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KDIS (1110 ) is a
licensed to , serving the . The station is owned and operated by . The KDIS
is held by ABC Radio Los Angeles Assets, LLC.
KDIS broadcasts in the
(hybrid) format.
Radio Disney AM 1110 logos used from
The station initially signed on as KPAS in 1942, a station featuring popular music. In 1945 they took the
KXLA, playing country music. On-air personalities included
and . The station originally broadcast from its
transmitter site, near Santa Anita Ave and the Pomona, or "60" Freeway, in the vicinity of the Peck Road exit.
The station later became , "The Big 11-10", on September 1, 1959 and became one of the top radio stations in the
area, competing with
to be L.A.'s dominant
station. The air personalities that made KRLA such a memorable station to Baby Boomers included
(The Hullabalooer), Emperor Bob Hudson, Ted Quillin, Reb Foster, Jimmy Rabbitt, , , , Sam Riddle, Dick Moreland, Jimmy O'Neill, , Johnny Hayes, and others too numerous to mention. In 1968, news director
which broadcast topical comedy along with the news. In 1969,
debuted the
music documentary. The 1969 film The Model Shop features a radio newscast by Ralph Thompson, KRLA.[] During the 1960s, the KRLA studio was just off the parking lot of the old Huntington Sheraton Hotel on Oak Knoll in Pasadena, making it possible to drop by and watch the on-air DJ do his show. When the station switched to oldies, KRLA was noted for its prominence in
culture. One of the highlights of this station was the "Big 11 Countdown Show" hosted by Johnny Hayes, with stories and facts about the songs and the artists, as well as the historical events that were going on at that time. The show also included a trivia question that Hayes asked for people to call in with their answer in order to win a prize. The show counted down the top 11 songs on the Southern Californian charts as well as a few extras. Some of the shows were a tribute to a rock legend or a producer.
The station evolved to an
format by 1982 and focused on Oldies by 1983. They dropped current music in 1984, electing to play the
of the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. By the late 1980s the station played many songs recorded prior to 1964 and by the early 1990s played many songs from the 1960s.[]
By 1994 KRLA leaned to an Urban Oldies format. KRLA abandoned music entirely in 1998, and went all talk. As a
station, KRLA featured many cast-offs from , such as
and Ken Minyard.
However, the format was low-rated and the station was sold to , which at first programmed the
format (as ) on December 1, 2000.
The station moved to the Radio Disney format from
to 1110 on January 1, 2003 (a change made reportedly because the 1110 signal could not be heard in
at night, when
games are played).
Sometime in May 2014,
has moved KDIS, along with other Radio Disney-affiliated stations to the
panel. Although Radio Disney is still considered a
On August 13, 2014, it was revealed that all of 's remaining stations, excluding KDIS, were to be sold in an effort to focus more on digital distribution of the Radio Disney network. KDIS will be retained to serve as the originator of Radio Disney's programming, and its operations will be assumed by the network's national staff.
In 1987 KRLA moved its transmitter site from
to , where a similar antenna array was installed. During the 1990s, KRLA was authorized to increase nighttime power from 10,000 to 20,000 watts. When the power increase went into effect, KRLA started broadcasting from a new transmitter site in . This is a few miles north of the old El Monte site.
The El Monte transmitter building still stands as a shell. The entire inside is burned out, however there are still clues to its historic past, namely the first incarnation of its directional antenna arrays (four in-line 135 degree towers, one days, four nights), the second incarnation (four 135 degree towers in a parallelogram, days and a 90-, two 135-, and a 180-degree towers, nights), and the last incarnation, with seven total towers, four days and four nights, with one tower in common, days and nights). There are numerous ducts to keep the equipment cool and an underground channel to divert the cooling water for the transmitters. A well nearby supplied the water. Still visible is the wooden archway where the transmission cables gently bent toward underground conduits running to the transmission towers in the nearby field. All that remains of these towers are the concrete pylons, all aligned as described.
The present Irwindale site includes five 135 degree towers, two days and four nights, with one in common. The significantly northern location, relative to the old El Monte site, allows the large "" to be served with 50,000 watts and only two towers. not four, days, and the greater Los Angeles metro to be served with 20,000 watts and four towers, nights.
