KXLA


KXLA is an ethnic independent television station licensed to Rancho [Palos Verdes, California], United States, serving the Los Angeles area. The station is owned by Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc., whose president and majority owner, Ronald Ulloa, also owns Twentynine Palms–licensed KVMD. KXLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue 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 KWVE.
KXLA's transmitter was originally located on Catalina Island at, 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 transitioned from 4:3 to 16:9, which allowed local programming and their local newscasts to be broadcast in widescreen.

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.

Technical information

Subchannels

KXLA presents eight subchannels on the multiplex shared with KJLA:

LicenseChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
KXLA44.1720p16:9KXLA-DTMain KXLA-DT programming
KXLA44.3480i4:3SKYLINKSky Link TV Channel 3
KXLA44.4480i4:3SKY-CANSky Link TV Channel 2
KXLA44.6480i4:3NTDNTD America
KXLA44.7480i4:3NTDTVNew Tang Dynasty TV
KXLA44.8480i4:3EEE TVEEE TV
KXLA44.9480i4:3CGNTVChristian Global Network Television
KJLA57.1720p16:9KJLAVisión Latina
KJLA57.2480i4:3VFACEVietFace TV
KJLA57.3480i4:3VNAVNA TV
KJLA57.4480i4:3VietSkyVietSky Television
KJLA57.5480i4:3STVSaigon TV
KJLA57.6480i4:3VBSVBS TV
KJLA57.9480i4:3ZWTVChung T'ien TV
KJLA57.10480i4:3SBTNSBTN
KJLA57.12480i4:3VGMTViet Global Mall TV
KJLA57.15480i4:3SBU-TVSBU-TV


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. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using virtual channel 44.