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Encyclopedia > KSCI
KSCI
Los Angeles, California
City of license Long Beach, California
Branding LA-18
Slogan Keeping You Connected
Channels Analog: 18 (UHF)
Digital: 61 (UHF)
Translators KUAN-LP 48 Poway/San Diego
Affiliations Independent
Owner KSLS, Inc.
Founded June 30, 1977
Call letters meaning K
Science of
Creative
Intelligence
(The leader of this philosophy, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was a former owner and appeared on-air frequently.)
Transmitter Power 2583 kW (analog)
256 kW (digital)
Height 899 m (analog)
889.4 m (digital)
Facility ID 35608
Transmitter Coordinates 34°12′47.8″N, 118°3′44.2″W
Website www.kscitv.com

KSCI (known on air as LA-18) is an independent television station operating in Los Angeles and on channel 48 (KUAN-LP) in San Diego, California. It targets Asian Americans, and most of its programming is in Asian languages. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... In the United States (and potentially elswhere), each radio station or TV station is assigned a city of license by the Federal Communications Commission that they must serve. While this has become far less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post their public file somewhere within the... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles County Government  - Mayor Bob Foster Area  - City  65. ... For other uses, see Brand (disambiguation). ... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or, equivalently, wavelengths) assigned by a government for the operation of a particular broadcast station. ... Analog television (or analogue television) encodes television and transports the picture and sound information as an analog signal, that is, by varying the amplitude and/or frequencies of the broadcast signal. ... This article is about the radio frequency. ... Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ... This article is about the radio frequency. ... In broadcasting, a translator is an FM radio station or a TV station which acts as a full-duplex repeater. ... Motto: The City in the Country Coordinates: , Country State County San Diego Incorporated December 1, 1980 Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Mickey Cafagna  - City Manager Rod Gould Area  - City  39. ... “San Diego” redirects here. ... An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (b. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The kilowatt (symbol: kW) is a unit for measuring power, equal to one thousand watts. ... HAAT is used extensively in radio, as it is actually much more important than power. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... A facility ID is used in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission to identify broadcast TV stations. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... This article is about a television transmitting location or company. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates , Government County San Diego Mayor City Attorney         City Council District One District Two District Three District Four District Five District Six District Seven District Eight Jerry Sanders (R) Michael Aguirre Scott Peters Kevin... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...


Long before KSCI went on the air, the Sun-Telegram newspaper in San Bernardino operated KCHU-TV on channel 18. During its time on the air, in the mid 1960s, the station showed those living in the Riverside and San Bernardino area a steady diet of vintage Hollywood movies. KCHU's studios were located in the old Fox Theater in Downtown San Bernardino. KCHU-TV operated from 1960 to 1964, making it the first UHF station in Southern California to offer programming.


The station has daily weekday programs and news in Mandarin Chinese, Tagalog (Philippines), Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. On weekend mornings, it has programs in Khmer (Cambodian), Indonesian, Armenian, Arabic, and Persian. English subtitles appear on certain programs, including some of those in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. These programs are a mix of rebroadcasts from their original countries, independent productions, and KSCI-produced programs. For other uses, see News (disambiguation). ... This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ... Tagalog (pronunciation: ) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... “Arabic” redirects here. ... “Farsi” redirects here. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... In printed material In printed material, a subtitle is an explanatory or alternate title. ...


KSCI also has a number of programs in English and Hindi that feature music videos and entertainment news from Bollywood, as well as regular news from the Indian subcontinent. There are also a number of religious programs, in English, Korean, and Japanese, shown mostly in the very early morning hours. The station broadcasts infomercials in the remaining time slots. Hindi ( , Devanagari: or , IAST: , IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken all over India in varying degrees and extensively in northern and central India, is one of the two central official languages of India, the other being English. ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... Bollywood (Hindi: , Urdu: ) is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. ... Map of South Asia (see note) This article deals with the geophysical region in Asia. ... Infomercials are television commercials that run as long as a typical television program (roughly thirty minutes or an hour). ...


KSCI's local programming include "LA Living", a Mandarin-language show hosted by Juliette Zhou that deals with life in LA for Chinese Americans, and features interviews with guests. The station also produces "Kababayan LA," a Tagalog/English language show hosted by Jannelle So serving the Filipino community. A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. ...


KSCI is also notably known for broadcasting 5-minute Buddhist dharma talks (the first of its kind on local television) from Venerable Master Hsing Yun, founder of the highly successful Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order. KSCI has been known to be supporters of the order. A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... Statue of the Venerable Master Hsing Yun. ... The Fo Guang Shan emblem, used by all FGS affilated branch temples and organizations. ...


There are locally produced news programs in Mandarin ("World Report" and "Channel 18 Evening News"), Vietnamese ("Global Report") and Korean {"Local News/Town Guide"). In addition, KSCI also sponsors Los Angeles-area Asian American events. An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...


KSCI aired New Wave Theatre with Peter Ivers in the early 1980s. The program featured local rock and punk LA bands such as Fear, X, The Blasters, Circle Jerks and The Dead Kennedys. The show was later picked up by USA Network's Night Flight. Cover of The Best of David Joves New Wave Theatre, Volume 2 New Wave Theatre was a television program broadcast locally in the Los Angeles area on UHF channel 18 and eventually on the USA Network as part of the late night variety show Night Flight during the early... Cover of Terminal Love by Peter Ivers Peter Scott Ivers (September 1946 - March 3, 1983) was an American musician, best known as the host of New Wave Theatre. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Punk Rock is an anti-establishment music movement that began about 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified by The Ramones,the Misfits, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... For other uses, see Fear (disambiguation). ... For other bands named X, see X (band). ... The Blasters are a rock music group formed in 1979 in Downey, California by brothers Phil Alvin (vocals and guitar) and Dave Alvin (guitar), with bass guitarist John Bazz and drummer Bill Bateman. ... The Circle Jerks are a hardcore punk band formed circa 1979 in Hermosa Beach, California. ... This page is about the band; see Kennedy family for the political dynasty, or The Kennedy Curse, which inspired the name Dead Kennedys The Dead Kennedys, from San Francisco, California are widely considered to be one of the greatest punk rock bands of all time. ... USA Network is a popular American cable television network with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005. ... Night Flight can refer to either: A Led Zeppelin song, Night Flight A television series, Night Flight (TV series) A 1980 Justin Hayward album, Night Flight (album) A book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, originally published as Vol de Nuit This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated...


In 1998 KSCI moved its city of license from San Bernardino to Long Beach. In early 2005, KSCI changed its on-air name to LA-18, though the call letters remained the same. The station adopted a new slogan: "Keeping You Connected." Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... In the United States (and potentially elswhere), each radio station or TV station is assigned a city of license by the Federal Communications Commission that they must serve. While this has become far less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post their public file somewhere within the... San Bernardino is the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles County Government  - Mayor Bob Foster Area  - City  65. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


KSCI offered the FUNimation Channel on DTV channel 18.3 until 2007. A new subchannel called The Armenian Channel is offering on channel 18.5 The FUNimation Channel is a 24-hour anime network that showcases some of FUNimations properties. ... Digital television (DTV) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analog signals used by analog (traditional) TV. DTV uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set, or a...


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KSCI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (778 words)
KSCI (known on air as LA-18) is an independent television station operating in Los Angeles and on channel 48 (K48AL) in San Diego, California.
KSCI also has a number of programs in English and Hindi that feature music videos and entertainment news from Bollywood, as well as regular news from the Indian subcontinent.
KSCI aired New Wave Theatre with Peter Ivers in the early 1980s.
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