QUICK TAKES - Feb. 19, 2009

KLSX-FM (97.1), the L.A. talk station that is home to Adam Carolla, Tom Leykis and Tim Conway Jr., will switch to a music format at 5 p.m. Friday. The station will call itself AMP Radio and, like top-rated KIIS-FM (102.7), will feature contemporary pop hits by the likes of Beyonce, Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Kelly Clarkson.

In announcing the switch Wednesday, CBS Radio said the new station will “combine the power of its on-air position with myriad online and digital applications.” The company had been testing the format since last year as an online/HD2 station affiliated with KCBS-FM (93.1).

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Charles Amter