KRCD (FM)

KRCD/KRCV
City of license	KRCD: Inglewood KRCV: West Covina
Broadcast area	KRCD: Los Angeles KRCV: Riverside-San Bernardino
Branding	103.9 FM/98.3 FM Mas Variedad
Frequency	KRCD: 103.9 (MHz) KRCV: 98.3 (MHz)
First air date	KRCD: 1959 KRCV: 1962
Format	Spanish Adult Hits
ERP	KRCD: 4,100 watts KRCV: 6,000 watts
HAAT	KRCD: 118 meters KRCV: 91 meters
Class	KRCD: A KRCV: A
Callsign meaning	KRCD: ReCuerDo (station name) KRCV: ReCuerdo West CoVina
Owner	Univision Radio (Univision Radio License Corporation)
Sister stations	KLVE, KSCA, KTNQ, KMEX-DT, KFTR-DT
Webcast	Listen Live (via iHeartRadio)
Website	Official Website

KRCD is a commercial radio station in Inglewood, California, broadcasting to the Los Angeles area on 103.9 FM. The station is owned by Univision Radio, a subsidiary of Univision Communications.

KRCV is a commercial radio station in West Covina, California, broadcasting to the western sections of the Riverside-San Bernardino (Inland Empire) area on 98.3 FM.

KRCV & KRCD airs a Spanish language Adult Hits music format branded as "Mas Variedad".

The stations' have studios located on Center Drive (near I-405) in west Los Angeles. KRCD's transmitter is based on a site in the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Baldwin Hills (mountain range), while KRCV's transmitter is based in Pomona.

History

KTYM-FM 103.9FM

The very first Black music programming on 103.9-FM, Los Angeles, was in 1961. In those days FM was in its infancy and most people did not have FM in their autos. When Al Williams's KTYM AM was purchased the KTYM-FM was thrown in for free.

The very first Black Operations Manager on Los Angeles FM was Charles (Chuck) Johnson and the very first Black Program Director was Lonnie Cook, they constituted the only paid staff. The broadcast was on from sunset to midnight after a switchover from daytime programming. The station airtime was brokered with the exception of the shows hosted by these two. Cook hailed from Kansas City, Kansas, and Johnson had been a celebrated DJ at KPRS Kansas City, MO.

The format was R&B, Doo Wop, and Blues and its programs included one hosted by Floyd Ray, the owner of the first all Black Los Angeles Record Distributor and former big band leader. An in studio picture of all of the DJ's can be found online. Ron Johnson (in the picture) was the lone caucasian jock.The operation endured for 3 years.

The format was aired from 6pm to midnight and was shut down by Lonnie Cook with the closing theme song "Sugarloaf at Twilight" by Ahmad Jamal., as he doubled as engineer. Many future celebrities made their debuts on the station including a policeman running for office, Tom Bradley. LaMonte McLemore was a member of The Intervals (the Doo Wop group that represented the station at promotional functions) and was the station photographer (he was also the exclusive source of the center page models in Jet magazine); he later was one of The Fifth Dimension.

KTYM-FM was noted for its independent approach to programming and many times refused to air the designated "A" side of a record. It even played formerly banned tunes like "Your Old Lady" by The Isley Bros. (banned in 1961). Cook featured the Doo Wop "B" side "Write to me". KGFJ"s Larry McCormick (brother to lead singer Charles from Bloodstone) heard the station making noise and getting attention with "Your Old Lady" and added it to his play list and to his televised dance show. When Atlantic Records got calls for the 45 they put it back on the market. Billboard had a "New" hit.

Johnson and Cook moved on to KAPP-FM and have been credited with establishing the very first Top 40 sheet on any FM station anywhere in the world.

KACE FM

For the next three and a half decades 103.9, later with the new call letters KACE, played urban contemporary music. It became one of the premiere stations for African Americans in the Los Angeles area. The station was owned by former Green Bay Packers defensive end Willie Davis and his wife Ann. Some of the air personalities included Steve Woods (deceased), Lawrence Tanter, Pam Wells, Lisa Lipps, Ken Taylor, Hamilton Cloud, E.Z. Wiggins, Karla with a K, Antoinette Russell, Mike Mann, and Rico Reed. News and Public Affairs personalities included Ron Dungee, Sam Putney, Mark Whitlock, Isidra Person-Lynn and Kevin A. Ross. For a three-year period, between 1988–90, the station featured a nightclub formatted music "mix" show six days a week, with Southern California club DJ Elvin Bridges. In addition to being an on-air personality, Bridges created and produced his own Mon-Fri weekday music mix show that aired during the afternoon rush hour he coined "Bumper To Bumper - In The Mix with Elvin Bridges;" plus a weekly three hour Saturday night party music mix show. Let's Talk, Speak Out, Sunday Morning Live and The People's Connection were popular community affairs talk shows. Production director Mark Drummond was also assistant program director during the Cox Years (see below), and later worked on the production staffs at KFI, KRBV, and KJLL.

