12 Facts About KSCI

KSCI is a television station licensed to Long Beach, California, United States, serving the Los Angeles area.

KSCI's studios are located on South Bundy Drive in West Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Harvard.

KSCI served as a multicultural independent station until June 2021.

KSCI signed on the air on June 30,1977, operating from studios in West Los Angeles, although still licensed in San Bernardino.

KSCI's goal was to report "only good news"; sister stations were planned for San Francisco and Washington, DC The station manager was Mark Fleischer, son of Hollywood director Richard Fleischer.

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In 1980, KSCI switched to a for-profit operation and earned $1 million on revenues of $8 million in 1985.

In 1998, KSCI transferred its city of license from San Bernardino to Long Beach.

On January 9,2012, KSCI, Inc filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

On June 22,2017, KSCI announced that they had canceled all of its programming in Chinese, Filipino, Spanish and Armenian and replaced it with English-language infomercials beginning July 1.

The subchannels of the station continued to air its programs in Chinese and Armenian, but as a result of the station's programming cutbacks, KSCI announced they reduced its Korean programming from 8 to 11 pm and would cut its subchannels list from 12 to 5 the following year.

KSCI began airing WRNN-TV's independent network RNN on its primary channel.

KSCI shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 18, on June 12,2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.