KIEV (AM)
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KIEV is a radio station
call sign
associated with a construction permit
for 1500 AM in Culver City, California
serving the Los Angeles
area. The construction permit
is held by Royce International Broadcasting and was issued on March 27, 2001. The station is not currently on the air. A Travelers' Information Station licensed to the City of Beverly Hills operates on 1500 AM.
During the week of Memorial Day
2008
, KIEV sent out test signals to measure the strength of its signal. During that time, it aired a syndicated talk show hosted by Tammy Bruce
and simulcast Monica Crowley
's show from "77 WABC
" in New York City
. KIEV also aired some news updates from USA Radio Network. But the test ended shortly after the holiday, and whether the station will return to the air and with what format is not yet known. (Crowley's show has been sold locally to KGIL.)
The current KIEV should not be confused with the previous station possessing the KIEV call letters. Both stations are separate entities.
On December 12, 1949, the FCC demanded that KWIK surrender its license due to repeated technical rule violations. But, KWIK stayed on the air for two more years, while they appealed the FCC ruling through the courts. The station finally went silent and its license deleted by the FCC May 15, 1951.
KBLA, a completely different station licensed to Burbank, California
, started on 1490 AM a few months later, on October 10. In 1964, the owners obtained FCC approval to relocate 1500 AM, with a power upgrade. The owners encountered problems finding a location to build their then four tower AM directional array
in Burbank, and wound up on Verdugo Peak, a rocky hilltop not conducive to AM broadcasting
. The original filing had been for 10,000 watts days using two towers for a heart shaped pattern and 10,000 watts at night on four towers in a tear drop shaped pattern (pulled down to low values across an arc that protected the night service area of 1500 KSTP Saint Paul, MN). The proposal was contested by Hubbard Broadcasting's KSTP. This was typical re-action by a licensee of wide area service station like KSTP (see WGN vs. KDWN, WBBM vs. KCRL, WABC vs KOB (ironically owned by Hubbard)). KSTP stated that the proposed antenna system in Burbank could not be adjusted to properly protect service of KSTP and that it would not be stable enough to maintain those protections. This led to a fight before the FCC that was resolved by adding more than 20 conditions to the construction permit. These may have been intended to discourage the Burbank applicant from pursuing their project.
A mountain top site was selected at Verdugo peak. The peak was scraped flat and tilted to an angle so that the array had mechanical tilt toward Burbank and that the nulls and minimums generated toward Saint Paul took off at the skywave angle, not right along the ground. Other conditions were added about redundant sampling systems, requirement that a large number of accessible points be kept for tests, and so on.
The Two tower day system didn't work as expected. Two more towers were added to the sides of the four in line towers, so that days could be operated with four towers in a parallelogram layout. Nights produced nulls as planned but not at depths as planned. The station ended up operating at 1,000 watts at night with the four night towers, protecting KSTP but shrinking the coverage area of the station.
http://www.fybush.com/sites/2006/site-060728.html
Consultant for the project was Ed Edison of Hammett & Edison. http://h-e.com/
which lasted about two years which ended in late Spring 1967. Some
of the Dee Jays moved on to Contemporary Hits Top 40 competitors -
Boss Radio KHJ AM (RKO General), KRLA AM Pasadena (Oak Noll Broadcasting), KFWB AM (Crowell-Collier) and KGFJ AM (Rhythm and Blues/Soul).
In Orange County, California, KWIZ AM 1480 khz also switched to
another Oldies format in early Spring 1965, a few months before
RKO General brought Bill Drake down from San Francisco
for KHJ AM 930 khz on Boss Radio. KWIZ AM 1480 khz had been
with a modified Middle Of The Road and Jazz genre leaning
format which was not doing very well in the ratings. Also,
with KLAC AM 570 khz switching from Contemporary Hits to
Adult Standards, KWIZ AM 1480 khz was at a disadvantage on
limited signal range. KWIZ Oldies format was able to keep
many of the station's library from former days such as
Motion Picture Film themes and a limited group of jazz genre recordings mixed in with Steve Lawrence, Bobby Rydell and others.
Gone from the airplay list were Frank Sinatra and others.
KWIZ AM 1480 khz was the World's first Oldies formatted
broadcaster 24/7 on the station's 'Sounds On The Rebound'
theme reaching the Arbitron's Fourth most listened station
in the Los Angeles Radio Market Place for a short time.
