KALI 106.3 FM in Santa Ana

[wdb2003]

Just wondering how long has this station been on the air. Does anyone know the format? I wonder if they might move closer to Los Angeles if possible. Would it have the same watts as KJLH and KDAY?

 

[SuperRadioFan]

Just wondering how long has this station been on the air. Does anyone know the format? I wonder if they might move closer to Los Angeles if possible. Would it have the same watts as KJLH and KDAY?

The Internet and Google is your Friend

http://www.radio-locator.com/info/KALI-FM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KALI-FM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYMS_(defunct)

That last one is not a direct link but click on the 'defunct' link when you first get there

 

[jonbruce]

106.3 went on the air in Feb. 1960 with studios on Tustin ave. It was sold in 1964 and changed call letters to KYMS with studios in the Saddleback Inn Santa Ana. At this time it had an MOR format. In 1968 it went top 40. It ran an AOR format for a time prior to going Christian. Although it has a rather poor transmitter location on a tower near the freeway it really can't be moved any closer to L.A. Most of the other OC stations have better transmitter sites.

 

[Radio Owl]

Before it was KYMS in 1964 it was KFIL. According to one Orange County resident in the late 1950's, the tower went up in 1958, early 1959. This person, as a young teenager then, watched the tower crew construct that tower right next to the Santa Ana Freeway.

Mark Denis, of 640 KFI & 1190 KEZY fame, worked at the then New KFIL. The station was "dark"
in 1963, but came back to life, as Jonny Bruce says, in 1964 as KYMS from the Saddleback Inn in
Santa Ana. That's not too far from that transmitter site. KYMS stood for "Your Music Station".

 

[Neel]

The current format is Vietnamese most of the time