KWKW

KWKW
City	Los Angeles, California
Broadcast area	Greater Los Angeles Area
Branding	ESPN Deportes LA 1330 AM
Slogan	"Donde Puedes Escuchar Radio de Deportes de Todo El Mundo" (Where you can listen to sports radio from all around the world.)
Frequency	1330 kHz
First air date	March 10, 1922
Format	Sports
Language(s)	Spanish
Power	5,000 watts (directional nighttime)
Class	B
Facility ID	38454
Transmitter coordinates	34°01′10″N 118°20′44″W / 34.01944°N 118.34556°W
Former callsigns	KFAC (1970-1989)
Affiliations	ESPN Deportes Radio
Owner	Lotus Communications Corp.; (operated via LMA by the Walt Disney Company) ; (Lotus Los Angeles Corp.)
Sister stations	Through Disney:; KABC-TV; KSPN; KRDC
Website	radiodeportes.com

KWKW (1330 kHz, "Radio Deportes") is an AM radio station licensed to 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 a network affiliate of ESPN Deportes Radio.

The station operates with 5,000 watts around the clock, although at night, to avoid interfering with other stations on AM 1330, it uses a directional antenna. The studios and offices are on Barham Avenue in Los Angeles.^[1] The transmitter is off Chesapeake Avenue, also in Los Angeles.^[2]

History

KWKW is one of the oldest radio stations in Los Angeles, first signing on the air as KTBI on March 10, 1922.^[3]

KWKW along with KSAN San Francisco and KGST Fresno were 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 original studios in Pasadena, California. It was the Spanish language station of the Los Angeles Dodgers from their first year in L.A. in 1958 to 1978.

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. (For much of its history, the AM 1330 dial location in Los Angeles was home to KFAC, along with co-owned KFAC-FM 92.3, serving as the L.A. market's classical music outlets.) With the switch to 1330 AM, KWKW started to focus on Regional Mexican music (including mariachi and banda), calling itself "La Mexicana."

In 2004, KWKW stopped playing music and began all-sports programming as an affiliate of 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.

Current and past programming

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.

The station has also carried the FIFA World Cup. In 2010, KWKW interrupted its normal Spanish-language feed to carry most of ESPN Radio's English-language coverage. This allowed English-language ESPN affiliates KSPN and KLAA to continue with their normal program schedules. The 2006 coverage was in Spanish.

KWKW had been the Spanish-language home of Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball from 1959 to 1978 and from 1987 to 2007. The Dodgers left KWKW, the team's Spanish-language broadcast home for most of its history, for 930 KHJ effective with the 2008 season. KWKW now carries the Angels.^[4] In the 2016 season, KWKW began airing Spanish-language play-by-play coverage of the Los Angeles Rams (football).

KTMZ

KWKW is simulcast on KTMZ, 1220 AM in Pomona, California. KTMZ operates at 250 watts, from a transmitter in Chino, California, giving KWKW better coverage in Pomona, Ontario and surrounding communities. KTMZ has broken from the simulcast on occasion, most notably in the early 2000s when, as KWKU, it carried the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. KTMZ also breaks from its simulcast with KWKW when two different live sporting events occur at the same time.

References

↑ "Station Search Details". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
↑ "Bing map of KWKW transmitter site". Bing Maps. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
↑ "KWKW Call Sign History". fccdata.org. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
↑ Los Angeles Times, Aug. 22, 2007, page D6

External links

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[1] "Station Search Details". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved July 11, 2017.

[2] "Bing map of KWKW transmitter site". Bing Maps. Retrieved July 11, 2017.

[3] "KWKW Call Sign History". fccdata.org. Retrieved July 11, 2017.

