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KTLA Channel 5, Los Angeles’ original television station
- whartung 5y agoI always felt that KTLA had more of a character as a station than the other local stations (KCAL 9, KCOP 13, Metromedia 11 turned in to Fox 11 a long time ago). No doubt this is partly due to the continuity they've maintained with the Rose Parade coverage. The other stations were just outlets for TV shows. KTLA felt more local. I didn't watch a lot of any of these, honestly, so it's just a gut feeling of them. Interesting retrospective in the article.
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- quartesixte 5y agoGrowing up, KTLA5 definitely always was the less polished cousin of ABC7, KCAL9, and NBC4. Much more “local” in feeling than the other three mainstream channels. It also had the primetime lineup that was the, quirkiest and the shows on The CW definitely had a certain charm to them compared to, say, ABC’s or CBS’s dramas.
- Melting_Harps 5y ago> The other stations were just outlets for TV shows. KTLA felt more local. As a SoCal native I still remember watching Hal Fishman in the early 90s as a child, and vaguely watching him discuss the fall of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin wall, OJ chase and trial and then more vividly watching car chases that interrupted my after school cartoons. Apparently he had the record for longest career Anchor in TV history up until recently [0]. I'd eventually leave for Fox 11 and as I kind of always wanted to have Rick Garcia's job. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Fishman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Fishman
- keane 5y agoI don’t know what it is about the culture of broadcast journalism and ENG that is so appealing. Despite not working in the industry, I’ve loved films like Broadcast News where I’ve felt great affinity to the struggle of it all and books like Bob Dotson’s Make It Memorable where I’ve picked up lingo like “stand ups”. I think it’s maybe the duck-taped-together underdog feel and (approximate) egalitarianism of the culture but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
- erulabs 5y agoIt’s also one of the rare careers that still feels heroic. Everyone knows we need good journalists - it might be the last thing everyone agrees on.
- mike50 5y agoTV news is barely journalism nowadays. It's a mechanical Turk text to speech. Local broadcast stations are marginally better IF you are in or near a major city.
- KerrAvon 5y agoNever talked to a Trump voter?
- erulabs 5y agoIsn't that their main argument? They say "today's journalists are bad at journalism" not "journalism is bad". "Fake news" with a negative intonation must imply that it's bad to fake something so important?
- TheGoddessInari 5y agoOn the contrary, "fake news" is just applied to everything they disagree with. This is partly a consequence from the main "right wing" news source (Fox News) is happy to endorse the legal argument that their shows are entertainment only, and that no reasonable person would actually take their hosts seriously [0]. They have people on air willing to peddle any old conspiracy theory at length. And to them, this is the main outlet that dispenses truthiness. [0] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
- bastardoperator 5y agoWhere is Barbera Beck! Love KTLA news.
- graupel 5y agoThe story of how KTLA developed the first live news helicopter is an amazing story in itself, well worth reading if you are interested in KTLA or broadcast ENG. https://www.smecc.org/ktla_telecopter.htm https://www.smecc.org/ktla_telecopter.htm Visiting the current KTLA studio at Sunset Bronson got way more complicated after Netflix moved in, but the lot is a huge part of TV history.
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- vondur 5y agoI liked Stu Nahan, the sports reporter for Channel 5 for 10 years or so. Stu even ended up on Fast Times At Ridgemont High.