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KVEA
Corona–Los Angeles, California; United States;
City	Corona, California
Channels	Digital: 25 (UHF); Virtual: 52;
Branding	Telemundo 52
Programming
Affiliations	52.1: Telemundo; 52.2: TeleXitos; 52.3: Nosey;
Ownership
Owner	Telemundo Station Group; (NBC Telemundo License LLC);
Sister stations	KNBC
History
First air date	June 29, 1966; (58 years ago)
Former call signs	KMTW-TV (1966–1968); KBSC-TV (1968–1985);
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 52 (UHF, 1966–2009); Digital: 39 (UHF, until 2019);
Former affiliations	Independent (1966–1982); ONTV (1977–1985); NetSpan (1985–1987);
Call sign meaning	"Vea" is Spanish for "watch"
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	19783
ERP	620 kW
HAAT	988.9 m (3,244 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	34°12′47.8″N 118°3′41″W / 34.213278°N 118.06139°W
Translator(s)	K14AT-D Ridgecrest
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	www.telemundo52.com

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KVEA (channel 52) is a television station licensed to Corona, California, United States, serving as the Los Angeles area outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside KNBC (channel 4). The two stations share studios at the Brokaw News Center in the northwest corner of the Universal Studios Hollywood lot off Lankershim Boulevard in Universal City; KVEA's transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.

Channel 52 was established as KMTW, an independent station owned by Kaiser Broadcasting, which became KBSC-TV in 1968. Kaiser explored several pay television systems to operate using the station, but none materialized until Oak Industries acquired the station and made it the first and most successful operation in ON TV, boasting as many as 400,000 subscribers at its zenith. As subscription television declined, Oak sold KBSC-TV in 1985 to a group that relaunched it as Spanish-language KVEA and was instrumental in the foundation of Telemundo.

History

Foundation

On November 14, 1962, the Federal Communications Commission granted Kaiser Broadcasting, a division of Kaiser Industries, a construction permit for a new channel 52 television station to be licensed to Corona.^[3] The station, named KICB before construction, signed on as KMTW from studios and a transmitter on Mount Wilson^[3] on June 29, 1966.^[4]

Kaiser had developed a chain of independent television stations in large cities that generally lacked independent stations at the outset. The Kaiser independents in such cities as Detroit (WKBD-TV), Philadelphia (WKBS-TV), and Cleveland (WKBF-TV), for instance, were typically the first or second such non-network outlets in operation. Los Angeles presented a very different market with three network stations, four VHF independents already operating, and (with KMTW activated) four UHF stations.^[5] Kaiser knew it would need a different approach. Before signing on, it took an option on the Phonevision subscription television system developed by Zenith Electronics and licensed by Teco, gaining the right to use it in the Los Angeles market.^[6] However, Phonevision's ability to be used nationally and legal cases over subscription television in California had left the system unapproved by the time channel 52 started broadcasting. Instead, KMTW subsisted on public service films, travelogues, and other cheap fare.^[5]^[4]

On February 20, 1968,^[3] KMTW became KBSC-TV, representing its ownership (Kaiser Broadcasting) and region (Southern California).^[7] The Phonevision agreement expired in 1970, and the FCC gave approval the next year for Kaiser to begin using studios at 5746 Sunset Boulevard—Metromedia Square, home to KTTV.^[3]

The gulf between KBSC-TV and its sister stations grew wider. In August 1972, Kaiser transferred the licenses for five of its stations to a partnership with Field Communications, of which it would own 77.5 percent. KBSC-TV was held out of the joint venture because it was scheduled to be sold.^[8] Two months later, Kaiser announced it would seek to sell the station to the Pay Television Corporation^[9] in a transaction filed with the FCC in February 1973.^[3] The largest owner of Pay Television Corporation was Jean Marieanne McDonald.^[10] The application remained pending at the FCC for nearly two years; ultimately, the company opted to franchise its technology and not be a station owner, resulting in the purchase being canceled in February 1975.^[11]

The ON TV years

In December 1975, Kaiser filed to sell KBSC-TV to Oak Broadcasting Systems, a joint venture of television equipment manufacturer Oak Industries and Jerry Perenchio. The $1.2 million^[12] transaction, which closed the next year, set the course for channel 52 to become the first station in their planned subscription television venture, as Oak moved the studios from Metromedia Square to a site on Grand Central Avenue in Glendale.^[3]

On April 1, 1977,^[13] 500 test subscribers in the San Fernando Valley became the first customers of ON TV, a subscription service broadcast over KBSC-TV that offered unedited, uninterrupted motion pictures, as well as limited slates of Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels, Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings games, during evening hours.^[14] It was the second subscription television system in operation, with Wometco Home Theater having launched in New York City the previous month.^[15] Japanese- and Korean-language programs that were seen on channel 52 under leased-time arrangements migrated to a new station, KSCI (channel 18), when it launched on June 30;^[16] this allowed ON TV to air during evening hours beginning at 8 p.m.^[17]

ON TV proved to be a success in its early years of operation, and nowhere was this more apparent than in Southern California, despite the arrival of SelecTV on KWHY-TV (channel 22) the next year. By April 1979, the service was signing up 12,000 subscribers a month.^[18] By that year, it had grown its sports portfolio beyond the Dodgers, Angels, Lakers, and Kings to include USC Trojans college sports and Los Angeles Aztecs soccer, as well as horse racing from Santa Anita Park.^[19] The STV venture transformed Oak Industries itself. In 1979, the company moved its headquarters from Crystal Lake, Illinois, to the new planned community of Rancho Bernardo, California, to be closer to the entertainment industry.^[20]

Meanwhile, KBSC-TV changed its commercial program format to Spanish-language shows in 1980, airing 74 hours a week of commercial shows in Spanish and giving the market a second choice for Spanish-language viewing.^[21] Most of its Spanish-language shows, including news from Mexico, were sourced from Mexico's Canal 13.^[22]

ON TV grew nationally, with Oak and Chartwell developing operations separately, though the two remained partners in the Los Angeles operation. This arrangement, however, came into doubt in March 1981. The two sides disagreed over Perenchio's appointment of William M. Siegel, the chief executive of Chartwell, as the general manager of National Subscription Television—Los Angeles. Oak refused to consent to the appointment and claimed that Chartwell and Perenchio had "surreptitiously" placed Siegel on the payroll; it was reported that Oak had no dispute with Siegel but wanted to affirm its authority as 51 percent owner of the venture.^[23] Oak chairman Carter was surprised to learn that Siegel made more money than he did. Further, Perenchio drew Oak's ire when the Chartwell ON TV operation in Detroit ordered new decoder boxes from one of Oak's competitors.^[24]

Oak and Chartwell settled that September; the suit was dropped, and Oak bought out Chartwell's 49 percent share of National Subscription Television for $55 million.^[25] By May 1982, ON TV in southern California had reached its zenith—400,000 subscribers,^[26] representing two-thirds of Oak's base of some 600,000 paying customers in its five ON TV markets, not counting Detroit, Cincinnati, or Portland.^[27]

After the FCC repealed a rule in late 1982 that required television stations offering a subscription service to broadcast at least 20 hours a week of unencrypted programming, KBSC began running ON TV 24 hours a day and displaced its existing Spanish-language daytime programming.^[28] However, the STV industry took a national nosedive moving into 1983. A national recession and the increased penetration of multichannel cable television created new and immediate financial headwinds for Oak and ON TV. In March 1984, the company announced that it was being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),^[29] and it posted a loss of $166.1 million for 1983.^[30] One of the company's auditors, Arthur Andersen, qualified its statement, fearing that Oak could not fully realize its $134 million investment in subscription television.^[30]

After having shuttered two ON TV operations in markets with combative station owners and high cable penetration—Dallas–Fort Worth and Phoenix—Oak moved to sell its station in the Miami market in 1984 to John Blair & Co., which planned Spanish-language programming.^[31] Oak intended to get out of Los Angeles next. In August—after a year of speculation—it emerged that Oak was in talks to sell the Los Angeles system to SelecTV, which had competed alongside ON TV for six years in the Southern California market.^[32] A deal was initially reached, then collapsed.^[33] However, SelecTV ultimately acquired the Los Angeles operation, by then with just 156,000 subscribers, in February 1985.^[34]

KVEA

The same month that Oak sold the ON TV subscriber base to SelecTV, the company reached a deal to sell KBSC-TV itself to an investor group, Estrella Communications, headed by former Brazilian television network head Joe Wallach, in a $30 million transaction.^[35]

Financially, the market is more than ripe for a second station. Our success does not have to come at the expense of Channel 34.

