KEIB (1150
AM) is a
commercial
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** Radio advertisement
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* (adjective for:) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and s ...
radio station
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in
Los Angeles, California
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. Owned by
iHeartMedia, the station brands itself as ''The Patriot'', and broadcasts a
talk
Talk may refer to:
Communication
* Communication, the encoding and decoding of exchanged messages between people
* Conversation, interactive communication between two or more people
* Lecture, an oral presentation intended to inform or instruct
...
radio format
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. The station's studios are on West Olive Avenue in
Burbank.
By day, KEIB is powered at 50,000
watt
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s, the maximum for commercial AM stations in the U.S. At night, to minimize interference to other stations on
1150 AM 115 may refer to:
*115 (number), the number
*AD 115, a year in the 2nd century AD
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, it reduces power to 44,000 watts. The
transmitter
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uses a
directional antenna with a four-
tower array
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, located in the
City of Industry
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.
Programming
The weekday schedule on "The Patriot" features all
nationally syndciated talk shows:
Sean Hannity
Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American talk show host, conservative political commentator, and author. He is the host of '' The Sean Hannity Show'', a nationally syndicated talk radio show, and has also hosted a commen ...
,
Glenn Beck, "
The Ramsey Show
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with
Dave Ramsey
David Lawrence Ramsey III (born September 3, 1960) is an American personal finance personality, radio show host, author, and businessman. An evangelical Christian, he hosts the nationally syndicated radio program ''The Ramsey Show''. Ramsey has ...
", "
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
''The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'' is an American radio program hosted by former Fox Sports Radio personality Clay Travis and former '' America Now/The Buck Sexton Show'' host Buck Sexton. It is broadcast on over 400 talk radio station ...
," "
Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb,"
Jesse Kelly
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and
Michael Berry.
The station carries
UCLA Bruins
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and
Anaheim Ducks games in case of conflicts with their regular radio stations. Weekends feature repeats of weekday shows and two local hosts: Mark Moss and Joe Escalante. On weekends, some hours are paid
brokered programming
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. Most hours begin with
Fox News Radio.
History
Early years
KMIC,
Inglewood, signed on in . The
call sign
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changed to KMCS in 1930. In 1932, new owners moved the station to the
Spring Arcade Building at 541 S. Spring Street in Los Angeles, and changed the call letters to KRKD, as a reference to the word "arcade". Two
broadcast towers on the roof, with "a long-wire flattop transmitting antenna", had the KRKD letters on the side.
From 1928 to 1961, KFSG 1150 (1120 before 1941) shared the KRKD frequency and transmitter. The
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
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History
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bought KRKD to keep from having to share time, airing mostly secular programming. From 6 P.M. to midnight, KRKD aired services from
Angelus Temple
Angelus Temple is a Pentecostal megachurch of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California, United States. The senior pastor is Matthew Barnett. The maximum capacity is 8,975 persons. ...
.
KRKD-FM aired the same programming as the AM station before 1966. After that, the two stations aired the same
adult standards programming after 2 in the afternoon and were known as "Your Album Stations of Southern California". On its own KRKD-FM aired
theatrical performances, light
classical music and
opera
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. At one point, the AM aired college football while the FM kept the album format, and when the games ended, the AM continued the album format and the FM aired theater and opera.
KIIS
The Foursquare Church sold KRKD AM in 1970 (and changed KRKD-FM to KFSG). In 1970, the KRKD call letters were then changed to KIIS to identify it with its AM frequency (1150=IIS). The new owners changed the format to
soft rock with jingles performed by Richard and Karen Carpenter. It was known as "the Kiss of California." In 1975, its owners, Combined Communications, "married" KIIS 1150 AM to their FM station, KKDJ 102.7 FM, in an on-air wedding on
Charlie Tuna's KKDJ morning show. KKDJ then became known as
KIIS-FM
KIIS-FM (102.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States, and broadcasts to the Greater Los Angeles area. The station airs a top 40 format. Owned by iHeartMedia, KIIS-FM is the origin of the conglome ...
. The AM and FM stations ("AM and FM, K-Double I S") did simulcasts during the day and reverted to two stations in the evening hours (with this, the AM aired their own version of the jingle package which had been produced for its sister FM station). The combined stations had many popular jocks including Humble Harve, Jay Stevens, Charlie Tuna from KKDJ.
KPRZ
In late 1979, as KIIS-FM went to an all-disco format, KIIS AM briefly changed its format to religious talk and the station became
Christian radio KPRZ ("K-Praise"). KPRZ implemented
AM stereo during this time.
But soon thereafter,
KMPC
KMPC (1540 AM, "Radio Korea", 라디오코리아) is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California. It is owned by P&Y Broadcasting Corporation. Radio Korea is a division of the Radio Korea Media Group. The station airs Korean– ...
unexpectedly dropped its adult standards format and fired its DJs.
Dick Whittinghill
Noral Edwin "Dick" Whittinghill (March 5, 1913 – January 24, 2001) was an American film and television actor, recording artist and radio DJ in the United States. His early music career included membership in The Pied Pipers vocal group whic ...
