KNLA-CD


KNLA-CD, is a Class A television station in Los Angeles, California. Its city of license is Los Angeles, California. The station is owned by NRJ TV LLC. Transmitting from Mount Wilson, this station broadcasts religious programming from SBN.

History

The low power station started its life as KNLA-LP on channel 27, then eventually moved to physical channel 50, mapping to virtual channel 20, to make room for KHTV-CD in Los Angeles, California, until 2012.
The station started out broadcasting in Asian languages, similar to what KSCI and KXLA currently offer. Then KNLA changed its focus to target Los Angeles area residents of Central American heritage. Most of these immigrants moved from El Salvador and Guatemala. This channel was home to broadcaster ZionTV during its time of broadcasting in Spanish. KNLA also produced its own live, local newscast at 7:00 PM on weeknights, prior to affiliating with HSN.
Due to KNLA-CD and KSCI being under common ownership, some of the former's subchannels map back to KSCI using the latter's major channel number, 18.x, as shown in the table below, and the infobox to the right.
In 2017, KNLA-CD and sister KNET-CD entered into a channel-sharing agreement, with the latter selling its UHF channel 25 spectrum, but continuing to map to virtual channel 25. Please see the article on KNET-CD for more information.
In October 2018, KNLA-CD dropped its HSN affiliation and replaced it with SonLife on its primary channel 20.1.

Current status

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
ChannelVideoAspectPSIP Short NameProgramming
18.9480i4:3LSTVLittle Saigon TV
18.10480i4:3VFTVVietFaceTV
18.11480i4:3SET TVSBTN
18.12480i4:3IBC TVIBC-TV
18.13480i4:3CHANNELS-Channel
18.14480i4:3CBNChina Business Network
20.1480i4:3SonLifeSBN
20.2480i4:3MBNKorean
20.3480i4:3NVNuestra Visión
20.4480i4:3JTVJerusalem TV
20.5480i4.3BlankBlank
20.6480i4.3BlankBlank