Paul Niedermayer, first general manager of KVEA^[36]

SelecTV programming aired for a time on KBSC while the new owners readied the station's next chapter. On November 24, 1985, KVEA debuted. The new Spanish-language station sought to be an alternative to KMEX, the dominant outlet in southern California, with a wider range of U.S. and Latin American shows than KMEX's mostly Mexican fare and children's programming, as well as local news and a newsmagazine program.^[36]

The creation of a second Spanish-language network had first been mooted in 1984. NetSpan's founding affiliates were WNJU in New York, ethnic independent KSCI channel 18 for the Los Angeles market, and Chicago's WBBS-TV.^[37] By 1986, KVEA had replaced KSCI (and WCIU-TV had entered in Chicago); the network offered three hours a day of programming plus specials.^[38]

Estrella Communications was a subsidiary of Reliance Capital Group, led by corporate raider Saul Steinberg. Less than a year after starting up KVEA, Reliance acquired John Blair & Co., which agreed to be purchased for $300 million to avoid a hostile takeover. The deal united KVEA with WSCV—the Miami-area station Oak had sold off two years prior—and WKAQ-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico.^[39] In October 1986, Reliance then bought WNJU.^[40] On January 12, 1987,^[41] NetSpan became Telemundo, supplying additional programming and national news,^[42] which helped the station attract national advertisers.^[43]

The investment in KVEA quickly paid off. By February 1987, the 15-month-old operation had achieved a 34 percent share of the Spanish-speaking audience in Los Angeles,^[42] with the market having grown large enough that KMEX did not lose any of its audience.^[44] It covered community events in Spanish, produced 11 and a half hours of local news a week, aired a weekly half-hour highlight show of the Los Angeles Dodgers hosted by longtime Dodger Spanish-language voice Jaime Jarrín;^[42] furthermore, KVEA was the production base for new Spanish-language shows screened nationally, including La piñata de los $25,000 (The $25,000 Piñata), the first nationally syndicated Spanish-language game show.^[45]

At the end of the 1980s, KVEA came under some criticism for lack of representation of Mexicans—who comprised 90 percent of channel 52's viewership—in management. After Frank Cruz, a former KNBC news anchor who had been with the station since the 1985 launch, left in early 1989,^[46] three ranking Mexican staffers resigned together that June.^[47] The dispute escalated into calls by the National Hispanic Media Coalition for an advertising boycott of the station^[48] and picketing of its studios by protesters who felt the station favored Cubans in hiring and programming.^[49]

KVEA's next bout of station turmoil came in 1997. Between February and August, seven longtime staffers were dismissed for supposed budgetary reasons, though one anchor, Ana Cecilia Granados, alleged that new manager José Ronstadt had a bias toward Mexicans and ousted her for being Central American.^[50] Meanwhile, employees sought to unionize KVEA; they voted to form a union, but management refused voluntary recognition.^[50] With another boycott threatened, KVEA recognized the union in November 1997, right before the start of a ratings survey.^[51]

On January 15, 2001, KVEA launched an expanded news department, doubling its budget and its weekday output, as well as adding weekend news programs for the first time.^[52] The network then purchased KWHY-TV channel 22, its former pay TV competitor and later a Spanish-language independent, for $239 million in June 2001, creating a duopoly.^[53] Work was already underway on a comprehensive overhaul of channel 52's studios, and channel 22 was then integrated into the operation.^[54]

NBC acquisition

In October 2001, NBC announced it would buy Telemundo. The combination of the two parties owned three stations in the market; the FCC conditioned approval of the Telemundo acquisition on the divestiture of KWHY.^[55] Integration of the two operations took a major step forward in 2003, when 250 Telemundo employees moved to KNBC's studios in Burbank.^[56] KWHY sales and programming functions remained in Glendale while NBC fought for a waiver to keep all three stations;^[57] the next year, the FCC revised its media ownership rules to allow ownership of three stations in the largest markets.^[58] NBC would sell off KWHY in 2011 to the Meruelo Group as a condition of its merger with Comcast.^[59]

In 2007, NBC announced that it would move its Los Angeles local operation to a site at Universal Studios Hollywood.^[60] The complex was completed in 2014, with separate studios for KNBC and KVEA and a shared newsroom.^[61] Despite being an integrated operation, unlike at KNBC, KVEA's anchors and reporters remained non-union until voting 18–1 to unionize with SAG-AFTRA in January 2023.^[62]

News department

Large white building with metal framing — Studio building shared by KNBC and KVEA

Local news programming on channel 52 began with the KVEA relaunch, in the form of a 15-minute program called VEA Noticias.^[36] One of the station's early coups was its coverage of the 1986 San Salvador earthquake, which drew new news viewers and started competition with KMEX.^[63] This quickly expanded into a full news service, and the station produced 11 and a half hours of local news a week by 1987.^[42]

To daily 6 and 11 p.m. news programs, KVEA added morning and midday newscasts when the news department expanded in January 2001, doubling its budget.^[52] In October 2001, a 5 am newscast also debuted.^[64] In 2002, KVEA notched its first win at 11 p.m. since November 1993.^[64] Eduardo Quezada, who had worked for KMEX for 28 years and had previously been described as a Los Angeles institution at channel 34,^[65] resigned from his position at that station and joined KVEA in 2003, citing the attention NBC was giving the news department and its then-airing of six hours a day of local news, doubling KMEX's output.^[66] By 2007, Quezada had resigned to become the vice president of news and public relations for Una Vez Más Holdings.^[67]

In 2007, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa admitted that he had an extramarital affair with Mirthala Salinas, a KVEA reporter who at one time covered the political beat.^[68] The station suspended her for two months without pay for failing to disclose the conflict for interest and reassigned her to KVEA's bureau in Riverside.^[69] She failed to report to work there and left the company.^[70]

Cuts led to the removal of the morning newscast before it was reinstated in 2011 alongside the launch of a new weekly public affairs program.^[71] Beginning in 2014, a series of local news expansions at Telemundo have added hours of news to KVEA's output. A 5:30 p.m. show debuted at KVEA and 13 other Telemundo stations in 2014.^[72] In 2016, a 5 p.m. half-hour was introduced.^[73]

Notable on-air staff

Current:
- Dunia Elvir – news anchor^[74]
Former:
- Adrián García Márquez – sports anchor (2002–2007)^[75]
- Raul Peimbert – anchor (2001–2002)^[76]
- Enrique Gratas – first news director, anchor, later of Ocurrió Así^[77]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KVEA^[78]
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
52.1	1080i	16:9	KVEA-HD	Telemundo
52.2	480i	16:9	TelXtos	TeleXitos
52.3	480i	4:3	Nosey	Nosey

Analog-to-digital conversion

KVEA shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 52, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television; the digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 39, using virtual channel 52.^[79]

Translator

KVEA is rebroadcast on the following translator station:^[80]

