Article: Station finds clear signal in multiple languages.(Up Front)

When pop star Michael Jackson went on trial earlier this year on child-molestation charges, Los Angeles television station KSCI couldn't spare a reporter to camp out at the Santa Maria courthouse.

So managers of the station, which broadcasts on Channel 18 principally in Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese and Tagalog, did what they do best: They localized the coverage.

That meant skipping the trial but devoting hours of air time to analyzing the legal issues for viewers with little to no knowledge of U.S. jurisprudence. KSCI News Director April Kuan also produced a lengthy feature and interview with Susan Yu, a Korean American attorney who served on Jackson's ...

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