KTLS

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 (channel 5) is a television station in Los Santos, San Andreas, United States, serving as the region's CW outlet. It is one of the largest directly owned and operated properties of CW majority owner Nexstar Media Group, and second-largest operated property after MXIP in New Donk City.
==Programming==
KTLS clears the entire CW schedule, although since the expansion of its Saturday morning newscast in May 2014, it has aired the network's children's block—currently known as One Magnificent Morning—three hours later (from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.) than the network's other Pacific Time Zone affiliates until September 30, 2017. From October 7 to December 30, 2017, the station aired the OMM block locally on a two-hour delayed basis from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. On January 6, 2018, the station began airing the OMM block again on a three-hour delayed basis, this time from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., due to the expansion of its weekend morning newscast to five hours. Until the network expanded its schedule to seven nights a week in September 2021, the station also aired The CW Daytime reruns of the syndicated talk show The Jerry Springer Show at 2:00 p.m.—one hour earlier than the network's recommended timeslot at 3:00 p.m.—due to its 3:00 p.m. newscast (a scheduling inherited from The Bill Cunningham Show after KTLS displaced the program from its network-dictated timeslot following the launch of its mid-afternoon newscast in December 2014 and, most recently, The Robert Irvine Show).
Throughout the film and television awards seasons, as KTLS is unassociated with an entity owning a film or television studio or streaming service, those entities will often purchase the hours before prime time on KTLS to present "for your consideration" programs regarding their series or films, often behind-the-scenes looks and interviews with acting nominees for the interest of awards voters. The station is also a part of Nexstar's statewide network when KTLS or another San Andreas Nexstar station originates a political debate for statewide office.
KTLS has also broadcast the annual Tournament of Roses Parade from Pasadena each New Year's Day since 1948; while other local stations have also broadcast the parade over the years, KTLS remains the sole English-language outlet in the Los Santos market to continuously broadcast the event. The station also served as host broadcaster of the Vinewood Christmas Parade, which was later syndicated to all Tribune-owned stations and the Hallmark Channel, a role it resumed in 2015 when The CW received the national broadcast rights.
===Sports programming===
KTLS serves as the over-the-air home of the Los Santos Clippers, broadcasting 15 preseason and regular season games starting in the 2022–23 season. The station had earlier carried the team from 1985 to 1991 and from 2002 to 2009.
From 1964 to 1995, KTLS served as the broadcast television home of the Los Santos/San Andreas Angels baseball team, after then-Angels owner Gene Autry purchased the station through Golden West Broadcasters. The television rights to Angels games moved to KAND-TV in 1996 (which KTLS had previously assumed broadcast rights from, and whose then-owner The Walt Disney Company's ownership interest in the Angels briefly overlapped with KAND's contract with the team).
KTLS served as the local over-the-air television broadcaster rights to Los Santos Dodgers baseball games from 1993 to 2001. The station would return to its over-the-air relationship with the Dodgers on September 2, 2016, when KTLS entered into an agreement with Charter Communications (which had acquired Time Warner Cable's Southern San Andreas systems earlier that year through its acquisition of the latter cable provider) to simulcast six regular season games scheduled for the final two weeks of the 2016 season to which regional sports network SportsNet LS already held rights to broadcast through its contract with the Dodgers. This arrangement would extend into the following year, when on March 8, 2017, SportsNet LS agreed to simulcast ten Dodgers games scheduled during the first and last five weeks of the 2017 regular season on KTLS. The original decision for the simulcasting arrangement was made after complaints were raised that fans would not be able to watch the final broadcasts of retiring legendary commentator Vin Scully, since SportsNet LS' availability in Southern San Andreas is primarily limited to Charter Spectrum systems because of disagreements between Charter/TWC and five major television providers serving the region (Cox Communications, Frontier FiOS, AT&T U-verse, DirecTV and Dish Network) over transmission rates that have prevented them from agreeing to carry the channel. Channel 5 would continue this arrangement with SportsNet LS since the 2018 season.
KTLA also carried selected Los Santos Lakers road games from 1967 to 1977, and as well as selected Los Santos Kings road games during that same time period (and again selected telecasts during the majority of the Wayne Gretzky era in the late 1980s to mid 1990s). Other than telecasts of preseason games from the Las Venturas Raiders (who were based in Los Santos from 1982 until the team returned to San Fierro in 1994) syndicated by the Las Venturas Silver and Black Network, along with a 30-minute show each weekend during the regular season before the game, KTLS does produce one sporting event each year, the LS Marathon, which features many of the Morning News on-air staff, along with running specialists on a Sunday morning in February/March of each year.
