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KOST

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KOST (103.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California. [1]

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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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Adweek

Adweek is a weekly American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1978.

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Air1

Air1 is a U.S. Christian radio network owned by the Educational Media Foundation.

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Animal Radio

Animal Radio is a nationally syndicated radio show, hosted by Hal Abrams and Judy Francis.

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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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Broadcast relay station

A broadcast relay station, satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), rebroadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio), or complementary station (Mexico) is a broadcast transmitter which repeats, or transponds, the signal of another radio station or television station usually to an area not covered by the signal of the originating station.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcasting syndication is the license to broadcast television programs and radio programs by multiple television stations and radio stations, without going through a broadcast network.

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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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Call sign

In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique designation for a transmitter station.

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CBS Radio

CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation, and consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s.

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China Lake, Kern County, California

China Lake is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California.

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Christian contemporary hit radio

Christian contemporary hit radio (sometimes abbreviated as Christian CHR) is a radio format that is common in the United States and Australia focusing on playing current and recent music as determined by the Christian Top 40.

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City of license

In American, Canadian and Philippine broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.

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Classified advertising

Classified advertising is a form of advertising which is particularly common in newspapers, online and other periodicals which may be sold or distributed free of charge.

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Cox Enterprises

Cox Enterprises, Inc. is a privately held American conglomerate based in Atlanta.

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Dark (broadcasting)

In the broadcasting industry, a dark television or silent radio station is one that has gone off the air for an indefinite period of time.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Easy listening

Easy listening (sometimes known as mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

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Effective radiated power

Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter.

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Ellen K

Ellen K. (born September 19, 1962) is an American radio personality in the Los Angeles, California market and a television host.

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Entercom

Entercom is a publicly traded American broadcasting company and radio network based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.

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FM broadcasting

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

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Gordon McLendon

Gordon Barton McLendon (June 8, 1921 – September 14, 1986Texas State Historical Association) was a radio pioneer and pirate radio broadcaster.

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Grandfather clause

A grandfather clause (or grandfather policy) is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases.

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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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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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Height above average terrain

Height above average terrain (HAAT) (or less popularly, EHAAT, Effective Height Above Average Terrain) is a measure of how high an antenna site is above the surrounding landscape.

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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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IHeartMedia

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

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KBIG

KBIG (104.3 FM 104.3 MYfm) is an FM radio station in Los Angeles, California, owned by iHeartMedia.

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KEIB

KEIB (1150 AM) is a radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, and serving Greater Los Angeles.

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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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KIIS-FM

KIIS-FM (pronounced "Kiss FM") (102.7 MHz, "102.7 KIIS FM") is a commercial FM radio station which is licensed to Los Angeles, California and broadcasts to the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Kim Amidon

Kim Amidon (born September 15, 1956) is an American radio personality, well known for her work on the 'Most Music Mornings' on KOST 103.5 in Los Angeles, co-hosting with Mark Wallengren.

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KKGO

KKGO (105.1 MHz, "Go Country 105") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California and broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area.

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KLAC

KLAC AM 570 is a radio station serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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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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KTWV

KTWV (94.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station owned by Entercom.

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KYSR

KYSR (98.7 FM, ALT 98.7) is a commercial Alternative Rock radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, serving the Greater Los Angeles Area.

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KYXY

KYXY (96.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station owned by Entercom.

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Layoff

A layoff is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing an organization.

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List of North American broadcast station classes

This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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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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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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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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On Air with Ryan Seacrest

On Air with Ryan Seacrest is an American syndicated radio program hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

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Public affairs (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, public affairs radio or television programs focus on matters of politics and public policy.

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Radio & Records

Radio & Records (R&R) was a trade publication providing news and airplay information for the radio and music industries.

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Radio format

A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station.

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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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Repeater

In telecommunications, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it.

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Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Santa Clarita, California

Santa Clarita, officially the City of Santa Clarita, is the fourth largest city in Los Angeles County, California, and the 24th largest in the state of California.

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Sign-on and sign-off

A sign-on (or start-up) is the beginning of operations for a radio or television station, generally at the start of each day.

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Simulcast

Simulcast, a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast, is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously).

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Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is music that evolved from a blend of jazz fusion and easy listening pop music, featuring a polished pop feel with little to no jazz improvisation.

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Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.

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Thousand Oaks, California

Thousand Oaks is the second-largest city in Ventura County, California, United States.

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Transmitter

In electronics and telecommunications, a transmitter or radio transmitter is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna.

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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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Voice-tracking

Voice-tracking, also called cyber jocking and referred to sometimes colloquially as a robojock, is a technique employed by some radio stations in radio broadcasting to produce the illusion of a live disc jockey or announcer sitting in the radio studios of the station when one is not actually present.

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Watt

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

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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WLTW

WLTW (106.7 FM, "106.7 Lite FM") is a Mainstream AC formatted radio station licensed to New York City.

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WNEW-FM

WNEW-FM (102.7 FM, "Fresh 102.7") is a radio station licensed to New York City and owned by Entercom.

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1957 in radio

The year 1957 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.

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K234CR, K280DT, K288AX, KOST 103, KOST 103.5, KOST-FM, KOST-HD2, KOSTFM.

References

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

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