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| owner = Cumulus Media | former_callsigns = KFXB (1925-1927) KPLA (1927-1929) KECA (1929-1954) | licensee = Radio License Holdings LLC | webcast = (Listen Live ) (via Rdio) | website = (kabc.com ) | callsign_meaning = K American Broadcasting Company (former owner) | sister_stations = KLOS | affiliations = ABC News ABC 7 }} KABC (790 AM) is a Los Angeles radio station, and a West Coast flagship station for the Cumulus Media company. A pioneer of the talk radio format, the station went "all-talk" in September 1960, the second radio station to do so, a few months after St. Louis' KMOX. KABC is owned by Cumulus Media, but despite different owners, 790 KABC, KABC-TV and KSPN maintains a strong partnership (as KABC-TV is the local ABC owned-and-operated station). The station's studios and transmitter are both co-located on La Cienega Boulevard in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. KABC broadcasts in the HD (hybrid) format.〔http://www.hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=36〕 ==History== KABC began in August of 1925 as KFXB in Big Bear Lake. The station moved to Los Angeles in 1927 and became KPLA. On November 15, 1929, KPLA was sold to Earle C. Anthony, a Packard automobile dealer and owner of KFI. Anthony changed the call letters to KECA. In August of 1939, Anthony purchased KEHE-780 (formerly KTM) and took the station off the air. KECA's call sign and programming were moved from 1430 kHz to 780 kHz. KECA moved to 790 kHz as part of the NARBA frequency shifts of 1941.〔http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?650427-Story-of-KABC-790-AM-license-a-complicated-one-call-lettere-history〕 In 1944, new FCC rules went into effect prohibiting any entity from owning more than one radio station in the same market area. The Blue Network (which would soon become ABC) bought the station in July, 1944, for $800,000;〔 Transfer granted by the FCC on July 18.〕 the call sign was changed to KABC in 1954, after that combination was released by a station in San Antonio. KABC switched to a full-time talk format in 1960, becoming the nation's second talk station, after KMOX in St. Louis. Though a prominent Los Angeles news-talk station, KABC declined in the ratings following ABC's takeover by Disney in December of 1996. Disney replaced longtime management personnel (including George Green, who started as a KABC salesman in 1959 and had been general manager for 16 years) with Disney corporate selections. The station has consistently lagged behind KFI, another major talk station in Los Angeles. The station, which was owned by The Walt Disney Company's ABC Radio came under ownership of Citadel Broadcasting when the companies merged in 2006. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011. The station remains an ABC affiliate. In October 2011 Cumulus Broadcasting took over ownership of KABC (and sister station KLOS). Airborne traffic reporter Jorge Jarrin, son of Dodgers Spanish-language broadcaster Jaime Jarrin, was let go after 26 years. Also fired were imaging voice Howard Hoffman and news director/morning newsman Mark Austin Thomas. In July 2015. KABC's audience share was 0.3%, its lowest ever. Rival Salem Media's KRLA (AM 870) has pulled ahead of KABC with a 0.6% share. 〔http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb003〕 KRLA now airs former KABC talk programs The Mark Levin Show and The Larry Elder Show. Dawn Girocco, who has worked as a sales director for Clear Channel, CBS Radio and the Los Angeles Times, became vice president of KABC and sister station KLOS in August 2015. 〔https://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/93978/cumulus-hires-new-los-angeles-market-manager/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KABC (AM)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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