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KTLA Moving to L.A. Times Building Downtown

...is there *any* broadcast station presence in Hollywood now? I thought the last radio station to move out of Hollywood was KFWB a few years back (or would that have been KNX?)...
 
The article refers to the current KTLA building as "the former Warner Bros. studio on Sunset". But as I recall that used to be the old Columbia Pictures lot, not Warner Bros.

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Of course it was the Paramount television lot - Paramount started KTLA in the Klaus Landsburg days before WW2. When Gene Autry bought the station he moved his Los Angeles radio operations there. But even earlier the main building was headquarters for Warner Brothers WB also owned KFWB in LA and KEWB in SF at one time - I don't know if the Los Angeles studios were ever located there however.
 
KFWB was in fact there in the 20s...the towers were actually out front along Sunset. Pix exist at the KMPC tribute site.

Art Landing said:
Of course it was the Paramount television lot - Paramount started KTLA in the Klaus Landsburg days before WW2. When Gene Autry bought the station he moved his Los Angeles radio operations there. But even earlier the main building was headquarters for Warner Brothers WB also owned KFWB in LA and KEWB in SF at one time - I don't know if the Los Angeles studios were ever located there however.
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Art Landing said:
Of course it was the Paramount television lot - Paramount started KTLA in the Klaus Landsburg days before WW2. When Gene Autry bought the station he moved his Los Angeles radio operations there. But even earlier the main building was headquarters for Warner Brothers WB also owned KFWB in LA and KEWB in SF at one time - I don't know if the Los Angeles studios were ever located there however.
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WB never owned KEWB. After a couple of ownership changes, KFWB ended up in the hands of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. Crowell-Collier also bought KLX from the Oakland Tribune and changed its call letters to KEWB ("King of the East and West Bay") to match its L.A. sister. There was a third Crowell-Collier station, in Minneapolis- KDWB.

In the early days of radio, there was another station in Oakland that was owned by the "Warner Brothers", but they weren't the same Warner Brothers that owned the movie studio, nor were they related to the movie Warners that I know of. I think that station's call sign was KLS- but it was only a coincidence, there was no relation to KLX/KEWB or KFWB.
 
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