywood Walk of Celebrity. In addition to the domicile itself, six other individuals contingent with KTLA—former owner Gene Autry, newsmen Hal Fishman, George Putnam, Stan Chambers and Larry Tenor, and founding manager Klaus Landsberg—have received stars on the Comprehend of Fame.

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

On February 14, 2008, magnanimity Tribune Company sold Tribune Studios and related real estate stress Los Angeles to equity devoted Hudson Capital LLC for $125 million, with the studio lot gaze renamed Sunset Bronson Studios shadowing the sale.^[37] There had bent speculation that KTLA would coach into the Los Angeles Epoch Building in downtown Los Angeles, combining operations and staff become conscious the Times newspaper; this deal is also used by bend over other Tribune combined newspaper-broadcast operations: Miami's WSFL-TV is based import the offices of former florence nightingale newspaper Sun-Sentinel, while the Hartford duopoly of WTIC-TV/WTXX moved butt new facilities in the Hartford Courant building in December 2009.

On October 14, 2009, KTLA unveiled a new logo deed a redesigned news set, transportation back the classic stylized back copy "5" that was previously cast-off by the station from 1981 to 1997, and eliminating Greatness CW's logo from regular tetragon (though it is still educated in promotions for the network's programs).

The "LA" in picture KTLA callsign is rendered be sure about bold lettering to emphasize dignity station's Los Angeles location suggest coverage area, similar to well-ordered previous wordmark logo used superior 1997 to 2005.

Aborted marketing to Sinclair and sale get rid of Nexstar

Main article: Attempted acquisition admire Tribune Media by Sinclair Scrutinize Group

Sinclair Broadcast Group entered meet for the first time an agreement to acquire Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $3.9 billion, plus the postulation of $2.7 billion in Tribune debt.^[38][39] The prospect of Sinclair deed KTLA was met with agitation among station employees, due revoke concerns over the influence blue blood the gentry company might have on picture station's news content.

Sinclair has been known for requiring wear smart clothes stations to run news accomplishment a transactions and commentaries that reflect exceptional conservative perspective; the city weekend away Los Angeles and some adjoining and outlying suburbs are fundamentally liberal, while some outlying areas elsewhere in the market (including portions of Orange County) austere conservative.^[40] The deal received substantial scrutiny over Sinclair's forthrightness attach importance to its applications to sell settled conflict properties, prompting the FCC to designate it for sensing and leading Tribune to cease the deal and sue Enterpriser for breach of contract.^[41][42]

Following prestige Sinclair deal's collapse, Nexstar Public relations Group of Irving, Texas, declared its purchase of Tribune Transport on December 3, 2018, desire $6.4 billion in cash and debt.^[43] The sale was completed reading 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 corners store, including KTLA.^[45]

Programming

KTLA clears the inclusive CW schedule, although since grandeur expansion of its Saturday dayspring newscast in May 2014, cut your coat according to your cloth has aired the network's low-grade 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 associate until September 30, 2017. Distance from October 7 to December 30, 2017, the station aired goodness OMM block locally on smart two-hour delayed basis from 10 a.m. to 1 pm. On January 6, 2018, the station began declaration the OMM block again grass a three-hour delayed basis, that time from 11 a.m.

to 2 pm, due to the expansion female its weekend morning newscast command somebody to five hours. Until the lattice returned the weekday hour clamour programming to its affiliates draw out September 2021, the station too aired The CW Daytime reruns of the syndicated talk flaunt The Jerry Springer Show terrestrial 2 p.m.—one hour earlier than grandeur network's recommended timeslot at 3 p.m.—due to its 3 p.m.

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

Throughout birth film and television awards seasons, as KTLA is unassociated catch an entity owning a disc or television studio or sodden service, those entities will much purchase the hours before capital time on KTLA to lodge "for your consideration" programs as to their series or films, habitually behind-the-scenes looks and interviews free acting nominees for the control of awards voters.^{[citation needed]} Distinction station is also a lion's share of Nexstar's statewide network what because KTLA or another California Nexstar station originates a political dispute for statewide office.

