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KVQ was a short-lived Sacramento, California, AM radio station, which operated from February 2, 1922, until December 20 of the same year. It was initially licensed to J. C. Hobrecht, although a few months after its start ownership was transferred to the Sacramento Bee newspaper. KVQ was Sacramento's first broadcasting station.
The station at 98.5 FM first signed on November 1, 1959, as KXRQ. [2] Owned and operated by Dale Flewelling, it was dedicated by then-California Governor Pat Brown.From its original studios and transmitter located on the 13th floor of the Elks building in downtown Sacramento, [3] KXRQ operated daily from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. with an effective radiated power of 35,000 watts.
The station was established as KROY in 1937, making it the second-oldest station in Sacramento. [4] The oldest station, KFBK (1530 AM), traces its history back to 1922. The station now known as KCVV originally had the call sign KROY from 1937 to 1982, when it became KENZ, then adopted call letters KSAC in 1985, KSQR in 1994, KSAC again in 2005, and KRJY in 2008.
KHTK (1140 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Sacramento, California. KHTK broadcasts a sports radio format as "Sactown Sports 1140" and is an affiliate of the Infinity Sports Network . It is owned by Salt Lake City –based Bonneville International , a profit-making subsidiary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
However, it remained on the air and continued carrying Radio Disney programming until it was sold. [10] On June 29, 2015, Radio Disney Sacramento filed an application to sell KIID to Punjabi American Media. [11] It was approved by the FCC on August 26, 2015. [12] The sale was completed on September 25, 2015, at a purchase price of $800,000. [13 ...
However, some very early (c. 1928–1931) radio programs were on sets of 12-inch or even 10-inch (25 cm) 78 rpm discs, and some later (circa 1960–1990) syndicated radio programs were distributed on 12-inch 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 rpm microgroove vinyl discs visually indistinguishable from ordinary records except by their label information.
In April, the local owners of Price Tower sold an undisclosed amount of historic Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff artifacts, which are now up for sale by a Texas-based gallery.
Rare collectibles from the worlds of music and film, including gold rings owned by Elvis Presley and a letter written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson, will be up for auction this weekend. The "Artifacts ...