[2] Although not as widespread in national carriage as its Chicago sister station WGN-TV, KTLA is available as a superstation via DirecTV[3] and Dish Network (the latter service available only to grandfathered subscribers that had purchased its a la carte superstation tier before Dish halted sales of the package to new subscribers in September 2013), as well as on cable providers in select cities within the southwestern United States and throughout Canada. On Saturday, KTLA-TV (Channel 5) weekend morning news anchor Mark Mester was suspended from the station after he criticized the stations decision to have an entertainment reporter announce the Most importantly, they want to know why she is leaving the station where she worked at for most of her career and where she is going next. In March 1991, KTLA was the first station 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. It would end up being his final one. After a tumultuous exit from KTLA-TV Channel 5, news anchor Lynette Romero has landed at crosstown rival KNBC-TV Channel 4. RELATED: News Anchor Suspended for Criticizing the Treatment of Former Co-Anchor amid KTLA news director Pete Saiers said in a statement to Variety: After 24 years, Lynette Romero has decided to move on from anchoring our weekend morning news. In 2007, Parker began to co-anchor the weekday "KTLA Morning News" at 5:00 A.M and 6:00 A.M. with Cher Calvin. The Times and KTLA were separated on August 4, 2014, when Tribune spun off its publishing division into a separate company; KTLA and Tribune's other broadcasting properties (as well as its Media Services and real estate units) remained with the original company, which was renamed as the Tribune Media Company.[30][31]. Putnam and fellow KTLA news anchors Hal Fishman and Larry McCormick became icons in Los Angeles television news over the years. Longtime KTLA News anchor Lynette Romero will join NBC4s Today in LA as an anchor and reporter, KNBC announced Tuesday, with her first day on-air scheduled for Oct. 10. News and KNBC are part of the NBCUniversal family.). After a tumultuous exit from KTLA-TV Channel 5, news anchor Lynette Romero has landed at crosstown rival KNBC-TV Channel 4. It was a bitter-sweet moment on the set of the KTLA 5 Weekend Morning News Sunday as beloved entertainment anchor Dayna Devon announced she will be departing the weekend team. Sitcoms ran on the station 9 a.m. to noon weekdays. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: KTLA, in the tradition of television pioneering successes, was an FCC volunteer "early adopter" HD station. KTLA is currently the only Los Angeles area broadcaster that remains based in Hollywood as many other television and radio stations have moved to other parts of the region. ", "Autry, Signal principal players in record TV deal. The station debuted a midday newscast at noon in 1995, which later moved to 11:00a.m. the following year, which lasted less than two years before it was canceled in 1997. During his monologue, he hada photo of himself and Romero standing with KTLA Vice President and General Manager Janene Drafs, who he called a "terrific woman," flash on the screen. WebThere are 17 areas under alert. She gained popularity after she hosted the top-rated morning show Good Day at KDFW-TV. Covering the on-air event for KTLA was Stan's grandson, reporter Jaime Chambers. On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner (now Warner Bros. WebThe KTLA (TV Channel 5 Los Angeles) Morning News is celebrating its 25th anniversary by looking back at some of the top stories of the past two and a half decades. Fishman was the longest-running news anchor in the history of American television before Dave Ward surpassed him in 2015. KTLAended up airing a pre-taped tribute to Romero. He called the announcement unfortunate and inappropriate and again apologized. KTLA news director Pete Saiers said in a statement to Variety: After 24 years, Lynette Romero has decided to move on from anchoring our weekend morning news. So keep checking her official social media for an update. These shows ran weekend mornings and weekend early afternoons. WebThe KTLA (TV Channel 5 Los Angeles) Morning News is celebrating its 25th anniversary by looking back at some of the top stories of the past two and a half decades. Sept. 27, 2022 8:45 AM PT. In 2004, KTLA debuted a segment on its morning newscast titled "The Audition", in which several actors and actresses competed for a role as weathercaster on its 10:00p.m. newscast. Broke off from local feed to become a separate channel. With this, KTLA 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. 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KTLA also aired retrospectives of historic Los Angeles news stories during its weekend evening newscasts,[35] but was not aired on November 24 due to coverage of the Corral Canyon fire in Malibu. Apparently, Mesters commentary did not sit well with station management, because he now has been suspended. Weekend Morning News anchor, Mark Mester, was fired on September 22, 2022, after he took it upon himself to apologize to viewers for KTLA's "rude" sendoff. In 1979, KTLA acquired Happy Days, in 1981 Laverne & Shirley, Little House On The Prairie, in 1982 Taxi, and CHiPs, among other shows. Lynette Romero is keeping in touch with her former co-anchor Mark Mester after they exited news station KTLA in September. KTLA produces a 15-minute sports wrap-up show every night at 10:45p.m., during KTLA 5 News at 10:00; produces a 30-minute show, KTLA 5 Sports Final, on the weekends at 11:35p.m. after KTLA 5 News at 11:00. You did not deserve what happened to you on Wednesday.. While the 3:00 broadcast was a permanent addition, the 2:00p.