Hollywood's last radio station pulling out...

[Jim W8DRZ]

http://cbs2.com/localnews/localnewsla_story_223191651.html

Aug 11, 2005 3:51 pm US/Pacific
LOS ANGELES (AP) The show will go on for Hollywood's
first radio station, just not in Tinseltown.

Eighty-five years after going on the air, KNX radio is
scheduled to end its run at L.A.'s historic Columbia
Square broadcast center Friday night just after 11
p.m. The station is relocating to new studios in a Los
Angeles neighborhood southwest of Hollywood.

That leaves Hollywood, which over the years has been
home to 68 radio stations, without a radio station.

Hollywood has also been losing its television
stations. Tinseltown has had up to nine at one time,
but in the last few years, five TV stations have left.

Two more stations -- KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV -- are
scheduled to relocate to Studio City, leaving KTLA and
KCET as Hollywood's remaining television stations.

[W1GFH]

All the radio stations are in nondescript office buildings in the San Fernando Valley now. Kinda miss the days when a radio station looked like one.

Anyway, KNX started with a HAM broadcasting from his home. Kinda like K1MAN 

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Fred Christian, an ex-Marconi shipboard wireless operator on the "Middlesex" in 1919, put together a five-watt transmitter, the forerunner of KNX, in his Hollywood home. He was first granted the call letters 6 ADZ, later changed to KGC, and finally to KNX. Christian began broadcasting on September 10, 1920 by playing recorded music borrowed from music stores in return for plugs on the air.
He was the city's first disc jockey and his "studio" was a back bedroom in his home on Harold Way, located between Normandie Avenue and Mariposa Street.