KABC (AM)

KABC

City	Los Angeles, California
Broadcast area	Greater Los Angeles Area
Branding	790 KABC
Slogan	"News. Talk. Evolved."
Frequency	790 kHz(also on HD Radio) KLOS-HD2 95.5 MHz
First air date	August 1925
Format	News/Talk
Power	5,000 watts
Class	B
Facility ID	33254
Transmitter coordinates	34°01′41″N 118°22′22″W / 34.02806°N 118.37278°W / 34.02806; -118.37278Coordinates: 34°01′41″N 118°22′22″W / 34.02806°N 118.37278°W / 34.02806; -118.37278
Callsign meaning	K American Broadcasting Company (former owner)
Former callsigns	KFXB (1925-1927) KPLA (1927-1929) KECA (1929-1954)
Affiliations	Los Angeles Galaxy (MLS) Los Angeles Kings (NHL) Westwood One Network KABC-TV
Owner	Cumulus Media (Radio License Holdings LLC (in da)
Sister stations	KLOS
Webcast	Listen Live (via iHeartRadio)
Website	kabc.com

KABC-AM (790 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California. It serves as a West Coast flagship station for the Cumulus Media company. A pioneer of the talk radio format, the station went "all-talk" in September 1960, the second radio station to do so, a few months after KMOX in St. Louis. Despite different owners, 790 KABC, ESPN LA 710 (KSPN) and ABC 7 (KABC-TV, the local ABC owned-and-operated TV station) all maintain an informal partnership. KABC's studios and transmitter are both co-located on La Cienega Boulevard in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.

KABC broadcasts in the HD (hybrid) format.^[1] The station airs local talk shows and news updates weekdays, with the nationally syndicated shows Jonathan Brandmeier and Red Eye Radio airing at night, from co-owned Westwood One Network. National news from Westwood One News is heard at the beginning of some hours. KABC also airs Los Angeles Kings professional hockey games. Doug McIntyre hosts the morning show and John Philips and Jillian Barberie are heard in the early afternoons. In early mornings, the station simulcasts the news-heavy 4:30am half-hour of Today in L.A. from television station KNBC.

KABC operates at 5,000 watts with a non-directional signal in the daytime but uses a directional antenna at night to protect other stations on 790 kHz. While the 790 signal adequately covered the Los Angeles media market in the 1960s and 1970s when KABC was often #1, the market has expanded greatly since then and the 5,000-watt signal may not be received clearly in all sections of the metropolitan area today.

KABC has been granted an FCC construction permit to move to the KWKW transmitter site, increase day power to 6,600 watts and increase night power to 6,800 watts.^[2]

History

KABC began in August 1925 as KFXB in Big Bear Lake. The station moved to Los Angeles in 1927 and became KPLA. On November 15, 1929, KPLA was sold to Earle C. Anthony, a Packard automobile dealer and owner of KFI. Anthony changed the call letters to KECA. In August 1939, Anthony purchased KEHE-780 (formerly KTM) and took that station off the air. KECA's call sign and programming were moved from 1430 kHz to 780 kHz. KECA moved to 790 kHz as part of the NARBA frequency shifts of 1941.^[3]

In 1944, new FCC rules went into effect prohibiting any entity from owning more than one radio station in the same market area. The Blue Network (originally owned by NBC but soon to become ABC) bought the station in July, 1944, for $800,000.^[4] The call sign was changed to KABC in 1954, after those call letters were released by a station in San Antonio.

KABC switched to a full-time talk format in 1960, becoming the nation's second "all-talk" station. Though a prominent Los Angeles news-talk station, KABC has declined in the ratings over the years. The station has fallen behind 640 KFI, another major talk station which has focused on serving Orange County more than the core Los Angeles market. KABC, which was owned by The Walt Disney Company's ABC Radio came under ownership of Citadel Broadcasting when the companies merged in 2006. Citadel then merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.^[5]

In October 2011 Cumulus Broadcasting took over ownership of KABC and sister station 95.5 KLOS. Airborne traffic reporter Jorge Jarrin, son of Dodgers Spanish-language broadcaster Jaime Jarrin, was let go after 26 years. Also fired were imaging voice Howard Hoffman and news director/morning newsman Mark Austin Thomas.

As of July 2015, KABC's audience share was at a historic low of 0.3%, below Salem Media's KRLA (870) for the first time, which is notable as KRLA has hired many personalities let go from KABC since the end of ABC ownership.^[6]

Programming

Current KABC personalities include Doug McIntyre, Terri-Rae Elmer, Peter Tilden, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Michael Catherwood, Jillian Barberie and John Phillips. The nighttime schedule includes syndicated shows from Jonathan Brandmeier and Red Eye Radio. On weekends, shows on money, health, real estate, cars and wine are heard, some of them paid brokered programming.

