Media in Los Angeles

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The media of Los Angeles are influential and include some of the most important production facilities in the world. As part of the "Creative Capital of the World",^[1] it is a major global center for media and entertainment. In addition to being the home of Hollywood, the center of the motion picture industry, the Los Angeles area is the second largest media market in North America (after New York City).^[2] Many of the nation's media conglomerates either have their primary headquarters (like The Walt Disney Company) or their West Coast operations (like NBCUniversal) based in the region. Universal Music Group, one of the "Big Four" record labels, is also based in the Los Angeles area.

Antennas on Mount Wilson, a major transmitter site for Los Angeles radio and TV stations

The four major American television broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC, all have production facilities and offices throughout various areas of Los Angeles. All four, plus major Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision, also own and operate stations that serve the Los Angeles market. The region also has four PBS stations, with KCET, re-joining the network as secondary affiliate in August 2019, after spending the previous eight years as the nation's largest independent public television station.^{[citation needed]}

The major daily newspaper is the Los Angeles Times, while La Opinión is the city's major daily Spanish-language paper. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety are significant entertainment industry papers in Los Angeles. There are also a wide variety of smaller regional newspapers, alternative weeklies and magazines, including LA Weekly, Los Angeles magazine, the Los Angeles Business Journal, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, and the Los Angeles Downtown News. In addition to the English- and Spanish-language papers, numerous local periodicals serve immigrant communities in their native languages, including Korean, Persian, Russian and Japanese.

The Southern California News Group, a subsidiary of Digital First Media, operates eleven other regional daily newspapers in greater Los Angeles, with all covering four of the five Los Angeles DMA counties. The Los Angeles Daily News, published in the San Fernando Valley community of Woodland Hills, serves as the flagship newspaper of SCNG; other publications under the SCNG umbrella include the Torrance-based Daily Breeze (serving the South Bay and southwestern Los Angeles County), Long Beach Press-Telegram, Pasadena Star-News, and the Orange County Register, which SCNG acquired (along with the Riverside Press-Enterprise) from Freedom Communications in March 2016. Los Angeles arts, culture and nightlife news is also covered by a number of local and national online guides like Time Out Los Angeles, Thrillist, Kristin's List, DailyCandy, LAist, and Flavorpill.^[3]

Film[]

The city's Hollywood neighborhood is notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people in it. The industry's "Big Five" major film studios (Columbia, Disney, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros.) are all based in or around Hollywood. Several other smaller and independent film companies also operate in the Los Angeles area.

• The Big Five major film studios
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  Columbia

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  Disney

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  Paramount

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  Universal

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  Warner Bros.

Print media[]

Former Los Angeles Times headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles

Daily newspapers[]

• Asbarez (Armenian)
• The Epoch Times (Chinese)
• Hoy (Spanish)
• Investor's Business Daily
• The Korea Times (Korean)
• The Los Angeles Bulletin and Civic Center NEWSource^[4]
• Los Angeles Daily Journal (legal daily)
• Los Angeles Daily News
• Los Angeles Times
• Metropolitan News-Enterprise (legal daily)^[5]
• MyNewsLA
• La Opinión (Spanish)
• Rafu Shimpo (Japanese)
• The Daily Telescope^[6]
• World Journal (Chinese)

Weekly and monthly newspapers[]

