Hollywood Sign building for the antennas. From 1939 to 1947, this site was the location of the studios and transmitter of the first television station in Los Angeles, W6XAO (now KCBS-TV), founded by The Don Lee Network, hence the name Mount Lee. The TV studio left this location in 1948, and the transmission facility left in 1951, moving to the higher Mount Wilson. Land in the vicinity of the sign was purchased by Howard Hughes in 1940, who planned to build a hilltop mansion at Cahuenga Peak for actress Ginger Rogers. Before long Rogers broke off their engagement and the lot remained
Community newspapers in Hollywood, California year to $5 million. Revenues were going to another group of weeklies that Copeland owned in Northern California, and he was paying himself a "consulting fee" of $13,000 a month. The "Citizen-News" was merged with the "Valley Times", which ceased publishing under its own name in spring 1969. The Hollywood newspaper changed its name to "Los Angeles Evening Citizen News" in March 1970 and attempted to gain readers by switching its editorial policy from conservative to liberal. At one point in August 1970 a finance firm that was owed about half a million dollars sent in a team of security