KWKW
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| City | Los Angeles, California |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Los Angeles Area |
| Branding | Radio Deportes |
| Slogan | "Donde Puedes Escuchar Radio de Deportes de Todo El Mundo" (Where you can listen to sports radio all around the world.) |
| Frequency | 1330 kHz |
| First air date | March 10, 1922 |
| Format | Sports |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| Audience share | 0.6  (January 2017, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
| Power | 5,000 watts (day) 5,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 38454 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°01′10″N 118°20′44″W / 34.01944°N 118.34556°W |
| Former callsigns | KFAC (1988-1989) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Deportes Radio |
| Owner | Lotus Communications Corp. (operated via LMA by the Walt Disney Company) (Lotus Los Angeles Corp.) |
| Sister stations |
Through Disney: ABC 7 ESPN LA Radio Disney |
| Website | radiodeportes.com |
KWKW (1330 AM, "Radio Deportes") is an American radio station licensed to serve Los Angeles, California. The station is owned by Lotus Communications Corporation, through licensee Lotus Los Angeles Corp.
KWKW was one of the first Spanish-language radio stations in the Greater Los Angeles area. Currently, the station broadcasts an all-sports format as an affiliate of ESPN Deportes Radio.
KWKW is one of the oldest radio stations in Los Angeles, first signing on the air as KJS on March 10, 1922.
KWKW along with KSAN San Francisco and KGST Fresno are among the first Spanish-language radio stations in California. Since the 1950s, KWKW played various forms of Spanish-language music on AM 1300 from its studios in Pasadena, California. They were the Spanish language station of the Los Angeles Dodgers from their first year in L.A. in 1958 to the 1990s.
In 1989, KWKW traded licences and therefore frequencies with KAZN and this moved KWKW onto the 1330 frequency and moved its studios to Los Angeles. The station started to focus on Mexican regional music (including mariachi and banda) calling itself "La Mexicana."
In 2004, KWKW stopped playing music and began all-sports programming in an alliance with ESPN Deportes Radio, a brand of the ESPN sports empire. The station still airs some non-sports programs on a time brokerage basis on Sunday nights.
KWKW broadcasts Spanish-language play-by-play of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (baseball), Los Angeles Lakers (basketball), Los Angeles Kings (hockey) and the Los Angeles Galaxy (soccer). They had been the Los Angeles Avengers (arena football) en español flagship station until the team folded in April 2009.
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