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| Broadcast area | Los Angeles, California |
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| Frequency | 1070 kHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | KNX 1070 Newsradio |
| Programming | |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Affiliations | CBS News The Weather Channel |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KCAL-TV, KCBS-TV, KCBS-FM, KFWB, KAMP, KROQ, KRTH, KTWV | |
| History | |
First air date | September 10, 1920 (as 6ADZ) |
Call sign meaning | Although the call letters were assigned sequentially on May 4, 1922; the callsign stood for the ANneX of Spring Street Arcade. [2] |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 9616 |
| Class | A |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°51′35.00″N 118°20′56.00″W / 35.8597222°N 118.3488889°W |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.knx1070.com |
KNX (1070 kHz) is an all-news radio station in Los Angeles, California, USA. The station operates on a clear channel and is owned by CBS Radio. KNX broadcasts from facilities shared with sister stations KFWB, KCBS-FM, KTWV, and KAMP on Los Angeles' Miracle Mile, and maintains its transmitter and antenna array site at Columbia Park in Torrance northeast of the intersection of Hawthorne Boulevard and 190th Street. The station also broadcasts a high-definition HD Radio signal and streams online through its web site.
KNX's notably powerful signal (esp. at night hours) can be heard in large sections of the United States, Mexico, southernmost Canada, into Alaska and Hawaii. But a few reports of KNX being received across the Pacific Ocean on some radio sets from Japan, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Panama, Colombia, Peru and Chile are not far-fetched. Many 50,000+ watt stations on coastal cities worldwide have the ability to "bounce" throughout an ocean to the other side. [citation needed]
History
KNX began broadcasting under the callsign 6 ADZ on September 20, 1920.[1] By 1922, the station was in competition with many other stations in the area, all sharing a single wavelength of 360 meters (roughly 833 kHz). The AM broadcast band had not been defined at the time, and stations were required to share frequencies.[2] The station became KNX on May 4, 1922.[3]
In 1929, the transmitter of the station was upgraded to 5,000 watts, and in 1932, was raised to 10,000 watts of power. During this time, the station changed owners and was operated by Western Broadcast Company. A year later, in 1933, the station moved studios to another part of Hollywood, and was allowed to raise its power to 25,000 watts. The following year, the transmitting power was raised to 50,000 watts, which the station continues presently.[4]
CBS radio began operating on KNX in 1936. In 1938, the CBS Columbia Square studios[5] were dedicated for KNX as well as West Coast operations for the entire CBS radio network; several legendary performers from the Golden Age of American network radio broadcast from there, including Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, George Burns, Edgar Bergen, and during the early 1960s, actor Bob Crane.[citation needed]
KNX became an all-news station in the spring of 1968; its first major breaking news coverage was of the assassination of Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, in June of that year.[citation needed]
In August 2005, KNX moved out of Columbia Square after 67 years of operations there, and began broadcasting from new studios on Wilshire Boulevard in an area known as the Miracle Mile.[6]
Broadcast Schedule
KNX features CBS News at the top of each hour. Traffic and weather are together on the fives, (example :05, :15, :25, :35, :45, etc). Business news from the station is at 10 and 40 past the hour and sports is featured at 20 and 50 past the hour. Several talk programs can be heard during the day. A list of programs can be found on the station's website.
References
See also
External links
- KNX 1070
- Facility details for Facility ID KNX ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- KNX Station History, Historical Dates
- Farewell broadcast from Columbia Square
- KCBS-TV video, KNX Columbia Square sign-off
- KNX tour, on the site of Chief Engineer Paul Sakrison