KRCA
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| Riverside, California/Los Angeles, California | |
| Branding | Noticias 62 |
| Slogan | Tu Ciudad. Tu Equipo. Your City. Your Team. |
| Channels | 62 (UHF) analog, 68 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | Spanish Independent |
| Owner | Liberman Broadcasting |
| Founded | December 17, 1988 |
| Call letters meaning | Riverside, CA (original meaning:) Radio Corporation of America |
| Former affiliations | Ethnic Asian |
| Transmitter Power | 2630 kW/895 m (analog) 1000 kW/907 m (digital) |
KRCA Channel 62 is a television station in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan region which once broadcast Asian programming (Mandarin Chinese and Korean language). The station currently does only Spanish-language programing. KRCA is owned by Jose and Lenard Liberman under their company, Liberman Broadcasting.
[edit] History
The station began telecasting the Asian mix of programs 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 1995 after being sold to 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.
The station is not related to KNBC, whose parent company used the KRCA call letters as a subtle reminder of that brand's color TV sets in the 1950s.
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| Broadcast television in the Los Angeles market (Nielsen DMA #2) | ||
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KCBS 2 (CBS) - KNBC 4 (NBC) - KTLA 5 (The CW) (The Tube on DT5) - KSFV-LP 6 (Ind/Spanish/Religious) - KABC 7 (ABC) - KCAL 9 (Ind) - KTTV 11 (Fox) - KCOP 13 (MNTV) - KSCI 18 (Ind) - KWHY 22 (Ind/Spanish) - KVCR 24 (PBS) - KNET-LP 25 (Ind/Infomercials) - KNLA-LP 27 (Ind/Spanish) - KCET 28 (PBS) - KPXN 30 (i) - KMEX 34 (UNI) - KPAL-LP 38 (Ind) - KSKJ-CA 38 / KSKP-CA 25 (Ind) - KTBN 40 (TBN) - KXLA 44 (Ind) - KLAU-LP 45 (Ind/Infomercials) - KFTR 46 (TFU) - KOCE 50 (PBS) - KVEA 52 (TEL) - KAZA 54 (AZA) - K55KD 55 (Almavision) - KDOC 56 (Ind) - KJLA 57 / KSMV-LP 33 / KSGA-LP 64 (Ind) - KLCS 58 (PBS) - KRCA 62 (Ind) - KBEH 63 (Ind) - KHIZ 64 (A1) - KHTV-LP 67 (HSN) |
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KBTV-CA 8 (Sacramento) - KCAL 9 (Los Angeles) - KSCI 18 (Long Beach) - KBBV-CA 19 (Bakersfield) - KBWB 20 (San Francisco) - KWHY 22 (Los Angeles) - KBSV 23 (Ceres) - KVMD 23 (Twentynine Palms) - KTSF 26 (San Francisco) - KNLA-LP 27 (Los Angeles) - KMTP 32 (San Francisco) - KICU 36 (San Jose) - KBOP-CA 43 (San Diego) - KXLA 44 (Rancho Palos Verdes) - KFTY 50 (Santa Rosa) - KUSI 51 (San Diego) - KDOC 56 (Anaheim) - KJLA 57 (Ventura) - KRCA 62 (Riverside) - KBEH 63 (Oxnard) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California | |
