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KGFM
KGFM (101.5 MHz, "101.5 Big FM") is a commercial FM radio station in Bakersfield, California. The station is owned by American General Media and the license is held by AGM California. KGFM airs an adult hits format. The studios and offices are on Easton Drive. The transmitter is off Breckenridge Road. DECEMBER 4 2018 TODAY BEST HITS MUSIC 2018 DECEMBER KGFM 10 15 FM RADIO NOVEMBER 30 History On October 1, 1964, KGFM first signed on the air. It was the sister station of AM 1230 KGEE (now KGEO). Originally, KGFM was largely an instrumental beautiful music station through the 1960s and 70s. By the 1980s, it was adding more vocals and had moved to an easy listening sound. By 1992, KGFM completed the transition to soft adult contemporary. KGFM stayed with Soft AC until 2005, when the decision was made to emphasize gold product. In 2007, the station evolved toward a soft adult hits format. During the weekends, it played songs from the 1960s and 1970s, which targeted t ...
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KGEO
KGEO (1230 AM, "ESPN Bakersfield") is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Bakersfield, California, United States. It is the flagship station of American General Media, it serves inland central California. The station's studios are located at Easton Business Complex in southwest Bakersfield, and its transmitter is located southwest of Highway 58 and Union Avenue in southeast Bakersfield. The station was assigned the KGEO call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on May 18, 1981. KWAC (AM) operates from KGEO's transmitter site and uses its tower. History The station signed on in 1945 as KERO. At that time, it broadcast from the El Tejon hotel in Downtown Bakersfield. In 1953, it spawned Bakersfield's second television station, which still bears the KERO-TV calls. Original local owner Kern County Broadcasters sold off the radio station in 1955, and the call letters were changed to KGEE. It supported a mix of talk and popular music. Its mon ...
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KKXX-FM
KKXX-FM (93.1 FM, "Hits 93.1") is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) musical format. KKXX-FM is licensed to Shafter, California, and serves the Bakersfield, California area. The station is owned by American General Media. The station's studios are located at Easton Business Complex in southwest Bakersfield, and its transmitter is located just north of Oildale. From the late 1970s through the early 2000s, under several owners, KKXX was one of the most popular radio stations in Bakersfield and Kern County for youth oriented music. History KKXX-FM went on the air in 1977 at 107.9 FM and was owned by Buck Owens Productions. Its transmitter is located on top of Mount Adelaide, northeast of Bakersfield. At the time Owens owned both KKXX and KUZZ located at 550 on the AM dial. Under Owens, KKXX was programmed as an adult contemporary/Top 40 station well into the 1980s. During that time it sat at the top of the ratings in Bakersfield. In 1988, Owens dumped the KKXX call le ...
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Beautiful Music
Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM, B/EZ or BM/EZ for "beautiful music/easy listening") is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in North American radio from the late 1950s through the 1980s. Easy listening, elevator music, light music, mood music, and Muzak are other terms that overlap with this format and the style of music that it featured. Beautiful music can also be regarded as a subset of the middle of the road radio format. History Beautiful music initially offered soft and unobtrusive instrumental selections on a very structured schedule with limited commercial interruptions. It often functioned as a free background music service for stores, with commercial breaks consisting only of announcements aimed at shoppers already in the stores. This practice was known as "storecasting" and was very common on the FM dial in the 1940s and 1950s. Many of these FM stations usually simulcast their AM station and used a subcarrier ( SCA) to transmit a hitch ...
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American General Media
American General Media is a media company specializing in radio. It was founded by Lawrence Brandon and is operated by sons Anthony and Rogers. American General Media is headquartered in Bakersfield, California. Lawrence Brandon owned and operated over 75 radio stations during his tenure; today the company operates stations throughout the Southwest. Markets and stations Albuquerque/Santa Fe *KABG in Los Alamos, New Mexico * KHFM in Santa Fe, New Mexico *KIOT in Los Lunas, New Mexico * KJFA in Belen, New Mexico *KJFA-FM in Pecos, New Mexico * KKRG in Santa Fe, New Mexico *KKSS in Santa Fe, New Mexico *KLVO in Belen, New Mexico Bakersfield, California *KEBT in Lost Hills, California *KERN in Wasco-Greenacres, California *KISV in Bakersfield, California *KGEO in Bakersfield, California *KGFM in Bakersfield, California * KKXX in Shafter, California *K241CI in Bakersfield, California *K266CG in Bakersfield, California Cortez, Colorado *KRTZ in Cortez, Colorado *KVFC in Cortez, ...
