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"Gone But Not Forgotten"

These are the stories of LA area stations that began broadcasting, but then "faded out" and into the depths of history. We know some fascinating bits about some, and less about others. Can you add to the history of these pioneers?

KNR - KDYR - KNN - KDZF - KXS - KGO - KNV - KUY - KGF - KZI - KFRP

KNR - Los Angeles

Licensed: April 10, 1922 
First Broadcast?? Unknown 
Deleted: August 23, 1922

This is the story of a radio station that looked as if it had potential, but apparently never got on the air.

The call letters KNR were issued in sequential order for a new radio station which was licensed to the Beacon Light Company of Los Angeles at 636 S. Hill Street. The license was issued on April 10, 1922. The Radio Service Bulletin put out monthly by the Department of Commerce did not give the specific transmitter power KNR was to use. The station was to share 360 meters/833 kilocycles with the other Los Angeles area radio stations then on the air.

Very little is known about KNR radio. What is interesting, is a large newspaper ad that appeared in the "Los Angeles Times" on March 29, 1922. The advertisement said: "Announcing the installation of the Birkel Company's Radio Broadcasting Station, installed and operated by the Beacon Light Company." The ad seems to imply that the Beacon Light Company's new radio station, (KNR), would broadcast inside the George J. Birkel Company from their "great sending room" inside the store, at 446-448 South Broadway. The store sold Steinway pianos and the Steinway Duo-Art Reproducing Piano.

The people who wrote the advertisement apparently wanted to promote the fact that the store and the station's owner had big plans for KNR. The ad stated that it would be "the largest and most powerful (station) in the West, with a broadcasting range of 2,000 miles. Because of its educational qualities, the Birkel Company's radio station is the only one having Government sanction to operate over such an immense territory. It is completely controlled by the Birkel Company and dedicated to the musical education of the American people."

The ad further stated that daily concerts featuring the great masters of the piano and the organ would be heard over this new radio station. The ad also seems to imply they were promoting and possibly trying to sell pianos and organs from the Birkel Company store. Besides the live musical concerts, the station was going to feature: "The newest Victor Records, which will be broadcasted the day they arrive from the Victor factory--radio owners will be the first to hear them!"

The station was also planning to broadcast news, market reports, baseball scores, etc., just like the other stations were doing. The last paragraph of the ad said: "This marvelous radio broadcasting station will be in operation in about two weeks--watch the papers for further announcements. Get ready to 'tune in' on the strongest and most powerful music broadcasting station in the West..." So, what happened?

Twelve days later, the Beacon Light Company had their license to broadcast for station KNR. But I can't find any evidence that KNR ever went on the air for so much as one broadcast! In my quick searches through the Los Angeles Times, I couldn't find it listed among the other radio stations scheduled to broadcast between April and August. Possibly, a more thorough search could turn up some details as to what happened with KNR and why the owners backed out of their grandiose plans for this station. It sure seems they were ready to go ahead with their idea of what a radio station should sound like, and serve the Southern California radio fans in the best way possible.

The fact is, the collaboration between Beacon Light Co. and the Birkel Company was over only 4 months later. The Department of Commerce deleted the license for KNR radio on August 23, 1922.

If anyone has further information as to what became of KNR radio and if it ever went on the air, even for a test broadcast or two, please let us know.

KDYR - Pasadena

Licensed: May 10, 1922 
First Broadcast: Never occurred 
Deleted: December 1, 1922

The first effort by the Pasadena Star-News to get into radio broadcasting also never came about, for reasons that are unknown by this writer.

A license was issued to the Star-News Publishing Company of 525 E. Colorado Street in Pasadena on May 10, 1922. The sequential call letters issued for their radio station were KDYR. KDYR was assigned to broadcast on the 360 meter wavelength/833 kilocycles, sharing time with other stations in the area.

Evidence suggests that plans for KDYR somehow never got off the ground. My search through the "Pasadena Star-News" turned up no information as to the station getting its license or any evidence that KDYR got on the air. The paper had a listing for other Los Angeles radio stations most days, including another local Pasadena station, the J.J. Dunn station, KLB, but said nothing about KDYR.

For whatever reason, it seems the powers in charge at this Pasadena newspaper decided the time wasn't right to start a radio station.

