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{{short description|Visión Latina affiliate in Ventura, California}}
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{{distinguish|WJLA-TV}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = KJLA
| city                   = Ventura, California
| logo                   =
| logo_size              =
| branding               = Visión Latina 57
| digital                = 30 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]]), shared with [[KXLA]]<ref name="kjlakxlacsa">[https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/api/download/attachment/25076ff3604cf0780160573442d20f24 KJLA Form 2100 - CSA]</ref>
| virtual                = 57
| subchannels            =
| translators            = ''see {{section link||Translators}}''
| affiliations           = {{ubl|'''57.1:''' Visión Latina|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner                  = {{ubl|Costa de Oro Media, [[Limited liability company|LLC]]|(Walter Ulloa)}}
| operator               =
| licensee               = KJLA, LLC
| location               = [[Ventura, California|Ventura]]–[[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]]
| country                = United States
| airdate                = {{Start date and age|1990|10|01|p=y}}
| last_airdate           =
| callsign_meaning       = Los Angeles
| sister_stations        = [[KVMD]], [[KXLA]]
| former_callsigns       = KSTV-TV (1990–1998)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 57 (UHF, 1990–2008)|'''Digital:''' 49 (UHF, 2005–2017)|51 (UHF, 2017–2019)}}
| former_affiliations    = {{ubl|[[Galavisión (USA)|Galavision]] (1990–1995)|[[The WB]] (1995–1998)|[[Spanish language in the United States|Spanish]] [[Independent station|Independent]] (1998–2007)|[[LATV]] (2007–2017)|[[Azteca América]] (2018–2021)}}
| erp                    = {{ubl|670 [[Watt|kW]]|1,000 kW ([[construction permit|CP]])}}
| haat                   = {{convert|947|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id            = 14000
| coordinates            = {{nowrap|{{coord|34|13|35.3|N|118|4|0.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}}}
| licensing_authority    = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| website                = {{url|http://www.kjla.com/}}
}}
'''KJLA''' (channel 57) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Ventura, California]], United States, serving the [[Los Angeles]] area as an affiliate of Visión Latina. The station is owned by Costa de Oro Media, [[Limited liability company|LLC]], a company run by [[Entravision Communications]] founder, CEO and chairman Walter Ulloa (whose brother, Ronald Ulloa, owns [[Rancho Palos Verdes, California|Rancho Palos Verdes]]–licensed ethnic [[independent station]] [[KXLA]] (channel 44) and [[Twentynine Palms, California|Twentynine Palms]]–licensed [[KVMD]] (channel 31)). KJLA's studios are located on Corinth Avenue (near [[Interstate 405 (California)|Interstate 405]]) in [[West Los Angeles]], and its transmitter is located atop [[Mount Wilson (California)|Mount Wilson]].
KJLA operates two [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]] [[Broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|repeater stations]]: '''KLFA-LD''' (channel 25) in [[Santa Maria, California|Santa Maria]] and '''KFUL-LD''' (channel 23) in [[San Luis Obispo, California|San Luis Obispo]] (both are part of the [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]] [[media market|market]]). In addition to carrying [[Spanish language in the United States|Spanish-language]] programming on its main channel, the station also carries various networks broadcasting in [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] and [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]] on separate [[digital subchannel]]s.
==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 of [[Galavisión]]. 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 (now [[KBEH-TV]]) in [[Oxnard, California]] which became Santa Barbara's [[UPN]] affiliate when the network launched in January 1995. Unable to get [[cable television|cable]] coverage in the Los Angeles area, on November 1, 1995, KSTV switched to an [[American English|English-language]] format and became the [[The WB|WB]] affiliate for the Santa Barbara market.
[[Image:LATV.png|frame|right|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 its [[effective radiated power]] to 5,000 [[kilowatt]]s. The improved signal helped the station to obtain [[must-carry]] status on most cable providers in western [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]] in 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 an [[independent station]] and adopted a split-scheduled format. The station began carrying financial news programming under the brand ''Business News 22'' acquired from [[KWHY-TV]], later ''BizNews 1'' on 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 (now [[KXLA]]) which prompted the change to channel 33. Soon after, [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]] sought to move [[KTBN-TV]]'s digital operation from channel 23 to channel 33, to avoid co-channel interference from the digital signals of [[KVMD]] (another "cousin" of KJLA) in the Inland Empire and San Diego [[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[XETV-TDT|XETV]], now a repeater of [[Canal 5 (Mexico)|XHGC-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 on [[digital subchannel]]s and [[low-power broadcasting|low-power]] stations, with the [[KPRC-TV|subchannels]] [[WPLG|of]] [[WKMG-TV|four]] [[KSAT-TV|stations]] owned by [[Graham Media Group|Post-Newsweek Stations]] and those owned by [[Entravision Communications]] among the network's charter affiliates).<ref>http://www.latv.com/sales/articles/PNewswekkStations.html{{dead link|date=December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=KSAT 12 owner invests in LATV Networks|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2007/08/20/daily2.html|work=[[American City Business Journals|San Antonio Business Journal]]|date=August 20, 2007|access-date=January 11, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=LATV, Bilingual Net, Adds 10 New Markets|url=http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/60687/latv-bilingual-net-adds-10-new-markets.html?edition=|work=MediaPost|date=May 22, 2007|access-date=January 11, 2015}}</ref>
[[File:Azteca57LALogo.jpg|thumb|200px|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's [[Azteca América]] affiliate on January 3, 2018, replacing [[KAZA-TV]], thus sister station [[KVMD]] became the new affiliate of [[LATV]] in 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's [[religious broadcasting|religious programming]], which continued to air on the network until March.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediamoves.com/2018/01/azteca-america-latv-switch-channels-la.html|title=Azteca América and LATV switch channels in LA|date=January 4, 2018}}</ref> Various Azteca programs were [[broadcast delay|delayed]] or not shown at all in order to make place for KJLA's religious program ''Cambia 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 of [[KWHY-TV]] until the network ceased operations on December 31, 2022.
