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, California, United States, airing programming from the

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. It is

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alongside

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station

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(channel 54),

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(channel 14), and

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(channel 27). The stations share offices on Grand Central Avenue in Glendale; KAZA-TV's transmitter is located at the Mount Harvard Radio Site in the

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. Due to its low-power status, KHTV-CD's broadcasting radius does not reach all of Greater Los Angeles. Therefore, it relies on

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carriage to reach the entire

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History

The station was founded on October 22, 1993. It signed on as K38EA on channel 38, before moving to channel 48 as KHTV-LP, starting in 2000 as an affiliate of now defunct Home Shopping en Español, later rebranding to HSE (a

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channel operated by parent channel

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) until HSE ceased operations in June 2002. When

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launched its digital signal on channel 48 in 2001, this displaced KHTV-LP to channel 67. It stayed on channel 67 until December 31, 2011, when the last of the LPTV stations still using out-of-core channels 52-69 had to vacate that spectrum. In 2012, KHTV-LP converted to digital as KHTV-LD and moved to channel 27. On July 11, 2012, the station received class A status and changed its call sign to KHTV-CD. In 2019, as part of the repack, KHTV-CD moved to its current channel 22 allocation, channel sharing with

owned-and-operated station

. The KHTV call letters were originally used by an unrelated full-power station in

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, on channel 27, and in

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on channel 39. On February 28, 2022, KHTV-CD discontinued carrying Jewelry Television on 6.1 and replaced it with

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. With this change, 6.1 was converted to 720p HD. All remaining subchannels carried by KHTV-CD were removed. MeTV Plus had been on KAZA-DT3 since its expansion to Weigel-owned stations in September 2021.

Subchannels

References

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