KCOP-TV
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| KCOP-TV | |
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| Los Angeles, California | |
| Branding | my 13 L.A. |
| Slogan | Get It On! |
| Channels | 13 (VHF) analog, 66 (UHF) digital |
| Translators | 13 K13WJ Morongo Valley 50 K50HV Daggett 18 K18FH Twentynine Palms 13 K13NF & 49 K49AA Ridgecrest |
| Affiliations | My Network TV |
| Owner | Fox Television Stations Group |
| Founded | September 17, 1948 |
| Call letters meaning | COPley Press (one-time owners) |
| Former affiliations | DuMont (1948-1955) Independent (1948-1992) PTEN (1993-1995) UPN (1995-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 161 kW/906 m (analog) 1000 kW/890 m (digital) |
| Website | www.my13la.com |
KCOP-TV, referred to as My Network TV Channel 13, is a My Network TV owned and operated television station in Los Angeles. This station, owned by Fox Television Stations Group (which also owns KTTV) has a signal radius that covers the Southern California region.
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[edit] History
[edit] Independent era, early years
KCOP went on the air on September 17, 1948 as KMTR-TV. The station briefly changed its call letters to KLAC-TV (Los Angeles, California), and adopted the moniker "Lucky 13." It was co-owned with KLAC-AM-FM, which ironically would also be eventually co-owned with Channel 13's current sister station KTTV. Although it was an independent station, it did run some programming from the DuMont Television Network [1].
One of Channel 13's earlier stars was veteran actress Betty White, who starred in her own live sitcom, Life with Elizabeth. Television personality Regis Philbin and actor-director Leonard Nimoy once worked behind the scenes at Channel 13. In 1954, the Copley Press (owners of The San Diego Union-Tribune) purchased KLAC-TV, and changed its call letters to the present KCOP. Six years later, the NAFI Corporation (which would later merge with Chris-Craft Boats, creating today's Chris-Craft Industries) bought Channel 13, with a relationship with Chris-Craft that lasted over forty years.
Chris-Craft partnered up with various television studios over the years to produce first-run syndicated programming, which gave KCOP some of its best ratings and made Channel 13 one of America's leading local television stations. From the 1960s to the early 1990s, KCOP offered a broad range of programs ranging from cartoons to off-network sitcoms, older theatrical and made-for-TV movies, syndicated talk shows, game shows, and even local news.
The station was known for airing classic shows as I Dream of Jeannie, Get Smart, Batman and Bewitched during the late-1970s, along with airing a few classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons including Josie and the Pussycats, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch and Yogi Bear.
Charlie O'Donnell, legendary television announcer best known as the off-screen voice of Wheel of Fortune, was a news anchor at Channel 13 in the 1970s and was the primary voiceover for the station as well.
Despite it success as a television station, its newscasts were one of the lowest rated in the market. In the 1990s, the station began to focus more on first-run talk shows, court shows, reality shows, and newsmagazine shows as well as off-network drama shows.
Chris-Craft's Television subsidaries joined with Warner Brothers to form the Prime Time Entertainment Network and affiliated KCOP with PTEN.
[edit] UPN affiliate (1995-2006)
In 1995, Chris-Craft and its subsidiary, United Television, partnered with Paramount Pictures (which once owned rival KTLA) to form the United Paramount Network (UPN). KCOP accordingly became the network's West Coast flagship station.
In 1998, Pokémon made its debut in the LA metro area on this channel.
Chris-Craft/United Television sold its stations to Fox on July 31, 2001. KCOP's news and technical operations were later integrated with the operations of KTTV. KCOP abandoned its longtime Hollywood studios (once home to the classic Barry & Enright game shows The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough; now home of the FOX TV show Hell's Kitchen) to move into KTTV's studios in West Los Angeles. Upon being sold to Fox in 2001, the weekday Fox Kids block moved to KCOP in the mid-afternoons, only for it to be dropped nationwide in January 2002. Soon after, the station ran a one-hour morning cartoon block (from the DIC Entertainment company), but dropped cartoons for good in September 2006. It was the last local television station to air cartoons on weekdays. Like the other local stations, the cartoons were replaced with informercials.
[edit] Losing UPN?
Viacom, since 1994 the parent company of Paramount, bought out the other 50% stake of UPN from Chris-Craft, and became 100% owner of the upstart network. In a separate transaction in 2002, Viacom purchased KCOP's arch-rival, KCAL-TV. Rumors persisted that UPN would move to KCAL, making KCOP an independent station once again (which would have been the second such station owned by Fox, after KDFI in Dallas) and KCAL a UPN owned-and-operated station, the largest such station. However, Viacom said that it would continue to operate KCAL as an independent station (at least for the time being), and UPN would stay on KCOP (which meant that WPSG in Philadelphia would continue to be UPN's largest O&O). Fox recently renewed its affiliation agreement with UPN in a now defunct eight-year pact.
[edit] Sports coverage
KCOP is the broadcast television station of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, a team in Major League Baseball. Before that, it carried the Los Angeles Dodgers, also a MLB team (2002 to 2005), the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (1991 to 1996), and the Los Angeles Marathon (1986 to 1999).
[edit] My Network TV (2006-Present)
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time-Warner announced it would be ceasing operations on both UPN and The WB. They formed a joint-venture to create a new network called The CW, which is scheduled to launch in September 2006. 11 CBS-owned UPN stations and 16 WB stations owned by the Tribune Company have signed a ten-year affiliation agreement to the network. Los Angeles' WB flagship, KTLA-TV will become the new network's West Coast flagship.
