KTLA

KTLA
Channels
Branding
  • KTLA 5; KTLA 5 News
  • KTLA 5 The CW (during promos for CW programming)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedSeptember 1942 (1942-09) (as experimental station W6XYZ)
First air date
January 22, 1947; 77 years ago (1947-01-22)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 4 (VHF, 1942–1947), 5 (VHF, 1947–2009)
  • Digital: 31 (UHF, 1998–2019)
Call sign meaning
Television Los Angeles
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID35670
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT981 m (3,219 ft)
Transmitter coordinates34°13′36″N 118°3′59″W / 34.22667°N 118.06639°W / 34.22667; -118.06639
Translator(s)see § Translators
Links
Public license information
Websitektla.com

KTLA (channel 5) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of The CW. It is the largest directly owned property of the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is the second-largest operated property after WPIX in New York City. KTLA's studios are located at the Sunset Bronson Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.

KTLA was the first commercially licensed television station in the western United States, having begun operations in January 1947.[3] Although not as widespread in national carriage as its Chicago sister station WGN-TV, KTLA is available as a superstation via DirecTV[4] and Dish Network (the latter service available only to grandfathered subscribers that had purchased its a la carte superstation tier before Dish halted sales of the package to new subscribers in September 2013), as well as on cable providers in select cities within the southwestern United States and throughout Canada.

As of 2015, KTLA operates an internet-only news radio channel on iHeartRadio.[5]

  1. ^ Commercial Broadcast Stations Biennial Ownership Report (FCC Form 323), Federal Communications Commission, January 31, 2020, p. 11, retrieved February 2, 2020
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTLA". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ KCBS-TV originated in 1931 as W6XAO under an experimental license. It was commercially licensed in 1948.
  4. ^ "KTLA CW West Live Stream". DirecTV. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  5. ^ "KTLA 5 News Los Angeles". iHeartRadio. Retrieved September 10, 2021.