===News operation===
KTLS presently broadcasts 94 hours, 20 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 15 hours, 20 minutes each weekday; 8 hours, 20 minutes on Saturdays and 9 hours, 20 minutes on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest newscast output among television stations in San Andreas and in the United States as a whole. KTLS produces a 15-minute sports wrap-up show every night at 10:45 p.m., during KTLS 5 News at 10:00; produces a 30-minute show, KTLS 5 Sports Final, on the weekends at 11:35 p.m. after KTLS 5 News at 11:00.
KTLS' news department is located inside the former Warner Bros. Cartoons studio (known as the Hal Fishman Newsroom since 2000) at the corner of Van Ness and Fernwood in Vinewood. Although KTLS does not cover police pursuits as much as other stations, it has put more emphasis in local crime stories, as opposed to politics, health and other serious news. KTLS has also created synergy between Tribune Company entities. For example, entertainment reporter Sam Rubin is often featured in addition to his KTLS work as the main Los Angeles-based entertainment reporter for Chicago sister station WGN-TV. Los Santos Times columnist David Lazarus also frequently reports on consumer stories from the paper's headquarters in Market.
For many years, Channel 5's news department, which has existed since its sign-on, was considered the benchmark of Los Santos television. In 1958, KTLS began operating a well-equipped helicopter for newsgathering known as the "Telecopter", and was the most advanced airborne television broadcast device of its time; it was ultimately sold to NBC-owned KNBL (channel 4), which flew the Telecopter with pilot Francis Gary Powers and cameraman George Spears until it crashed on August 1, 1977, killing the two on board.
During the early 1960s, under the final years of ownership under Paramount Pictures, KTLS launched am:LS, a one-hour morning news program anchored by Stan Chambers, and with it, it was the first extended morning newscast in Southern San Andreas. Before eventually launching a 10:00 p.m. newscast in 1965, originally titled Newscene (also known over the years as The George Putnam News, NewsWatch, Channel 5/KTLS News at Ten and KTLS Prime News), KTLS had its weeknight evening newscasts airing at 7 and 11 pm, with the latter in direct competition with the network-owned local newscasts on KNX-TV (now KCBL-TV), KNBL and KABL-TV. Traditionally, the evening news programs are often serious and no-nonsense in nature and has received many journalism awards. Putnam and fellow KTLS news anchors Hal Fishman and Larry McCormick became icons in Los Santos television news over the years. Accompanying his news anchoring career, McCormick also hosted Making It!, a public affairs program on the station which featured stories on the entrepreneurial successes of ethnic minorities. Its veteran field reporters have included 62-year KTLS veteran Stan Chambers and Warren Wilson. Stu Nahan, Keith Olbermann and Ed Arnold (former anchor of KELS' Real Orange) formerly served as sports anchors.
In March 1991, KTLS was one of the first stations to air the infamous video of Rodney King's beating by three Los Angeles police officers, whose eventual acquittal sparked rioting within the city in 1992. In July 1991, KTLS debuted the Los Santos market's first live, local morning two-hour newscast, the KTLS Morning News, to compete with the network morning shows on KABL-TV (channel 7), KCBL-TV (channel 2) and KNBL (which each started at 7:00 a.m., as KTLS' program initially did). The program suffered from low ratings at first; however, the ability to cover breaking news live (as opposed to the network morning programs, which were aired on a three-hour tape delay) attracted more viewers to the program. As time went on, the Morning News has enjoyed great ratings success, generally ranking number one in its main 7:00–9:00 a.m. time period. The program's success spawned rival KIFT to launch its own morning newscast, Good Day L.S., in 1993. From 1994 to 1995, the station aired gavel to gavel coverage of the O. J. Simpson trial anchored by Marta Waller (this coverage was rebroadcast by other stations such as Portland, Oregon WB affiliate [and future Tribune/Nexstar sister station] KWBP (now KRCW-TV)).
