KXLA (channel 44) is an
ethnic
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independent
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television station
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licensed to
Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States, serving the
Los Angeles
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area. The station is owned by Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc., whose president and majority owner, Ronald Ulloa, also owns
Twentynine Palms–licensed
KVMD
KVMD (channel 31) is a television station in Twentynine Palms, California, United States, affiliated with NTD Television. Station owner Ronald Ulloa is also president and majority owner of Rancho Palos Verdes-licensed independent station KXLA (ch ...
(channel 31). KXLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue (near
Interstate 405) in
West Los Angeles
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, 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
America One was an American television network established in 1995 by USFR Media Group through its America One Television subsidiary. . The station changed its
call letters
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to KXLA on August 8, 2001, with
ethnic
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programming. The KXLA call sign was previously used by the
Pasadena
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Its ...
radio station now known as
KRDC
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.
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 was upgraded from
4:3 standard definition
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(
480i
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) to
16:9 high definition (
720p
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), which allowed local programming and their local newscasts to be broadcast in
widescreen
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.
In popular culture
The KXLA call letters were used in fictional form by the television station featured in the film ''
The China Syndrome
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'' and the ''
Bewitched
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'' TV spinoff ''
Tabitha
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In the Bible
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'', with
Lisa Hartman-Black
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Career
After some minor television appearances, Hartman starred on the short-lived '' Bewitched'' spin-off, ''Tabitha'' during 1977–78. She subsequently appeared frequently on television i ...
in the title role. The call sign was also used by a radio station in the movie ''
Joe Dirt
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''.
Technical information
Subchannels
KXLA presents seven subchannels on the
multiplex
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shared with KJLA:
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
PSIP
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to display KXLA's
virtual channel
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as 44 on digital television receivers.
References
External links
*
Program Information for KXLAa
TitanTV.com
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