KCAL-TV, channel 9, is an independent television station in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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, USA

United States

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, owned by the CBS Corporation

CBS Corporation

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. KCAL-TV shares its studio facilities with KCBS-TV

KCBS-TV

KCBS-TV, channel 2, is an owned-and-operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Los Angeles, California. KCBS-TV shares its offices and studio facilities with sister station KCAL-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter...

 (channel 2) inside CBS Studio Center

CBS Studio Center

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 in the Studio City

Studio City, Los Angeles, California

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 section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson

Mount Wilson (California)

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KCAL-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF

Very high frequency

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 channel 9, on June 12, 2009 at 1:10 p.m., as part of the DTV transition in the United States

DTV transition in the United States

The DTV transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...

. The station had been broadcasting its pre-transition digital signal over UHF

Ultra high frequency

Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...

 channel 43, but returned to channel 9 for its post-transition operations.