KIFT

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 (channel 13) is a television station in Los Santos, San Andreas, United States, serving as the market's Fox outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV outlet KKOP-TV (channel 18).
==History==
===Early years (1947–1954)===
KIFT's origins can be traced to 1947, when the station's license and construction permit was secured by the International Federation Television, a subsidiary of the Times Mirror Company and publishers of the Los Santos Times. It was one of five licenses that were granted simultaneously by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to parties interested in launching commercial television stations in Los Santos. In 1948, CBS, which owned KNX radio, purchased a 49% interest in the station and assisted in completing its construction in exchange for making channel 13 the network's Los Santos television outlet. KIFT began operations on January 1, 1949, and was operated initially by KIFT, Incorporated, the Times/CBS-owned holding company. The station's first telecast was the Tournament of Roses Parade, which channel 13 would air every New Year's Day until 1995.
In May 1950, Times-Mirror purchased the Nassour Studios – a large motion picture facility on Vinewood Boulevard in Vinewood, and centralized KIFT's operations there. CBS did not join Times-Mirror in the purchase; at the time its West Coast production facilities were based at Columbia Square, with its CBS Television City facility in the planning stages. KIFT converted the Nassour Studios into a major production house for television, producing programs locally and for the emerging syndication market. Prior to the move, KIFT operated out of several different facilities, including the former headquarters of Capitol Records (which was later the longtime home of KJH radio and what is now KAND-TV) on Melrose Avenue.
Later in 1950, CBS chose to acquire its own station in Los Santos – pioneer station KTSL (channel 9, renamed KNX-TV and now KCBL-TV) – which was being spun off by the Don Lee Broadcasting System as a result of its sale to General Tire and Rubber. The KTSL purchase forced CBS to divest its interest in KIFT due to FCC rules in effect at the time that barred the common ownership of two television stations in the same media market; the Los Santos Times would regain full ownership of channel 13 when the sales were finalized on January 1, 1951. KIFT's relationship with CBS ended after exactly two years as the network moved its programming to KTSL. A few months later, channel 13 agreed to become the new Los Santos outlet of the DuMont Television Network, which had been affiliated with KTSL and, before that, KTLS (channel 5).
===Independence (1954–1986)===
In 1954, DuMont moved its programming to KJH-TV (channel 11, now KAND-TV), and KIFT became an independent station. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. In 1958, channel 13 scored an advantage against its rivals when it became the television home of the Los Santos Corkers baseball team, which had relocated from Broker, Liberty City that year. For the first 11 years and at the request of the team, KIFT's Corker telecasts were limited to road games against the archrival San Fierro Giants. Eventually, the number of Corker games broadcast on the station increased and the home game blackout was lifted; the relationship between KIFT and the Corkers would last until the end of the 1992 season.
The show Confidential File on KIFT covered the 1962 convention of the Daughters of Bilitis and aired after Confidential File became syndicated nationally; this was probably the first American national broadcast that specifically covered lesbianism.
The Times-Mirror Company sold the station to Metromedia in 1963. Later that year, Metromedia purchased KLSC (570 AM) and the original KLSC-FM (102.7 FM, now KIIS-FM), giving channel 13 sister stations on the radio dial. Metromedia would later engineer a trade of FM frequencies, resulting in KLSC-FM moving to 94.7 FM (later to become KMET, now KTWV) in 1965.
===As a Fox-owned station (1986–present)===
In 1986, Australian newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch and his company, the News Corporation (which had acquired a controlling ownership interest in the 20th Century Fox film studio the year before), purchased KIFT and the other Metromedia television stations. The Metromedia stations ended up becoming part of a new holding company formed by News Corporation called Fox Television Stations; those stations formed the basis for the new Fox Broadcasting Company television network, which made its debut on October 9, 1986. Following the News Corporation purchase, KIFT added more first-run syndicated talk, court and reality shows. By the early 1990s, it began to run afternoon cartoons from the network's Fox Kids block (which debuted in 1990), as well as top-rated off-network sitcoms during the evening hours. KIFT removed cartoons on weekday mornings in June 1993, due to the launch of the morning newscast Good Day LS.
On May 16, 2006, KIFT launched a new website based on Fox Television Stations' MyFox interface; this format became standard on the websites of each of the Fox-owned stations – and was even adopted by some of Fox's affiliates not owned by the network – by the end of that year (the "MyFox" branded websites were operated by former News Corporation subsidiary EndPlay until 2012, when the sites were migrated to the WorldNow platform).
KIFT launched the Light TV network on a subchannel starting December 22, 2016 with another Fox TV station, WEHK.
On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company, owner of ABC and KABL-TV, announced its intent to buy KIFT's parent company, 21st Century Fox, for $52.4 billion; the sale excluded the Fox Television Stations unit (including KIFT and KKOG), the Fox network, Fox News, Fox Sports 1 and the MyNetworkTV programming service, which were transferred to a separate company.
==Programming==
===Syndicated programming===
In addition to carrying the entire Fox network programming lineup, KIFT serves as the flagship station for TMZ on TV. Other syndicated programming broadcast on KIFT (as of September 2022) includes Extra, You Bet Your Life with Jay Leno, Pictionary, Rachael Ray, The Jennifer Hudson Show, 25 Words or Less and Modern Family.
