North High School (Torrance) - KNHS

KNHS, was an FCC licensed FM radio station on 89.7 MHz, serving the Torrance, California area with a variety music format. KNHS ceased broadcasting when a short-sighted TUSD allowed the station license to expire in 1991. The station broadcast with one Watt until 1972 when its studios and transmitter were moved to the second floor of the Industrial Arts building according to the High School newspaper The North Wind. When KNHS moved to the industrial arts building, the antenna tower was moved to the roof above the studios. The tower originally was above the old KNHS studios near the cafeteria.

There was no professional manager for KNHS, so broadcast students managed KNHS with some supervision by schoolteachers, so the programming, educational value and financial earnings potential of KNHS was never realized. There was no engineer for the station except for a contract engineer who was only called when something was known to be wrong and a monitoring company measured the frequency of KNHS monthly to comply with FCC regulations.

North High School had speakers at various places on campus, including the "quad," and cafeteria, so the unsuspecting students could be subjected to the sound of the campus radio station at lunch time. A local "landmark" was the KNHS tower with its two omni-directional "halo" elements, one at the top and one lower on the tower. The tower was damaged in a winter storm in 2010 and removed from view.