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39 ( VHF digital channel 2), is a low-powered

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- affiliated

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, United States. The station’s

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is located atop Mount Wilson, California.

History

Signing on as K64AT, the station was originally licensed to

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, and was owned by the

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and broadcast programming from TBN as a translator of

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for many years on UHF channel 64. K64AT moved to channel 33 in 1987 and took on the call sign of K33BT. It later moved to channel 39 in 2003, with the call sign K39GY. In 2007, TBN sold the station to Jeff Chang, a former California television weatherman and owner of several low-powered television stations (including sister station K33DK, now KVVB-LD in

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). On March 22, 2007, the station received a construction permit to flash-cut operations to digital television. Upon completion, it began broadcast at an

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of 15,000 watts. On May 6, 2009, the station was switched to an analog translator of KHIZ-DT (channel 44) in Barstow. It also airs English and Cantonese programming. On July 19, 2012, the station moved to channel 2 and changed its call sign to K02RB-D and switched to a digital translator of KOCE-TV 50, a PBS member station in Huntington Beach in

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. KOCE now rebroadcasts its signal via over-air translator K41CB for the Victorville/Barstow area. In 2013, K02RB-D, KILM and KVVB-LD are regular broadcasting stations based in the High Desert, which used to have KHIZ-TV known for local newscasts and independent commercial station programming. On January 22, 2014, the station changed its call sign to the current KHIZ-LD and switched to an affiliate of Zuus Country (now

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Sale to DTV America and more subchannels

On August 24, 2015, the station was sold to Sunrise, Florida-based low-power TV station owner

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. It was approved by the FCC on October 5.Assignment of License - FCC
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2 feed of The Country Network was moved to KHIZ-LD3. The main subchannel changed to

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, and infomercials on the second subchannel. The 24-hour subchannel version of Sinclair Broadcasting’s

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became available on KHIZ-LD4, and the

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, and the west coast feed of

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was launched on the fifth and sixth subchannels, respectively.Digital TV Market Listing for KHIZ-LD
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Subchannels

The station’s digital signal is

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References

External links

DTV America
{{DTV America Ion Mystery affiliates DTV America HIZ-LD Television channels and stations established in 1987 Low-power television stations in the United States Victorville, California 1987 establishments in California Classic Reruns TV affiliates