The station also produces The Issue Is:, a political discussion program hosted by Elex Michaelson which airs Friday nights at 10:30 p.m. and is also syndicated to other Fox stations across California, including KICF-TV in San Fierro and KSWB-TV in San Diego.
===Sports programming===
Since the team's move to Los Santos in 1958 (with exception of a brief pause from 1993 to 1995), KIFT has carried Los Santos Dodgers baseball games from varying sources; the station aired road games beginning in the late 1970s with the home games on the subscription/pay-per-view service Dodgervision; these road games aired on the station until 1992, when KTLS began airing the road games beginning with the 1993 season. Currently, select Dodger games are broadcast nationally through the network's sports division via its MLB package since 1996. KIFT has also aired the Dodgers' 2017, 2018 and 2020 World Series appearances, including the team's championship victory in 2020, their first title in 32 years. All other Dodger games are currently broadcast locally through SportsNet LS (with a small number of games simulcast over-the-air on KTLS since 2016). KIFT also airs any Angels games that are aired through Fox's MLB contract, including the team's World Series victory in 2002.
From 1972 to 1974, the station also carried games involving the Los Santos Sharks of the WHA.
With the return of the Rams franchise to Los Santos, since 2016, KIFT has been the 'unofficial home' for the Los Santos Rams through the network's primary rights of the National Football Conference. It had held this role for one season in 1994 prior to their move to St. Louis (that same year, Channel 13 aired two home interconference contests featuring the Raiders during their last season in Los Santos). During the NFL regular season, Rams games are rotated with KNBL (through NBC Sunday Night Football), KABL-TV (through Monday Night Football) and most especially KCBL-TV (through the NFL on CBS). Since 2017, it has also broadcast Los Santos Chargers games featuring a visiting NFC team, or games that are cross-flexed from CBS, with some select games from either team carried by KKOG if both teams are playing at the same time. Beginning in the 2018 season, the station began airing Thursday Night Football which is simulcast on NFL Network and if either one of the two LS teams are playing it serves as the local area station for gameday telecasts.
In 2020, the station broadcast select games of the Los Santos Wildcats of the second incarnation of the XFL, via Fox's contract with the league.
===News operation===
KIFT presently broadcasts 52 hours of local newscasts each week (with 10 hours each weekday and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); this gives KIFT the second-largest local news output of any television station in the Los Santos market, behind CW owned-and-operated station KTLS's 94 hours, 20 minutes of weekly newscasts. As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, KIFT's Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m. newscasts are subject to delay or preemption due to network sports coverage. KIFT operates a Bell 407, branded on-air as "SkyFox", to provide aerial coverage of breaking news stories. KIFT previously operated two helicopters; one of them (known as "Sky Fox 2") was destroyed after it crashed at Van Nuys Airport in 2000.
Throughout its history, the station has always operated a news department, partly owing to its former ties to the Los Santos Times (which has been owned by the Tribune Company, owner of rival KTLS, since 2000). KIFT aired an 8 p.m. newscast from 1984 to 1987; it also briefly moved its 10 p.m. newscast to 11 p.m. in 1986, in order to compete with existing local newscasts in that same timeslot on KABL-TV, KNBL and KCBL-TV; the newscast's format initially was unchanged, but the 8 p.m. edition was later dropped while the 11 p.m. newscast reverted to its previous 10 p.m. slot shortly after News Corporation took over Metromedia in 1986. During this time period, the station also experimented with newscasts at midday and midnight.
In June 1993, the station launched a new morning news program called Good Day L.S., a program that was inspired by sister station WEHK's Good Day Liberty, which debuted in 1988. On July 14, 2008, KIFT launched a half-hour 10 a.m. newscast, following Good Day L.S., as the station's first midday newscast since the mid-1980s; KIFT is currently the only station in Los Santos to have a local newscast in that timeslot. KIFT and KKOG began producing its local newscasts in high definition on October 15, 2008. On December 1, 2008, KIFT fully took over production of KKOG's 11 p.m. newscast, which was reduced from an hour to 30 minutes and retitled Fox News at 11, marking the end of a KKOG-produced and branded newscast. The newscast on channel 13 then became anchored by KIFT's 10 p.m. anchors Carlos Amezcua and Christine Devine, as it was considered an extension of the earlier newscast (in the case of KKOG, all of its newscasts on that station were eliminated on September 22, 2013).
On December 8, 2008, KIFT debuted a half-hour midday newscast at noon on weekdays. On April 27, 2009, KIFT introduced Good Day L.S. Today, a recap program airing at 12:30 p.m. weekdays that featured select segments featured on that day's edition of Good Day L.S.; that show has since been replaced by TMZ on TV. On April 12, 2010, the station expanded its weekday morning newscast by a half-hour to 4:30 a.m. Until September 12, 2011, KIFT was one of only two Fox owned-and-operated stations (the other being Chicago's WFLD) that did not have an early evening newscast on weeknights and/or weekends; this changed when KIFT launched an hour-long 5 p.m. newscast on that date called Studio 13 L.S. On June 30, 2014, KIFT expanded its noon newscast from 30 minutes to 1 hour.
