Digital Television Transition
KJLA had applied to convert to digital-only operation, citing low over-the-air analog viewership rates and high operating costs to maintain the simulcast; this request was refused by the US Federal Communication Commission on February 9, 2005. The higher operating costs were in part due to KJLA having two different transmitter sites. The KJLA-TV analog transmitter for channel 57 was located on South Mountain near Santa Paula in Ventura County. The digital facilities for KJLA-DT channel 49 are located on Mount Wilson in Los Angeles County.
The station's request to review its 2004 application to cease analog broadcasting to the FCC, the original was denied in 2005, was approved upon review in 2008. KJLA discontinued broadcasting on analog UHF channel 57 on August 27, 2008. KJLA now broadcasts as a digital only station as KJLA-DT on UHF channel 49. The move comes less than six months from the final analog to digital transition scheduled for 2/17/09.
KJLA is the second television station in the Los Angeles television market to end analog broadcasting. KVMD ceased analog transmission in 2003.
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