{"id":21475,"date":"2016-09-16T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21475"},"modified":"2016-10-24T04:51:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:51:59","slug":"september-16-1949-abcs-keca-tv-in-los-angeles-signs-on-on-may-7-1949-bil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21475","title":{"rendered":"September 16, 1949&#8230;ABC&#8217;s KECA TV In Los Angeles Signs On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 16, 1949&#8230;ABC&#8217;s KECA TV In Los Angeles Signs On <\/p>\n<p>On May 7, 1949, Billboard revealed that ABC would spend $2.5 million to convert the old Vitagraph\/Warner East Annex in Hollywood into The Prospect Studios, and construct a transmitter on Mount Wilson in anticipation of the launch of KECA-TV, which went on the air on September 16, 1949. In 1954, the call letters were changed to KABC. <\/p>\n<p>When ABC began television operations on April 19, 1948, it had what CBS, Dumont and NBC did not have&#8230;5 major market, Owned and Operated stations. Well, almost&#8230;but they did have construction permits from the FCC, and over the next 13 months, they all came to air. <\/p>\n<p>On April 19, 1948, the ABC Television Network began its broadcasts on its first primary affiliate, WFIL-TV in Philadelphia. In August 1948, the network&#8217;s flagship owned-and-operated station, WJZ-TV in New York City, began its broadcasts. <\/p>\n<p>WENR-TV in Chicago launched on September 17, 1948, while WXYZ-TV in Detroit went on the air October 9, 1948. KGO-TV in San Francisco went on the air May 5, 1949. Happy Birthday KABC! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1086758051361743\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477162438_617_September-16-1949...ABCs-KECA-TV-In-Los-Angeles-Signs-On-On-May-7-1949-Bil\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1086758051361743\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 16, 1949&#8230;ABC&#8217;s KECA TV In Los Angeles Signs On On May 7, 1949, Billboard revealed that ABC would spend $2.5 million to convert the old Vitagraph\/Warner East Annex in Hollywood into The Prospect Studios, and construct a transmitter on Mount Wilson in anticipation of the launch of KECA-TV, which went on the air on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784,724,783,785,782],"class_list":["post-21475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-cast","tag-cbs","tag-dumont","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}