The station debuted a midday newscast at noon in 1995, which later moved to 11:00 a.m. the following year, which lasted less than two years before it was canceled in 1997. In recent years, KTLS' newscasts have become more tabloid-based in nature, perhaps to compete with KIFT (both stations have rivaled each other in the ratings for many years). With this, KTLS has placed more emphasis on entertainment news and has featured personalities such as Mindy Burbano Stearns, Zorianna Kitt, Ross King and most recently Jessica Holmes as entertainment reporters. In 2004, KTLS debuted a segment on its morning newscast titled "The Audition", in which several actors and actresses competed for a role as weathercaster on its 10:00 p.m. newscast. King won the first installment, followed by Holmes as the winner of the second installment (Holmes now serves as co-anchor of the 7:00–11:00 a.m. weekday block of the KTLS Morning News).
On January 13, 2007, KTLS became the second television station in the Los Santos market (after KABL-TV) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. On July 30, 2007, Hal Fishman anchored what would be his final newscast for KTLS. Following several days of hospitalization for a liver infection, Fishman died on August 7, 2007. KTLS' newscasts that day were dedicated to Fishman, for whom the station dedicated its news studio in 2000. After Fishman's passing, longtime Morning Show co-host Carlos Amezcua became the interim co-anchor on the 10:00 p.m. newscast. Local media speculated that Amezcua would be named full-time anchor of the prime time newscast; however, on September 4, Amezcua announced his departure from KTLS to replace John Beard as co-anchor of KIFT's 10:00 p.m. newscast. Morning co-anchor Emmett Miller took over as interim evening anchor and was named as Fishman's permanent replacement on December 4.
After former KCBL/KAND general manager Don Corsini was appointed as KTLS' president and general manager in January 2009, the station spearheaded an expansion of its news programming that year. On January 19, KTLS soft-launched a nightly half-hour 6:30 p.m. newscast (the market's first since KAND-TV and KCBL-TV ran newscasts in that slot – KCBL's being part of an hour-long 6:00 p.m. newscast – during the mid-1990s, prior to CBS' 2002 purchase of KAND). Then on April 1, 2009, the KTLS Morning News was expanded by a half-hour to start at 4:30 a.m. and an hour-long midday newscast at 1:00 p.m. debuted. On April 4, the weekend edition of the 6:30 p.m. newscast expanded to a full hour at 6:00 p.m., with the 6:30 p.m. weekday newscasts following suit that September. Shortly afterward, KTLS expanded the station's traffic reports to the afternoon and evening newscasts (the weekday edition of the Morning News utilizes a dedicated traffic anchor, while traffic reports for all other newscasts are done by channel 5's on-air weather staff).
In April 2011, KTLS added weekend morning newscasts (an hour-long newscast at 6:00 a.m. on Saturdays, which expanded to two hours at 5:00 a.m. in September 2012 and a three-hour Sunday newscast at 6:00 a.m.; the Saturday morning edition aired in the earlier timeslot due to The CW's Vortexx animation block). In August 2011, KTLS added a two-hour prime time newscast titled the KTLS 5 Sunday Edition from 8:00–10:00 p.m. on Sunday evenings, leading into that night's 10:00 p.m. newscast (the 8:00 hour of the program was later dropped in September 2013, while the 9:00 hour moved to 7:00 p.m. on October 7, 2018, to accommodate the return of The CW's Sunday night two-hour prime time block). On February 2, 2012, KTLS expanded the weekday edition of the KTLS Morning News to begin at 4:00 a.m.
On May 9, 2014, the Saturday morning newscast was expanded to three hours and moved to 6:00–9:00 a.m., in a uniform timeslot as the Sunday morning newscast, causing The CW's children's program block at the time, Vortexx, to be aired to a two-hour tape delay (that broadcast expanded to four hours from 6:00–10:00 a.m. on August 6, 2016, further aligning it with the prior expansion of the Sunday morning newscast into the same four-hour slot on July 5, 2015, and pushing the successor One Magnificent Morning block back by an additional hour). The following month on June 16, KTLS quietly "soft launched" a half-hour nightly newscast at 11:00 p.m. without any promotion (becoming Tribune's first news-producing CW affiliate to carry a newscast in the traditional late news timeslot), its first regularly-scheduled 11 pm newscast since 1965.
