KPWR (105.9 FM) – branded as Power 106 – is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area. KPWR is owned and operated by Alex Meruelo's Meruelo Group, through licensee KPWR Radio Holdings LLC, and airs a Rhythmic Hot AC format. KPWR's studios are based in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank, and the transmitter is on Mount Wilson, shared with KCAL-TV and KRTH. Meruelo acquired KPWR from Emmis Communications for $82.75 million in May 2017, officially bringing the station under common ownership with KDAY, KDEY-FM, KWHY-TV, and KBEH on August 1, 2017.
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KPWR (105.9 FM) – branded as Power 106 – is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area. KPWR...
in 2003, television stations KWHY-TV and KBEH, radio stations KLOS, KLLI, KPWR, KDAY and KDEY-FM under the Meruelo Media banner, and the Grand Sierra Resort...
California. The duo first achieved fame on the hip-hop/R&B radio station KPWR (Power 106 FM) in Los Angeles. The Baka Boyz were originally DJs in Bakersfield...
by Jeff Smulyan in 1980. Emmis has owned many radio stations, including KPWR and WQHT, which have notoriety for their Hip Hop Rhythmic format as well...
the second such station with the format, months after Emmis launched it on KPWR in Los Angeles earlier that year. WQHT's first Program Director was Joel...
target audience toward African Americans. This was in response to competitor KPWR (Power 106) de-emphasizing urban in favor of rhythmic contemporary in order...
saying, "monetary gain and attention are driving forces behind it" in a KPWR interview in 2019. Brandi Jackson (February 6, 1982), In a 2019 Billboard...
later on rhythmic CHR station 92KTU, and in Los Angeles beginning in 1986 on KPWR "Power 106", where he hosted the station's top-rated morning show until 1993...
its urban format circa 1984. But it wasn't until January 11, 1986, that KPWR in Los Angeles, a former struggling adult contemporary outlet, began to make...
music, but in recent years played lots of Hip-Hop. WQHT-FM (Hot 97) and KPWR (Power 106) were the first stations to utilize this format. Since the 1990s...
2020. Archived from the original on August 2, 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-03. "KPWR Morning Host Nick Cannon Fired From Wild 'N Out Over Anti-Semitic Comments"...
interviewer, and events specialist. Some stations Morales has worked at include KPWR, KYLD, KHKS, KKPN, KKHH, KPTY, and KHMX. Morales was known for being a radio...
rhythmic pop music that urban outlets will not play. WQHT in New York, and KPWR in Los Angeles are among the most successful CHR/rhythmic stations in the...
spins on Los Angeles urban contemporary radio stations KKBT (The Beat) and KPWR (Power 106) during the course of 2001–02. I would always tell Priority executives...
million. This brings KLOS under common ownership with rhythmic top 40 station KPWR, classic hip-hop outlets KDAY and KDEY-FM, and regional Mexican station KXOS...
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Broadcasting, LLC) Sister stations TV: KWHY-TV Radio: KDAY, KDEY-FM, KLLI, KLOS, KPWR History First air date August 17, 1985; 38 years ago (1985-08-17) (in Oxnard...
Angeles-based stations from being heard on KEZY (Thomas was still employed at rival KPWR at the time). The first song played on the very first American Top 40 show...
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