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| city = [[Los Angeles, California]]
| station_logo =
| station_slogan =
| station_branding =
| analog =
| digital = 14 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])
| virtual = 60 ([[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]])
| subchannels = [[#Digital television|(see article)]]
| other_chs =[[KSBT-LD]] 32 [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]]<br>K46GF 46 [[Santa Maria, California|Santa Maria]]<br>K47GD 47 [[San Luis Obispo, California|San Luis Obispo]]
| affiliations = [[Sonlife Broadcasting Network|Sonlife]] (2017-present)
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1965|03|21}}
| enddate =
| location = [[Long Beach, California]]
| country = [[United States]]
| callsign_meaning = '''WHY''' (a question prefix)
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| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog''':<br>22 (UHF, 1962–2009)
| owner = [[Meruelo Group]]
| licensee = KWHY-60 Broadcasting, LLC.
| sister_stations = [[KDAY|KDAY-FM]], [[KDEY-FM]]
| former_affiliations = African American programming (1962–1964)<br>[[Dark (broadcasting)|Dark]] (1964–1965)<br>[[English language|English]] [[Independent station (North America)|Independent]] (1965–2001; secondary from 1991)<br>[[Independent station (North America)|Spanish Independent]]/[[Ethnic]] (1992-2001)<br>[[Almavision]] (2002-2004)<br>[[America's Store]] (2004-2007)<br>[[Home Shopping Network|HSN]] (2008-2012)<br>[[MundoFox]] (2012–2015)<br>[[MundoMax]] (2015–2016)
| effective_radiated_power = 486 [[kilowatt|kW]]
| HAAT = 892 m
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'''KWHY-TV''', [[virtual channel]] 60 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]] [[digital television|digital]] channel 14), is a english religious programming as [[Sonlife Broadcasting Network]] affiliate, the city of license is [[Long Beach, California]] and the studios is located in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], [[United States]], The station's studios are located on West Pico Blvd. in [[Mid-City, Los Angeles]] and its transmitter is located atop Mount Harvard. The station's signal is relayed on two [[low-power broadcasting|low-power]] [[Broadcast relay station#Broadcast translator|translator stations]]: '''K46GF''' (channel 46) in [[Santa Maria, California|Santa Maria]], and '''K47GD''' (channel 47) in [[San Luis Obispo, California|San Luis Obispo]].
 
==History==
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On July 27, 2015, the station rebranded as ''MundoMax 22'', in accordance with the network rebranding. A month later, on August 31, Meruelo announced that [[RCN Television]], which owns MundoMax, would take over KWHY-TV's sales and marketing as of September 1; RCN also simultaneously took over the operations of the network's Houston affiliate, [[KUVM-CD]], through a similar arrangement.<ref name=mm-kwhyrcn>{{cite news|title=RCN takes over KWHY-TV, local newscasts canceled|url=http://www.mediamoves.com/2015/08/rcn-takes-over-kwhy-tv-local-newscasts-canceled.html|accessdate=September 1, 2015|work=Media Moves|date=August 31, 2015}}</ref>
 
On December 1, 2016, following the demise of MundoMax, KWHY-TV began programming as a [[Sonlife Broadcasting Network]] english religious programming format on the station's primary channel.
 
==Digital television==
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! Programming<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KWHY#station RabbitEars TV Query for KWHY] Retrieved on January 24, 2017</ref>
|-
| 60.1 || [[720p]] || rowspan="3"|[[16:9]] || KWHY-1 || SBN ([[Sonlife Broadcasting Network]])
|-
| 60.2 || rowspan="7"|[[480i]] || KWHY-2 || Sino TV (Chinese)
|-
| 60.3 || KWHY-3 || HTTV TV USA (Chinese)
|-
| 60.4 || rowspan="5"|[[4:3]] || KWHY-4 || CTS News (Taiwanese/Chinese)
|-
| 60.5 || MAJEST || VIETNET (Vietnamese)
|-
| 60.6 || KWHY-6 || Super TV USA (Chinese)
|-
| 60.7 || KWHY-7 || Santidad TV
|-
| 60.8 || KWHY-8 || Majestad TV
|-
| 60.9 || KWHY-9 || U Network
|-
| 60.10 || KWHY-10 || Jerusalem TV
|}
 
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KWHY-TV became the first UHF station in the market to sign-on a high definition digital signal in 2001. the station shut down its analog signal, over [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 60, on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations]</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42, using [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]] to display KWHY-TV's [[virtual channel]] as 60 on digital television receivers.
 
==News operation==