KBOQ (AM)
| City | Beverly Hills, California |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Los Angeles metropolitan area |
| Branding | LA Oldies 1260 K-Surf |
| Frequency | 1260 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | 105.1-2 KKGO-HD2 |
| First air date | October 19, 1947 (as KGIL) |
| Format | Oldies |
| Power | 20,000 watts (Day) 7,500 watts (Night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 43937 |
| Former callsigns |
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| Owner | Mount Wilson Broadcasting |
| Sister stations |
KKGO (Also programs KKJZ for California State University, Long Beach) |
| Webcast | Web player |
| Website | laoldies.com |
KSUR (1260 kHz, "L.A. Oldies 1260 K-SURF") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Beverly Hills, California, and broadcasting to the Los Angeles metropolitan area. KSUR is owned by Mount Wilson Broadcasting and airs an Oldies radio format that is also simulcast on sister station KKGO 105.1 FM HD2.
While the station does not broadcast an HD signal on 1260 AM, it is simulcast on the HD-2 channel of 105.1 KKGO. KSUR's transmitter is on 14808 Lassen Street in Mission Hills, Los Angeles.
KGIL began broadcasting October 19, 1947, on 1260 kHz with 1000 watts of power full-time. The station was licensed to San Fernando Valley Broadcasting Company, with studios and executive offices at 4919 Van Nuys Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, California.
At that time, it aired a big band music format. KGIL aired other formats including talk until 1993.
From 1993 to 1995, it had the call letters KJQI, playing adult standards music. In 1995, it became K-NEWS, simulcasting with XESURF Tijuana (then with call letters XETIN) and now-defunct KNNZ in Costa Mesa, California. K-NEWS was an all-news radio service with content from the Associated Press or local announcers Peter Arbogast, Jim Roope, and H.K. Malay. K-NEWS was also the home of the Los Angeles Clippers and had an unprecedented 8 traffic reports an hour, causing competitors KNX and KFWB to add more traffic reports to their schedules. In late 1996, the station reverted to the KGIL call letters and hosted an all-Beatles lineup for seven months. The station then went all Broadway show tunes in August 1997 to sometime in 1998. The station then switched to Music of Your Life before going to a mainstream jazz format, with the call letters KJAZ, in 2000. Then, in 2002, it took on the call letters KSUR and began broadcasting an adult standards format, changing its call letters to KKGO in 2005. From August 2004 to June 2005 the station played an oldies format playing music from the 1950s and 1960s.
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