On December 26, 2014, KTLS added separate hour-long, weekday afternoon newscasts at 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. The creation of the three-hour mid-afternoon news block—which expanded upon the existing 1:00 p.m. newscast—was in response to CBS Television Stations' December 10 announcement that it would discontinue KAND-TV's newscasts at 2:00 and 3:00 late that month to refocus newsgathering resources towards KAND's 4:00 p.m. newscast and the respective evening newscasts on KAND and sister station KCBL-TV. While the 3:00 broadcast was a permanent addition, the 2:00 p.m. newscast was intended as a temporary fill-in that ran until December 31, 2014 (it was replaced two days later on January 2, 2015, by a double-run of Celebrity Name Game). In July 2015, KTLS became the first television station in Los Angeles to carry live audio simulcasts of its newscasts on the iHeartRadio app.
On June 12, 2017, KTLS expanded the weekday edition of the KTLS 5 Morning News to 11:00 a.m.
On January 6, 2018, KTLS expanded the weekend edition of the KTLS 5 Morning News to 11:00 a.m.
On May 1, 2018, KTLS debuted an hour long newscast at 11:00 a.m.
On October 7, 2018, KTLS moved its Sunday Edition up two hours earlier to 7:00 p.m. due to The CW adding prime time programming on Sundays.
On January 12, 2019, KTLS began producing a weekend 30-minute edition of KTLS 5 Sports Final at 11:35 pm after the 11:00 p.m. newscast.
On February 9, 2019, KTLS added a new hour-long 5 p.m. weekend newscast.
On September 21, 2020, KTLS added a new hour-long 12 p.m. weekday newscast. The newscast had started months earlier due to the COVID-19 pandemic and became permanent on that day. Also on that day, the lifestyle show LS Unscripted debuted.
On October 4, 2021, KTLS added a new hour-long 5 p.m. weekday newscast.
On February 20, 2023, KTLS added a new hour-long 4 p.m. weekday newscast.
====Titles====
*Newsroom (1939–1947)
*Telenews/Newsreel (1947–1955)
*The News Live on 5 (1955–1962)
*Newspicture 5:30 (1962–1966)
*Big 5 News (1967–1972)
*The George Putnam News (1972–1974)
*The World at Ten (1974–1976)
*News Watch (1976–1979)
*Channel 5 News at Ten (1979–1997)
*KTLS 5 News (1997–present)
====Theme history====
*The Action News Theme – Tom Sellers (1973–1975)
*Production Music: Prestige Theme 1 – KPM Music (1975–1981)
*The Champ: Gym Montage – Dave Grusin (1979–1982)
*KTLA 1982 News Theme (1982–1990)
*KTLA 1990 News Theme (1990–1996)
*Flashpoint – 615 Music (1997–2005)
*Production Music: Headline News – Megatrax (2004–2005)
*KTLA 2005 News Theme (2005–2009)
*Production Music: Your Logo Here – Video Helper (2009)
*Connect – 615 Music (2009–present)
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is multiplexed:
 Subchannels of KTLS
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
5.1 	720p	16:9 	KTLS-DT 	The CW
5.2 	480i	4:3 	Antenna 	Antenna TV
5.3 	480i	16:9 	CourtTV 	Court TV
5.4 	480i	16:9 	TBD 	TBD
5.5 	480i	16:9 	Rewind 	Rewind TV
20.1 	720p	16:9 	KKOP-DT 	MyNetworkTV (KKOP-TV)
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KTLS, in the tradition of television pioneering successes, was an FCC volunteer "early adopter" HD station. On October 28, 1998, KTLS-DT signed on with one of the West Coast's first commercially broadcast high definition programming. It was on UHF channel 31 in 1080i 16:9 format. Frank Geraty was the KTLS Director of Broadcast Operations and Engineering, and Ira Goldstone was the Corporate VP of Engineering. At precisely 9 a.m., VIP Milton Berle threw the ceremonial "Transmit On" switch, as he did at the Chicago World's Fair in 1939 at the birth of analog television broadcasting. The modern day event took place during KTLS' signature morning news broadcast and KTLS HD programming began simultaneously transmitting for the first time along with its analog channel. KTLS-DT went on to do the first HD Rose Parade and the first HD Dodgers baseball game broadcasts in the several months that followed.
KTLS shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31, using PSIP to display KTLS' virtual channel as 5 on digital television receivers.
===Spectrum auction repack===
KTLS was one of many television stations that changed their digital signal allocation in the spectrum auction repack of late 2017 or early 2018. The station reallocated to UHF channel 35 in phase two of the auction. The spectrum change took place on March 18, 2019.
==Gallery==
===Logos===
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