The U.S. Department of Commerce finally deleted the license for station KDYR on December 1, 1922.

The newspaper would wait three more years before really getting into broadcasting with station KPSN in 1925.

KNN - Los Angeles

"Bullock's Radiophone"

Licensed: April 25, 1922 
First Broadcast: ?? 
Last Broadcast: ?? 
Deleted: June 7, 1923

KNN radio was owned and operated by the Bullock's Department Store at 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. KNN was licensed on April 25, 1922 to operate on 360 meters/833 kilocycles. The transmitter power was not listed in the Radio Service Bulletin.

The store used the station to draw customers to its radio department and to promote sales at the store. They placed ads in "Radio Doings" magazine next to the station's program schedule to alert radio fans about the latest gear, such as detector tubes, transmitting tubes for hams and the newest radios.

Like KYJ and KJC, KNN gave store customers and listeners a glimpse into the new world of radio broadcasting. It's likely that shoppers were able to watch the station workers when they were broadcasting from the store. The station put on regular programs each week. However, with the tight scheduling of the other L.A. area radio stations to share time on 360 meters, KNN was usually only able to broadcast 3 days a week. This was mostly on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday for one hour each day. One exception was during August of 1922, when KNN was on the air Monday through Friday, but only from 10-11 a.m. The programs consisted of various speakers, many of them educational in nature. There were also many tenors and sopranos showcasing their singing talents and a junior program of children musicians. The station also put on a story time by a local L.A. city librarian, travel talks, and women's programs such as a November broadcast on "Suggestions for the Thanksgiving Dinner."

But, like the other radio stations in Los Angeles owned by downtown stores, the owners must have decided that broadcasting was not what they expected it to be and that sales of radios and related equipment weren't enough to help pay for a radio station. Or possibly, they didn't have the personnel to keep a broadcasting station running properly. The December 10, 1922 issue of "Radio Doings" stated that Bullock's Radiophone, KNN, would be off the air for a time, but they didn't say why. As it turned out, KNN did not return to the air, and the station license was deleted by the Dept. of Commerce on June 7, 1923.

But, there's no doubt KNN was one of the pioneer stations in Los Angeles that gave crystal set and other radio owners of the time the radio entertainment and service they were craving in those early days of broadcasting.

KDZF - Los Angeles

Licensed: May 25, 1922 
First Broadcast: ?? 
Deleted: April 4, 1924

This station was licensed to the Automobile Club of Southern California on Figueroa Street at Adams in Los Angeles. KDZF was licensed May 25, 1922 to broadcast on 360 meters/833 kilocycles, with an unspecified transmitter power.

But did this radio station get on the air, or was it only an occasional broadcaster with a sporadic schedule? The newspaper schedules I checked and Radio Doings magazine never listed the station in their program listings. But the station was listed in various radio callbooks of the day sold to the radio fans and DXers.

However, Auto Club historians could find no record of the station! It may have made only a few broadcasts for publicity purposes and never had a regular schedule. The Auto Club did however pass on to me some interesting articles about a weekly show they had on KHJ during late 1922 and 1923.

Still, the Department of Commerce kept the KDZF license going and it was renewed. In May of 1923, KDZF moved from 360 meters to 1080 kilocycles, with a power of 500 watts. Again, there seems to be no evidence that it was on the air or that the station was ever built. Could it have been used as a publicity gimmic for the Auto Club, possibly as a portable station they took to various L.A. locations?

KDZF was finally deleted by the Department of Commerce on April 4, 1924. So, until we can do more research into this, KDZF will remain quite a mystery.

KXS - Los Angeles

Licensed: April 10, 1922 
First Broadcast: ?? 
Deleted: Marh 9, 1923

This was another station that didn't show up in the local newspaper schedules, so there is little information about it. It was owned by a manufacturer of and wholesale dealer in chemicals, the Braun Corporation at 363 New High Street in Los Angeles. The license was granted April 10, 1922 and it was deleted on March 9, 1923. The station's transmitting power on 360 meters is unknown.

The April 4, 1922 "Los Angeles Times" radio column printed a short item, saying that the Braun Corporation was putting in a radio station "in the near future", with W.K. Glasby in charge. Their plan was to be an educational-type radio station with technical and educational lectures for various schools and colleges in the region.

