KTLA

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KTLA
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Start of transmission January 22, 1947
Seat Los Angeles , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Broadcaster Tribune Media
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KTLA is a Los Angeles television station . It is the oldest commercial television station west of the Mississippi . The Tribune Media is the owner; KTLA is an affiliate of The CW network . As a “ superstation ”, KTLA can be received via DirecTV , the Dish Network and various cable network operators throughout North America.

The station has been broadcasting for southern California since 1947 and is broadcast digitally (UHF channel 31) on virtual channel 5 ( ATSC ). KTLA's production facilities are on Sunset Boulevard . The station uses the former premises of the Warner Bros. Studios.

history

KTLA Tower

Initially started as a test transmitter with the callsign W6XYZ in 1941, KTLA went on air with its regular program on January 22, 1947. The first show was hosted by comedian Bob Hope ; at KTLA, show greats of the time such as Edgar Bergen and Mickey Rooney appeared.

Competitor of the transmitter is the Fox - affiliate KTTV . In 2008 the Sunset-Gower Studio was merged with the KTLA Studios to form the new Capital Studios .

News coverage

The broadcaster performed technical pioneering work with live broadcasts on site ("on-the-spot news coverage"): On February 27, 1947, KTLA reported live for the first time from the scene of a factory explosion on Pico Boulevard and also in 1949, as a child in a fountain had fallen. KTLA was the first television station to broadcast live from a helicopter and was the first to introduce mobile broadcast vehicles.

During the Watts uprising in 1965, KTLA reported on the unrest from a helicopter.

In March 1991, African American Rodney King was beaten up by four white police officers. A neighbor filmed this and gave the recording to KTLA ; the broadcaster broadcast the video, making what happened public. The later acquittal of the main perpetrators sparked the riots in Los Angeles in 1992 .

Web links

Commons : KTLA  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Website of the transmitter (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.tribunemedia.com/our-brands/tribune-broadcasting/
  2. ↑ About . In: KTLA . October 16, 2012 ( ktla.com [accessed January 22, 2018]).
  3. ^ A b c Gary Wayne: KTLA Studios. Retrieved January 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ http://variety.com/2007/scene/features/milestones-in-ktla-s-60-years-1117963864/1949
  5. ↑ Los Angeles Times: Historic KTLA footage of the 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles . In: latimes.com . ( latimes.com [accessed January 22, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Hannes Stein: The defeated of Los Angeles . In: THE WORLD . June 19, 2012 ( welt.de [accessed January 22, 2018]).
  7. ↑ 25 Years Later: How the Rodney King Beating 'Banished' the Baton From the LAPD Arsenal . In: KTLA . March 3, 2016 ( ktla.com [accessed January 22, 2018]).
  8. ^ LA Riots 25th anniversary: ​​Original news coverage as it happened from April 29, 1992 . In: WPIX 11 New York . April 29, 2017 ( pix11.com [accessed January 22, 2018]).