KJLH

KJLH (102.3 FM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station licensed to Compton, California, and serving the Los Angeles area.

In 1965, African American businessman John Lamar Hill, then-owner of the Angelus Funeral Home based in South Los Angeles, bought KILB from the previous owners.

In 1979, after 14 years of ownership, Hill sold KJLH to R&B/pop/soul musician Stevie Wonder for more than $2 million; he created a separate corporation, Taxi Productions, for the purposes of purchasing and managing the station away from his other business affairs.

Under this change of ownership, Wonder gave KJLH its on-air slogan to match the call letters: "Kindness, Joy, Love & Happiness".

To date, even in spite of two different ownership phases, KJLH is the oldest African American-owned radio station on the West Coast.

When that station debuted, Wonder retaliated by cutting new imaging and liners in the hopes of retaining their listener base, but that tactic backfired as they began to see its audience going over to the full-powered "Power 106", and would never recover.

KJLH would get more competition in 2001, when KCMG dropped rhythmic oldies to become KHHT (it is now urban contemporary formatted hip hop rival KRRL).

KJLH building in Inglewood on La Brea