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). The station reallocated to UHF channel 35 in phase two of the auction. As of 2023, she is around 48 years old. By. E! Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks. By Meg James Staff Writer. After a tumultuous exit from KTLA-TV Channel 5, news anchor Lynette Romero has landed at crosstown rival KNBC-TV Channel 4. On the morning of 14 September 2022, Sam Rubin announced on the air that Lynette Romero had left her anchor position with KTLA. KTLA 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 California and in the United States as a whole. Wendy Burch announced she is leaving her on-air role at KTLA this month. Due to the company's ownership interest in the network (initially a 12.5% stake, later expanding to 22%), Tribune signed its seven existing independent stations (one such station, Atlanta's WGNX, joined CBS instead one month prior to The WB's launch), along with an eighth that the company had acquired the following year, to serve as The WB's charter affiliates. KTLA also broadcasts the San Diego Big Bay Boom 4th of July fireworks show, with coverage produced by sister station KSWB-TV. Before eventually launching a 10:00p.m. newscast in 1965, originally titled Newscene (also known over the years as The George Putnam News, NewsWatch, Channel 5/KTLA News at Ten and KTLA Prime News), KTLA had its weeknight evening newscasts airing at 7 and 11pm, with the latter in direct competition with the network-owned local newscasts on KNXT (now KCBS-TV), KRCA-TV (now KNBC) and KABC-TV. The program's success spawned rival KTTV to launch its own morning newscast, Good Day L.A., in 1993. Other than telecasts of preseason games from the Las Vegas Raiders (who were based in Los Angeles from 1982 until the team returned to Oakland in 1994) syndicated by the Las Vegas Silver and Black Network, along with a 30-minute show each weekend during the regular season before the game, KTLA does produce one sporting event each year, the LA 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. 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. Jason Duaine Hahn. Pascucci is involved with several local philanthropic organizations, and she is not going to leave those positions any time. The creation of the three-hour mid-afternoon news blockwhich expanded upon the existing 1:00p.m. newscastwas in response to CBS Television Stations' December 10 announcement that it would discontinue KCAL-TV's newscasts at 2:00 and 3:00 late that month to refocus newsgathering resources towards KCAL's 4:00p.m. newscast and the respective evening newscasts on KCAL and sister station KCBS-TV. In November 1982, Golden West sold KTLA to investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for $245 million. As of 2023, she is around 48 years old. King won the first installment, followed by Holmes as the winner of the second installment (Holmes now serves as co-anchor of the 7:0011:00a.m. weekday block of the KTLA Morning News). ", Now is the perfect time to tell @LynetteRomero you love her. KTLA viewers have started their mornings with Wendy Burch for over a decade. In September 1995, KTLA added afternoon cartoons and Saturday morning cartoons from the network's newly launched Kids' WB block, bringing weekday children's programs back to channel 5 for the first time in close to 25 years. debuted. Now she is moving on to a new opportunity after 24 hours of being the Golden States premiere news anchor. KTLA became an affiliate of the MGM/UA Premiere Network, a film-based ad hoc television network, with the showing of Clash of the Titans. [55] The deal, which was closed on October 3, resulted in KTLA becoming The CW's West Coast flagship for the first time.[56]. While bringing groundbreaking news coverage to L.A. residents, she also trained for and obtained her pilot and scuba licenses. In April 2011, KTLA added weekend morning newscasts (an hour-long newscast at 6:00a.m. on Saturdays, which expanded to two hours at 5:00a.m. in September 2012 and a three-hour Sunday newscast at 6:00a.m.; the Saturday morning edition aired in the earlier timeslot due to The CW's Vortexx animation block). Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education Career, Income, Salary Since 2018, shes held a side job as a county commissioner for the aviation commission at the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works. On Saturday, Romeros co-anchor Mester went on air and, seemingly of his own accord, offered what he called an apology to viewers: What the viewers experienced was rude, it was cruel, it was inappropriate, and we are so sorry.. On January 13, 2007, KTLA became the second television station in the Los Angeles market (after KABC-TV) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. KTLA-DT went on to do the first HD Rose Parade and the first HD Dodgers baseball game broadcasts in the several months that followed. On November 2, 1993, the Warner Bros. Television division of Time Warner and the Tribune Company announced the formation of The WB Television Network. While none of the parties involved seem to be disputing that Romero wanted to leave including Romero herself fans and the stations faithful took to Twitter to lament her sudden exit. KTLA has also created synergy between Tribune Company