1260 AM Beverly Hills to Flip to Classic Country Format and Become KKGO-AM
1260 AM Beverly Hills is currently stunting with an all-Taylor Swift format.
On October 1, the station will begin a Classic Country format “playing country hits of the 1980s, ‘90s, and early 2000s,” and the call letters will change from KMZT (K-Mozart) to KKGO (AM).
At that time, Go Country 105 will change calls from KKGO to KKGO-FM. (The AM and FM will have different Country formats.)
The K-Mozart Classical format will continue on KKGO-FM HD2, as well in the San Fernando Valley on low-power translator K252FO 98.3 FM.
HD1 channels are always a simulcast of the analog signal. It’s unclear what format the KKGO-FM HD3 channel will carry, but reportedly it will not be KKGO-AM 1260.
However, the AM 1260 signal will be streamed, and it broadcasts in HD stereo. Saul Levine’s engineers have made 1260 AM sound amazing in HD.
(I once did a blind test with one of my friends and asked him which sounds better — Station A or Station B — and he replied, “Oh, Station A, definitely!” Station AM was 1260 AM in HD and Station B was the simulcast on HD2.)
KKGO-FM HD4 will continue to be K-Surf Oldies.
Thank you to Richard Wagoner’s newspaper column, and to Barrett Media, for this information.
Steve Mittman via Svenn Martinsen in DXing.info FB group (2024-09-08)