About the only Beatles recording ever played on KWIZ AM 1480 khz
was John Lennon's "Anna", as a cover from R&B artist
Arthur Alexander - rarely if ever heard today on radio. ***
Valley on the region's rural agriculture with ranches and
farms in the early days. A Contemporary Hits format was
established in the Summer of 1962 challenging KRLA AM 1110 khz - Pasadena, KFWB AM 980 khz - Hollywood and KLAC AM 570 khz -
Los Angeles. KLAC AM left Top 40 Hits during the early part of the
British Artist Invasion switching to Adult Standards regarding
a more mature listening audience suitable for the station's
advertisers. ***
The small station could not compete with more established and powerful competition, so they switched to country music
as KBBQ in June 1967. KBBQ was also not successful, and the station switched back to Top 40, hired established disc jockeys, and became KROQ, "The ROQ of Los Angeles" on September 2, 1972.
In 1973 KROQ's owners bought the struggling KPPC-FM from National Science Network, which was forced by the FCC to sell their stations due to compliance issues 1. The AM station was sold to a company called Universal Broadcasting. The FM station became KROQ
, and initially programmed a short-lived big band format. Soon, the two stations switched to a freeform rock format as "The ROQs of L.A.".
The two stations were mildly successful with the format, but poor money management by the general manager resulted in more bounced paychecks, and in 1974, the entire staff walked out, shutting the stations down. In 1976, the FCC ordered KROQ to return to the airwaves or surrender the stations' licenses. With barebones equipment, KROQ returned to the airwaves, broadcasting initially from the transmitter location, followed by a penthouse suite in the Pasadena Hilton Hotel, then across the street from the Hilton. At the time, Rodney Bingenheimer
was introducing many new and local bands, including The Sex Pistols, The Ramones and The Runaways
on his Sunday night show.
By 1978, the stations' owners encountered more money problems and decided to pare down to one station, keeping the FM station and selling the weak-signalled KROQ-AM. The AM station eventually became KRCK and limped along with a poor signal and limited finances.
The owners of KRCK returned the station's license back to the FCC on September 19, 1986, but requested a renewal for a construction permit for 50,000 Watt daytime/14,000 Watt nighttime station from a different site. The license renewal was granted in December 1988, but KRCK has yet to return to the airwaves, as the construction permit has been extended numerous times. The most recent amendment to the construction permit was on March 24, 2006 by Royce International Broadcasting, who purchased the station's license and obtained the call letters KIEV (originally on 870 AM
) on March 27, 2001.
The KBBQ call letters moved to AM 1590 in Ventura, California
when the Burbank station dropped them in 1972, then were assigned to an FM station in Fort Smith, Arkansas
in 1985 (continuing to the present time) when the Ventura station changed to KOGO. They were also briefly used by AM 990 in Santa Barbara, California
in 1988 under an FCC rule that allows call letters to be used in different communities by stations in different broadcast bands (AM, FM, TV).
Radio station
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call sign
Call sign
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associated with a construction permit
Construction permit
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for 1500 AM in Culver City, California
Culver City, California
Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 38,883, up from 38,816 at the 2000 census. It is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also shares a border with unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Culver...
serving the Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
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area. The construction permit
Construction permit
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is held by Royce International Broadcasting and was issued on March 27, 2001. The station is not currently on the air. A Travelers' Information Station licensed to the City of Beverly Hills operates on 1500 AM.
During the week of Memorial Day
Memorial Day
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2008
2008 in radio
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, KIEV sent out test signals to measure the strength of its signal. During that time, it aired a syndicated talk show hosted by Tammy Bruce
Tammy Bruce
Tammy Bruce is an American radio host, author, and political commentator. Her nationally-syndicated talk show, The Tammy Bruce Show, airs live weekdays from 11am-1pm Pacific time online via ....
and simulcast Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley is an American conservative radio and television commentator, and author based in New York City. She has her own radio show and is a regular commentator on The McLaughlin Group, a Fox News contributor, and Washington Times columnist.-Education:Crowley holds a B.A. in Political...
's show from "77 WABC
WABC (AM)
WABC , known as "NewsTalkRadio 77 WABC" is a radio station in New York City. Owned by the broadcasting division of Cumulus Media, the station broadcasts on a clear channel and is the flagship station of Cumulus Media Networks...
" in New York City
New York City
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. KIEV also aired some news updates from USA Radio Network. But the test ended shortly after the holiday, and whether the station will return to the air and with what format is not yet known. (Crowley's show has been sold locally to KGIL.)
