KJLL-FM
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KJLL-FM is a commercial radio station
in Fountain Valley, California
, broadcasting to the Orange County, California
, area on 92.7 FM
.
KHJL is a commercial radio station
in Thousand Oaks, California
, broadcasting primarily to the Conejo and Simi Valley areas on 92.7 FM
.
KAJL is a commercial radio station
in Adelanto, California
, broadcasting to the Victor Valley, California
area on 92.7 FM
.
KJLL-FM/KHJL/KAJL air an adult contemporary format branded as "Playlist 92.7". The station is fully automated with voice tracking recorded by a Canadian
actress.
. KNJO stood for "Conejo
", the valley in which the station was located. The station's claim to fame at the time was that it was the first FM
radio station
on the West Coast to broadcast in stereo
. KNJO was a community radio station and featured local news, sports, and remote broadcasts from a variety of local events. The station was built by radio personality Sy Blonder and co-owned by Dodger
baseball star Sandy Koufax
and later purchased by Alan Fischler, Ed Feldman and Art Hogan; Ira Barmack (operator of KMDY Thousand Oaks [a comedy station]), political strategist/attorney Darry Srago, and finally the Amaturo Group. Studios moved to the Westlake Village
North Ranch Mall, and today are located on Long Court in Thousand Oaks. Joe Amaturo and the Amaturo family purchased the station in the 1990s, and also purchased stations on the same frequency on Catalina Island and in Temecula. Eventually, they began a trimulcast, and changed the call letters of this station to KMLT when the station became Lite 92.7. The goal of the Amaturos has been to cover the entire Los Angeles/Orange County area with three stations on one frequency, 92.7 FM.
KHJL added a translator on Castro Peak
at 38 watt
s near Malibu, California, and recently obtained a construction permit
to increase the power to 45 watt
s.
at 3,000 watt
s entering a simulcast
of KMLT (now KHJL). The simulcast
aired a beautiful music
format that later evolved into an adult contemporary music format branded as "Lite 92.7".
KLIT was later purchased by Amaturo Group and turned into a trimulcast
with KELT (now KAJL), which was originally located in Riverside, California
.
KLIT was moved to Fountain Valley, California
with a change of transmitter location, broadcasting from a mountain southeast of Newport Beach, California
at 690 watt
s. This provided a better signal coverage of the interior portions of Orange County, California
. The call letters were changed to KJLL-FM in early 2007.
at 6,000 watt
s.
The call letters were later changed to KELT adopted numerous music formats and call letters until a trimulcast
with KMLT/KLIT (now KHJL/KJLL) was created airing the beautiful music
format and station branding of the sister stations as "Lite 92.7".
KAJL broadcasts from the same mountain as do most Victor Valley, California
radio station
s. The station no longer has a listenable signal in the Riverside
-San Bernardino
area. In order to make the move, Amaturo Group paid 92.7 KZIQ from Ridgecrest, California
to move their tower off the mountain and down into Ridgecrest, California
. KZIQ's signal does not extend much past Ridgecrest, California
to prevent interference with KAJL.
All three of these radio stations broadcast a sat signal from Canada and could not provide emergency information in the event of a major disaster. In a recent meeting local elected officials have formed a committee consisting of a local congressional representative who has agreed to pursue the F.C.C to restore KELT's signal to its proper city of license.
on KCBS-FM
, Amaturo Group dismissed the airstaff of "Lite 92.7" abandoning the music format in favor of an automated adult hits
music format branded as "Jill-FM". In 2009, the station returned to an adult contemporary format with exactly the same focus as rival KOST
. This is very similar to secondary AC stations such as WWFS New York City
, WCFS-FM Chicago
& WNIC
in Detroit, although they lean more younger than Jill-FM. In 2011 the stations dropped the "Jill-FM" name and are now simply known as "Playlist 92.7." The format switched to oldies from 1964 to 2010, a mix of top-40, R&B, adult contemporary and modern rock, as the station is still generally considered adult contemporary according to Radio-Info.com despite being the only station in Los Angeles similar to KOST
, although KCBS-FM
airs the adult hits
format for Los Angeles. The stations' slogan is "We play everything."
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...
in Fountain Valley, California
Fountain Valley, California
Fountain Valley is a city in Orange County, California. The population was 55,313 at the 2010 census. A classic bedroom community, Fountain Valley is a middle-class residential area.- History :...
, broadcasting to the Orange County, California
Orange County, California
Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...
, area on 92.7 FM
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
.
KHJL is a commercial radio station
Radio station
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in Thousand Oaks, California
Thousand Oaks, California
Thousand Oaks is a city in southeastern Ventura County, California, in the United States. It was named after the many oak trees that grace the area, and the city seal is adorned with an oak....
, broadcasting primarily to the Conejo and Simi Valley areas on 92.7 FM
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
.
