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Baldwin Hills Reservoir

KTLA, already a pioneer of live on-the-scene television coverage, used a helicopter to cover the disaster.

Bob Tarlau

He had worked previously for KABC-TV, KTLA and KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles and for Australia's Nine Network, both in Sydney and Los Angeles.

Cher Calvin

Calvin came to KTLA from KVVU-TV Fox 5 in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she was a presenter for Fox 5 News This Morning, taking from Sharon Tay.

Hal Fishman

Fishman also worked at KTTV and KHJ-TV (now KCAL-TV) during the early 1970s, returning to KTLA on January 8, 1975, to anchor their evening new broadcast NewsWatch, later renamed News at Ten.

Hometown Jamboree

Hometown Jamboree was an American country music radio and television show simultaneously broadcast each Saturday night by KXLA radio, Pasadena, California and KLAC-TV/KCOP and KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, California beginning in 1949.

Irwin Rosten

He was hired by KTLA in 1956, where his documentaries included the 1963 Splt Image about internal television programming produced by patients at Camarillo State Mental Hospital.

KLCS

The short farewell video that preceeded the shutdown was a montage of KLCS's on-air logos throughout its history (to that date), set to the song It's The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., which was also used by other television stations to commemorate the transition to digital broadcasting, including KTLA (channel 5) locally.

Liar's Club

Liar's Club was first seen during the 1969-70 season with Rod Serling (of Twilight Zone fame) as host, and returned for a three-season run from 1976–79, after airing as a local series on Los Angeles' KTLA during the 1974-75 season.

Lu Parker

In 2007, Lu began to co-anchor the weekday "KTLA Morning News" at 5:00 A.M and 6:00 A.M. with Cher Calvin.

Micah Ohlman

Ohlman signed on with KTLA in September 2009 as the stations new anchor alongside Victoria Recaño, taking over the station's KTLA News at 6 and 6:30, and signature broadcast, the KTLA News at 10.

Michaela Pereira

Michaela Pereira (born on August 26, 1970) is a Canadian television personality best known as being an anchor for KTLA in Los Angeles.

Natalie Barr

She worked in newspaper, radio and television journalism, including stints at the Wanneroo Times and Golden West Network, before moving to Los Angeles and working for KABC, KTLA and KCOP.

Reminiscing

Instrumental portions of the song were used as bumper music for the Tom Hatten hosted Family Film Festival on KTLA.

Shirley Dinsdale

After the war, she made her break into the budding television industry on KTLA (also in Los Angeles) doing show announcements, birthday greetings, and small spots.

Sports Emmy Award

The first Emmy for "Best Sports Coverage" was handed out at the second annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony in 1950, where KTLA, a local television station in Los Angeles, won the award for coverage of wrestling.

Stacey Koon

The incident was videotaped by a nearby resident, George Holliday, who gave it to local TV station KTLA.

Tammy Hansen Grady

Grady was an actress and pro skater on the Television show RollerGames on KTLA channel 5.

The DeCastro Sisters

Copacabana, the same year that they joined Bob Hope and Cecil B. DeMille on the live premiere broadcast special launching KTLA in Los Angeles, the very first telecast west of the Mississippi.

Top Combine

While there, the group made an appearance on Los Angeles TV station KTLA's Morning Show, becoming the first Chinese musicians, and the second Chinese artiste after Jackie Chan, to be invited to the show.


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