KTTV - Fox 11 News Thread

[CraigViewer 107]

On 12/25/2025 at 6:25 PM, GraphicsMan said:

It’s probably a holiday thing, that would be a huge blow to cancel it flagship newscast I would presume because of low staff.

Yeah, with the holiday season, it sounds like the producing team and/or writers of "Good Nite LA," which is probably a smaller group than those who put together the 5pm, 6pm, and 10pm weekday shows, filled-in for a few days.

[C Block 1611]

Starting next week, West Coast Wrap moves up to 6:30 pm on both KTTV and KTVU. The change is permanent.

[Encore 323 79]

5 hours ago, C Block said:

Starting next week, West Coast Wrap moves up to 6:30 pm on both KTTV and KTVU. The change is permanent.

This is going to be interesting because nearly all of the LA stations in both languages have some type of national news in the 6:30pm half hour, and West Coast News Wrap goes into regional issues beyond the three Pacific Time markets FOX is in. KTVU FOX 2 up north will also deal with a lot of national news competition due to KPIX, KNTV, and the Spanish language stations airing those broadcasts at 6:30pm. KGO has World News at 5:30, so that is the exception. Back to the impact on Los Angeles, the change will make FOX 11 more “prestigious” and “network-level” according to some people compared to KTLA, who will still air their 6:30pm local news but KTLA is still going to be the more watched station in that half hour between the two of them because of viewer habits that were set 15+ years ago when they started improving their news product. We will see how this benefits FOX 11 in the long run.

[FiveNews 481]

Car chases, fires and breaking weather will still win at 6:30pm. KTLA has the advantage in the time slot.. KNBC and KABC will blow out the network news in favor of the former. KCBS will do the same on KCAL. Let's see if KTTV management will do the same.

[C Block 1611]

1 hour ago, FiveNews said:

Car chases, fires and breaking weather will still win at 6:30pm. KTLA has the advantage in the time slot.. KNBC and KABC will blow out the network news in favor of the former. KCBS will do the same on KCAL. Let's see if KTTV management will do the same.

 

Presumably if it's a big story in LA, then it'll also be covered in WCW. Moving the show up to 6:30 now means it'll be live in both markets, and I bet Seattle and Phoenix will soon follow.

[Recovering Producer 410]

On 12/28/2025 at 11:10 PM, CraigViewer said:

Yeah, with the holiday season, it sounds like the producing team and/or writers of "Good Nite LA," which is probably a smaller group than those who put together the 5pm, 6pm, and 10pm weekday shows, filled-in for a few days.

 

I'll say this about reduced newscasts over the holidays as a former manager who had some role in scheduling for producers: At every station I worked at, the schedule for Thanksgiving through New Year's is made early in the fall with minimal room for things to go wrong, even with fewer newscasts on 12/24, 12/25, 12/31, and 1/1. 

 

Almost every year - at least one producer who got Thanksgiving as their holiday off and was scheduled to work 5 day weeks (if not more) through peak Christmas and New Year's vacation time would turn in their resignation and two week's notice the week following Thanksgiving. And all anyone could do was just laugh and adjust. And occasionally come up with creative solutions to keep things afloat as best as possible. 

[Encore 323 79]

FOX 11 suddenly went to two bars on the left and right sides of the screen right as the 6pm news started and the quality shifted to SD at least on my end. Might have something to do with technical glitches and being the last night of the year. KCOP has normal quality, so nothing wrong there. Hopefully this gets fixed before the start of 2026 in a few hours.

Edited January 1 by Encore 323

[FiveNews 481]

In an interesting development, it appears that FOX11 has expanded their 11pm offering (Good Nite LA) to the weekend. When it premiered, GNLA was only on weeknights. It's a little odd since their morning show GDLA is only on Monday- Friday. Lets see if 2026 will bring a GDLA expansion to seven days per week. There was a short-lived Sunday version of GDLA, but it was absolutely dreadful.

 

 

[Encore 323 79]

2 hours ago, FiveNews said:

In an interesting development, it appears that FOX11 has expanded their 11pm offering (Good Nite LA) to the weekend. When it premiered, GNLA was only on weeknights. It's a little odd since their morning show GDLA is only on Monday- Friday. Lets see if 2026 will bring a GDLA expansion to seven days per week. There was a short-lived Sunday version of GDLA, but it was absolutely dreadful.

 

 

I feel like a big restructuring is in the works for FOX 11 this year with the move of West Coast News Wrap to 6:30pm, this expansion of GNLA to weekends, hopefully bringing GDLA to weekends, new reporters being hired or to be hired, and hopefully finding a permanent co-anchor for the weeknight 5 and 6pm newscasts because even though Christine Devine and Marla Tellez have been holding the fort since Elex Michaelson’s departure, they can’t do those hours solo forever and then they do the 8pm on KCOP and flagship 10pm shows together, but it feels like a placeholder at least for now.
We will see what else is in store at the FOX Television Center. 

[Encore 323 79]

Former KTLA reporter and meteorologist Kacey Montoya was on Good Day LA today (5/14) as a guest at 9:30am and for the 11am GDLA+ hour talking about her Fix N' Fidos nonprofit and here is the video.

 

https://youtu.be/M7hNrWHy0Pk?si=QP7Myjv110YKhREb

Edited May 14 by Encore 323

[Joey1986 30]

As of this week, the 4:00 AM hour of Good Day L.A. has been discontinued, replaced by encores of the previous day’s episodes of Extra and TMZ. I guess they weren’t getting enough viewers at the hour to make it worthwhile.

[Encore 323 79]

8 hours ago, Joey1986 said:

As of this week, the 4:00 AM hour of Good Day L.A. has been discontinued, replaced by encores of the previous day’s episodes of Extra and TMZ. I guess they weren’t getting enough viewers at the hour to make it worthwhile.

