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| City | Hammond, Louisiana |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Mayavision, Inc. |
| KGLA,WFNO | |
| History | |
| Founded | September 20, 1996 |
First air date | June 5, 2007 (17 years ago) (2007-06-05) |
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Former channel number(s) | Digital: 42 (UHF, 2007–2020) |
Call sign meaning | Derived from sister radio station KGLA (nowWFNO), meaningGretna, Louisiana |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 83945 |
| ERP | 681 kW |
| HAAT | 309 m (1,014 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°58′42″N89°56′26″W / 29.97833°N 89.94056°W /29.97833; -89.94056 |
| Translator(s) | WLFT-CD 30.2Baton Rouge |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KGLA-DT (channel 42) is atelevision station licensed toHammond, Louisiana, United States, serving theNew Orleans area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language networkTelemundo.[2] Owned by Mayavision, Inc., the station maintains studios on SouthI-10 Service Road West inMetairie, and itstransmitter is located on Paris Road/Highway 47 (northeast ofChalmette).
The station first signed on the air on June 5, 2007, as WHMM-DT. Channel 42 has operated as a digital-only station from its sign-on, as one of a handful of full-power television stations around the United States to sign on without a companionanalog signal. The station debuted with aneffective radiated power of 1megawatt, the maximum wattage currently allowed by theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) for digital television stations; as a result, it is the only full-powerSpanish-language television station in the New Orleansmarket (Estrella TV affiliateWTNO-CD (channel 22), which debuted in August 2006 as the first Spanish-language station in the market, operates with aClass A license).
On April 23, 2007, Mayavision announced that it had signed an agreement with Telemundo to affiliate with WHMM-DT.[3] Channel 42 was originally slated to debut in mid-May of that year, however its launch was delayed until the following month. At the time the station launched, the Hispanic population in New Orleans had increased between 2005 and 2007, from 6% to between 12% and 14%, which was attributed to the growth of re-construction jobs followingHurricane Katrina.[2]
The station changed its call letters to KGLA-TV on August 27, 2007. On December 21 of that year, the "-TV" suffix in the station's callsign was replaced with a "-DT" suffix. KGLA's city of license, Hammond, and its studios in Metairie and transmitter near Chalmette, are all located east of theMississippi River, making it one of the few broadcast stations in the country whose callsign begins with a "K" that is licensed to a location east of the Mississippi River. The KGLA callsign wasgrandfathered to the television station, fromGretna-licensed radio station KGLA (1540 AM, nowWFNO), which Mayavision holds a 50% stake in conjunction with co-owner Crocodile Broadcasting. The station launched its own website in late 2007.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 42.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KGLA-DT | Telemundo |
| 42.2 | 480i | 4:3 | Laff | Laff |
| 42.3 | 16:9 | KGLA-TV | [blank] | |
| 42.4 | WLFT-CD | Sonlife (WLFT-CD) |