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KTLA-TV is the west coast flasghip affiliate for The CW network, broadcasting in the Los Angeles, California market on digital channel 31, displayed as virtual 5. Its subcarriers on 31.2 and 31.3 (virtual 5.2 and 5.3) air the ad hoc networks This TV and Fuse 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'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.

[edit] Digital programming

Virtual	Physical	Name	Programming
5.1	31.1	KTLA-DT	Main KTLA (The CW)
5.2	31.2	KTLA-DT2	This TV
5.3	31.3	KTLA-DT3	Fuse TV

[edit] 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	One Tree Hill		Gossip Girl		KTLA Prime News		Friends
Tuesday	Two and a Half Men	Two and a Half Men	90210		Melrose Place		KTLA Prime News		Friends
Wednesday	Two and a Half Men	Two and a Half Men	America's Next Top Model		The Vampire Diaries (encores)		KTLA Prime News		Friends
Thursday	Two and a Half Men	Two and a Half Men	The Vampire Diaries		Supernatural		KTLA Prime News		Friends
Friday	Two and a Half Men	Two and a Half Men	Smallville		America's Next Top Model (encores)		KTLA Prime News		Friends
Saturday	Two and a Half Men	Sex and the City	Sex and the City	Sex and the City	Sex and the City	Sex and the City	KTLA Prime News		Cheaters
Sunday	no network programming on Sunday						KTLA Prime News		Pechanga

[edit] External Links

Official Site