KRCA
Encyclopedia
KRCA Digital UHF Channel 35 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 programming on its main channel, along with some late night English infomercials, and broadcasts Mandarin-language programming on one digital subchannel
. KRCA is the flagship station of Liberman Broadcasting
. After the 2009 digital conversion was complete, KRCA-DT moved to UHF Channel 35 from pre-transition UHF Channel 68.
The station is not related to KNBC
or RCA
, although NBC
used the KRCA call letters on its Los Angeles station in the 1950s.
. 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, CA" and the "CA" initial crossed out, replaced with a bold red "MEXICO" and a picture of the El Ángel
victory column 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.
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
).
channel on UHF 35. It carried its San Diego
sister station
KSDX-LP
as digital subchannel 62.2. In September 2009, 62.2 began to transmit Mandarin-language programming for the first time since KRCA last presented Chinese-language television in 1998. It is presented by City of Industry
-based Hantian TV (HTTV). As of June 2010, KRCA has added a third subchannel on 62.3, Inmigrante TV, a Spanish-language special interest channel featuring political news and commentary aimed at immigrant viewers.
Both the analog and pre-transition allocations for KRCA are outside the core TV spectrum (channels 2-51), so the station was 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 switched over at that time. It continues to map on digital TV tuners as virtual channel 62 via PSIP technology.
Digital channels>
Channel
Programming
62.1
Main KRCA programming (Spanish
)
62.2
HTTV USA (Mandarin
)
62.3
Vida TV (Spanish
)
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
in the Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
metropolitan region, formerly broadcasting Asian programming and home shopping. The station now airs Spanish-language programming on its main channel, along with some late night English infomercials, and broadcasts Mandarin-language programming on one digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
. KRCA is the flagship station of Liberman Broadcasting
Liberman Broadcasting
Liberman Broadcasting is a media company based in Burbank, California. Liberman Broadcasting primarily caters to the Spanish-speaking Hispanic community and owns television and radio stations in several of the top Hispanic markets.-History:...
. After the 2009 digital conversion was complete, KRCA-DT moved to UHF Channel 35 from pre-transition UHF Channel 68.
The station is not related to KNBC
KNBC
KNBC, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KNBC's studios and offices are located within the NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson...
or RCA
RCA
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...
, although NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
used the KRCA call letters on its Los Angeles station in the 1950s.
History
The station began telecasting an Asian mix of programs (in Mandarin Chinese and Korean) in 1988 as KSLD-TV, replacing a low-power translator for PBS station KVCRKVCR-TV
KVCR-DT digital channel 26 is a member of the Public Broadcasting Service, and is owned by the San Bernardino Community College District. The District also operates sister station KVCR-FM. KVCR-TV began broadcasting on September 11, 1962, making it the first successful UHF television channel for...
. It changed to KRCA, running Home Shopping Network
Home Shopping Network
Home Shopping Network or HSN began in 1977 as a 24-hour/7 day a week home shopping television network televised via cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the Philippines. HSN can also be shopped online at hsn.com...
programming, in 1990. It converted to Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
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, CA" and the "CA" initial crossed out, replaced with a bold red "MEXICO" and a picture of the El Ángel
El Ángel
El Ángel de la Independencia , most commonly known by theshortened name El Ángel and officially known as Columna de la Independencia, is a victory column located on a roundabout over Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City.El Ángel was built to commemorate the centennial of the beginning of...
victory column on the Paseo de la Reforma
Paseo de la Reforma
Paseo de la Reforma is a wide avenue that runs in a straight line, cutting diagonally across Mexico City. It was designed by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig in the 1860s and modeled after the great boulevards of Europe, such as Vienna's Ringstrasse or the Champs-Élysées in Paris...
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
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....
spoke on the popular John and Ken
John and Ken
John Chester Kobylt and Kenneth Robertson Chiampou, known professionally as John and Ken are American talk radio hosts of a four-hour weekday radio show, The John and Ken Show, on KFI AM 640 in Southern California. The John and Ken Show airs from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m....
radio talk show requesting that the Libermans remove the signs. After negotiations between the station and Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
, the owner of the billboards, the messages were replaced with a more generic advertisement.
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
Infomercial
Infomercials are direct response television commercials which generally include a phone number or website. There are long-form infomercials, which are typically between 15 and 30 minutes in length, and short-form infomercials, which are typically 30 seconds to 120 seconds in length. Infomercials...
).
KRCA on Digital Television
KRCA-DT operates a Digital TelevisionDigital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
channel on UHF 35. It carried its San Diego
San Diego, California
San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
sister station
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership....
KSDX-LP
KSDX-LP
KSDX-LD is a low-powered television station broadcasting as a Spanish independent in San Diego, California. It converted to digital about Oct 22, 2009. It broadcasts on channel 9 with a PSIP of 29, and is under ownership of Liberman Broadcasting....
as digital subchannel 62.2. In September 2009, 62.2 began to transmit Mandarin-language programming for the first time since KRCA last presented Chinese-language television in 1998. It is presented by City of Industry
Industry, California
Industry is an industrial suburb of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County. Home to over 2,500 businesses and 80,000 jobs, but only 219 residents at the 2010 census - down from 777 residents as of the 2000 United States census - the city is almost entirely industrial...
-based Hantian TV (HTTV). As of June 2010, KRCA has added a third subchannel on 62.3, Inmigrante TV, a Spanish-language special interest channel featuring political news and commentary aimed at immigrant viewers.
Both the analog and pre-transition allocations for KRCA are outside the core TV spectrum (channels 2-51), so the station was 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 switched over at that time. It continues to map on digital TV tuners as virtual channel 62 via PSIP technology.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
)
Standard Mandarin
Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....
)
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
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