KGFM
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KGFM is a radio station
licensed to Bakersfield, California
. The station is owned by American General Media and licensed to AGM California. The station airs a Adult Contemporary music format.
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station until the summer of 1992, when they abandoned the format due to low revenue as a result of attracting older listeners. They went adult contemporary and have mostly stayed in the format although in 2005 a decision was made to emphasize gold product.
In 2007, the station went to a soft Adult Hits
format. The station now plays music from 1970s through today's hits. During the weekends, it broadcasts an oldies
music format. It plays oldies from the 1960s and 1970s during the weekends, targeting the younger end of the baby boomer demographic.
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
licensed to Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield is a city near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County, California. It is roughly equidistant between Fresno and Los Angeles, to the north and south respectively....
. The station is owned by American General Media and licensed to AGM California. The station airs a Adult Contemporary music format.
History
KGFM was originally a beautiful musicBeautiful music
Beautiful music is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the 1960s through the 1980s...
/easy listening
Easy listening
Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...
station until the summer of 1992, when they abandoned the format due to low revenue as a result of attracting older listeners. They went adult contemporary and have mostly stayed in the format although in 2005 a decision was made to emphasize gold product.
In 2007, the station went to a soft Adult Hits
Adult hits
Adult hits is a radio format, popular in the early 2000s, that does not adhere to a specific music genre, but instead draws from a wider playlist...
format. The station now plays music from 1970s through today's hits. During the weekends, it broadcasts an oldies
Oldies
Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....
music format. It plays oldies from the 1960s and 1970s during the weekends, targeting the younger end of the baby boomer demographic.
Programming
- The programming on this station features Tony In The Morning and Jeff Lemuchhi with the news.
- The syndicated show DeliahDelilah ReneDelilah Rene Luke , almost always known mononymously as Delilah, is an American radio personality, author, and songwriter, best known as the host of a nationally syndicated nightly U.S...
is on weeknights.