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The KTLA Morning News is a Breakfast television show currently aired on Los Angeles' CW affiliate KTLA channel 5. The show is broadcast from 5am-10am. The 7am-10am portion of the show is simulcast on its San Diego sister station, KSWB channel 69. The 5am-7am portion is a general news / traffic / weather format. The 7am-10am segment also features news, traffic and weather, but emphasizes entertainment and other light-hearted stories.


History

The program began on July 8, 1991 as The KTLA Morning News, anchored by Carlos Amezcua and Barbara Beck, with meteorologist Mark Kriski doing weather, and Eric Spillman and Michele Ruiz reporting from remote locations. It was produced by Raymond J Brune. The show's emphasis was mostly on news, with very little on ligher features. With the emphasis on hard news, the show received poor ratings.

Near the end of 1991, Joel Tator, a new executive producer, had been brought in to help revive the show, by giving the show a more relaxed atmosphere by spreading out newspapers on the desk. The anchors, feeling that the show was in its final weeks, also relaxed and they started joking around.

The critical moment for the Morning News came in February, 1992, when a series of rain storms hit the Southland, causing severe flooding in the San Fernando Valley. At that time, the only other news programs on in the morning were the morning news shows on ABC, NBC and CBS, which were all broadcast on a three-hour tape delay in the Pacific Time Zone, with limited live coverage during the local news segments.

Filling a need, KTLA set aside its normal programming and provided extensive coverage of the flooding. That brought in large numbers of Southland viewers; once the flood crisis ended, the viewers stayed with the show. And as a result, ratings improved dramatically.

With the new relaxed atmosphere and a need to provide live, local news when the other stations couldn't, the show survived.

On May 2, 2001 Barbara Beck resigned from KTLA, and Giselle Fernandez later became co-anchor. In 2003 Giselle Fernandez left and was replaced by Michaela Pereira.

On February 4th, 2008, KTLA changed the named of its morning newscasts. The First Edition news is now known as KTLA News @ 5AM. The Early Edition news is now known as KTLA News @ 6AM. The KTLA Morning Show is now reverting back to its original title as the KTLA Morning News while their 9AM hour will be known as KTLA News @ 9AM. KTLA is reportedly undergoing an on-screen graphics change which will take effect within the coming weeks ([1]).

Personalities

KTLA News @ 5am

Anchors: Cher Calvin, Eric Spillman

Weatheranchor: Jessica Holmes

Traffic reporter: Ginger Chan in KTLA Telecopter HD

Fill-In Traffic Reporters: Bill Smith,Willa Sandmyer

Fill-In Anchors: Gayle Anderson, Damon Andrews, Kurt Knutson, Frank Buckley

KTLA News @ 6am

Anchors:Cher Calvin, Eric Spillman

Weather Anchor: Mark Kriski

Traffic Reporter: Ginger Chan

Fill-In Reporters: Bill Smith,

Fill-In Weather Anchor: Jessica Holmes

Fill-In Anchors: Gayle Anderson, Damon Andrews, Kurt Knutson, Frank Buckley,

KTLA Morning News

Hosts: Michaela Pereira, Frank Buckley

Weatherman: Mark Kriski

Traffic reporter: Ginger Chan in KTLA Telecopter HD & "Commander" Chuck Street with traffic (in 102.7 KIISFM Pepsi JetRanger helicopter)

Entertainment reporters: Sam Rubin,Jessica Holmes

Fill-In Anchors: Cher Calvin,Eric Spillman

Field Reporters: Bill Smith,Elizabeth Espinosa,Kim Rogguie,Rachel Calderon,Gayle Anderson


(Sam Rubin, Mark Kriski and Eric Spillman are the only holdovers left from the original team of the show.)

KTLA News @ 9am

Hosts: Michaela Pereira, Cher Calvin, Jessica Holmes

News Updates: Frank Buckley

Weather Updates: Mark Kriski

Aunt Gayle's Sound Off:Gayle Anderson

Former Anchors Of The Morning News

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