First station
- Date: ...June 30, 1922...
- Frequency:
- 833 khz (...June 30, 1922...)
- Location:
- Glendale, California (...June 30, 1922...)
- Owner of license:
- Glendale Daily Press (...June 30, 1922...)
Second station
Sorry, folks. This is all wrong and not correct!!! I've been researching and writing about Los Angeles radio history since 1983. The facts are these, based on the records from the Department of Commerce, Federal Radio Commission and the FCC, plus newspaper stories I've researched.
This KFAC radio in Glendale, California was a 50-watt station at the Glendale Daily Press Newspaper and owned by the Newton Electric Company. It was at 833-AM/360 meters, sharing time with the other L.A. area stations on the air in 1922.
It was on the air from June of 1922 until the station went dark, and the license was deleted in January of 1923.
That means that this radio station, KFAC in Glendale during 1922 and 1923, WAS NOT related to the radio station KFAC-AM licensed to Los Angeles at 1300 and later 1330 on the AM dial from 1931 until 1989!!
It was this station license, which also began in 1922 as KJS at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, which changed calls to KTBI in July of 1925. In 1931, the Bible Institute sold KTBI to auto manker E.L. Cord for $37,000. Cord then changed the call letters to KFAC. In January 1989 when KFAC-1330 was sold to KWKW-Pasadena at 1300-AM, KFAC went off the air for good, and KWKW moved from 1300 to 1330 on the dial, taking over the old KFAC facilities. 1330-AM in L.A. is still KWKW today.
Hope that clears it all up about the two KFAC radio stations, the first in Glendale from 1922-'23, and the unrelated KFAC at 1300 and 1330-AM which was on the air in L.A. between 1931 and January 17, 1989.
Jim Hilliker Los Angeles radio historian Monterey, CA