entities. September 19, 2022 by Matthew Keys. WebKTLA offers midday news from 12 noon to 2 pm (Pacific Time) as part of the extended morning local newscast, the evening news from 6 to 7 pm, and late night news from 10 to 11:35 pm (Monday through Friday). On September 21, 2020, KTLA added a new hour-long 12p.m. weekday newscast. Deadline reached out to KTLA and will add any comment received. There is no indication for how long or how it will impact the stations Weekend Morning News. The WB would eventually carry prime time shows six nights a week (Sunday through Friday) by September 1999. The station was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1939 as experimental station W6XYZ, broadcasting on VHF channel 4; it did not sign on the air until September 1942. The Emmy Award-winning anchor had answers to most of her followers questions. In January 2005, she moved to Los Angeles to join Frank Buckley as co-anchor for KTLA's "KTLA Prime News" on weekends. The source told E! Discovery equally sharing the remaining 25%. The Tribune Company purchased the Times Mirror Company (then-owners of the Los Angeles Times) in 2000, bringing the newspaper into common ownership with channel 5; ironically, the Los Angeles Times was the original owner of Fox owned-and-operated station KTTV from 1949 (under a joint venture with CBS through 1951) until it sold the station to Metromedia (successor to DuMont's owned and operated stations) in 1963 (that company would eventually become Fox Television Stations upon Metromedia's 1986 merger with News Corporation); as FCC rules prohibited the common ownership of newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same market, Tribune filed for and was granted a waiver by the agency in order to acquire the Times. She gained popularity after she hosted the top-rated morning show Good Day at KDFW-TV. Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy. A Los Angeles news anchor who was suspended from his job has hired an employment lawyer as questions swirl over his future at the station. In September 2022, long-time news anchor Lynette Romero left the station for a weekday morning news position at cross-town rival KNBC. @mtelles and I are up early and ready for the @KTLAWeekendAM pic.twitter.com/yNqmAe9YF2. The Emmy-Award [62] Channel 5 would continue this arrangement with SportsNet LA since the 2018 season. Photo: microgen/envato. [69] On April 4, the weekend edition of the 6:30p.m. newscast expanded to a full hour at 6:00p.m., with the 6:30p.m. weekday newscasts following suit that September. For many years, those who have worked on Stage 6 at KTLA were told that it was the site where Al Jolson's landmark film The Jazz Singer was shot in 1927, when the lot was known as the Warner Bros. Sunset Studios; Mark Evanier, who wrote for one such show in 1978, points out on his website that Stage 6 did not even exist at the time that The Jazz Singer was produced and that it was actually probably filmed at what is now Stage 9. [75][76] In July 2015, KTLA became the first television station in Los Angeles to carry live audio simulcasts of its newscasts on the iHeartRadio app. WebThere are 17 areas under alert. The clip added shows one of her former co-anchors (Sam Rubin) wishing her luck, letting her know shell be missed, and sending her well wishes for the L.A. residents were naturally surprised by the news. In recent years, KTLA's newscasts have become more tabloid-based in nature, perhaps to compete with KTTV (both stations have rivaled each other in the ratings for many years). [36] There had been speculation that KTLA would move into the Los Angeles Times Building in downtown Los Angeles, combining operations and staff with the Times newspaper; this arrangement is also used by two other Tribune combined newspaper-broadcast operations: Miami's WSFL-TV is based in the offices of former sister newspaper Sun-Sentinel, while the Hartford duopoly of WTIC-TV/WTXX moved into new facilities in the Hartford Courant building in December 2009. Mester went on to explain that what bothered him was the fact that Romeros departure was announced so suddenly and that she did not get time to say goodbye to viewers. Lynette decided to leave for another opportunity. Parker has been the anchor for the 11am - 2pm and 3pm newscasts at KTLA since 2015. I also want to say sorry to Lynette Romero, he continued, because, Lynette, I love you so much. Sinclair Broadcast Group entered into an agreement to acquire Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $3.9billion, plus the assumption of $2.7billion in Tribune debt. Stay tuned my friends I'll be right back.". Mark Mester was fired after he deviated off script and slammed his own station on the air regarding the handling of a co-anchors abrupt departure from the airwaves Credit: KTLA. Send us a tip using our annonymous form. News. Good morning!! News App. Children's programs, with the exception of weekend morning Popeye cartoons (which originally came from former parent Paramount,[20] but had been sold off to what became the syndication arm of United Artists Television[21]), were also phased out. Wendy Burch announced she is leaving her on-air role at KTLA this month. By Meg James Staff Writer. It would end up being his final one. Fans of KTLAs weekend news team Lynette Romero and Mark Mester are fuming at the Los Angeles CW affiliates decision to boot both in short succession, with many calling for a boycott. Romero was given the opportunity to say goodbye to viewers, but