KTTV

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KTTV
Los Angeles, California
BrandingFox 11
SloganL.A.'s #1 Choice for News
Just You Watch
ChannelsAnalog: 11 (VHF)
Digital: 65 (UHF)
TranslatorsK14AB Morongo Valley
K23BP Daggett
K06IQ Newberry Springs
K49DC Twentynine Palms
K47AE Inyokern
K11ML Ridgecrest
AffiliationsFox
OwnerFox Television Stations
FoundedJanuary 1, 1949
Call letters meaningK Times TeleVision
(originally owned by the Los Angeles Times)
Sister station(s)KCOP
Former affiliationsCBS (1949-1951)
DuMont (1951-1954)
Independent (1954-1986)
Transmitter Power166 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
Height896 m (analog)
902 m (digital)
Facility ID22208
Transmitter Coordinates
Websitewww.MyFoxLA.com


KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California. Serving the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, KTTV is a sister station to KCOP (channel 13), Los Angeles' MyNetworkTV affiliate. The two stations share studio facilities within the Fox Television Center in West Los Angeles, and KTTV's transmitter is located on Mount Wilson.

In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive Fox network programs over-the-air, KTTV is available on satellite via DirecTV.

History

KTTV began operations on January 1 1949. The station was a jointly owned by the Times-Mirror Company, publishers of the Los Angeles Times (51 percent), and CBS (49 percent). As such, KTTV was the original Los Angeles affiliate of the CBS television network. In fact, during their partnership the Times turned down several offers CBS made to purchase KTTV outright. Their relationship lasted exactly two years, until January 1, 1951, when CBS sold its stake in channel 11 back to Times-Mirror. CBS then moved its programming to newly-acquired KTSL (channel 2, later KNXT and now KCBS-TV). From that point, KTTV carried many of the programs from the DuMont Television Network for the next three years.

In 1954 DuMont moved its affiliation to KHJ-TV (channel 9, now KCAL-TV), and KTTV began its status as an independent television station. In 1958, channel 11 became the television home of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team (which had relocated from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles that year), and the relationship between KTTV and the Dodgers would last until 1992. The Times-Mirror Company sold the station to Metromedia in 1963.

By the 1970s KTTV offered the traditional independent schedule of the 10:00 p.m. newscast, drama shows, plus older movies on weekends. They did very well with this format which was similar to other Metromedia stations. From 1976 to '77, the station ran an off-beat satirical news program, "Metronews, Metronews" in the time slot following "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman". [1]For a time during the mid-1980s, KTTV aired an 8 p.m. newscast, and dropped its 10 O'Clock News in favor of an 11:00 p.m. newscast to compete with KABC-TV, KNBC-TV, and KCBS-TV. The 8 O'Clock News was dropped and the 11 p.m. newscast was reverted to its 10 p.m. slot shortly after Fox took over. The station, along with KTLA, KCOP, and KHJ-TV were seen on various cable television outlets in the southwestern United States during the 1970s and into the 1980s, most notably in El Paso, Texas.



Australian newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch and his company, the News Corporation (who were controlling owners of the 20th Century Fox film studio), purchased KTTV and the other Metromedia television stations in 1986, and those stations formed the basis for his new Fox television network. The format except for some prime time Fox programs initially was unchanged. But as time went on KTTV dropped the morning cartoons for a new morning news show called Good Day L.A., which premiered in 1993. Though Good Day L.A. was created in response to KTLA's Morning News (which premiered two years earlier), it was inspired by sister station WNYW's Good Day New York, which was launched in 1988. They also added more first-run syndicated shows such as talk shows, court shows, and reality shows. For a while they continued with afternoon cartoons from the network, known as Fox Kids, as well as top rated off-network sitcoms in the evenings.

In Fall 2001, channel 11 dropped the weekday version of Fox Kids and moved it to its longtime rival and new sister station, KCOP (channel 13). The Fox Kids weekday block was ended altogether in January 2002. With the lineup left to air Saturday mornings under the name change to Fox Box, then 4Kids TV, KTTV brought Fox children's programming back to the lineup and continues to air it today.

KTTV offers around 35 hours per week of local news, and its 10 p.m. newscasts have been the top-rated in that time period for much of the last decade. However, channel 11 is the largest Fox-owned station (in terms of market-size) not yet offering an early evening and midday newscast (which they did in the early to mid-1980s). They still run many syndicated sitcoms in the evenings, such as (as of 2006) The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, and Married... with Children.

On an ironic note, KTTV also runs daily reruns of another sitcom, I Love Lucy, which had premiered months after the station lost its CBS affiliation. Reruns of the sitcom, which was filmed in Hollywood, are still popular among Southern California viewers and have continued to air in the L.A. area endlessly since the series ceased production in 1957, thus making KTTV only the second station in Los Angeles (KCBS-TV was the other) to continue airing the sitcom after it ended almost 50 years ago.

