The first commercial broadcast of Los Angeles television station KTLA, owned by Paramount Pictures subsidiary Television Productions, Inc., and the first commercial television broadcast west of the Mississippi River. Estimates of television sets in the Los Angeles area at the time range from 350 to 600.
W6XYZ received its construction permit in 1939, and went on the air in 1942. It was owned by Paramount Pictures, who hired Klaus Landsberg, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, to put the station on the air.
Bob Hope was emcee on the premier telecast of KTLA Jan. 22, 1947. A total of
322 televisions are in the Los Angeles Viewing area.