540 AM LA Standards Stations Flipping to Country

[fred flintstone]

Orange County Register:

540 AM is going country
Mainstream country music starts Oct. 28

Radio station KKGO – 540 and 1260 AM – announced today it will replace the adult standards format on 540 AM with mainstream country music starting Oct. 28.

Saul Levine, president of Mt. Wilson Broadcasters and owner of KKGO and sister classical station KMZT/105.1 FM, said, "Los Angeles and Orange County listeners were pretty upset with the loss of country music on KZLA."
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1313145.php

Neither station covers the LA area alone. If the company does well with the country format on 540 AM (the much better signal), look for 1260AM to simulcast country, as well.

Previously, the LA market lost standards on KLAC and on KMPC.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

Weird that they are not simulcasting (yet) the country on 1260 which serves just the LA area, not Orange County. And though the 540 signal is fair in Orange County, it's stronger (of course) in San Diego County where there are already 2 FM country stations serving the market.

 

[OldGringo]

Weird that they are not simulcasting (yet) the country on 1260 which serves just the LA area, not Orange County. And though the 540 signal is fair in Orange County, it's stronger (of course) in San Diego County where there are already 2 FM country stations serving the market.

They probably noiticed that a bigt part of the KZLA listening in the LA book came from the OC.