,
Gary Owens
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,
Johnny Magnus and
Pete Smith all moved over to KPRZ, which took over the KMPC music and called it "The Music of Your Life". Whttinghill would complain about "all that noise down the hall at sister station KIIS-FM". If the door to the KPRZ studios was open, the
Top 40
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music on KIIS-FM could even be heard in the background on the AM station.
KIIS
KMPC returned to standards a few years later, which hurt KPRZ. The station ended its standards format New Year's Eve 1984, and became KIIS AM again.
KIIS carried a virtual
simulcast
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of KIIS-FM's programming, although with different DJs during middays and afternoons and programming being delayed by up to 3 minutes, to avoid FCC restrictions on simulcasting. Around 1988, this would transition to a full-time simulcast when the FCC relaxed the rules on major market stations simulcasting each other.
[The AM Stereo MP3 Page]
via The Internet Archive
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KXTA
On March 10, 1997, KIIS became
sports radio
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KXTA, the flagship station of the
Los Angeles Dodgers
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.
[ The KIIS call letters would later resurface in ]Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita (; Spanish for "Little St. Clare") is a city in northwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California. With a 2020 census population of 228,673, it is the third-largest city by population in Los Angeles County, the 17t ...
in 1998, with another simulcast of KIIS-FM (that station is now known as KHTS, having changed its call letters in 2003).
''XTRA Sports 1150'' flipped to ''Fox Sports 1150'' for a time.
In 2003, KXTA, by this time a Clear Channel Communications
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station, was falling off in the ratings and had lost the Dodgers to KFWB
KFWB (980 AM) is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California. It airs a classic Regional Mexican music format. KFWB is owned by Lotus Communications. The station has a colorful history, being the radio voice of Warner Bros. Studios i ...
. KXTA flipped back to XTRA Sports, this time on both 1150 AM and 690 AM, the successful XTRA
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* ''Extra'' (newspaper), a Brazilian newspaper
* '' Extra!'', an American m ...
in San Diego
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.
KTLK
On February 4, 2005, Clear Channel conducted a far-reaching format swap of three radio stations in the area. The ''XTRA Sports'' format moved to AM 570, where it retains its call letters of KLAC
KLAC (570 AM) is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, serving Greater Los Angeles and much of surrounding Southern California. Owned by a joint venture between iHeartMedia, Inc. and the Los Angeles Dodgers bas ...
. It had the slogan ''XTRA Sports 570'', but is now known as just ''AM 570''. AM 690 took on KLAC's previous format, an adult standards station called ''The Fabulous 570'' and redubbed ''The Fabulous 690''. 1150, meanwhile, would adopt a progressive talk
Progressive talk radio is a talk radio format devoted to expressing left-leaning, liberal or progressive viewpoints of news and issues as opposed to conservative talk radio. In the United States, the format has included syndicated and indepe ...
format.
On February 4, 2008, KTLK altered several of its time slots. Marc Germain
Marc Germain (born May 28, 1967) is an American radio talk show host. He was previously known as ''Mr. KFI'' and ''Mr. KABC'' on account of his radio shows on their respective stations. He currently hosts his own internet radio show, ''The Marc ...
, also known as "Mr. K," was removed from the lineup and replaced by Rachel Maddow
Rachel Anne Maddow (, ; born April 1, 1973) is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. Maddow hosts ''The Rachel Maddow Show'', a weekly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network's special eve ...
from 3 to 6 p.m. Mike Malloy
Michael Dennis Malloy (born July 1, 1942) is a progressive American radio broadcaster based in Atlanta. Previously his show has been carried by WSB (AM) Atlanta, WLS (AM) Chicago, the I.E. America Radio Network, the Air America Radio network, ...
's show was returned to the station. Finally, Phil Hendrie
Philip Stephen Hendrie (born September 1, 1952) is an American radio personality and actor. He is widely known for his voiceover talent throughout the radio and film industry. He came to prominence in the 1990s hosting ''The Phil Hendrie Show'', a ...
's show was returned to the lineup, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Ed Schultz was dropped. The station removed its award-winning and popular weeknight sho
"Harrison on the Edge,"
hosted by Cary Harrison and produced by Linda Blake on February 27, 2007 after an 18-month run.
During this time nationally syndicated hosts were Stephanie Miller
Stephanie Catherine Miller (born September 29, 1961) is an American political commentator, comedian, and host of ''The Stephanie Miller Show'', a Progressive talk radio program produced in Los Angeles, California, by WYD Media Management and sy ...
who was also simulcasted on Current TV
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from 2012 to 2013 from the KTLK studios, Randi Rhodes
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, Norman Goldman
Norman Maurice Goldman (born March 17, 1959) is an American attorney and a former political talk radio host.
Goldman first broadcast nationally as a fill-in host for ''The Ed Schultz Show'' in 2006, as well as creating colorful segments as th ...
, Clark Howard
Clark Brian Howard (born June 20, 1955) is a popular consumer expert and podcast host of ''The Clark Howard Show''.
Life and career
Howard grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents, Bernard and Joy Garson Howard, were prominent members of Atl ...