From 1974 to 1997, KABC was the flagship station of the Los Angeles Dodgers and their hall-of-fame broadcaster Vin Scully. After some years on 980 KFWB, the team returned to KABC in 2008.^[7] On September 28, 2011, the final broadcast of Dodgers Baseball on KABC was aired at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, before the games moved to 570 KLAC for the 2012 season. In August 2014, the station became the flagship for the NHL Los Angeles Kings' radio broadcasts.

KABC has been the base of operation for many influential radio hosts, including early talk radio pioneers Joe Pyne and Louis Lomax. The station has also served as the home of Michael Jackson, whose talk show attracted celebrities, politicians, and newsmakers of all types, pioneering radio psychologist Dr. Toni Grant and psychiatrist David Viscott, history buff Ira Fistel and more recent syndicated hosts including Dennis Prager and Larry Elder (now both with NewsTalk 870 KRLA and the Salem Radio Network) and John and Ken (on KFI before their stint on KABC and currently back on KFI). In the 1980s, Jackson, Grant, Fistel and Viscott were also syndicated nationwide on ABC Radio's Talk Radio Network.

A lawsuit alleged that school employees of Academia Semillas del Pueblo (ASDP) received death threats, and that the school was the target of a bomb threat, because of Doug McIntyre's extensive on-air criticism of the school, in which he accused ASDP of espousing a racist and separatist Anti-American philosophy.^[8] The suit was dismissed in January 2008.

References

↑ http://www.hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=36
↑ "FCC Construction Permit". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?650427-Story-of-KABC-790-AM-license-a-complicated-one-call-lettere-history
↑ "Seven Station Transfers Granted by FCC". Broadcasting and Broadcast Advertising. Washington, D.C.: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 27 (4): 14. July 24, 1944. Transfer granted by the FCC on July 18.
↑ "Cumulus now owns Citadel Broadcasting". Atlanta Business Journal. September 16, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
↑ http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb003
↑ Los Angeles Times, Oct. 24, 2007, page D8
↑ Los Angeles Times, Apr. 19, 2007, page B4

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Radio stations in the Los Angeles, California market

By AM frequency	570 590 600 640² 670 710 740 760 790 830 870 900 930 980 1020 1070² 1110 1150 1190 1220 1230 1240 1260 1280 1290 1300 1330 1350 1370 1390 1410 1430 1440 1460 1480 1520 1540 1560 1570 1580 1600 1630³ 1650 1670 Orange County 830 1190 1480

By FM frequency	87.7¹ 88.1 88.5 88.7 88.7 88.9 88.9 89.3 89.9 90.1 90.3 90.7 91.3 91.5 91.9 92.3 92.7 93.1 93.5 93.9 94.3 94.7 95.5 95.9 96.3 96.7 97.1 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.7 107.1 107.5 Orange County 88.5 88.9 90.1 92.7 94.3 95.9 96.7 103.1 106.3 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.4 162.45 162.525 162.55

Digital radio	640 980 1070 88.1-1 88.1-2 88.1-3 88.5-1 88.5-2 89.3-1 89.9-1 89.9-2 91.5-1 92.3-1 92.3-2 92.3-3 93.1-1 93.1-2 93.9-1 94.7-1 94.7-2 95.5-1 95.5-2 96.7-1 97.1-1 97.1-2 98.7-1 98.7-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 102.7-1 102.7-2 103.1-1 103.5-1 103.5-2 104.3-1 104.3-2 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.1-3 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.1-1 107.5-1 107.5-2 107.5-3 107.9-1

By callsign	KABC KAMP-FM KAHZ KALI KALI-FM KAZN KBIG KBOQ KBPK KBRT KBUE KBUA KCAA KCAL KCBS-FM KCRW KCSN KDAY KDIS KDLD KDLE KEIB KEZY KFI KFMB KFNY KFRN KFSH-FM KFWB KGBN KHJ KHPY KHTS KIEV KIIS-FM KIRN KISL KJLH KKDD KKGO KKJZ KKLA-FM KKZZ KLAA KLAC KLAX-FM KLOS KLTX KLVE KMPC KMRB KNX² KOCP KOGO KOST KPCC KPFK KPRO KPWR KRCD KRCV KRLA KROQ-FM KRRL KRTH KSAK KSBR KSCA KSPA KSPC KSPN KSSE KSWD KTDD KTIE KTLW KTNQ KTWV KTYM KUCI KUSC KVNR KWIZ KWKW KWO37 KWRM KWVE-FM KXLU KXOL-FM KXOS KXSC KYLA KYPA KYSR WWG21 WNG584 WZ2505 "KCHUNG"³

