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KBEH, virtual channel 63 (UHF digital channel 24), is a Independent television station serving Los Angeles, California, United States that is licensed to Oxnard. The station is owned by HERO Broadcasting, LLC. KBEH's studios are located on West Century Boulevard in West Los Angeles (near Westchester), and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson. == History == The station first signed on the air on August 17, 1985 as independent station KTIE. It was the first television station to operate in Ventura County, since KKOG-TV (channel 16) shut down in 1969. The original owner, Don Sterling (no relation to the Los Angeles Clippers owner of the same name), fighting ongoing losses, sold the station in 1988 to billionaire Meshulam Riklis, the then-husband of actress Pia Zadora. Riklis changed the call letters to KADY-TV in honor of his and Zadora's daughter Kady, who in turn was named for the character Zadora played in ''Butterfly'', financed by Riklis, a role which won Zadora the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress.〔http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1037913 Democratic Underground Review〕 Riklis infused capital to build up the station, but it remained unprofitable. Riklis achieved his wealth by inventing complicated paper schemes like junk bonds and leveraged buyouts. As Riklis' empire began to unravel, KADY-TV was part of settlements. The subsequent company, E-II Holdings (a group of jilted Riklis investors),〔(COMPANY NEWS; E-II Holdings Wins Fight For Reorganization Plan ), ''The New York Times'', May 26, 1993.〕〔(EII Acquired McCrory )〕 discovered this was an unprofitable venture and essentially bailed out on the operation.〔(Riklis Family Holdings )〕 The station was then sold to former general manager under Riklis, John Huddy (father of Fox News Channel anchor and former co-host of ''The Morning Show'', Juliet Huddy, who also worked at the station and eventually married news director Dan Green). How Huddy, a former entertainment critic for ''The Miami Herald'' and executive producer of ''Tomorrow'', came to own a television station was never clear. While Huddy made some innovative moves, he did not have the financial resources to operate at a loss. One of his improvements to KADY was making it one of the original affiliates of UPN when it launched on January 16, 1995, and another was to duplicate the signal in the Central Coast using leased time on San Luis Obispo's KADE (channel 33; now KTAS). Huddy, in the name of KADY, left bad debts throughout the area business community, including $4 million to Don Sterling,〔(Bnet )〕 the original owner and still the building's landlord. After lying in bankruptcy court in July 1996, the property was immediately seized.〔(FCC Documentation )〕 Afterwards, Huddy became a successful author of a "True Crime" bestseller. After a transitional period under court supervision with John Hyde acting as trustee,〔(Bankruptcy documentation )〕 a sale to Biltmore Broadcasting was arranged in November 1997.〔()〕 The UPN affiliation, while serving a portion of the market designated to UPN flagship KCOP-TV (channel 13) came under network criticism. In 2002, KADY dropped its UPN affiliation and became an independent station again. Among the shows seen on the station were rebroadcasts of local newscasts from Santa Barbara ABC affiliate KEYT-TV. KADY was also added to DirecTV's Los Angeles station package. In 2004, Blitmore sold the station to Bela, LCC, a Florida-based Spanish-language broadcaster. As a result, in May 2004, the call letters of channel 63 were changed to KBEH, and it was reformatted as a Spanish language independent. To expand the station's coverage area, KBEH began identifying as "Oxnard-Los Angeles", and has gained coverage on local cable providers.〔(MTV3 Channels )〕 One year later, when MTV Tr3s launched, Bela switched KBEH, KMOH, and KEJR to the network. With such a move, KBEH and KMOH became the network's lone full-power affiliates. KBEH was one of four independent stations broadcasting at least part of its program schedule in Spanish. Since 2007, KBBC-TV (now KVME-TV), licensed to Anaheim and carried as part of the Los Angeles DirecTV coverage, has emerged as a new Spanish/English station for the Los Angeles television market. Bela Broadcasting sold KBEH to HERO Broadcasting in January 2008.〔(Broadcasting and Cable )〕 On January 28, 2012, KBEH began serving as the pilot station of CNN Latino, a news service targeting U.S. Hispanics focusing on news, lifestyle, documentary, talk and debate program as an alternative to traditional Hispanic networks. The service's initial rollout on the station began with a branded programming block of eight hours of customized content from 3 to 11 p.m. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KBEH」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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