KJLA (channel 57) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, serving the

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area as an affiliate of Visión Latina. The station is owned by Costa de Oro Media, LLC, a company run by

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founder, CEO and chairman Walter Ulloa (whose brother, Ronald Ulloa, owns

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–licensed ethnic

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(channel 44) and Twentynine Palms–licensed

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(channel 31)). KJLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue (near Interstate 405) in

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, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson. KJLA operates two low-power repeater stations: KLFA-LD (channel 25) in Santa Maria and KFUL-LD (channel 23) in

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(both are part of the Santa Barbara

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). In addition to carrying

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programming on its main channel, the station also carries various networks broadcasting in

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and

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on separate

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History

The station first signed on the air on October 1, 1990 as KSTV-TV. It was the second attempt to operate a television station in Ventura; the first, KKOG-TV (channel 16), operated from December 14, 1968 to September 13, 1969, with a schedule of entirely live, local programming. KSTV-TV was originally owned by Costa de Oro Television, Inc., and originally aired Spanish-language programming as an affiliate of

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. The station signed on a low-power translator in Santa Maria in 1992. In 1994, Walter Ulloa purchased Costa de Oro Television and KSTV-TV, intending to increase its transmitting power and extend its signal to better reach to the Los Angeles area. However, although Ventura is considered part of the Los Angeles market,

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(FCC) rules at the time placed KSTV-TV within the Santa Barbara–Santa Maria–San Luis Obispo market, similar to the situation of KADY-TV channel 63 (now

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) in

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which became Santa Barbara's

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affiliate when the network launched in January 1995. Unable to get

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coverage in the Los Angeles area, on November 1, 1995, KSTV switched to an

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format and became the WB affiliate for the Santa Barbara market. However, the station continued in its attempts to enter the Los Angeles market. In July 1997, KSTV increased its

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to 5,000

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s. The improved signal helped the station to obtain

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status on most cable providers in western

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in February 1998. However, because Los Angeles already had a WB-affiliated station,

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(channel 5), KSTV-TV was forced to disaffiliate from the network. In the spring of 1998, the station relocated its studios and offices from Ventura to West Los Angeles. The station changed its call letters to KJLA on July 20, 1998, to further reflect its intentions to serve the Los Angeles market. On that date, KJLA became an

and adopted a split-scheduled format. The station began carrying financial news programming under the brand ''Business News 22'' acquired from

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, later ''BizNews 1'' on weekday mornings and afternoons. Business news returned to KWHY-TV, this time only on its digital signal, in 2000, and was later dropped by KJLA. In November 2001, the Simi Valley translator was moved to Mount Wilson and started broadcasting to Los Angeles as KSMV-LP on channel 33. Ironically, the original low power translator in Simi Valley operated on channel 44, which caused interference with full power "cousin" station KRPA (now

) which prompted the change to channel 33. Soon after,

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sought to move

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's digital operation from channel 23 to channel 33, to avoid co-channel interference from the digital signals of

(another "cousin" of KJLA) in the Inland Empire and San Diego CW affiliate

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, now a repeater of

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. KTBN's move to channel 33 was authorized on February 5, 2009, ultimately displacing KSMV-LP to KTBN's former digital channel, 23. KSMV-LP soon flash-cut to digital and started rebroadcasting KVMD to the Los Angeles area. The following year in 2001, the station began branding its Spanish language programming block under the name LATV. In April 2007, LATV transitioned from a programming block on KJLA into a national network; it became distributed to several television stations (mainly carried on

s and low-power stations, with the subchannels of

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owned by

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and those owned by

among the network's charter affiliates). In December 2017, it was announced that the station will become the Los Angeles market's

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affiliate on January 3, 2018, replacing

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, thus sister station

became the new affiliate of

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in the Los Angeles market on January 1, 2018. Although the official switch to Azteca was not until January 3, the station started airing the majority of the network's programming on January 1 with an exception of shows that aired at the same time as KJLA's

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, which continued to air on the network until March. Various Azteca programs were delayed or not shown at all in order to make place for KJLA's religious program ''Cambia Tu Vida'', which aired various times a day. The program was removed from KJLA's schedule on March 19, 2018, and the station begin airing Azteca's entire schedule "live" and in pattern. On January 1, 2022, the station dropped its affiliation with Azteca America and starting airing religious programming from Visión Latina with programs from Universal Church; Azteca moved its affiliation to a subchannel of

Technical information

Subchannels

KJLA presents 14 subchannels on the

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shared with KXLA:

Translators

Analog-to-digital conversion

KJLA had applied to convert to a digital-only signal, citing low over-the-air analog viewership rates and high operating costs to maintain the simulcast; this request was refused by the FCC on February 9, 2005. The higher operating costs were in part due to KJLA having two different transmitter sites. The station's analog transmitter was located on South Mountain near

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; the facilities for its digital signal are located on Mount Wilson in

."Request to Discontinue Analog Operations of Station KJLA(TV)"
Federal Communications Commission, Mar 10, 2005. KJLA shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 57, on August 27, 2008.List of Digital Full-Power Stations
/ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49, using

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to display KJLA's

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as 57 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. KJLA is the second television station in the Los Angeles market to discontinue its analog signal before the digital transition in 2009, after KVMD, which shut down its analog signal in 2003.

Channel sharing trial

In February 2014, KJLA and

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member station

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(channel 58) were granted

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by the FCC to conduct trials in partnership with CTIA and the

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, in which the two stations would conduct a test of the

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video codec for digital television transmission, and more importantly, the ability and viability of broadcasting two sets of television services within the same 6 MHz channel band. These tests came as the FCC prepared to perform a

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in 2015 (which was delayed to sometime in 2016 that November), in which television station operators would be able to voluntarily sell their broadcast spectrum to the government, and then receive profits from its sale to wireless providers. An FCC spokesperson stated that channel sharing would allow broadcasters to "

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advantage of the incentive auction’s once-in-a-lifetime financial opportunity", while still maintaining its ability to run over-the-air television programming.

References

External links

*
www.latv.com
* showing KSTV affiliations in 1992 and 1997.
1995 FCC petition
requesting cable carriage under

rules.
1998 FCC petition
requesting modification of market under must-carry rules.
2000 FCC petition
requesting cable carriage.
USENET posting referring to KSTV-57 and WB affiliation

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