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
{{for|other channels on this multiplex|KXLA#Subchannels}}
KJLA presents 10 subchannels on the [[Multiplex (television)|multiplex]] shared with KXLA:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KJLA on the KXLA multiplex<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KJLA#station RabbitEars TV Query for KJLA]</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 57.1
| [[720p]] || [[16:9]] || KJLA || Main KJLA programming / Visión Latina
|-
! scope = "row" | 57.2
| rowspan="9"|[[480i]] || rowspan="9"|[[4:3]] || VFACE || [[Thúy Nga|VietFace TV]] ([[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 57.3
| VNA || VNA TV ([[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 57.4
| VietSky || VietSky Television ([[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 57.5
| STV || Saigon TV ([[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 57.6
| VBS || VBS TV ([[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 57.7
| AVA || AVA ([[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 57.9
| ZWTV || [[CTi International|Chung T'ien TV]] ([[Standard Mandarin|Mandarin]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 57.12
| VGMT || Viet Global Mall TV ([[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 57.22
| SBTN || [[Saigon Broadcasting Television Network|SBTN]] ([[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]])
|}
===Translators===
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|14001|3=KFUL-LD}}''' [[San Luis Obispo, California|San 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 near [[Santa Paula, California|Santa Paula]] in [[Ventura County, California|Ventura County]]; the facilities for its digital signal are located on [[Mount Wilson (California)|Mount Wilson]] in [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]].<ref>[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=620271 "Request to Discontinue Analog Operations of Station KJLA(TV)"], Federal Communications Commission, March 10, 2005.</ref>
KJLA shut down its analog signal, over [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 57, on August 27, 2008.<ref name="Analog to Digital">[https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations]</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49, using [[virtual channel]] 57. 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 and [[PBS]] [[network affiliate#Member stations|member station]] [[KLCS]] (channel 58) were granted [[special temporary authority]] by the FCC to conduct trials in partnership with [[CTIA – The Wireless Association|CTIA]] and the [[Association of Public Television Stations]], in which the two stations would conduct a test of the [[H.264]] video codec for digital television transmission, and more importantly, the ability and viability of broadcasting two sets of television services within the same 6&nbsp;MHz channel band. These tests came as the FCC prepared to perform a [[spectrum auction]] in 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.<ref name=tvtech-sta>{{cite web|title=FCC Grants STA for L.A. Spectrum Sharing|url=http://www.tvtechnology.com/distribution/0099/fcc-grants-sta-for-la-spectrum-sharing-/223614|work=TV Technology|access-date=March 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318020527/http://www.tvtechnology.com/distribution/0099/fcc-grants-sta-for-la-spectrum-sharing-/223614|archive-date=March 18, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=nyt-channelsharing>{{cite news|title=TV Stations in Los Angeles to Share a Channel to Free Up Spectrum|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/business/media/tv-stations-in-los-angeles-to-participate-in-channel-sharing-trial.html?_r=0|work=The New York Times|date = January 28, 2014|access-date=March 17, 2014|last1 = Wyatt|first1 = Edward}}</ref><ref name=ctia-klcs-kjla-report>{{cite web|title=Overview of the KLCS/KJLA Channel Sharing Pilot — A Technical Report|url=http://www.ctia.org/docs/default-source/fcc-filings/technical-report-of-the-klcs-kjla-channel-sharing-pilot.pdf|work=Alan Popkin, Director of Television Engineering & Technical Operations, [[KLCS-TV]], Los Angeles<br/>Roger Knipp, Broadcast Engineer, KLCS-TV, Los Angeles<br/>Eddie Hernandez, Director of Operations & Engineering, [[KJLA-TV]]|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref>
== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.kjla.com/}}
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20051215155211/http://www.mcsittel.com/html/tvg-sbb.htm Santa Barbara TV Guide channel listings]}} showing KSTV affiliations in 1992 and 1997.
* [http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/Orders/1995/da952469.txt 1995 FCC petition] requesting cable carriage under [[must-carry]] rules.
* [http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/Orders/1998/da980346.txt 1998 FCC petition] requesting modification of market under must-carry rules.
* [http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/Orders/2000/da002240.txt 2000 FCC petition] requesting cable carriage.
* [http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=KSTV-57+WB USENET posting referring to KSTV-57 and WB affiliation]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061027105120/http://www.r-vcr.com/~television/TV/TV57.htm TV57 description on R-VCR.COM]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060924072302/http://www.noccc.org/bytes/minutes/v01/390.html Orange Bytes, November 1999] article announcing move of KWHY-TV business news
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