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| City | Rancho Palos Verdes, California |
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| KSGA-LD,KVMD,KJLA | |
| History | |
First air date | December 2000 (24 years ago) (2000-12) |
Former call signs | KRPA (2000–2001) |
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| America One (2000–2001) | |
Call sign meaning | KX Los Angeles |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 55083 |
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| HAAT | 947 m (3,107 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°13′35.3″N118°4′0.9″W / 34.226472°N 118.066917°W /34.226472; -118.066917 |
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| Website | www |
KXLA (channel 44) is anethnicindependent television station licensed toRancho Palos Verdes, California, United States, serving theLos Angeles area. The station is owned by Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc., whose president and majority owner, Ronald Ulloa, also ownsTwentynine Palms–licensedKVMD (channel 31). KXLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue (nearInterstate 405) inWest Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atopMount Wilson.
The station first signed on the air in December 2000 as KRPA as an affiliate ofAmerica One. The station changed itscall letters to KXLA on August 8, 2001, with ethnic programming. The KXLA call sign was previously used by thePasadena radio station now known asKWVE.
KXLA's transmitter was originally located onCatalina Island at33°20′59.5″N118°21′9.4″W / 33.349861°N 118.352611°W /33.349861; -118.352611, but in 2004 it was moved toMount Wilson, where most of the other stations in the Los Angeles market transmit.
On May 10, 2018, KXLA's main signal transitioned from 4:3 to 16:9, which allowed local programming and their local newscasts to be broadcast inwidescreen.
The KXLA call letters were used in fictional form by the television station featured in the filmThe China Syndrome and theBewitched TV spinoffTabitha, withLisa Hartman-Black in the title role. The call sign was also used by a radio station in the movieJoe Dirt.
KXLA presents eight subchannels on themultiplex shared with KJLA:
| License | Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| KXLA | 44.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KXLA-DT | Main KXLA-DT programming |
| 44.3 | 480i | 4:3 | SKYLINK | Sky Link TV Channel 3 (Mandarin) | |
| 44.4 | SKY-CAN | Sky Link TV Channel 2 (Cantonese) | |||
| 44.6 | NTD | NTD America | |||
| 44.7 | NTDTV | New Tang Dynasty TV (Mandarin) | |||
| 44.8 | EEE TV | EEE TV (Spanish) | |||
| 44.9 | CGNTV | Christian Global Network Television (Korean) | |||
| KJLA | 57.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KJLA | Visión Latina |
| 57.2 | 480i | 4:3 | VFACE | VietFace TV (Vietnamese) | |
| 57.3 | VNA | VNA TV (Vietnamese) | |||
| 57.4 | VietSky | VietSky Television (Vietnamese) | |||
| 57.5 | STV | Saigon TV (Vietnamese) | |||
| 57.6 | VBS | VBS TV (Vietnamese) | |||
| 57.9 | ZWTV | Chung T'ien TV (Mandarin) | |||
| 57.10 | SBTN | SBTN (Vietnamese) | |||
| 57.12 | VGMT | Viet Global Mall TV (Vietnamese) | |||
| 57.15 | SBU-TV | SBU-TV (Vietnamese) |
KXLA shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 44, on June 12, 2009, as part of thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[3] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, usingvirtual channel 44.
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