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| Branding | Fox 11 Los Angeles;Fox 11 News |
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| Owner | Fox Television Stations, LLC |
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| Founded | 1947[1] |
First air date | January 1, 1949 (76 years ago) (1949-01-01) |
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Call sign meaning | "Times Television" (for its founding owner, theLos Angeles Times) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 22208 |
| ERP | 115kW |
| HAAT | 903 m (2,963 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°13′29″N118°3′51″W / 34.22472°N 118.06417°W /34.22472; -118.06417 |
| Translator(s) | see§ Translators |
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| Website | www |
KTTV (channel 11) is atelevision station inLos Angeles, California, United States. It is theWest Coastflagship station of theFox television network,owned and operated through itsFox Television Stations division. Under common ownership withMyNetworkTV outletKCOP-TV (channel 13), the two stations share studios at the Fox Television Center on South Bundy Drive inWest Los Angeles; KTTV's transmitter is located atopMount Wilson.
KTTV's origins can be traced to 1947, when the station's license andconstruction permit was secured by theTimes Mirror Company, publishers of theLos Angeles Times. It was one of five licenses that were granted simultaneously by theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) to parties interested in expanding commercial television in Los Angeles. In 1948,CBS, which ownedKNX radio, purchased a 49% interest in the station and assisted in completing its construction in exchange for making channel 11 the network's Los Angeles television outlet.[3] KTTV began operations on January 1, 1949, and was operated initially by KTTV, Incorporated, theTimes/CBS-owned holding company. The station's first telecast was theTournament of Roses Parade,[4] which channel 11 would air everyNew Year's Day until 1995.
In May 1950, Times-Mirror purchased theNassour Studios – a large motion picture facility onSunset Boulevard inHollywood, and centralized KTTV's operations there.[5][6] CBS did not join Times-Mirror in the purchase; at the time its West Coast production facilities were based atColumbia Square, with itsCBS Television City facility in the planning stages. KTTV converted the Nassour Studios into a major production house for television, producing programs locally and for the emergingsyndication market. Prior to the move, KTTV operated out of several different facilities, including the former headquarters ofCapitol Records (which was later the longtime home ofKHJ radio and what is nowKCAL-TV) onMelrose Avenue.[7]
Later in 1950, CBS chose to acquire its own station in Los Angeles – pioneer station KTSL (channel 2, renamed KNXT and nowKCBS-TV) – which was being spun off by theDon Lee Broadcasting System as a result of its sale toGeneral Tire and Rubber. The KTSL purchase forced CBS to divest its interest in KTTV due to FCC rules in effect at the time that barred thecommon ownership of two television stations in the same media market; theLos Angeles Times would regain full ownership of channel 11 when the sales were finalized on January 1, 1951. KTTV's relationship with CBS ended after exactly two years as the network moved its programming to KTSL.[8][9] A few months later, channel 11 agreed to become the new Los Angeles outlet of theDuMont Television Network, which had been affiliated with KTSL, and before thatKTLA (channel 5).[10]
In 1954, DuMont moved its programming to KHJ-TV (channel 9, now KCAL-TV), and KTTV became anindependent station.[11] During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with theNTA Film Network.[12] In 1958, channel 11 scored an advantage against its rivals when it became the television home of theLos Angeles Dodgers baseball team, which had relocated fromBrooklyn, New York, that year.[13] For the first 11 years and at the request of the team, KTTV's Dodger telecasts were limited to road games against the archrivalSan Francisco Giants. Eventually, the number of Dodger games broadcast on the station increased and the home gameblackout was lifted; the relationship between KTTV and the Dodgers would last until the end of the1992 season.
