Travel 150 miles from the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, Calif., up Highway 14, and you’ll reach the quirky High Desert community of Ridgecrest, a gateway to Death Valley and famed petroglyph canyons as well as China Lake Naval Weapons Center.
Television stations available to locals are based in Los Angeles, and several L.A.-area radio stations including KCRW, the tastemaker NPR Member station based at Santa Monica College, have long used FM translators to serve Ridgecrest and China Lake.
Yet, there’s also a local radio broadcasting company with multiple stations, and ownership of it has been passed to the sole owner’s widow, following the November 2022 passing of Bob Adelman.
