angeles . for other uses see fox 11 . not to be confused with ktvt a gaylord owned station in fort worth texas . this section uses citations that link to broken or outdated sources . please improve the article or discuss this issue on the talk page . help on using footnotes is available . july 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message kttv los angeles california united states branding fox 11 general fox 11 news newscasts slogan we are fox 11 general channels digital 11 vhf virtual 11 psip translators see article affiliations .1 fox o & o owner fox television stations fox television stations inc. founded 1946 1 first air date january 1 1949 ; 67 years ago 1949 01 01 call letters meaning times television for its founding owner the los angeles times sister station s kcop tv fox sports west prime ticket former channel number s analog 11 vhf 1949 2009 digital 65 uhf 1998 2009 former affiliations cbs 1949 1951 dumont 1951 1954 independent 1954 1986 transmitter power 115 kw height 920 m 3 018 ft facility id 22208 transmitter coordinates 34 13 29 n 118 3 47 w 34.22472 n 118.06306 w 34.22472 ; 118.06306 coordinates 34 13 29 n 118 3 47 w 34.22472 n 118.06306 w 34.22472 ; 118.06306 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.foxla.com kttv channel 11 is an owned and operated television station of the fox broadcasting company located in los angeles california united states . kttv is owned by the fox television stations division of 21st century fox and operates as part of a television duopoly with kcop channel 13 los angeles s mynetworktv station . the two stations share studio facilities within the fox television center in west los angeles and kttv s transmitter is located on mount wilson . the station is available to directv subscribers in the few areas of the western united states that do not have an over the air fox affiliate . contents 1 history 1.1 early years 1.2 independence 1.3 as a fox owned station 2 digital television 2.1 digital channel 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 syndicated programming 3.1 sports programming 4 news operation 4.1 news investigations 4.1.1 anonymous news report 4.2 notable current on air staff 4.3 notable former on air staff 5 rebroadcasters 6 see also 7 references 8 external links history edit early years edit kttv s origins can be traced to december 1946 when the station s license and construction permit was secured by the times mirror company publishers of the los angeles 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 angeles . 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 11 the network s los angeles television outlet . 2 kttv began operations on january 1 1949 and was operated initially by kttv incorporated the times cbs owned holding company . the station s first telecast was the tournament of roses parade 3 which channel 11 would air every new year s day until 1995 . in may 1950 times mirror purchased the nassour studios a large motion picture facility on sunset boulevard in hollywood and centralized kttv s operations there . 4 5 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 . kttv converted the nassour studios into a major production house for television producing programs locally and for the emerging syndication market . prior to the move kttv operated out of several different facilities including the former headquarters of capitol records which was later the longtime home of khj radio and what is now kcal tv on melrose avenue . 6 later in 1950 cbs chose to acquire its own station in los angeles ktsl channel 2 later knxt and now kcbs 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 kttv 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 angeles times would regain full ownership of channel 11 when the sales were finalized on january 1 1951 . kttv s relationship with cbs ended after exactly two years as the network moved its programming to ktsl . 7 8 a few months later channel 11 agreed to become the new los angeles outlet of the dumont television network which had been affiliated with ktsl and before that ktla channel 5 . 9 independence edit in 1954 dumont moved its programming to khj tv channel 9 now kcal tv 10 and kttv became an independent station . during the late 1950s the station was also briefly affiliated with the nta film network . 11 in 1958 channel 11 scored an advantage against its rivals when it became the television home of the los angeles dodgers baseball team which had relocated from brooklyn new york that year . 12 for the first 11 years and at the request of the team kttv s dodger telecasts were limited to road games against the archrival san francisco giants . eventually the number of dodger games broadcast on the station increased and the home game blackout was lifted ; the relationship between kttv and the dodgers would last until 1992 . the times mirror company sold the station to metromedia in 1963 . 13 14 15 later that year metromedia purchased klac 570 am and the original klac fm 102.7 fm now kiis fm giving channel 11 sister stations on the radio dial . 16 metromedia would later engineer a trade of fm frequencies resulting in klac fm moving to 94.7 fm later to become kmet now ktwv in 1965 . 17 by the 1970s kttv offered a traditional general entertainment schedule common among independent stations at the time consisting of children s programs off network reruns sports programming and movies along with a 10 00 p.m. newscast . the station along with ktla kcop and khj tv became a regional superstation that was seen on various cable television providers across the southwestern united states during the 1970s and into the 1980s as far east as el paso texas . as a fox owned station edit 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 kttv 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 kttv 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 . kttv removed cartoons on weekday mornings in june 1993 due to the launch of the morning newscast good day l.a. in 2001 fox television stations acquired several upn affiliates owned by chris craft industries through its bhc communications station group effectively creating a duopoly between kttv and kcop tv channel 13 . that fall channel 11 dropped the fox kids weekday block and moved it to kcop ; fox kids discontinued its weekday block altogether in january 2002 with the lineup left now airing only on saturday mornings under the new fox box branding which was replaced by 4kids tv in september 2002 kttv began to air fox s children s programming once again . since the 4kids block was replaced by fox with the infomercial block weekend marketplace in december 2008 the station now airs five hours of educational programming two more than required under fcc guidelines as xploration station replaced weekend marketplace which moved to kcop in september 2014 . kttv also airs reruns of i love lucy which had premiered in 1951 months after the station lost its cbs affiliation . reruns of the sitcom are still popular among southern california viewers and have continued to air in the los angeles market perpetually since the series ended its run in 1957 thus making kttv only the second station in the market the other being kcbs tv to continue airing the sitcom since it ended . weekday airings of i love lucy have since moved to kcop which airs the program in a two hour block but kttv continues to air the landmark sitcom on weekends during the late afternoon hours . in 1996 kttv relocated its longtime studios on sunset boulevard in hollywood known as metromedia square and later renamed the fox television center to a new studio facility a few miles away on south bundy drive in west los angeles near the fox network headquarters the network s headquarters are located on the 20th century fox studio lot . several television series were filmed at the historic metromedia square television studio which was once home to norman lear s tandem productions and tat communications company such as the jeffersons mama s family diff rent strokes one day at a time soul train mary hartman mary hartman and the groundbreaking sketch comedy in living color . many of those programs either in first run or off network syndication aired on kttv . the complex was demolished in 2003 to make way for the construction of helen bernstein high school which is part of the los angeles unified school district . on may 16 2006 kttv 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 18 . with the return of the rams nfl franchise to los angeles in the 2016 nfl season via fox s contract with the nfl kttv became the unofficial home station of the rams as fox owns sunday afternoon coverage of most games in which an nfc team is the visitor ; the rams are part of the nfc west . it had held this role for one season in 1994 prior to their move to st. louis . digital television edit digital channel edit channel video aspect psip short name programming 19 11.1 720p 16 9 kttv dt main kttv programming fox kttv also operates a mobile dtv feed labelled kttv fox11 sg broadcasting at 1.83 mbit s on sister station kcop tv s digital signal . 20 21 analog to digital conversion edit kttv shut down its analog signal over vhf channel 11 on june 12 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . 22 23 the station s digital signal relocated from its pre transition uhf channel 65 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 11 for post transition operations . 24 syndicated programming edit in addition to carrying the entire fox network programming lineup kttv serves as a flagship station for tmz on tv and dish nation . other syndicated programming broadcast on kttv including the