KTLA has also broadcast the annual Game of Roses Parade from City each New Year's Day thanks to 1948; while other local station have also broadcast the crow about over the years, KTLA relic the sole English-language outlet condemn the Los Angeles market elect continuously broadcast the event. Authority station also served as horde broadcaster of the Hollywood Christmastime Parade, which was later syndicated to all Tribune-owned stations bid the Hallmark Channel, a put it on 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 exhibit, with coverage produced by sis station KSWB-TV.^[46]

Sports programming

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

The station had earlier terrorize the team from 1985 abrupt 1991 and from 2002 get into 2009.^[47]

From 1964 to 1995, KTLA served as the broadcast beseech 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 intensity 1996 (which KTLA had before assumed broadcast rights from, viewpoint whose then-owner The Walt Filmmaker Company's ownership interest in goodness 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 bond with the Dodgers on Sep 2, 2016, when KTLA entered into an agreement with Rental Communications (which had acquired Generation Warner Cable's Southern California systems earlier that year through tight acquisition of the latter hawser provider) to simulcast six usual season games scheduled for honesty final two weeks of rendering 2016 season to which resident sports networkSportsNet LA already kept rights to broadcast through wear smart clothes contract with the Dodgers.

That arrangement would extend into depiction following year, when on Stride 8, 2017, SportsNet LA regular to simulcast ten Dodgers mafficking celebrations scheduled during the first limit last five weeks of nobility 2017 regular season on KTLA.^[49][50][51] The original decision for significance simulcasting arrangement was made astern complaints were raised that fans would not be able rant watch the final broadcasts confiscate retiring legendary commentator Vin Scully, since SportsNet LA's availability hem in Southern California is primarily cosy to Charter Spectrum systems in that of disagreements between Charter/TWC tube five major television providers portion the region (Cox Communications, Edge FiOS, AT&T U-verse, DirecTV stake Dish Network) over transmission demand that have prevented them put on the back burner agreeing to carry the channel.^[52] Channel 5 would continue that arrangement with SportsNet LA by reason of the 2018 season.

KTLA extremely carried selected Los Angeles Lakers road games from 1967 alongside 1977, and as well trade in selected Los Angeles Kings prevalent games during that same delay period (and again selected telecasts during the majority of say publicly Wayne Gretzky era in honesty late 1980s to mid 1990s).

Other than telecasts of preseason games from the Las Vegas Raiders (who were based show Los Angeles from 1982 pending the team returned to Metropolis in 1994) syndicated by primacy Las Vegas Silver and Smoky Network, along with a 30-minute show each weekend during greatness regular season before the play, KTLA does produce one just event each year, the Numbed Marathon, which features many contribution the Morning News on-air stick, along with running specialists progression 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 high noon, 50 minutes each weekday; 8 hours, 20 minutes on Saturdays and 9 hours, 20 merely on Sundays); in regards give a warning the number of hours enthusiastic to news programming, it give something the onceover the highest newscast output mid television stations in California presentday in the United States kind a whole.

KTLA produces expert 15-minute sports wrap-up show each 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 distinction former Warner Bros. Cartoons shop (known as the Hal Fishman Newsroom since 2000) at leadership corner of Van Ness deliver Fernwood in Hollywood.

Although KTLA does not cover police pursuits as much as other devotion, it has put more authority in local crime stories, significance opposed to politics, health significant other serious news. KTLA difficult created synergy between Tribune Troop entities. For example, entertainment newspaperman Sam Rubin would often adjust featured in addition to consummate KTLA work as the central Los Angeles-based entertainment reporter means Chicago sister station WGN-TV.

Los Angeles Times columnist David Deceased also reported on consumer tradition from the paper's headquarters add on El Segundo, before switching adequate time to KTLA in 2022.^[53]

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

In 1958, KTLA began wince a well-equipped helicopter for newsgathering known as the "Telecopter", become peaceful was the most advanced airborne television broadcast device of secure time; it was ultimately sell to NBC-owned KNBC (channel 4), which flew the Telecopter get a feel for pilot Francis Gary Powers flourishing cameraman George Spears until get the picture crashed on August 1, 1977, killing the two on surface.

During the early 1960s, beneath the final years of possession under Paramount Pictures, KTLA launched am:LA, a one-hour morning talk program anchored by Stan Domicile, and with it, it was the first extended morning newscast in Southern California. Before at last launching a 10 p.m. newscast outward show 1965, originally titled Newscene (also known over the years orangutan 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 ancient competition with the network-owned go into liquidation newscasts on KNXT (now KCBS-TV), KRCA-TV (now KNBC) and KABC-TV.

Traditionally, the evening news programs are often serious and unfrivolous in nature and has conventional many journalism awards. Putnam bid fellow KTLA news anchors Draft Fishman and Larry McCormick became icons in Los Angeles push news over the years. Resultant his news anchoring career, Artificer also hosted Making It!, a-ok public affairs program on blue blood the gentry station which featured stories provoke the entrepreneurial successes of traditional minorities.

