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| City | Inglewood, California[a] |
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| Branding | Bounce TV Los Angeles |
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| Affiliations | 64.1:Bounce TV |
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| KPXN-TV | |
| History | |
First air date | August 15, 1987; 37 years ago (1987-08-15) |
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Call sign meaning | FilmOn TV (former LMA partner/programmer) |
| Technical information[3] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 63865 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 900 m (2,953 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°12′36″N118°4′2.2″W / 34.21000°N 118.067278°W /34.21000; -118.067278 |
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KILM (channel 64) is atelevision station licensed toInglewood, California, United States, broadcasting thedigital multicast networkBounce TV to theLos Angeles area. It isowned and operated by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company alongsideSan Bernardino–licensedIon Television stationKPXN-TV (channel 30). KILM and KPXN-TV share offices on West Olive Avenue inBurbank; Through achannel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using KPXN-TV's spectrum from an antenna atopMount Wilson.
KILM began broadcasting on August 15, 1987, as KVVT, originally licensed toBarstow. It was the only independent commercial television station in theMojave Desert region to provide local news programs. In 1989, the station switched toABC as a result of the Mojave Desert at the time not receiving a good signal fromKABC-TV (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 inCleveland andAkron, Ohio, whereWEWS-TV (channel 5) and then-ABC affiliate WAKR/WAKC (channel 23, nowWVPX-TV) both aired ABC programming until 1996). In the mid-2000s, the station changed its format and service area to be transmitted in both theLos Angeles metropolitan area and theInland Empire region.Multicultural Broadcasting purchased Sunbelt Television, Inc. in 2007.[4] 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 ofCBS affiliateWSEE-TV (channel 35) inErie, Pennsylvania, and distributed to KHIZ via satellite transmission.[5]
FilmOn took over the station's operations under anLMA on September 1, 2012, at which point it became KILM.[6] On November 25, 2013, FilmOn TV was removed and replaced withpaid programming. On July 12, 2014, KILM dropped the all-paid programming lineup and replaced it with programming from theSonLife Broadcasting Network, areligious network owned bytelevangelistJimmy Swaggart. On August 1, 2017, another LMA was made with a new network, Punch TV, which mainly consisted ofpublic domain andbrokered programming.[7]
On June 1, 2018, KILM began channel sharing withIon Televisionowned-and-operated stationKPXN-TV (channel 30). As KPXN'sbroadcast radius does not adequately cover Barstow, KILM changed its city of license to Inglewood.[1] Several weeks later,Ion Media Networks 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.[8][9] Multicultural terminated the Punch TV LMA at the start of August 2018, and began to carry a full schedule ofpaid programming 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 itsIon Plus feed under KILM's 64.1 virtual channel, which allowed Ion to utilize KILM'smust-carry status for main-channel full-market coverage of Ion Plus.[10] Since then, KILM has aired various digital subchannel networks, all of them owned byScripps Networks.[11]
| License | Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| KPXN-TV | 30.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 30.2 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | ||
| 30.3 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | |||
| 30.4 | Laff | Laff | |||
| 30.5 | GameSho | Game Show Central | |||
| 30.6 | GameSho | Busted | |||
| 30.8 | HSN | HSN | |||
| KILM | 64.1 | 720p | Bounce | Bounce TV |
KHIZ shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 64, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were totransition 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, usingvirtual channel 64.[13]
On May 6, 2009, KHIZ added alow-power analogtranslator K39GY channel 39 (now KHIZ-LD, channel 2), a formerTBN translator inVictorville. It was sold in 2015 toDTV America.
…FilmOn is launching its first broadcast channel in the country, KILM-TV Channel 64, in Los Angeles starting on Sept. 1.