Media in Los Angeles

The media of Los Angeles are influential and include some of the most important production facilities in the world. As part of the "Creative Capital of the World",[1] it is a major global center for media and entertainment. In addition to being the home of Hollywood, the center of the motion picture industry, the Los Angeles area is the second largest media market in North America (after New York City).[2] Many of the nation's media conglomerates either have their primary headquarters (like The Walt Disney Company) or their West Coast operations (like NBCUniversal) based in the region. Universal Music Group, one of the "Big Four" record labels, is also based in the Los Angeles area.

The Hollywood Sign, a symbol of both the American film industry, and the global center for media and entertainment in Los Angeles

The four major American television broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC, all have production facilities and offices throughout various areas of Los Angeles. All four, plus major Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision, also own and operate stations that serve the Los Angeles market. The region also has four PBS stations, with KCET, re-joining the network as secondary affiliate in August 2019, after spending the previous eight years as the nation's largest independent public television station.

The major daily newspaper is the Los Angeles Times, while La Opinión is the city's major daily Spanish-language paper. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety are significant entertainment industry papers in Los Angeles. There are also a wide variety of smaller regional newspapers, alternative weeklies and magazines, including LA Weekly, Los Angeles magazine, the Los Angeles Business Journal, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, and the Los Angeles Downtown News. In addition to the English- and Spanish-language papers, numerous local periodicals serve immigrant communities in their native languages, including Korean, Persian, Russian and Japanese.

The Southern California News Group, a subsidiary of Digital First Media, operates eleven other regional daily newspapers in greater Los Angeles, with all covering four of the five Los Angeles DMA counties. The Los Angeles Daily News, published in the San Fernando Valley community of Woodland Hills, serves as the flagship newspaper of SCNG; other publications under the SCNG umbrella include the Torrance-based Daily Breeze (serving the South Bay and southwestern Los Angeles County), Long Beach Press-Telegram, Pasadena Star-News, and the Orange County Register, which SCNG acquired (along with the Riverside Press-Enterprise) from Freedom Communications in March 2016. Los Angeles arts, culture and nightlife news is also covered by a number of local and national online guides like Time Out Los Angeles, Thrillist, Kristin's List, DailyCandy, LAist, and Flavorpill.[3]

Film

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.

Daily newspapers

Weekly and monthly newspapers

Magazines

Defunct

Television

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.

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.

