KXLA

Rancho Palos Verdes–Los Angeles, California United States
City	Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Channels	Digital: 30 (UHF), shared with KJLA Virtual: 44
Programming
Affiliations	44.1: Ethnic Independent for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Ronald Ulloa (Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc.)
Sister stations	KSGA-LD, KVMD, KJLA
History
First air date	December 2000 (23 years ago) (2000-12)
Former call signs	KRPA (2000–2001)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 44 (UHF, 2000–2009) Digital: 51 (UHF, 2003–2019)
Former affiliations	America One (2000–2001)
Call sign meaning	KX Los Angeles
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	55083
ERP	670 kW 1,000 kW (CP)
HAAT	947 m (3,107 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	34°13′35.3″N 118°4′0.9″W / 34.226472°N 118.066917°W / 34.226472; -118.066917
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.kxlatv.com

KXLA (channel 44) is an ethnic independent television station licensed to Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States, serving the Los Angeles area. The station is owned by Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc., whose president and majority owner, Ronald Ulloa, also owns Twentynine Palms–licensed KVMD (channel 31). KXLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue (near Interstate 405) 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 KWVE.

KXLA's transmitter was originally located on Catalina Island at 33°20′59.5″N 118°21′9.4″W / 33.349861°N 118.352611°W / 33.349861; -118.352611, but in 2004 it was moved to Mount 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 in widescreen.

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.

Technical information

Subchannels

KXLA presents eight subchannels on the multiplex shared with KJLA:

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.^[3] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using virtual channel 44.