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===Sports coverage===
Channel 13 served as the broadcast home of the [[Los Angeles Marathon]] from its inception in 1986 until 2001, the [[NBA]]'s [[Los Angeles Clippers]] from 1991 to 1996,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-21-sp-1040-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Elliott | last=Almond | title=Clippers Make Deal With KCOP | date=August 21, 1990}}</ref>
Like many local stations in the earlier years of television, KCOP hosted its own weekly ''Studio Wrestling'' show for many years during the 1970s. Stars such as [[Freddie Blassie]], [[John Tolos]], [[Rocky Johnson]], [[André the Giant]] and [[Ed Farhat|The Sheik]] headlined the shows, with longtime local announcer [[Dick Lane (TV announcer)|Dick Lane]] behind the microphone calling the action.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestling/tolos.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719111429/http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestling/tolos.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 19, 2012 |title=SLAM! Sports – Wrestling |publisher=Slam.canoe.ca |date=December 4, 1999 |access-date=July 12, 2013}}</ref> In later years, pro wrestling returned to KCOP by way of the [[World Wrestling Entertainment]] program ''[[Smackdown]]'', which aired on the station from 1999 to 2006 (as a UPN affiliate) and again from 2008 to 2010 (as a MyNetworkTV affiliate). In the past, Channel 13 also aired other wrestling programs, including [[World Class Championship Wrestling]] and the [[National Wrestling Alliance|NWA]]. Channel 13 also televised live boxing matches, originating from the [[Grand Olympic Auditorium]] in [[downtown Los Angeles]], on and off from the late 1960s until as recently as the mid-1990s, with legendary Los Angeles sportscaster [[Jim Healy (sports commentator)|Jim Healy]] calling the action in the early years.<ref>{{cite web|last=Beyrooty |first=John |url=http://static.espn.go.com/boxing/a/2003/0115/1493186.html |title=ESPN.com – BOXING – The Olympic Auditorium: Still Standing |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=July 12, 2013}}</ref>
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