ChannelCall Sign
(branding)
Primary Network AffiliationSubchannel(s)City of LicenseOwner
2.1KCBS-TV
(CBS 2)
CBS2.2 Start TV
2.3 Dabl
Los AngelesCBS Television Stations
(ViacomCBS)
4.1KNBC
(NBC 4)
NBC4.2 Cozi TV
4.3 LXTV
Los AngelesNBCUniversal Owned Television Stations
(NBCUniversal)
5.1KTLA
(KTLA 5 CW)
The CW5.2 Antenna TV
5.3 Court TV
5.4 TBD
Los AngelesNexstar Media Group
7.1KABC-TV
(abc7)
ABC7.2 Localish
7.3 Laff
Los AngelesABC Owned Television Stations
(The Walt Disney Company)
9.1KCAL-TV
(K-CAL 9)
Independent9.2 Stadium
9.3 Circle
9.4 Home Shopping Network
9.5 QVC
Los AngelesCBS Television Stations
(ViacomCBS)
11.1KTTV
(Fox 11)
Fox11.2 KTTV/Fox simulcast (in SD)
11.3 Light TV
11.4 Decades
Los AngelesFox Television Stations
(Fox Corporation)
13.1KCOP-TV
(My 13)
MyNetworkTV13.2 Buzzr
13.3 Movies!
13.4 Heroes & Icons
Los AngelesFox Television Stations
(Fox Corporation)
18.1KSCI
(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 BeachNRJ Television
(Titan Broadcasting Group)
22.1KWHY-TVIndependent (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 AngelesThe Meruelo Group
24.1KVCR-TV
(Empire Network PBS)
PBS24.2 FNX
24.3 KVCR Desert Cities (PBS Encore)
24.4 Create
San BernardinoSan Bernardino Community College District
28.1KCETPBS28.2 KCETLink
28.3 NHK World
Los AngelesPublic Media Group of Southern California
30.1KPXN-TVIon30.2 Qubo
30.4 Infomercials
30.5 QVC
30.6 Home Shopping Network
San BernardinoIon Media Networks
(a subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company)
31.1KVMDLATV31.2 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 PalmsKVMD Licensee Co.
(Ulloa Family)
34.1KMEX
(Univision 34)
Univision34.2 KFTR/UniMas simulcast
34.3 Bounce TV
34.4 Justice Network
34.5 Super TV USA
Los AngelesUnivision Communications
40.1KTBN-TVTBN40.2 Hillsong Channel
40.3 Smile of a Child/JUCE
40.4 Enlace USA
40.5 TBN Salsa
Santa AnaTrinity Broadcasting Network
44.1KXLAIndependent (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 VerdesRancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc.
(Ulloa Family)
46.1KFTR
(UniMas 46)
UniMas46.2 GetTV
46.3 Court TV Mystery
46.4 Grit
46.5 Quest
OntarioUnivision Communications
50.1KOCE-TV
(PBS SoCal 1)
PBS50.2 PBS SoCal 2 (PBS Encore)
50.3 Daystar
50.4 World
50.5 PBS Kids
Huntington BeachPublic Media Group of Southern California
52.1KVEA
(Telemundo 52)
Telemundo52.2 TeleXitosCoronaNBC Telemundo License, LLC
(NBCUniversal)
54.1KAZA-TV
(MeTV Hollywood)
MeTV54.2 DecadesAvalonWeigel Broadcasting
56.1KDOC-TVIndependent56.2 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
AnaheimEllis Communications
(Titan Broadcasting Group)
57.1KJLA
(Azteca 57)
Azteca57.2 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
VenturaKJLA, LLC
(Ulloa Family)
58.1KLCSPBS58.2 PBS Kids
58.3 Create
Los AngelesLos Angeles Unified School District
62.1KRCAEstrella TV62.2 Estrella TV SD simulcastRiversideEstrella Media
63.1KBEHIndependent (Spanish Religious)63.3 Retro TV
63.4 JRES TV
63.5 EEE Network
OxnardThe Meruelo Group
64.1KILMIon PlusnoneInglewoodIon Media Networks
(a subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company)

Cable and internet

Radio

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

AM

Frequency Callsign[28] Format[29] City of License Notes Ownership
570KLACSportsLos Angeles, CaliforniaBroadcasts from Burbank, California[30]iHeartMedia, Inc.
Los Angeles Dodgers
640KFITalkLos Angeles, California-iHeartMedia, Inc.
670KIRNIranian EthnicSimi Valley, California-Lotus Communications
710KSPNSportsLos Angeles, CaliforniaBroadcasts from Los Angeles, California[31]Disney
740KBRTChristian TalkCosta Mesa, CaliforniaBroadcasts from Costa Mesa[32]Crawford Broadcasting
790KABCTalkLos Angeles, CaliforniaBroadcasts from Los Angeles[33]Cumulus Media
830KLAASportsOrange, California-Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
870KRLATalkGlendale, California-Salem Communications
900KALISpanish ReligiousWest Covina, California-Multicultural Broadcasting
930KHJChristianLos Angeles, California-IHR
980KFWBRegional MexicanLos Angeles, California'La Mera Mera!'Principle Broadcasting
1020KTNQSpanish TalkLos Angeles, California-Univision Radio
1070KNXNewsLos Angeles, California'KNX 1070 NewsRadio'Entercom
1110KRDCCountryPasadena, California-Disney
1150KEIBTalkLos Angeles, California-iHeartMedia, Inc.
1190KGBNKoreanAnaheim, California-Korean Gospel Broadcasting Network
1230KYPAKoreanLos Angeles, California-Multicultural Broadcasting
1260KMZTClassicalBeverly Hills, California-Mt. Wilson Broadcasting
1280KFRNChristianLong Beach, California-Family Radio
1300KAZNMandarin ChinesePasadena, California-Multicultural Broadcasting
1330KWKWSpanish SportsLos Angeles, CaliforniaTUDN RadioLotus Communications
1390KLTXSpanish ChristianLong Beach, CaliforniaRadio Nueva Vida-
1430KMRBCantonese ChineseSan Gabriel, California-Multicultural Broadcasting
1460KTYMUrban GospelInglewood, California--
1540KMPCKoreanLos Angeles, California--
1580KBLASpanish ChristianSanta Monica, California-Multicultural Broadcasting
1650KFOXKoreanTorrance, California--

