| Greater Los Angeles | |
|---|---|
| City of license | Riverside, California |
| Branding | Noticias 62 |
| Slogan | Tu Ciudad. Tu Equipo. (Your City. Your Team.) |
| Channels | Digital: 35 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 62.1 KRCA (Spanish) 62.2 HTTV USA (Mandarin) 62.3 Vida TV (Spanish) |
| Affiliations | Estrella TV[1] |
| Owner | Liberman Broadcasting (KRCA License, LLC) |
| Founded | December 17, 1988 |
| Call letters' meaning | Riverside, CAlifornia (no relation to the Radio Corporation of America) |
| Former callsigns | KSLD (1988-1990) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 62 (UHF, 1988-2009) Digital: 68 (UHF) |
| Former affiliations | Asian (1988-1990) HSN (1990-1998) Spanish Independent (1998-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 906 m |
| Facility ID | 22161 |
| Website | www.krca62.tv |
KRCA Digital UHF Channel 35 is a Spanish language television station in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan region, formerly broadcasting Asian programming and home shopping. The station now airs Spanish-language programming on its main channel, along with some late night English infomercials, and broadcasts Mandarin-language programming on one digital subchannel. KRCA is the flagship station of Liberman Broadcasting. After the 2009 digital conversion was complete, KRCA-DT moved to UHF Channel 35 from pre-transition UHF Channel 68.
The station is not related to KNBC or RCA, although NBC used the KRCA call letters on its Los Angeles station in the 1950s.
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The station began telecasting an Asian mix of programs (in Mandarin Chinese and Korean) in 1988 as KSLD-TV, replacing a low-power translator for PBS station KVCR. It changed to KRCA, running Home Shopping Network programming, in 1990. It converted to Spanish programming in 1998 after being sold to its current owners, Liberman Broadcasting.
In May 2005, KRCA was the subject of controversy due to billboards advertising its "Noticias 62" news program with "Los Angeles, CA" and the "CA" initial crossed out, replaced with a bold red "MEXICO" and a picture of the El Ángel victory column on the Paseo de la Reforma superimposed onto a picture of the Los Angeles skyline. The billboard was deemed provocative by some, and protests erupted outside Liberman Broadcasting studios. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke on the popular John and Ken radio talk show requesting that the Libermans remove the signs. After negotiations between the station and Clear Channel Communications, the owner of the billboards, the messages were replaced with a more generic advertisement.
KRCA's broadcast day begins at 6:00 AM and ends the next late night/morning at Midnight (most days, the Midnight-6:00 AM schedule is filled by English infomercials).
KRCA-DT operates a Digital Television channel on UHF 35. It carried its San Diego sister station KSDX-LP as digital subchannel 62.2. In September 2009, 62.2 began to transmit Mandarin-language programming for the first time since KRCA last presented Chinese-language television in 1998. It is presented by City of Industry-based Hantian TV (HTTV). As of June 2010, KRCA has added a third subchannel on 62.3, Inmigrante TV, a Spanish-language special interest channel featuring political news and commentary aimed at immigrant viewers.
Both the analog and pre-transition allocations for KRCA are outside the core TV spectrum (channels 2-51), so the station was required to find an in-core channel from which to operate. It originally elected to operate on UHF channel 45 after 2009, but, anticipating difficulty getting coordination from Mexico to use that channel, instead requested and was granted use of UHF channel 35, and switched over at that time.[2][3] It continues to map on digital TV tuners as virtual channel 62 via PSIP technology.
Digital channels
| Channel | Programming |
|---|---|
| 62.1 | Main KRCA programming (Spanish) |
| 62.2 | HTTV USA (Mandarin) |
| 62.3 | Vida TV (Spanish) |
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