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KPWR (105.9 FM, Power 106) is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on an analog signal and in HD Radio. [1]

89 relations: Adult contemporary music, Alex Meruelo, Analog signal, Ariana Grande, Baby Bash, Beautiful music, Big Boy (radio host), Burbank, California, Chinese language, Chuck Riley (voice actor), Crossover music, Cumulus Media Networks, Dance music, Dancehall, Disc jockey, DJ Felli Fel, Emmis Communications, FM broadcasting, Freestyle music, Greater Los Angeles, Gwen Stefani, Hard rock, HD Radio, Hertz, Hip hop music, Hispanic rhythmic, House music, Hurban, IHeartMedia, IHeartRadio, Jay Thomas, KCBS-FM, KDAY, KDEY-FM, Kern County, California, KFI, KJLH, KKLQ (FM), KLOS, KMEL, KMET (FM), KRCD (FM), KRRL, KSHE, KWHY-TV, KWRM, KXOL-FM, KXOS, KYLD, Los Angeles, ..., Los Angeles Times, Mainstream Top 40, Mediabase, Mount Wilson (California), NAB Marconi Radio Awards, Natalie (singer), National Association of Broadcasters, NB Ridaz, Nielsen Audio, Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, Pop music, PR Newswire, Princess (singer), Radio station, Reggaeton, Rhythm, Rhythm and blues, Rhythmic (chart), Rhythmic adult contemporary, Rhythmic contemporary, Rhythmic oldies, Richard Vission, Rock music, San Diego County, California, San Francisco, Santa Barbara County, California, South Asia, Spanish Broadcasting System, The Baka Boyz, Top 40, TuneIn, Urban adult contemporary, Urban contemporary, Urban One, Watt, Westwood One, Westwood One (1976–2011), WorldBand Media, 1946 in radio. Expand index (39 more) »

Adult contemporary music

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a North American term used to describe a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence.

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Alex Meruelo

Alex Meruelo is a Cuban-American businessman.

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Analog signal

An analog signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature (variable) of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal.

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Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande-Butera (born June 26, 1993) is an American singer and actress.

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Baby Bash

Ronald Ray Bryant, (born October 18, 1975) better known by his stage name Baby Bash (formerly Baby Beesh), is a Mexican-American rapper.

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Beautiful music

Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM, B/EZ or BM/EZ for "beautiful music/easy listening") is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

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Big Boy (radio host)

Big Boy (born Kurt Alexander; September 8, 1969) is a nationally syndicated American radio host and actor.

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Burbank, California

Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Chuck Riley (voice actor)

Charles Daniel Hanks Jr., better known as Chuck Riley, (July 21, 1940 – May 10, 2007) was an American voice-over artist, famous for recording hundreds of movie trailers, television commercials, network promotions, and children's audiobooks.

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Crossover music

Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audience, for example (especially in the United States) by appearing on two or more of the record charts which track differing musical styles or genres.

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Cumulus Media Networks

Cumulus Media Networks was an American radio network owned and operated by Cumulus Media.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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DJ Felli Fel

James Andrew Corrine, better known by his stage name DJ Felli Fel is a club and radio DJ for L.A.'s Power 106, record producer, and a recording artist recently signed to So So Def/Island Urban Music.

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Emmis Communications

Emmis Communications is an American media conglomerate based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation (FM) technology.

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Freestyle music

Freestyle is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the United States in the 1980s.

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Greater Los Angeles

Greater Los Angeles is the second-largest urban region in the United States, encompassing five counties in southern California, extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County on the east, with Los Angeles County in the center and Orange County to the southeast.

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Gwen Stefani

Gwen Renée Stefani (born October 3, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, and fashion designer.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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HD Radio

HD Radio is a trademarked term for iBiquity's in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio technology used by AM and FM radio stations to transmit audio and data by using a digital signal embedded "on-frequency" immediately above and below a station's standard analog signal, providing the means to listen to the same program in either HD (digital radio with less noise) or as a standard broadcast (analog radio with standard sound quality).

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hispanic rhythmic

Hispanic rhythmic, also known as Hispanic urban or "Hurban", is an American radio and format genre that features a Spanish-language musical mix of Latin hip-hop, Mexican hip-hop, reggaeton, dancehall, Latin pop, dance, tropical and salsa hits, all geared towards a bilingual audience, most of them being third-generation Hispanics.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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Hurban

Hurban is also a relatively new radio programming format from radio chain giant Clear Channel Communications and Senior VP Alfredo Alonso.

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IHeartMedia

iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

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IHeartRadio

iHeartRadio is a free broadcast and internet radio platform owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.

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Jay Thomas

Jay Thomas (born Jon Thomas Terrell; July 12, 1948 – August 24, 2017) was an American actor, comedian, and morning radio personality.

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KCBS-FM

KCBS-FM (93.1 FM, "Jack FM") is a radio station in Los Angeles, California serving Greater Los Angeles on 93.1 MHz and owned by Entercom.

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KDAY

KDAY (93.5 FM, "93.5 KDAY") is a radio station licensed to Redondo Beach, California and broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area.

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KDEY-FM

KDEY-FM (93.5 FM, 93.5 KDAY) is serving the Inland Empire area with a Classic Hip-Hop radio format.

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Kern County, California

Kern County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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KFI

KFI (640 kHz) is an AM radio station in Los Angeles, California, owned and operated by iHeartMedia.