The current KIEV should not be confused with the previous station possessing the KIEV call letters. Both stations are separate entities.
History
The birth of 1500 AM in Los Angeles had its origins in 1947. The 1490 kHz channel became available when KVOE-Santa Ana moved from 1490 to 1480 in 1945. A new station was licensed to Burbank on 1490 by the FCC on May 8, 1947, with the call letters KWIK. The station was known then as "The Voice of the San Fernando Valley".On December 12, 1949, the FCC demanded that KWIK surrender its license due to repeated technical rule violations. But, KWIK stayed on the air for two more years, while they appealed the FCC ruling through the courts. The station finally went silent and its license deleted by the FCC May 15, 1951.
KBLA, a completely different station licensed to Burbank, California
Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....
, started on 1490 AM a few months later, on October 10. In 1964, the owners obtained FCC approval to relocate 1500 AM, with a power upgrade. The owners encountered problems finding a location to build their then four tower AM directional array
Directional array
In broadcast engineering, directional array refers to an antenna array arranged such that the superposition of the electromagnetic waves produce a predictable electromagnetic field...
in Burbank, and wound up on Verdugo Peak, a rocky hilltop not conducive to AM broadcasting
AM broadcasting
AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation. AM was the first method of impressing sound on a radio signal and is still widely used today. Commercial and public AM broadcasting is carried out in the medium wave band world wide, and on long wave and short wave...
. The original filing had been for 10,000 watts days using two towers for a heart shaped pattern and 10,000 watts at night on four towers in a tear drop shaped pattern (pulled down to low values across an arc that protected the night service area of 1500 KSTP Saint Paul, MN). The proposal was contested by Hubbard Broadcasting's KSTP. This was typical re-action by a licensee of wide area service station like KSTP (see WGN vs. KDWN, WBBM vs. KCRL, WABC vs KOB (ironically owned by Hubbard)). KSTP stated that the proposed antenna system in Burbank could not be adjusted to properly protect service of KSTP and that it would not be stable enough to maintain those protections. This led to a fight before the FCC that was resolved by adding more than 20 conditions to the construction permit. These may have been intended to discourage the Burbank applicant from pursuing their project.
A mountain top site was selected at Verdugo peak. The peak was scraped flat and tilted to an angle so that the array had mechanical tilt toward Burbank and that the nulls and minimums generated toward Saint Paul took off at the skywave angle, not right along the ground. Other conditions were added about redundant sampling systems, requirement that a large number of accessible points be kept for tests, and so on.
The Two tower day system didn't work as expected. Two more towers were added to the sides of the four in line towers, so that days could be operated with four towers in a parallelogram layout. Nights produced nulls as planned but not at depths as planned. The station ended up operating at 1,000 watts at night with the four night towers, protecting KSTP but shrinking the coverage area of the station.
http://www.fybush.com/sites/2006/site-060728.html
Consultant for the project was Ed Edison of Hammett & Edison. http://h-e.com/
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- At the time of the switch, KBLA AM 1500 khz aired a Rock, Rhythm and Doo Wop Oldies format reminiscent of Alan Freed on WINS AM 1010 khz in New York City and Art Laboe in Los Angeles (see Wolfman Jack). This Oldies format lasted about a year or so until the switch to a Top 40 format
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which lasted about two years which ended in late Spring 1967. Some
of the Dee Jays moved on to Contemporary Hits Top 40 competitors -
Boss Radio KHJ AM (RKO General), KRLA AM Pasadena (Oak Noll Broadcasting), KFWB AM (Crowell-Collier) and KGFJ AM (Rhythm and Blues/Soul).
In Orange County, California, KWIZ AM 1480 khz also switched to
another Oldies format in early Spring 1965, a few months before
RKO General brought Bill Drake down from San Francisco
for KHJ AM 930 khz on Boss Radio. KWIZ AM 1480 khz had been
with a modified Middle Of The Road and Jazz genre leaning
format which was not doing very well in the ratings. Also,
with KLAC AM 570 khz switching from Contemporary Hits to
Adult Standards, KWIZ AM 1480 khz was at a disadvantage on
limited signal range. KWIZ Oldies format was able to keep
many of the station's library from former days such as
Motion Picture Film themes and a limited group of jazz genre recordings mixed in with Steve Lawrence, Bobby Rydell and others.
Gone from the airplay list were Frank Sinatra and others.
