City | Los Angeles, California |
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Broadcast area | Greater Los Angeles Area |
Branding | 95.5 KLOS |
Slogan | The Rock of Southern California |
Frequency | 95.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
Translator(s) | 98.9 K255BZ (China Lake) |
First air date | December 30, 1947 (as KECA-FM) |
Format |
FM/HD1: Album-oriented rock (AOR) HD2: KABC simulcast |
Audience share | 2.4 (January 2017, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
ERP | 63,000 watts |
HAAT | 954.0 meters (3,129.9 ft) |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 35078 |
Callsign meaning | LOS Angeles |
Former callsigns | KECA-FM (1947–1954) KABC-FM (1954–1971) |
Owner |
Cumulus Media (Radio License Holdings LLC) |
Sister stations | KABC |
Webcast |
Listen Live Listen Live (via iHeartRadio) |
Website | 955klos.com |
KLOS (95.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Los Angeles, California debuted in 1969. It airs an album-oriented rock radio format and has broadcast rock music since 1969. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and is home to "The Frosty, Heidi & Frank" morning show, which is featured on syndicated TV show Dish Nation. KLOS has studios on La Cienega Boulevard in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is based on Mount Wilson.
KLOS broadcasts in HD. Co-owned KABC's talk format is heard on the HD-2 channel. KLOS is also heard on FM translator K225BZ 98.9 MHz in China Lake.
On December 30, 1947, KECA-FM first signed on, simulcasting the programming of AM sister station 790 KECA. The two stations were owned by ABC, and the call letters of the AM and FM stations were accordingly changed to KABC and KABC-FM in the 1954. In 1960, KABC adopted an all-talk format. On January 1, 1968, due to new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules requiring FM stations to have separate programming from their AM counterparts, KABC-FM experimented with a schedule of all-news, the first station in Los Angeles to have such a format. This experiment did not last long, and all-news was dropped on March 11, 1968, the day that 980 KFWB became an all-news station.