The showConfidential File on KTTV covered the 1962 convention of theDaughters of Bilitis and aired afterConfidential File became syndicated nationally; this was probably the first American national broadcast that specifically coveredlesbianism.[14]
The Times-Mirror Company sold the station toMetromedia in 1963.[15][16][17] Later that year, Metromedia purchasedKLAC (570 AM) and the original KLAC-FM (102.7 FM, nowKIIS-FM), giving channel 11 sister stations on the radio dial.[18] Metromedia would later engineer a trade of FM frequencies, resulting in KLAC-FM moving to 94.7 FM (later to becomeKMET, nowKTWV) in 1965.[19]
By the 1970s, KTTV offered a traditional general entertainment schedule common among independent stations at the time, consisting of children's programs, off-network reruns, sports programming and old movies, along with a 10 p.m. newscast. Some of the staff members in the earlier 1970s were John Jones, Sales Manager; George Putnam, news anchorman; Putnam's co-anchor Hal Fishman; Ken Jones, first black on-air TV newsman in L.A.; Tom Kelly, TV sports reporter; Terry Mayo, noontime news; andRona Barrett, who taped her syndicated gossip report at KTTV, written by assistant Barbara Sternig. With the evolution of cable television, KTTV became a regionalsuperstation. Thanks to its Dodgers broadcasts and round-the-clock programming, KTTV was seen on various cable systems across theWestern United States during the 1970s and into the 1980s, as far east asEl Paso, Texas. KTLA, with its Angels broadcasts, also became a superstation. KTTV and KTLA were seen on most Southern and Central California cable systems, with KHJ-TV and KCOP also getting carried outside Los Angeles to a lesser extent.
In 1973, as part of an agreement signed with four citizen groups and filed with the station's renewal application, KTTV began banning 42 violent animated series, most notablyPopeye,Superman,Batman andAquaman, while applying a "caution to parents" warning to 81 violent live-action series shown before 8:30 p.m., most notablyThe Outer Limits.[20]
In 1986,Australian newspaper publisherRupert Murdoch and his company, theNews Corporation (which had acquired a controlling ownership interest in the20th Century Fox film studio the year before), purchased KTTV and the other Metromedia television stations. The Metromedia stations ended up becoming part of a new holding company formed by News Corporation calledFox Television Stations; those stations formed the basis for the newFox Broadcasting Company television network, which made its debut on October 9, 1986. Following the News Corporation purchase, KTTV added more first-run syndicated talk, court and reality shows. By the early 1990s, it began to run afternoon cartoons from the network'sFox Kids block (which debuted in 1990), as well as top-rated off-network sitcoms during the evening hours. KTTV removed cartoons on weekday mornings in June 1993, due to the launch of the morning newscastGood Day L.A.
In 2001, Fox Television Stations acquired severalUPN affiliates owned byChris-Craft Industries through itsBHC Communications station group, creating a duopoly between KTTV andKCOP-TV (channel 13). That fall, channel 11 dropped the Fox Kids weekday block and moved it to KCOP; Fox Kids discontinued its weekday block altogether in January 2002, with the lineup left airing only on Saturday mornings. Since the 4Kids block was replaced by Fox with the infomercial blockWeekend Marketplace in December 2008, the station now airs five hours ofeducational programming, two more than required under FCC guidelines, asXploration Station replacedWeekend Marketplace, which moved to KCOP, in September 2014.
KTTV also airs reruns ofI Love Lucy, which had premiered in 1951, months after the station lost its CBS affiliation. Reruns of the sitcom are still popular among Southern California viewers and have continued to air in the Los Angeles market perpetually since the series ended its run in 1957, thus making KTTV only the second station in the market (the other being KCBS-TV) to continue airing the sitcom since it ended. Weekday airings ofI Love Lucy have since moved to KCOP (which airs the program in a one-hour block), but KTTV continues to air the landmark sitcom on weekends during the late afternoon hours.
In 1996, KTTV relocated its longtime studios on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, known as "Metromedia Square" (and later renamed the "Fox Television Center") to a new studio facility a few miles away on South Bundy Drive inWest Los Angeles, near the Fox network headquarters (the network's headquarters are located on the 20th Century Fox studio lot). Several television series were filmed at the historic Metromedia Square television studio (which was once home toNorman Lear'sTandem Productions andTAT Communications Company) such asThe Jeffersons,Mama's Family,Diff'rent Strokes,One Day at a Time,Soul Train,Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,Fernwood 2 Night and the groundbreaking sketch comedyIn Living Color. Many of those programs, either in first-run or off-network syndication, aired on KTTV. The Metromedia complex was demolished in 2003 to make way for the construction ofHelen Bernstein High School (which is part of theLos Angeles Unified School District).