KWIZ AM 1480 khz was the World's first Oldies formatted
broadcaster 24/7 on the station's 'Sounds On The Rebound'
theme reaching the Arbitron's Fourth most listened station
in the Los Angeles Radio Market Place for a short time.
About the only Beatles recording ever played on KWIZ AM 1480 khz
was John Lennon's "Anna", as a cover from R&B artist
Arthur Alexander - rarely if ever heard today on radio. ***
-
-
- Prior to October 10, 1964, the station served the San Fernando
-
Valley on the region's rural agriculture with ranches and
farms in the early days. A Contemporary Hits format was
established in the Summer of 1962 challenging KRLA AM 1110 khz - Pasadena, KFWB AM 980 khz - Hollywood and KLAC AM 570 khz -
Los Angeles. KLAC AM left Top 40 Hits during the early part of the
British Artist Invasion switching to Adult Standards regarding
a more mature listening audience suitable for the station's
advertisers. ***
The small station could not compete with more established and powerful competition, so they switched to country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
as KBBQ in June 1967. KBBQ was also not successful, and the station switched back to Top 40, hired established disc jockeys, and became KROQ, "The ROQ of Los Angeles" on September 2, 1972.
In 1973 KROQ's owners bought the struggling KPPC-FM from National Science Network, which was forced by the FCC to sell their stations due to compliance issues 1. The AM station was sold to a company called Universal Broadcasting. The FM station became KROQ
KROQ-FM
KROQ-FM — branded 106.7 KROQ — is a commercial modern rock radio station licensed to Pasadena, California serving the Greater Los Angeles. The call sign is pronounced "kay rock." It is the flagship station of Loveline hosted by Dr...
, and initially programmed a short-lived big band format. Soon, the two stations switched to a freeform rock format as "The ROQs of L.A.".
The two stations were mildly successful with the format, but poor money management by the general manager resulted in more bounced paychecks, and in 1974, the entire staff walked out, shutting the stations down. In 1976, the FCC ordered KROQ to return to the airwaves or surrender the stations' licenses. With barebones equipment, KROQ returned to the airwaves, broadcasting initially from the transmitter location, followed by a penthouse suite in the Pasadena Hilton Hotel, then across the street from the Hilton. At the time, Rodney Bingenheimer
Rodney Bingenheimer
Rodney Bingenheimer, born December 15, 1947, is a radio disc jockey on the long-running Los Angeles rock station KROQ who is notable for helping numerous iconic bands become successful in the American market. His contribution to the music business has been described as important...
was introducing many new and local bands, including The Sex Pistols, The Ramones and The Runaways
The Runaways
The Runaways were an American all-girl rock band that recorded and performed in the second half of the 1970s. The band released four studio albums and one live set during its run. Among its best known songs: "Cherry Bomb", "Queens of Noise", "Neon Angels On the Road to Ruin", "California Paradise"...
on his Sunday night show.
By 1978, the stations' owners encountered more money problems and decided to pare down to one station, keeping the FM station and selling the weak-signalled KROQ-AM. The AM station eventually became KRCK and limped along with a poor signal and limited finances.
The owners of KRCK returned the station's license back to the FCC on September 19, 1986, but requested a renewal for a construction permit for 50,000 Watt daytime/14,000 Watt nighttime station from a different site. The license renewal was granted in December 1988, but KRCK has yet to return to the airwaves, as the construction permit has been extended numerous times. The most recent amendment to the construction permit was on March 24, 2006 by Royce International Broadcasting, who purchased the station's license and obtained the call letters KIEV (originally on 870 AM
KRLA
KRLA is a radio station broadcasting a News/Talk format. Licensed to Glendale, California, USA, it serves the Southern California area. The station is currently owned by Salem Communications.- KIEV :...
) on March 27, 2001.
The KBBQ call letters moved to AM 1590 in Ventura, California
Ventura, California
Ventura is the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States, incorporated in 1866. The population was 106,433 at the 2010 census, up from 100,916 at the 2000 census. Ventura is accessible via U.S...
when the Burbank station dropped them in 1972, then were assigned to an FM station in Fort Smith, Arkansas
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Fort Smith is the second-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. With a population of 86,209 in 2010, it is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 298,592 residents which encompasses the Arkansas...
in 1985 (continuing to the present time) when the Ventura station changed to KOGO. They were also briefly used by AM 990 in Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
in 1988 under an FCC rule that allows call letters to be used in different communities by stations in different broadcast bands (AM, FM, TV).
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