The article stated that the Braun Corp. was also handling radio supplies. KXS possibly could have been used on a part-time basis to demonstrate the radios they were selling, but that's only speculation. So far, I haven't found any evidence that it was on the air, as it was never listed in popular radio magazines such as Radio Doings.

If anyone else has information about KXS or Braun Corp. and whether KXS was ever on the air, please share with us whatever details you may have.

KGO - Altadena, CA

"Altadena Radiophone"

Licensed: March 15, 1922 
First Broadcast: ?? 
Last Broadcast: ?? 
Deleted: August 21, 1923

Two years before the General Electric Company put station KGO on the air in Oakland, California, the call letters KGO were assigned by the Department of Commerce to a Southern California amateur radio operator and radio retailer for a new radio station.

Paul Franklin Johnson had the experimental ham call of 6XR. He was also owner of the Altadena Radio Laboratory at his home at 2940 Maiden Lane in Altadena, where he set up the broadcasting studio for KGO. The station was licensed on March 15, 1922 with 50 watts of power and shared time with other Los Angeles area stations on 360 meters. Mr. Johnson also owned and operated a popular radio store in nearby Pasadena at 562 E. Colorado Street. Schedules for KGO, also known as the "Altadena Radiophone", listed the address as 560 East Colorado St., next door to The 100% Radio Store.

The KGO studio inside Johnson's Altadena home was at 1,570 feet above sea level, near Mt. Lowe and the foothills of Mt. Wilson. "Radio Journal" magazine did a story on Johnson and KGO in 1922 and described the station. Equipment for KGO included an Edison Phonograph, 4 microphones made by Federal, Magnavox, Kellogg and Acoustian; and a 10 and 50-watt transmitter. Power to run the station came from a 300-watt, 1,000 volt motor generator. The transmitting antenna was the typical four-wire inverted L popular at the time. KGO programs were made up of Agriculture Dept. reports, Edison records, code practice for radio buffs, lectures on radio subjects, plus instrumental and vocal music concerts. Schedules varied from month to month, but KGO broadcasts usually lasted from 40 minutes to one hour. A November 1922 schedule shows KGO on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon. Edison records were loaned by Wyckoff-Verrinder, the Edison Phonograph agents in Pasadena. The station also did special programs, such as dance music for a supper dance, with advance notice. Church music was on the air on Sundays.

KGO was a steady broadcaster in the Los Angeles area, but for unknown reasons, Mr. Johnson took the station off the air in 1923. The KGO license was deleted on August 21, 1923. Too bad, since the KGO calls could've stayed in L.A. instead of San Francisco! Later, Paul Franklin Johnson's son Seymour was an engineer for KFI radio.

KNV - Los Angeles

Licensed: April 10, 1922 
First Broadcast: ?? 
Deleted: April 4, 1924

Was owned by the Radio Supply Company at 815 S. Main Street in Los Angeles, which sold early brands of radios, parts, loop antennas, and radio kits. They ran this 100 watt station from April 10, 1922 until the station license was deleted on April 2, 1924. Like KXS it didn't have a regular schedule and probably was used to play music over the air to demonstrate to customers how radios sounded.

In my own research, I never found KNV listed in schedules of radio station programs in the "Los Angeles Times" or in "Radio Doings" magazine. So, when was it on the air, or was it at all?

In August of 1923, the Department of Commerce moved KNV from 360 meters/833 kilocycles to share time with KUY-El Monte on 1170 kilocycles.

Some time after the demise of KNV, the Radio Supply Company moved to 920 South Broadway, where it stayed many more years.

KUY - El Monte, CA

"Coast Radio Broadcasting Station"

Licensed: April 25, 1922 
First Broadcast: July 14, 1922 
Last Broadcast: ?? 
Deleted: Sept. 29, 1924

This early radio station was owned by the Coast Radio Company in El Monte, 12 miles east of Los Angeles. Ex-shipboard wireless operator and amateur G. S. Corpe, along with his brother and Cecil R. Parker, owned KUY. Goodspeed Sam Corpe had very early radio experience as the operator of coastal wireless station PJ at San Pedro, CA in 1911 when he was 18 years old. He also spent 3 years traveling the world as a wireless operator on various ships.

