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KPLM
KPLM (106.1 MHz) is one of four Class B FM radio stations serving the Palm Springs, California, area and one of only two 50 kW stations. The others are country formatted 42 kW KDES Palm Springs at 98.5 MHz; contemporary album-oriented rock-formatted 26.5 kW KCLB Coachella at 93.7 MHz and beautiful music 50 kW KWXY-FM Cathedral City at 92.3 MHz. The station, then called KPAL, was founded in 1974 by Los Angeles radio personality Magnificent Montague, whose trademark shout, "Burn!" was expanded to "Burn, baby, burn" during the 1965 Watts riots. The construction permit for the station was the first issued to an African-American in four decades. Call sign "KPLM" became available in 1979 when a local television station was purchased by ''Esquire'' magazine. Today, that same TV station retains the call letters of KESQ-TV, although ''Esquire'' no longer owns it. KPLM was an easy listening station through the first years of its existence. By th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KESQ-TV
KESQ-TV (channel 42) is a television station licensed to Palm Springs, California, United States, serving as the American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate for the Coachella Valley. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside five low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power stations: CBS affiliate KPSP-CD (channel 38), Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox affiliate KDFX-CD (channel 33), The CW Plus, CW+ affiliate KCWQ-LD (channel 2), Telemundo affiliate KUNA-LD (channel 15), and AccuWeather affiliate KYAV-LD (channel 12). The stations share studios on Dunham Way in Thousand Palms, California, Thousand Palms, while KESQ-TV's transmitter is located on Edom Hill northeast of Cathedral City, California, Cathedral City and Interstate 10 in California#Riverside County, I-10. Along with other major Coachella Valley television stations, KESQ-TV identifies itself on-air using its cable television, cable designation, channel 3, because of the exceptionally high cable Market ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRHQ
KRHQ is a 2,600 watt Class A commercial classic rock radio station licensed to Indio, California, with studios in Palm Springs and which serves the greater Coachella Valley on 102.3 FM. The transmitter site is on a peak of the Indio Hills. The station (as KJJZ), one of the first smooth jazz stations in the country, aired in 1996. The frequency was allocated less than three years before to KLCX Palm Desert, the area's first classic rock station. Though KLCX began as one of the most ambitious broadcasting projects to come to the Coachella Valley in years, the station soon fell on hard times. Financial troubles forced the sale of KLCX, its license and equipment to RM Broadcasting, owners of KPLM Palm Springs and KAJR Indian Wells. The studio equipment was moved to KPLM's Palm Springs studios. RM Broadcasting hired smooth jazz morning show hosts Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald (1996-2015) and Jeff Michaels (1996-2015). As of November 2006, both KJJZ and KPLM stream real-time audio via the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Lohman
Al Lohman (January 15, 1933, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa – October 14, 2002, Rancho Mirage, California) was a personality and comedian with a long career in American radio from the 1950s through the 1980s and into the 1990s. Among his early career stops was a stint as morning man at New York City top-40 station WABC (AM) when it first adopted a pop music format in 1960. But he's best remembered as a Los Angeles, California radio personality who, along with Roger Barkley, had the top-rated morning drive ''The Lohman and Barkley Show'' on KFI Los Angeles through most of the 1970s and early 1980s. Their fame extended beyond the Los Angeles area, as the duo were frequent guests on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' and were hosts of two short-lived game shows. The first was a 1969 NBC daytime series, ''Lohman & Barkley's Name Droppers'', while the second was a syndicated 1979 entry, ''Bedtime Stories''. The "cast of characters" Audiences tuned in by the thousands to hear Lohman's quick wit a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs (Cahuilla: ''Séc-he'') is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley. The city covers approximately , making it the largest city in Riverside County by land area. With multiple plots in checkerboard pattern, more than 10% of the city is part of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians reservation land and is the administrative capital of the most populated reservation in California. The population of Palm Springs was 44,575 as of the 2020 census, but because Palm Springs is a retirement location and a winter snowbird destination, the city's population triples between November and March. The city is noted for its mid-century modern architecture, design elements, arts and cultural scene, and recreational activities. History Founding Pre-colonial history The first humans to settle in the area were the Cahuilla people, who arrived 2,000 years ago.Baker, Christopher P. (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KJJZ
KJJZ (95.9 FM, "Kool 95.9") is a radio station licensed to Indian Wells, California and broadcasting to the greater Coachella Valley and the Morongo Basin of California. Owned by Marker Broadcasting, it broadcasts an oldies format. History The station first signed on as KAJR and aired an adult hits format as "95.9 Jack FM". The station was launched to give the Coachella Valley a Jack-FM branded station as ( KCBS-FM) in Los Angeles, was about 100 miles (160 km) to the west, and could not be listened to in the Coachella Valley. Three years later in 2010, the station rebranded as "95.9 The Oasis" and adapted a soft adult contemporary format. On August 15, 2016, KJJZ rebranded as "Kool 95.9". In March 2021, the station flipped to hot adult contemporary, maintaining the "Kool 95.9" branding and adding the syndicated '' Elvis Duran and the Morning Show'' and '' On Air with Ryan Seacrest''. On September 20, 2021, KJJZ tweaked their format from hot adult contemporary to Top 40 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KWXY-FM
