KKGO
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KKGO or AM 1260/540 is the only Adult standards station in Los Angeles and Southern California. KKGO's competitor, XETRA became a Spanish talk station in 2006. KKGO is owned by Mount Wilson Broadcasting. It simulcasts with XESURF, at 540 kHz. Their studios are in Los Angeles, CA. Like XESURF, weeknights they broadcast a classic radio show from anytime between the 1930s to the 1950s. Unlike XESURF, KKGO broadcasts in HD Radio like their sister station, KMZT.
AM 1260 has been the "experimental" station of Mount Wilson Broadcasting, and has had many formats over the years. Until 1993, the station was KGIL and broadcasted a business talk radio format. Until 1995, it was KJOI, playing big band music. In 1995, it became K-NEWS, simulcasting with XESURF (then with call letters XETIN) and now-defunct KNNZ-Costa Mesa. K-NEWS was an all-news radio service with content from the Associated Press and local announcers Peter Arbogast, Jim Roope, and H.K. Malay. K-NEWS was also the home of the Los Angeles Clippers and had an unprecedented 8 traffic reports an hour, causing competitors KNX and KFWB to add more traffic reports to its lineup, ultimately causing its demise. In 1997, the station reverted to the KGIL call letters and hosted an all-Beatles lineup for seven months. The station then switched to showtunes before going to a mainstream jazz format, as KJAZ, in 2000. Then, in 2002, it took on the call letters KSUR and began broadcasting its current format of adult standards, changing its call letters to KKGO in 2005 (to match the previous call letters of KMZT). [link]
Personalities and hosts
- Nick Gerard
- Nick Tyler
- John Regan
- Mike Johnson
- Gary Owens
- Dick Carr
- John Pizzarelli
- Don Kennedy
- Jimmy Kay
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