KTLA Morning Show
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The KTLA Morning Show is a Breakfast television show currently aired on Los Angeles, CA CW Network affiliate KTLA-5. The show is broadcast from 5am-10am. The 7am-9am portion of the show is simulcast on sister station KSWB TV69, San Diego, CA's CW Network affiliate. The 5am-7am portion is a general news/traffic/weather format. the 7am-10am format features news, traffic, and weather, but to a lesser extent. This portion emphasizes entertainment and other light-hearted stories.
KTLA Morning News (5am-7am)
Anchors: Emmett Miller and Cher Calvin
Weatherman: Mark Kriski
Traffic reporter: Jessica Holmes in KTLA Telecopter HD .
KTLA Morning Show
Host: Carlos Amezuca and Michaela Pereira
Weatherman: Mark Kriski
Traffic reporter: Jessica Holmes in KTLA Telecopter HD & "Commander" Chuck Street with traffic (in his own helicopter)
Entertainment reporter: Sam Rubin
[edit] History
[[On July 8, 1991, at 7 AM, a little news show started up on KTLA Channel 5 in LA. This show was The KTLA Morning News, although it was nothing at all like the Morning News we know today. Back in the beginning, there were Carlos Amezcua and Barbara Beck, Mark Kriski doing weather, and Eric Spillman and Michele Ruiz reporting from remote locations. And the show was all news]]
Near the end of 1991, the show had gone nowhere in the ratings, and everyone on the show knew that it wouldn't last much longer. A new exec, Joel Tator, had been brought in, and he tried to give the show a more relaxed atmosphere by spreading out newspapers on the desk. The anchors, feeling that the show was doomed anyway, also relaxed and they started joking around.
The critical moment for the Morning News came in February, 1992. A series of rain storms hit the Southland and there was severe flooding in the San Fernando Valley. At that time, the only other news programs on in the morning were the three major networks' shows, which were all broadcast on a three-hour tape delay.
Southland residents wanted coverage of the floods, and the network shows, all based in New York, didn't have it. KTLA set aside its normal programming and provided extensive coverage of the flooding. That brought in large numbers of Southland viewers, and once the flood crisis ended, the viewers stayed with the show.
After being together for several months, the folks on the show had grown comfortable and friendly with each other, and had developed an astounding chemistry that no one could ever have foreseen. With the new relaxed atmosphere, and a big dose of craziness, the show survived.
On May 2, 2001 Barbara Beck resigned from KTLA, and Giselle Fernandez later became co-anchor. In 2003 Giselle Fernandez left and was replaced by Michaela Pereira.
