KHTV-CD

KHTV-CD, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 22), is a low-power, Class A MeTV+ owned-and-operated television station licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States. The station is owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting. KHTV-CD's transmitter is located at the Mount Harvard Radio Site in the San Gabriel Mountains.

For the television station in Houston, Texas that used the KHTV callsign from 1967-1999, see KIAH.
KHTV-CD
Channels
BrandingMeTV+ Los Angeles
Programming
AffiliationsMeTV+
Ownership
Owner
KAZA-TV, KVME-TV, KPOM-CD, KSFV-CD
History
FoundedOctober 22, 1993
Former call signs
  • K38EA (1993–2000)
  • KHTV-LP (2000–February 2012)
  • KHTV-LD (February−July 2012)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 38 (UHF, 1993–2000)
  • 48 (UHF, 2000–2001)
  • 67 (UHF, 2001–2011)
  • Digital:
  • 27 (UHF, 2012–2019)
Call sign meaning
HSN Television (former affiliation)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID60026
ClassCD
ERP15 kW
HAAT872.2 m (2,862 ft)
Transmitter coordinates34°12′47.9″N 118°3′44.3″W
Links
Public license information

Due to its low-power status, KHTV-CD's broadcasting radius does not reach all of Greater Los Angeles. Therefore, it must rely on cable and satellite carriage to reach the entire market.

History

The station was founded on October 22, 1993. It signed on as K38EA on channel 38, before moving to channel 48 as KHTV-LP, starting in 2000 as an affiliate of now defunct Home Shopping en Español, later rebranding to HSE (a Spanish-language channel operated by parent channel Home Shopping Network) until HSE ceased operations in June 2002. When KOCE launched its digital signal on channel 48 in 2001, this displaced KHTV-LP to channel 67. It stayed on channel 67 until December 31, 2011, when the last of the LPTV stations still using out-of-core channels 52-69 had to vacate that spectrum. In 2012, KHTV-LP converted to digital as KHTV-LD and moved to channel 27. On July 11, 2012, the station received class A status and changed its call sign to KHTV-CD. In 2019, as part of the repack, KHTV-CD moved to its current channel 22 allocation, channel sharing with MeTV owned-and-operated station KAZA-TV.

The KHTV call letters were originally used by an unrelated full-power station in Portland, Oregon on channel 27, and in Houston, Texas on channel 39.

On February 28, 2022, KHTV-CD discontinued carrying Jewelry Television on 6.1 and replaced it with MeTV Plus. With this change, 6.1 was converted to 720p HD. All remaining subchannels carried by KHTV-CD were removed. MeTV Plus had been on KAZA 54.3 since its expansion to Weigel-owned stations in September 2021.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming[2]
6.1720p16:9KHTVMeTV+
54.1KAZAMeTV
54.2StoryStory Television

References
  1. "Facility Technical Data for KHTV-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. "KHTV-CD LOS ANGELES, CA".


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