KUY was located at 517 W. Main Street (now Valley Mall) on the north side of Main and west of Granada Street. Corpe's company made and sold radios, headphones, radio parts, etc. The 50-watt station was a "home brew" (self-built, as most stations were in the early and mid-20s) and had a regular schedule of live programs. When KUY shared time on 360 meters, it was usually on the air for one-half hour three times a week. But a schedule for the week of August 7, 1922 shows KUY on the air Monday through Saturday at 4:00 to 4:45 PM each day with a lecture on radio, plus two nights a week from 8:00 to 9:00 PM with musical entertainment, such as the Chamley Brothers Hawaiian String Quartette. Phongraph records were seldom heard. Some of KUY's performers included the Odd Fellows' Band under the direction of Mr. S. C. Setchell, and piano recitals by Florence Jones Cawood, along with other local talent from El Monte.

An eucalyptus tree more than 140 feet high was a landmark in the El Monte area, and it was this tree that held one end of KUY's wire transmitting antenna. Though Department of Commerce records indicate that KUY's power was 50 watts, Corpe wrote in the El Monte Historical Society newsletter in the 1970s, that the station's power was 100 watts. A Coast Radio flyer from the time KUY was on states that it had been heard "from Mexico to Canada and as far east as Denver". Stating his memories of KUY in the historical society's newsletter, he added: "KUY brought reports of reception from vast distances, including all of the United States, South America, Australia, China, etc".

The station lasted from 4/25/22 (first air date was July 14th) until it was deleted 9/29/24. In August of 1923, the Department of Commerce moved KUY from 360 meters to share time on 1170 kilocycles with station KNV in Los Angeles.

G.S. Corpe took KUY off the air for unknown reasons in 1924 and worked as a land developer until he moved to Wrightwood, northeast of L. A. at the 6,000-foot level of the San Gabriel Mountains. He ran the Wrightwood Lodge for a few years, living in a mountain cabin.

A member of the American Radio Relay League, Corpe was on the ham bands every day as W6LM, the call sign he was granted by the government in 1919 (6LM at first). However, unlike KUY, which had sent out music and talks to the radio audience of Southern California and beyond in the early 1920s, Corpe transmitted only in telegraphic code when operating as an amateur radio operator from his home. G.S. Corpe, radio pioneer, died at Wrightwood, CA on December 11, 1978 at the age of 84.

KGF - Pomona, CA

Licensed: Feburary 8, 1922 
First Broadcast: ?? 
Deleted: December 6, 1922

Little is known about this station. It was licensed to the Pomona Fixture and Wiring Company at 310 W. Second Street in Pomona to operate on 360 meters/833 kilocycles with an unknown amount of power. KGF only lasted from Feburary 8, 1922 until it was deleted by the Dept. of commerce 12/6/22.

It was probably another of those stations without a regular schedule that tried out broadcasting in order to sell some radio-related products and to promote its business. A footnote to this mystery station is that it may not have ever got on the air, even though a license to broadcast was granted. KGF was listed in the Los Angeles Times and in a magazine called Radio Journal, but a program schedule was never listed! Radio Doings magazine never had a schedule of the station's programs.

Somebody at this company, possibly the owner, had an interest in radio. The May 1924 "Citizens Radio Call Book," shows amateur radio station 6ATT at this location in Pomona, and that person was likely the one who got the license for KGF. Why it never went on the air remains a mystery.

KZI - Los Angeles

Licensed: April 19, 1922 
First Broadcast: ?? 
Deleted: August 15, 1922

Here is another radio station for which there is virtually no information. It was owned by Irving S. Cooper of 2041 Argyle Avenue in Los Angeles, and was to broadcast on 360 meters/833 kilocycles with an unknown transmitter power.

KZI lasted from 4/10/22 until 8/15/22, but I have no proof that this station ever got on the air and no information on the station's owner.

Should anyone have more specific on KZI and Irving S. Cooper, please pass it along to us.

KFRP - Redlands

Licensed: November 6, 1924 
First Broadcast: November 7, 1924 
Last Broadcast: ?? 
Deleted: May 18, 1925

KFRP was another of the early radio stations put on the air in Southern California by a specific church, solely for the purpose of broadcasting their Sunday church services to shut-ins and members of the congregation, who couldn't be there in person for various reasons.

