KRCD (103.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Inglewood, California, and broadcasting to Greater Los Angeles Area.
Floyd Ray, the owner of the first black Los Angeles record distributor and former big band leader, hosted one of the shows.
Many future celebrities made their debuts on the station including a police officer who would soon be the Mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley.
AM 1230 KGFJ's Larry McCormick (brother to lead singer Charles from Bloodstone) heard the station making noise and getting attention with "Your Old Lady" and added it to his playlist and to his televised dance show.
In 1977, after Avant Gardé was put into receivership, All Pro Broadcasting, owned by former Green Bay Packers defensive end Willie Davis and his wife Ann, acquired the newly renamed KACE.
Some of the air personalities included Steve Woods, Lawrence Tanter, Pam Wells, Lisa Lipps, Ken Taylor, Hamilton Cloud, E.Z.
For a three-year period, between 1988 and 1990, the station featured nightclub-formatted music mix shows for six days a week, with Southern California club DJ Elvin Bridges.
Davis flipped KACE to urban oldies and ended the simulcast with KAEV, switching it to modern rock as KCXX.
Owner Robert Burdette ran a daytime simulcast based on a Big Bands format, featuring a somewhat small-market sound, for over twenty years.
[8] San Gabriel Valley Radio Communications Corporation switched 98.3 to a unique rock en español format, becoming KRTO "Ritmo" 98.3."
In 2000, Cox decided to leave the Los Angeles radio market by trading KOST and KFI to AMFM (now part of iHeartMedia, Inc.) in exchange for several stations in Atlanta, where Cox is headquartered, while KACE/KRTO were sold to Hispanic Broadcasting Company (now part of Univision Communications through its Univision Radio subsidiary) for $75 million.
[11] Once the sale was finalized, the stations flipped to a Spanish Classic hits format, branded as "Recuerdo" or in English, "Memory."
KACE switched its call sign to KRCD while KRTO became KRCV; the final sign-off for the Urban format on both frequencies occurred on February 28, 2000.