1986 To 2010: Intercontinental Television Group
KSCI aired New Wave Theatre with Peter Ivers in the 1980s. The program featured local rock and punk LA bands such as Fear, X, The Blasters, Circle Jerks and The Dead Kennedys.
As of 1990 the station's parent company was Intercontinental Television Group Inc. with programming being produced by Wahid Boctor of Arab American Television.
In 1998 KSCI moved its city of license from San Bernardino to Long Beach. In 2000, The Hankook Ilbo, a Korean newspaper took over the International Media Group (IMG), which operated KSCI-TV (Ch-18). IMG was re-launched as the AsianMedia Group, Inc., who purchased KSCI.
As of 2005, the station was broadcasting seven English-language and three Spanish newscasts plus local news in Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese and Korean to 2.5 million Asian-American viewers in Southern California. In early 2005, KSCI changed its on-air name to LA-18, though the call letters remained the same. The station adopted a new slogan: "Keeping You Connected."
In October 2008 KSCI broadcast the Presidential debate live, with simultaneous Chinese (Mandarin) translation and included analysis by their news and political analysts as well as call-ins from viewers. The broadcast was part of an election series that included coverage in Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipino (Tagalog).
KSCI has subleased several of its digital subchannels to other broadcasters. Station management believes that six digital subchannels can fit into the spectrum, using statistical multiplexing. On the analog/digital conversion deadline of June 12, 2009, KSCI moved its digital signal back to Ch 18 from its previous digital channel 61 assignment. The station's pre-transition digital channel, UHF 61, lies within the core spectrum of channels (52 through 69) being auctioned as part of the American transition to digital television.
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