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Point Broadcasting
Point Broadcasting LLC is an American radio broadcasting company based in Ventura, California. The company is the owner of several radio groups in Southern California, doing business as Gold Coast Broadcasting LLC in the Oxnard—Ventura radio market, Rincon Broadcasting LLC in Santa Barbara, and High Desert Broadcasting LLC in the Antelope Valley. As of February 2019, Point owns and operates 21 full-power radio stations, including seven AM stations and 14 on the FM dial. Point Broadcasting and its subsidiaries are owned by John Hearne and Roy Laughlin. History Point Broadcasting acquired its first stations in Ventura County, California in 1994. Doing business as Gold Coast Broadcasting Company, the partnership purchased KELF and KKZZ, both licensed to Camarillo, from Golden Bear Broadcasting for $1.2 million. Two years later, in 1996, Gold Coast purchased KCAQ and KTRO from Greater Pacific Radio Exchange Inc. for $3.65 million. Upon closing on each sale, Point immediately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio signal, audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio station, while in ''satellite radio'' the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a Radio receiver, broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network that provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast, or both. The code, encoding of a radio broadcast depends on whether it uses an analog signal, analog or digital signal. Analog radio broadcasts use one of two types of radio wave modulation: amplitude modulation for AM radio, or frequency modulation for FM radio. Newer, digital radio stations transmit in several different digital audio standards, such as DAB (Digital Audio Broadcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KUTY
KUTY (1470 AM, "Hermosa 1470") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Palmdale, California, United States and serves the Antelope Valley area. The station is owned by High Desert Broadcasting LLC and broadcasts a regional Mexican format. History KUTY signed on in 1957 as a top 40 station with the branding "Radio 147" — the only top 40 station audible in the Antelope Valley. In the 1970s, KUTY flipped to a country music format known as "Cutie Country". With the advent of competing country outlet KTPI on the FM dial in the mid-1980s, the station began to lose market share. However, station management saw a new opportunity with the area's growing Latino population. On April 7, 1993, KUTY became the Antelope Valley's first Spanish-language station when it flipped to regional Mexican music with the branding "Fiesta Latina". High Desert Broadcasting purchased KUTY in the 1990s. In 1997, the station flipped to Spanish talk as part of the Radio Unica network, later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the early-1990s, primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format.Pareles, Jon (June 18, 1986)"Oldies on Rise in Album-Rock Radio" ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 19, 2019. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by the end of the 1990s. Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading. Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by Heritage act (music), heritage acts which are still active and producing new music."New York Radio Guide: Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KKZQ
KKZQ (100.1 FM Broadcasting, FM, "100.1 The Quake") is a commercial radio station that is City of license, licensed to Tehachapi, California, United States and serves the Antelope Valley area. The station is owned by High Desert Broadcasting and broadcasts a classic rock format. KKZQ leases space on KSRY's transmission tower. History KKZQ signed on in 2001 with a rhythmic oldies format branded "Mojo 100.1 FM". In 2002, the station flipped to soft adult contemporary as "The Breeze 100.1", formatted very similarly to KOST (103.5 FM), a Los Angeles-based station that could be received in the Antelope Valley. In 2003, KKZQ flipped to modern rock with the branding "The Edge 100.1". That format succeeded because there were no other modern rock-formatted stations audible in the Antelope Valley. In August 2007, former WCKL (FM), WLUP-FM (Chicago) on-air personality Mark Zander joined KKZQ as programming director, adding to his existing duties in the same role with sister station KQAV, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Adult Contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence. Adult contemporary is generally a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music. Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, abstains from profanity or complex lyricism, and is most commonly used as background music in heavily-frequented family areas such as supermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, or restaurants. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCEL
KCEL (96.1 FM, "Que Buena 96.1") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Mojave, California, United States and serves the Antelope Valley area. The station is owned by High Desert Broadcasting LLC and broadcasts a regional Mexican format. History The station on 96.1 FM first signed on as KMVE. In June 2008, High Desert Broadcasting began programming KMVE under a local marketing agreement with Coloma Mojave. On January 1, 2009, High Desert Broadcasting swapped the frequencies of KMVE and sister station KCEL (106.9 FM). With the move, 96.1 FM assumed the KCEL call letters and began airing a regional Mexican format branded as "Radio Lazer 96.1". Later, the station rebranded as "Que Buena 96.1 FM". In June 2011, Ventura, California Ventura, officially named San Buenaventura (Spanish for "Saint Bonaventure"), is a city in and the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States. It is a coastal city located northwest of Los Angeles. The population was 110,7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Mexican