Ridgecrest: K14AT-D

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+{{Short description|TV station in Corona, California}}
-{{Infobox_Broadcast |
+{{redirect|KBSC-TV|the station in Brookings, Oregon|KBSC-LP}}
-  call_letters   = KVEA|
+{{Distinguish|WVEA-TV}}
-  station_logo   = [[Image:Kvea la.jpg]]|
+{{good article}}
-  station_slogan = Mejorando Su Vida|
+{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}
-  station_branding = ''Telemundo 52''|
+{{Infobox television station
-  analog         = 52 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])|
+| callsign = KVEA
-  digital        = 39 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])|
+| city = Corona, California
-  affiliations   = [[Telemundo]]|
+| logo = Telemundo 52 2018.png
-  founded         = [[June 29]], [[1966]] as KBSC-TV|
+| logo_alt = The Telemundo network logo, a T with two circular overlapping components. To the right and under the T, the number 52. Beneath it, in a sans serif, the word Telemundo.
-  location       = [[Corona, California]]/[[Los Angeles, California]]|
+| branding = Telemundo 52
-  callsign_meaning       = K'''VEA'''=watch (in Spanish)|
+| digital = 25 ([[UHF]])
-  owner          = [[NBC Universal]]|
+| virtual = 52
-  former_affiliations    = Asian<br>Ethnic<br>|
+| translators = K14AT-D [[Ridgecrest, California|Ridgecrest]]
-  effective_radiated_power = 2510 [[Kilowatt|kW]]/907 [[metre|m]] (analog)<br>54 kW/911.8 m (digital)|
+| affiliations = {{ubl|'''52.1:''' [[Telemundo]]|'''52.2:''' [[TeleXitos]]|'''52.3:''' Nosey}}
-  homepage       = [http://www.telemundola.com/ www.telemundola.com]|
+| owner = [[Telemundo Station Group]]
+| licensee = NBC Telemundo License [[LLC]]
+| location = [[Corona, California|Corona]]–[[Los Angeles, California]]
+| country = United States
+| airdate = {{Start date and age|1966|06|29|p=y|br=y}}
+| callsign_meaning = "Vea" is Spanish for "watch"<ref>{{Cite news|title=New TV station says buenos días to L.A.|date=November 23, 1985|first=Yardena|last=Arar|work=[[Los Angeles Daily News]]|page=17}}</ref>
+| sister_stations = [[KNBC]]
+| former_callsigns = {{ubl|KMTW-TV (1966–1968)|KBSC-TV (1968–1985)}}
+| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 52 (UHF, 1966–2009)|'''Digital:''' 39 (UHF, until 2019)}}
+| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1966–1982)|[[ON TV (TV network)|ONTV]] (1977–1985)|NetSpan (1985–1987)}}
+| erp = 620 [[kW]]
+| haat = {{convert|988.9|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
+| facility_id = 19783
+| coordinates = {{coord|34|12|47.8|N|118|3|41|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
+| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
+| website = {{URL|www.telemundo52.com/}}
 }}
+'''KVEA''' (channel 52) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Corona, California]], United States, serving as the [[Los Angeles]] area outlet for the Spanish-language network [[Telemundo]]. It is [[owned and operated]] by [[NBCUniversal]]'s [[Telemundo Station Group]] alongside [[KNBC]] (channel 4). The two stations share studios at the Brokaw News Center in the northwest corner of the [[Universal Studios Hollywood]] lot off [[Lankershim Boulevard]] in [[Universal City, California|Universal City]]; KVEA's transmitter is located atop [[Mount Wilson (California)|Mount Wilson]].
-'''KVEA''', '''''"Telemundo 52"''''' is an [[NBC]] owned and operated television station in the [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] area, and is the West Coast flagship station of the Telemundo network.
+Channel 52 was established as KMTW, an independent station owned by [[Kaiser Broadcasting]], which became KBSC-TV in 1968. Kaiser explored several [[pay television]] systems to operate using the station, but none materialized until [[Oak Industries]] acquired the station and made it the first and most successful operation in [[ON TV (TV network)|ON TV]], boasting as many as 400,000 subscribers at its zenith. As subscription television declined, Oak sold KBSC-TV in 1985 to a group that relaunched it as Spanish-language KVEA and was instrumental in the foundation of Telemundo.
 ==History==
+===Foundation===
-[[Image:Kvea05_a.jpg|thumb|left|132px|KVEA 20th Anniversary logo]]Channel 52 started up as '''KBSC-TV''' on June 29, 1966, as part of the [[Kaiser Broadcasting]]'s family of UHF stations in [[San Francisco]] ([[KBHK]]), [[Chicago]] ([[WFLD]]), [[Cleveland]] ([[WKBF]], who lated merged with [[WUAB]] and WKBF would go dark in 1975 and become WCLQ and sign on in 1980, WQHS in 1986), [[Boston]] (WKBG, now [[WLVI]]), [[Detroit]] ([[WKBD]]), and [[Philadelphia]] (WKBS, which would go dark in 1983, whose signal later became [[WGTW]]).  Never to fully compete with its much-watched VHF independent counterparts, Channels [[KTLA-TV|5]], [[KCAL-TV|9]], [[KTTV|11]], and [[KCOP-TV|13]], KBSC operated on somewhat of half-day schedule, usually signing-on in the early afternoons and leaving the air in late evenings. KBSC offered a general entertainment format with cartoons, film shorts, sitcoms, and old movies. These were shows that other stations passed on. These shows included Speed Racer, Mighty Hercules, Felix The Cat, Three Stooges, Little Rascals, Munsters, Leave It To Beaver, Groucho, Life Of Riley, Flash Gordon, and others.
+On November 14, 1962, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] granted [[Kaiser Broadcasting]], a division of [[Kaiser Industries]], a construction permit for a new channel 52 television station to be licensed to Corona.<ref name="hc">{{FCC letter|hcards=yes|callsign=KVEA|letterid=84392}}</ref> The station, named KICB before construction, signed on as KMTW from studios and a transmitter on Mount Wilson{{r|hc}} on June 29, 1966.<ref name="debut">{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81196202/uhf-channel-52-to-debut-today/|access-date=July 11, 2021|title=UHF Channel 52 to Debut Today|date=June 29, 1966|work=Los Angeles Times|page=IV:19|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043857/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81196202/uhf-channel-52-to-debut-today/|url-status=live}}</ref>
+Kaiser had developed a chain of independent television stations in large cities that generally lacked independent stations at the outset. The Kaiser independents in such cities as Detroit ([[WKBD-TV]]), Philadelphia ([[WKBS-TV (Philadelphia)|WKBS-TV]]), and Cleveland ([[WKBF-TV]]), for instance, were typically the first or second such non-network outlets in operation. Los Angeles presented a very different market with three network stations, four VHF independents already operating, and (with KMTW activated) four UHF stations.<ref name="supersales">{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81196254/la-tv-market-super-sales-area/|access-date=July 11, 2021|first=Walt|last=Dutton|title=UHF Stations Grow: L.A. TV Market Super Sales Area|work=Los Angeles Times|page=IV:14|date=July 8, 1966|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043857/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81196254/la-tv-market-super-sales-area/|url-status=live}}</ref> Kaiser knew it would need a different approach. Before signing on, it took an option on the [[Phonevision]] subscription television system developed by [[Zenith Electronics]] and licensed by Teco, gaining the right to use it in the Los Angeles market.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1966/1966-02-21-BC.pdf|access-date=July 10, 2021|date=February 21, 1966|work=Broadcasting|title=Kaiser signs for Phonevision in L.A.|id={{ProQuest|1014490055}}|page=79|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308032018/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1966/1966-02-21-BC.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> However, Phonevision's ability to be used nationally and legal cases over subscription television in California had left the system unapproved by the time channel 52 started broadcasting. Instead, KMTW subsisted on public service films, travelogues, and other cheap fare.{{r|supersales|debut}}
-In 1976 Kaiser would sell its interest on its stations to Field Communications their partner (who actually already owned 100 % of WFLD). The deal would include WFLD Chicago, WKBS Philadelphia, KBHK San Francisco, WKBG becoming WLVI Boston, and WKBD Detroit. WUAB Cleveland would not be included and was sold to Gaylord in 1977. KBSC also would not be included because it was detremined that they could not compete with the VHF stations. So 52 KBSC was sold in 1976 to Oak Communications. The general entertainment format stayed on from Noon to 7 PM. After 7 PM Weekdeays and 2 PM Weekends, in the wave of the subcription TV boom, Channel 52 became the Los Angeles-area outlet for the '''ON-TV''' service, which carried theratrical movies and live sports.
+On February 20, 1968,{{r|hc}} KMTW became KBSC-TV, representing its ownership (Kaiser Broadcasting) and region (Southern California).<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81196312/channel-call-letters-changed/|work=Los Angeles Times|title=Channel Call Letters Changes|date=February 24, 1968|page=III:3|access-date=July 11, 2021|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043857/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81196312/channel-call-letters-changed/|url-status=live}}</ref> The Phonevision agreement expired in 1970, and the FCC gave approval the next year for Kaiser to begin using studios at 5746 Sunset Boulevard—[[Metromedia Square]], home to [[KTTV]].{{r|hc}}
-In 1978 the station began 24 hour a day operations running ON TV from 6 PM on daily. The station also ran public affairs and religious shows shows from 6 AM-Noon. In 1979 KBSC dropped the entertainment shows which would move to [[KTLA-TV]] 5.
