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UPDATED with new details: Veteran Los Angeles TV reporter Hal Eisner and his KTTV cameraman Joab Perez operator were among five people injured today when a SUV hit several bystanders on a Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk and crashed into a minimarket storefront. The cause of the roughly 3:15 p.m. crash is under…

UPDATED with video: Steve Edwards, who has co-hosted Good Day LA on Fox affiliate KTTV for more than two decades, abruptly was let go today. A spokeswoman for Fox11 told Deadline in a statement, “We can confirm that Steve Edwards is no longer employed by KTTV." Sources say his dismissal stems from sexual harassment…

Bill Smith, a longtime Los Angeles TV and radio newsman who spent 13 years at KTLA after co-anchoring KTTV's groundbreaking Metro News-Metro News years earlier, died Monday. He was 74. “He just loved what he did — he just loved it,” Smith’s former KTLA colleague Eric Spillman said in a tribute the station did during…

Bob Cook, who spent nearly a decade atop Twentieth Television, is set to top Fox’s O&O duopoly is Los Angeles. He has been hired as VP and General Manager of KTTV and KCOP, taking up the post this month. As President of Twentieth TV from 2000-10, Cook oversaw the domestic syndication business for the Fox studios…

A KTTV news cameraman was attacked today as he filmed in the skid row area of downtown Los Angeles, resulting in a fight in which three LAPD officers were slightly injured. The crew was filming outside the Midnight Mission on 6th Street, near the scene of a fatal officer-involved shooting Sunday, when a man grabbed…

Fox got dragged into the debate over the name of the Washington D.C. NFL team this week.  A new petition asks the Federal Communications Commission to deny a broadcast station license renewal to Fox-owned KTTV in Los Angeles, over the station’s use of the Redskins name on-air. The license is up for renewal…

Five years ago, Carlos Amezcua took Los Angeles media circles by surprise with his move to KTTV to co-anchor the station’s 10 PM newscast after a 14-year stint on the morning show of rival KTLA, which he helped launch in 1991. Now Amezcua is out at KTTV. His departure was announced in the newsroom at 3:15 PM this…

KTTV news director Kingsley Smith has resigned after two years on the job. Smith joined the Los Angeles Fox station in June 2011 from Fox's WTXF Philadelphia, succeeding KTTVs longtime news director Jose Rios. He announced his departure to the KTTV newsroom yesterday afternoon. The station’s Assistant News Director…