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KRCD is a commercial
in , broadcasting to the
area on 103.9 .
KRCV is a commercial
in , broadcasting to the western sections of the - () area on 98.3 .
KRCV & KRCD airs a
Adult Hits music format branded as "Mas Variedad".
The stations' have studios located on Center Drive (near ) in west Los Angeles. KRCD's transmitter is based on a site in the
in , while KRCV's transmitter is based in .
The very first Black music programming on 103.9-FM, Los Angeles, was in 1961. In those days FM was in its infancy and most people did not have FM in their autos. When Al Williams's KTYM AM was purchased the KTYM-FM was thrown in for free.
The very first Black Operations Manager on Los Angeles FM was Charles (Chuck) Johnson and the very first Black Program Director was Lonnie Cook, they constituted the only paid staff. The station airtime was brokered with the exception of the shows hosted by these two. Cook hailed from , and Johnson had been a celebrated DJ at KPRS .
The format was R&B, Doo Wop, and Blues and its programs included one hosted by Floyd Ray, the owner of the first all Black Los Angeles Record Distributor and former big band leader. An in studio picture of all of the DJ's can be found online. Ron Johnson (in the picture) was the lone caucasian jock.The operation endured for 3 years.
The format was aired from 6pm to midnight and was shut down by Lonnie Cook with the closing theme song "Sugarloaf at Twilight" by Ahmad Jamal., as he doubled as engineer. Many future celebrities made their debuts on the station including a policeman running for office, Tom Bradley. LaMonte McLemore was a member of The Intervals (the Doo Wop group that represented the station at promotional functions) and was the station photographer (he was also the exclusive source of the center page models in Jet magazine); he later was one of The Fifth Dimension.
KTYM-FM was noted for its independent approach to programming and many times refused to air the designated "A" side of a record. It even played formerly banned tunes like "Your Old Lady" by The Isley Bros. (banned in 1959). Cook featured the Doo Wop "B" side "Write to me". KGFJ"s Larry McCormick (brother to lead singer Charles from Bloodstone) heard the station making noise and getting attention with "Your Old Lady" and added it to his play list and to his televised dance show. When Atlantic Records got calls for the 45 they put it back on the market. Billboard had a "New" hit.
Johnson and Cook moved on to KAPP-FM and have been credited with establishing the very first Top 40 sheet on any FM station anywhere in the world.
For the next three and a half decades 103.9, later with the new call letters KACE, played
music. It became one of the premiere stations for
area. The station was owned by former
and his wife Ann. Some of the air personalities included Steve Woods (deceased), Lawrence Tanter, Pam Wells, Lisa Lipps, Ken Taylor, Hamilton Cloud, E.Z. Wiggins, Karla with a K, Antoinette Russell, Mike Mann, and Rico Reed. News and Public Affairs personalities included Ron Dungee, Sam Putney, Mark Whitlock, Isidra Person-Lynn and . For a three-year period, between 1988–90, the station featured a nightclub formatted music "mix" show six days a week, with Southern California club DJ Elvin Bridges. In addition to being an on-air personality, Bridges created and produced his own Mon-Fri weekday music mix show that aired during the afternoon rush hour he coined "Bumper To Bumper - In The Mix with Elvin B" plus a weekly three hour Saturday night party music mix show. Let's Talk, Speak Out, Sunday Morning Live and The People's Connection were popular community affairs talk shows. Production director
was also assistant program director during the Cox Years (see below), and later worked on the production staffs at KFI, KRBV, and KJLL.
