KCAL-TV
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Los Angeles, California United States |
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| Branding | KCAL 9 (general) KCAL 9 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Always On (general) Live, Local, Late Breaking (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 9 () |
| Translators | (see article) |
| Affiliations |
Independent CBS (alternate) |
| Owner |
CBS Corporation (Los Angeles Television Station KCAL, LLC) |
| First air date | August 25, 1948 |
| Call letters' meaning | CALifornia |
| Sister station(s) | KAMP-FM, KCBS-FM, KCBS-TV, KNX, KROQ-FM, KRTH, KTWV |
| Former callsigns | KFI-TV (1948–1951) KHJ-TV (1951–1989) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 9 (VHF, 1948–2009) Digital: 43 (UHF, 2001–2009) |
| Former affiliations | DuMont (1954–1956) |
| Transmitter power | 25,000 watts |
| Height | 977 metres (3,205 feet) |
| Facility ID | 21422 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°13′38″N 118°4′0″W / 34.22722°N 118.06667°WCoordinates: 34°13′38″N 118°4′0″W / 34.22722°N 118.06667°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | Official website |
KCAL-TV, channel 9, is an independent television station located in Los Angeles, California, USA. KCAL-TV is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, and operates as part of a television duopoly with CBS owned-and-operated station KCBS-TV (channel 2). The two stations share studio facilities inside the CBS Studio Center in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.
Channel 9 signed on the air as KFI-TV on August 25, 1948, owned by Earle C. Anthony alongside KFI radio (640 AM). The station initially broadcast a limited schedule with six hours weekly, and formally began operations on October 6, 1948 with 3.5 hours that day. Though KFI had long been affiliated with NBC Radio, KFI-TV did not affiliate with the then-upstart NBC Television Network as it was building its own station, KNBH (channel 4, now KNBC), which went on the air in January 1949.; KFI general manager William B. Ryan indicated a willingness to affiliate with a network other than NBC or starting a mutual regional network. Channel 9 has been an independent station for virtually its entire history, though it carried DuMont programming from 1954 up until the network's 1956 demise.
Channel 9's engineers threatened to go on strike in 1951, leading Anthony to sell the station to the General Tire and Rubber Company in August of that year. A few months earlier, General Tire had purchased the Don Lee Broadcasting System, a regional West Coast radio network (the original Don Lee television station, KTSL channel 2, was sold separately to CBS). Don Lee's flagship station was KHJ radio (930 AM), and General Tire changed its new television station's call letters to KHJ-TV in September 1951. One former employee referred to the call letters as standing for "kindness, happiness and joy," although the call sign was likely randomly assigned. The Don Lee name was so well respected in California broadcasting that KHJ-TV called itself "Don Lee Television" for a few years in the early 1950s, even though it had never been affiliated with KHJ radio until the 1951 deal.
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