KKGO
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| City | Los Angeles, California |
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| Broadcast area | Los Angeles Metro Area |
| Branding |
Go Country 105 105.1 Your Christmas Destination (Nov.-Dec.) |
| Slogan |
Southern California's Country Station Southern California's Christmas Destination (Nov.-Dec.) |
| Frequency | 105.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | February 18, 1959 (as KBCA) |
| Format |
FM/HD1: Country Christmas music (Nov.-Dec.) HD2: Oldies "1260 K-SURF" (KSUR simulcast) HD3: Adult standards "Unforgettable L.A." |
| Audience share | 2.2  (January 2017, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
| ERP | 18,000 watts |
| HAAT | 880 meters (2,890 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 43939 |
| Callsign meaning | KK-GO Country 105 (current on-air moniker) |
| Former callsigns | KBCA (1959-1979) KKGO (1979-2000) KMZT (2000-2007) |
| Owner | Mount Wilson Broadcasting |
| Sister stations | KSUR |
| Webcast |
KKGO Webstream KKGO-HD2 Webstream KKGO-HD3 Webstream |
| Website |
gocountry105.com laoldies.com (HD2) unforgettable1260.com (HD3) |
KKGO is a commercial radio station located in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting on 105.1 FM. KKGO airs a Country music format and branded as Go Country 105.
KKGO was founded by Saul Levine and is still owned by his corporation, Mount Wilson Broadcasting, and remains the only independently owned-and-operated FM radio station licensed to Los Angeles.
Saul Levine launched the station at 105.1 in February 1959 as KBCA, and it was one of the first FM stations to broadcast from Mount Wilson. In 1979, the station changed its callsign to KKGO. This was prompted by a court challenge from KABC, according to one local podcaster. The station aired a traditional jazz music format until 1989.
When cross-town KFAC dropped classical music in favor of a popular music format on September 20, 1989, KKGO adopted KFAC's displaced classical music format. The official switch from jazz to classical occurred on January 1, 1990, and began with selections from Franz Lehár's operetta The Land of Smiles. In 2000, the call letters were changed to KMZT to reflect on their rebranding as "K-Mozart". The KKGO call letters were then moved to AM 1260.
The station began broadcasting an HD Radio digital signal in 2005, and Mount Wilson Broadcasting started multicasting the programming of its two AM stations, KKGO in Beverly Hills and XESURF in the Tijuana, Mexico-San Diego border area, on its HD2 signal, which then had an adult standards format known as "Unforgettable 540 & 1260". While the AM signals combine to cover much of the Southern California area, they were still weak, especially at night in the Orange County area, and the FM HD2 simulcast helped boost the reach of the format. The Adult Standards programming, Unforgettable is available on KKGO 105.1 FM HD3.
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