Media in Los Angeles

The city's Hollywood neighborhood is notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people in it. The industry's "Big Five" major film studios (Columbia, Disney, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros.) are all based in or around Hollywood. Several other smaller and independent film companies also operate in the Los Angeles area.

• The Big Five major film studios
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  Columbia
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  Disney
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  Paramount
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  Universal
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  Warner Bros.

The Los Angeles area is the home of several major offices and production facilities in the television industry. The Fox Broadcasting Company is based in the Century City district of Los Angeles inside the 20th Century Studios studio lot, while another complex, the Fox Television Center, is in West Los Angeles. CBS owns CBS Studio Center in Studio City and previously owned Television City in the Fairfax District, although the network still maintains operations on that lot. ABC, and its parent company Disney, produce TV programs both at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank and at The Prospect Studios in the Los Feliz neighborhood. NBC use to primarily produce at what is now The Burbank Studios before its parent company NBCUniversal moved these operations in 2014 to a new complex across the street from the Universal Studios lot. Several other film studios may also produce TV shows on their respective lots.

The building that now houses the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, at 1313 North Vine Street in Hollywood, played a pivotal role in the history of Los Angeles television, as three area television stations (channels 2, 9, and 28) each used this facility to begin their initial broadcast operations in different points in time, as well as ABC Television using this building as a secondary studio facility to their Prospect lot.[22] The building, one of the first broadcast facilities built for television use, opened in August 1948 as the Mutual-Don Lee Broadcasting System Building, and it is where Channel 2 (then operating as KTSL, the DuMont network's original Los Angeles affiliate) first began its broadcast operations after receiving its FCC license just three months prior.[23] After Channel 2 was sold to CBS in 1951 (and was re-christened as KNXT thereafter), the station remained at 1313 North Vine until it relocated to near-by Columbia Square (at 6121 Sunset Boulevard, between El Centro and Gower Avenues) in 1961; Channel 9 also operated in this building until the early 1960s, when it and its then-sister radio station KHJ (930 AM) moved to the former Capitol Records building at 5515 Melrose Avenue, adjacent to the Paramount Pictures Studios. Channel 9 would remain at 5515 Melrose until 2002, after the station was purchased by CBS Corporation, and consolidated its operations with Channel 2 at Columbia Square; both stations moved to a dedicated television broadcast facility on the CBS Studio Center lot in 2007.

KCET Channel 28 used the Vine facility from its original sign-on in 1964 until 1971, when the station purchased and relocated to the former Monogram Pictures studio lot at 4401 Sunset Boulevard, where it remained until 2011, when the station moved to a new broadcast center in Burbank, across from the former NBC studio lot (now operating as The Burbank Studios). From the mid-1960s until the 1980s, ABC also used this facility (then operating as the Vine Street Theater) to produce several shows there, including the original run of The Newlywed Game, the first season of the ABC daytime version of Family Feud, and the situation comedy Barney Miller among other series.

In all, every major Los Angeles television station, including all seven original VHF stations (channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13), Spanish-language independent KWHY (channel 22), KCET, and Univision flagship station KMEX (channel 34) were based in Hollywood at various points in time, and nearly all of them (except for channels 13 and 34) were located on or near Sunset Boulevard. As most of these stations in proceeding years relocated to other parts of Greater Los Angeles, KTLA remains the only local broadcaster (television or radio) to be based in Hollywood, having been located at 5800 Sunset since 1958; prior to that, Channel 5 originally operated from the Paramount Melrose lot from its 1947 sign-on until the relocation six blocks to the north along Van Ness Avenue on Sunset, eleven years later.

