KWHY

KWHY
CityGarden Grove, California
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KDAY, KDEY-FM, KLLI, KLOS, KPWR
History
First air date
August 17, 1985 (1985-08-17)
Former call signs
  • KTIE (1985–1988)
  • KADY-TV (1988–2004)
  • KBEH (2004–2025)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 63 (UHF, 1985–2009)
  • Digital: 24 (UHF, 2003–2018); 42 (UHF, 2018–2019)
Call sign meaning
Carried over from the former KWHY-TV
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID56384
ERP35 kW
HAAT894.1 m (2,933 ft)
Transmitter coordinates34°12′47.9″N 118°3′44.3″W / 34.213306°N 118.062306°W / 34.213306; -118.062306
Links
Public license information
Websiteuniversalchurchusa.org/es/canaldelafe-4/

KWHY (channel 63) is a television station licensed to Garden Grove, California, United States, serving the Los Angeles area as an affiliate of Canal de la Fe ("Faith Channel"), a Spanish-language religious network. Owned by Meruelo Broadcasting, the station maintains studios on West Pico Boulevard in the Mid-City section of Los Angeles. Through a channel sharing agreement with its former sister station KSCN-TV (channel 22), the two stations transmit using KSCN-TV's spectrum from an antenna atop Mount Wilson.

Channel 63 was originally allocated to Oxnard and began broadcasting in 1985 as KTIE-TV, a local independent station for the Ventura County area. It struggled through its original ownership and was sold to Meshulam Riklis in 1988. KTIE-TV was renamed KADY-TV, after Riklis's daughter, Kady Zadora. General manager John Huddy acquired the station in 1991 but left a financial mess in his wake, leading to a court-appointed receivership in 1996. The station stabilized under its next owner, media broker Brian Cobb.

In 2004, KADY-TV built a booster increasing its Los Angeles coverage and was sold to Bela Broadcasting, which switched it to Spanish-language programming. Since the sale, KWHY has primarily been a Spanish-language station under several owners, with program sources including MTV Tres, the short-lived CNN Latino, and its present programming from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. The current KWHY call sign was adopted in early 2025 after the sale of channel 22.