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Encyclopedia > KKGO
KKGO
Broadcast area Los Angeles
Branding "Country 540 and 1260."
First air date 1947
Frequency 1260 (KHz)
Format Country music
ERP 20,000 watts daytime, 7,500 watts nighttime
Class B
Callsign meaning Disambiguation of San Francisco's ABC radio & TV station, KGO, only with an extra K added to 1260's call letters.
Owner Mount Wilson Broadcasting
Website www.gocountry.am

KKGO is owned by Mount Wilson Broadcasting, and is known on the air as Country 540 and 1260, and airs a much needed country music format that L.A. lost back in August 2006. Many of the air personalities now heard on Country 540 and 1260, once worked for the former KZLA-Los Angeles. Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1290. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... XESURF is an Mexican radio station known on air as AM 1260/540. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Sine waves of various frequencies; the bottom waves have higher frequencies than those above. ... A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ... The watt (symbol: W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one joule per second. ... The watt (symbol: W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one joule per second. ... This is the list of broadcast station classes. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Shortcut: WP:D or WP:DAB Disambiguation in Wikipedia and Wikimedia is the process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title. ... Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City; The City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area    - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... KGO may mean: KGO (AM), a radio station broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area KGO-TV, an ABC owned and operated television station broadcasting in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area KKSF, a smooth jazz radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area formerly known as KGO-FM... Mount Wilson Broadcasting is a Los Angeles based company. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Mount Wilson Broadcasting is a Los Angeles based company. ... XESURF-AM is a Mexican radio station known on air as Country 540 and 1260, and simulcasts most of its programming with Los Angeles radio station KKGO. The antenna is located in Tijuana south of the Otay Mesa border crossing, on top of a Gigante supermarket. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1290. ... August 2006 is the eighth month of that year, and has yet to occur. ... KZLA 93. ...


Until 1993, the station was known as KGIL and broadcast a talk radio format. Until 1995, it was known as KJOI, playing Adult Standards music. In 1995, it became K-NEWS, simulcasting with XESURF (then with call letters XETIN) and now-defunct KNNZ in 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. 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, with the call letters KJAZ, in 2000. Then, in 2002, it took on the call letters KSUR and began broadcasting an adult standards format, changing its call letters to KKGO in 2005. [1] On December 1, 2006, KKGO changed to a country music format, filling the void left behind when KZLA became rhythmic adult contemporary KMVN earlier in 2006. Adult Standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations. ... XESURF is an Mexican radio station known on air as AM 1260/540. ... KFOX 1650AM is a Korean-language AM radio station licensed to Costa Mesa, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. ... All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcast of news. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ... Peter Arbogast (born December 5, 1954) is an American sportscaster, born in Chicago, Illinois but grew up mostly in Los Angeles, California. ... The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. ... 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, a key West Coast flagship station for the CBS Radio Network since 1937. ... KFWB is a Los Angeles, California AM radio station operating on 980 kHz with 5,000 watts of power from a transmitter site near Lincoln Park in Los Angeles, California. ... The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ... Showtunes are songs written for musical theater productions, such as: The Phantom of the Opera Jesus Christ Superstar Oklahoma! Guys and Dolls Cabaret See also Musical theater Categories: Stub ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Adult Standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations. ... December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... KZLA 93. ... Rhythmic Adult Contemporary is a format similar to Rhythmic Top 40 radio. ... KMVN redirects here. ...


The station simulcasts most of it's programming with XESURF 540, except for La Hora Nacional. La Hora Nacional, produced by the Mexican government, is broadcast as a public service for radio stations licensed in Mexico. XESURF had made the transition to country music less than two months prior to KKGO. XESURF is an Mexican radio station known on air as AM 1260/540. ... The word broadcast can refer to: Broadcasting, the transmission of audio and video signals. ... Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. ... A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ... XESURF-AM is a Mexican radio station known on air as Country 540 and 1260, and simulcasts most of its programming with Los Angeles radio station KKGO. The antenna is located in Tijuana south of the Otay Mesa border crossing, on top of a Gigante supermarket. ... Look up Month in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


KKGO and XESURF are the Los Angeles and San Diego / Tijuana radio homes of California Golden Bears college football and NASCAR races. XESURF is an Mexican radio station known on air as AM 1260/540. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates , Government County San Diego Mayor City Attorney         City Council District One District Two District Three District Four District Five District Six District Seven District Eight Jerry Sanders (R) Michael Aguirre Scott Peters Kevin... Tijuana (Spanish [tixwana], English usually [ËŒtiːəˈwÉ‘nÉ™]), is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and the seat of the municipality of Tijuana. ... Cal Logo The California Golden Bears is the nickname used for 27 varsity athletic programs of the University of California, Berkeley. ... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...


The stations stream online between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. seven days a week.


On February 26, 2007, KKGO swapped formats with sister station KMZT, taking the latter's classical programming while returning country to the FM dial in Los Angeles. KMZT 105. ... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...


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See also: List of radio stations in California and List of United States radio markets

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