last radio station in downtown Los Angeles??

[radiohistory]

Hi, I think I asked this before, but can't recall if there was a right answer. I'd like to know what was the last AM or FM station to have its broadcast studios in downtown Los Angeles?

Thanks.

Jim Hilliker

 

[fybush]

Hi, I think I asked this before, but can't recall if there was a right answer. I'd like to know what was the last AM or FM station to have its broadcast studios in downtown Los Angeles?

Thanks.

Jim Hilliker

I think that would be KSPN 710, as of the spring of 2009...

 

[davideduardo]

Hi, I think I asked this before, but can't recall if there was a right answer. I'd like to know what was the last AM or FM station to have its broadcast studios in downtown Los Angeles?

Thanks.

Jim Hilliker

I think that would be KSPN 710, as of the spring of 2009...

And prior to that, i believe KBLA, as the Radio Unica O&O, was in the dowtown are thorough the sale to Multicultural in 2003. Of course, KBLA is not licensed to LA...

 

[davideduardo]

Hi, I think I asked this before, but can't recall if there was a right answer. I'd like to know what was the last AM or FM station to have its broadcast studios in downtown Los Angeles?

Thanks.

Jim Hilliker

I think that would be KSPN 710, as of the spring of 2009...

 

[radiohistory]

Thanks Scott, but I meant prior to KSPN-710, although I should have specified that fact.

David, can you please tell me, if you know, what KBLA-1580's studio address was when it was downtown? And how long it was located there? That's ok if it is not licensed to Los Angeles, it's in the market.

Anybody know if other FMs or AMs were downtown prior to 2003?

It's interesting looking at the very early radio stations in 1922-'23, and most were in the downtown area with their antennas atop all of their buildings, though they ran fairly low power back then.

Jim

 

[davideduardo]

David, can you please tell me, if you know, what KBLA-1580's studio address was when it was downtown? And how long it was located there? That's ok if it is not licensed to Los Angeles, it's in the market.

There are two medium hight-rise apartment tower just East by Northeast of the big downtown building cluster right along the 110 before Koreatown. The studios were on the ground floor of one. The buildings are unpainted raw poured concrete in cloor, and Unica was there from the time it went on the air to it's closing, about 1998 to 2003.

 

[socalguy]

Aren't the KUSC studios downtown as well?

 

[iused2bsomebody]

Off the subject just a tad, but does anyone remember the KFOX studios that I believe were in high rise condo building back in the 70's, not downtown LA and I can't remember exactly where. Maybe you can help.I remember it was very cool because if you lived in the building you just had to hop on the elevator to get to work.

 

[TheBigA]

I remember the Associated Press used to operate out of terrible studios on Hill Street. My friends there used to talk about how bad the neighborhood was, and how the TV series Hill Street Blues shot exteriors nearby. I understand they've left the area. Hopefully the building was demolished.

I thought most of the old radio studios were in Hollywood.

 

[nmoore6676]

I am thinking that KFI / KOST were the last ones if South Ardmore counts as downtown.

 

[jonbruce]

Yes, in the 1970's KFOX 1280 and 100.3 were in downtown Long Beach in a high rise. I was in those studios only once and can't remember the name of that building.

 

[jonbruce]

KFOX was at the International Tower, located at 700 E. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach. The building is still there. I met morning jock Dick Haynes there after being called in for an interview in 1969 by GM Dick Schofield after being called by him while I was on the air at KFXM San Bernardino. Never got hired tho. It was a legendary station at that time and regret to this day I didn't get on it.

 

[ChannelFlipper]

David, can you please tell me, if you know, what KBLA-1580's studio address was when it was downtown? And how long it was located there? That's ok if it is not licensed to Los Angeles, it's in the market.

There are two medium hight-rise apartment tower just East by Northeast of the big downtown building cluster right along the 110 before Koreatown. The studios were on the ground floor of one. The buildings are unpainted raw poured concrete in cloor, and Unica was there from the time it went on the air to it's closing, about 1998 to 2003.

I'm confused as to the directions. Koreatown is west of downtown. Northeast of the downtown towers would be the east end of Chinatown or Little Tokyo.

 

[davideduardo]

I'm confused as to the directions. Koreatown is west of downtown. Northeast of the downtown towers would be the east end of Chinatown or Little Tokyo.

My bad... should have been Chinatown, but west of that... I think it is Promenade Towers on Figueroa and 1st.

 

[radiocph]

Didn't KIEV-870 have a studio in the shopping mall under the ARCO building (5th/Flower)?

 

[jonbruce]

Yes, KIEV had one there in the 1970's. George Putnam with Chuck Wilder, Mr.Blackwell, and Paul Wallack with Steve Knight did shows from that location.

 

[Bryan Simmons]

I am thinking that KFI / KOST were the last ones if South Ardmore counts as downtown.

I worked there from 1982 through 2001 and when I started there it was called Mid-town LA or Mid-Wilshire or just the Wilshire district. We never considered it downtown. KLSX and KRLA broadcast from just about a block away as well during my time there and I believe they left for the Miracle Mile several years after Clear Channel moved KFI out of the Ardmore facility.

Of course now we all call that area Korea town. We always felt that downtown started at the 110 freeway and went eastward. But it's all subjective.

 

[radiohistory]

Somebody asked about KUSC; yes, the classical FM station on 91.5 moved in 2001, with offices and studios on 3 floors of a building at 5th and Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles, so they are still downtown.

Yes, I know they are non-commercial, but still a significant radio station in L.A. radio history.

Jim Hilliker