KAJL is a commercial radio station
Radio station
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in Adelanto, California
Adelanto, California
Adelanto is a city in San Bernardino County, California about northwest of Victorville. The population was 31,765 at the 2010 census, up from 18,130 at the 2000 census.-Name:...
, broadcasting to the Victor Valley, California
Victor Valley, California
Victor Valley is a subregion of Southern California north of the San Bernardino Mountains in the Mojave Desert. It is located in San Bernardino County and situated east of the Antelope Valley and north of the Cucamonga Valley. The Victor Valley is part of the 14th largest metropolitan area, the...
area on 92.7 FM
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
.
KJLL-FM/KHJL/KAJL air an adult contemporary format branded as "Playlist 92.7". The station is fully automated with voice tracking recorded by a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
actress.
KHJL
KHJL signed on in 1963 with the call letters KNJO, broadcasting from a studio in the Park Oaks shopping center in Thousand Oaks, CaliforniaThousand Oaks, California
Thousand Oaks is a city in southeastern Ventura County, California, in the United States. It was named after the many oak trees that grace the area, and the city seal is adorned with an oak....
. KNJO stood for "Conejo
Conejo Valley
The Conejo Valley is a region spanning both southeastern Ventura County and northwestern Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States...
", the valley in which the station was located. The station's claim to fame at the time was that it was the first FM
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
radio station
Radio station
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on the West Coast to broadcast in stereo
STEREO
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. KNJO was a community radio station and featured local news, sports, and remote broadcasts from a variety of local events. The station was built by radio personality Sy Blonder and co-owned by Dodger
Los Angeles Dodgers
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baseball star Sandy Koufax
Sandy Koufax
Sanford "Sandy" Koufax is a former left-handed baseball pitcher who played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers...
and later purchased by Alan Fischler, Ed Feldman and Art Hogan; Ira Barmack (operator of KMDY Thousand Oaks [a comedy station]), political strategist/attorney Darry Srago, and finally the Amaturo Group. Studios moved to the Westlake Village
Westlake Village, California
Westlake Village is a planned community that straddles the Los Angeles and Ventura county line. The eastern portion is the incorporated city Westlake Village, located on the western edge of Los Angeles County, California. The city, located in the region known as the Conejo Valley, encompasses half...
North Ranch Mall, and today are located on Long Court in Thousand Oaks. Joe Amaturo and the Amaturo family purchased the station in the 1990s, and also purchased stations on the same frequency on Catalina Island and in Temecula. Eventually, they began a trimulcast, and changed the call letters of this station to KMLT when the station became Lite 92.7. The goal of the Amaturos has been to cover the entire Los Angeles/Orange County area with three stations on one frequency, 92.7 FM.
KHJL added a translator on Castro Peak
Castro Peak
Castro Peak is a peak rising to 306 m on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island. Situated 750 m south-southwest of MacGregor Peaks and 1.87 km northeast of Binn Peak. Spanish early mapping in 1991. Named for Vicente Castro, mountain guide at Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base who took part in the...
at 38 watt
Watt
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s near Malibu, California, and recently obtained a construction permit
Construction permit
A construction permit or building permit is a permit required in most jurisdictions for new construction, or adding on to pre-existing structures, and in some cases for major renovations. Generally, the new construction must be inspected during construction and after completion to ensure compliance...
to increase the power to 45 watt
Watt
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s.
KJLL-FM
KJLL-FM signed on in 1993 with the call letters KRCI then KLIT, (later changed to the present KJLL) originally broadcasting from Catalina IslandSanta Catalina Island, California
Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...
at 3,000 watt
Watt
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s entering a simulcast
Simulcast
Simulcast, shorthand for "simultaneous broadcast", refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts are often...
of KMLT (now KHJL). The simulcast
Simulcast
Simulcast, shorthand for "simultaneous broadcast", refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts are often...
aired a beautiful music
Beautiful music
Beautiful music is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the 1960s through the 1980s...
format that later evolved into an adult contemporary music format branded as "Lite 92.7".
KLIT was later purchased by Amaturo Group and turned into a trimulcast
Trimulcast
The term "trimulcast" was first used in May 1981 by Multimedia Broadcasting's outlets in Little Rock, Arkansas, KAAY-AM and KLPQ-FM when they teamed-up with Cox Cable locally...
with KELT (now KAJL), which was originally located in Riverside, California
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
.
KLIT was moved to Fountain Valley, California
Fountain Valley, California
Fountain Valley is a city in Orange County, California. The population was 55,313 at the 2010 census. A classic bedroom community, Fountain Valley is a middle-class residential area.- History :...
with a change of transmitter location, broadcasting from a mountain southeast of Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, south of downtown Santa Ana. The population was 85,186 at the 2010 census.The city's median family income and property values consistently place high in national rankings...
at 690 watt
Watt
The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...
s. This provided a better signal coverage of the interior portions of Orange County, California
Orange County, California
Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...
