KMPC
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| City | Los Angeles, California |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Los Angeles |
| Branding | Radio Korea |
| Frequency | 1540 (kHz) |
| First air date | 1952 |
| Format | Korean programming |
| Power | 50,000 watts (day) 37,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 61647 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°4′43″N 118°11′5″W / 34.07861°N 118.18472°WCoordinates: 34°4′43″N 118°11′5″W / 34.07861°N 118.18472°W |
| Callsign meaning |
McMillan Petroleum Company (former owner of the original KMPC, now KSPN) |
| Former callsigns |
KPOL (1952-1979) KZLA (1979-1984) KSKQ (1984-1992) KXED (1992-1996) KXMG (1996-1997) KCTD (1997-2000) |
| Owner | P&Y Broadcasting Licensee, LLC |
| Website | radiokorea.com |
KMPC (1540 AM, "Radio Korea", 라디오코리아) is a radio station based in Los Angeles, California and is owned by P&Y Broadcasting Licensee, LLC. Radio Korea is a division of the Radio Korea Media Group. The station airs Korean-language programming. It broadcasts news, information, and entertainment for the largest Korean-American community in the United States, and the largest Korean community outside of Korea.
KMPC is one of three radio stations in the greater Los Angeles area that broadcast entirely in Korean; the others are KYPA and KFOX.
The history of AM 1540 goes back to its days as KPOL. It aired a wide variety of formats until the early 1980s. KPOL also advertised on the 1959 television series Home Run Derby.
Throughout the 1980s and much of the 1990s, this frequency broadcast in Spanish, first as KXEZ then as KXMG "Mega 1540." In 1997, One on One Sports Inc. of Northbrook, Illinois purchased the station and converted it to sports radio. It was part of the sale to Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures in 2001.
As an all-sports station, it was an owned-and-operated affiliate of Sporting News Radio. However, some of the network's daily programming did not regularly air on the station.
The station covered San Diego Chargers football (one of two flagship stations for the Chargers Radio Network, the other being KIOZ in San Diego), and selected Westwood One sports programming not carried by CBS Radio's KFWB and KLSX. Among the broadcasts that KMPC carried from Westwood One: NCAA basketball, PGA Tour golf tournament updates (mostly those covered by CBS Sports television), the Masters Tournament, NFL football (including Monday Night Football on occasion), and more.
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