In the early 1940s, while working at Paramount Pictures, Dick Lane
watched as television genius Klaus Landsberg worked on the studio's
experimental TV station, W6XYZ. On January 22, 1947, KTLA became the
first commercial TV station west of the Mississippi and Dick was one
its first on-camera personalities. On the Spade Cooley Show, he wore
cowboy chaps and became known as "Leather Britches", accentuating each
Chevrolet commercial by slapping the fender.