{"id":258072,"date":"2025-10-29T05:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258072\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:32:19","slug":"knac-to-relaunch-in-californias-high-desert-on-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258072\/","title":{"rendered":"KNAC To Relaunch In California&#8217;s High Desert On Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-od-removed-loading=\"lazy\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='jeg_viewport']\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::P]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/knac-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"94.9 KNAC 96.9 99.7 HD3 Las Vegas Barstow Baker Highway Rock\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-316006\"  \/>After a <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/307725\/kxte-gets-more-xtreme-highway-rock-pays-tribute-to-knac\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tribute over the Labor Day Weekend<\/a>, Heftel Broadcasting\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.highwayrock.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Highway Rock<\/a>\u201d 96.9 KNAC Lenwood\/Barstow, 94.9 KHDR Baker CA and 99.7 KHYZ-HD3 Mountain Pass CA\/Las Vegas will relaunch under the \u201cKNAC\u201d brand at midnight on Friday, October 31.<\/p>\n<p>President of Rock \u2018Gonzo Greg\u2019 Spillane, who began his career at the original 105.5 KNAC Los Angeles and rose from intern to morning host, will oversee the relaunched brand. He commented, \u201cKNAC was never just a station; it was a lifestyle, a brotherhood, and a giant middle finger to boring radio. Bringing it back means unleashing that energy on a whole new generation while giving the old guard their soundtrack back. And no, we\u2019re not asking for permission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spillane says that the opening hours will be loaded with archival clips, insane highlights, and the legendary voices that made KNAC infamous in the first place. Expect familiar air-checks, notorious IDs, and those \u201cdid they really just say that?\u201d moments KNAC fans still talk about. Core artists will include  Five Finger Death Punch, Bad Omens, The Pretty Reckless, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, and Poison.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Van Slyck will serve as imaging voice with Spillane and Mel Rox providing segments during the day. Former KNAC personalities including Thrasher and Jack Trash will contribute with the station airing Charlie Kendall\u2019s Metalshop, LA Lloyd\u2019s Rock 30, and Full Metal Jackie on Sunday evenings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a tribute over the Labor Day Weekend, Heftel Broadcasting\u2019s \u201cHighway Rock\u201d 96.9 KNAC Lenwood\/Barstow, 94.9 KHDR Baker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-258072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}