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An early KECA-TV logo slide from the 1950s. Channel 7 first signed on the air under the call sign KECA-TV on September 16, 1949. [2] It was the last television station licensed to Los Angeles operating on the VHF band to debut and the last of ABC's five original owned-and-operated stations to make its debut, after San Francisco's KGO-TV, which signed on four months earlier.
In 1970, she joined ABC owned-and-operated station KGO-TV in San Francisco as a reporter. [3] Later, Lund moved south to Los Angeles sister station KABC in 1972 as a reporter and anchor. She anchored the newscasts at 6:00 pm and 11:00 pm. Throughout much of her first tenure, she co-anchored with the late Jerry Dunphy . [ 4 ]
Currently, television stations that primarily serve Greater Los Angeles include: [2] 2 KCBS-TV Los Angeles * 4 KNBC Los Angeles * 5 KTLA Los Angeles * 6 KHTV-CD Los Angeles * 7 KABC-TV Los Angeles * 8 KFLA-LD Los Angeles ; 9 KCAL-TV Los Angeles * 10 KIIO-LD Los Angeles (Armenian independent) 11 KTTV Los Angeles *
On January 14, 2012, KCAL debuted two-hour-long weekend morning newscasts (airing at 7 a.m. on Saturdays and on Sundays, which follow one-hour newscasts on KCBS); the programs are KCAL's first morning newscasts—ironically though, channel 9 was the only news-producing station in the market that did not have a news program on weekday mornings. [66]
Los Angeles' total population is just under 4 million people. That means around 3% of the city's population has been displaced. More than 420,000 people are estimated to be without power.
After Dunphy's firing, Channel 2 wouldn't recover in the ratings until the mid-2000s. Dunphy left KABC-TV in July 1989 and joined the upstart KCAL-TV that July (when it was still KHJ-TV) [1] as one of the pioneering anchors of the three-hour primetime news format, Prime 9 News. He returned to KCBS-TV in February 1995 as a late afternoon anchor ...
Why did dozens of fire hydrants go dry as firefighters rushed to combat flames from spreading in the Los Angeles area? National investigative correspondent Patrick Terpstra explains.
As spring gets underway, a plant haunting the dreams of many a conservationist has made its return. Honeysuckle is back. The invasive, sunlight-hogging bush has begun taking over fields, roadsides ...