Defunct	KACD/KBCD KACE KEDG KFAC KIBB KIIS KIQQ KKBT KKDJ KKHR KMET KMJR/KNJR KMPC KNAC KNHS KNOB KNX-FM KODJ KPPC KQLZ KRBV KSKQ KSKQ-FM KUTE KWST-FM KFSG KZAB/KZBA KZLA-FM KIEV KPOL KTZN KXED KXMG KYMS

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 222 Sirius Channel 150 Nearby radio markets Bakersfield High Desert/Eastern Sierra Oxnard–Ventura Riverside/San Bernardino San Diego Santa Barbara Victor Valley See also List of radio stations in California ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (KSFV-CA/Religious) ² Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. ³ Notable Part 15 station

Radio stations in the San Diego, California market

By AM frequency	600 690 740 760 910 1000 1040 1070 1090 1130 1170 1210 1240 1320 1360 1450 1610¹

By FM frequency	88.3 88.9 89.1 89.5 90.3 91.1 91.3 92.1 92.5 93.3 94.1 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.3 98.1 100.1 100.7 101.5 102.1 102.9 103.3 103.7 104.9 105.3 106.5 107.1 107.9 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.4 162.425

By callsign	KBRT KBZT KCBQ KCEO "KCR"¹ KECR KEC62 KEGY KFMB KFMB-FM KFSD KGB-FM KHTS-FM KIOZ KKSM KLNV KLQV KLSD KLVJ KMYI KNSN KNSJ KOGO KOPA KPBS-FM KPRI KPRZ KRLY-LP KSDW KSDO KSDS KSON KSOQ-FM KSSD KSSX KURS KWVE-FM KXSN KYDO KYXY WNG637 XETRA-FM XEWW-AM XHITZ-FM XHPRS-FM XHRM-FM XHLNC-FM

Defunct	KJQY KPLN KMJC KHHS-LP

¹ unofficial call-sign of a carrier current station Nearby radio markets Imperial Valley Los Angeles Palm Springs Riverside/San Bernardino Tijuana See also List of radio stations in California

News/Talk radio stations in the state of California

All-News	KCBS – San Francisco KFRC-FM San Francisco KNX – Los Angeles

News & Talk	KABC – Los Angeles KAHI – Auburn KCAA – Loma Linda KCBQ – San Diego KERN – Bakersfield KFBK – Sacramento KFBK-FM – Pollock Pines KFI – Los Angeles KFMB – San Diego KGO - San Francisco KGEO – Bakersfield KGIG-LP – Salida KINS-FM – Blue Lake KION – Salinas KMJ – Fresno KMJ-FM – Fresno KMPH – Modesto KNCO – Grass Valley KNEW – San Francisco KNWH – Yucca Valley KNWQ – Palm Springs KNWZ – Coachella KNZR – Bakersfield KNZR-FM – Shafter KOGO – San Diego KOSS – Lancaster KOWL – South Lake Tahoe KPAY – Chico KPRL – Paso Robles KQMS – Redding KQMS-FM – Shasta Lake KRLA – Glendale KSCO – Santa Cruz KSFO – San Francisco KSIZ – Weed KSMA – Santa Maria KSRO – Santa Rosa KSTE – Rancho Cordova KSUE – Susanville KSZL – Barstow KTIE – San Bernardino KTIP – Porterville KTKZ – Sacramento KTMS – Santa Barbara KUHL – Santa Maria KUKI – Ukiah KUTY – Palmdale KVEC – San Luis Obispo KVLI – Lake Isabella KVML – Sonora KVON – Napa KYOS – Merced

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in California

Cumulus Media

AM radio stations	KAAY KABC KAOK KARN KBED KBGG KBOI KCMO KCSF KCUB KESP KFAY KFNZ KFRU KGO KIKR KKAT KKOB KKOH KLIF KLIK KMAJ KMJ KNBR KNEK KNML KNSH KPUR KPZK KRMD KRUZ KSCR KSFO KTBL KTCK KTCT KTIK KTOP KTUC KUGN KVEN KVOR KWPN KXZZ KYNG WAAV WABC WALG WAPI WARM WAYS WBAP WBBF WBBW WBMQ WCOA WDUZ¹ WFAS WFNC WFNR WFTW WGLD WGOC WGOK WGOW WGPC WHBT WHGB WHLD WHLL WHSC WIBR WICC WIOV WISW WJBC WJCW WJLG WJOX WJR WJRW WKLQ WKY WLBY WLS WLTI WLWI WLZR WMAC WMAL WMSP WNAM WNML WOSH WPIC WPRO WPRV WRAD WRIE WSBA WSKO WSOM WSSO WTKA WTMA WTRX WUMP WVEL WVLK WVNN WWCK WXLM WXOK WXQW WXSM WYMB WYNN

