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KDEY-FM
KDEY-FM (93.5 MHz, "93.5 KDAY") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Ontario, California, and serves the Inland Empire area. The station is owned by Meruelo Radio Holdings Ltd. and broadcasts a classic hip hop format. The KDEY-FM transmitter is located on Heaven Mountain to the north of Ontario. KDEY-FM simulcasts with co-channel station KDAY in Redondo Beach, California, to fill coverage gaps in KDAY's eastern coverage area. History Early years The '' Daily Report'' newspaper filed to build a community FM broadcast station in Ontario on September 19, 1944. The station would have broadcast at 49.9 MHz — at the top of the 42–50 MHz FM band of the time — and was granted its construction permit in November 1945. After being relocated to 104.3 MHz, the station went on the air as KOCS-FM on 93.5 FM in 1947, accompanying KOCS (1510 AM). On July 27, 1949, KOCS-FM became KEDO. On October 1, 1958, KOCS became KASK and 93.5 FM became KASK-FM, around t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KDAY
KDAY (93.5 FM, "93.5 KDAY") is a radio station that is licensed to Redondo Beach, California and serves the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by Meruelo Media and airs a classic hip hop format. The station's studios are located in Burbank and its transmitter is in Baldwin Hills. KDAY also extends its signal coverage into the Inland Empire by adding a full power simulcast, KDEY-FM in Ontario, California to fill in all of the overlapping and gaping issues and problems in its eastern coverage area. KDAY's HD Radio format is R&B. History of KDAY The original KDAY on 1580 AM KDAY first signed on in 1948 as a 10,000-watt soul/ R&B outlet at 1580 AM. Its call sign represented the fact that it was a " daytimer"; i.e., it broadcast only during daytime hours and signed off every evening. It flipped to a top 40 format a short time later. After his firing from WABC in November 1959, famed disc jockey Alan Freed arrived at KDAY and worked there for about one year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPWR
KPWR (105.9 FM broadcasting, FM) – branded as ''Power 106'' – is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area. KPWR is owned and operated by Alex Meruelo's Meruelo Group, through licensee KPWR Radio Holdings LLC, and airs a rhythmic adult contemporary, rhythmic hot AC format. KPWR's studios are based in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank, California, Burbank, and the transmitter is on Mount Wilson (California), Mount Wilson. Meruelo acquired KPWR from Emmis Communications for $82.75 million in May 2017, officially bringing the station under common ownership with KDAY, KDEY-FM and KBEH on August 1, 2017. History Early years (1955–1986) From 1946 until its deletion in 1951, 105.9 MHz in Los Angeles was occupied by KFI-FM. In 1955, Planned Music, Inc. applied for a construction permit for a new station on the vacated frequency, which was assigned the call letters KBMS (Better Music Station), before adopt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meruelo Group
Alex Meruelo (born March 27, 1964) is a Cuban-American billionaire who holds business interests in banking, real estate, media, restaurants, food, casinos, and professional sports. He is the owner of Meruelo Group, as well as Meruelo Media, which owns five radio stations and two television stations in Los Angeles. He is also the owner of Fuji Food, two casinos, the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada and the Sahara Las Vegas in Las Vegas. Meruelo was the majority owner of the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League until he sold the team to the league, which then sold the team to Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith, under an agreement with the NHL that the Coyotes would be temporarily deactivated, with Smith using the Coyotes' non-business properties, including players and staff, to form the Utah Mammoth. Meruelo forfeited his ownership of the Arizona Coyotes after the Arizona State Land Department canceled an auction for a 110-acre tract of land in north Phoenix. Meruelo was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Hip Hop
Classic hip hop is a music radio format focusing primarily on hip hop music from the 1980s, 1990s, and the early to mid-2000s. Although stations with such a format date back as far as 2004, the format was first popularized in October 2014, after Radio One dropped a poorly performing news radio format from its Houston station KROI in favor of classic hip-hop. After attracting a dramatic increase in ratings, Radio One began to emulate the station's format and branding in other markets. At the same time, other major radio broadcasters began to introduce classic hip-hop stations in selected markets. Format and targeting Doug Abernethy, general manager of Radio One's Houston stations, described the classic hip hop format as a parallel to the classic rock and classic country formats: these stations focus primarily on hip hop music from the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, featuring artists such as 2Pac, De La Soul, Mike Jones, LL Cool J, Ludacris, The Notorious B.I.G., Queen Latifa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLOS
KLOS (95.5 FM broadcasting, FM, "95-5 KLOS") is a commercial radio station City of license, licensed to Los Angeles, California, and serves the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by Meruelo Group, Meruelo Media. KLOS airs a mainstream rock radio format and has broadcast rock music in some form since 1969. The radio studio, studios are on West Olive Avenue in Burbank, California, Burbank. The transmitter is atop Mount Wilson (California), Mount Wilson. The station is rebroadcast on Broadcast relay station, FM translator K255BZ in China Lake, Kern County, California, China Lake, California. KLOS broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The KLOS morning drive time show, ''Heidi & Frank'', is featured on the broadcast syndication, nationally syndicated television program ''Dish Nation'' and is rebroadcast around the clock on KLOS-HD2. The HD3 digital subchannel carries a simulcast of KIRN. History Early years The station first sign-on, signed on the air on . The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLLI (FM)
