I think KILM (formerly KHIZ) in Barstow (if it has the money) should build/acquire an LPTV or a Class A to rebroadcast its signal into L.A. because I think that would greatly increase their viewership. Especially considering that Barstow, being in San Bernardino County, is in the Los Angeles television market, and the station can currently only be received in L.A. proper via DirecTV and Dish and on some Time Warner Cable systems, mainly the ones acquired from Adelphia. If KILM were to do this, the relay could be transmitted from Mt. Wilson or adjacent Mt. Harvard, whichever has more space for another TV tower. I think that regardless of what kind of license it chooses it should be on physical channel 44 (like the parent station) and map to virtual channel 64 (like the parent station). It could use the call letters KILM-LD or KILM-CD, kind of like how in the analog era KWHY (then on channel 22) operated an LPTV in the neighboring Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo market. The LPTV, licensed to Santa Barbara, was KWHY-LP and also broadcast on channel 22. (The LPTV was destroyed in 2008 in the Tea Fire, as some of you might recall.)
I got the above idea from the fact that Twentynine Palms-licensed KVMD (physical channel 23, virtual channel 31) is rebroadcast to L.A. proper on KSMV-LD (same physical and virtual channel numbers), and how KNLA-CD (physical channel 50, virtual channel 20) used to relay what was once Bishop-licensed KBBC (a bilingual Spanish/English station) to L.A. The Bishop station has since changed its call letters to KVME and is now a Me-TV affiliate in tandem with Anaheim-licensed KDOC channel 56.3, while KNLA-CD is now one of a few over-the-air L.A. affiliates of HSN (on its main 20.1 channel--20.2 is CEN [not sure what this is], 20.3 is Corner Store TV [infomercials], and 20.4 is Aviva TV [Spanish Religious]). I would assume that the virtual channel of KNLA-CD being 20 is left over from when it relayed what is now KVME, which is on physical channel 20, and whose virtual channel is also 20.
I got the above idea from the fact that Twentynine Palms-licensed KVMD (physical channel 23, virtual channel 31) is rebroadcast to L.A. proper on KSMV-LD (same physical and virtual channel numbers), and how KNLA-CD (physical channel 50, virtual channel 20) used to relay what was once Bishop-licensed KBBC (a bilingual Spanish/English station) to L.A. The Bishop station has since changed its call letters to KVME and is now a Me-TV affiliate in tandem with Anaheim-licensed KDOC channel 56.3, while KNLA-CD is now one of a few over-the-air L.A. affiliates of HSN (on its main 20.1 channel--20.2 is CEN [not sure what this is], 20.3 is Corner Store TV [infomercials], and 20.4 is Aviva TV [Spanish Religious]). I would assume that the virtual channel of KNLA-CD being 20 is left over from when it relayed what is now KVME, which is on physical channel 20, and whose virtual channel is also 20.