Channel 4, then known as KRCA-TV (unrelated to the current KRCA, on channel 62) was the first Los Angeles television station to leave Hollywood (being based at the NBC Radio City building on Sunset and Vine since its 1949 sign-on), as the station moved to the NBC Burbank studio lot in November 1962, and the station changed its call letters to KNBC upon the move to the San Fernando Valley.[24] In 1997, KTTV, having been based at 5746 Sunset (across Van Ness from KTLA) since 1950[25] moved to a new broadcast center in West Los Angeles, on Bundy Drive near Olympic Boulevard, and after being purchased by KTTV parent Fox Television Stations in the early 2000s, KCOP moved from its longtime studios on La Brea and Willoughby Avenues on the Los Angeles/West Hollywood boundary line[26], to the KTTV facility on Bundy and Olympic. Near the end of 2000, KABC-TV left its longtime home at the then-ABC Television Center at Prospect Avenue and Talmadge Street (less than one mile north of the former KCET Sunset studios), and moved to a new studio facility as part of Disney's Grand Central Creative campus in Glendale.

KMEX, one of the first Spanish-language television stations in the United States[27], was originally located at 5420 Melrose (across from Paramount) from its September 1962 launch until 1993, where it moved to the Howard Hughes Center in the Westchester neighborhood of the city, near the Culver City border and Interstate 405. Although KMEX moved to the Hughes Center in 1993, originally occupying space in one of the office towers on the site upon its move, Univision built a dedicated broadcast center in 2002 in another area of the complex, and has housed KMEX, sister station KFTR (Channel 46), four co-owned radio stations, and the network's West Coast operations since then.

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  Entrance to the Fox Studios lot
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  CBS Studio Center, Soundstage 2
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  Television City
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  The Prospect Studios, formerly the ABC Television Center
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  The Burbank Studios, formerly NBC Studios
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  Entrance to Gate 3 at Universal Studios, with signage for KNBC (NBC channel 4) and KVEA (Telemundo channel 52)
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  Sunset Bronson Studios, home of KTLA (channel 5)

Stations

Antennas on Mount Wilson, a major transmitter site for Los Angeles radio and TV stations

The following are full-powered stations serving the Los Angeles television market. Network owned-and-operated stations are highlighted in bold. For full-market listings, please see the Los Angeles television station template.

