KTTV, "FOX11 Los Angeles" is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Los Angeles, California. Serving the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, it is branded on-air as Fox 11 rather than KTTV. 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 its corporate cousin, DirecTV, and Echostar's Dish Network. They are a typical Fox station with a blend of about 40 hours of local news per week along with Fox first run prime time shows, sports, syndicated talk shows, reality shows, court shows, and off network sitcoms.
Technical Information
- Frequency: Channel 11
- Name: Fox 11
- Radius: 80 miles (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties)
- Slogan: Just You Watch
- Start of Operation: January 1, 1949
- Transmitter Location: Mount Wilson, Los Angeles, California (34° 13' 29.00" N Latitude, 118° 3' 47.00" W Longitude)
- Transmitter Power: 166 kW
History
KTTV signed on-the-air on January 1, 1949. The station was co-owned by the Los Angeles Times and CBS, and KTTV was originally the Los Angeles affiliate of the CBS television network. In fact, the Times turned down several offers CBS made to purchase KTTV outright. Their relationship lasted until 1951, when CBS sold its 50% stake in channel 11 back to the Times, and CBS moved its programming to KTSL (channel 2, later KNXT and now KCBS-TV) on January 1, 1951. From that point, KTTV carried many of the programs from the DuMont Television Network until the network's demise in 1956.
KTTV began its status as an independent television station, and the Times sold the station to Metromedia in 1963. In 1958, channel 11 became the flagship television station of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, lasting until the 1992 season when they moved to arch-rival KTLA the following year.
KTTV as an independent by the 1970's offered the traditional independent schedule of the morning cartoons, mid-morning sitcoms, locally produced talk shows, some first run syndicated shows in prime time, cartoons in the mid to late afternoons, off network sitcoms in early evenings, a 10 PM Newscast, drama shows, plus older movies on weekends. They did very well with this format which was similar to other Metromedia stations. For a time during the mid-1980's, KTTV aired an 8 PM Newscast, and dropped its 10 O'Clock News in favor of an 11 PM newscast to compete with KABC, KNBC, and KCBS. The 11 PM ran well until KTTV, along with all the other Metromedia stations, was purchased by FOX where it reverted to its 10pm slot. The station, along with KTLA-TV, KCOP-TV and KHJ-TV were seen on various cable television outlets in the Southwest during the 1970s and into the 1980s, most notably in El Paso, Texas.
Australian newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch purchased the Metromedia television stations in 1986, and those stations formed the basis for his new Fox television network, in which KTTV would become the network's West Coast flagship station. 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 early morning newscast and an early morning news & information show, Good Day L.A. in 1992. Good Day L.A. was inspired by sister station WNYW's Good Day New York, which launched in 1988. They also added more first run syndicated shows such as talk shows, court shows, and reality shows. For awhile they continued with the afternoon cartoon and kids block 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 Fox Kids block and moved it to newly acquired sister station, KCOP-TV (Channel 13). The Fox Kids weekday block was ended altogether in January 2002.
KTTV offers around forty hours per week of local news, and its 10PM newscasts has been #1 rated for nearly the last decade. This is one of many major stations in Los Angeles offering plenty of local news. However, they are 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 The Simpsons, Home Improvement, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, and Married... with Children.
In 1996, the station's longtime home on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Metromedia Square (renamed the "Fox Television Center" in 1986) was vacated, when KTTV relocated to new studios a few miles away 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 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.
Logos
KTTV logo from 1949 to 1950
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KTTV logo from 1950 to 1953
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KTTV logo from 1962 to 1970
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KTTV logo from 1970 to 1978
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KTTV logo from 1978 to 1981
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KTTV logo from 1981 to 1986
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KTTV logo from 1986 to 1987
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KTTV logo from 1987 to 1994
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KTTV logo from 1995 to 2001
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KTTV logo from 2001 to 2004
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The Present Fox 11 logo, used since 2004
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Personalities
Helicopter Information
SkyFox Eurocopter A-Star 350 B-1
Newscasts
Weekdays
- FOX11 Morning News - 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM
- Good Day L.A. - 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM
- FOX11 10 O'Clock News - 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Saturday
- FOX11 10 O'Clock News Weekend - 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Sunday
- Good Day L.A. Weekend - 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM
- Midday Sunday (public affairs) - 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM (does not air during the National Football League season)
- FOX11 10 O'Clock News Weekend - 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM
See also
External links
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