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KEBT
KEBT (96.9 FM "La Caliente 96.9") is a radio station licensed to Lost Hills, California, United States. The station is owned by American General Media of California. The station airs a Spanish music format. Its studios are located at the Easton Business Complex in southwest Bakersfield, and its transmitter is located west of McKittrick, California. History The station was assigned the KEBT call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on May 22, 2006. On May 30, 2006, KEBT began its broadcast in Bakersfield with a Rhythmic/Old School format. The station was known as ''96.9 The Beat.'' On September 27, 2007, the station changed programming formats and is now a Regional Mexican Regional Mexican is a Latin music radio format encompassing the musical genres from the different parts of rural Mexico and the Southwestern United States. Genres include banda, country en español, Duranguense, grupero, mariachi, New Mexico ... station known as ''La Caliente 96.9.'' Pr ...
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KERN
KERN (1180 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Wasco-Greenacres, California, and serving the Bakersfield metropolitan area. The station is owned by American General Media. The radio studios and offices are in the American General Media complex at 1400 Easton Drive, STE 134 in Bakersfield. KERN airs a talk radio format. On weekdays, local host Scott Cox anchors "First Look" and Ralph Bailey is heard in afternoon drive time. The rest of the weekday schedule comes from nationally syndicated conservative talk shows: Dan Bongino, Larry Elder, Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis & Buck Sexton and "Red Eye Radio." Weekends feature shows on health, money, real estate, home repair, law and computers. Weekend syndicated shows include Kim Komando, Bill Cunningham and Bruce DuMont. Some weekend hours are paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with world and national news from ABC News Radio. KERN is the flagship station of the Bakersfield College Renegades sports teams and C ...
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KISV
KISV (94.1 FM, "HOT 94.1") is a Rhythmic Top 40 music formatted radio station based in Bakersfield, California. The American General Media outlet broadcasts with an ERP of 4.5 kW. Its studios are located at the Easton Business Complex in southwest Bakersfield, and its transmitter is located east of the city. History The station signed on the air in 1948 as KERN-FM. It was well known in the 1980s as KQXR or Q94 FM. At that time it had a Top 40 format that leaned towards adult contemporary. After taking a beating from then-rhythmic KKXX 105.3FM, the call letters were changed in 1989 to KERN-FM (94 Oldies), along with the format. For the next eight years the station supported an oldies format, specializing in Top 40 music from the years 1955-1974 and featuring syndicated shows such as "Cruisin' America with Cousin Brucie" and "Dick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember." It performed fairly well in the Arbitron ratings. But in 1997 the station was relaunched as "The All New KISS 94.1, ...
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Sister Station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement. Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and sometimes one station is on the AM band while another is on the FM band. Conversely, several types of sister-station relationships exist in television; stations in the same city will usually be affiliated with different television networks (often one with a major network and the other with a secondary network), and may occasionally shift television programs between each other when local events require one station to interrupt its network feed. Sister stations in separate (but often nearby) cities owned by the same company may or may not share a network affiliation. For example, WNYW and WWOR-TV, in New York City and Secaucus, New Jersey, are both owned by Fox Corporation. WNYW is a Fox owned-and-operated station; WWOR-TV is a MyNetworkTV own ...
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AM 1230
The following radio stations Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio sta ... broadcast on AM frequency 1230 kHz: 1230 AM is a regional ( Class B) frequency outside the coterminous United States (Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and a local ( Class C) broadcast frequency within the coterminous 48 states. Argentina * LT2 in Rosario, Santa Fe. Bermuda * ZFB Canada Mexico * in Guadalajara, Jalisco * in Monterrey, Nuevo León * in Villahermosa, Tabasco United States References {{Lists of radio stations by frequency Lists of radio stations by frequency ...
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Easy Listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non-rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs. It mostly concentrates on music that pre-dates the rock and roll era, characteristically on music from the 1940s and 1950s. It was differentiated from the mostly instrumental beautiful music format by its variety of styles, including a percentage of vocals, arrangements and tempos to fit various parts of the broadcast day. Easy listening music is often confused with lounge music, but while it was popular in some of the same venues it was meant to be listened to for enjoyment rather than as background sound. History The style has been synonymous with the tag "with strings". String instruments had been used in sweet bands in the 1930s and was the dominant sound track ...
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Soft Adult Contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence. Adult contemporary is generally a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music. Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure. The format is heavy on romantic sentimental ballads which mostly use acoustic instruments (though bass guitar is usually used) such as acoustic gu ...
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Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's population as of the 2020 census was 403,455, making it the 48th-most populous city in the United States of America and the 9th-most populous city in California. The Bakersfield–Delano Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Kern County, had a 2020 census population of 909,235, making it the 62nd-largest metropolitan area in the United States. The more built-up portion of the metro area that includes Bakersfield and areas immediately around the city, such as East Bakersfield, Oildale, and Rosedale, has a population of 523,994. Bakersfield is a significant hub for both agriculture and energy production. Kern County is the most productive oil-producing county in California and the fourth-most productive agricultural county (by ...
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