Regional Mexican music refers collectively to the regional subgenres of the country music of Mexico and its derivatives from the Southwestern United States. Each subgenre is representative of a certain region and its popularity also varies by regions. Subgenres include banda music, banda, Country music#Mexico and Latin America, country en Español, Duranguense, grupera, grupero, mariachi, New Mexico music, Norteño (music), Norteño, Sierreño, Tejano music, Tejano, and Tierra Caliente music, Tierra Caliente. It is among the most popular radio formats targeting Mexican Americans in the United States. Similarly to country music, country and sertanejo music, sertanejo music, artists of regional Mexican subgenres are often characterized by their use of Western wear and denim clothing. History 16th–20th century: Origins Many different subgenres of regional Mexican have their origins in the 16th to 18th centuries. Indigenous peoples of Mexico, Indigenous, Afro-Mexicans, Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino ( ) is a city in and the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the city had a population of 222,101 in the 2020 census, making it the List of largest California cities by population, 18th-most populous city in California. San Bernardino is the economic, cultural, and political hub of the San Bernardino Valley and the Inland Empire. The governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico have established the metropolitan area's only consulates in the Downtown San Bernardino, downtown area of the city. Additionally, San Bernardino serves as an anchor city to the 3rd largest metropolitan area in California (after Los Angeles and San Francisco) and the 12th largest metropolitan area in the United States; the San Bernardino–Riverside MSA. Furthermore, the city's University District, San Bernardino, California, University District serves as a college town, as home to California State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River. As of the 2020 census, the city has a population of 314,998. It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire and Riverside County, the List of largest California cities by population, 12th-most populous city in California, and the List of United States cities by population, 61st-most populous city in the United States. Alongside San Bernardino, Riverside is a principal city in the nation's 13th-largest metropolitan statistical area; the Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario had 4.6 million residents in 2020. Riverside is about southeast of downtown Los Angeles and is also part of the Greater Los Angeles area. Riverside was founded in the early 1870s. It is the birthplace of the California citrus production, citrus industry and home of the The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, Mission Inn, the nation's largest Mission Revival Style architec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KQIE
KQIE (104.7 FM, "Old School 104.7") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Redlands, California and serves the Inland Empire area. The station is owned by LC Media and airs a rhythmic oldies music format. KQIE's studios are located in San Bernardino and the transmitter tower is in Yucaipa. The station is partially simulcast on sister station KOCP in Oxnard, California, also at 104.7 FM. History KDES-FM (1963–2010) The station began broadcasting as KDES-FM on February 10, 1963. Owned by George E. Cameron, it was originally licensed to Palm Springs, California and was the sister station of KDES (920 AM). Q104.7 (2010–2015) In January 2010, R&R Radio sold KDES-FM to LC Media, a subsidiary of Ventura-based Point Broadcasting, for $7.5 million. The new owner then changed the station's city of license to Redlands, California in the Riverside— San Bernardino radio market, thereby vacating the 104.7 FM frequency in Palm Springs. Upon relocating KDES-FM, LC Media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythmic Oldies
Rhythmic oldies is a radio format that concentrates on the rhythmic, R&B, disco, or dance genres of music. The playlists spans from the 1960s through the 2000s. They depend on market conditions and may be designed for African-American or Hispanic audiences. It is also referred to as "Jammin' Oldies" or "Music From Back in the Day" by various radio stations. Since the late 2000s, much of the library in the "rhythmic oldies" format has been adopted by the classic hits format. A variation on the format is urban oldies. History On November 19, 1997, the Los Angeles radio station formerly known as KIBB began a new concept in radio. KCMG, which named itself Mega 100.3 after a listener contest, was "oldies with attitude". Chancellor Media, later to be called AMFM, developed the format with the intention of using it on other stations. Just as radio in the 80s had the " urban versus churban" competition, R & B oldies radio was dividing into two camps—the straight urban oldies sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