Despite its pact, KCOP ended its ties to UPN on August 31, 2006, three weeks before that network ceased operations. My Network TV premiered on KCOP on September 5, 2006 with the premiere of two English-language telenovelas: Fashion House and Desire. Today KCOP is the west-coast flagship of My Network TV.
Since October, the station began identifying itself as My Network TV Channel 13.
[edit] News operation
For many years, KCOP has run a traditional newscast at 10pm. The station's newscast has generally been the lowest rated evening newscast of the seven VHF television stations in the Los Angeles market. The newscast length has varied from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the station budget. However, when the station was purchased by Fox and its operations were taken over by KTTV, it moved the newscast to 11pm to avoid direct competition with KTTV (which also runs a 10pm newscast), and trimmed it from an hour in length down to 30 minutes.
The station's news production and resources are now also handled by KTTV. There are three anchors, Lauren Sanchez, Rick Garcia, and Maria Quiban. Sanchez and Garcia, often present news stories for KTTV, and Garcia has been the lead sports anchor and sports director at Channel 11 since 1987.
Since Fox bought the station, KCOP's late-evening news has taken a more unconventional approach than its competition, Channels 2 (KCBS), 4 (KNBC), and 7 (KABC). To appeal to a younger audience, it mainly features its female news anchors in slightly more revealing, trendy, and tight clothing. Its news stories also tend to be much shorter in detail, in a faster-paced format. In addition, it has become the first station to emphasize entertainment and trend-setting news as a major part of its format, one idea which has attracted a large young demographic.
KCOP's news ratings lag behind its main counterparts, Channels 2, 4, and 7. Its newscast continually places 4th in the ratings, as it did when the station was competing at 10pm against Channels 5, 9, and 11. However, KCOP's news draw substantially higher ratings among young people, especially young Latinos.
A notable aspect of KCOP's news broadcast is that all three of its anchors are minorities. Sanchez and Garcia are Mexican American, and Quiban is Filipino American.
On April 10, 2006, KCOP's newscast was expanded from 30 minutes to a full hour, which made it the only Los Angeles station with a full-hour newscast at 11pm.
On August 14, 2006, the newscast was rebranded as my 13 news.
[edit] Newscast Titles
- News 13 (1970s, mid 1980s)
- World Network News Los Angeles (early 1980s)
- Real News (1990s)
- UPN News 13 (1995-2002)
- UPN 13 News (2002-2006)
- Channel 13 News (January-August 2006)
- My 13 News (August 2006-present)
[edit] Movie Umbrella Titles
- The 8 O'Clock Movie (1970s-1994)
- The Late Picture Show (1970s-1980s)
- The Hollywood Screening Room (1970s)
- Movie for a Sunday Afternoon (1970s-1980s)
- The Saturday Film Festival (1970s-1980s)
- Hollywood Presents (1970s-1980s)
- The Movie Arcade (1980s)
- Playhouse Thirteen (1980s)
- L.A. Theatre (1980s-1996)
- Matinee Thirteen (1980s-1989)
- Teleplex 13 (1989-1994)
- UPN Teleplex 13 (1995-2001)
- UPN 13 at the Flicks (2000-2001)
- UPN 13 Movie (2001-2005)
- Channel 13 Movie (January-July 2006)
- My 13 Movie (August 2006-present)
[edit] Station Brandings
- Channel 13, KCOP Los Angeles, a Chris-Craft Industries Television Station (1980s)
- L.A.'s Very Independent Channel 13 (1989-1994)
- Get It On UPN 13 (2000s)
- Get it on Channel 13 (2006)
- My Network TV Channel 13 (2006)
[edit] Rebroadcasters
KCOP is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:
[edit] External links
- Official KCOP-TV My 13 website
- Photos of KCOP's news set
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KCOP-TV
| Broadcast television in the Los Angeles market (Nielsen DMA #2) | ||
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KCBS 2 (CBS) - KNBC 4 (NBC) - KTLA 5 (The CW) (The Tube on DT5) - KSFV-LP 6 (Ind/Spanish/Religious) - KABC 7 (ABC) - KCAL 9 (Ind) - KTTV 11 (Fox) - KCOP 13 (MNTV) - KSCI 18 (Ind) - KWHY 22 (Ind/Spanish) - KVCR 24 (PBS) - KNET-LP 25 (Ind/Infomercials) - KNLA-LP 27 (Ind/Spanish) - KCET 28 (PBS) - KPXN 30 (i) - KMEX 34 (UNI) - KPAL-LP 38 (Ind) - KSKJ-CA 38 / KSKP-CA 25 (Ind) - KTBN 40 (TBN) - KXLA 44 (Ind) - KLAU-LP 45 (Ind/Infomercials) - KFTR 46 (TFU) - KOCE 50 (PBS) - KVEA 52 (TEL) - KAZA 54 (AZA) - K55KD 55 (Almavision) - KDOC 56 (Ind) - KJLA 57 / KSMV-LP 33 / KSGA-LP 64 (Ind) - KLCS 58 (PBS) - KRCA 62 (Ind) - KBEH 63 (MTV3) - KHIZ 64 (A1) - KHTV-LP 67 (HSN) |
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Past broadcast stations |
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KOTR-LP 2 (Gonzales)1 - KEYT-DT 3.2 (Santa Barbara) - KRON 4 (San Francisco) - KCOP 13 (Los Angeles) - KUVU-LP 17/9 (Eureka) - KRVU-LP 21 (Chico) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California |
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