Trinity Episcopal Church in Redlands at 449 Chestnut Avenue, somehow became interested in having its own radio station. The church went through the proper channels and applied in the fall of 1924 to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation, Radio Division for the station license, and installed a 10-watt transmitter at the church for the purpose of broadcasting to the public.

On November 6, 1924, the church was granted provisional limited commercial broadcasting license number 1574, with the call letters KFRP, issued to Mr. Edward F. Lane of Trinity Episcopal Church. Assigned to broadcast on a wavelength of 211 meters (1420 kilocycles) with 10 watts of power, KFRP went on the air for the first time the next day, November 7, 1924 with religious services from the church.

In a quick search of the "San Bernardino Sun" newspaper, I failed to find any news items about the opening of KFRP radio. The paper had a regular page for news of surrounding communities, including Redlands. But, as luck would have it, microfilm records had a short report on the station the very next week!

In the "Sun" for Saturday, November 15, 1924, the headline for Redlands news that day was, "RADIO CONCERT WILL BE GIVEN-Redlands Organist will broadcast from Trinity Church." The story said this "Thousands of persons over a wide territory will attend the organ concert at Trinity Episcopal Church tomorrow night from 730 to 8 o'clock, when the organ recital by Frank Cummings, organist at the First Presbyterian Church, will be broadcast.

In December of '24, about a month after they got on the air, they were still active on 1420, Saturdays 7:30-8:00 p.m., Sundays 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m.

The farthest point that has yet acknowledged hearing the church concerts was in Humboldt County. The radio fan at that location reported hearing the Redlands station several times." The article ended with the program of music for the Sunday evening broadcast.

Another quick search through the "Sun" did not turn up additional schedules of the station in the paper's radio page, and no other mentions in the Redlands news. It may take a more in-depth search to find out more, such as when KFRP had its final broadcast and why it went off the air.

As the first radio station in Redlands, it certainly didn't stay on the air very long. The station's license was cancelled and the KFRP call letters were deleted by the Department of Commerce on May 18, 1925.

All the sources checked from the Department of Commerce showed the station was always broadcasting on 1420 kilocycles with 10 watts of power. The same is true for station lists in other magazines of the day, such as Radio News, Radio World and Radio Digest. However, Broadcast Pro-File's history of KFRP states that, "In late 1924, KFRP moved to 1450 kilocycles and power rose to 50 watts." In addition, radio historian Thomas H. White told me that the March and May 1925 issues of "Wireless Age" magazine list KFRP om 206 meters, or roughly 1456 kilocycles. Transmitter power was not listed.

This was really the ONLY exception found to any official government list, when it came to finding the frequency and transmitter power used by a pioneer radio station. Broadcast Pro-File doesn't list its source for the change in KFRP's frequency and power.

As for Trinity Episcopal Church, their new location in Redlands today is at 419 South 4th Street, at the corner of Fern. The efforts of one of their long-forgotten church members to put radio station KFRP on the air in 1924 and '25 are also long-forgotten. When a letter was written to the church in the early 1990s to obtain any information on KFRP, there was none to be had. They had no idea that their church once put a pioneer radio station on the air, if only for a short time in the history of broadcasting.

KFAV - Venice, CA

Licensed July 1922
First Broadcast Unknown
Last broadcast Unknown
License deleted January 8, 1924

Radio station KFAV was licensed in July of 1922 to Venice, California,with owners listed only as Cooke and Chapman. The Department of Commerce gave no first names of the owners or an address for this new radio station.

KFAV was assigned to broadcast on the 360-meter wavelength or 833 kilocycles with a power of 5 watts.

By the end of October of 1922, the station still wasn't on the air. It was in November that the Department of Commerce listed a new owner for KFAV, the Abbott Kinney Company of Venice. This company was the owner of the big concessions, oceanfront amusement park and pier in that city, which was later annexed to Los Angeles.

