KCAL (1410 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to

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, and serving the Riverside- San Bernardino- Inland Empire radio market. It is owned by Lazer Media, with studios and offices in San Bernardino. Lazer owns a number of small Spanish language outlets throughout

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. There is also a KCAL-FM at 96.7 MHz and KCAL-TV 9, but they are not connected with AM 1410 KCAL. Although most of its programming is in Spanish as "La Mexicana," KCAL does air the games of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the

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) in English. The rest of KCAL's schedule consists of Spanish-language programming, with a Classic

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History

The station signed on in 1961 on 960 AM before moving to 1410 AM. It added an FM station at 96.7 MHz in the 1970s. KCAL had a

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format from the 1960s to the 1990s, and was the leading radio station in the Inland Empire in the 1970s and 1980s. On October 28, 2015, KCAL was granted a

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to change the community of license to Grand Terrace, decrease day power to 3,000 watts, decrease night power to 2,200 watts and move the transmitter site to a diplex at KKDD in San Bernardino. The construction permit expired unbuilt in 2018.

References

External links

KCAL Website

FCC History Cards for KCAL
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