KWXY (1340 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cathedral City, California, and serving the Palm Springs radio market in the Coachella Valley. The station was founded in 1964 and is owned by Louie Comella, through licensee IVOX RADIO LLC. Studios, offices and the transmitter are on Dinah Shore Drive. Programming is simulcast on 99-watt FM translator station K222DA at 92.3 MHz. History The station previously simulcast on 1340 AM but sold the AM frequency to Ric and Rozene Supple's R&R Radio Corporation of Palm Springs, who flipped the format from its original beautiful music format to progressive talk on August 7, 2006 and changed the call sign to KPTR, making it the area's first Air America Radio affiliate. The network went bankrupt October 13, 2006 but had resumed operation under new ownership until it ultimately shut down in January 2010 and filed for liquidation. KWXY not only had the same format since its inception in October 1964 but the same owner as well. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnificent Montague
Nathaniel "Magnificent" Montague (born in New Jersey, January 11, 1928), is an American R&B disc jockey notable not only for the soul music records he helped promote on KGFJ Los Angeles and WWRL New York City, but also his trademark catch-phrase, "Burn, baby! Burn!" that became the rallying cry of the 1965 Watts riots. Following criticism that this phrase had inadvertently stirred up rioters, Montague advocated non-violence and urged young listeners to pursue their education, coining the new phrase "Learn, baby! Learn!" Semi-retired by the mid-1970s, Montague relocated to Palm Springs, California, where he was instrumental in the launch of easy listening KPLM, today a successful country music station. His was the first radio station construction permit issued to an African-American in four decades. Montague's catchphrase was referenced in the Apollo 11 software code that took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon in 1969: "BURN, BABY, BURN – MASTER IGNITION ROUTINE". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released in 1967 as a single. It topped the pop chart in the United Kingdom, but performed poorly in the United States because Larry Newton, the president of ABC Records, disliked the song and refused to promote it. After it was heard in the film '' Good Morning, Vietnam'', it was reissued as a single in 1988, and rose to number 32 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Armstrong's recording was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. Composition and production Thiele produced the track under his own name, but as a co-composer was initially credited under the pseudonym George Douglas. His real name has appeared on it from its 1988 issue onward. One source claims the song was first offered to Tony Bennett, who turned it down, although Louis Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi disputes this. In Graham Nash's book ''Off the Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smooth Jazz
Smooth jazz is a genre of commercially-oriented crossover jazz and easy listening music that became dominant in the mid 1970s to the early 1990s. History Smooth jazz is a commercially oriented, crossover jazz which came to prominence in the 1980s, displacing the more venturesome jazz fusion from which it emerged. It avoids the improvisational "risk-taking" of jazz fusion, emphasizing melodic form and much of the music was initially "a combination of jazz with easy-listening pop music and lightweight R&B". During the mid-1970s in the United States it was known as "smooth radio", and was not termed "smooth jazz" until the 1980s. Notable artists The mid- to late-1970s included songs “ Breezin'" as performed by another smooth jazz pioneer, guitarist George Benson in 1976, the instrumental composition " Feels So Good" by flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione, in 1978, " What You Won't Do for Love" by Bobby Caldwell along with his debut album was released the same year, jazz fusi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to ''hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encompas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Rock
Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format.Pareles, Jon (June 18, 1986)"Oldies on Rise in Album-Rock Radio" '' The New York Times''. Retrieved April 19, 2019. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by the end of the 1990s. Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading. Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by heritage acts which are still active and producing new music."New York Radio Guide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus (born August 25, 1961) is an American country singer and actor. He has released 16 studio albums and 53 singles since 1992, and is known for his hit single " Achy Breaky Heart", which topped the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart and became the first single ever to achieve triple platinum status in Australia. It was also the best-selling single in the same country in 1992. Due to the song's music video, the line dance rose in popularity. A multi-platinum selling artist, Cyrus has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart. His most successful album to date is his debut '' Some Gave All'', which has been certified 9× multi-platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 (17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era. It ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by only one country album in history, '' Ropin' the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