-The station retained religious shows from 6-9 AM and ON TV after 6 PM but would run Spanish programs from 9 AM-6 PM weekdays and till 1 PM Saturdays. They ran religion 6 AM- 1 PM Sundays as well.
+The gulf between KBSC-TV and its sister stations grew wider. In August 1972, Kaiser transferred the licenses for five of its stations to a partnership with [[Field Communications]], of which it would own 77.5 percent. KBSC-TV was held out of the joint venture because it was scheduled to be sold.<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81196640/a-kaiser-partnership-asked-for-fcc/|access-date=July 10, 2021|page=III:9|work=Los Angeles Times|title=A Kaiser partnership asked for FCC approval to transfer TV licenses.|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043857/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81196640/a-kaiser-partnership-asked-for-fcc/|url-status=live}}</ref> Two months later, Kaiser announced it would seek to sell the station to the Pay Television Corporation<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81196590/screenings/|work=The Times|first=Bob|last=Foster|title=Screenings|date=October 31, 1972|page=23|access-date=July 11, 2021|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043858/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81196590/screenings/|url-status=live}}</ref> in a transaction filed with the FCC in February 1973.{{r|hc}} The largest owner of Pay Television Corporation was Jean Marieanne McDonald.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|1016881184}}|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1973/1973-03-26-BC.pdf|work=Broadcasting|date=March 26, 1973|access-date=July 10, 2021|title=Ownership changes|page=129|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308035332/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1973/1973-03-26-BC.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> The application remained pending at the FCC for nearly two years; ultimately, the company opted to franchise its technology and not be a station owner, resulting in the purchase being canceled in February 1975.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1975/1975-02-17-BC.pdf|id={{ProQuest|1014672179}}|work=Broadcasting|date=February 17, 1975|access-date=July 10, 2021|title=Pay is off|page=10|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308025226/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1975/1975-02-17-BC.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
-In 1980 the station went Spanish from 6 AM-6 PM Weekdays and 6 AM-Noon Weekends and kept ON TV the restand kept ON TV the rest of the day. In 1982 the station went ON TV and scrambled 24/7.
+===The ON TV years===
-In September 1985 KBSC was sold to the [[Miami]]-based Net Span which became the [[Telemundo]] network. The ON TV Subscription scrambled format was dropped. Channel 52 became the present '''KVEA'''. The KBSC call letters are currently on those of a [[The WB|WB]] affiliate in Brookings, Oregon. NBC would buy Telemundo in 2001 and include Channel 52 with owned and operated [[KNBC-TV|KNBC]] and [[KWHY-TV|KWHY]].
+{{further|ON TV (TV network)}}
+In December 1975, Kaiser filed to sell KBSC-TV to Oak Broadcasting Systems, a joint venture of television equipment manufacturer [[Oak Industries]] and [[Jerry Perenchio]]. The $1.2&nbsp;million<ref name="kbscbought">{{Cite news |date=September 20, 1976 |title=Changing Hands |page=43 |work=Broadcasting |id={{ProQuest|1016887944}}|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1976/1976-09-20-BC.pdf |access-date=October 25, 2020 |via=World Radio History |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101104959/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1976/1976-09-20-BC.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> transaction, which closed the next year, set the course for channel 52 to become the first station in their planned subscription television venture, as Oak moved the studios from Metromedia Square to a site on Grand Central Avenue in [[Glendale, California|Glendale]].{{r|hc}}
+On April 1, 1977,<ref name="ticket">{{Cite news |last=Margulies |first=Lee |date=March 29, 1977 |title=Just the Ticket for Pay TV |page=View 1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61280389/pay-tvs-home-run-ticket/ 7] |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61280429/just-the-ticket-for-pay-tv/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=October 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031012959/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61280429/just-the-ticket-for-pay-tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 500 test subscribers in the [[San Fernando Valley]] became the first customers of [[ON TV (TV network)|ON TV]], a subscription service broadcast over KBSC-TV that offered unedited, uninterrupted motion pictures, as well as limited slates of [[Los Angeles Dodgers]], [[California Angels]], [[Los Angeles Lakers]] and [[Los Angeles Kings]] games, during evening hours.<ref name="oakla">{{Cite news |date=April 11, 1977 |title=Oak Industries gets into LA TV market |page=3 |work=Crystal Lake Herald |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61280736/oak-industries-gets-into-la-tv-market/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=October 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031024632/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61280736/oak-industries-gets-into-la-tv-market/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was the second subscription television system in operation, with [[Wometco Home Theater]] having launched in New York City the previous month.<ref name="closet">{{Cite news |date=October 1, 1979 |title=FCC letting STV out of the closet |pages=23–24 |work=Broadcasting |id={{ProQuest|1014699254}}|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1979/BC-1979-10-01.pdf |access-date=October 26, 2020 |via=World Radio History |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101221353/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1979/BC-1979-10-01.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Japanese- and Korean-language programs that were seen on channel 52 under leased-time arrangements migrated to a new station, [[KSCI]] (channel 18), when it launched on June 30;<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81197941/asian-programming-moving-to-ksci/|access-date=July 11, 2021|title=Asian Programming Moving to KSCI|page=IV:12|date=July 12, 1977|work=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043858/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81197941/asian-programming-moving-to-ksci/|url-status=live}}</ref> this allowed ON TV to air during evening hours beginning at 8&nbsp;p.m.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 12, 1977 |title=Channel 52 to Begin On-air Equipment Test |page=3 |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995554/ |access-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043900/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995554/channel-52-to-begin-on-air-equipment/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
-== External link==
-* [http://www.telemundola.com/ TelemundoLA.com - Portada]
+ON TV proved to be a success in its early years of operation, and nowhere was this more apparent than in Southern California, despite the arrival of [[SelecTV (American TV channel)|SelecTV]] on [[KWHY-TV]] (channel 22) the next year. By April 1979, the service was signing up 12,000 subscribers a month.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bry |first=Barbara |date=April 29, 1979 |title=Oak Industries Deeply Rooted in Pay TV |page=3 |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61996354/ |access-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043900/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61996354/oak-industries-deeply-rooted-in-pay-tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref> By that year, it had grown its sports portfolio beyond the Dodgers, Angels, Lakers, and Kings to include [[USC Trojans]] college sports and [[Los Angeles Aztecs]] soccer, as well as horse racing from [[Santa Anita Park]].<ref name="manna">{{Cite news |last=Manna |first=Sal |date=September 18, 1979 |title=Tuning in |page=4 |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61996473/ |access-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043901/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61996473/tuning-in/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The STV venture transformed Oak Industries itself. In 1979, the company moved its headquarters from [[Crystal Lake, Illinois]], to the new planned community of [[Rancho Bernardo, California]], to be closer to the entertainment industry.<ref name="rancho">{{Cite news |date=January 28, 1979 |title=Pay-TV Firm Will Move To Rancho Bernardo Site |page=28 |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61281018/pay-tv-firm-will-move-to-rancho/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028205058/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61281018/pay-tv-firm-will-move-to-rancho/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
-*{{TVQ|KVEA}}
