KJLA

Not to be confused withWJLA-TV.

KJLA

Ventura–Los Angeles, California United States
City	Ventura, California
Channels	Digital:30 (UHF), shared withKXLA Virtual:57
Branding	Visión Latina 57
Programming
Affiliations	57.1:Visión Latina for others, see§ Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Costa de Oro Media,LLC (Walter Ulloa) (KJLA, LLC)
Sister stations	KVMD,KXLA
History
First air date	October 1, 1990(1990-10-01)
Former call signs	KSTV-TV (1990–1998)
Former channel number(s)	Analog:57 (UHF, 1990–2008) Digital:49 (UHF, 2005–2017) 51 (UHF, 2017–2019)
Former affiliations	Galavision(1990–1995) The WB(1995–1998) SpanishIndependent(1998–2007) LATV(2007–2017) Azteca América(2018–2021)
Call signmeaning	Los Angeles
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	14000
ERP	670kW 1,000 kW (CP)
HAAT	947 m (3,107 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	34°13′35.3″N118°4′0.9″W
Translator(s)	see§ Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.kjla.com

KJLA(channel 57) is atelevision stationlicensed toVentura, California,United States, serving theLos Angelesarea as an affiliate of Visión Latina. The station is owned by Costa de Oro Media,LLC,a company run byEntravision Communicationsfounder, CEO and chairman Walter Ulloa (whose brother, Ronald Ulloa, ownsRancho Palos Verdes–licensed ethnicindependent stationKXLA(channel 44) andTwentynine Palms–licensedKVMD(channel 31)). KJLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue (nearInterstate 405) inWest Los Angeles,and its transmitter is located atopMount Wilson.

KJLA operates twolow-powerrepeater stations:KLFA-LD(channel 25) inSanta MariaandKFUL-LD(channel 23) inSan Luis Obispo(both are part of theSanta Barbaramarket). In addition to carryingSpanish-languageprogramming on its main channel, the station also carries various networks broadcasting inVietnameseandMandarinon separatedigital subchannels.

History

The station first signed on the air on October 1, 1990, as KSTV-TV. It was the second attempt to operate a television station in Ventura; the first,KKOG-TV(channel 16), operated from December 14, 1968, to September 13, 1969, with a schedule of entirely live, local programming. KSTV-TV was originally owned by Costa de Oro Television, Inc., and originally aired Spanish-language programming as an affiliate ofGalavisión.The station signed on a low-power translator in Santa Maria in 1992.

In 1994, Walter Ulloa purchased Costa de Oro Television and KSTV-TV, intending to increase its transmitting power and extend its signal to better reach to the Los Angeles area. However, although Ventura is considered part of the Los Angeles market,Federal Communications Commission(FCC) rules at the time placed KSTV-TV within the Santa Barbara–Santa Maria–San Luis Obispo market, similar to the situation of KADY-TV channel 63 (nowKBEH-TV) inOxnard, Californiawhich became Santa Barbara'sUPNaffiliate when the network launched in January 1995. Unable to getcablecoverage in the Los Angeles area, on November 1, 1995, KSTV switched to anEnglish-languageformat and became theWBaffiliate for the Santa Barbara market.

Logo for "LATV", the bilingual programming block produced by KJLA, until December 31, 2017.

However, the station continued in its attempts to enter the Los Angeles market. In July 1997, KSTV increased itseffective radiated powerto 5,000kilowatts.The improved signal helped the station to obtainmust-carrystatus on most cable providers in westernLos Angeles Countyin February 1998. However, because Los Angeles already had a WB-affiliated station,KTLA(channel 5), KSTV-TV was forced to disaffiliate from the network. In the spring of 1998, the station relocated its studios and offices from Ventura to West Los Angeles.

The station changed its call letters to KJLA on July 20, 1998, to further reflect its intentions to serve the Los Angeles market. On that date, KJLA became anindependent stationand adopted a split-scheduled format. The station began carrying financial news programming under the brandBusiness News 22acquired fromKWHY-TV,laterBizNews 1on weekday mornings and afternoons. 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 (nowKXLA) which prompted the change to channel 33. Soon after,Trinity Broadcasting Networksought to moveKTBN-TV's digital operation from channel 23 to channel 33, to avoid co-channel interference from the digital signals ofKVMD(another "cousin" of KJLA) in the Inland Empire and San DiegoCWaffiliateXETV,now a repeater ofXHGC-TDT.KTBN's move to channel 33 was authorized on February 5, 2009, ultimately displacing KSMV-LP to KTBN's former digital channel, 23. KSMV-LP soon flash-cut to digital and started rebroadcasting KVMD to the Los Angeles area.