It briefly experimented with a hip hop/R&B format in 1993 as V103.9, and would add an Inland Empire simulcast, KAEV. However, in October of that same year Davis' company, capitalizing on the political and social backlash against hip-hop music, announced an outright prohibition of the words "bitch," "ho," and "nigger" on air and shifted to an "Positive Urban" format. However, this lowered ratings significantly and Davis soon flipped KACE to urban oldies and flipped KAEV to modern rock as KCXX, thereby ending the simulcast. (Another local station, KPWR, also banned the words, but did not change the format.) KACE was sold to Cox Radio, then also the owner of KFI-AM and KOST-FM in 1994.

98.3FM

This station was long known as KBOB-FM and had easy listening and adult contemporary formats for most of its run as a San Gabriel Valley-based station. In the mid-1990s, it picked up a unique rock en español format and became KRTO, "Ritmo 98.3." Shortly after Cox bought KACE, it added to fill in some blank spots in KACE's signal.

Later, KBOB-FM was an active rock station in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois.

Simulcast

In 1999, the stations added The Tom Joyner Morning Show but ratings remained low. In 2000, Cox traded KOST and KFI to AMFM (now part of iHeartMedia, Inc.) for some stations in Atlanta. KACE/KRTO were sold to Hispanic Broadcasting Company (now owned by Univision Communications through its Univision Radio subsidiary), and flipped to its current format.

External links

Official Website

Radio stations in the Los Angeles, California market

By FM frequency	87.7¹ 88.1 88.5 88.7 88.7 88.9 88.9 89.3 89.9 90.1 90.3 90.7 91.3 91.5 91.9 92.3 92.7 93.1 93.5 93.9 94.3 94.7 95.5 95.9 96.3 96.7 97.1 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 103.9 104.3 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.7 107.1 107.5 Orange County 88.5 88.9 90.1 92.7 94.3 95.9 96.7 103.1 106.3 107.9

By AM frequency	570 590 600 640² 670 710 740 760 790 830 870 900 930 980 1020 1070² 1110 1150 1190 1220 1230 1240 1260 1280 1290 1300 1330 1350 1370 1410 1430 1440 1460 1480 1500 1510 1540 1560 1570 1580 1600 1650 1670 Orange County 830 1190 1480

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 162.450 162.525 162.550

Digital radio	640 980 1070 88.1-1 88.1-2 88.1-3 88.5-1 88.5-2 89.3-1 89.9-1 89.9-2 91.5-1 92.3-1 92.3-2 92.3-3 93.1-1 93.1-2 93.9-1 94.7-1 94.7-2 95.5-1 95.5-2 96.7-1 97.1-1 97.1-2 98.7-1 98.7-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 102.7-1 102.7-2 103.1-1 103.5-1 103.5-2 104.3-1 104.3-2 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.1-3 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.1-1 107.5-1 107.5-2 107.5-3 107.9-1

By callsign	KABC KAMP-FM KAHZ KALI KALI-FM KAZN KBIG KBPK KBRT KBUE KBUA KCAA KCAL KCBS-FM KCRW KCSN KDAY KDIS KDLD KDLE KEIB KEZY KFI KFMB KFNY KFRN KFSH-FM KFWB KGBN KHJ KHPY KHTS KIEV KIIS-FM KIRN KISL KJLH KKDD KKGO KKJZ KKLA-FM KLAA KLAC KLAX-FM KLOS KLTX KLVE KMPC KMRB KMZT KNX² KOGO KOST KPCC KPFK KPRO KPWR KRCD KRCV KRLA KROQ-FM KRRL KRTH KSAK KSBR KSCA KSPA KSPC KSPN KSSE KSWD KTDD KTIE KTLW KTNQ KTWV KTYM KUCI KUSC KVNR KWIZ KWKW KWO37 KWRM KWVE-FM KXLU KXOL-FM KXOS KXSC KYLA KYPA KYSR WWG21 WNG584 WZ2505

Defunct	KACD/KBCD KACE KEDG KFAC KIBB KIIS KIQQ KJLH KKBT KKDJ KKHR KMET KMJR/KNJR KMPC KNAC KNHS KNOB KNX-FM KODJ KPPC KQLZ KRBV KSKQ KSKQ-FM KUTE KWST-FM KFSG KZAB/KZBA KZLA-FM KIEV KPOL KTZN KXED KXMG KYMS

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 222 Sirius Channel 150 Nearby radio markets Bakersfield High Desert/Eastern Sierra Oxnard–Ventura Riverside/San Bernardino San Diego Santa Barbara Victor Valley See also List of radio stations in California ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (KSFV-CA/Religious) ² Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage.

