KRCA
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| Los Angeles, California | |
| City of license | Riverside, California |
| Branding | Noticias 62 |
| Slogan | Tu Ciudad. Tu Equipo. (Your City. Your Team.) |
| Channels | Analog: 62 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | Spanish-language Independent (To be Estrella TV)[1] |
| Owner | Liberman Broadcasting (KRCA License, LLC) |
| Founded | December 17, 1988 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Riverside, CAlifornia (no relation to the Radio Corporation of America) |
| Former callsigns | KSLD (1988-1990) |
| Transmitter Power | 2630 kW (analog) 500 kW (digital) |
| Height | 895 m (analog) 907 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 22161 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 34°12′47.8″N 118°3′44.2″W / 34.213278°N 118.062278°W |
KRCA Analog UHF Channel 62, Digital UHF Channel 68 is a Spanish language television station in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan region, formerly broadcasting Asian programming and home shopping. The station now airs Spanish-language programing, along with some late night English infomercials. KRCA is owned by Liberman Broadcasting. After the 2009 digital conversion is complete, KRCA-DT will move to UHF Channel 35.
The station is not related to KNBC or RCA, although NBC used the KRCA call letters on its Los Angeles station in the 1950s.
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[edit] History
The station began telecasting the Asian mix of programs (in Mandarin Chinese and Korean) in 1988 as KSLD-TV, replacing a low-power translator for PBS station KVCR. It changed to KRCA, running Home Shopping Network programming, in 1990. It converted to Spanish programming in 1998 after being sold to its current owners, Liberman Broadcasting.
In May 2005, KRCA was the subject of controversy due to billboards advertising its "Noticias 62" news program with "Los Angeles, Mexico" and a picture of the angel on the Paseo de la Reforma superimposed onto a picture of the Los Angeles skyline. The billboard was deemed provocative by some and protests erupted outside Liberman Broadcasting studios. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke on the popular John and Ken radio talk show requesting that the Libermans remove the signs. After negotiations between the station and Clear Channel Communications, the owner of the billboards, the messages were replaced with a more generic advertisement.
On May 30, 2007, Liberman Broadcasting filed an application with the FCC to purchase KPNZ in Ogden/Salt Lake City, Utah for $10 million.
KRCA's broadcast day begins at 6:00 AM and ends the next late night/morning at Midnight (most days, the Midnight-6:00 AM schedule is filled by English infomercials).
[edit] KRCA on Digital Television
KRCA-DT operates a Digital Television channel on UHF 68. It carried its San Diego sister station KSDX-LP as digital subchannel 62.2. However, while the video feed for KSDX could be seen, no audio was transmitted on this subchannel for some reason. KRCA has since discontinued its digital subchannel and instead runs a test pattern with a streaming audio of a local Spanish-language radio station.
Both the analog and pre-transition allocations for KRCA are outside the core TV spectrum (channels 2-51), so the station is required to find an in-core channel from which to operate. It originally elected to operate on UHF channel 45 after 2009, but, anticipating difficulty getting coordination from Mexico to use that channel, instead requested and was granted use of UHF channel 35, and will switch over at that time.[2][3] It will continue to identify to television tuners as channel 62, which is its virtual channel.
[edit] References
- ^ "Coming, a new force in Hispanic TV". Media Life Magazine. March 20, 2009. http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Television_44/Coming_a_new_force_in_Hispanic_TV.asp. Retrieved on 2009-04-11.
- ^ "DTV Transition Status Report". FCC CDBS database. 2008-02-15. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101233784&formid=387&fac_num=22161. Retrieved on 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Report and Order (Doc. DA 08-1185)". FCC CDBS database. 2008-05-21. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-08-1185A1.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-06-20.
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