Small quake, big first day: KTLA 5's South Bay report

The Los Angeles station already draws more daily views than WFAA and CBS New York, and a plain earthquake bulletin still stood far above its usual starts.

Channel: KTLA 5Story of September 28, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 159,450 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (14,202).

Magnitude 3.6 earthquake strikes in South Bay

Among local news stations, KTLA 5 is already the busiest channel in its group. It draws more daily views than WFAA, which has more subscribers, and it runs well ahead of its Los Angeles neighbors CBS LA and FOX 11. On a channel like that, a single clip has to move unusually fast to stand out.

"Magnitude 3.6 earthquake strikes in South Bay" did. Posted on Sunday, it spent its first day running at roughly eleven times the pace of a typical new KTLA upload, and it is already close to 75,000 views.

A 3.6 is a small quake by Southern California standards, and the title promises nothing beyond where it hit and how strong it was. For a station that has covered Los Angeles since the early days of television, that was enough.

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The numbers

The figures below show how far this short quake report pulled ahead of a normal first day on KTLA 5.

the video's first day

usual first day here

14,202

this video

159,450

subscribers

1,500,000

total views

1,786,898,053

views per day

1,804,086

the video

views

74,740

likes

439

comments

80

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

WFAA

2,190,000

KTLA 5

1,500,000

FOX 11 Los Angeles

1,360,000

CBS New York

1,200,000

CBS LA

1,160,000

FOX 13 Tampa Bay

1,080,000

As of September 28, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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