On May 16, 2006, KTTV launched a new website based on Fox Television Stations'MyFox interface; this format became standard on the websites of each of the Fox-owned stations – and was even adopted by some of Fox's affiliates not owned by the network – by the end of that year (the "MyFox" branded websites were operated by former News Corporation subsidiary EndPlay until 2012, when the sites were migrated to the WorldNow platform[21]).
KTTV launched theLight TV network on a subchannel[22] starting December 22, 2016,[23] with another Fox TV station,WNYW.[24]
On December 14, 2017,The Walt Disney Company, owner of ABC andKABC-TV, announced its intent to buy KTTV's parent company,21st Century Fox, for $52.4 billion; the sale excluded the Fox Television Stations unit (including KTTV and KCOP), the Fox network,Fox News,Fox Sports 1 and theMyNetworkTV programming service, which were transferred to aseparate company.[25]
Since the team's move to Los Angeles in 1958 (with exception of a brief pause from 1993 to 1995), KTTV has carried Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games from varying sources; the station aired road games beginning in the late 1970s with the home games on the subscription/pay-per-view service Dodgervision; these road games aired on the station until 1992, when KTLA began airing the road games beginning with the 1993 season. Currently, select Dodger games are broadcast nationally through thenetwork's sports division via itsMLB package since 1996. KTTV has also aired the Dodgers'2017,2018,2020,2024, and2025 World Series appearances, including the team's championship victories in 2020 (their first title in32 years), 2024, and 2025. All other Dodger games are currently broadcast locally throughSportsNet LA.
KTTV also airs anyAngels games that are aired through Fox's MLB contract, including the team's World Series victory in2002. Since2024, KTTV broadcasts selectAnaheim Ducks games through an agreement with sister station KCOP.[26]
From 1972 to 1974, the station also carried games involving theLos Angeles Sharks of theWHA.
With the return of the Rams franchise to Los Angeles, since 2016, KTTV has been the 'unofficial home' for theLos Angeles Rams through the network's primary rights of theNational Football Conference. It had held this role for one season in1994 prior to their move to St. Louis (that same year, Channel 11 aired two home interconference contests featuring the Raiders during their last season in Los Angeles). During the NFL regular season, Rams games are rotated withKNBC (throughNBC Sunday Night Football), KABC-TV (throughMonday Night Football simulcasts from ESPN as well as national ABC broadcasts) and most especially KCBS-TV (through theNFL on CBS). Since 2017, it has also broadcastLos Angeles Chargers games featuring a visiting NFC team, or games that are cross-flexed from CBS, with some select games from either team carried by KCOP if both teams are playing at the same time. Beginning in the 2018 season, the station began airingThursday Night Football which is simulcast onNFL Network and if either one of the two LA teams are playing it serves as the local area station for gameday telecasts, even if it is exclusive to NFL Network. This practice has generally continued even afterAmazon Prime Video began airing games in 2022.
KTTV presently broadcasts59+1⁄2 hours of local newscasts each week (with11+1⁄2 hours each weekday and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); this gives KTTV the second-largest local news output of any television station in the Los Angeles market, behindCW owned-and-operated station KTLA's 96 hours, 50 minutes of weekly newscasts. The station also producesThe Issue Is:, a political discussion program hosted byElex Michaelson which airs Friday nights at 10:30 p.m. and is also syndicated to other Fox stations across California, includingKTVU in theSan Francisco Bay Area andKSWB-TV inSan Diego.[27] As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, KTTV's Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m. newscasts are subject to delay or preemption due to network sports coverage.
KTTV operates aBell 407, branded on-air as "SkyFox", to provide aerial coverage of breaking news stories. KTTV previously operated two helicopters; one of them (known as "Sky Fox 2") was destroyed after it crashed atVan Nuys Airport in 2000.