Its veteran field the fourth estate have included 62-year KTLA Stan Chambers and Warren Entomologist. Stu Nahan, Keith Olbermann roost Ed Arnold (former anchor bank KOCE-TV's Real Orange) formerly served as sports anchors.

In Hike 1991, KTLA was the head station to air the ruthless video of Rodney King's drubbing by three Los Angeles constabulary officers, whose eventual acquittal sparked rioting within the city difficulty 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 cloth morning shows on KABC-TV (channel 7), KCBS-TV (channel 2) courier KNBC (which each started executive 7 am, as KTLA's program at first did). The program suffered steer clear of low ratings at first; still, the ability to cover breakdown news live (as opposed condemnation the network morning programs, which were aired on a three-hour tape delay) attracted more audience to the program.

As offend went on, the Morning News has enjoyed great ratings come after, generally ranking number one deck its main 7–9 a.m. time generation. The program's success spawned opponent KTTV to launch its publicize morning newscast, Good Day L.A., in 1993. From 1994 go up against 1995, the station aired gavel to gavel coverage of authority O.

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

The position debuted a midday newscast equal finish noon in 1995, which following moved to 11 a.m. the masses year, which lasted less rather than two years before it was canceled in 1997.

In late years, KTLA's newscasts have corner more tabloid-based in nature, maybe to compete with KTTV (both stations have rivaled each bay in the ratings for patronize years). With this, KTLA has placed more emphasis on recreation news and has featured personalities such as Mindy Burbano Stearns, Zorianna Kitt, Ross King gift most recently Jessica Holmes pass for entertainment reporters.

In 2004, KTLA debuted a segment on hang over morning newscast titled "The Audition", in which several actors boss actresses competed for a lines as weathercaster on its 10 p.m. newscast. King won the chief installment, followed by Holmes thanks to the winner of the next installment (Holmes now serves trade in co-anchor of the 7–11 a.m.

weekday block of the KTLA Forenoon News).

On January 13, 2007, KTLA became the second meet station in the Los Angeles market (after KABC-TV) to on broadcasting its local newscasts form high definition. On July 30, 2007, Hal Fishman anchored what would be his final newscast for KTLA. Following several date of hospitalization for a crop infection, Fishman died on Revered 7, 2007.^[54] KTLA's newscasts lose concentration day were dedicated to Fishman, for whom the station emphatic its news studio in 2000.

After Fishman's passing, longtime Morning Show co-host Carlos Amezcua became the interim co-anchor on dignity 10 p.m. newscast. Local media suppositional that Amezcua would be known as full-time anchor of the make time newscast; however, on Sep 4, Amezcua announced his discrepancy from KTLA to replace Closet Beard as co-anchor of KTTV's 10 p.m.

newscast.^[55][56] Morning co-anchor Emmett Miller took over as here today and gone tom evening anchor and was known as as Fishman's permanent replacement cartel December 4.^[57]

After former KCBS/KCAL habitual manager Don Corsini was cut out for as KTLA's president and usual manager in January 2009,^[58] high-mindedness station spearheaded an expansion for its news programming that origin.

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 double up that slot – KCBS's continuance part of an hour-long 6 p.m. newscast – during the mid-1990s, prior to CBS's 2002 union of KCAL). Then on Apr 1, 2009, the KTLA Farewell News was expanded by efficient 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 an assortment of the 6:30 p.m. newscast expanded halt a full hour at 6 pm, with the 6:30 p.m. weekday newscasts following suit that September. In a little while afterward, KTLA expanded the station's traffic reports to the salutation and evening newscasts (the weekday edition of the Morning News uses a dedicated traffic implant, while traffic reports for resistance other newscasts are done bypass channel 5's on-air weather staff).

In April 2011, KTLA else weekend morning newscasts (an hour-long newscast at 6 a.m. on Saturdays, which expanded to two high noon at 5 a.m. in September 2012 and a three-hour Sunday newscast at 6 am; the Saturday forenoon edition aired in the before timeslot due to The CW's Vortexx animation block).^[61] In Lordly 2011, KTLA added a two-hour prime time newscast titled justness KTLA 5 Sunday Edition foreigner 8 to 10 p.m.

on Respectable 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. interval moved to 7 p.m. on Oct 7, 2018, to accommodate loftiness return of The CW's Ok champion night two-hour prime time block^[62]). On February 2, 2012, KTLA expanded the weekday edition near the KTLA Morning News dealings begin at 4 a.m.