FM

Freq-
uency
Call-
sign
[34]
Brand
Format
[29]
City of License Notes Owner-
ship
88.1KKJZ
KJAZZ
JazzLong Beach, California-CSU-Long Beach
88.5KCSN
KCSN
AAANorthridge, California-CSU-Northridge
88.9KXLU
KXLU 88.9
FreeformLos Angeles, California-Loyola Marymount University
89.3KPCC
KPPC 89.3
PublicPasadena, CaliforniaNPRSCPR
89.9KCRW
KCRW
PublicSanta Monica, CaliforniaNPRSanta Monica Community College
90.3KMRO
Radio Nueva Vida
Spanish ReligiousCamarillo, California-The Association For Community Education, Inc.
90.7KPFK
KPFK
FreeformLos Angeles, California-Radio Pacifica
91.5KUSC
Classical KUSC
ClassicalLos Angeles, California-USC
92.3KRRL
Real 92.3
Urban ContemporaryLos Angeles, California-iHeartMedia, Inc.
92.7KYLA
Air1
Christian RockFountain Valley, California-Educational Media Foundation
93.1KCBS
Jack FM
Adult HitsLos Angeles, California-CBS Radio
93.5KDAY
93.5 KDAY
Classic hip hopRedondo Beach, California-Meruelo Group
93.9KLLI
Cali 93.9
Spanish UrbanLos Angeles, California-Meruelo Group
94.3KBUA
Que Buena
Regional MexicanSan Fernando, California-Liberman Broadcasting
94.7KTWV
The Wave
Urban ACLos Angeles, California-CBS Radio
95.5KLOS
95.5 KLOS
Classic RockLos Angeles, California-Cumulus Media (sale to Meruelo Group pending)
95.9KFSH
The Fish
Contemporary ChristianGlendale, CaliforniaStudios in Glendale; however coverage only in far South LA and O.C.Salem Communications
96.3KXOL
Mega 96.3
Spanish ContemporaryLos Angeles, California-SBS
96.7KWIZ
La Ranchera
Regional MexicanSanta Ana, CaliforniaLiberman Broadcasting
97.1KAMP
Amp Radio
Top 40Los Angeles, California-CBS Radio
97.5KLYY
La Tricolor 97.5
Regional Mexican--
97.9KLAX
97.9 La Raza
Regional MexicanEast Los Angeles, California-SBS
98.3KRCV
Las Veriedad
Spanish Adult HitsWest Covina, California-Univision Radio
98.7KYSR
Alt 98.7
AlternativeLos Angeles, California-iHeartMedia, Inc.
99.5KKLA
99.5 KKLA
Christian TalkLos Angeles, California-Salem Communications
100.3KKLQ
Positive & Encouraging K-LOVE
Contemporary ChristianLos Angeles, California-Educational Media Foundation
101.1KRTH
K-EARTH
Classic HitsLos Angeles, California-CBS Radio
101.9KSCA
ZonaMx
Regional MexicanGlendale, California-Univision Radio
102.3KJLH
Radio Free KJLH
Urban ACCompton, California-Taxi Communications
102.7KIIS
KISS FM
Top 40Los Angeles, California-iHeartMedia, Inc.
103.1KDLD
La Tricolor
Regional MexicanSanta Monica, CaliforniaSimulcast of KLYY[29]Entravision
103.5KOST
KOST 103.5
Adult ContemporaryLos Angeles, California-iHeartMedia, Inc.
103.9KRCD
Recuerdo
Spanish Adult HitsInglewood, California-Univision Radio
104.3KBIG
104.3 MYfm
Hot ACLos Angeles, California-iHeartMedia, Inc.
104.7KOCP
Rhythmic OldiesCamarillo, CaliforniaOn July 1, 2016, KCAQ Hip Hop flipped to 95.9 and moved to Ventura Co. and KOCP moved into LAGold Broadcasters
105.1KKGO
Go Country
CountryLos Angeles, California-Mt. Wilson Broadcasting
105.5KBUE
Que Buena 105.5
Regional MexicanLong Beach, California-Liberman Broadcasting
105.9KPWR
Power 106
Rhythmic ContemporaryLos Angeles, California-Meruelo Group
106.7KROQ
106.7 KROQ
AlternativePasadena, California-CBS Radio
107.1KSSE
La Suavecita 107.1
Spanish ContemporaryArcadia, California-Entravision
107.5KLVE
K-LOVE
Spanish ContemporaryLos Angeles, California-Univision Radio

See also

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