+Meanwhile, KBSC-TV changed its commercial program format to Spanish-language shows in 1980, airing 74 hours a week of commercial shows in Spanish and giving the market a second choice for Spanish-language viewing.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 23, 1980 |title=KBSC-TV to Begin Spanish Format |page=8 |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995515/ |access-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043901/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995515/kbsc-tv-to-begin-spanish-format/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Most of its Spanish-language shows, including news from Mexico, were sourced from Mexico's [[Azteca Uno|Canal 13]].<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995450/|pages=Calendar 1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995432/ 4], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995422/ 5], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995465/ 6], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995479/ 7]|title=Media Battle for the Ear of the Latino|first=Mercedes|last=de Uriarte|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 14, 1980|access-date=July 10, 2021|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043901/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995450/battle-for-the-ear-of-the-latino/|url-status=live}}</ref>
+ON TV grew nationally, with Oak and Chartwell developing operations separately, though the two remained partners in the Los Angeles operation. This arrangement, however, came into doubt in March 1981. The two sides disagreed over Perenchio's appointment of William M. Siegel, the chief executive of Chartwell, as the general manager of National Subscription Television—Los Angeles. Oak refused to consent to the appointment and claimed that Chartwell and Perenchio had "surreptitiously" placed Siegel on the payroll; it was reported that Oak had no dispute with Siegel but wanted to affirm its authority as 51 percent owner of the venture.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harris |first=Kathryn |date=March 21, 1981 |title=2 Partners Go to Court Over ON-TV Dispute |pages=15, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61280612/dispute-on-tv-partners-going-to-court/ 18] |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61280639/2-partners-go-to-court-over-on-tv/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028212159/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61280639/2-partners-go-to-court-over-on-tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Oak chairman Carter was surprised to learn that Siegel made more money than he did. Further, Perenchio drew Oak's ire when the Chartwell ON TV operation in Detroit ordered new decoder boxes from one of Oak's competitors.<ref name="perenchio">{{Cite news |last1=Crook |first1=David |last2=Harris |first2=Kathryn |date=December 13, 1981 |title=Jerry Perenchio: Hollywood's Consummate Deal Maker |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61842196/ 3], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61841997/ 15] |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61842259/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=March 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313004134/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61842259/jerry-perenchio-hollywoods-consummate/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Oak and Chartwell settled that September; the suit was dropped, and Oak bought out Chartwell's 49 percent share of National Subscription Television for $55&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 9, 1981 |title=Oak Industries said it will buy the remainder of ON-TV. |page=2 |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61490572/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=March 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313004134/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61490572/oak-industries-said-it-will-buy-the/ |url-status=live }}</ref> By May 1982, ON TV in southern California had reached its zenith—400,000 subscribers,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Claude |date=May 4, 1982 |title=Holmes vs. Cooney gets few takers |page=B-5 |work=San Bernardino County Sun |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61843859/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043901/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61843859/holmes-vs-cooney-gets-few-takers/ |url-status=live }}</ref> representing two-thirds of Oak's base of some 600,000 paying customers in its five ON TV markets, not counting Detroit, Cincinnati, or Portland.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ramirez |first=Anthony |date=July 9, 1982 |title=Oak Industries Poises for a Boom |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61844738/ 5] |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61844531/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043902/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61844531/oak-industries-poises-for-a-boom/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+After the FCC repealed a rule in late 1982 that required television stations offering a subscription service to broadcast at least 20 hours a week of unencrypted programming, KBSC began running ON TV 24 hours a day and displaced its existing Spanish-language daytime programming.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Crook |first1=David |last2=Margulies |first2=Lee |date=August 27, 1982 |title=ON TV Plans 24-Hour-a-Day Programming |page=2 |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995391/ |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=July 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713042908/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61995391/on-tv-plans-24-hour-a-day-programming/ |url-status=live }}</ref> However, the STV industry took a national nosedive moving into 1983. A national recession and the increased penetration of multichannel cable television created new and immediate financial headwinds for Oak and ON TV. In March 1984, the company announced that it was being investigated by the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] (SEC),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ritter |first=Bill |date=March 20, 1984 |title=Oak Industries Under Investigation by the SEC |pages=A, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61491407/ B] |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61491387/oak-industries-under-investigation-by/ |access-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029072207/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61491387/oak-industries-under-investigation-by/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and it posted a loss of $166.1&nbsp;million for 1983.<ref name="loss83">{{Cite news |last=Ritter |first=Bill |date=March 24, 1984 |title=Auditors Qualify Opinion: Oak Industries Posts $166-Million '83 Loss |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61491479/ 2] |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61491433/auditors-qualify-opinion-oak/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029090153/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61491433/auditors-qualify-opinion-oak/ |url-status=live }}</ref> One of the company's auditors, [[Arthur Andersen]], qualified its statement, fearing that Oak could not fully realize its $134&nbsp;million investment in subscription television.{{r|loss83}}
+After having shuttered two ON TV operations in markets with combative station owners and high cable penetration—[[Dallas–Fort Worth]] and [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]—Oak moved to sell its station in the Miami market in 1984 to John Blair & Co., which planned Spanish-language programming.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Cyndi |date=July 31, 1984 |title=Oak Industries to Sell TV Station in Florida |page=A |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61491552/oak-industries-to-sell-tv-station-in/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118083642/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61491552/oak-industries-to-sell-tv-station-in/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Oak intended to get out of Los Angeles next. In August—after a year of speculation—it emerged that Oak was in talks to sell the Los Angeles system to SelecTV, which had competed alongside ON TV for six years in the Southern California market.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Farley |first=Ellen |date=August 15, 1984 |title=ON-TV Discussing Sale of Its L.A. System to SelecTV |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018320/ 10] |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018227/ |access-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-date=March 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313004701/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018227/on-tv-discussing-sale-of-its-la/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A deal was initially reached, then collapsed.<ref name="talks">{{Cite news |last=Sahagun |first=Louis |date=October 5, 1984 |title=Talks to Sell ON-TV's L.A. Unit to SelecTV Canceled |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018480/ 2] |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018396/ |access-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-date=March 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313004643/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018396/talks-to-sell-on-tvs-la-unit-to/ |url-status=live }}</ref> However, SelecTV ultimately acquired the Los Angeles operation, by then with just 156,000 subscribers, in February 1985.<ref name="lasell">{{Cite news |last=Farley |first=Ellen |date=February 5, 1985 |title=Oak Industries Sells Its ON-TV Service to SelecTV |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018730/ 3] |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018697/ |access-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-date=March 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313004719/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018697/oak-industries-sells-its-on-tv-service/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+===KVEA===
