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The sale of classical music station KFAC (1330) to a broadcast company that plans to switch to Asian-language programming looked like the end of Beethoven & Co. on the AM dial. But now comes Saul Levine, owner of all-jazz KKGO-FM (105.1), to the rescue. Beginning in May, Levine’s AM station, all-news KSHO (540), will switch its call letters to KKGO-AM at the same time that it goes to an all-classical format. That wouldn’t have meant much to Los Angeles, given the station’s relatively weak 1,000 watts of output. But the Federal Communications Commission has given Levine the go-ahead to boost power to 25,000 watts. As a result, all-classical KKGO-AM should be capable of reaching as many as 10 million listeners in Orange and Los Angeles counties, living up to its new slogan: “Your concert hall on the air.”