In 1996, the station's longtime home on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, known as "Metromedia Square" (and later renamed the "Fox Television Center") was vacated. KTTV relocated to new studios a few miles away on South Bundy Drive in West Los Angeles, near the Fox network headquarters (the network's headquarters are on the lot of 20th Century Fox studios). The historic television studio at Metromedia Square, once home to Norman Lear's Tandem Productions, also produced hit programs such as The Jeffersons, Mama's Family, Diff'rent Strokes, One Day at a Time, Hello, Larry, Soul Train, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Small Wonder and the groundbreaking sketch comedy In Living Color. It was demolished in 2003 to make way for a new middle school being built by the Los Angeles Unified School District.

On April 17, 2006, KTTV launched a new look for its newscasts, including new theme music and graphics, as well as a new station logo. Similar in style to the Fox News Channel, this look has been standardized by other Fox owned-and-operated stations. The station also launched a new website based on Fox Television Stations' new MyFox interface on May 16, 2006; this format will becomed standardized on all Fox-owned station sites by the end of 2006.

KTTV and KCOP are currently the only VHF stations in the Los Angeles market that do not broadcast their newscasts, public affairs programming, and non-network sports in high definition.

Current personalities

Anchors
Weather
  • Rick Dickert - Fox 11 Morning News (also traffic reporter, Good Day L.A.)
  • Mark Thompson - weeknight meteorologist
Sports
  • Rick Garcia - sports director/weeknights
Reporters

Notable alumni

(a partial listing)
 
(D) - deceased

Helicopter Information

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SkyFox Eurocopter
SkyFox Eurocopter A-Star 350 B-1

KTTV operates two helicopters. One helicopter, which was previously operated by KTLA, was lost in 2000 after covering the Academy Awards and crashed at Van Nuys Airport. The helicopter was known back then as "Sky Fox 2."

Desiree Horton - popular pilot/reporter now flying for KNBC, has also flown for KTTV. She was not, however, piloting Sky Fox when it crashed.

Newscast Titles

  • Metro News (1970s)
  • LA 11 News (Early 1980s)
  • Channel 11 News (1980s)
  • The 10 O'Clock Report (1982-1983)
  • The 8 O'Clock News (1984-1986)
  • The 11 O'Clock News (1984-1986)
  • The 10 O' Clock News (1986-1987)
  • Fox News (1987-1994)
  • Fox 11 News (1995-present)

Logos


Used From 1949 to 1950 On KTTV-11.


Rebroadcasters

KTTV is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

See also

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Broadcast television in the Los Angeles market (Nielsen DMA #2)
Local television stations KCBS 2 (CBS) - KNBC 4 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2, KNBC News Raw on DT4) - KTLA 5 (The CW, The Tube on DT5) - KSFV-LP 6 (Ind/Spanish/Religious) - KABC 7 (ABC, ABC+ on DT2, AccuWX TV on DT3) - KCAL 9 (Ind/CBS) - KTTV 11 (Fox) -
KCOP 13 (MNTV) - KSCI 18 (Ind) - KWHY 22 (Ind/Spanish) - KIMG-LP 23 (LAT TV) - KVCR 24 (PBS) - KNET-LP 25 (Ind/Infomercials) - KNLA-LP 27 (Ind/Spanish) - KCET 28 (PBS, KCET-HD on DT2, V-me on DT3) -
KPXN 30 (ION, qubo on DT2, ION Life on DT3, Worship on DT4) - KMEX 34 (UNI) - KPAL-LP 38 (Ind) - KSKJ-CA 38 / KSKP-CA 25 (Ind) - KTBN 40 (TBN, The Church Channel on DT2, JCTV on DT3, TBN Enlace on DT4, Smile of a Child on DT5) -
KXLA 44 (Ind) - KLAU-LP 45 (Ind/Infomercials) - KFTR 46 (TFU) - KOCE 50 (PBS, KOCE-HD on DT2, Orange Cty. on DT3) - KVEA 52 (TEL) - KAZA 54 (AZA) - K55KD 55 (STA: Ch. 57) (Almavision) - KDOC 56 (Ind) - KJLA 57 / KSMV-LP 33 / KSGA-LP 64 (LATV) -
KLCS 58 (PBS, Kids on DT2, Create! on DT3, Annenberg/CPB on DT4) - KRCA 62 (Ind, KSDX-LP on DT2) - KBEH 63 (MTV3) - KHIZ 64 (A1) - KHTV-LP 67 (HSN) - KTAV-LP 69 (Almavision)
Local digital television channels
KVMD 23 (Ind/A1)
Local cable television channels
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Past broadcast stations
KKOG 16 (IND) - KVST / KEEF 68 (non-commercial)
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