KWKW is a commercial Spanish language radio station licensed to serve Los Angeles, California, featuring a sports format known as "Tu Liga Radio 1330".
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13 Facts About KWKW
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KWKW itself is Southern California's oldest Spanish language radio station, having begun operations in 1941 at and licensed to Pasadena and transferring to — based in Pasadena—in 1950.
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Since 2003, the studios for KWKW have been located in the Los Angeles Hollywood Hills neighborhood, while the station transmitter is located in the nearby Crenshaw District, shared with KABC and KFOX.
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KWKW had been owned by Lotus since 1962 and was the first station to be purchased by the nascent broadcast chain.
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NetworksAmerica concurrently changed the former KWKW's call letters to KAZN and relaunched it as an Asian radio station—the first such radio station to operate in the Los Angeles area.
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KWKW experimented with a talk format in 1995 but could not fully commit to it because of contracts relating to the hosts of its music-driven shows.
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On October 1,2005, KWKW went full-time as a Spanish-language sports station, the flagship of a new radio network, ESPN Deportes Radio.
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KWKW was the Spanish flagship of the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League until the team folded in April 2009.
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In 2016, KWKW became the Spanish-language home of the Los Angeles Rams, heading up a multi-station network that includes Lotus's Spanish sports outlet in Las Vegas, KENO.
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KWKW did not learn of the network's folding until it was publicly announced; general manager Jim Kalmenson said that ESPN Deportes programming was largely supplemental to the station's local sports talk programming which earned higher ratings.
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KWKW is currently the flagship of a four-station Spanish-language network for the Los Angeles Lakers, with Jose "Pepe" Mantilla, Fernando Gonzalez and Francisco Pinto as announcers; all games are broadcast live.
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In 2017, KWKW began broadcasting on an FM translator, K264CQ, which has its transmitter mounted to one of KWKW's AM towers.
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