Krca

KRCA
Los Angeles, California
City of license	Riverside, California
Branding	Noticias 62
Slogan	Tu Ciudad. Tu Equipo. (Your City. Your Team.)
Channels	Analog: 62 (UHF) Digital: 68 (UHF)
Affiliations	Spanish independent
Owner	Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. (KRCA License, LLC)
First air date	December 17, 1988
Call letters’ meaning	Riverside, CAlifornia (no relation to the Radio Corporation of America)
Former callsigns	KSLD (1988-1990)
Former affiliations	ethnic Asian
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

KRCA Channel 62 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.

The station is not related to KNBC or RCA, although NBC used the KRCA call letters on its West Coast flagship station in the 1950s.

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).

KRCA on Digital Television

KRCA-DT operates on Digital Television channel on 68. It carried its San Diego sister station KSDX-LP on 68.2. However, while the video feed for KSDX can 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.

External links

• Query the FCC\'s TV station database for KRCA
• BIAfn\'s Media Web Database -- Information on KRCA-TV

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