Hey Guys:
Would anybody know when the call letters KMPC-FM and KEDG were granted for 101.9.
Thnaks
T.J.
Would anybody know when the call letters KMPC-FM and KEDG were granted for 101.9.
Thnaks
T.J.
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KMPC FM KEDG CALL LETTERS
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t.j. said:
Closest I can get is KUTE to KMPC-FM in October, 1987 (according to L.A. Times Archives). Call letters were changed to KEDG in March, 1989.
When KIQQ became KQLZ (Pirate Radio) on March 17, 1989, it freed up a satellite A/C service, which Golden West Broadcasters decided to pick up in May. KEDG became KLIT (K-Lite....yeah, I know...) May 12, 1989. So the KEDG calls lasted 2 months at most.
Why does the FCC database file on 101.9 FM in Glendale/KSCA, show that the date for the call letter change to KLIT was granted October 16 of 1989???
I remember when 1220-AM licensed to Pomona had the KLIT call letters from 4-6-1978 until 8-2-1983, and on the air, they were careful to call the station K-Light, lol. In 1983 it changed to KTSJ for The Sounds of Joy. It was a religious station under both those calls, as I remember.
It's now KWKU, foreign language.
Jim Hilliker
I remember when 1220-AM licensed to Pomona had the KLIT call letters from 4-6-1978 until 8-2-1983, and on the air, they were careful to call the station K-Light, lol. In 1983 it changed to KTSJ for The Sounds of Joy. It was a religious station under both those calls, as I remember.
It's now KWKU, foreign language.
Jim Hilliker
Jim Hilliker said:
That sent me back to the L.A. Times archive...turns out that Golden West ended up in a court battle over the right to call itself K-Lite, and it kept the KEDG call letters in the meantime.
The story: KIQQ "K-Lite" became KQLZ "Pirate Radio" on March 17, 1989. KGIL-FM started calling itself "K-Lite" on March 23.
But KQLZ's owners, Westwood One, had the rights to the name and sold it and the record library to Golden West Broadcasters on May 5.
KEDG started calling itself "K-Lite" on May 13.
KGIL argued that it had been using the name longer and that Scott Shannon's famous Pirate Radio sign-on "K-Lite has left the airwaves forever"...indicated that the name had been abandoned.
A judge ruled that KGIL "aggressively seized upon the name" unlawfully on June 11, giving KEDG exclusive rights to the K-Lite name.
Apparently, they waited to file for the call letter change to KLIT (were they in use by another station after Pomona dropped them in '83?), which, as you note was granted on October 16....and reported in the Times on October 23.
So make that 7 months for the KEDG calls (though they were strictly a once-an-hour legal ID)...March to October, 1989.
Wow, fascinating story and thanks for doing all the research on that! Nice work, thanks for the time you took to find all that information.
At this time, I have no idea if the KLIT calls were used by another station then, but it shouldn't be too difficult to determine.
At this time, I have no idea if the KLIT calls were used by another station then, but it shouldn't be too difficult to determine.
Like a flower growing wild in the desert, the life of KMPC-FM/KEDG-FM was as beautiful as it was short - and short it was. Simply the best rock/AAA (before there was such a thing as AAA) station this town has ever seen (But not heard). Super and I have provided support for this claim over the years in various other threads, so I won't repeat them here. Suffice it to say that if you like a well-chosen rock/alternative/AAA library presented by folks who really "got" the music, which played new artists that were not necessarily on the Billboard charts along with a great mix of the classics, as opposed to spinning the disks that are on the computer-generated list, this station was for you.
Because there are only a few dozen of us out there (even back then) who appreciate that kind of radio, the end of the station was a foregone conclusion before it even started, but for the ones that were lucky enough to find it, it was radio bliss. Nothing has come close since. To put it another way, it was the type of station that those like David E. would say should never have graced the airwaves at all, using all of the standard consultant reasons (station not focused; doesn't match the ethnic profile of the city in which it broadcasts; cannot pull numbers in a specific demo; library too big and unfocused; using songs that don't "test" well; had Ladd on in the evenings, and Ladd can't manage a 1.0 rating and is a non-factor, etc.)
Because there are only a few dozen of us out there (even back then) who appreciate that kind of radio, the end of the station was a foregone conclusion before it even started, but for the ones that were lucky enough to find it, it was radio bliss. Nothing has come close since. To put it another way, it was the type of station that those like David E. would say should never have graced the airwaves at all, using all of the standard consultant reasons (station not focused; doesn't match the ethnic profile of the city in which it broadcasts; cannot pull numbers in a specific demo; library too big and unfocused; using songs that don't "test" well; had Ladd on in the evenings, and Ladd can't manage a 1.0 rating and is a non-factor, etc.)
"presented by folks who really "got" the music"
I am glad you made this post. I remember Jim Ladd on their last day of broadcast addressing the listeners, saying that "You got it" i.e. many of the loyal listeners understood why the station worked for each listener who did indeed 'get it'.
Here's a trip down Memory Lane, ChannelFlipper
http://www.socalradiohistory.com/legalid.wav
I am glad you made this post. I remember Jim Ladd on their last day of broadcast addressing the listeners, saying that "You got it" i.e. many of the loyal listeners understood why the station worked for each listener who did indeed 'get it'.
Here's a trip down Memory Lane, ChannelFlipper
http://www.socalradiohistory.com/legalid.wav
SuperRadioFan said:
Awesome! I heard it often at midnight back in the day. My favorite part is that they are looking for the 4th caller - not the 1st, not the 10th, not the 101th - the 4th.
Thanks.
Jim Hilliker said:
Jim,
You're correct. I was hired at KLIT in mid '78, while still a student at Don Martin, and pretty much stayed until the spring of '79. It was a Christian station, and our lead in/out was the "Sounds of Joy" then the basics, and an intro to whatever. PD was Scott [sorry, I forgot his last name].
I did all of their remotes and events, including working with Johnny Grant as a block announcer for the Christmas parades. One year the parade MC announced us as radio station **** not K-Lite! Grant was furious. LOL
pizamoto said:
Station liner: "You've found KLIT. Now the Sounds of Joy."
Sorry.
Had to.
Maybe it would have helped to take a hint from the dictionary, and placed a horizontal line over the "I" to indicate the proper "eye" pronunciation. ;D
I remember when KOST first came on the air (as Beautiful Music, if I remember correctly), their advertising always including that horizontal line over the "O" to indicate long "O" - to make sure potential listeners knew the pronunciation was "Coast," as opposed to "Cost."
The Bay Area had a "K-Lite" for awhile, but the call letters were KLHT.
I remember when KOST first came on the air (as Beautiful Music, if I remember correctly), their advertising always including that horizontal line over the "O" to indicate long "O" - to make sure potential listeners knew the pronunciation was "Coast," as opposed to "Cost."
The Bay Area had a "K-Lite" for awhile, but the call letters were KLHT.
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