It briefly experimented with a / format in 1993 as V103.9, and would add an
simulcast, KAEV. However, in October of that same year Davis' company, capitalizing on the political and social backlash against hip-hop music, announced an outright prohibition of the words "," "," and "" on air and shifted to an "Positive Urban" format. However, this lowered ratings significantly and Davis soon flipped KACE to urban oldies and flipped KAEV to
as , thereby ending the simulcast. (Another local station, , also banned the words, but did not change the format.) KACE was sold to , then also the owner of
This station was long known as KBOB-FM and had easy listening and adult contemporary formats for most of its run as a -based station. In the mid-1990s, it picked up a unique
format and became KRTO, "El Ritmo." Shortly after Cox bought KACE, it added to fill in some blank spots in KACE's signal.
was an active rock station in the
In 1999, the stations added
but ratings remained low. In 2000, Cox traded KOST and KFI to AMFM (now part of ) for some stations in . KACE/KRTO were sold to Hispanic Broadcasting Company (now owned by ). From 2006 - 2008 Radio One's 100.3 The Beat changed to a format similar to Davis' old V103.9, in
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WBMX, known on-air as "Mix 104-1," is a
format in . The format started at 98.5
on February 9, 1991, and moved to 104.1 FM, replacing , on August 12, 2009, to allow for the launch of
at 98.5 the next day. Its studios are located in , and its transmitter is atop .
The call letters WBMX (standing for We're The Black Music EXperience) were originally assigned to 102.7 on the FM dial in
(serving ) from 1973 to 1988. (That station frequency is now home to
station ). The call letters were then assigned to
until 1991, when they were transferred to 98.5 FM in Boston to reflect the station's "Mix" branding.
WBMX has been based out of this studio building in , shared with CBS' other Boston FM stations, since 2009.
For the history of 98.5 MHz in Boston after August 2009, see .
The WBMX intellectual property originated on the 98.5 FM frequency, which signed on in October 1948 as WNAC-FM under the ownership of the
division of , which also owned WNAC (then at 1260 AM, moved to 680 AM in 1953) and WNAC-TV (channel 7, now occupied by ). The station originally transmitted from WNAC-TV's tower in , using a transmitter originally used for the Yankee Network's FM station on
(which was originally considered a Boston station, but was eventually refocused to ), which operated from December 18, 1940, to September 1948 (when it signed off due to increasing costs and a lack of listener interest). As at most FM stations, WNAC-FM initially served as a full-time simulcast of WNAC. The station, along with General Tire's other broadcast holdings, came under the General Teleradio banner in 1952; the division became RKO Teleradio Pictures in 1955 and
By December 1958, even though the station was still simulcasting WNAC, the call letters were changed to WRKO-FM, as RKO Teleradio sought to keep the WRKO call letters out of the hands of its competitors. While separate programming was inaugurated for half of the broadcast day in 1963 due to then-upcoming
(FCC) regulations prohibiting AM and FM stations from simulcasting for more than half of the day, this programming was initially a
format identical to that of WNAC. A year later, WRKO-FM, along with WNAC-TV, moved to a new tower in .
On October 12, 1966, WRKO-FM dropped its simulcast of WNAC (by then predominantly a
station) and introduced a
format reliant on automation. Playing the top hits of the day (including the number-one song in Boston every hour on the hour) and using recorded announcing altered to sound like a robot (since the station was positioned as "R-KO [pronounced "arko"], The Shy But Friendly Robot"), WRKO-FM quickly became the most popular FM radio station in the Boston area. As a result of this success, when WNAC dropped its talk format in favor of a live top 40 format on March 13, 1967, RKO General changed its call letters to . Its programming was then simulcast on WRKO-FM from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the "R-KO" programming continuing for the rest of the day.
WRKO-FM's top 40 programming came to an end in November 1968, when it joined sister stations
in airing an automated
format from , "Hit Parade '68", which incorporated both current music and . Along with the new format came a new call sign, WROR, as part an effort by RKO General to give their FM stations a distinct identity from their AM sister stations.
WROR switched to another Drake-Chenault format, "Solid Gold Rock and Roll", on November 1, 1970, evenly splitting the oldi in early 1973, the station went to a full-time oldies format, eventually parting ways with Drake-Chenault later that year and adopting the name "The Golden Great 98" (Drake-Chenault's services were later utilized by WCOP-FM, now sister station , which competed with WROR in the oldies format from 1973 to 1974). Starting in March 1977, WROR gradually began to reincorporate newer music in its playlist, and by September 1978 was more of an
station, leading to its branding changing to "The Great 98" and then "98-and-a-half." Station management felt that there was a hole in the market for an FM AC station to compete against
and WHDH (now ).
