KBEH
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Los Angeles, California United States |
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| City | Oxnard, California |
| Channels |
Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 63 () |
| Affiliations | Infomercials |
| Owner | Hero Broadcasting (sale to Meruelo Television pending) (Hero Licenseco LLC) |
| First air date | August 17, 1985 |
| Former callsigns | KTIE (1985–1988) KADY-TV (1988–2004) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 63 (UHF, 1985–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1985–1995, 2002–2004) UPN (1995–2002) Spanish Independent (2004–2006) Tr3s (2006–2013) CNN Latino (2013) Super 22 (2013-2015) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 874 m |
| Facility ID | 56384 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°12′48″N 118°3′41″W / 34.21333°N 118.06139°WCoordinates: 34°12′48″N 118°3′41″W / 34.21333°N 118.06139°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KBEH, virtual channel 63 (UHF digital channel 24), is a television station that is licensed to Oxnard. This station is currently running Infomercials. KBEH's studios are located on West Century Boulevard in the Los Angeles suburb of Westchester. Its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.
The station first signed on the air on August 17, 1985 as independent station KTIE. It was the first television station to operate in Ventura County, since KKOG-TV (channel 16) shut down in 1969. The original owner, Don Sterling (no relation to the Los Angeles Clippers owner of the same name), fighting ongoing losses, sold the station in 1988 to billionaire Meshulam Riklis, the then-husband of actress Pia Zadora. Riklis changed the call letters to KADY-TV in honor of his and Zadora's daughter Kady, who in turn was named for the character Zadora played in Butterfly, financed by Riklis, a role which won Zadora the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. Riklis infused capital to build up the station, but it remained unprofitable.
Riklis achieved his wealth by inventing complicated paper schemes like junk bonds and leveraged buyouts. As Riklis' empire began to unravel, KADY-TV was part of settlements. The subsequent company, E-II Holdings (a group of jilted Riklis investors), discovered this was an unprofitable venture and essentially bailed out on the operation. The station was then sold to former general manager under Riklis, John Huddy (father of Fox News Channel anchor and former co-host of The Morning Show, Juliet Huddy, who also worked at the station and eventually married news director Dan Green). How Huddy, a former entertainment critic for The Miami Herald and executive producer of Tomorrow, came to own a television station was never clear. While Huddy made some innovative moves, he did not have the financial resources to operate at a loss. One of his improvements to KADY was making it one of the original affiliates of UPN when it launched on January 16, 1995, and another was to duplicate the signal in the Central Coast using leased time on San Luis Obispo's KADE (channel 33; now KTAS). Huddy, in the name of KADY, left bad debts throughout the area business community, including $4 million to Don Sterling, the original owner and still the building's landlord. After lying in bankruptcy court in July 1996, the property was immediately seized. Afterwards, Huddy became a successful author of a "True Crime" bestseller.
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