KNX (AM)

:This article is about the AM radio station. For other uses see KNX

KNX is a Los Angeles, California, clear channel radio station operating on 1070 kHz with 50,000 watts of power from a transmitter site in Torrance, and a key West Coast flagship station for the CBS Radio Network. It has long featured an all news format, with a break between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. for the KNX Drama Hour, a presentation of old-time radio dramas. At night, the station can be heard from San Diego, California to San Jose, California, and as far as Las Vegas, Nevada.

In 2003 the station suddenly removed its longtime Vice President and General Manager George Nicolaw. Nicolaw, who gave weekly editorials on the station, was a community fixture, having represented KNX at numerous events. Quickly changes occurred. In an attempt to update the image of KNX, in 2003 they dropped the Drama Hour, but on January 1, 2004 added two talk shows titled Computer News and Food News on weekends.

Despite the name, the programs are call-in talk shows and are heavily topic-driven, with limited general news updates at the top and bottom of the hour. The changes caused great anger among longtime employees (a few of whom actually left the station, including longtime news reporters Gail Eichenthal and Alex Sullivan - Tom Haule is off the air but still works there, now as operations manager) and apparently with listeners as well since KNX, as of mid 2005, had some of its worst ratings ever. The image has been changed substantially, with more banter between news hosts, more long form special programming, and reduced traffic reports (once every six minutes during the day; they are now updated every 10 minutes on the 5s). The morning news team of Haule and Linda Nunez was moved to the middle of the day, and the afternoon news anchors were also changed. A three-hour block of business news debuted in the 9 a.m.-Noon slot, Money 101, anchored by KNX financial editor Bob McCormick. Nunez anchors only the 1 p.m. newscast, and famed reporter Frank Mottek, famous for reporting the tragic 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, anchors the 2 p.m. newscast.

The station is commonly owned under CBS Radio with fellow Los Angeles mostly-news station KFWB 980. In comparison to KFWB, KNX runs longer news features, interviews with former talk show host Michael Jackson, and simulcasts programs like 60 Minutes. The traffic reports are more focused on the core Los Angeles County and Orange County areas.

Prior to media consolidation, KNX was one of the seven "heritage" CBS news/talk stations, the others being WCBS, WCAU, WBBM, WCCO, KMOX, and KCBS. It remains a CBS Radio Network affiliate, and its reporters occasionally appear on the network. However, the station no longer runs the entire CBS Radio newscast during the day.

On August 12, 2005, at 11:06 p.m. (PDT), with a special hour-long program celebrating almost seven decades of the station's history, KNX ceased broadcasting from its longtime studios at CBS Columbia Square on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood in favor of new facilities a few miles away on the Miracle Mile. Dave Zorn, now retired due to health issues, was the last person to broadcast from Columbia Square on KNX.

Contents

1 Weekday Programming
2 Weekend Programming
3 See also
4 External link

Weekday Programming

5 a.m. - 9 a.m. Southern California's Morning News with Dave Williams and Vicky Moore
9 a.m. - noon Money 101 with Bob McCormick (financial and consumer talk show)
Noon - 1 p.m. Real Money with Jim Cramer (stocks and investing talk show)
1 p.m. - 2 p.m. KNX Business Hour (business news with Frank Mottek)
2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Southern California's Afternoon News with Jim Thornton and Vicki Cox
6 p.m. - 5 a.m. rolling news coverage

Weekend Programming

8 a.m. - noon Food News with Melinda Lee (cooking talk show)
Noon - 2 p.m. Computer News with Jeff Levy (computer talk show)
2 p.m. - 7 p.m. rolling news coverage with Chris Stanley
7 p.m. - 8 p.m. 60 Minutes simulcast (Sundays) or World News Roundup Weekend Edition (Saturdays)
8 p.m. - 8 a.m. rolling news coverage (except 5:30-6 a.m. Sundays, Mormon Tabernacle Choir)

External link

AM radio stations in the Los Angeles market
By frequency	570 \| 590 \| 640 \| 670 \| 710 \| 740 \| 790 \| 830 \| 870 \| 900 \| 930 \| 980 \| 1020 \| 1050 \| 1070 \| 1110 \| 1150 \| 1190 \| 1230 \| 1240 \| 1260 \| 1280 \| 1290 \| 1300 \| 1330 \| 1350 \| 1370 \| 1390 \| 1410 \| 1430 \| 1440 \| 1460 \| 1480 \| 1510 \| 1540 \| 1570 \| 1580 \| 1600 \| 1650 \| 1670
By callsign	KABC \| KAHZ \| KALI \| KAZN \| KBLA \| KBRT \| KCAA \| KCAL \| KDIF \| KDIS \| KEZY \| KFWB \| KFI \| KFRN \| KHJ \| KHPY \| KIRN \| KKDD \| KKGO \| KLAC \| KTLX \| KMBR \| KMPC \| KMXE \| KNX \| KPRO \| KRLA \| KSPA \| KSPN \| KTDD \| KTIE \| KTLK \| KTNQ \| KTYM \| KVNR \| KWKW \| KWRN \| KXMX \| KYPA
Past Stations	KIEV \| KPPC \| KSKQ \| KTZN \| KXED \| KXMG

CBS Corporation

1Will Become The CW Television Network>The CW Owned and Operated Television Stations on September 18, 2006

2Will become affiliates of Fox Broadcasting Company>Fox's My Network TV in September 2006

3Will become Independent station>independent stations on September 18, 2006 Annual Revenue:

.54 billion USD (2005) | Employees: Unknown at this time. | Stock Symbol: NYSE: [CBS] | Website: [www.cbscorporation.com]

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.

KNX (AM)

Weekday Programming

Weekend Programming

See also

External link