Rancho Palos Verdes/Los Angeles, California United States |
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City | Rancho Palos Verdes, California |
Channels |
Digital: 51 (UHF) Virtual: 44 () |
Affiliations | Asian Language and Infomercials |
Owner | Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc. (Ronald Ulloa) |
First air date | December 2000 |
Call letters' meaning | KX Los Angeles |
Sister station(s) | KVMD, KJLA |
Former callsigns | KRPA (2000–2001) |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 44 (UHF, 2000–2009) |
Former affiliations | America One (2000-01) |
Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
Height | 937 m |
Facility ID | 55083 |
Transmitter coordinates | 34°13′35.3″N 118°3′57.7″W / 34.226472°N 118.066028°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
KXLA, virtual channel 44 (UHF digital) this station airs Asian and Infomercials. KXLA is licensed to Rancho Palos Verdes, California USA. The station is owned by Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc., whose president and majority owner is Ronald Ulloa, who also owns Twentynine Palms-based KVMD (channel 31). KXLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue in West Los Angeles (near Interstate 405), and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.
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 letters were previously used by the Pasadena radio station now known as KDIS and in fictional form by the television station featured in the film The China Syndrome. 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, but in 2004 it was moved to Mount Wilson, where most of the other stations in the Los Angeles market transmit.