KJLA
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| Los Angeles, California | |
| City of license | Ventura, California |
| Branding | LATV |
| Channels | Analog: 57 (UHF) |
| Translators | (see article) |
| Affiliations | LATV (also DT4) KXLA-TV (DT2) KVMD-TV (DT3) |
| Owner | LATV Holdings, LLC (Walter Ulloa) (KJLA, LLC) |
| First air date | October 1, 1990 |
| Call letters’ meaning | KJ Los Angeles |
| Former callsigns | KSTV-TV (1990-1998) |
| Former affiliations | Galavision (1990-1995) The WB (1995-1998) |
| Transmitter Power | 5000 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 530 m (analog) 937 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 14000 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | (analog) (digital) |
| Website | www.latv.com |
KJLA channel 57, licensed to Ventura, California, with studios based in West Los Angeles, California, is a bilingual (Spanish & English) television station, and the home of LATV. KJLA also serves Los Angeles on KSMV-LP channel 33.
KJLA is the home of shows like Mex 2 the Max, LATV Live and Santana en Vivo/Live, the half-hour bi-lingual talk show hosted by Javier Santana. KJLA also airs college basketball games of the Southeastern Conference syndicated by Raycom Sports and replays of horse racing at Santa Anita Park. It also once broadcast SEC college football, Hollywood Park Racetrack replays, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
KJLA operates several low-power repeater stations in the Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo market as well as one in Palm Springs.
The station is owned by Walter Ulloa, who is CEO of Entravision Communications, and whose brother Ronald Ulloa owns KXLA and KVMD. KJLA carries KXLA's and KVMD's programming on its digital subchannels 57.2 and 57.3. In turn, KJLA is carried on KVMD's subchannel 23.3.
KJLA's analog transmitter is located on South Mountain near Santa Paula, California, while its digital signal is transmitted from atop Mount Wilson, where analog translator KSMV-LP also transmits.
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[edit] History
Channel 57 signed on October 1, 1990 as KSTV-TV. KSTV-TV was the second attempt to operate a television station in Ventura; the first, KKOG-TV on channel 16, operated from December 14, 1968 to September 13, 1969, with a schedule of entirely live, local programming.
KSTV-TV, originally owned by Costa de Oro Television, Inc., originally aired Spanish language programming from the Galavisión network for the Ventura area. A low-power translator in Santa Maria went on the air in 1992.
In 1994, Walter Ulloa purchased Costa de Oro Television and KSTV-TV, intending to increase its power and broadcast Spanish programming to the Los Angeles area. However, although Ventura is considered part of the Los Angeles market, FCC rules at the time placed KSTV-TV in the Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo market, similar to the situation of KADY-TV in Oxnard, which became Santa Barbara's UPN affiliate when the network launched. Unable to get cable coverage in the Los Angeles area, on November 1, 1995, KSTV-TV changed to an English language format and became the affiliate of The WB for the Santa Barbara market.
However, KSTV-TV continued in its attempts to enter the Los Angeles market. In July 1997, the station increased its power to 5000 kilowatts, and in early 1998, a low-power translator in Simi Valley, California went on the air. In February 1998, the improved signal helped the station to obtain must-carry status on most of western Los Angeles county's cable systems. But because Los Angeles already had a WB affiliate, KTLA, KSTV-TV was forced to drop WB programming from its schedule. The station changed its call letters to KJLA on July 20, 1998, to further reflect its intentions to serve the Los Angeles market. Shortly before the call letter change, the station relocated its studios and offices from Ventura to West Los Angeles.
Translators in Santa Barbara and San Bernardino went on the air in 1999 and San Luis Obispo and Palm Springs translators went on the air in 2000.
In November 1999, KJLA began carrying Business 2000, the financial news programming which was previously carried on KWHY-TV as Business News 22. Business news returned to KWHY-TV, this time only on its digital signal, in 2000, and was later dropped by KJLA.
In November 2001, the Simi Valley translator was moved to Mount Wilson and started broadcasting to Los Angeles as KSMV-LP on channel 33. Ironically, the original low power translator in Simi Valley operated on channel 44, which caused interference with full power "cousin" station KRPA (now KXLA) which prompted the change to channel 33. Now, Trinity Broadcasting Network is seeking to move KTBN-TV's digital operation from channel 23 to channel 33, to avoid co-channel interference from the digital signals of KVMD (another "cousin" of KJLA) and San Diego Fox affiliate XETV-TV. KSMV-LP will have to move to yet another channel once the FCC authorizes the change for KTBN-DT.
[edit] Digital Television
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Digital channels
| Channel | Programming |
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| 57.1 | Main KJLA programming / LATV |
| 57.2 | Main KXLA programming |
| 57.3 | Main KVMD programming |
| 57.4 | LATV (24/7) |
[edit] National rollout
Beginning in April 2007, LATV began to broadcast on digital subchannels of several TV stations owned by Post-Newsweek. These stations are KPRC-TV in Houston, WPLG in Miami, WKMG-TV in Orlando, and KSAT-TV in San Antonio. [1]
[edit] Rebroadcasters
KJLA is rebroadcast on the following translators:
- KSMV-LP 33 Los Angeles
- KBAB-LP 51 Santa Barbara
- KSGA-LP 64 San Bernardino
- KLFA-LP 25 Santa Maria
- KFUL-LP 44 San Luis Obispo
- KODG-LP 17 Palm Springs
[edit] References
- Official website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KJLA
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KJLA-TV
- Santa Barbara TV Guide channel listings showing KSTV affiliations in 1992 and 1997.
- 1995 FCC petition requesting cable carriage under must-carry rules.
- 1998 FCC petition requesting modification of market under must-carry rules.
- 2000 FCC petition requesting cable carriage.
- USENET posting referring to KSTV-57 and WB affiliation
- TV57 description on R-VCR.COM
- Orange Bytes, November 1999 article announcing move of KWHY-TV business news
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