Riverside/Los Angeles, California United States |
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City | Riverside, California |
Branding | Estrella TV KRCA 62 (general) Noticias 62 (newscasts) |
Slogan |
Tu Ciudad. Tu Equipo. (Your City. Your Team.) |
Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 62 () |
Subchannels | (see article) |
Affiliations | Estrella TV (O&O) |
Owner |
Liberman Broadcasting (KRCA License LLC) |
First air date | December 17, 1988 |
Call letters' meaning |
Riverside, CAlifornia (no relation to the Radio Corporation of America) |
Former callsigns | KSLD (1988–1990) |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 62 (UHF, 1988–2009) Digital: 68 (UHF, until 2009) |
Former affiliations |
Asian Independent (1988–1990) HSN (1990–1998) Spanish Independent (1998–2009) |
Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
Height | 906 m |
Facility ID | 22161 |
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 |
KRCA, virtual channel 62 (UHF digital channel 35), is an Estrella TV owned-and-operated television station serving Los Angeles, California, United States that is licensed to Riverside. It is the flagship television station of owner Liberman Broadcasting. The station's studios are located on North Victory Drive (near Interstate 5) in Burbank, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Harvard.
The station first signed on the air on December 17, 1988 as KSLD-TV, displacing a low-power translator of San Bernardino-based PBS member station KVCR-TV (channel 24). The station ran a mix of Asian language programs (in Mandarin Chinese and Korean). Channel 62 was originally founded and owned by Frank L. Fouce's company, Fouce Amusement Enterprises, who broadcast Asian language programming.
In 1990, the station changed its call letters to KRCA (the station is not related to NBC owned-and-operated station KNBC channel 4, or RCA, the former parent of that station's associated network, although NBC used the KRCA call letters on its Los Angeles station in the 1950s), and became an affiliate of the Home Shopping Network. In 1998, KRCA was sold to Liberman Broadcasting, and converted into a Spanish language independent station.