After RKO General lost its license to operate WNAC-TV in 1982, WROR was forced to move to another tower in Newton, as the new owners of channel 7 (renamed WNEV-TV) did not lease space on its tower. However, in the wake of the loss of the license, the
(FCC) announced in February 1983 that it would solicit competing applications for RKO's remaining stations, including WROR. In 1988, the station, along with WRKO, was acquired by Atlantic Ventures for $27.7 million, split between RKO and the challengers for the licenses.
In 1989, WROR modified its format to "Bright Adult Contemporary" and changed its on-air identity to "ROR-FM." However, after finding that listeners continued to perceive WROR as an oldies station, Atlantic Ventures decided to relaunch the station under a new identity. At Noon on February 8, 1991, after playing 's "", the station became "Mix 98.5" and shifted closer to a
format heavy on Motown oldies and hot AC currents. The first song on "Mix" was "" by . A few weeks later, the station took the WBMX call letters from
which had been using them since signing
this AM station received the WROR calls in return, but would drop them in 1993. The
call letters are now used on a
station in Boston at 105.7 FM owned by .
Atlantic Ventures merged with two other radio groups, Stoner Broadcasting Systems and Multi Market Communications, in 1993 to form American Radio Systems. In the following years, like many hot AC stations, WBMX began to emphasize more
music to the exclusion of the remaining oldies, and was considered one of the first "Modern Adult Contemporary" stations in the country.
American Radio Systems announced a merger with
in 1997; WBMX was the company's only Boston station to be acquired by CBS in the deal, completed in June 1998, owing to CBS' existing presence in the market (ARS' other Boston stations were required to be sold off by either the FCC or the ). CBS' radio stations, including WBMX, were spun off into a new public company, , in 1998;
announced its acquisition of the publicly held stake in Infinity on August 15, 2000 (shortly after it merged with ), a transaction completed on February 21, 2001 (though Viacom, and CBS before the merger, had always held a majority stake in Infinity). When Viacom split into two companies on December 31, 2005, Infinity became part of the new
and reverted to the CBS Radio name.
In 2005, WBMX, along with
and what was then , were rumored to flip to
as ""; had WQSX (now ) not flipped to the format as "93.7 Mike FM" on April 14th, WBMX might have flipped to the format the next day as 98.5 Jack FM.
For the history of 104.1 MHz in Boston prior to August 2009, see .
On July 14, 2009, CBS Radio announced that WBMX would move from 98.5 FM to 104.1 FM, replacing
(which signed on in 1958 as a
station but had been a
station since 1968); these moves were made to launch a
station, , at the 98.5 frequency. As a result, the station added the "-FM" suffix on July 29, allowing CBS to temporarily place the WBMX call letters on the former WFNA (1660 AM) additionally, during "Mix"'s final week on 98.5, it used the WBZ-FM call letters intended for the new station. WBCN's rock format moved to 98.5's HD2 subcarrier. WBCN's programming on 104.1 ended after midnight on August 12, 2009; WBMX then moved to 104.1 two hours later (the
call letters were then transferred to the Charlotte station), with WBZ-FM launching the next day. The first song Mix played on 104.1 was "" by .
Mix 104.1 (and the previous Mix 98.5) is one of the most honored radio stations in the country, and has earned more major radio awards than any other Hot AC station in history. The station was named "Hot AC Station of The Year" 9 times from 1997 through 2009. Former Program Director Greg Strassell was named "Hot AC Program Director of The Year" 9 Long time Music Director Mike Mullaney earned "Hot AC Music Director Of The Year" 5 last year, new morning team Karson & Kennedy were name "Hot AC Morning Show of The Year" of 2009 by FMQB magazine.
Subchannel
Simulcasts the main analog signal.
The 80s Channel
Mercy Rock
WBMX-HD1 simulcasts the analog signal of WBMX as Mix 104.1.
WBMX-HD2 runs an all- format as "The 80s Channel."
WBMX-HD3 airs "Mercy Rock", a
WBMX-HD4 airs CBS's "Sky Talk", a new-age
format featuring psychics, life coaches et al.
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