KILM

For the airport serving Wilmington, North Carolina assigned the ICAO code KILM, see Wilmington International Airport.
KILM
Greater Los Angeles areas
City San Bernardino/Los Angeles, California
Channels Digital: 44 (UHF)
Virtual: 64 (PSIP)
Subchannels 64.1 Sonlife Broadcasting Network
64.2 Sino TV
64.3 HTTV USA
64.4 NTCVIET
Translators KBLM-LP 25 Riverside/San Bernardino
Affiliations SonLife Broadcasting Network
Owner Meruelo Group
(KILM-TV Licensee, LLC)
First air date August 15, 1987
Sister station(s) KWHY
Former callsigns KVVT (1987–1992)
KHIZ (1992–2011)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
64 (UHF, 1987–2009)
Former affiliations America One
AMGTV
RTV
Multicultural Independent
FilmOn TV
My Combat Channel
infomercials
Transmitter power 1000 kW
Height 596 m
Facility ID 63865
Transmitter coordinates 34°36′34″N 117°17′11″W / 34.60944°N 117.28639°W / 34.60944; -117.28639

KILM, virtual channel 64, is a religious television station licensed to San Bernardino, California USA, but with studios in Los Angeles, California. The station is owned by Meruelo Group which it also owns sister station KWHY-TV. KILM carries programming from the SonLife Broadcasting Network.

History

The station's logo as KHIZ, used until 2012.

KILM originally began broadcasting in 1987 as KVVT, the only independent commercial television station in the Mojave Desert region to provide local news programs. It became KHIZ in 1992. In the mid-2000s, the station changed its format and service area to be transmitted in both the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and the San Bernardino-Riverside Metropolitan Area regions. Multicultural purchased Sunbelt Television, Inc. in 2007.[1] KHIZ eventually incorporated multicultural programming into its schedule. At one time, KHIZ aired a weekday morning news program, Inland Empire Live, that was produced from the facilities of WSEE-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania and distributed to KHIZ via satellite transmission.[2]

FilmOn took over the station's operations under an LMA on September 1, 2012, at which point it became KILM.[3] On November 25, 2013, FilmOn TV was removed and replaced with paid programming. On July 12, 2014, KILM dropped the all-paid programming lineup and replaced it with programming from the SonLife Broadcasting Network, a religious broadcasting network owned by televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

Conversion to all digital

On February 17, 2009, KHIZ began broadcasting digital only on UHF channel 44, and discontinued analog transmissions on UHF channel 64, using PSIP to receive KILM on 64.

On May 6, 2009, KHIZ added a low-power analog translator K39GY channel 39 (now KHIZ-LD, channel 2), a former TBN translator in Victorville.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mrbi.net/tvgroup.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.khiztv.com/programming/news.php
  3. ↑ Johnson, Ted (August 11, 2012). "Fox sues startup over broadcast streaming". Variety. Retrieved September 4, 2012. …FilmOn is launching its first broadcast channel in the country, KILM-TV Channel 64, in Los Angeles starting on Sept. 1.

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