decided to take vacation time through the end of her contract. Check out our current live radar and weather forecasts for Coffeyville, Kansas to help plan your day Lynette Romero/Instagram . Available on select cable providers in Michigan and the Northeastern United States as a regional superstation. Read More . On January 19, KTLA soft-launched a nightly half-hour 6:30p.m. newscast[68] (the market's first since KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV ran newscasts in that slot KCBS's being part of an hour-long 6:00p.m. newscast during the mid-1990s, prior to CBS's 2002 purchase of KCAL). The clip added shows one of her former co-anchors (Sam Rubin) wishing her luck, letting her know shell be missed, and sending her well wishes for the Ryan Donaldson Leaving KFAN: Where Is the Sports Radio Host Going? Weekend Morning News anchor, Mark Mester, was fired on September 22, 2022, after he took it upon himself to apologize to viewers for KTLA's "rude" sendoff. "She has been in touch with Mark and the two of them remain close friends," the first source told E! Fishman was the longest-running news anchor in the history of American television before Dave Ward surpassed him in 2015. 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. KTLA 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. Christina Pascucci announced she is leaving KTLA-TV in July 2022. Check out our current live radar and weather forecasts for Coffeyville, Kansas to help plan your day In addition to the station itself, six other individuals associated with KTLAformer owner Gene Autry, newsmen Hal Fishman, George Putnam, Stan Chambers and Larry McCormick, and founding manager Klaus Landsberghave received stars on the Walk of Fame. This arrangement would extend into the following year, when on March 8, 2017, SportsNet LA agreed to simulcast ten Dodgers games scheduled during the first and last five weeks of the 2017 regular season on KTLA. You will be redirected back to your article in, Lynette Romero and Mark The station continued use the "Channel 5" brand it used prior to its WB affiliation (with The WB logo simply tacked onto the station's "Gold 5" logo) until 1997, when the station overhauled its on-air branding to "KTLA 5, L.A.'s WB". Fans can take comfort that she has not hinted at leaving the city. 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 KTLA to replace John Beard as co-anchor of KTTV's 10:00p.m. After the main KTLA Twitter promoted the station's Sunday morning broadcast, one person tweeted, "They all suck! Thats why KTLA-TV viewers were saddened when she announced her departure from the station after 11 years. Shortly afterward, KTLA 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). After working at stations in Reno, Nevada, and Palm Springs, California, she joined KTLA-TVs on-air team in 2011the same station she interned at when she was 19. 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. On February 9, 2019, KTLA added a new hour-long 5p.m. weekend newscast. We love you Lynette pic.twitter.com/7WtRQJq38a. Morning Anchor Sean Coffey Leaves WBRE/WYOU Eyewitness News. WebHarold Fishman [1] [2] (August 25, 1931 August 7, 2007) was a local news anchor in the Los Angeles area, serving on-air with Los Angeles-area television stations continuously from 1960 until his death in 2007. In 2007, Parker began to co-anchor the weekday "KTLA Morning News" at 5:00 A.M and 6:00 A.M. with Cher Calvin. KTLA was one of nearly 1,000 television stations that changed their digital signal allocation in the spectrum auction repack of late 2017 or early 2018. News, Drafs said,"We really wanted her to stay, and KTLA Management worked hard to make that happen. "Morale on the morning shift has been very strong this weekend,"a station source with knowledge of the situation told E! Two days later, on January 24, 2007, KTLA became the first television entity to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [22][23] In May 1985, KKR sold the station to Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting, for a then-record price of $510 million, which beat the station's earlier record sale price set by the 1982 acquisition by KKR. [citation needed] The station is also a part of Nexstar's statewide network when KTLA or another California Nexstar station originates a political debate for statewide office. Discovery) and CBS Corporation (now Paramount Global) announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. Her last day on-air was on July 17. Observed: Zorianna Kit a protective wife? Mester introduced that segment on KTLA's Sept. 17 morning broadcast. In November 1963, KTLA was purchased by actor and singer Gene Autry for $12 million; upon the sale's finalization in May 1964, Autry merged the station with his other broadcasting properties, including KMPC radio (710 AM, now KSPN) into an umbrella company known as Golden West Broadcasters. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Estimates of television sets in Los Angeles County at the time ranged from 350 to 600, since experimental station W6XAO (later KTSL and KNXT, now KCBS-TV) was already in operation broadcasting with a regular schedule. KTLA-TV Channel 5, whose broadcasts of local news for decades have been an essential part of daily life for many Los Angeles viewers, became the news this past week, after the departure of one of its high-profile news anchors, Lynette Romero, and the firing of another, Mark Mester.. 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