KXLA

KXLA
Rancho Palos Verdes/Los Angeles, California
United States
City Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Channels Digital: 51 (UHF)
Virtual: 44 (PSIP)
Translators KICN 21 Ventura
Affiliations independent
Iranian Community Network
(Starting February 1, 2016)
Owner Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc.
(Ronald Ulloa)
First air date December 2000
Call letters' meaning KX Los Angeles
Sister station(s) KVMD, KJLA, KILM
Former callsigns KRPA (2000–2001)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
44 (UHF, 2000–2009)
Transmitter power 1000 kW
Height 937 m
Facility ID 55083
Transmitter coordinates 34°13′35.3″N 118°3′57.7″W / 34.226472°N 118.066028°W / 34.226472; -118.066028
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.kxlatv.com

KXLA, virtual channel 44 (UHF digital channel 51), is an independent television station serving Los Angeles, California, United States that is licensed to Rancho Palos Verdes. The station is owned by Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc., whose president and majority owner is Ronald Ulloa, who also owns Twentynine Palms-based KVMD (channel 31). KXLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue in West Los Angeles (near Interstate 405), and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.

Overview

The station first signed on the air in December 2000 as KRPA as an affiliate of America One. The station changed its call letters to KXLA on August 8, 2001 with ethnic programming. The KXLA call letters were previously used by the Pasadena radio station now known as KDIS and in fictional form by the television station featured in the film The China Syndrome. KXLA's transmitter was originally located on Catalina Island at 33°20′59.5″N 118°21′9.4″W / 33.349861°N 118.352611°W / 33.349861; -118.352611, but in 2004 it was moved to Mount Wilson, where most of the other stations in the Los Angeles market transmit.

KXLA broadcasts Japanese programming from Fujisankei Communications International 7 days a week from 7-8am, KBS World programming 7 nights a week from 8:00pm–11:30pm and Liquidation Channel home shopping from 12-7am and returning from 9am-3pm Monday-Friday and 3-8pm on Saturday and Sundays and Spanish catholic programming from ESNE TV Daily from 5pm-8pm and entertainment from "Bollywood" Saturdays 11-1pm with Infomercials filling the station's schedule.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
44.1 480i 4:3 KXLA-DT Liquidation Channel, FCI (Japanese Language), KBS America
Iranian Community Network (Starting February 1, 2016)
44.2 H&S H&S (Korean)
44.3 SKYLINK Sky Link TV Channel 3 (Mandarin)
44.4 SKY-CAN Sky Link TV Channel 2 (Cantonese)
44.5 ARRANG Arirang TV (Korean/English)
44.6 IAVC ICN (Mandarin)
44.7 NTDTV New Tang Dynasty TV (Mandarin)
44.8 ICN Infomercial (Spanish), ICN Mandarin programming
44.9 GETV G&E (Mandarin)
44.10 amga TV AMGA (Armenian)
44.11 Alfa Y Omega TV (Spanish Religious)

Analog-to-digital conversion

KXLA-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 44, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 44.

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KXLA
  2. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.

External links

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