+The same month that Oak sold the ON TV subscriber base to SelecTV, the company reached a deal to sell KBSC-TV itself to an investor group, Estrella Communications, headed by former Brazilian television network head [[Joe Wallach]], in a $30&nbsp;million transaction.<ref name="kbscsell">{{Cite news |last=Muir |first=Frederick M. |date=February 7, 1985 |title=Oak Plans to Sell KBSC to Investors for $30 Million |page=2 |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61855596/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=March 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313004644/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61855596/oak-plans-to-sell-kbsc-to-investors-for/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+{{Quote box
+| quote = Financially, the market is more than ripe for a second station. Our success does not have to come at the expense of Channel 34.
+| author = Paul Niedermayer
+| source = first general manager of KVEA{{r|accent}}
+| align = right
+| width = 250px
+| quoted = yes
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+}}
+SelecTV programming aired for a time on KBSC while the new owners readied the station's next chapter. On November 24, 1985, KVEA debuted. The new Spanish-language station sought to be an alternative to [[KMEX]], the dominant outlet in southern California, with a wider range of U.S. and Latin American shows than KMEX's mostly Mexican fare and children's programming, as well as local news and a newsmagazine program.<ref name="accent">{{Cite news |last=Margulies |first=Lee |date=November 22, 1985 |title=Channel 52 Getting a Spanish Accent |page=28 |work=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018801/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044034/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61018801/channel-52-getting-a-spanish-accent/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+The creation of a second Spanish-language network had first been mooted in 1984. NetSpan's founding affiliates were [[WNJU]] in New York, ethnic independent [[KSCI]] channel 18 for the Los Angeles market, and Chicago's [[WXFT-TV|WBBS-TV]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Triumverate [sic]|id={{ProQuest|1014705818}}|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1984/BC-1984-01-09.pdf|work=Broadcasting|date=January 9, 1984|page=18|access-date=July 10, 2021|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308042525/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1984/BC-1984-01-09.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> By 1986, KVEA had replaced KSCI (and [[WCIU-TV]] had entered in Chicago); the network offered three hours a day of programming plus specials.<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81215728/|first=Richard|last=Sandomir|date=October 20, 1986|title=Big Businesses Tuning in to Hispanic TV Stations|access-date=July 10, 2021|work=Newsday|page=III:5|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044033/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81215728/big-businesses-tuning-in-to-hispanic-tv/|url-status=live}}</ref>
+Estrella Communications was a subsidiary of [[Reliance Group Holdings|Reliance Capital Group]], led by corporate raider [[Saul Steinberg (businessman)|Saul Steinberg]]. Less than a year after starting up KVEA, Reliance acquired John Blair & Co., which agreed to be purchased for $300&nbsp;million to avoid a hostile takeover. The deal united KVEA with [[WSCV]]—the Miami-area station Oak had sold off two years prior—and [[WKAQ-TV]] in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]].<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81201537/|access-date=July 10, 2021|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 4, 1986|title=Blair Agrees to Merge With a Steinberg Unit|page=IV:2|first=Paul|last=Richter|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044057/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81201537/blair-agrees-to-merge-with-a-steinberg/|url-status=live}}</ref> In October 1986, Reliance then bought WNJU.<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81215771/|access-date=July 11, 2021|date=October 30, 1986|agency=Associated Press|page=B22|work=Asbury Park Press|title=Firm buys Hispanic TV station|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044051/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81215771/firm-buys-hispanic-tv-station/|url-status=live}}</ref> On January 12, 1987,<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|title=Telemundo TV Network to Air Nationally Tonight|date=January 12, 1987|id={{ProQuest|398013667}}}}</ref> NetSpan became Telemundo, supplying additional programming and national news,{{r|gains}} which helped the station attract national advertisers.<ref name="stakes">{{Cite news|first=Laura|last=Flores|work=Los Angeles Daily News|title=KVEA stakes its claim: Glendale Hispanic TV station thriving|date=April 18, 1989|page=WG1}}</ref>
+The investment in KVEA quickly paid off. By February 1987, the 15-month-old operation had achieved a 34 percent share of the Spanish-speaking audience in Los Angeles,<ref name="gains">{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81215900/|title=KVEA gains in Spanish-speaking market: A strong choice for Latino viewers|first=Victor|last=Valle|page=V:10|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=February 25, 1987|access-date=July 11, 2021|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044036/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81215900/kvea-gains-in-spanish-speaking-market/|url-status=live}}</ref> with the market having grown large enough that KMEX did not lose any of its audience.<ref>{{cite news|pages=3, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81237972/ 22]|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81237851/|first=Félix|last=Gutiérrez|agency=Associated Press|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 1, 1986|access-date=July 11, 2021|title=Spanish Media in L.A. on Upswing|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044057/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81237851/spanish-media-in-la-on-upswing/|url-status=live}}</ref> It covered community events in Spanish, produced 11 and a half hours of local news a week, aired a weekly half-hour highlight show of the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] hosted by longtime Dodger Spanish-language voice [[Jaime Jarrín]];{{r|gains}} furthermore, KVEA was the production base for new Spanish-language shows screened nationally, including ''La piñata de los $25,000'' (''The $25,000 Piñata''), the first nationally syndicated Spanish-language game show.<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81239628/|first=John M.|last=Wilson|date=December 7, 1986|title=Wheels de fortuna|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |page=Calendar 22|access-date=July 11, 2021|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044036/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81239628/wheels-de-fortuna/|url-status=live}}</ref>
+At the end of the 1980s, KVEA came under some criticism for lack of representation of Mexicans—who comprised 90 percent of channel 52's viewership—in management. After Frank Cruz, a former KNBC news anchor who had been with the station since the 1985 launch, left in early 1989,<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81216042/|title=Cruz Resignation Baffles Some at KVEA-TV|access-date=July 11, 2021|page=V:13|first=Victor|last=Valle|work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 4, 1989|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044106/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81216042/cruz-resignation-baffles-some-at-kvea-tv/|url-status=live}}</ref> three ranking Mexican staffers resigned together that June.<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46588212/|access-date=July 11, 2021|title=KVEA Shakeup Stirs Talk at Latino Stations|first=Victor|last=Valle|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 2, 1989|page=VI:12|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044056/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46588212/kvea-shakeup-stirs-talk-at-latino/|url-status=live}}</ref> The dispute escalated into calls by the [[National Hispanic Media Coalition]] for an advertising boycott of the station<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81216067/|access-date=July 11, 2021|date=September 8, 1989|page=VI:16|first=Felicia|last=Paik|title=Latino Group Urges Channel 52 Ad Ban|work=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044037/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81216067/latino-group-urges-channel-52-ad-ban/|url-status=live}}</ref> and picketing of its studios by protesters who felt the station favored Cubans in hiring and programming.<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81216096/|access-date=July 11, 2021|date=September 21, 1989|title=Picketers Force Way into Station: Protest Boils Over at KVEA-TV|first=Santiago|last=O'Donnell|work=Los Angeles Times|page=G9|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044038/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81216096/protest-boils-over-at-kvea-tv/|url-status=live}}</ref>
