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HE HE HE HE....It wasn't KTTV..it was KTLA...Channel 5...

It used to be Felix Chevolet in Downtown LA that was advertised...Hi I'm So & So Chavez General Manager of Felix Chevolet and here is a 1957 Convertible Chevy Belair fully loaded for $1295.

KTLA used to air all kinds of *****...Destruction Derby, Wrestling, Boxing from thr Olympic and Roller Derby...the LA T-Birds...funny how they would always come back and win in the last seconds...I only saw them lose once...My fav was the NY Bombers with Psycho Ronnie Rains...rolling around with a Bust of Caesar, finally someone threw it on the floor and broke it. And it was all Mceed by WHOA NELLIE Dick Lane.

Also on Friday nights they had the even then old (late 40s) Repblic Studios B Westerns starring John Payne, John Wayne etc..and later a talk show with Steve Allen after he left the Tonight Show. Louie Nye as the man on the street.

In the afternoon Channel 5 aired Popeye Cartoons hosted by Tom Hatton..and Bozo Cartoons...Also I remember Sheriff John, I think he was on Channel 11. Queen for a Day rings a bell to...but I don't remember much about that. That goes back to the mid to late 50s.

Channel 2..KNXT...had Jerry Dunphy and the Big News..that was before he became famous on channel 7 ABC in the 70s...

Every afternoon KNXT had Amos & Andy and then the Life of Riley with William Bendix and the the Early Show (oldies movie) then the News at 6. followed by Walter Cronkite with the National News.

In the morinings they would play I Love Lucy Reruns...

NBC was Channel 4 and their local news guy was Jack Latham followed by Huntley Brinkley. Channel 4 had Monty Hall Lets Make a Deal at noon and Jeapordy in the morinings...

We never got channel 7 ABC, Channel 9 KHJ channel 11 KTTV or Channel 13 cause our house was too close to the mountain and our antenna wouldn't pull those stations. Yep antennas there was no such thing as Cable...who would pay for such a thing.

How bout Irwindale Drag Strip..I used to hear the them run, even though we lived about 10 miles away.