KXLA (channel 44) is an

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licensed to

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, United States, serving the

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area. The station is owned by Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcasters, Inc., whose president and majority owner, Ronald Ulloa, also owns

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–licensed KVMD (channel 31). KXLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue (near Interstate 405) in

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, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.

Overview

The station first signed on the air in December 2000 as KRPA as an affiliate of

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. The station changed its

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to KXLA on August 8, 2001, with

programming. The KXLA call sign was previously used by the Pasadena radio station now known as KRDC. KXLA's transmitter was originally located on Catalina Island at , 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 was upgraded from 4:3

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(

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) to 16:9 high definition (

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), which allowed local programming and their local newscasts to be broadcast in

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In popular culture

The KXLA call letters were used in fictional form by the television station featured in the film ''

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'' and the ''

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'' TV spinoff ''

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'', with

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in the title role. The call sign was also used by a radio station in the movie ''

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''.

Technical information

Subchannels

KXLA presents seven subchannels on the

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shared with KJLA:

Analog-to-digital conversion

KXLA shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 44, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using PSIP to display KXLA's

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as 44 on digital television receivers.

References

External links

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Program Information for KXLA
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TitanTV.com
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