+KVEA's next bout of station turmoil came in 1997. Between February and August, seven longtime staffers were dismissed for supposed budgetary reasons, though one anchor, Ana Cecilia Granados, alleged that new manager José Ronstadt had a bias toward Mexicans and ousted her for being Central American.<ref name="descontentos">{{Cite news |last=Infante |first=Victoria |date=August 11, 1997 |title=Cambios, entre descontentos, llegan a KVEA: La controversia en torno a la sindicalizacion aumenta en el canal 52, mientras Telemundo hace un esfuerzo por aumentar su audiencia |language=es |trans-title=Change among the discontented comes to KVEA: The unionization controversy grows at Channel 52 while Telemundo makes an effort to grow its audience |page=1D |work=La Opinión |id={{ProQuest|368329639}} }}</ref> Meanwhile, employees sought to unionize KVEA; they voted to form a union, but management refused voluntary recognition.{{r|descontentos}} With another boycott threatened, KVEA recognized the union in November 1997, right before the start of a ratings survey.<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81256081/|title=KVEA-TV Recognizes Employees' Union|access-date=July 11, 2021|work=Los Angeles Times|page=D15C|first=Julia|last=Scheeres|date=November 4, 1997|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044039/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81256081/kvea-tv-recognizes-employees-union/|url-status=live}}</ref>
+On January 15, 2001, KVEA launched an expanded news department, doubling its budget and its weekday output, as well as adding weekend news programs for the first time.<ref name="bulk">{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81256081/|access-date=July 11, 2021|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 23, 2000|first=Dana|last=Calvo|page=D21|title=KVEA Plans to Bulk Up Newscasts|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044039/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81256081/kvea-tv-recognizes-employees-union/|url-status=live}}</ref> The network then purchased [[KWHY-TV]] channel 22, its former pay TV competitor and later a Spanish-language independent, for $239&nbsp;million in June 2001, creating a duopoly.<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46590206/|access-date=March 12, 2020|work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 13, 2001|title=Telemundo to Buy L.A.'s KWHY-TV for $239 Million|first=Lee|last=Romney|pages=C1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46590261/ C4]|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044100/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46590206/telemundo-to-buy-las-kwhy-tv-for/|url-status=live}}</ref> Work was already underway on a comprehensive overhaul of channel 52's studios, and channel 22 was then integrated into the operation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Broadcast-Engineering/BE/00s/BE-2002-02.pdf|access-date=July 11, 2021|date=February 2002|work=Broadcast Engineering|title=KVEA-TV/KWHY-TV updated news operations|first=Richard|last=Lahti|pages=48–52|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309171955/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Broadcast-Engineering/BE/00s/BE-2002-02.pdf|url-status=live|id={{ProQuest|35229075}}}}</ref>
+===NBC acquisition===
+In October 2001, NBC announced it would buy Telemundo. The combination of the two parties owned three stations in the market; the FCC conditioned approval of the Telemundo acquisition on the divestiture of KWHY.<ref>{{cite news|work=Multichannel News|date=April 15, 2002|title=NBC completes Telemundo buy}}</ref> Integration of the two operations took a major step forward in 2003, when 250 Telemundo employees moved to KNBC's studios in Burbank.<ref>{{cite news|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81272779/|page=E32|work=Los Angeles Times|first=Greg|last=Braxton|title=The language of synergy|date=March 1, 2003|access-date=July 11, 2021|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044040/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81272779/the-language-of-synergy/|url-status=live}}</ref> KWHY sales and programming functions remained in Glendale while NBC fought for a waiver to keep all three stations;<ref>{{cite news|first=Paige|last=Albiniak|title= NBC Shuffles L.A. Operations |work=Broadcasting & Cable|date=April 21, 2003|page=10}}</ref> the next year, the FCC revised its media ownership rules to allow ownership of three stations in the largest markets.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 2, 2003 |title=F.C.C. Votes to Relax Rules Limiting Media Ownership |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/02/business/fcc-votes-to-relax-rules-limiting-media-ownership-2003060292418873791.html |access-date=July 12, 2021 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505121737/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/02/business/fcc-votes-to-relax-rules-limiting-media-ownership-2003060292418873791.html |url-status=live }}</ref> NBC would sell off KWHY in 2011 to the [[Meruelo Group]] as a condition of its [[Acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast|merger]] with [[Comcast]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Eggerton |first=John |date=January 26, 2011 |title=NBC Has Deal To Sell KWHY In L.A. |language=en |work=Broadcasting & Cable |url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/nbc-has-deal-sell-kwhy-la-42712 |access-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-date=July 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719183414/https://www.nexttv.com/news/nbc-has-deal-sell-kwhy-la-42712 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+In 2007, NBC announced that it would move its Los Angeles local operation to a site at [[Universal Studios Hollywood]].<ref>{{Cite news |first1=Meg |last1=James |first2=Matea |last2=Gold |date=October 11, 2007 |title=NBC socks it to Burbank |language=en-US |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-11-fi-nbc11-story.html |access-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007035132/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-11-fi-nbc11-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The complex was completed in 2014, with separate studios for KNBC and KVEA and a shared newsroom.<ref>{{Cite news |last=James |first=Meg |date=February 7, 2014 |title=KNBC Channel 4 leaves Burbank; moves to new L.A. broadcast center |language=en-US |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-knbc-channel-4-leaves-burbank-moves-to-la-broadcast-studio-20140206-story.html |access-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029163732/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-knbc-channel-4-leaves-burbank-moves-to-la-broadcast-studio-20140206-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Despite being an integrated operation, unlike at KNBC, KVEA's anchors and reporters remained non-union until voting 18–1 to unionize with [[SAG-AFTRA]] in January 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Robb |first=David |date=January 21, 2023 |title=Anchors & Reporters At L.A.'s KVEA/Telemundo 52 Vote To Unionize With SAG-AFTRA |language=en-US |work=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |url=https://deadline.com/2023/01/los-angeles-kvea-telemundo-52-union-sag-aftra-1235229832/ |access-date=January 21, 2023}}</ref>
+==News department==
+[[File:Knbcstudiobldg.JPG|thumb|right|alt=Large white building with metal framing|Studio building shared by [[KNBC]] and KVEA]]
+Local news programming on channel 52 began with the KVEA relaunch, in the form of a 15-minute program called ''VEA Noticias''.{{r|accent}} One of the station's early coups was its coverage of the [[1986 San Salvador earthquake]], which drew new news viewers and started competition with KMEX.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Channels-of-Communication/Channels-1989-06.pdf|work=Channels of Communication|date=June 1989|pages=22, 26|first=Kirsten|last=Beck|access-date=July 11, 2021|title=L.A. Goes Hispanic|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309061040/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Channels-of-Communication/Channels-1989-06.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> This quickly expanded into a full news service, and the station produced 11 and a half hours of local news a week by 1987.{{r|gains}}
+To daily 6 and 11&nbsp;p.m. news programs, KVEA added morning and midday newscasts when the news department expanded in January 2001, doubling its budget.{{r|bulk}} In October 2001, a 5&nbsp;am newscast also debuted.{{r|otra}} In 2002, KVEA notched its first win at 11&nbsp;p.m. since November 1993.<ref name="otra">{{Cite news |last=Morales |first=José |date=June 14, 2002 |title=La 'otra' competencia |page=1D |work=La Opinión |id={{ProQuest|368399083}} |via=ProQuest}}</ref> Eduardo Quezada, who had worked for KMEX for 28 years and had previously been described as a Los Angeles institution at channel 34,<ref>{{cite news|first=Dana|last=Calvo|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82118866/an-anchor-at-kmex/|title=An Anchor at KMEX|pages=F1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82118942/quezada-kmex-anchor-pulls-top-ratings/ F11] |date=December 4, 2000|access-date=July 24, 2021}}</ref> resigned from his position at that station and joined KVEA in 2003, citing the attention NBC was giving the news department and its then-airing of six hours a day of local news, doubling KMEX's output.<ref>{{cite news|work=La Opinión| id={{ProQuest|368282867}} | via=ProQuest | first=Ramón |last=Inclán| title=Eduardo Quezada se va al Canal 52|trans-title=Eduardo Quezada goes to Channel 52|date=May 7, 2003|page=1B|language=es}}</ref> By 2007, Quezada had resigned to become the vice president of news and public relations for Una Vez Más Holdings.<ref>{{cite news|work=Mundo Hispánico|language=es|first=Alberto|last=Brown Rodríguez|title=Azteca América estrena noticiero local|page=A31|trans-title=Azteca América debuts local newscast|id={{ProQuest|368158874}}|via=ProQuest|date=September 20, 2007}}</ref>