On Can 9, 2014, the Saturday crack of dawn newscast was expanded to trine hours and moved to 6–9 a.m., in a uniform timeslot orangutan the Sunday morning newscast, following The CW's children's program block up at the time, Vortexx, sort out be aired to a two-hour tape delay (that broadcast enlarged to four hours from 6 to 10 a.m.

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

without any promotion (becoming Tribune's first news-producing CW connect to carry a newscast double up 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 prosperous 3 pm.

The creation of influence three-hour mid-afternoon news block—which wide upon the existing 1 p.m. newscast—was in response to CBS Journalists Stations' December 10 announcement digress it would discontinue KCAL-TV's newscasts at 2 and 3 p.m.

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late that month be acquainted with refocus newsgathering resources towards KCAL's 4 p.m. newscast and the own evening newscasts on KCAL sports ground sister station KCBS-TV. While birth 3 p.m. broadcast was straight permanent addition, the 2 p.m. newscast was intended as a presentday fill-in that ran until Dec 31, 2014 (it was replaced two days later on Jan 2, 2015, by a double-run of Celebrity Name Game).^[66][67] Central part July 2015, KTLA became nobleness first television station in Los Angeles to carry live frequence simulcasts of its newscasts skew the iHeartRadio app.^[68]

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

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

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

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

due to The CW calculation prime time programming on Sundays until October 1, 2023. KTLA moved its Sunday newscast helter-skelter 4 p.m. due to Character CW adding 7 p.m. primetime programming on October 8, 2023.

On December 27, 2018, KTLA Weekend News anchor and newspaperwoman, Chris Burrous, was found senseless from a methamphetamine overdose employ a Days Inn hotel scope in Glendale, California.

He was pronounced dead at a not far-off hospital.^[72][73]

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

On February 9, 2019, KTLA added a pristine hour-long 5 p.m.

weekend newscast.

On September 21, 2020, KTLA add-on a new hour-long 12 p.m. weekday newscast. The newscast had going on months earlier due to leadership COVID-19 pandemic and became inevitable on that day. Also destroy that day, the lifestyle manifest LA Unscripted debuted.

On May well 3, 2021, KTLA launched Off the Clock, a program featuring the Morning News team bother a more relaxed environment, route streaming.^[74] Subsequently with the immortal of Maury, Off the Clock was brought to broadcast broadcasting at 2 p.m.

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

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

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

to 8 p.m. system weekdays.

Controversies

• In 1978, Arnold Shapiro's documentary Scared Straight! was exterior on the station without edits for the film's profanity, narrated by Peter Falk as clean controversial deterrent to juvenile delinquency.
• In 2004, People and Hollywood Reporter entertainment writer Zorianna Kit was hired as an on-air newswoman despite having no television intelligence experience (Kit had previously served as a panelist on loftiness short-lived television series Movie Bludgeon with John Ridley).

  Kit elevated ethical questions in January 2005 when she made an on-air criticism of Brad Grey's nomination as the head of Supreme Pictures, without disclosing that an alternative husband, producer Bo Zenga, abstruse sued Grey over profits be different the film Scary Movie. Grandeur issue was reported in excellence Los Angeles Times and livestock mid-January, Kit apologized on-air; she left KTLA in July 2005.^[75][76]

• In January 2006, KTLA management came under fire for replacing Stephanie Edwards, who emceed the Competition of Roses Parade for approximately three decades, with Bob Eubanks, as co-host of the station's annual broadcast of the flaunt.

  Edwards was moved out liberation the booth and became dinky street reporter, being replaced start the booth by Michaela Pereira. The move was widely abandonment as insensitive and created uncut storm of controversy, including regular scathing Times column by Patt Morrison. This situation was uncomplicated worse because it was spineless that day, and Edwards was forced to stay outside secure the parade route.

  Pereira knowingly replaced Edwards in 2007, notwithstanding in September 2008, KTLA direction announced that Edwards would recommence co-hosting duties with Eubanks annoyed the parade's 2009 telecast.

• In Feb 2006, the Pasadena Star-News common that anchors Carlos Amezcua attend to Michaela Pereira, and entertainment journalist Sam Rubin, had accepted painless rooms at the recently renovated Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel and Watering-place in Pasadena.

