KXLA

KXLA
Rancho Palos Verdes/Los Angeles, California; United States
City	Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Channels	Digital: 30 (UHF); (shared with KJLA); Virtual: 44
Programming
Subchannels	See below
Affiliations	Ethnic Independent
Ownership
Owner	Ronald Ulloa ; (Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc.)
Sister stations	KSGA-LD, KVMD, KJLA
History
First air date	December 2000
Former call signs	KRPA (2000–2001)
Former channel number(s)	Analog:; 44 (UHF, 2000–2009); Digital:; 51 (UHF, 2003–2019)
Former affiliations	America One (2000–2001)
Call sign meaning	KX Los Angeles
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	55083
ERP	670 kW
HAAT	901.6 m (2,958 ft) (STA); 937 m (3,074 ft) (CP)
Transmitter coordinates	34°13′35.7″N 118°3′59.5″W (STA); 34°13′35.3″N 118°4′0.9″W (CP)
Links
Public license information	Profile; LMS
Website	www.kxlatv.com

KXLA, virtual channel 44 (UHF digital channel 30), is an Ethnic independent television station serving Los Angeles, California, United States that is licensed to Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The station is owned by Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc., whose president and majority owner, Ronald Ulloa, also owns Twentynine Palms-licensed KVMD (channel 31). KXLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue (near Interstate 405) in West Los Angeles, 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 sign was previously used by the Pasadena radio station now known as KRDC.

KXLA's transmitter was originally located on Catalina Island at 33°20′59.5″N 118°21′9.4″W, but in 2004 it was moved to Mount Wilson, where most of the other stations in the Los Angeles market transmit.

On May 10, 2018, KXLA's main signal was upgraded from 4:3 standard definition (480i) to 16:9 high definition (720p), which allowed local programming and their local newscasts to be broadcast in widescreen.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	Short name	Programming[1]
44.1	720p	16:9	KXLA-DT	Main KXLA-DT programming
44.2	480i	4:3	Sino TV	Sino TV (Mandarin)
44.3			SKYLINK	Sky Link TV Channel 3 (Mandarin)
44.4			SKY-CAN	Sky Link TV Channel 2 (Cantonese)
44.7			NTDTV	New Tang Dynasty TV (Mandarin)
44.8			KBS24	KBS24 (Korean)
44.9			CGNTV	Christian Global Network Television (Korean)

Analog-to-digital conversion

KXLA shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 44, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[2] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using PSIP to display KXLA's virtual channel as 44 on digital television receivers.

In popular culture

The KXLA call letters were used in fictional form by the television station featured in the film The China Syndrome and the Bewitched TV spinoff Tabitha, with Lisa Hartman-Black in the title role. The call sign was also used by a radio station in the movie Joe Dirt.

Programming

Variety Programming

On Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., KXLA airs Showbiz India (since July 3, 2021),[3] Namaste America (since August 25, 2012),[4] and Asian Variety Show (since late 2010).

References

RabbitEars TV Query for KXLA
"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
@ShowbizIndiatv (2021-06-25). "On tomorrow's spicy 🌶 episode of Showbiz India, listen to @TeamPriyanka 's latest speech 🎤Then, we're bringing you a nostalgic new music mania that focuses on the movies that were ahead of their time 🍿 And remember 🚨 that Showbiz India is moving to KXLA starting July 3!!". Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Namaste America - NamasteTV (2012-08-24). "Attention viewers in the Los Angeles TV Market. Don't forget to watch Namaste America every Saturday from 11a-12p on KXLA 44. Check your local listings for KXLA's exact channel number in your area". Facebook. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2021-07-06.

External links

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[1] RabbitEars TV Query for KXLA

[2] "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.

[3] @ShowbizIndiatv (2021-06-25). "On tomorrow's spicy 🌶 episode of Showbiz India, listen to @TeamPriyanka 's latest speech 🎤Then, we're bringing you a nostalgic new music mania that focuses on the movies that were ahead of their time 🍿 And remember 🚨 that Showbiz India is moving to KXLA starting July 3!!". Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[4] Namaste America - NamasteTV (2012-08-24). "Attention viewers in the Los Angeles TV Market. Don't forget to watch Namaste America every Saturday from 11a-12p on KXLA 44. Check your local listings for KXLA's exact channel number in your area". Facebook. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2021-07-06.