KDAY (radio station)
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| Radio station ( private ) | |
| Program type | Classic hip-hop |
| reception | terrestrial ( ultra-short wave , VHF) 93.5 M Hz , HD radio , live stream |
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South Los Angeles , California United States
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| Start of transmission | 1961 |
| owner | Meruelo Radio Holdings, LLC |
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KDAY is an American radio broadcaster in South Los Angeles with a classic hip-hop format . KDAY-AM was the first hip-hop station in the United States to broadcast 24 hours a day and helped spread the genre in the 1970s and 1980s. At the radio station, musicians like Dr. Dre and LL Cool J their careers.
Currently owned by Meruelo Radio Holdings, LLC , KDAY is licensed in Redondo Beach .
history
KDAY started out under the name KAPP-FM as one of the first rhythm and blues and hip-hop radio stations. The station developed a reputation for its innovative programs in these musical genres in the 1970s and 1980s.
The transmitter started as a medium wave station at 1580 k Hz . In the first few years, the program aimed to include the concerns of citizens (“community-based public affairs involvement”).
The concert series “1580 KDAY Gold Give-A-Way” in the Los Angeles Lakers Forum also became famous . Bands like The Jacksons , Cameo , Bike-A-Thon mit Sylvers and Funkadelics performed there.
In order to achieve better sound quality of the music program, the station broadcast in the AM stereo format in the 1980s . The author Dan Charnas writes about these experiments that the broadcasts sounded like two small medium wave radios placed next to each other. KDAY finally discontinued the medium wave stereo signal in the early 1990s.
In the 1990s, the station was on the verge of closure, as other music stations mostly broadcast in higher quality on ultra-short wave (VHF) and a future was predicted for medium-wave radio at most for talk stations. In 1991 real estate mogul Fred Sands bought the station for $ 7.2 million. Sands changed the callsign to KBLA and converted it into a business talk station.
Over ten years later, in 2004, investors reactivated the KDAY brand. They took over the Spanish-speaking VHF station KZAB and promised to revive the old hip-hop station as KDAY-FM (93.5). Various format changes have been made over the years . The station was operated by RBC Communications. She finally licensed her station in Los Angeles to the old callsign KDAY and in San Bernardino County as KDEY . However, the signal is not strong enough to cover the entire area of vast Los Angeles.
In 2012, RBC Communications planned to change the program format again and broadcast it in Mandarin . The disturbed "veteran" listener, so that the plans had to be discarded. In 2013, KDAY was sold to Meruelo Media , a Los Angeles media company. The purchase price is not publicly known, but the station had been on the radio market for two years before it was sold. A sale to the Florida company Magic Broadcasting for $ 20 million had not previously taken place.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dan Charnas: The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop . Penguin, 2011, ISBN 978-1-101-56811-8 ( preview in Google Book Search [accessed February 28, 2017]).
- ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/11/entertainment/la-et-ct-kday-sold-to-meruelo-20131211 accessed on Feb. 28, 2017