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KTWV is a commercial FM radio station owned by CBS Radio. KTWV is located in Los Angeles and broadcasts at 94.7 MHz to Los Angeles and its suburbs in Orange County, Riverside–San Bernardino and Ventura Counties. KTWV airs an Urban Adult Contemporary radio format branded as "94-7 The Wave". The station has studios on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is based on Mount Wilson. ==History== From 1968 until 1987, the 94.7 frequency was home of KMET, a very popular album-oriented rock station owned by Metromedia. Prior to KMET, the station was called KLAC-FM; the call letters KLAC are currently used for a station which broadcasts at 570 AM. KMET's ratings were high until the early 1980s when it lost ground to the competition. Many observers believe the station's ratings struggles were in large part caused by embracing the advice of New York music consultants and abandoning its identity as the "Soundtrack for Southern California." Specifically, it abandoned the spontaneity of having disc jockeys pick the music to be played on the air. Together with reduced advertising budgets, this resulted in significant ratings drops. Metromedia sold its TV stations in 1986 and restructured and became known as Metropolitan Broadcasting. By the end of 1986, the rock format on KMET had very low ratings and as a result, the format would end on February 14, 1987. The station changed to a new age music/soft rock/contemporary jazz format with the nickname "The Wave," with initial focus primarily on non-vocal new-age music. The first song on "The Wave" was Sting's "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". During the Wave's new age music period, management told the station employees to refer to The Wave as a "mood service" rather than a "radio station". For the first 19 months, there were no live disc jockeys; instead, there were "vignettes" done by actors, informing listeners of the time, where the current hour was a part of the dialog. Ratings were weak, and John Sebastian was hired as the new Program Director. On September 19, 1988, live jocks returned to the station. Sebastian hired Don Burns, Talaya Trigueros, Keri Tombazian, Amy Hiatt and China Smith.〔 In the early 1990s, the station moved to more of a Smooth jazz sound, playing a mix of smooth jazz, soft R&B hits, AC songs, and some soft rock hits. The Wave is often regarded as the first NAC station in the United States. But some media writers disagree, preferring to award that title to KLRS in Santa Cruz, California. KLRS went on the air one month after The Wave, but was the first station in North America to play a true new-age music format, continuing to do so until its demise in 1990. The era of The Wave has the distinction of being the only time legendary disc jockey J.J. Jackson has ever worked at the station. Jackson was a veteran of then-rival rock station KLOS (while The Wave was still rocker KMET) for ten years, before becoming one of the original VJ's" (video jockeys) on MTV when the channel debuted in 1981. Jackson was a DJ for a brief time at The Wave in 2004. There was a Canadian Smooth Jazz radio station that was named after KTWV. CIWV-FM in Hamilton, Ontario, also serving Toronto, used "The Wave" moniker and was also located on 94.7 FM. It ran from 2000 until 2011, when it flipped to Country. 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「KTWV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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