Television Stations in Los Angeles, California - Ktla, Kcbs-TV, Kcal-TV, Kabc-TV, Knbc, Kttv, Kcop-TV, Kcet, Kvea, Koce-TV, Kjla, Kwhy-TV, Ksci (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: KTLA, KCBS-TV, KCAL-TV, KABC-TV, KNBC, KTTV, KCOP-TV, KCET, KVEA, KOCE-TV, KJLA, KWHY-TV, KSCI, KDOC-TV, KBEH, KMEX-DT, KLCS, KEEF-TV, KRCA, KTBN-TV, KKOG-TV, KPXN-TV, KFTR-DT, KXLA, KHIZ, KAZA-TV, KZSW-LP, K55KD, KFLA-LD, KPAL-LP, Orange County Newschannel, KBBC-TV, KSFV-CA, KNLA-LP, K39GY, OC Channel, KBLM-LP, KEDD-LP, KSKJ-CA, Pasadena Community Network, KHTV-LP, K36JH, KTAV-LP, KNET-CA, KVMD-DT6, VAN-TV. Excerpt: KTLA, virtual channel 5, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, USA. Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of the CW Television Network. KTLA's studios are on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson. The station's signal covers the Southern California region and KTLA is also available as a regional superstation via cable and satellite in the United States and Canada. KTLA was the first commercially licensed television station in the western United States, having begun operations in 1947. KTLA's first commercial station logo, from 1947, under Paramount ownership. This logo combines Paramount's mountain and stars logo with a TV transmitter.Originally owned by Paramount Pictures subsidiary Television Productions, Inc., and located on the Paramount Studios lot, the station was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in 1939 as experimental station W6XYZ, on channel 4, but did not go on the air until September 1942. Klaus Landsberg, already an accomplished television pioneer at the age of 26, was the original station manager and engineer. On January 22, 1947, it was licensed for commercial broadcast as KTLA on channel 5, becoming the first commercial television station in Los Angeles, the first to broadcast west of the Mississippi River, and the seventh in the United States. Estimates of television sets in the Los Angeles area at the...