KCAA
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| City | Loma Linda, California |
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| Broadcast area | Riverside-San Bernardino |
| Branding | KCAA Radio |
| Slogan | NBC Radio for Southern California |
| Frequency | 1050 AM (kHz), 106.5 FM K293CF Moreno Valley, 102.3 FM K272FQ Riverside |
| First air date | 1964 |
| Format | Full Service |
| Power | 1,400 watts (Day) 35 watts (Night) |
| Class | D |
| Callsign meaning | Keeping CAlifornia Aware |
| Owner | Broadcast Management Services |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.kcaaradio.com |
KCAA is a commercial radio station located in Loma Linda, California, broadcasting to the Riverside-San Bernardino, California, area on 1050 AM with studios located in the Carousel Mall in San Bernardino, California. KCAA airs news, talk, music and brokered programming.
KCAA's most popular program was Imus in the Morning, which was played on a three-hour delay. At the time, it was the only outlet in Southern California to broadcast Imus' show.
KCAA gained notoriety when it began rebroadcasting recent episodes of the Imus program in the days immediately after it had been canceled by CBS Radio. However, CBS Radio sued KCAA, claiming that it has violated copyright restrictions. A settlement was reached between the two parties, when it was announced that the Imus reruns would end Friday, April 27. The station revealed that they were not selling advertising during the reruns.
By the time Imus returned to the air via ABC Radio/Citadel Broadcasting, local morning host Dennis Baxter, who had previously hosted the local news breaks during Imus, had established himself as the station's morning host. KCAA CEO Fred Lundgren considered bringing back Imus in a live time slot (3-6 AM on the West Coast, currently held by Brother Stair) but found ABC's terms, which included rights fees, unacceptable, and refused to pick up the show again. ABC owned and operated station KABC is now the Southern California home of the Imus program; the delayed broadcast was split between WTAN and KSRO. In late August 2008 KCAA GM Dennis Baxter inked a deal with ABC Radio/Citadel Broadcasting to bring Imus back to KCAA starting Thursday, September 1, 2008. Imus in the Morning now airs on KCAA between 7 and 9 am, with Baxter moving to the 9-11 am slot.
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