In the November 4, 1922 issue of Radio Doings magazine, an article explained why KFAV wasn't yet on the air. It said that readers were asking who is KFAV and why isn't the station broadcasting? The story went on to say "Up to this week, the station (KFAV) has been under orders from Admiral C. H. Jackson, commander of the sixth battleship division of the United States Navy, who flies his flag from the U.S.S. Texas. Venice, being the only coastal city in this vicinity that has a broadcasting station, was proud to be able to furnish service to Uncle Sam. By this means, radio service was maintained between the various vessels of the fleet with the shore. But, this is not the only thing that this city is proud of, for it has for broadcaster in charge of KFAV, the hero of the ill-fated "City of Honolulu", Mr. Hancock, the man who sent out the calls that brought assistance and saved the lives of passengers and crew, and who stayed at his post until the very last. This station has now been released from government service, and will shortly be broadcasting the dance music from the famous Venice Ballroom to the dancing enthusiasts of this and surrounding territory. So get ready to hook up your loud speaker and dance to the music furnished you from that famous jazz orchestra at Venice. We hope to be able to publish its program very shortly."

The station was apparently ready to go on the air the first week of November. Radio Doings magazine listed the first program schedule for station KFAV, which they gave the nickname, "The Venice Ballroom Broadcasting Station", effective November 1, 1922. KFAV was to be on the air on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights from 830 to 930 pm, with concerts by the Venice Ballroom Orchestra.

The share-time schedule for Los Angeles area stations on 360 meters/833 kilocycles that week also shows that KFAV was given time to go on the air 2-3 p.m. those same 3 days. It's unknown if they also did any broadcasting during the afternoon hours.

In the January 6, 1923 issue of Radio Doings magazine, KFAV took out a half-page advertisement promoting itself as the station from the Venice Ballroom, now featuring the music of Abe Lyman and his Harmony Boys. The call letters KFAV were printed repeatedly all around the border of the ad.

In May of 1923, the Department of Commerce moved KFAV from 360 meters to 258 meters, or 1160 kilocycles. The station's frequency was shifted again in September of 1923 to 224 meters or 1340 kilocycles. The transmitter power remained at 5 watts.

By November of 1923, a schedule in Radio Doings magazine listed the station as on the air with the exact schule from the year before Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights from 830 until 930 p.m. But the magazine shows KFAV to be on 258 meters at that time, instead of 224. This could possibly be a mistake by the magazine.

The little 5-watt station at the Venice Ballroom continued for only a few more weeks. It's unknown why the Abbott Kinney Company took the station off the air. So far, we've been unable to determine when its last broadcast took place. 

But the sounds of jazz music that were heard over KFAV would soon be experienced only in person by the dancers who flocked to Venice for entertainment.

The Department of Commerce records show that KFAV was deleted on January 8, 1924.

KFMY - Long Beach, CA

Licensed January 1924
First Broadcast Unknown
Last Broadcast Unknown
Deleted June 1924

KFMY This is another early radio station for which there is virtually no information available. KFMY was licensed to the Boy Scouts of America District Council in Long Beach in Janaury of 1924. The station was assigned to broadcast of 229 meters or 1310 kilocycles with 20 watts of power.

So far, there is no evidence one way or the other to indicate this station ever went on the air. Possibly further research in the radio magazines of that year would turn up some information if KFMY made any broadcasts and what type of programming the station offered to listeners. But in a search through the Long Beach Press newspaper in March of 1924, no listing for station KFMY was found in the radio schedules.

KFMY may have been an outgrowth of the Long Beach Boy Scouts District Council amateur radio station 6UL. The address of this ham radio station, also run by the owners/licensee of KFMY was at 215 Locust Street in Long Beach. 

The Department of Commerce deleted the license for KFMY radio in June of 1924.

KFOC - Whittier, CA

Licensed Feburary 1924
First air date Unknown
Last air date Unknown
Deleted August 1, 1925

KFOC radio was a 100 watt station licensed in February of 1924 to the First Christian Church in Whittier. The station was assigned to broadcast on a wavelength of 236 meters or 1270 kilocycles.

There seems to be little information on this early church station; even after writing to the church in recent years, they had no information on KFOC and didn't know they had once had a radio station in their church. This was likely an experiment by the church or someone who was technically-minded who was a member of the church, to broadcast their Sunday services. So far, no program listings showing the station in newspapers or radio magazines of the day have been found. But, with a small, once-a-week broadcaster, the station may have felt it was only necessary to let its members and residents of Whittier know about the station and its broadcasts.

KFOC may have gone off the air due to the cost of running the station without any financial return, or for some other unknown reason. After close to a year and a half, station KFOC was gone from the airwaves.

The Department of Commerce deleted the license for KFOC on August 1, 1925.