So that makes two stations in the country’s second largest city that now start their news day at 5am each weekday. Around 15+ years ago, everybody was chasing after the 4:30am half hour start and maybe 10 years ago, the 4am start. Fast forward to today, some people are not getting up as early due to work from home, among other factors. 

Edited May 29 by Encore 323

[FiveNews 481]

Bottom line. KTTV puts out an inferior product compared to the other stations. They can't compete especially with a lot of their no-name talent. GDLA hasn't been watchable since Steve, Dorothy and Jillian. It became even less watchable when Tony McEwing retired.

 

Add the fact that their main competitor, KTLA, continues to dominate mornings. KNBC is seeing a resurgence on Today in LA with the addition of Lynette Romero. KABC is the 800lb gorilla in the market. It made sense to cancel the 4am hour of GDLA. Curious how they will reassign Brooke Thomas. She is/was the 4-6am anchor. Not sure if she will anchor the 5am or be reassigned to street reporting.

[Encore 323 79]

1 hour ago, FiveNews said:

Bottom line. KTTV puts out an inferior product compared to the other stations. They can't compete especially with a lot of their no-name talent. GDLA hasn't been watchable since Steve, Dorothy and Jillian. It became even less watchable when Tony McEwing retired.

 

Add the fact that their main competitor, KTLA, continues to dominate mornings. KNBC is seeing a resurgence on Today in LA with the addition of Lynette Romero. KABC is the 800lb gorilla in the market. It made sense to cancel the 4am hour of GDLA. Curious how they will reassign Brooke Thomas. She is/was the 4-6am anchor. Not sure if she will anchor the 5am or be reassigned to street reporting.

When it comes down to the two outlets that now start at 5am (CBS LA and FOX 11), CBS LA obviously wins hands down and KCBS/KCAL has obviously been gaining traction too in the morning hours since they expanded their news coverage and even received a Golden Mike Award this year for “Best Morning or Daytime Newscast” in the 7am hour. All of this is due to many of the staff having an obvious connection to Los Angeles directly or indirectly and the station having it’s news priorities straightened again. So it is no surprise why FOX 11 continues to struggle against KTLA 5, NBC 4, ABC 7 and the CBS LA duopoly on the KCAL 9 side.

Edited Friday at 02:20 PM by Encore 323

[MediaCriticLA 22]

It's strange how bad KTTV is compared to its competition. The anchors across the board are all dull. The reporters are bad/weird/checked-out. Weather and sports are afterthoughts, which is probably the most damning.

[GraphicsMan 345]

1 hour ago, MediaCriticLA said:

It's strange how bad KTTV is compared to its competition. The anchors across the board are all dull. The reporters are bad/weird/checked-out. Weather and sports are afterthoughts, which is probably the most damning.

I think Fox is having problems at most of there O&Os in large markets pretty much most of there metro media era stations have dull talent, low ratings, and are suffering this problem is not just KTTV. I think losing Elex Michelson was pretty big but he was always determined to go national, it was inevitable he used them as there playground. Fox might need to pull back the brinks trucks and pull some national talent or at least pull them on a part-time basis. On its stations. On the other hand please make Christine Devine the face of the station, I don’t dislike Marla but she has the highest seniority. They constantly never used her to there best and if she ever decides to retire it really will be over for them.

[TheRolyPoly 3510]

16 hours ago, Encore 323 said:

So that makes two stations in the country’s second largest city that now start their news day at 5am each weekday. Around 15+ years ago, everybody was chasing after the 4:30am half hour start and maybe 10 years ago, the 4am start. Fast forward to today, some people are not getting up as early due to work from home, among other factors. 

 

Until last year, everyone in L.A. started at 4am. I mean everyone, KCBS/KCAL included. Now, they're slowly adopting the Bay Area start time where everyone starts there at 5am (including KTVU which just recently cut their 4am hour, Headlines on 2, as well).

[SFTV 567]

2 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

Until last year, everyone in L.A. started at 4am. I mean everyone, KCBS/KCAL included. Now, they're slowly adopting the Bay Area start time where everyone starts there at 5am (including KTVU which just recently cut their 4am hour, Headlines on 2, as well).

KPIX is doesn’t have a 4am or 5am it’s CBS Mornings.
 

It’s probably because they are mostly focusing on producing and broadcasting the CBS NEWS 24/7 Streaming in their secondary studio for the National Feed

 

KPIX only has a 6am Newscast which then leads into their 7am newscast on KPYX (KPIX+). They quietly cancelled their 8am show a year and a half ago which is now just an encore/rebroadcast of the 7am show. They tried to trick us viewers by covering the Time Clock with a black square but Daylight Savings makes it more noticeable during Fall and winter when it’s still dark at 7am and the 8am is already daylight by now. 

 

[Encore 323 79]

13 hours ago, SFTV said:

KPIX is doesn’t have a 4am or 5am it’s CBS Mornings.
 

It’s probably because they are mostly focusing on producing and broadcasting the CBS NEWS 24/7 Streaming in their secondary studio for the National Feed

 

KPIX only has a 6am Newscast which then leads into their 7am newscast on KPYX (KPIX+). They quietly cancelled their 8am show a year and a half ago which is now just an encore/rebroadcast of the 7am show. They tried to trick us viewers by covering the Time Clock with a black square but Daylight Savings makes it more noticeable during Fall and winter when it’s still dark at 7am and the 8am is already daylight by now. 

 

KPIX nowadays basically functions like how KCAL used to function before 2023 because most of their news hours are in the PM. Back to KTTV now, they are mostly a weekday morning shop when it comes to producing news but it has always been that way for them.

Edited Saturday at 02:27 PM by Encore 323