• Argonaut (Marina del Rey/Culver City community weekly)
• Beverly Press (community weekly)^[7]
• CaribPress (Caribbean monthly)
• The Century City News (community bi-weekly)
• Cultural News (English-language Japanese monthly)
• India Journal (Indian weekly)^[8]
• The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (Jewish weekly)
• L.A. Watts Times (community weekly)^[9]
• LA Weekly (alternative weekly)
• Larchmont Chronicle (community weekly)
• Los Angeles Asian Journal (Filipino biweekly)^[10]
• Los Angeles Business Journal (business weekly)
• Los Angeles Downtown News (community weekly)
• Los Angeles Free Press (alternative weekly)^[11]
• The Los Angeles Independent (community weekly)^[12]
• Los Angeles Sentinel (African-American weekly)
• Los Angeles Wave - Culver City edition (community weekly)^[13]
  • Culver City Star
  • The Westsider
• Los Angeles Wave - Northeast edition (community weekly)^[13]
  • Belvedere Citizen
  • Eagle Rock Sentinel
  • East L.A. Tribune
  • Eastside Journal
  • Highland Park News Herald & Journal
  • Lincoln Heights Bulletin
  • Mount Washington Star Review
  • El Sereno Star
• Los Angeles Wave - West edition (community weekly)^[13]
  • Angeles Mesa News
  • Central News Wave
  • Inglewood/Hawthorne Wave
  • Southside Journal
  • Southwest Topics Wave
  • Tribune News
• Los Feliz Ledger (community monthly)
• Pacific Citizen (Asian-American semi-monthly)
• Palisadian-Post (community weekly)
• Park Labrea News (community weekly)^[14]
• The Angelus (Catholic weekly - Formerly The Tidings)
• The Tolucan Times (community weekly)
• Valley Vantage (community weekly)^[15]
• Warner Center News (community weekly)^[15]

Magazines[]

• The Advocate
• Angeleno^[16]
• Bel-Air View^[17]
• Brentwood Magazine
• Brentwood News^[17]
• Discover Hollywood Magazine^[18]
• Entertainment Weekly^[19]
• The Hollywood Reporter
• The Reader Magazine^[20]
• L.A. Record
• Los Angeles
• Los Angeles Confidential^[21]
• Pacific Palisades 90272^[17]
• Sense
• Time Out Los Angeles
• Variety

Defunct[]

• City News Los Angeles
• Eastside Sun (community weekly)^[22]
• Illustrated Daily News
• LA Youth
• Los Angeles CityBeat
• Los Angeles Express
• Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
• Mexican American Sun (community weekly)^[22]
• New Times LA
• Northeast Sun (community weekly)^[22]
• Tuesday's Child
• Daily Variety
• Wyvernwood Chronicle (community weekly)^[22]

Television[]

The Los Angeles area is the home of several major offices and production facilities in the television industry. The Fox Broadcasting Company is based in the Century City district of Los Angeles inside the 20th Century Studios studio lot, while another complex, the Fox Television Center, is in West Los Angeles. CBS owns CBS Studio Center in Studio City and previously owned Television City in the Fairfax District, although the network still maintains operations on that lot. ABC, and its parent company Disney, produce TV programs both at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank and at The Prospect Studios in the Los Feliz neighborhood. NBC use to primarily produce at what is now The Burbank Studios before its parent company NBCUniversal moved these operations in 2014 to a new complex across the street from the Universal Studios lot. Several other film studios may also produce TV shows on their respective lots.

The building that now houses the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, at 1313 North Vine Street in Hollywood, played a pivotal role in the history of Los Angeles television, as three area television stations (channels 2, 9, and 28) each used this facility to begin their initial broadcast operations in different points in time, as well as ABC Television using this building as a secondary studio facility to their Prospect lot.^[23] The building, one of the first broadcast facilities built for television use, opened in August 1948 as the Mutual-Don Lee Broadcasting System Building, and it is where Channel 2 (then operating as KTSL, the DuMont network's original Los Angeles affiliate) first began its broadcast operations after receiving its FCC license just three months prior.^[24] After Channel 2 was sold to CBS in 1951 (and was re-christened as KNXT thereafter), the station remained at 1313 North Vine until it relocated to near-by Columbia Square (at 6121 Sunset Boulevard, between El Centro and Gower Avenues) in 1961; Channel 9 also operated in this building until the early 1960s, when it and its then-sister radio station KHJ (930 AM) moved to the former Capitol Records building at 5515 Melrose Avenue, adjacent to the Paramount Pictures Studios. Channel 9 would remain at 5515 Melrose until 2002, after the station was purchased by CBS Corporation, and consolidated its operations with Channel 2 at Columbia Square; both stations moved to a dedicated television broadcast facility on the CBS Studio Center lot in 2007.