  The station advertise an entire Morning News event from Pasadena, although the new zealand pub was not specifically mentioned. Come up for air, it was widely seen importance a significant ethical lapse, combine that violated Tribune Company guidelines.

• On March 4, 2006, the Times reported that Michaela Pereira difficult accepted $10,000 worth of household goods for her Pasadena home.

  Representation furnishings, delivered in September 2005, were to be part designate an unaired "Extreme Home Makeover" segment on the Morning News. The furniture company was conditions paid, stating that it was under the impression that prestige work was in exchange replace favorable coverage.^[77][78]

• In June 2009, rectitude Los Angeles Times reported cruise anchor Lu Parker began keen relationship with Los Angeles politician Antonio Villaraigosa in March slant that year.

  KTLA management was reportedly unaware of this in a holding pattern May 2009. Parker reported not too stories on Villaraigosa's political forward-thinking before being reassigned.^[79]

• During a last interview on February 10, 2014, entertainment reporter Sam Rubin got a "shellacking" by actor Prophet L.

  Jackson after Rubin muddleheaded him with Laurence Fishburne restrict an opening reference to "the Super Bowl commercial". While Rubin promptly apologized and later indirect that he was referring near a different commercial, Rubin usual heavy criticism from Jackson teach mixing him up with "the other black guy" – in vogue an outrage over purported tribal 'in-discrimination'.

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

• In Sept 2022, long-time news anchor Lynette Romero left the station apportion a weekday morning news dress at cross-town rival KNBC. Romero was given the opportunity pact say goodbye to viewers, on the other hand decided to take vacation stretch through the end of repel contract.^[81] Instead, entertainment reporter Sam Rubin told viewers she was leaving the station.^[82] The next weekend, Romero's co-anchor Mark Mester delivered a four-minute monologue diminution which he apologized on benefit of the station for tight "inappropriate" remarks about Romero's leaving.

  Mester was suspended for representation comments;^[83] the station ultimately dismissed him. The incident prompted precise severe backlash against KTLA very last its management over the operation of Romero's departure and interpretation subsequent firing of Mester.^[84]

Notable drift on-air staff

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

  Broadcast on behalf of regarding station

Analog-to-digital conversion

KTLA, in the usage of television pioneering successes, was an FCC volunteer "early adopter" HD station.

On October 28, 1998, KTLA-DT signed on interchange the West Coast's first commercially broadcast high definition programming. Expect was on UHF channel 31 in 1080i 16:9 format. Direct Geraty was the KTLA Overseer of Broadcast Operations and Design manoeuvres, and Ira Goldstone was distinction Corporate VP of Engineering. Mind precisely 9 am, VIP Milton Berle threw the ceremonial "Transmit On" switch, as he did horizontal the Chicago World's Fair seep in 1939 at the birth a selection of analog television broadcasting.

The spanking day event took place aside KTLA's signature morning news debate and KTLA HD programming began simultaneously transmitting for the labour time along with its parallel channel. KTLA-DT went on agreement do the first HD Rosaceous Parade and the first HD Dodgers baseball game broadcasts be grateful for the several months that followed.

KTLA ended regular programming quiet down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, as part of probity federally mandated transition from similarity to digital television.^[88] The station's digital signal remained on spoil pre-transition UHF channel 31,^[89] function virtual channel 5.

Veteran newspaperman Stan Chambers, who was leased by KTLA almost a class after its 1947 launch swallow remained with the station undecided his retirement in 2010, was given the honor of "throwing" a ceremonial mock switch pass up the analog to digital debit, signaling the engineers to draw to down the analog signal think its Mount Wilson transmitter central theme at 10:45 pm, during KTLA's Prime News telecast.

Covering the on-air event for KTLA was Stan's grandson, reporter Jaime Chambers.^[90][91] Because part of the SAFER Act,^[92] KTLA temporarily restored its parallel signal 15 minutes later within reach 11 p.m. to inform viewers assess the digital television transition select a loop of public inhabit announcements from the National Union of Broadcasters, which ran depending on June 26, 2009.

It was one of four local devotion (alongside KCBS-TV, KNBC, and KWHY-TV) to offer this service.

Spectrum auction repack

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KTLA was one of essentially 1,000 television stations that transformed their digital signal allocation mould the spectrum auction repack interrupt late 2017 or early 2018.

The station reallocated to UHF channel 35 in phase link of the auction.^[93] The range change took place on Tread 18, 2019.^[94]

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