KLLI (93.9 FM, ''Cali 93.9'') is a radio station in Los Angeles, California. Owned by the Meruelo Group, it broadcasts a bilingual Latin pop/rhythmic contemporary format. The station has studios located in Burbank, while its transmitter is based on Mount Wilson, and broadcasts in the HD Radio format. History Early years 93.9 FM signed on the air in 1957, as KPOL-FM, a simulcast of KPOL (1540 AM) with an easy listening format. In 1977, under the ownership of Capital Cities Communications, KPOL-FM broke away from the simulcast and adopted a soft rock format similar to crosstown KNX-FM using the on-air identity "94 FM". They changed call signs to KZLA in 1978 (one year later, KPOL rejoined the simulcast and also adopted the callsign KZLA, with the FM becoming KZLA-FM). Country era Metromedia's KLAC (570 AM) had adopted a country format in 1970, initially competing with two stations with much weaker signals. In 1980, KHJ, owned by RKO General, changed formats to country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Hip Hop
Classic hip hop is a music radio format focusing primarily on hip hop music from the 1980s, 1990s, and the early to mid-2000s. Although stations with such a format date back as far as 2004, the format was first popularized in October 2014, after Radio One dropped a poorly performing news radio format from its Houston station KROI in favor of classic hip-hop. After attracting a dramatic increase in ratings, Radio One began to emulate the station's format and branding in other markets. At the same time, other major radio broadcasters began to introduce classic hip-hop stations in selected markets. Format and targeting Doug Abernethy, general manager of Radio One's Houston stations, described the classic hip hop format as a parallel to the classic rock and classic country formats: these stations focus primarily on hip hop music from the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, featuring artists such as 2Pac, De La Soul, Mike Jones, LL Cool J, Ludacris, The Notorious B.I.G., Queen Latifa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KWHY
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 broadcasting, religious network. Owned by Alex Meruelo, Meruelo Broadcasting, the station maintains studios on West Pico Boulevard in the Mid-City, Los Angeles, 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 (California), 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 wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario, California
Ontario is a city in southwestern San Bernardino County, California, United States, east of downtown Los Angeles and west of downtown San Bernardino, the county seat. Located in the western part of the Inland Empire metropolitan area, it lies just east of Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County and is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 175,265. The city is home to Ontario International Airport, which is the 9th-busiest airport in the United States by cargo carried, as of 2021. Ontario handles the mass of freight traffic between the ports of Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach, Long Beach and the rest of the country. It takes its name from the Ontario Model Colony development established in 1882 by the Canadian engineer George Chaffey and his brothers William Chaffey and Charles Chaffey. They named the settlement after their home Provinces and territories of Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Language
Korean is the first language, native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Koreans, Korean descent. It is the national language of both South Korea and North Korea. In the south, the language is known as () and in the north, it is known as (). Since the turn of the 21st century, aspects of Korean Wave, Korean popular culture have spread around the world through globalization and Korean Wave, cultural exports. Beyond Korea, the language is recognized as a minority language in parts of China, namely Jilin, and specifically Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Yanbian Prefecture, and Changbai Korean Autonomous County, Changbai County. It is also spoken by Sakhalin Koreans in parts of Sakhalin, the Russian island just north of Japan, and by the in parts of Central Asia. The language has a few Extinct language, extinct relatives which—along with the Jeju language (Jejuan) of Jeju Island and Korean itself—form the compact Koreanic language family. Even so, Jejuan and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brokered Programming
Brokered programming (also known as time-buy and blocktime) is a form of broadcast content in which the show's producer pays a radio or television station for air time, rather than exchanging programming for pay or the opportunity to play spot commercials. A brokered program is typically not capable of garnering enough support from advertisements to pay for itself, and may be controversial, esoteric or an advertisement in itself. Overview Common examples Common examples are religious and political programs and talk-show-format programs similar to infomercial on television. Others are hobby programs or vanity programs paid for by the host and/or their supporters, and may be intended to promote the host's personality, for instance in preparation for a political campaign, or to promote a product, service or business that the host is closely associated with. A live vanity show may be carried on several stations by remote broadcast or simulcast, with the producer paying multiple statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSPA
KSPA (1510 AM "Punjabi Radio USA 1510 AM) is a Punjabi radio station located in Ontario, California. KSPA airs a Punjabi Talk and Punjabi Music. KSPA is one of the South Asian Community in Southern California. On June 1, 2016 KSPA was granted a Federal Communications Commission construction permit to increase night power to 6,000 watts. History From March 15, 2010 until November 25, 2010, KSPA aired a talk radio format. From 2002 until March 2010, KSPA aired an adult standards format, known as The SPA, which from February 1, 2007 until March 15, 2010, was simulcast on sister station KFSD, expanding KSPA's signal into San Diego County. The station aired music programs on the weekends, including Big Band Jump with Don Kennedy, Jazz at The SPA with Jeff Gehringer, Sounds of Sinatra with Sid Mark, and Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli. Prior to 2002, KSPA was classic country station KIKA (the call letters played off KIKF, which was a sister contemporary country station at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