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KJLH

KJLH (102.3 FM) is an Urban Adult Contemporary radio station serving the Los Angeles area.

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KKLQ (FM)

KKLQ (100.3 MHz, Positive, Encouraging 100.3) is a non-commercial educational FM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California and serving the Greater Los Angeles area.

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KLOS

KLOS (95.5 MHz, 95.5 KLOS) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California and broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area.

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KMEL

KMEL (106.1 FM) is an Mainstream Urban-formatted radio station located in San Francisco, California.

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KMET (FM)

KMET was a Los Angeles FM radio station owned by Metromedia (hence the "MET" in its call sign) that broadcast at 94.7 MHz, beginning in June 1968.

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KRCD (FM)

KRCD is a commercial radio station in Inglewood, California, broadcasting to the Los Angeles area on 103.9 FM.

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KRRL

KRRL (92.3 FM, "Real 92.3") is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, the station airs an urban contemporary format.

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KSHE

KSHE (styled as K-SHE) is a mainstream rock radio station licensed to Crestwood, Missouri which serves the Greater St. Louis area.

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KWHY-TV

KWHY-TV, virtual channel 22 (UHF digital channel 42), is a Spanish-language independent television station licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States.

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KWRM

KWRM (1370 kHz, G & E Studio) is a commercial AM radio station that broadcasts a Chinese language radio format.

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KXOL-FM

KXOL-FM (96.3 MHz "Mega 96.3") is a commercial FM radio station in Los Angeles.

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KXOS

KXOS (93.9 FM) is a Regional Mexican radio station serving Los Angeles and the surrounding area.

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KYLD

KYLD (94.9 FM, WiLD 94.9) is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Mainstream Top 40

Mainstream Top 40 (also called Pop Songs on billboard.com and sometimes referred to as Top 40/CHR) is a 40-song music chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' Magazine which ranks the most popular songs being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States.

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Mediabase

Mediabase is a music industry service that monitors radio station airplay in 180 US and Canadian markets.

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Mount Wilson (California)

Mount Wilson is a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, located within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California.

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NAB Marconi Radio Awards

The Marconi Radio Awards are presented annually by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) to the top radio stations and on-air personalities in the United States.

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Natalie (singer)

Natalie Nicole Alvarado (born September 2, 1979), better known simply as Natalie, is a former American R&B singer and songwriter.

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National Association of Broadcasters

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is a trade association and lobby group representing the interests of commercial and non-commercial over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States.

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NB Ridaz

NB Ridaz was a hip hop group formerly known as NBK (Nastyboy Klick).

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Nielsen Audio

Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences.

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Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems

Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, better known as BDS, is a service that tracks monitored radio, television and internet airplay of songs based on the number of spins and detections.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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PR Newswire

PR Newswire is a distributor of press releases based in New York City.

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Princess (singer)

Desiree Heslop, best known as Princess, is a British singer who found chart success in the mid-1980s.

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Radio station

A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.

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Reggaeton

Reggaeton (also known as reggaetón and reguetón) is a music genre which originated in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rhythmic (chart)

The Rhythmic chart (also called Rhythmic Songs, and previously named Rhythmic Airplay, Rhythmic Top 40 and CHR/Rhythmic) is an airplay chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine.

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Rhythmic adult contemporary

Rhythmic adult contemporary is the name of a popular format used on radio stations in the United States and Canada.

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Rhythmic contemporary

Rhythmic contemporary, also known as Rhythmic Top 40, Rhythmic CHR or rhythmic crossover, is a primarily American music-radio format that includes a mix of EDM, upbeat rhythmic pop, hip hop and upbeat R&B hits.

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Rhythmic oldies

Rhythmic oldies is a radio format that concentrates on the rhythmic, disco, or dance genres of music.

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Richard Vission

Richard Gonzalez (born 24 May 1969), better known by his stage name Richard "Humpty" Vission, is a Canadian house music producer, remixer, and DJ.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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San Diego County, California

San Diego County is a county in the southwestern corner of the state of California, in the United States.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Santa Barbara County, California

Santa Barbara County, California, officially the County of Santa Barbara, is a county located in the southern region of the U.S. state of California.

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South Asia

South Asia or Southern Asia (also known as the Indian subcontinent) is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east.

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Spanish Broadcasting System

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (SBS) is one of the largest owners and operators of radio stations in the United States.

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The Baka Boyz

The Baka Boyz, brothers Nick and Eric Vidal, are American radio personalities, music producers and remixers from Bakersfield, California.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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TuneIn

TuneIn Inc. is an American audio streaming service delivering live news, radio, sports, music, and podcasts to an audience of over 60 million monthly active users worldwide.

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Urban adult contemporary

Urban adult contemporary (often abbreviated as urban AC) is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format.

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Urban contemporary

Urban contemporary is a music radio format.

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Urban One

Urban One, Inc. (formerly Radio One) is a Silver Spring, Maryland-based media conglomerate.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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Westwood One

Westwood One, owned and operated by Cumulus Media, is an American mass media company headquartered in New York, New York, specializing in radio syndication and audio content.

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Westwood One (1976–2011)

Westwood One is an American radio network that was based in New York City.

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WorldBand Media

WorldBand Media Inc. is a North American media company specializing in the production and distribution of ethnic based media content.

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1946 in radio

The year 1946 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPWR

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