. The call letters were changed to KJLL-FM in early 2007.
KAJL
KAJL signed on in 1959 with the call letters KHNY, originally broadcasting from Riverside, CaliforniaRiverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
at 6,000 watt
Watt
The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...
s.
The call letters were later changed to KELT adopted numerous music formats and call letters until a trimulcast
Trimulcast
The term "trimulcast" was first used in May 1981 by Multimedia Broadcasting's outlets in Little Rock, Arkansas, KAAY-AM and KLPQ-FM when they teamed-up with Cox Cable locally...
with KMLT/KLIT (now KHJL/KJLL) was created airing the beautiful music
Beautiful music
Beautiful music is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the 1960s through the 1980s...
format and station branding of the sister stations as "Lite 92.7".
KAJL broadcasts from the same mountain as do most Victor Valley, California
Victor Valley, California
Victor Valley is a subregion of Southern California north of the San Bernardino Mountains in the Mojave Desert. It is located in San Bernardino County and situated east of the Antelope Valley and north of the Cucamonga Valley. The Victor Valley is part of the 14th largest metropolitan area, the...
radio station
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...
s. The station no longer has a listenable signal in the Riverside
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
-San Bernardino
San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino is a city located in the Riverside-San Bernardino metropolitan area , and serves as the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States...
area. In order to make the move, Amaturo Group paid 92.7 KZIQ from Ridgecrest, California
Ridgecrest, California
Ridgecrest, formerly known as Crumville, was incorporated as a city in 1913. It is located in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, California, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake . Ridgecrest is the only incorporated city along US 395 in Kern County...
to move their tower off the mountain and down into Ridgecrest, California
Ridgecrest, California
Ridgecrest, formerly known as Crumville, was incorporated as a city in 1913. It is located in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, California, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake . Ridgecrest is the only incorporated city along US 395 in Kern County...
. KZIQ's signal does not extend much past Ridgecrest, California
Ridgecrest, California
Ridgecrest, formerly known as Crumville, was incorporated as a city in 1913. It is located in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, California, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake . Ridgecrest is the only incorporated city along US 395 in Kern County...
to prevent interference with KAJL.
All three of these radio stations broadcast a sat signal from Canada and could not provide emergency information in the event of a major disaster. In a recent meeting local elected officials have formed a committee consisting of a local congressional representative who has agreed to pursue the F.C.C to restore KELT's signal to its proper city of license.
Jill FM
Since the coverage area had been shifted after the moves of all 3 transmitters, and with the arrival of Jack FMJack FM
JACK FM is the alternative name and on-air brand of 60 radio stations in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Jack stations play a mix of 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s hits with some current hot adult contemporary singles. Jack's slogan "playing what we want" can also be...
on KCBS-FM
KCBS-FM
KCBS-FM is a radio station in Los Angeles, California broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on 93.1 FM. KCBS-FM airs an adult hits music format branded as "Jack-FM"....
, Amaturo Group dismissed the airstaff of "Lite 92.7" abandoning the music format in favor of an automated 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...
music format branded as "Jill-FM". In 2009, the station returned to an adult contemporary format with exactly the same focus as rival KOST
KOST
KOST is a radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, with an adult contemporary musical format. It is one of three adult contemporary formatted radio station in the Los Angeles/Orange County area, the others being sister station KBIG and CBS-owned KTWV...
. This is very similar to secondary AC stations such as WWFS New York City
New York City
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, WCFS-FM Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
& WNIC
WNIC
WNIC is an American radio station based in Detroit, Michigan broadcasting at 100.3 MHz FM. WNIC's studios and offices are located in Farmington Hills, MI. WNIC's transmitter is located near Schoolcraft and Livernois Avenue in the City of Detroit on the near west side. WNIC broadcasts with an...
in Detroit, although they lean more younger than Jill-FM. In 2011 the stations dropped the "Jill-FM" name and are now simply known as "Playlist 92.7." The format switched to oldies from 1964 to 2010, a mix of top-40, R&B, adult contemporary and modern rock, as the station is still generally considered adult contemporary according to Radio-Info.com despite being the only station in Los Angeles similar to KOST
KOST
KOST is a radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, with an adult contemporary musical format. It is one of three adult contemporary formatted radio station in the Los Angeles/Orange County area, the others being sister station KBIG and CBS-owned KTWV...
, although KCBS-FM
KCBS-FM
KCBS-FM is a radio station in Los Angeles, California broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on 93.1 FM. KCBS-FM airs an adult hits music format branded as "Jack-FM"....
airs the 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 for Los Angeles. The stations' slogan is "We play everything."