KJLH is a Urban AC radio station serving the Los Angeles area. The station, which is owned by Taxi Productions, operates at 102.3 MHz with an effective radiated power of 5.6 kW and is licensed to Compton, California. Its studios operate from Inglewood.
KJLH, whose signal was originally licensed to Long Beach, California but relocated to Compton, debuted with a R&B; format in 1978, the year Stevie Wonder purchased the station from its original owner, John Lamar Hill, thus the call letter's origins. It was Wonder who gave KJLH its on-air slogan to match the call letters, which stand for "Kindness, Joy, Love & Happiness."
During its first eight years, KJLH enjoyed modest success as a R&B;/Urban station and a great familiarity with the African-American community. But it was hampered by the fact that the station was on a Class-A FM signal, which meant their signal was limited to the central and southern portions of Los Angeles County (Including Downtown and South Central Los Angeles),...
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