[4] Los Angeles Times, Aug. 22, 2007, page D6

Radio stations in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
By AM frequency	570 610 640¹ 710 790 870 900 930 980 1020 1070¹ 1110 1150 1220 1230 1260 1280 1300 1330 1380 1430 1460 1470 1540 1560 1580 1600 1630² 1650 Orange County 740 830 1190 1480
By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 88.7 88.7 88.9 88.9 89.3 89.9 90.1 90.7 91.5 91.9 92.3 92.7 93.1 93.5 93.9 94.3 94.7 95.5 95.9 96.3 96.7 97.1 97.9 98.3 98.3 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 103.9 104.3 104.7 104.7 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.3 106.7 107.1 107.5 Orange County 88.5 88.9 90.1 92.7 95.9 96.7 101.5 103.1 106.3 107.9
NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.4 162.45 162.525 162.55
Digital radio by frequency and subchannel	640 980 1070 88.1-1 88.1-2 88.1-3 88.5-1 88.5-2 89.3-1 89.9-1 89.9-2 91.5-1 92.3-1 92.3-2 92.3-3 93.1-1 93.1-2 93.1-3 93.9-1 94.7-1 94.7-2 95.5-1 95.5-2 96.7-1 97.1-1 97.1-2 98.7-1 98.7-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 102.7-1 102.7-2 103.1-1 103.5-1 103.5-2 104.3-1 104.3-2 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.1-3 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.1-1 107.5-1 107.5-2 107.5-3 107.9-1
By callsign	KABC KAMP-FM KAHZ KALI KAVL KAZN KBIG KBUA KBUE KCBS-FM KCRW KCSN KDAY KDLE KEIB KFI¹ KFRN KFWB KFXM-LP KGMX KHJ KHPY KHTS KIIS-FM KISL KJLH KKGO KKJZ KKLA-FM KKLQ KLAC KLAX-FM KLOS KLTX KLVE KMPC KMRB KNX¹ KOCI-LP KOCP KOSS KOST KPCC KPFK KPWR KQEV-LP KRCD KRCV KRDC KRLA KROQ-FM KRRL KRTH KSAK KSCA KSPA KSPC KSPN KSSE KSUR KTLW KTNQ KTWV KTYM KUSC KUTY KWKW KWO37 KXLU KXOL-FM KXOS KXSC KYPA KYSR WWG21 WNG584 WZ2505 "KCHUNG"² Orange County KALI-FM KBPK KBRT KDLD KFSH-FM KGBN KLAA KSBR KUCI KWIZ KWVE-FM KYLA
Defunct	KACD/KBCD KACE KEDG KFAC KIIS KKDJ KKHR KMET KMJR/KNJR KMPC KNAC KNHS KNOB KNX-FM KODJ KPPC KQL KQLZ KSFV-CA³ KSKQ KSKQ-FM KUTE KWST-FM KFSG KZAB/KZBA KZLA-FM 1500 KBLA/KROQ/KBBQ/KRCK/KIEV 850/870 KIEV KPOL KTZN KXED KXMG KYMS
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Spanish-language radio stations in the state of California
Stations	KAEH – Beaumont KAFY – Bakersfield KALI – West Covina KATD – Pittsburg KBAA – Grass Valley KBBF – Santa Rosa KBBU – Modesto KBHH – Kerman KBKY – Merced KBLA – Santa Monica KBLO – Corcoran KBRG – San Jose KBTW – Lenwood KBUA – San Fernando KBUE – Long Beach KBYN – Arnold KBYN – City of Angels KCAL – Redlands KCFA – Arnold KCHJ – Delano KCHJ-FM - Bakersfield KCVR – Lodi KCVR-FM – Columbia KDBV – Salinas KEBN – Garden Grove KEPD – Ridgecrest KERU – Blythe KESQ – Indio KEXA – King City KEYQ – Fresno KFOO - Riverside KFSD – Escondido KFSG – Roseville KFSO-FM – Visalia KGEN – Tulare KGEN-FM – Hanford KGRB – Jackson KGST – Fresno KGZO – Shafter KHDC – Chualar KHJ – Los Angeles KHPY – Moreno Valley KHSQ – Trinidad KIDI-FM – Lompoc KIQI – San Francisco KIQQ – Barstow KIQQ-FM – Newberry Springs KIQS – Willows KIST-FM – Carpinteria KIWI – Mcfarland KJDJ – San Luis Obispo KJOR – Windsor KKSF - Oakland KLAX-FM – East Los Angeles KLBN – Fresno KLJR-FM – Santa Paula KLLE – North Fork KLMG – Esparto KLMM – Morro Bay KLNV – San Diego KLOB – Thousand Palms KLOK-FM – Greenfield KLOQ-FM – Winton KLQV – San Diego KLTX – Long Beach KLUN – Paso Robles KLVE – Los Angeles KLYY – Riverside KMAK – Orange Cove KMBX – Soledad KMEN – Mendota KMIX – Tracy KMJE – Placerville KMJV – Soledad KMLA – El Rio KMLM-FM - Grover Beach KMPG – Hollister KMPO – Modesto KMQA – East Porterville KMRO – Camarillo KMYX-FM – Arvin KNCR – Fortuna KNTO – Chowchilla KODV – Barstow KOND – Hanford KOXR – Oxnard KPRC-FM – Salinas KPSL-FM – Bakersfield KPST-FM – Coachella KQLB – Los Banos KRAY-FM – Salinas KRCD – Inglewood KRCV – West Covina KRCX-FM – Marysville KRDA – Clovis KRHM-LP – Bakersfield KRQK – Lompoc KRRS – Santa Rosa KSCA – Glendale KSDO – San Diego KSDT – Hemet KSEA – Greenfield KSEH – Brawley KSES-FM – Seaside KSJV – Fresno KSKD – Livingston KSLK – Visalia KSMY – Lompoc KSOL – San Francisco KSPA – Ontario KSPE – Santa Barbara KSQL – Santa Cruz KSRT – Cloverdale KSSC – Ventura KSSD – Fallbrook KSSE – Arcadia KTAP – Santa Maria KTGE – Salinas KTMZ – Pomona KTNQ – Los Angeles KTOR – Gerber KTQX – Bakersfield KTSE-FM – Patterson KUBO – Calexico KUFW – Woodlake KUNA-FM – La Quinta KVMX – Olivehurst KVTR – Victorville KVUH – Laytonville KVVF – Santa Clara KVVZ – San Rafael KWAC – Bakersfield KWIZ – Santa Ana KWKW – Los Angeles KWRN – Apple Valley KWRU – Fresno KWST – El Centro KXLM – Oxnard KXOL-FM – Los Angeles KXOS - Los Angeles KXRS – Hemet KXRS – Hemet KXSB – Big Bear Lake KXSE – Davis KXSM – Chualar KXTS – Geyserville KXXZ – Barstow KXZM – Felton KZER – Santa Barbara KZNB – Petaluma KZSF – San Jose KZSJ – San Martin
Defunct	KFVR – Crescent City
See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in California See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other