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", 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. Many of the nation's media conglomerates either have their primary headquarters or their West Coast operations based in the region. Universal Music Group, one of the "Big Four" record labels, is also based in the Los Angeles area.
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, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Pasadena Star-News, and the Orange County Register, which SCNG acquired 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.

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 are all based in or around Hollywood. Several other smaller and independent film companies also operate in the Los Angeles area.

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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 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. 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 first began its broadcast operations after receiving its FCC license just three months prior. After Channel 2 was sold to CBS in 1951, the station remained at 1313 North Vine until it relocated to near-by Columbia Square in 1961; Channel 9 also operated in this building until the early 1960s, when it and its then-sister radio station KHJ 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. From the mid-1960s until the 1980s, ABC also used this facility 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, Spanish-language independent KWHY, KCET, and Univision flagship station KMEX were based in Hollywood at various points in time, and nearly all of them 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 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 was the first Los Angeles television station to leave Hollywood, 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. In 1997, KTTV, having been based at 5746 Sunset since 1950 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, 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, 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, was originally located at 5420 Melrose 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, four co-owned radio stations, and the network's West Coast operations since then.

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.
ChannelCall Sign
Primary Network AffiliationSubchannelCity of LicenseOwner
2.1KCBS-TV
'		CBS2.2 Start TV
2.3 Dabl		Los AngelesCBS Television Stations
4.1KNBC
'		NBC4.2 Cozi TV
4.3 LXTV		Los AngelesNBCUniversal Owned Television Stations
5.1KTLA
'		The CW5.2 Antenna TV
5.3 Court TV
5.4 TBD		Los AngelesNexstar Media Group
7.1KABC-TV
'		ABC7.2 Localish
7.3 Laff		Los AngelesABC Owned Television Stations
9.1KCAL-TV
'		Independent9.2 Stadium
9.3 Circle
9.4 Home Shopping Network
9.5 QVC		Los AngelesCBS Television Stations
11.1KTTV
'		Fox11.2 KTTV/Fox simulcast
11.3 Light TV
11.4 Decades		Los AngelesFox Television Stations
13.1KCOP-TV
'		MyNetworkTV13.2 Buzzr
13.3 Movies!
13.4 Heroes & Icons		Los AngelesFox Television Stations
18.1KSCI
'		Independent 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
22.1KWHY-TVIndependent 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
'		PBS24.2 FNX
24.3 KVCR Desert Cities
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
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.
34.1KMEX
'		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 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.
46.1KFTR
'		UniMas46.2 GetTV
46.3 Court TV Mystery
46.4 Grit
46.5 Quest		OntarioUnivision Communications
50.1KOCE-TV
'		PBS50.2 PBS SoCal 2
50.3 Daystar
50.4 World
50.5 PBS Kids		Huntington BeachPublic Media Group of Southern California
52.1KVEA
'		Telemundo52.2 TeleXitosCoronaNBC Telemundo License, LLC
54.1KAZA-TV
'		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
57.1KJLA
'		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
58.1KLCSPBS58.2 PBS Kids
58.3 Create		Los AngelesLos Angeles Unified School District
62.1KRCAEstrella TV62.2 Estrella TV SD simulcastRiversideLiberman Broadcasting
63.1KBEHIndependent 63.3 Retro TV
63.4 JRES TV
63.5 EEE Network		OxnardThe Meruelo Group
64.1KILM'''Ion PlusnoneInglewoodIon Media Networks

Cable and internet

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

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