Fox Networks SVP for corporate development Erik Moreno stopped by KTTV on Friday to demonstrate Dyle Live Mobile TV, a device backed by Fox, NBC and several other broadcasters.

Moreno talked to Lisa Breckenridge, a reporter for the Los Angeles Fox O&O, about the device, which broadcasts over airwaves specifically reserved for television. Users are able to watch programming without 3G, 4G or WiFi. Read more

Dorothy Lucey, who was ousted from KTTV last month after 17 years at the station, is co-hosting “The Young Turks” with Cenk Uygur on Current TV tonight.

Lucey will be in studio with Uygur for the full hour to talk about politics, current events and her split from the Los Angeles Fox O&O, a spokesperson for Current TV tells TVSpy.

• FishbowlLA: Dorothy Lucey Makes a Left Turn to … Current TV?!

Although Lucey was the entertainment reporter for “Good Day LA,” a source at Current says the co-hosting gig could be the start of a relationship between Lucey and the network, which continues to build out its progressive political programming. Lucey has described herself as a “liberal Christian.” Read more

Apparently lost in a pun, KTTV anchor Christine Devine referred to Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick as “Jonathan Swift” during a recent newscast, while setting up a Stanley Cup update (video above).

The Kings have a chance to win the first Stanley Cup in franchise history tonight, meaning that there are a dwindling amount of opportunities left for LA stations to express their ignorance of hockey. [CBS Sports]

A year after being appointed to a corporate job with the Fox station group, longtime KTTV news director Jose Rios is retiring.

“Our dear friend and colleague led us to top ratings for a number of years,” KTTV anchor Jean Martirez said during the Fox O&O’s morning newscast on Thursday, announcing Rios’s retirement.  “Jose hired all of us.  I would walk on red-hot coals for this man.”

Rios spent two decades as news director at KTTV.  Last April, the Fox station group announced that he had been appointed to vice president of digital news applications, overseeing app development for all of the company’s stations. Read more

KTTV is shaking up its morning team, and today Jillian Reynolds offered a teary on-air apology to her longtime co-anchor Dorothy Lucey, who is departing the Los Angeles Fox O&O after 17 years.

“I’ve said some dumb, dumb things and I just want to say, I think that’s what’s made this show what it is–that you and I have not always agreed,” Reynolds, who is becoming a freelance employee with KTTV, told Lucey as they both cried (video above).  The LA Times piece Reynolds refers to is here.

Changes are coming to the morning newscast at KTTV. Longtime entertainment reporter Dorothy Lucey is leaving the Los Angeles Fox O&O, and co-anchor Jillian Reynolds will become a freelance employee of the station.

A spokesperson for KTTV confirmed the changes, which were first reported by Deadline Hollywood, to TVSpy. Reynolds and Lucey, along with co-anchor Steve Edwards, have helmed the show since 1995.

Station sources tell TVSpy that KTTV will hold on-air auditions for Lucey’s replacement this Summer.

Lucey, who has worked at the station since 1995, will sign off from “Good Day LA” on Friday. Her contract was not renewed. Read more

Even though the Los Angeles Kings are in the NHL western conference finals, the team has apparently failed to win the full attention of the city’s news stations. After KNBC mistook the Sacramento Kings of the NBA for the LA Kings last week, Fox O&O KTTV is stuck doing damage control over a segment that Yahoo! Sports described as “the worst highlight package of [the] NHL playoffs.”

KTTV sports anchor Liz Habib tried to will her way through an update on the Kings’ Game 3 victory last week that seemed doomed from the beginning (video above).

In addition to referring to the puck as “the ball,” Habib flubbed the names of two key Kings players–Anze Kopitar and Drew Doughty. And then, as observant internet commenters have pointed out, KTTV’s graphics department used the old NHL logo. Read more

KTTV, the Fox O&O in Los Angeles, has hired two new reporters: Araksya Karapetyan (pictured) and James Koh.

Karapetyan joins the station on March 13 as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor for the 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts on KTTV and the 11 p.m. newscast on KCOP, the MyNetworkTV-affiliate. For the past three years, Karapetyan has been a reporter and anchor at KOIN, the CBS-affiliate in Portland.

Koh joins KTTV on March 14. He will also be a general assignment reporter, with a focus on sports and breaking news, for the 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts on KTTV and the 11 p.m. newscast on KCOP. John joins the station from KSWB, the Fox-affiliate in San Diego, where he was a multimedia journalist.

In a segment that looked very similar to a scene from the movie “Morning Glory,” KTTV reporter Lauren Sanchez went skydiving during the station’s morning show on Wednesday (video above).

As the YouTube user points out, it sounds like Sanchez say “sh*t” around 0:20.

Lisa Kridos, who has been the executive producer of KTTV‘s morning show for the past 15 years, has been named executive producer of “The Ricki Lake Show,” which is set to premiere in September.

“Lisa has made a career of producing television that resonates with the modern day woman,” Stephen Brown, SVP of programming and development at Twentieth Television, said, in announcing the move. “The combination of Lisa and Ricki, one of the sharpest producers in morning television and a talented proven talk show host, will be a powerful and exciting force in daytime television.”

“Ricki Lake” has been sold in 93% of the country, including each of the top 50 markets.

“I am thrilled to be working with Ricki Lake and my friends at 20th Television,” Kridos said.  “Ricki has the qualities that make for the perfect daytime host and I am honored to be working on her team.”