KSCN-TV
KSCN-TV (channel 22) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, airing programming from the Scientology Network.
[5] The call letters were changed to KBIC-TV, previously housed on the Poole construction permit for channel 46 at Sacramento,[6] on November 10, 1953.
[4] The channel 22 construction permit languished until it was sold in 1962 to the Central Broadcasting Corporation of California for $180,000; the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the sale in January 1963.
[7] On January 25, 1963, the call letters were changed to KIIX (pronounced "kicks"), which proceeded to announce that it would aim its programming at the African American community, as the second station of its kind after WOOK-TV in Washington, D.C.[8] Central established studios at 2330 W. Washington Blvd., a former car dealership where the showroom floor became a studio,[9] and set a program schedule of seven hours a day including kids, teenage and news shows.
[8] On March 25, KIIX at last entered program service, more than a decade after the original grant of the construction permit to Poole and 20 days after WOOK-TV launched.
[4] 30-year-old Larry McCormick, who had held down morning drive at KGFJ (1230 AM),[4] worked at channel 22, hosting "KIIXville", a daily music hour; Los Angeles Rams players Dick Bass and Pervis Atkins covered sports.
[19] Coast reached a deal to sell KWHY-TV to Zenith Electronics in 1971; channel 22 would have served as the Los Angeles-area outlet for its Phonevision pay television system.
During this time, KWHY became the first station in the country with an automated commercial playback machine, and the first to utilize computer animation from an optical disc player.
[25] Continued erosion of the service's subscriber base led KWHY to start preparing a transition to Spanish-language programming during prime time.
It initially aired programming from the Galavision basic cable network, which was at the time preparing to convert to broadcast operations in several cities.
The Business Channel also continued; in 1994, daily market commentator Gene R. Morgan was hit with a $50,000 fine for misrepresenting a stock he underwrote and promoted on his KWHY program.
On October 4, 1999, KWHY stopped carrying Business News 22, citing a desire to broadcast as a full-time Spanish-language independent due to strong viewer demand.
[31] In 2001, following the FCC's decision to allow duopolies (the ownership of two television stations in a single market by one company), Telemundo (which already owned its West Coast flagship, KVEA channel 52) purchased KWHY for $239 million, continuing to operate it as an independent.
KWHY and KVEA were a duopoly before NBC/Telemundo merged and were allowed to remain co-owned by the FCC pending a decision on the ownership caps.
On September 9, 2007, NBC Universal announced it would place KWHY and its San Juan, Puerto Rico, sister station WKAQ-TV up for sale; this came after NBCU's acquisition of Oxygen Media.
[38] On December 1, 2016, following the demise of MundoMax, KWHY-TV once more began programming a Spanish-language independent format on the station's primary channel.
On January 1, 2022, KWHY-TV started carrying Azteca América on digital subchannel 22.2 after the network affiliation ended with KJLA.
As part of the SAFER Act, KWHY kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.