FM radio stations	K279BI KAMO-FM KARN-FM KARX KATC-FM KATM KATT-FM KAYD-FM KBBM KBBQ-FM KBBY-FM KBCY KBEE KBER KBIU KBUL-FM KBXR KBZU KCDD KCFX KCHZ KCJK KCMO-FM KDJK KDRF KDVB KDVV KEHK KESN KENZ KFFG KFOG KGGO KHAY KHKI KHKK KHOP KHTB KHXS KHYT KIIM-FM KIPR KIZN KJJY KJMO KJOY KKEG KKFM KKGB KKGL KKMG KKND KKOB-FM KKPK KKWD KLAL KLIF-FM KLOS KLSZ-FM KLUR KMAJ-FM KMCK-FM KMEZ KMGA KMGV KMJ-FM KMJJ-FM KMJK KNEK-FM KNEV KNRQ KOLI KOMS KOQL KPLA KPLX KPUR-FM KQFC KQHN KQIZ-FM KQLK KQOB² KQRS-FM KQSM-FM KQXC-FM KQXL-FM KQXY-FM KRBE KRMD-FM KRMW KRRF KRRQ KRST KRWP KSAN KSCS KSKS KSMB KSZR KTCK-FM KTCX KTIK-FM KTLT KTOP-FM KUBL-FM KUJZ KURB KVMA-FM KVYB KWIC KWIN KWNN KWQW KWYE KWYL KXKC KXXR KYIS KYKZ KYYI KZEL-FM KZJF KZRK-FM W264AK WABD WAOA-FM WAQX-FM WARM-FM WBBL-FM WBHD WBHT WBLX-FM WBNQ WBRW WBSX WBWN WBZE WBZF WCMG WCTO WCYN-FM WDAI WDEN-FM WDLT-FM WDRQ WDUZ-FM¹ WDVD WDZZ-FM WEAN-FM WEAS-FM WEBE WEDG WEGC WEMX WFBE WFMS WFTK WFYR WGFX WGKX WGLF WGLO WGNI WGOW-FM WGRF WGRR WGVX WHBX WHHY-FM WHKR WHLZ WHNN WHOT-FM WHRP WHTS WHTT-FM WILZ WIOG WIOV-FM WIVK-FM WIWF WIXO WIXV WJAD WJBC-FM WJCL-FM WJEZ WJJK WJOX-FM WJQX WJTQ WKAK WKDF WKHX-FM WKIM WKKO WKOR-FM WKOS WKQZ WKRU WKSM WKXS-FM WLAV-FM WLAW WLCS WLEV WLFF WLLF WLS-FM WLTO WLWI-FM WLXC WLXX WLZN WMAL-FM WMAS-FM WMDH-FM WMEZ WMGB WMGL WMGS WMGU WMIM WMNX WMOS³ WMXS WMXT WMXU WNBM WNCV WNKT WNML-FM WNMQ WNMX WNNF WNNK-FM WNNX WNSH WNTQ WNUQ WOFX-FM WOGB¹ WOGT WOKI WOMG WORC-FM WPCK¹ WPEZ WPKR WPLJ WPRO-FM WPSK-FM WQGN-FM WQHZ WQKL WQLH¹ WQQK WQQO WQSM WQUT WQVE WQXA-FM WQXK WRBO WRCQ WRKN WROK-FM WRQN WRQQ WRQX WRRM WRRX WRWM WRXP WSEA WSJR WSKZ WSM-FM WSMS WSOX WSSX-FM WSYN WTCB WTNR WTOD WTYB WUHT WVBO WVIB WVLK-FM WVNN-FM WWBU WWCK-FM WWFF-FM WWFN-FM WWFX WWIZ WWKI WWKL WWKX WWLD WWLI WWLS-FM WWWM WWQQ-FM WWSN WWTN WWWQ W255CJ/WWWQ-HD2 WWWW-FM WWWZ WXBM-FM WXFX WXKC WXKR WXKR-HD2/W265CB WXLO WXMX WXTA WXTL WXZZ WYAY WYFM WYNN-FM WYZB WZAT WZCY-FM WZNS WZPW WZRH WZRR WZYP

Radio networks	Arkansas Radio Network CBS Sports Radio* Titans Radio Network Westwood One (see navpage)

Online assets	iHeartRadio¹

Television-related assets	Nash TV

Other assets	Broadcast Software International CumulusJobs.com San Francisco Giants (minority interest in LP)

See also	Citadel Broadcasting Cumulus Media Networks Susquehanna Radio Corporation

¹ = Owned by iHeartMedia; operated by Cumulus under an LMA. ² = Co-owned with Champlin Broadcasting under an LMA. ³ = Operated by the Mohegan Sun under an LMA. AaBbCc = Owned by The Walt Disney Company; operated by Cumulus under an LMA. * = Owned by CBS Radio, operated by Cumulus.

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