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KXLA (channel 44) is an ethnic independent television station licensed to Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States, serving the Los Angeles area. The station is owned by Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc., whose president and majority owner, Ronald Ulloa, also owns Twentynine Palms–licensed KVMD (channel 31). KXLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue (near Interstate 405) in West Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.
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| City | Rancho Palos Verdes, California |
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| KSGA-LD, KVMD, KJLA | |
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First air date | December 2000 (23 years ago) (2000-12) |
Former call signs | KRPA (2000–2001) |
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| America One (2000–2001) | |
Call sign meaning | KX Los Angeles |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 55083 |
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| HAAT | 947 m (3,107 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°13′35.3″N 118°4′0.9″W / 34.226472°N 118.066917°W / 34.226472; -118.066917 |
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| Website | www |
The station first signed on the air in December 2000 as KRPA as an affiliateofAmerica One. The station changed its call letters to KXLA on August 8, 2001, with ethnic programming. The KXLA call sign was previously used by the Pasadena radio station now known as KWVE.
KXLA's transmitter was originally located on Catalina Islandat33°20′59.5″N 118°21′9.4″W / 33.349861°N 118.352611°W / 33.349861; -118.352611, but in 2004 it was moved to Mount Wilson, where most of the other stations in the Los Angeles market transmit.
On May 10, 2018, KXLA's main signal transitioned from 4:3 to 16:9, which allowed local programming and their local newscasts to be broadcast in widescreen.
The KXLA call letters were used in fictional form by the television station featured in the film The China Syndrome and the Bewitched TV spinoff Tabitha, with Lisa Hartman-Black in the title role. The call sign was also used by a radio station in the movie Joe Dirt.
KXLA presents eight subchannels on the multiplex shared with KJLA:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 44.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KXLA-DT | Main KXLA-DT programming |
| 44.2 | 480i | 4:3 | CRTV | Infomercials |
| 44.3 | SKYLINK | Sky Link TV Channel 3 (Mandarin) | ||
| 44.4 | SKY-CAN | Sky Link TV Channel 2 (Cantonese) | ||
| 44.5 | SHOPHQ | ShopHQ | ||
| 44.7 | NTDTV | New Tang Dynasty TV (Mandarin) | ||
| 44.8 | EEE TV | EEE TV (Spanish) | ||
| 44.9 | CGNTV | Christian Global Network Television (Korean) |
KXLA shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 44, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[3] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using virtual channel 44.