Radio stations in the Riverside/San Bernardino, California market

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By FM frequency	87.7¹ 88.3 88.7 88.9 89.1 89.7 90.1 91.9 92.9 93.5 94.3 94.5 95.1 96.1 96.7 97.5 98.1 98.3 98.3 99.1 99.9 100.9 101.3 101.7 103.3 103.9 104.7 105.5 105.7 106.5 106.9 ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (KRPE-LP/Rel)

By callsign	K251AH K252BF K295AI KAEH KATY-FM KCAA KCAL KCAL-FM KDEY-FM KEZY KFNY KFRG KGGI KGIC-LP KHPY KHTI KJVA-LP KKDD KLRD KLYY KMET KMYT KOLA KPRO KQIE KRCV KRQB KCAA KSDW KSGN KSPA KSPC KTDD KTIE KTMQ KUCR KUOR KVCR KWRM KXFG KXRS KXSB K293CF

Nearby radio markets Barstow High Desert/Eastern Sierra Los Angeles Palm Springs San Diego Victor Valley See also List of radio stations in California

Spanish-language radio stations in the state of California

Stations	KAEH – Beaumont KAFY – Bakersfield KALI – West Covina KATD – Pittsburg KAZA – Gilroy KBAA – Grass Valley KBBF – Santa Rosa KBBU – Modesto KBFP-FM – Delano KBHH – Kerman KBKY – Merced KBLA – Santa Monica KBLO – Corcoran KBRG – San Jose KBTW – Lenwood KBUA – San Fernando KBUE – Long Beach KBYN – Arnold KBYN – City of Angels KCAL – Redlands KCFA – Arnold KCHJ – Delano KCVR – Lodi KCVR-FM – Columbia KDBV – Salinas KEBN – Garden Grove KEPD – Ridgecrest KERU – Blythe KESQ – Indio KEXA – King City KEYQ – Fresno KFSD – Escondido KFSG – Roseville KFSO – Visalia KFVR – Crescent City KGEN – Tulare KGEN-FM – Hanford KGRB – Jackson KGST – Fresno KGZO – Shafter KHDC – Chualar KHJ – Los Angeles KHPY – Moreno Valley KIDI – Lompoc KIQI – San Francisco KIQQ – Barstow KIQQ-FM – Newberry Springs KIQS – Willows KIST-FM – Carpinteria KIWI – Mcfarland KJDJ – San Luis Obispo KJOR – Windsor KLAX-FM – East Los Angeles KLBN – Fresno KLJR-FM – Santa Paula KLLE – North Fork KLMG – Esparto KLMM – Morro Bay KLNV – San Diego KLOB – Thousand Palms KLOK-FM – Greenfield KLOQ – Winton KLQV – San Diego KLTX – Long Beach KLUN – Paso Robles KLVE – Los Angeles KLYY – Riverside KMAK – Orange Cove KMBX – Soledad KMEN – Mendota KMIX – Tracy KMJE-FM – Placerville KMJV – Soledad KMLA – El Rio KMPG – Hollister KMPO – Modesto KMQA – East Porterville KMRO – Camarillo KMYX-FM – Arvin KNCR – Fortuna KNTO – Chowchilla KODV – Barstow KOND – Clovis KOXR – Oxnard KPRC-FM – Salinas KPSL-FM – Bakersfield KPST-FM – Coachella KQLB – Los Banos KRAY – Salinas KRCD – Inglewood KRCV – West Covina KRCX-FM – Marysville KRDA – Hanford KRHM – Bakersfield KRQK – Lompoc KRRS – Santa Rosa KSCA – Glendale KSDO – San Diego KSDT – Hemet KSEA – Greenfield KSEH – Brawley KSES – Seaside KSJO – San Jose KSJV – Fresno KSKD – Livingston KSLK – Visalia KSMY – Lompoc KSOL – San Francisco KSPA – Ontario KSPE – Santa Barbara KSQL – Santa Cruz KSRT – Cloverdale KSSC – Ventura KSSD – Fallbrook KSSE – Arcadia KTAP – Santa Maria KTGE – Salinas KTIQ – Merced KTMZ – Pomona KTNQ – Los Angeles KTOR – Gerber KTQX – Bakersfield KTRB – San Francisco KTSE – Patterson KUBO – Calexico KUFW – Woodlake KUNA-FM – La Quinta KVTR – Victorville KVUH – Laytonville KVVF – Santa Clara KVVZ – San Rafael KWAC – Bakersfield KWIZ – Santa Ana KWKW – Los Angeles KWRN – Apple Valley KWRU – Fresno KWST – El Centro KXLM – Oxnard KXOL-FM – Los Angeles KXRS – Hemet KXRS – Hemet KXSB – Big Bear Lake KXSE – Davis KXSM – Hollister KXTS – Geyserville KXXZ – Barstow KXZM – Felton KZER – Santa Barbara KZNB – Petaluma KZSF – San Jose KZSJ – San Martin

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in California See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other

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Coordinates: 34°00′26″N 118°21′57″W / 34.0072°N 118.3659°W / 34.0072; -118.3659

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