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KTTV channel 11 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 Los Angeles". 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.


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 the original Los Angeles affiliate of the CBS television network. In fact, during their partnership the Times turned down several offers CBS made to purchase KTTV outright. Their relationship lasted exactly two years, until January 1, 1951, when CBS sold its 50 percent stake in channel 11 back to the Times. 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 until the network's demise in 1956.

With DuMont's demise KTTV began its status as an independent television station, and in 1958, channel 11 became the television home of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, a relationship which would last until 1992. The Los Angeles Times sold the station to Metromedia in 1963.

KTTV as an independent by the 1970s 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, an 8 p.m. movie, a 10 p.m. 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 p.m. newscast, and dropped its 10 O'Clock News in favor of an 11 p.m. newscast to compete with KABC-TV, KNBC-TV, and KCBS-TV. The 8 O'Clock News was dropped and the 11 p.m. newscast was reverted to its 10 p.m. slot shortly after Fox took over. The station, along with KTLA, KCOP, and KHJ-TV (now KCAL-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, purchased KTTV and the other Metromedia television stations in 1986, and those stations formed the basis for his new Fox television network. 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 show, Good Day L.A., which premiered in 1993. Good Day L.A. was inspired by sister station WNYW's Good Day New York, which was launched five years earlier. They also added more first run syndicated shows such as talk shows, court shows, and reality shows. For awhile they 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 and continues to air it today.

KTTV offers around 35 hours per week of local news, and its 10 p.m. newscasts have been the top-rated in that time period for much of the last decade. However, channel 11 is 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 (as of 2006) The Simpsons, Home Improvement, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, and Married... with Children.

On an ironic note, KTTV also runs daily 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.

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 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, Small Wonder 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.

On April 17, 2006, KTTV adopted a new look for its newscasts, including new theme music and graphics, as well as a new station logo. Similar in style to the Fox News Channel, it already is in use at WNYW New York and WTVT Tampa-St. Petersburg, among others. The campaign is expected to spread to other Fox owned-and-operated stations across the country in the coming months. The station also launched a new website based on FTSG's Internet division's new MyFox interface as of May 16, 2006, which will become standard on all Fox O&O station sites in the next few months.

Logos

Newscasts

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Dorothy, Mark, and Jillian anchor Good Day L.A., 2006.

Weekdays

  • Fox 11 Morning News - 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.
  • Good Day L.A. - 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
  • Fox 11 Ten O'Clock News - 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Saturday

  • Fox 11 Ten O'Clock News Weekend - 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Sunday

  • Good Day L.A. Weekend - 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
  • Midday Sunday (public affairs) - 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. (does not air during the National Football League season)
  • Fox 11 Ten O'Clock News Weekend - 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Anchors

Reporters

Helicopter Information

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Newscast Titles

  • Metro News (1970s)
  • LA 11 News (Early 1980s)
  • Channel 11 News (1980s)
  • The 10 O'Clock Report (1982-1983)
  • The 8 O'Clock News (1984-1986)
  • The 11 O'Clock News (1984-1986)
  • The 10 O' Clock News (1986-1987)
  • Fox News (1987-1994)
  • Fox 11 News (1995-present)

Movie Umbrella Titles

  • Movie Eleven (1962-1986)
  • The 9:00 Movie (1985-1987)
  • Hollywood's Finest (1970s-1980s)
  • The Best Picture Show (1970s-1980s)
  • The Fox Prime Movie (1986-1990)
  • Fox Night at the Movies (1990-1996)
  • Los Angeles At Night Movie (1980s)
  • Fox 11 All Night Movie (1990-present)
  • Fox 11 Movie Special (1996-present)
  • Fox Matinee (1989-1993)
  • Fox 11 Saturday/Sunday Night Movie (1996-2002)
  • Fox 11 Saturday/Sunday Matinee (2002-present)
  • The Movies (1981-1985)
  • Black Belt Theatre (1980-1986)

See also


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