KTLA

KTLA
Brand	KTLA 5 The CW
City of License	Los Angeles, California
Market	Los Angeles, California
Channel	35 digital 5 virtual Subcarriers 35.2 (Antenna TV) 35.3 (This TV) Formerly: 4 analog (1942-47) 5 analog (1947-2009) 31 digital (2001-19)
Network Affiliation	Current: The CW Antenna TV (DT2) This TV (DT3) Formerly: DuMont (1947–48) Independent (1948–95) The WB (1995–2006)
Founded	January 22, 1947
Company	Nexstar Media Group
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows	Family Guy Two and a Half Men The Middle Friends Maury The Munsters

KTLA is the west coast flagship affiliate for The CW network, broadcasting in the Los Angeles, California market on digital channel 35, displayed as virtual 5. Its subcarriers on 35.2 and 35.3 (virtuals 5.2 and 5.3) air the ad hoc networks Antenna TV and This TV respectively.

KTLA was the first television station to go into commercial operation in the west. It was owned by Paramount Pictures and was licensed as W6XYZ, but did not sign on until 1942 on channel 4. Five years later, it moved to channel 5 where it was initially a DuMont affiliate. Paramount was a minority owner in DuMont, so when DuMont moved to KTSL/channel 2 (now KCBS) a year later, they could not buy another station in the market due to duopoly laws. This started a long tenure for KTLA as an independent.

Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters bought KTLA in 1964, and it became the TV home of the California Angels baseball team. KTLA was a standard independent, with off-network reruns, movies and local kids show Skipper Frank, who played old Warner Bros. and Popeye cartoons.

KTLA's logo in 1966.

Tribune assumed ownership of the station in 1985, and the station began to beef up its news staff. Its morning news show slowly developed more and more viewers with its on-the-spot coverage (as opposed to the network morning shows, which ran on a three-hour delay). It became a WB affiliate in 1995, and then a CW affiliate in 2006 after the WB and UPN closed up and merged. KTLA's morning show was simulcast on San Diego's CW affiliate KSWB (digital 19, virtual 69) up until August 2008 when KSWB switched to Fox. Some digital tuners and converter boxes being used in the northern fringes of the San Diego market are showing KSWB's virtual channel as 5, which poses a potential technical conflict with KTLA's virtual 5. KTLA is seen on DirecTV (channel 395) for viewers who cannot get the CW adequately from their nearest market. They relocated their physical transmissions from digital 31 to 35 on April 12, 2019. This was facilitated by the spectrum incentive auction. KCBS/channel 2 took over channel 31 (moving from 43) at the time.

KTLA's studio has been the locale for a number of TV productions, including WKRP in Cincinnati, Beat The Odds (a locally produced and aired game show), Judge Joe Brown, Make Me Laugh, and more. KTLA would have soon fall under ownership of the Sinclair corporation, who announced it was purchasing Tribune's 42 TV stations. The acquisition has been scuttled as Tribune has not only withdrawn but they have also filed a lawsuit against Sinclair for ethical and regulatory violations during merger talks. KTLA is now under ownership of Nexstar, which acquired Tribune's TV stations and sold some off to Tegna and Scripps to meet federal guidelines.

Digital programming

Virtual	Physical	Name	Programming
5.1	35.1	KTLA-DT	Main KTLA (The CW)
5.2	35.2	KTLA-DT2	Antenna TV
5.3	35.3	KTLA-DT3	This TV

Current Prime-Time Schedule

Day	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	11:00
Monday	Two and a Half Men	Two and a Half Men	Ride		Wild Cards		KTLA 5 News at 10		KTLA 5 News at 11
Tuesday			Crime Nation
Wednesday			Wild Cards		Family Law
Thursday			The Conners	The Conners	Son of a Critch	Children Ruin Everything
Friday			Penn & Teller Fool Us		Totally Funny Kids	Totally Funny Animals
Saturday			College basketball
Sunday	CW Movie					The Conners

External Links

Official Site