The following year in 2001, the station began branding its Spanish language programming block under the name LATV. In April 2007, LATV transitioned from a programming block on KJLA into a national network; it became distributed to several television stations (mainly carried ondigital subchannelsandlow-powerstations, with thesubchannelsoffourstationsowned byPost-Newsweek Stationsand those owned byEntravision Communicationsamong the network's charter affiliates).

Former KJLA logo used from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2021.

In December 2017, it was announced that the station will become the Los Angeles market'sAzteca Américaaffiliate on January 3, 2018, replacingKAZA-TV,thus sister stationKVMDbecame the new affiliate ofLATVin the Los Angeles market on January 1, 2018. Although the official switch to Azteca was not until January 3, the station started airing the majority of the network's programming on January 1 with an exception of shows that aired at the same time as KJLA'sreligious programming,which continued to air on the network until March.Various Azteca programs weredelayedor not shown at all in order to make place for KJLA's religious programCambia Tu Vida,which aired various times a day. The program was removed from KJLA's schedule on March 19, 2018, and the station begin airing Azteca's entire schedule "live" and in pattern. On January 1, 2022, the station dropped its affiliation with Azteca America and starting airing religious programming from Visión Latina with programs from Universal Church; Azteca moved its affiliation to a subchannel ofKWHY-TVuntil the network ceased operations on December 31, 2022.

Technical information

Subchannels

For other channels on this multiplex, seeKXLA § Subchannels.

KJLA presents 10 subchannels on themultiplexshared with KXLA:

Subchannels of KJLA on the KXLA multiplex

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
57.1	720p	16:9	KJLA	Main KJLA programming / Visión Latina
57.2	480i	4:3	VFACE	VietFace TV(Vietnamese)
57.3			VNA	VNA TV (Vietnamese)
57.4			VietSky	VietSky Television (Vietnamese)
57.5			STV	Saigon TV (Vietnamese)
57.6			VBS	VBS TV (Vietnamese)
57.7			AVA	AVA (Vietnamese)
57.9			ZWTV	Chung T'ien TV(Mandarin)
57.12			VGMT	Viet Global Mall TV (Vietnamese)
57.22			SBTN	SBTN(Vietnamese)

Translators

• KFUL-LDSan Luis Obispo

Analog-to-digital conversion

KJLA had applied to convert to a digital-only signal, citing low over-the-air analog viewership rates and high operating costs to maintain the simulcast; this request was refused by the FCC on February 9, 2005. The higher operating costs were in part due to KJLA having two different transmitter sites. The station's analog transmitter was located on South Mountain nearSanta PaulainVentura County;the facilities for its digital signal are located onMount WilsoninLos Angeles County.

KJLA shut down its analog signal, overUHFchannel 57, on August 27, 2008.The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49, usingvirtual channel57. KJLA is the second television station in the Los Angeles market to discontinue its analog signal before the digital transition in 2009, after KVMD, which shut down its analog signal in 2003.

Channel sharing trial

In February 2014, KJLA andPBSmember stationKLCS(channel 58) were grantedspecial temporary authorityby the FCC to conduct trials in partnership withCTIAand theAssociation of Public Television Stations,in which the two stations would conduct a test of theH.264video codec for digital television transmission, and more importantly, the ability and viability of broadcasting two sets of television services within the same 6 MHz channel band. These tests came as the FCC prepared to perform aspectrum auctionin 2015 (which was delayed to sometime in 2016 that November), in which television station operators would be able to voluntarily sell their broadcast spectrum to the government, and then receive profits from its sale to wireless providers. An FCC spokesperson stated that channel sharing would allow broadcasters to "[take] advantage of the incentive auction’s once-in-a-lifetime financial opportunity", while still maintaining its ability to run over-the-air television programming.

External links

• Official website
• Santa Barbara TV Guide channel listings^[usurped]showing KSTV affiliations in 1992 and 1997.
• 1995 FCC petitionrequesting cable carriage undermust-carryrules.
• 1998 FCC petitionrequesting modification of market under must-carry rules.
• 2000 FCC petitionrequesting cable carriage.
• USENET posting referring to KSTV-57 and WB affiliation
• TV57 description on R-VCR.COM
• Orange Bytes, November 1999article announcing move of KWHY-TV business news