KGIL

Infobox Radio Station
name = KGIL
airdate = 1947


frequency = 1260 (kHz)
city = Beverly Hills, California
area = Los Angeles, California
format = News Talk/Adult Standards
owner = Mount Wilson Broadcasting
erp = 20,000 watts (Day)
7,500 watts (Night)
branding = News/Talk 1260 & 540 (during their talk programming)
AM 1260 & 540 (during their standards programming)
former_callsigns = KMZT, KKGO, KSUR, KJAZ, KGIL, KNNS, KJQI, KGIL
slogan = "Southern California's News/Talk Radio"
class = B
sister_stations = KKGO, XESURF
"(Also programs KKJZ for California State University, Long Beach")
webcast = [http://www.1260.am/programming/listen/player.aspx Listen Live]
website = http://www.1260.am

KGIL (1260 AM) is a radio station located in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Los Angeles Metro area. KGIL airs a talk radio format.

tation history

KGIL signed on in 1947 airing a big band music format. KGIL aired other formats including talk until 1993.

From 1993 to 1995, it had the call letters KJQI, playing Adult Standards music. In 1995, it became K-NEWS, simulcasting with XESURF (then with call letters XETIN) and now-defunct KNNZ in Costa Mesa. K-NEWS was an all-news radio service with content from the Associated Press and local announcers Peter Arbogast, Jim Roope, and H.K. Malay. K-NEWS was also the home of the Los Angeles Clippers and had an unprecedented 8 traffic reports an hour, causing competitors KNX and KFWB to add more traffic reports to its lineup. In 1997, the station reverted to the KGIL call letters and hosted an all-Beatles lineup for seven months. [ [http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=43937 REC Broadcast Query ] ] The station then switched to Music of Your Life [Judith Gross, "Music of Your Life Gets a Second Wind," Billboard, 08/08/98, Vol. 110 Issue 32, p. 67.] before going to a mainstream jazz format, with the call letters KJAZ, in 2000. Then, in 2002, it took on the call letters KSUR and began broadcasting an adult standards format, changing its call letters to KKGO in 2005. [ [http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=43937 REC Broadcast Query ] ]

On December 1, 2006, KKGO changed to a country music format, filling the void left behind when KZLA became rhythmic adult contemporary as KMVN earlier in 2006. On February 26, 2007, KKGO swapped callsigns and formats with FM sister station KMZT, moving the country music format to 105.1 FM, and the Classical format known as "K-Mozart" to 1260 AM and to a new HD channel at 105.1 HD2. On October 29, 2007, KMZT changed its calls back to KGIL and flipped formats from classical to talk radio,

On November 27, 2007, KGIL started simulcasting on XESURF 540AM, which flipped from classic country music. [ [http://www.ocregister.com/column/radio-station-nov-1928016-audience-drive. "On the radio: Dr. Drew Pinsky adds KGIL to his practice"] , Orange County Register, November 22, 2007]

Programming

*Wall Street Journal This Morning
*Glenn Beck
*Ed Schultz
*Laura Ingraham
*Dr. Drew Pinsky
*Lou Dobbs
*Lars Larson
*Larry King
*Alan Colmes
*Michael Savage
*Adult standards music ( of the music on KSUR/KKGO, previous stations on AM 1260).

In addition, KGIL airs California Golden Bears football and airs Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Kings games when their respective flagship stations (KSPN and KTLK) cannot do so. According to the station's website, KGIL also planned to add NASCAR racing as the local radio affiliate at some point, but the 2008 Daytona 500 did not air on either this station or on XESURF, which had aired the races the previous two years. Instead, this station's owner has opted to carry the races on a HD radio subchannel of KKGO. It is unknown if the races have been picked up by another station in San Diego.

Also, neither station aired the Bears' game against Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl on December 31, 2007, instead airing Pinsky's shows as scheduled. The game could be heard on the respective ESPN Radio affiliates, KSPN and XESPN, through a network broadcast.

References

External links

* [http://www.1260.am/ KGIL official website]
*AMQ|KGIL
*AML|KGIL
*AMARB|KGIL
* [http://www.ocregister.com/column/radio-station-nov-1928016-audience-drive. Changes to KGIL line-up from November 27, 2007.]