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KALI 1430, KWKW 1300 History

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Hey Guys:

I saw on another site that KWKW and KALI where L.A's first full time spanish stations. Could anybody tell me when KALI and KWKW started there Spanish formats?

Thanks

T.J
 
t.j. said:
Hey Guys:

I saw on another site that KWKW and KALI where L.A's first full time spanish stations. Could anybody tell me when KALI and KWKW started there(sic) Spanish formats?
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KWKW evelved in the 50's to fulltime Spanish... by 1958 it was 100%. KALI had many foreign language programs, and in 1958 it still had about 40 hours of that and 95 hours of Spanish. Just a year before they had just 40 hours of Spanish, so the conversion to 100% Spanish happened between about 1956 and 1960 by which time it was all Spanish.

KWKW dates back even further with nearly all Spanish. In 1957 it had a little Italian and Portuguese, but had 140 hours of Spanish.

If you want to check futher, view the "Foreign Language Programming" section of the Broadcasting Yearbooks at www.americanradiohistory.com
 
I remember in 1963-1964 listening at night to 1430 KALI and during the early evening hours there was a jock who's name I can't recall who talked in english but played songs in Spanish, then at midnight Huggie Boy came on playing r & b. During the day at that time it was all Spanish.
 
Hello! This is my first post. It's in reply to Jon Bruce's post on KALI and also his post last September remembering me.

My name is Larry Grannis and I spent 20-some years in SoCal radio, beginning in 1950 as one of the first student-voices on KUSC-FM (licensed in 1947) at USC. After graduation (1954), I worked a year for the Goodyear Blimp! Really. Then I decided that I'd better start auditioning for what I had really wanted to do since I was eight, be a radio pronouncer.

The first job in the biz was at KALI (1956) . I always wondered what use my studying Spanish in high school (Huntington Park Hi) and college would ever be. I found out. I was the English language guy who could talk to the Spanish language D.J.s and read the commercials in English. It was a great time mainly because I met my wife of 41 years there. She was a close friend of Alma Leonor Beltran who hosted the "Club del Hogar" (Housewive's Club) every morning. I was emcee with Alma for "Revista Tropical," a Sunday afternoon "tardeada (sp?)" from the Broadway Palace night club at 53rd and Broadway. I engineered several foreign language programs on the weekends, among them "The German Hour," and the Hungarian hour with Lillie Ehrdudi (sp?), a well-known actress in her country.

From there, I eventually did a couple of stints at KWOW, Pomona (56-57 & 60-61) and others until 1978.

Thanks, Jon and OldManRadio, for remembering me at KWIZ. 'Twas a good time.

Larry
 
t.j. said:
Hey David:
Would you know back then what kind of spanish programming KALI, KWKW had? Was it Reg Mexican, talk?
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In the 60's, the stations were still block programmed. And, of course, the term "Regional Mexican" had not yet been invented. The formats were what we called "variety" which meant they played everything eigher mixed or in specialty blocks... such as what Jon Bruce describes.

By the early 70's, KALI had become mostly a pop / ballad "música moderna" format with José José and similar artists, while KWKW was a broader based hit format that included some ballads, mariachi, ranchera and a touch of norteña. Over the time I programmed it, 1972-1975, we moved away from the pop into more ranchera. Neither station had much of a signal, so it was hard to tell who won at the time.
 
I believe in ancient history 1430 was the original home of KECA which later moved to 790 after Earle C. Anthony bought out the Hearst station KEHE.
 
KALI 1430, KWKW 1300 History for david

Hey David:

I was wondering if you can help me with this.

You said "in the early 70's KALI had become mostly a pop / ballad "música moderna" format" did that format continue on KALI 1430 in the 80's and 90's till 1994 when KALI was sold to Aurthr Liu or was the format different then?

I saw this on another site: was KALI called Radio Kaliente in the 90's?

Thanks

T.J.
 
Re: KALI 1430, KWKW 1300 History for david

t.j. said:
Hey David:

I was wondering if you can help me with this.

You said "in the early 70's KALI had become mostly a pop / ballad "música moderna" format" did that format continue on KALI 1430 in the 80's and 90's till 1994 when KALI was sold to Aurthr Liu or was the format different then?
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By the late 70's, KALI was mostly regional Mexican, and remained with that format until it was sold to MultiCultural.
 
Regarding Jon's comment, there were no radio stations in Avalon/Catalina Island in the 1930s sand '40s, until KBIG-740 went on the air in 1952.

I believe he's thinking of the short-lived KFWO (Katalina For Wonderful Outings) which was on the air from July of 1925 until sometime in 1928, when the owner, Lawrence Mott, got married and moved to the Hollywood Hills. KFWO was first on 1420 kilocyles in the AM band, not 1430. In June of 1927, the FRC moved the station's frequency from 1420 to 1370 and again later in 1927 to 1000 kilocycles, until it went dark. The station was to move to 1500-AM and share time with KWTC-1500 in Santa Ana in November of 1928, but Major Mott decided to take KFWO off the air for good without selling the station, and the license was turned into the FRC and deleted.

The other comment was correct, Earle C. Anthony had purchased his second radio station in L.A. in November of 1929, KPLA-1000. The calls were changed to KECA for his initials and KECA was moved to 1430-AM as of 11-15-1929. When Anthony bought KEHE-780 from Hearst Radio in 1939, KECA moved from 1430 to 780 in the summer of 1939 and again to 790 on March 29, 1941.
Anthony was forced by duoply rules at the time to sell KECA in 1943. It became KABC in 1954.

KWKW went on the air first in 1942 at 1430-AM as at 1,000 watt daytimer in Pasadena. Andrew G. Haley's KAGH went on the air on 1300-AM in 1948, also in Pasadena. In 1950, the stations swapped frequencies, with KWKW moving from 1430 to 1300; KAGH moved to 1430 and changed calls to KALI, and city of license became San Gabriel.

Jim
 
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