+In 2007, Los Angeles mayor [[Antonio Villaraigosa]] admitted that he had an extramarital affair with Mirthala Salinas, a KVEA reporter who at one time covered the political beat.<ref><!--Displays as 2014 for some reason-->{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-mayor4jul04-story.html|access-date=July 11, 2021|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 4, 2007|first1=Duke|last1=Helfand|first2=Steve|last2=Hymon|title=Mayor reveals romantic link with TV newscaster|archive-date=April 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410235516/https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-mayor4jul04-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The station suspended her for two months without pay for failing to disclose the conflict for interest and reassigned her to KVEA's bureau in [[Riverside, California|Riverside]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-sep-25-me-salinas25-story.html|access-date=July 11, 2021|work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 25, 2007|first1=Duke|last1=Helfand|first2=Meg|last2=James|title=Network reassigns mayor's girlfriend|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021071113/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-sep-25-me-salinas25-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She failed to report to work there and left the company.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-02-me-salinas2-story.html|date=October 2, 2007|access-date=July 11, 2021|title=Salinas' tenure with Telemundo is over|first1=Duke|last1=Helfand|first2=Meg|last2=James|work=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=March 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210314180411/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-02-me-salinas2-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
+Cuts led to the removal of the morning newscast before it was reinstated in 2011 alongside the launch of a new weekly public affairs program.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Szalai |first=Georg |date=August 8, 2011 |title=Telemundo Stations to Expand Local News Programming by 25% |language=en-US |work=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/telemundo-stations-expand-local-news-220336/ |access-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044058/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/telemundo-stations-expand-local-news-220336/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Beginning in 2014, a series of local news expansions at Telemundo have added hours of news to KVEA's output. A 5:30&nbsp;p.m. show debuted at KVEA and 13 other Telemundo stations in 2014.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Villafañe |first=Veronica |date=September 18, 2014 |title=Telemundo adds new 30 min newscast at 14 local stations |language=en-US |work=Media Moves |url=https://www.mediamoves.com/2014/09/telemundo-to-hire-30-to-launch-local-newscasts-at-14-stations.html |access-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-date=November 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130140053/https://www.mediamoves.com/2014/09/telemundo-to-hire-30-to-launch-local-newscasts-at-14-stations.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2016, a 5 p.m. half-hour was introduced.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 9, 2016 |title=KVEA Names Anchors For 5&nbsp;p.m. Weekday News |language=en |work=TVNewsCheck |url=https://tvnewscheck.com/uncategorized/article/kvea-names-anchors-for-5-p-m-weekday-news/ |access-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712044039/https://tvnewscheck.com/uncategorized/article/kvea-names-anchors-for-5-p-m-weekday-news/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+==={{anchor|Notable current on-air staff|Notable former on-air staff}}Notable on-air staff===
+* ''Current:''
+** [[Dunia Elvir]] – news anchor<ref>{{Cite news |last=Villafañe |first=Veronica |date=April 8, 2021 |title=Telemundo 52 changes its weekday news anchor lineup |language=en-US |work=Media Moves |url=https://www.mediamoves.com/2021/04/telemundo-52-changes-its-weekday-news-anchor-lineup.html |access-date=July 13, 2021 |archive-date=April 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409071233/https://www.mediamoves.com/2021/04/telemundo-52-changes-its-weekday-news-anchor-lineup.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+* ''Former:''
+** [[Adrian Garcia Marquez|Adrián García Márquez]] – sports anchor (2002–2007)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mendoza |first=Alexandra |date=October 9, 2019 |title=La voz en español del Super Bowl en Estados Unidos creció en la región de San Diego y Tijuana |language=es-US |trans-title=The Spanish-language US voice of the Super Bowl grew up in the San Diego/Tijuana region |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune en Español |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/en-espanol/primera-plana/articulo/2019-10-09/la-voz-en-espanol-del-super-bowl-en-estados-unidos-crecio-en-la-frontera-de-san-diego-y-tijuana |access-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009154736/https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/en-espanol/primera-plana/articulo/2019-10-09/la-voz-en-espanol-del-super-bowl-en-estados-unidos-crecio-en-la-frontera-de-san-diego-y-tijuana |url-status=live }}</ref>
+** [[Raul Peimbert]] – anchor (2001–2002)<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Reforma (newspaper)|Reforma]]|page=7|title=La salida de Peimbert no afecta a MVS|trans-title=Peimbert's exit doesn't affect MVS|date=August 15, 2001|first=Ivett|last=Rangel}}</ref>
+** [[Enrique Gratas]] – first news director, anchor, later of ''[[Ocurrió Así]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Villafañe |first=Veronica |date=October 8, 2015 |title=TV veteran Enrique Gratas dies after illness |language=en-US |work=Media Moves |url=https://www.mediamoves.com/2015/10/tv-veteran-enrique-gratas-dies-after-illness.html |access-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-date=October 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031021609/https://www.mediamoves.com/2015/10/tv-veteran-enrique-gratas-dies-after-illness.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+[[File:2020 07 26 mt-wilson045 (50170037698).jpg|upright=0.63|thumb|The KVEA (second from top) and KNBC (top) antennas share the same tower on Mount Wilson|alt=A gray lattice tower, set against a blue sky. A small pink cylindrical antenna and a larger red cylindrical antenna top the structure.]]
+==Technical information==
+===Subchannels===
+The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+ Subchannels of KVEA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KVEA#station|website=RabbitEars|title=TV Query for KVEA|access-date=October 11, 2013|archive-date=October 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012070727/http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KVEA#station|url-status=live}}</ref>
+|-
+! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
+! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
+! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
+! scope = "col" | Short name
+! scope = "col" | Programming
+|-
+! scope = "row" | 52.1
+| [[1080i]] || rowspan=2 | [[16:9]] || KVEA-HD || [[Telemundo]]
+|-
+! scope = "row" | 52.2
+| rowspan=2|[[480i]] || TelXtos || [[TeleXitos]]
+|-
+! scope = "row" | 52.3
+| [[4:3]] || Nosey || Nosey
+|}
+===Analog-to-digital conversion===
+KVEA shut down its analog signal, over [[UHF]] channel 52, on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]]; the digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 39, using [[virtual channel]] 52.<ref name="Analog to Digital">{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|title=List of Digital Full-Power Stations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref>
+===Translator===
+KVEA is rebroadcast on the following translator station:<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 23, 2021|title=List of TV Translator Input Channels|url=https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/tv-translator-input-channels-07232021.xlsx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209195336/https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/tv-translator-input-channels-07232021.xlsx|archive-date=December 9, 2021|access-date=December 17, 2021|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}</ref>
+* [[Ridgecrest, California|Ridgecrest]]: {{FCC-LMS-Facility|28568|3=K14AT-D}}
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
+==External links==
+* {{official website|https://www.telemundo52.com/}}
+* [https://www.telexitos.com/ TeleXitos website]
+{{Telemundo California}}
+{{NBCUniversal}}
 {{LA TV}}
+{{Major U.S. TV O-O Stations}}
-{{General Electric}}
-[[Category:Telemundo network affiliates]]
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Kvea}}
+[[Category:1966 establishments in California]]
+[[Category:Former General Electric subsidiaries]]
+[[Category:Kaiser Broadcasting]]
+[[Category:Mass media in Corona, California]]
+[[Category:Mass media in Riverside County, California]]
+[[Category:Oak Industries]]
+[[Category:ON TV (TV network)]]
+[[Category:Spanish-language television stations in California|VEA]]
+[[Category:Telemundo Station Group]]
+[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1966]]
+[[Category:Television stations in Los Angeles|VEA]]
+[[Category:TeleXitos affiliates]]