KXLA


KXLA, virtual channel 44, is an ethnic independent television station serving Los Angeles, California, United States that is licensed to Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The station is owned by Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc., whose president and majority owner, Ronald Ulloa, also owns Twentynine Palms-licensed KVMD. KXLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue in West Los Angeles, 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. The station changed its call letters to KXLA on August 8, 2001 with ethnic programming. The KXLA call sign was previously used by the Pasadena radio station now known as KRDC.
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.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
ChannelVideoAspectPSIP Short NameProgramming
44.1720pKXLAEthnic Independent
44.2480iH&SSino TV
44.3480iSKYLINKSky Link TV Channel 3
44.4480iSKY-CANSky Link TV Channel 2
44.5480iARRANGArirang TV
44.6480iSonLifeSonLife Broadcasting Network
44.7480iNTDTVNew Tang Dynasty TV
44.8480iKBS24KBS24
44.9480iGETV
44.10480iQVC PLUSQVC2
44.11480iIDJIglesia de Jesucristo Canaan
44.12480iSHOPHQShopHQ

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 to display KXLA's virtual channel as 44 on digital television receivers.

In popular culture

The KXLA call letters were used in fictional form by the television station featured in the film The China Syndrome and the Bewitched TV spinoff Tabitha, with Lisa Hartman-Black in the title role. The call sign was also used by a radio station in the movie Joe Dirt.