KCAL-TV

==KFI-TV==
===1948–1951===
The third television station in Los Angeles originally signed on the air on August 25, 1948 as KFI-TV, originally owned by Earle C. Anthony alongside KFI radio (640 AM). The 37th TV station in the United States was initially affiliated with the DuMont Television Network, which moved from KTTV (VHF channel 11, now a Fox-owned-and-operated station) in 1954 until its demise in 1956. Channel 9's engineers threatened to go on strike in 1951, leading Anthony to sell the station to the General Tire and Rubber Company in August of that year.
==KHJ-TV==
===1951–1952===
===1952–1954===
===1954–1956===
===1956–1959===
===1959–1962===
===1962–1965===
The "9" style was later reused for ABC affiliate KUSA from 1966 to 1974, and later for former sister station WWOR-TV from 2002 to 2006.
===1965–1966===
===1966–1968===
===1968–1969===
===1969–1970===
===1970–1971===
===1971–1976===
===1976–1983===
====1976–1979====
====1979–1983====
===1983–1986===
===1986–1989===
==KCAL-TV==
===1989–2003===
====1989–1995====
In the midst of RKO's corporate issues, the company reached terms to sell KHJ-TV to Westinghouse Broadcasting in November 1985. However, the protracted legal issues delayed FCC action on the transfer and Westinghouse ultimately withdrew its offer. In July 1988, the FCC allowed the transfer in a complicated settlement deal: the station's license was awarded to Fidelity, with Disney then eventually purchasing the license from Fidelity and KHJ-TV's intellectual property and physical assets from RKO. After the purchase, the company changed the station's callsign to the current KCAL-TV on December 2, 1989. This '9' logo, until 2022, was the only one the station has used as KCAL-TV, undergoing a few changes to its secondary elements along the way.
====1995–1998====
In 1996, The Walt Disney Company purchased Capital Cities/ABC, owners of KABC-TV (channel 7). Due to FCC regulations at the time that barred the ownership of two television stations in the same media market, Disney purchased KABC-TV and chose to divest KCAL, which was purchased by Young Broadcasting (which Disney owned a stake in at the time) on May 14, 1996, for $385 million. However, after the purchase of NBC affiliate KRON-TV in San Francisco in 2000, Young Broadcasting sold KCAL-TV to CBS on February 14, 2002, which the sale was finalized on June 1, 2002, resulting in a duopoly with the network's West Coast flagship station KCBS-TV (VHF channel 2).
====1998–2003====
===2003–2023===
=====2003–2013=====
In 2003, KCAL recieved a new logo featuring the so-called "CBS Mandate" which was introduced that year.
=====2013–2023=====
===2023–present===
As part of a drastic branding change affecting all CBS' owned-and-operated stations, KCAL rebranded itself on January 5, 2023.
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