City | Los Angeles, California |
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Broadcast area | Greater Los Angeles |
Branding | KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO |
Slogan |
"Southern California's only 24-hour local news and traffic station" "News that matters to you, depend on us." "News without noise." |
Frequency | 1070 kHz (also on HD Radio) 97.1 FM HD2 KAMP-FM (simulcast) 94.7 FM HD3 KTWV (simulcast) |
First air date | September 10, 1920 (as 6ADZ) |
Format | All News |
Language(s) | English |
Power | 50,000 watts |
Class | A (Clear channel) |
Facility ID | 9616 |
Transmitter coordinates |
33°51′35″N 118°20′59″W / 33.85972°N 118.34972°W (main antenna) 33°51′38″N 118°20′57″W / 33.86056°N 118.34917°W (auxiliary antenna) |
Callsign meaning | Assigned sequentially on May 4, 1922; unofficially, the callsign stood for the ANneX of Spring Street Arcade. |
Affiliations | CBS Radio Network, Bloomberg Radio, The Weather Channel |
Owner |
CBS Radio (sale to Entercom pending) (CBS Radio East Inc.) |
Sister stations | KAMP-FM, KCAL-TV, KCBS-TV, KCBS-FM, KROQ-FM, KRTH, KTWV |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | KNX 1070 |
KNX is an AM radio station broadcasting on 1070 kHz in Los Angeles, California, United States. It airs an all-news format. The station is owned by the CBS Radio subsidiary of CBS Corporation. KNX holds a Class A license as one of the original clear-channel stations allocated under the 1928 U.S. band plan. Its non-directional 50,000-watt signal can be heard during the day around Southern California and some nights through much of the Western United States and parts of Mexico and Canada. KNX broadcasts from facilities shared with sister stations KCBS-FM, KTWV and KAMP-FM located on Los Angeles' Miracle Mile. Its transmitter and antenna array site are located at Columbia Park in Torrance (northeast of the intersection of Hawthorne Boulevard and 190th Street).
The station also broadcasts an HD Radio signal, streams online, and simulcasts on the FM band on KAMP-FM-HD2, and on KTWV-HD3. KNX is one of nine All-News stations owned by CBS.