KKJL (1400
AM, "K-Jewel") is a
commercial
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* a dose of advertising ...
radio station
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that is
licensed to
San Luis Obispo, California
; ; ; Chumashan languages, Chumash: ''tiłhini'') is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfway betwee ...
and serves the San Luis Obispo area. The station is owned by Pacific Coast Media, LLC and broadcasts an
adult standards
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Adult standards started in the 1950s and is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly tho ...
format. KKJL is the San Luis Obispo radio affiliate of the
Golden State Warriors
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basketball team. KKJL is rebroadcast on
FM translator
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K293AW (106.5 FM) in San Luis Obispo.
History
The station first signed on February 10, 1960 as KSLY. Original owner Rex O. Stevenson sold the station to Berry Broadcasters Inc. for $50,000 in April 1961. In January 1976, KSLY Broadcasting Company, owned by Homer Odom, sold KSLY and FM sister station
KUNA to two separate corporations owned by the same Chicago-based group for a combined $535,000. Three years later, in July 1979, the station pair was sold to San Luis Obispo Broadcasting Inc., owned by Dudley A. White, for $1,575,000.
In February 1984, KSLY, a
top 40
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outlet, switched call signs and formats with KUNA, which aired a
beautiful music format. The call letters changed again to KLTW in March 1985, then to KKCB on May 13, 1988.
On May 7, 1990, San Luis Obispo Broadcasting sold KKCB and FM station KSLY to MHHF Media Ventures Inc. for $1.6 million. The new owner changed the AM station's call letters to KIXT on August 7, 1992. Further call sign changes came on November 1, 1993 to KIID and on June 1, 1995 to KKJL.
In April 2014, San Luis Obispo Broadcasting sold KKJL and its translator to Pacific Coast Media, LLC, which also owns
KXTK, for $360,000. The transaction closed two months later.
Translator
In June 2010, San Luis Obispo Broadcasting purchased a
translator station to simulcast KKJL on the
FM band. That station, K293AW in San Luis Obispo, began rebroadcasting KKJL in November 2011 at the 106.5
MHz
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frequency.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KKJL*
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Mass media in San Luis Obispo County, California
1960 establishments in California
Radio stations established in 1960