KKGO-FM (105.1 FM, "Go Country 105") is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California.
KKGO-FM is notable in being the lone remaining full-power commercial FM signal licensed to Los Angeles that is still independently owned and operated.
After Evergreen Media's record-setting purchase of KFAC-FM (92.3 FM) on January 15, 1989,[6] followed by rumors and publicity stunts[7] suggesting that station music format (one which had its roots in KFAC (1330 AM), itself divested prior to Evergreen's purchase of the FM),[8][9] KKGO announced that it would flip to classical effective January 1, 1990, with the jazz format being transferred to 540 AM.
[10] Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters chairman Saul Levine made an initial bid for KFAC's music library, one which dated back to the 1940s, but withdrew his bid when presented with an asking price upwards of $1 million; a combination of KUSC, the Los Angeles Public Library, and Stanford University acquired it instead.
[12] KKGO celebrated the complete conversion to classical by playing selections from Franz Lehár's operetta The Land of Smiles.
23 in F major, K. 590", Los Angeles was left once again without a commercial analog FM classical music station.
[17] Their goal was to assure broadcasters and others that the country music format would be a valuable asset to a local radio station.
[22] KKGO often has notable music figures host Christmas programming, past guests have included Jordan Davis, Dan + Shay, Chris Young, Mitchell Tenpenny, Carrie Underwood, Idina Menzel,[23] and Martina McBride.
As of 2024, KKGO-FM broadcasts on four subchannels: In 2005, Mount Wilson Broadcasting started simulcasting the programming of its two AM stations at the time, KKGO in Beverly Hills, California, and XESURF-AM in the Tijuana—San Diego border area, on KMZT-FM's HD2 signal, hosting an adult standards format known as "Unforgettable 540 & 1260".
While the AM signals combine to cover much of the Southern California region, they were still weak, especially at night in Orange County; the FM HD2 simulcast helped boost the reach of the format.
Songs representative of this adult standards format, collectively referred to as the "Great American Songbook", come from such artists as Tony Bennett, Nat "King" Cole, Barbra Streisand, Harry Connick, Jr., Mel Tormé, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra and Michael Bublé.