On April 28, 2016, KIFT changed the name of its 5 p.m. newscast to Fox 13 5:00 News using the same anchors from Studio 13 L.S. Weekend early evening newscasts became known as Fox 13 Weekend News.
In September 2018, KIFT canceled its half-hour 10 a.m. newscast.
On December 10, 2018, Fox 13 Morning News adopted the Good Day L.S. branding, expanding the newscast from 7 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.
On April 1, 2019, Good Day L.S. expands from 4:30 a.m. to 4 a.m.
In September 2022, Good Day L.S. expanded to 10 a.m., running until 11 a.m. KIFT also cancelled its mid-day newscast in the same month.
====Notable on-air staff====
*Jeff Collins – station announcer (2020–present)
*Karla Kevorkian – anchor
====Notable former on-star staff====
*Scott Chapin – station announcer (1996–2020)
*Beau Weaver – station announcer (1986–2016)
====Titles====
*KIFT Newsreel (1949–1967)
*The George Putnam News (1951–1964)
*Metro News (1972–1981)
*LS 13 News (1981–1983)
*Channel 13 News (1983–1987)
*Fox News (1987–1994)
*Fox 13 News (1994–present)
====Theme history====
*Tuesday1 – Tuesday Productions (1980–1983)
*KTTV 1983 News Theme (1983–1984)
*Metromedia News Theme (1984–1987)
*Fox O&O News Package – VTS Productions (1987–1988)
*(7's) On Your Side – Gari Media Group (1988–1991)
*KTTV 1991 News Theme – Edd Kalehoff Productions (1991–1992)
*KTTV News Theme – Gary Scott (1992–1995)
*Fox '95 – Stephen Arnold Music (1995)
*WSVN 1998 News Package – Chris Crane (1995–1998)
*The X Package – Gari Media Group (1999–2006)
*Good Day LA – Gari Media Group (1999–2020)
*Just You Watch – Deaf Dog Music (2004–2006)
*Fox Affiliate News Theme – OSI Music (2006–2020)
*Beyond – Stephen Arnold Music (2020–present)
*Image Song: KTTV 'Good Day LA' Theme (2024–present)
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is multiplexed:
 Subchannels of KIFT
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
13.1 	720p	16:9 	KIFT DT 	Fox
13.2 	720p	16:9 	FOX WX 	Fox Weather
13.3 	480i	16:9 	TheGrio 	TheGrio
13.4 	480i	16:9 	Catchy 	Catchy Comedy
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KIFT shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal relocated from its transition period UHF channel 66, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 13.
===ATSC 3.0 lighthouse===
 Subchannels of KIFT (ATSC 3.0)
Channel	Res. 	Aspect	Short name	Programming
4.1 	1080p	16:9 	KNBL NX 	NBC (KNBL)
5.1 	1080p	16:9 	KTLS HD 	The CW (KTLA)
9.1 	1080p	16:9 	KCBL NX 	CBS (KCBL-TV)
13.1 	1080p	16:9 	KIFT NX 	Fox
18.1 	1080p	16:9 	KKOP NX 	MyNetworkTV (KKOP-TV)
==Gallery==
<tabber>
Logos=
Metromedia 14.svg|1967–1978
KIFT (1969).svg|1968–1970
Metromedia 13 (1978).svg|1978–1981
KIFT (1986-1987).svg|1986–1987
KIFT (1987-1990).svg|1987–1990
KIFT (1991-1992).svg|1991–1992
KIFT (1992-1994).svg|1992–1994
KIFT (2004-2006).svg|2004–2006
KIFT Fox 13 News (2004-2006).svg|"Fox 13 News" logo (2004–2006)
KIFT (2006).svg|2006–2020
KIFT Fox 13 News (2006-2020).svg|"Fox 13 News" logo (2006–2020)
KIFT Fox 13 News (2020).svg|"Fox 13 News" logo (2020–present)
KIFT Fox 14 News OSB (2020).svg|News programming on-screen bug (2020–present)
KIFT Fox 14 News at 10 OSB (2020).svg|10pm news programming on-screen bug (2020–present)
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Miscellaneous (station IDs, news opens and screenshots)=
KIFT OSB (2019).svg|On-screen bug, displayed during Fox programming (2019–present)
KIFT Syndicated OSB (2006-2022).svg|On-screen bug, displayed during syndicated programming (the URL was changed to simply "foxls.com" and the positioning was moved to the bottom right corner in 2016; 2006–2022).
KIFT Syndicated OSB (2022).svg|On-screen bug, displayed during syndicated programming (2022–present)
KIFT news open 2020.png|Fox 13 News at 10 open (2020–present)
KIFT Report 1.png|Graphics (2020–present)
KIFT Report 2.png|10pm graphics (2020–present)
KIFT ID (2020).png|Station ID (2020–present)
KIFT TMZ promo (5-22-2024).png|TMZ promo (May 22, 2024)
KIFT Karla Kevorkian Profile.png|Karla Kevorkian (anchor)
</tabber>
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