KXLA

KXLA
Rancho Palos Verdes/Los Angeles, California; United States;
City	Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Channels	Digital: 30 (UHF); (shared with KJLA); Virtual: 44 (PSIP);
Programming
Subchannels	See below
Affiliations	Ethnic Independent
Ownership
Owner	Ronald Ulloa; (Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc.);
Sister stations	KVMD, KJLA
History
First air date	December 2000 (23 years ago)
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 / 34.226583°N 118.066528°W (STA); 34°13′35.3″N 118°4′0.9″W / 34.226472°N 118.066917°W (CP)
Links
Public license information	Public file; 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 / 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.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[2]
44.1	720p	16:9	KXLA	Ethnic Independent
44.2	480i	4:3	H&S	Sino TV (Mandarin)
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			SonLife	SonLife Broadcasting Network
44.7			NTDTV	New Tang Dynasty TV www.ntdtvla.com (Mandarin)
44.8			KBS24	KBS24 (Korean)
44.9			GETV	G&E (Mandarin)
44.10		16:9	QVC PLUS	QVC2 (Shopping)
44.11		4:3	IDJ	Iglesia de Jesucristo Canaan (Spanish religious)
44.12		4:3	SHOPHQ	ShopHQ (Shopping)

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.^[3] 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.

References

^ "Facility Technical Data for KXLA". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ 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.

External links

[1] "Facility Technical Data for KXLA". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

[2] RabbitEars TV Query for KXLA

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

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