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KTTV, "FOX11 Los Angeles" is a Fox owned and operated television station in the Los Angeles area. It is known as Fox 11 rather than KTTV. The station is seen via satellite through Dish Network and DirecTV. They are a typical Fox station with a blend of about 40 hours of local news per week along with Fox first run prime time shows, sports, syndicated talk shows, reality shows, court shows, and off network sitcoms.

Technical Information

  • Frequency: Channel 11
  • Name: Fox 11
  • Radius: 80 miles (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties)
  • Slogan: Just You Watch
  • Start of Operation: January 1, 1949
  • Transmitter Location: Los Angeles, California (34° 13' 29.00" N Latitude, 118° 3' 47.00" W Longitude)
  • Transmitter Power: 166 kW

History

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KTTV Los Angeles 1994 Logo

KTTV was originally the Los Angeles area affiliate of the CBS television network. The station signed on the air on January 1, 1949. The station was co-owned by CBS and the Los Angeles Times newspaper. However, that relationship lasted until 1951, when CBS sold its 50% stake in Channel 11 back to the Times, and CBS moved its programming to KTSL Channel 2 (now KCBS-TV) on January 1, 1951. From that point, KTTV carried many of the programs from the DuMont Television Network until the network's demise in 1956.

KTTV began its status as an independent television station, and the Times sold the station to Metromedia in 1963. In 1958, Channel 11 became the flagship television station of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, lasting until the 1992 season when they moved to arch-rival KTLA-TV Channel 5 the following year.

KTTV as an independent by the 1970's 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, a 10 PM Newscast, drama shows, plus older movies on weekends. They did very well with this format which was similar to other Metromedia stations. The station, along with KTLA-TV, KCOP-TV and KHJ-TV were seen on various cable television outlets in the Southwest during the 1970s and into the 1980s, most notably in El Paso, Texas.

Australian newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch purchased the Metromedia television stations in 1986, and those stations formed the basis for his new Fox television network, in which KTTV would become the network's West Coast flagship station. 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 a early morning news & information show, Good Day L.A. in 1992. Good Day L.A. was inspired by sister station WNYW's Good Day New York, which launched in 1988. They also added more first run syndicated shows such as talk shows, court shows, and reality shows. For awhile they continued with the afternoon cartoon and kids block 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 Fox Kids block and moved it to newly acquired sister station, KCOP-TV (Channel 13). The Fox Kids weekday block was ended altogether in January 2002.

KTTV offers around forty hours per week of local news, and its 10PM newscasts has been #1 rated for nearly the last decade. This is one of many major stations in Los Angeles offering plenty of local news. However, they are the largest Fox-owned station (in terms of market-size) not to yet offer 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 The Simpsons, Home Improvement, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, and Married... with Children.

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KTTV Fox 11 Los Angeles 2001 Logo

In 1996, the station's longtime home on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Metromedia Square (renamed the Fox Television Center in 1986) was vacated, and 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, once home to hit programs such as All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Mama's Family, Diff'rent Strokes and the groundbreaking sketch comedy In Living Color, was demolished in 2003 to make way for a new middle school being built by the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Personalities

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Newscasts

Weekdays

  • FOX11 Morning News - 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM
  • Good Day L.A. - 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  • FOX11 10 O'Clock News - 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Saturday

  • FOX11 10 O'Clock News Weekend - 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Sunday

  • Good Day L.A. Weekend - 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM
  • Midday Sunday (public affairs) - 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM (does not air during the National Football League season)
  • FOX11 10 O'Clock News Weekend - 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM

See also

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