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KFWB is a Los Angeles, California AM radio station operating on 980 kHz with 5,000 watts of power from a transmitter site near Lincoln Park (East Los Angeles). The station had a mostly all-news format from 1968 until September 8, 2009, after which it converted to a news-talk format. KFWB is operated by the KFWB Asset Trust. It changed to an all-sports format and became known as The Beast 980 on September 22, 2014.〔http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/netgnomes/89528/los-angeles-preparing-for-arrival-of-a-beast/ KFWB To Launch Sports Format Monday〕 KFWB is licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to broadcast in the HD (hybrid) format.〔http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_det.pl?Facility_id=25457〕〔http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=36〕 ==History== The station's history goes back to March 3, 1925, when it was launched by Sam Warner, a co-founder of Warner Bros.. The station launched the careers of such stars as Ronald Reagan and Bing Crosby. The station was the first to broadcast the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. Although some think its call letters stand for Keep Fighting Warner Brothers or (K)-Four Warner Brothers, actually the callsign was sequentially issued by the Department of Commerce, predecessor to the FCC (March 1925) at the same time as KFWA in Ogden, Utah (Feb 1925) and KFWC for San Bernardino (also Feb 1925).〔http://jeff560.tripod.com/chrono1.html | A Chronology of AM Radio Broadcasting 1900-1960〕 On February 8, 1937, KFWB opened a new facility on the south end of the Warner Bros. lot. It included six large studios, one of which was a 500-seat theater, and a "multi-manual pipe organ, built especially for broadcasting." A 1940 Merrie Melodies cartoon, produced by Warner Bros. (and directed by Chuck Jones), entitled ''Bedtime for Sniffles'', has Sniffles the mouse trying to stay awake for Santa Claus, and a radio announcer signs off for the night identifying the station as KFWB. Another cartoon of the same year, ''The Timid Toreador'', co-directed by Bob Clampett, shows an announcer broadcasting on this station (though the action takes place in Mexico) The Merrie Melodies cartoon for ''I've Got A Torch Song'' released in conjunction with ''Gold Diggers of 1933'' has KFWB written on the microphones in the scenes of the torch singers. In 1946, KFWB imported two disc jockeys from New York City: Maurice Hart of WNEW, whose drive-time show ''Start the Day Right'' was described as "Words and Music Straight from the Hart," and Martin Block, who coined the phrase "Make-Believe Ballroom," which was later used by Al Jarvis when Block returned to New York. In those days, disc jockeys selected their own music, either from KFWB's extensive record library, or new songs brought to them by "song pluggers." Old and new, vocal and instrumental were mixed together to the disc jockey's choice. KFWB was sold to its long-time general manager, Harry Maizlish, in 1950, and soon after moved off the Warner Bros. lot to join Maizlish's FM station, KFMV, on Hollywood Boulevard. In 1958, the original "Seven Swingin’ Gentlemen" took Rock and Roll into its first major market, at KFWB. Also in 1958, under new owners Crowell-Collier Broadcasting, program director Chuck Blore transformed the station into a Top 40 format called Channel 98 Color Radio. The station became one of the most highly listened to stations in the Southland and in the nation. The air staff during the glory days included Bill Ballance, B. Mitchell Reed, Bruce Hayes, Al Jarvis, Joe Yocam, Elliot Field, Ted Quillin. and Gene Weed. Their staff of highly respected newscasters included Cleve Herrmann, Charles Arlington, John Babcock, Beach Rogers, Mike Henry, Hal Goodwin, Al Wiman, Bill Angel, J. Paul Huddleston and Jackson King. In the mid-1960s, KFWB was overtaken by rival KRLA. Then KRLA was put in second place by the launch of Boss Radio at 93/KHJ, and this relegated KFWB to the position of the third-place pop music station in the L.A. market. 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「KFWB」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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