KCET Channel 28 used the Vine facility from its original sign-on in 1964 until 1971, when the station purchased and relocated to the former Monogram Pictures studio lot at 4401 Sunset Boulevard, where it remained until 2011, when the station moved to a new broadcast center in Burbank, across from the former NBC studio lot (now operating as The Burbank Studios). From the mid-1960s until the 1980s, ABC also used this facility (then operating as the Vine Street Theater) to produce several shows there, including the original run of The Newlywed Game, the first season of the ABC daytime version of Family Feud, and the situation comedy Barney Miller among other series.

In all, every major Los Angeles television station, including all seven original VHF stations (channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13), Spanish-language independent KWHY (channel 22), KCET, and Univision flagship station KMEX (channel 34) were based in Hollywood at various points in time, and nearly all of them (except for channels 13 and 34) were located on or near Sunset Boulevard. As most of these stations in proceeding years relocated to other parts of Greater Los Angeles, KTLA remains the only local broadcaster (television or radio) to be based in Hollywood, having been located at 5800 Sunset since 1958; prior to that, Channel 5 originally operated from the Paramount Melrose lot from its 1947 sign-on until the relocation six blocks to the north along Van Ness Avenue on Sunset, eleven years later.

Channel 4, then known as KRCA-TV (unrelated to the current KRCA, on channel 62) was the first Los Angeles television station to leave Hollywood (being based at the NBC Radio City building on Sunset and Vine since its 1949 sign-on), as the station moved to the NBC Burbank studio lot in November 1962, and the station changed its call letters to KNBC upon the move to the San Fernando Valley.^[25] In 1997, KTTV, having been based at 5746 Sunset (across Van Ness from KTLA) since 1950^[26] moved to a new broadcast center in West Los Angeles, on Bundy Drive near Olympic Boulevard, and after being purchased by KTTV parent Fox Television Stations in the early 2000s, KCOP moved from its longtime studios on La Brea and Willoughby Avenues on the Los Angeles/West Hollywood boundary line,^[27] to the KTTV facility on Bundy and Olympic. Near the end of 2000, KABC-TV left its longtime home at the then-ABC Television Center at Prospect Avenue and Talmadge Street (less than one mile north of the former KCET Sunset studios), and moved to a new studio facility as part of Disney's Grand Central Creative campus in Glendale.

KMEX, one of the first Spanish-language television stations in the United States,^[28] was originally located at 5420 Melrose (across from Paramount) from its September 1962 launch until 1993, where it moved to the Howard Hughes Center in the Westchester neighborhood of the city, near the Culver City border and Interstate 405. Although KMEX moved to the Hughes Center in 1993, originally occupying space in one of the office towers on the site upon its move, Univision built a dedicated broadcast center in 2002 in another area of the complex, and has housed KMEX, sister station KFTR (Channel 46), four co-owned radio stations, and the network's West Coast operations since then.

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  Entrance to the Fox Studios lot

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  CBS Studio Center, Soundstage 2

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  Television City

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  The Prospect Studios, formerly the ABC Television Center

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  The Burbank Studios, formerly NBC Studios

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  Entrance to Gate 3 at Universal Studios, with signage for KNBC (NBC channel 4) and KVEA (Telemundo channel 52)

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  Sunset Bronson Studios, home of KTLA (channel 5)

Stations[]

The following are full-powered stations serving the Los Angeles television market. Network owned-and-operated stations are highlighted in bold. For full-market listings, please see the Los Angeles television station template.

Cable and internet[]

• CBSN Los Angeles - Local and national news, simulcasts of KCAL-TV & KCBS-TV newscasts
• Bally Sports West and SoCal - Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks games
• Spectrum News 1 - Local news, long-form news/talk programs; available only to Charter Spectrum local subscribers
• Spectrum SportsNet - Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Galaxy and Los Angeles Sparks games
• Spectrum SportsNet LA - Los Angeles Dodgers games
• Public, educational and government access channels 35 and 36

Radio[]

A number of radio stations are broadcast from and/or are licensed to Los Angeles, including the following:

AM[]

FM[]

See also[]

• Arts and culture of Los Angeles
• History of Los Angeles, California

References[]

External links[]

• LA Almanac - Media
• Naming Your Business: Newspaper of General Circulation
• Ethnic Newspapers – Los Angeles County