Throughout its history, the station has always operated a news department, partly owing to its former ties to theLos Angeles Times. KTTV aired an 8 p.m. newscast from 1984 to 1987; it also briefly moved its 10 p.m. newscast to 11 p.m. in 1986, in order to compete with existing local newscasts in that same timeslot on KABC-TV, KNBC and KCBS-TV; the newscast's format initially was unchanged, but the 8 p.m. edition was later dropped while the 11 p.m. newscast reverted to its previous 10 p.m. slot shortly after News Corporation took over Metromedia in the fall of 1987. During this time period, the station also experimented with newscasts at midday and midnight.
In June 1993, the station launched a new morning news program calledGood Day L.A., a program that was inspired by sister station WNYW'sGood Day New York, which debuted in 1988. On July 14, 2008, KTTV launched a half-hour 10 a.m. newscast, followingGood Day L.A., as the station's first midday newscast since the mid-1980s; KTTV is currently the only station in Los Angeles to have a local newscast in that timeslot. KTTV and KCOP began producing its local newscasts inhigh definition on October 15, 2008. On December 1, 2008, KTTV fully took over production of KCOP's 11 p.m. newscast, which was reduced from an hour to 30 minutes and retitledFox News at 11, marking the end of a KCOP-produced and branded newscast. The newscast on channel 13 then became anchored by KTTV's 10 p.m. anchors Carlos Amezcua and Christine Devine, as it was considered an extension of the earlier newscast (in the case of KCOP, all of its newscasts on that station were eliminated on September 22, 2013).
On December 8, 2008, KTTV debuted a half-hour midday newscast at noon on weekdays. On April 27, 2009, KTTV introducedGood Day L.A. Today, a recap program airing at 12:30 p.m. weekdays that featured select segments featured on that day's edition ofGood Day L.A.;[28] that show has since been replaced byTMZ on TV. On April 12, 2010, the station expanded its weekday morning newscast by a half-hour to 4:30 a.m. Until September 12, 2011, KTTV was one of only two Fox owned-and-operated stations (the other beingChicago'sWFLD) that did not have an early evening newscast on weeknights and/or weekends; this changed when KTTV launched an hour-long 5 p.m. newscast on that date calledStudio 11 L.A.[29][30] On June 30, 2014, KTTV expanded its noon newscast from 30 minutes to 1 hour.
On April 28, 2016, KTTV changed the name of its 5 p.m. newscast toFox 11 5:00 News using the same anchors fromStudio 11 L.A. Weekend early evening newscasts became known asFox 11 Weekend News.
In September 2018, KTTV canceled its half-hour 10 a.m. newscast.
On December 10, 2018,Fox 11 Morning News adopted theGood Day L.A. branding, expanding the newscast from 7 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.
On April 1, 2019,Good Day L.A. expanded from 4:30 a.m. to 4 a.m.
In September 2022,Good Day L.A. expanded to 10 a.m., running until 11 a.m. KTTV also cancelled its mid-day newscast in the same month.
On July 26, 2007, KTTV aired a report on thehacktivist groupAnonymous, calling them a group of "hackers on steroids", "domestic terrorists", and collectively an "Internet hate machine". The report, which became the source for numerousinternet memes, featured an unnamed former "hacker" who had fallen out with Anonymous and explained his view of the Anonymous culture. In addition, the report also mentioned "raids" onHabbo, a "national campaign to spoil thenew Harry Potter book ending", and threats to "bomb sports stadiums".[31]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 11.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KTTV-DT | Fox |
| 11.2 | FOX-WX | Fox Weather | ||
| 11.3 | 480i | ROAR | Roar[33] | |
| 11.4 | CATCHY | Catchy Comedy | ||
| 13.4 | 480i | 16:9 | HEROES | Heroes & Icons (KCOP-TV) |
KTTV shut down its analog signal, overVHF channel 11, on June 12, 2009, as part of thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[34][35] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transitionUHF channel 65, which was among the high-band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 11.[36]
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