KILM (channel 64) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, broadcasting the

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network to the

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area. It is

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by the

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subsidiary of the

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alongside

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–licensed

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station KPXN-TV (channel 30). KILM and KPXN-TV share offices on West Olive Avenue in Burbank; through a

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agreement, the two stations transmit using KPXN-TV's spectrum from an antenna atop Mount Wilson.

History

KILM began broadcasting on August 15, 1987 as KVVT, originally licensed to Barstow. It was the only independent commercial television station in the

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region to provide local news programs. In 1989, the station switched to

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as a result of the Mojave Desert at the time not receiving a good signal from

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(channel 7) in Los Angeles. It became KHIZ in 1992; that same year, KABC boosted its signal to the Mojave Desert, causing channel 64 to disaffiliate with ABC. (A similar situation occurred in

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and

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where

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(channel 5) and then-ABC affiliate WAKR/WAKC (channel 23, now

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) both aired ABC programming until 1996). In the mid-2000s, the station changed its format and service area to be transmitted in both the

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and the

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region.

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purchased Sunbelt Television, Inc. in 2007. KHIZ eventually incorporated ethnic programming into its schedule. At one time, KHIZ aired a weekday morning news program, ''Inland Empire Live'', that was produced from the facilities of

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affiliate

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(channel 35) in

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and distributed to KHIZ via satellite transmission.

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took over the station's operations under an LMA on September 1, 2012, at which point it became KILM. On November 25, 2013, FilmOn TV was removed and replaced with

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. On July 12, 2014, KILM dropped the all-paid programming lineup and replaced it with programming from the

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, a religious network owned by

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. On August 1, 2017, another LMA was made with a new network, Punch TV, which mainly consisted of

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and

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. On June 1, 2018, KILM began channel sharing with

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KPXN-TV (channel 30). As KPXN's broadcast radius does not adequately cover Barstow, KILM changed its city of license to Inglewood. Several weeks later,

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agreed to a $10 million purchase of the station, continuing a nationwide pattern of Ion buying out their channel sharing partners to retain full control of their spectrum. Multicultural terminated the Punch TV LMA at the start of August 2018, and began to carry a full schedule of

from Corner Store TV while the sales process with Ion continued. The sale was completed on September 17, 2018, with Ion immediately converting the station to taking over the former channel space of KPXN-DT3 and its Ion Plus feed under KILM's 64.1 virtual channel, which allows Ion to utilize KILM's

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status for full-market coverage of Ion Plus. On February 28, 2021, the station became an affiliate of Grit after Ion Plus was shut down. On June 28, 2021, the station switched its affiliation to

after the launch of

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and

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on KPXN's third and fourth subchannels.

Technical information

Subchannel

Analog-to-digital conversion

KHIZ shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 64, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44. Through the use of

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, digital television receivers display the station's

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as its former UHF analog channel 64, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

Former translator

On May 6, 2009, KHIZ added a low-power analog

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K39GY channel 39 (now

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, channel 2), a former TBN translator in

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. It was sold in 2015 to

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References

External links

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