CLP87 News

CLP87 News (KCLP-87) is a news station located in California City, CA and it first began broadcasting in 1953. It is owned by CLP Network's CLP Stations LLC division, which is owned and controlled by ATBW Holdings LLC under the ATBW Label Networks subsidiary.

History
The station was founded in 1953 originally as an O&O of Silver Network before becoming CLP-87 in 1972. Its twin station CLP95 News was originally an O&O of Orange Network before the two merged to form California Broadcasting Company 1966 and eventually became CLP Network in 1972.

In 1992, they added the "6-O'Clock News," which is morning news that broadcasts from 6am to 7am. In 1995, they used Newswire v1 for their news, which was similar to WLVI's ten-o-clock news in the 90's. The morning news included morning traffic, morning weather, stock market news, and mega ball numbers. The station commissioned new themes for News Talents in 2001, but kept everything the same.

It changed its look on October 14, 2003 from navy blue and white to teal blue and silver but kept the v1 Newswire music for their news. The intro was changed as well and also added news at 7am until 8am, adding an additional hour of news. This graphics package was made by Renderon, who also coincidentally did a similar graphics package for WAVY-TV in Norfolk, VA in April 2004.

It changed its theme again to Red and Navy Blue on April 17, 2006, but again still kept the v1 Newswire music for their news. The intro also changed to a zooming in logo. The new intro was added later on September 16, 2006. This graphics package was also made by Renderon.

On July 20, 2008, at 12:00 AM, CLP87 reportedly went from 480p to HD720p to fit the flat-screen revolution size, which was a beneficial change. The intro opening was changed from "Live, Your local news, CLP87" to "First in HD, Your local news, CLP87."

On May 29, 2016, CLP87 received a new graphics package, alongside new themes introduced by Giant Octopus, and they are similar to that of WABC. This is the current graphics package used by the station. Newswire V1 was also retired and replaced with CBS Enforcer New Generation 3.

Newscasts
Newscasts from CLP87 currently air at 12pm, 1230pm, 4pm, 430pm, 5pm, 530pm, 6pm, 11pm, 5am, 530am, 6am and 630am newscasts all 7 days in a week with 7am news, 730am news, 8am news, 830am news, and 7pm news on weekdays, and the news anchors for morning noon news are different than 5 to 7pm news and 10pm news as well as 11pm news.

7pm, 10pm, 7am, 730am, 8am, and 830am news air on its sister channel CLP95 News, while 12pm news, 4pm, 430pm, 5pm, 530pm, 6pm, and 11pm news air on CLP87. Both channels get 5am, 530am, 6am, and 630am news with an additional two extra hours on CLP95.

In ATBW Media
In July 2007, a person working for this station eventually went on to work on A Puppet With Small Eyes and sampled bits of CLP87's morning news music that was used at the time. This theme was used throughout the series with little change until Season 4 of the series. A little after the first episode of the show on September 20, 2007, that person was confronted by ATBW's Copyright Agency for allegedly using the copyrighted music, though he was able to dig up loopholes to allow it to remain the show's theme song.

ATBW Blog personality Kaylyn Selk bragged in a video from November 2008 that her dad watches CLP87 while laying in bed at 11, and he would even record every single one. Her husband was alleged to have been doing so since at least 1978 and had been doing it until June 2009 when the household began replacing their old CRT TVs with LCD ones that had digital tuners and HD video. He had also recorded ones in the mornings, middays, and afternoons. Matthew Quartz has also stated in a 2003 interview that his dad would turn the TV up loud before he could get up for school back in the 1990's.