Channel	Call Sign (branding)	Primary Network Affiliation	Subchannel(s)	City of License	Owner
2.1	KCBS-TV (CBS 2)	CBS	2.2 Start TV 2.3 Dabl	Los Angeles	CBS Television Stations (ViacomCBS)
4.1	KNBC (NBC 4)	NBC	4.2 Cozi TV 4.3 LXTV	Los Angeles	NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations (NBCUniversal)
5.1	KTLA (KTLA 5 CW)	The CW	5.2 Antenna TV 5.3 Court TV 5.4 TBD	Los Angeles	Nexstar Media Group
7.1	KABC-TV (abc7)	ABC	7.2 Localish 7.3 Laff	Los Angeles	ABC Owned Television Stations (The Walt Disney Company)
9.1	KCAL-TV (K-CAL 9)	Independent	9.2 Stadium 9.3 Circle 9.4 Home Shopping Network 9.5 QVC	Los Angeles	CBS Television Stations (ViacomCBS)
11.1	KTTV (Fox 11)	Fox	11.2 KTTV/Fox simulcast (in SD) 11.3 Light TV 11.4 Decades	Los Angeles	Fox Television Stations (Fox Corporation)
13.1	KCOP-TV (My 13)	MyNetworkTV	13.2 Buzzr 13.3 Movies! 13.4 Heroes & Icons	Los Angeles	Fox Television Stations (Fox Corporation)
18.1	KSCI (LA18)	Independent (multi-ethnic)	18.2 SBS 18.3 MBC-D 18.4 CGN 18.5 MBC America 18.6 YTV America 18.7 SonLife 18.9 Little Saigon TV 18.10 VietFastTV 18.11 SBTN 18.12 IBC TV 18.13 S-Channel 18.14 China Business Network	Long Beach	NRJ Television (Titan Broadcasting Group)
22.1	KWHY-TV	Independent (Spanish)	22.2 Universal Church 22.3 Jerusalem TV 22.4 Santidad TV 22.5 Majestad TV 22.6 Infomercials 22.7 Asian World Media TV	Los Angeles	The Meruelo Group
24.1	KVCR-TV (Empire Network PBS)	PBS	24.2 FNX 24.3 KVCR Desert Cities (PBS Encore) 24.4 Create	San Bernardino	San Bernardino Community College District
28.1	KCET	PBS	28.2 KCETLink 28.3 NHK World	Los Angeles	Public Media Group of Southern California
30.1	KPXN-TV	Ion	30.2 Qubo 30.4 Infomercials 30.5 QVC 30.6 Home Shopping Network	San Bernardino	Ion Media Networks
31.1	KVMD	LATV	31.2 HTTV USA 31.3, 31.5 CRTV 31.4 GDTV World 31.6 Faith TV 31.7, 31.9 Infomercials 31.8 WCETV 31.10 Grace TV	Twentynine Palms	KVMD Licensee Co. (Ulloa Family)
34.1	KMEX (Univision 34)	Univision	34.2 KFTR/UniMas simulcast 34.3 Bounce TV 34.4 Justice Network 34.5 Super TV USA	Los Angeles	Univision Communications
40.1	KTBN-TV	TBN	40.2 Hillsong Channel 40.3 Smile of a Child/JUCE 40.4 Enlace USA 40.5 TBN Salsa	Santa Ana	Trinity Broadcasting Network
44.1	KXLA	Independent (multi-ethnic)	44.2 Sino TV 44.3 Sky Link TV 3 44.4 Sky Link TV 2 44.5 Arirang TV 44.6 Infomercials 44.7 NTDTV 44.8 KBS24 44.9 GETV 44.10 Jewelry Television	Rancho Palos Verdes	Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc. (Ulloa Family)
46.1	KFTR (UniMas 46)	UniMas	46.2 GetTV 46.3 Court TV Mystery 46.4 Grit 46.5 Quest	Ontario	Univision Communications
50.1	KOCE-TV (PBS SoCal 1)	PBS	50.2 PBS SoCal 2 (PBS Encore) 50.3 Daystar 50.4 World 50.5 PBS Kids	Huntington Beach	Public Media Group of Southern California
52.1	KVEA (Telemundo 52)	Telemundo	52.2 TeleXitos	Corona	NBC Telemundo License, LLC (NBCUniversal)
54.1	KAZA-TV (MeTV Hollywood)	MeTV	54.2 Decades	Avalon	Weigel Broadcasting
56.1	KDOC-TV	Independent	56.2 ENSE TV 56.3 Me-TV 56.4 Comet TV 56.5 SET TV 56.6 This TV 56.7, 56.10 Little Saigon TV 56.8 Charge! 56.9 KDHL TV	Anaheim	Ellis Communications (Titan Broadcasting Group)
57.1	KJLA (Azteca 57)	Azteca	57.2 VietFace TV 57.3 VNA-TV 57.4, 57.7, 57.14, 57.17 CRTV 57.5 Saigon TV 57.6 VBS 57.8 KVLA-TV 57.9 ZWTV 57.10 VietPho 57.11 Vstar 57.12 VGM TV 57.13 VCAL TV 57.15 Asian World Media TV 57.16 XEMTV	Ventura	KJLA, LLC (Ulloa Family)
58.1	KLCS	PBS	58.2 PBS Kids 58.3 Create	Los Angeles	Los Angeles Unified School District
62.1	KRCA	Estrella TV	62.2 Estrella TV SD simulcast	Riverside	Liberman Broadcasting
63.1	KBEH	Independent (Spanish Religious)	63.3 Retro TV 63.4 JRES TV 63.5 EEE Network	Oxnard	The Meruelo Group
64.1	KILM	Ion Plus	none	Inglewood	Ion Media Networks

A number of radio stations are broadcast from and/or are licensed to Los Angeles, including the following:

• Arts and culture of Los Angeles
• History of Los Angeles, California

• LA Almanac - Media
• Naming Your Business: Newspaper of General Circulation
• Ethnic Newspapers – Los Angeles County