KTTV

KTTV (channel 11) is an owned-and-operated television station of the Fox Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California. Serving the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, KTTV is a sister station to KCOP-TV (channel 13), Los Angeles's MyNetworkTV station. 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, and was operated initially by KTTV, Incorporated, 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. During their partnership, the Times turned down at least two offers CBS made to purchase KTTV outright. The joint partnership 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 became an independent television station. During the late 1950s, the station was briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[1] 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. For many years, KTTV televised the Tournament of Roses Parade, competing with rival KTLA and others, until 1995.

By the 1970s KTTV offered the traditional independent schedule, consisting of children's programs, off-network reruns, sports programming, and movies, along with a 10:00 p.m. newscast. 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 (the 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 the new Fox television network.

It also added more first-run syndicated shows such as talk shows, court shows, and reality shows. For a while it 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. After the dissolution of 4Kids in January 2009, the station now carries the network's Weekend Marketplace infomercial block and airs the bare minimum of E/I content required byFederal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations.

KTTV also runs 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. The station no longer airs "I Love Lucy" Monday-Friday (instead airing in a two-hour block on KCOP), but KTTV does air the landmark sitcom on weekend afternoons, usually between 4 and 6 p.m.

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 tonew 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 and TAT Communications Company, 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 high school being built by the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Digital television
KTTV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on June 12, 2009,[2] [3] as part of the DTV transition in the United States. The station had been broadcasting its pre-transition digital signal over UHF channel 65, but returned to channel 11 for its post-transition operations.[4] KTTV broadcasts in 720p high definition on channel 11.1, since Fox Network programming is broadcast in that particular HD format.

News operation
KTTV presently broadcasts 52 hours of local newscasts each week (with 10 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, behind CW affiliate KTLA's 89 hours, 20 minutes of weekly newscasts. 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 a Eurocopter A-Star 350 B-1, branded on-air as "SkyFox HD" (pictured right/above), 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 at Van Nuys Airport in 2000. Throughout its history, the station has always operated a news department, partly owing to its former ties to the Los Angeles Times (which has been owned by the Tribune Company, owner of rival KTLA, since 2000). 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 1986. 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 called Good Day L.A., a program that was inspired by sister station WNYW's Good Day New York, which debuted in 1988. On July 14, 2008, KTTV launched a half-hour 10 a.m. newscast, following Good 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 in high 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 retitled Fox 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 introduced Good Day L.A. Today, a recap program airing at 12:30 p.m. weekdays that featured select segments featured on that day's edition of Good Day L.A.; that show has since been replaced by TMZ 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 being Chicago's WFLD) 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 called Studio 11 L.A. 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 to Fox 11 5:00 News using the same anchors from Studio 11 L.A. Weekend early evening newscasts became known as Fox 11 Weekend News.

In September 2018, KTTV canceled its half-hour 10 a.m. newscast.

On December 10, 2018, Fox 11 Morning News adopted the Good Day L.A. branding, expanding the newscast from 7 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.

On April 1, 2019, Good Day L.A. expands from 4:30 a.m. to 4 a.m.

Anonymous news report
Main article: Anonymous (group) § History On July 26, 2007, KTTV Fox 11 News aired a report on Anonymous, calling them a group of "hackers on steroids", "domestic terrorists", and collectively an "Internet hate machine". The report, which became the source for numerous internet 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" on Habbo, a "national campaign to spoil the new Harry Potter book ending", and threats to "bomb sports stadiums".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">[6]

Anchors

 * Carlos Amezcua - weeknights at 10 p.m.
 * Lisa Breckenridge - weekdays at noon; also morning entertainment contributor (1999-present)
 * Christine Devine - weeknights at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. (1990-present)
 * Laura Diaz - weekends at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. (2012-present)
 * Steve Edwards - weekday mornings "Good Day L.A." (7-10 a.m.) and noon (1995-present)
 * Susan Hirasuna - weekends at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. (1995-present)
 * Maria Sansone - weekday mornings "Good Day L.A." (7-10 a.m.) and noon; also entertainment anchor (2012-present)
 * Tony McEwing - weekday mornings (4:30-7 and 10 a.m.); also Good Day L.A. newsreader (1993-present)

FOX 11 Weather Team

 * Rick Dickert (AMS Seal of Approval) - Meteorologist; weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.); also Good Day L.A. traffic reporter (2000-present)
 * Maria Quiban - weather anchor; weekday mornings (6-7, 10-10:30 a.m.) and noon
 * Pablo Pereira (AMS Seal of Approval) - Chief Meteorologist; weeknights (5 p.m. and 10 p.m.) (

Sports team

 * Liz Habib - sports director; weeknights (5 p.m. and 10 p.m) (2005-present)

Reporters

 * Chris Blatchford - general assignment and investigative reporter (2004-present)
 * Michael Brownlee - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
 * Julie Chang - entertainment reporter (2012-present)
 * Bob DeCastro - general assignment reporter (2004-present)
 * Hal Eisner - general assignment reporter (1983-present)
 * Sandra Endo - general assignment reporter (2015-present)
 * Gigi Graciette - general assignment reporter
 * Ed Laskos - general assignment reporter (2000-present)
 * Rick Lozano - Inland Empire bureau reporter (1999-present)
 * Doug Luzader - Fox News Washington D.C. bureau reporter
 * Suzanne Marques - general assignment reporter
 * Phil Shuman - general assignment and investigative reporter (2002-present)
 * Gina Silva - special projects reporter (2001-present)
 * Tricia Takasugi - general assignment reporter
 * Tony Valdez - general assignment reporter; also "Midday Sunday" host (1981-present)

Notable alumni

 * John Beard (now with WGRZ)
 * Hal Fishman - (later with KTLA in Los Angeles; deceased)
 * Courtney Friel - now at KTLA in Los Angeles
 * Rick Garcia - (now news anchor at KCAL-TV in Los Angeles)
 * Jennifer Gould - (sports anchor at KTTV-TV Fox 11 and news anchor KCOP-TV now at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles)
 * Lisa Joyner - (now co-host of Long Lost Family U.S. Series on TLC (TV Network)
 * Steve Kmetko - reporter (2007-2008)
 * Carol Lin - weekend anchor/weekday reporter
 * Dorothy Lucey
 * Jean Martirez
 * Antonio Mora (now with WFOR-TV)
 * George Putnam - anchor (deceased)
 * Bill Ritter - now with WABC-TV in New York City
 * Lauren Sanchez

Rebroadcasters
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 * K14AB Morongo Valley
 * K23BP Daggett
 * K06IQ Newberry Springs
 * K49DC Twentynine Palms
 * K47AE Inyokern
 * K11ML Ridgecrest