, Mike Malloy
Michael Dennis Malloy (born July 1, 1942) is a progressive American radio broadcaster based in Atlanta. Previously his show has been carried by WSB (AM) Atlanta, WLS (AM) Chicago, the I.E. America Radio Network, the Air America Radio network, ...
, Phil Hendrie
Philip Stephen Hendrie (born September 1, 1952) is an American radio personality and actor. He is widely known for his voiceover talent throughout the radio and film industry. He came to prominence in the 1990s hosting ''The Phil Hendrie Show'', a ...
, and Bill Press
William H. Press (born April 8, 1940) is an American talk radio host, podcaster, liberal pundit and author. He was chairman of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996, and is a senior political contributor on CNN. He hosts ''The Bill ...
. Miller is distributed by Dial Global
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The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1978. The company w ...
, Rhodes, Howard, and Hendrie by Premiere Radio Networks
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(which had the same parent company as the station), Goldman by Compass Media Networks, and Malloy is self-syndicated.
Two local shows were in the weekday lineup: ''Diverse L.A.'', which promotes itself on the station's webpage as follows: "We as Angelenos don’t look, think or even vote alike…so why should we sound alike?", and an afternoon drivetime show hosted by David Cruz.
Former programs include those of Ron Reagan
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, Sam Seder
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and Janeane Garafalo's "Majority Report," and Lionel, who all left the schedule when Air America Media folded. Other past offerings were loca
Cary Harrison
and national show Thom Hartmann
Thomas Carl Hartmann (born May 7, 1951) is an American radio personality, author, former psychotherapist, businessman, and progressive political commentator. Hartmann has been hosting a nationally syndicated radio show, ''The Thom Hartmann Pro ...
, who was picked up after comedian Al Franken
Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American comedian, politician, media personality, and author who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. He gained fame as a writer and performer on the television comed ...
ended his early 9 a.m.-noon show over Air America in order to prepare for his eventual successful run for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota. In turn, Hartmann was taken off the schedule when Dial Global
Westwood One is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media. The company syndicates talk, music, and sports programming.
The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1978. The company w ...
moved his show to the exact noon-3 p.m. time slot as Rhodes' show.
On weekends, the station featured local hosts including Johnny Wendell (a.k.a. Johnny Angel), the comedy duo Frangela
Frangela is a Los Angeles-based comedy duo composed of comedians Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton, both of The Second City. Callier and Shelton regularly appeared on the VH1 weekly comedy news review ''Best Week Ever'', the NPR radio show ''D ...
of Angela V. Shelton
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and Frances Callier
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, and Mario Solis-Marich. The syndicated '' StarTalk Radio Show'' hosted by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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aired on Sunday afternoons.
In these years of Air America affiliation and, later, as an independent station, KTLK used in turn the promo slogans "L.A.'s Progressive Talk," "The Voice of Reason" and finally "Your Voice." Another line heard often in station IDs that referenced the station hosts' political take was "From Minority to Majority."
On January 8, 2014, KTLK changed call letters to KEIB and became "The Patriot", converting from progressive-leaning format to one that emphasizes a conservative viewpoint.
Randi Rhodes
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had already planned a transition to an online-only show and encouraged her fans to continue listening by downloading the iHeartRadio
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application for their smart phone
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s and tablet computer
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s. However, only months after the launch of her online model, Rhodes announced that she was ending her show, citing her frustration with the media in general.
KEIB
On January 2, 2014, KEIB began airing a conservative talk format, branded as "The Patriot," featuring radio icons such as Rush Limbaugh
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ( ; January 12, 1951 – February 17, 2021) was an American conservative political commentator who was the host of '' The Rush Limbaugh Show'', which first aired in 1984 and was nationally syndicated on AM and FM r ...
, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity
Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American talk show host, conservative political commentator, and author. He is the host of '' The Sean Hannity Show'', a nationally syndicated talk radio show, and has also hosted a commen ...
, all three of whom are nationally distributed through iHeartMedia's syndication arm, Premiere Networks
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. Aside from the change in the station's programming viewpoint (from progressive to conservative), the programming move ensured continued clearance in Los Angeles of 3 of Premiere's most popular programs — ''The Glenn Beck Program
''Glenn'' (previously titled ''The Glenn Beck Program'') is a news talk and political opinion show on TheBlaze hosted by Glenn Beck. It is produced and recorded at TheBlaze studios in Dallas, TX. The show originally ran on CNN Headline News fr ...
'', ''The Rush Limbaugh Show
''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' is an American conservative talk radio show hosted by Rush Limbaugh. Since its nationally syndicated premiere in 1988, ''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' became the highest-rated talk radio show in the United States. At its ...
'', and ''The Sean Hannity Show
''The Sean Hannity Show'' is a conservative talk radio show hosted by Sean Hannity. The program is broadcast live every weekday, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET. The show is produced in the New York City studios of radio station WOR and is sometimes ...
''. In particular, ''Hannity'' was picked up from KABC after that station's owner, Cumulus Media
Cumulus Media, Inc. is an American broadcasting company and is the third largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States behind Audacy and iHeartMedia. As of June 2019, Cumulus lists ownership of 428 stations in 87 ...
, purged ''Hannity'' from its talk-formatted stations on or before the end of 2013. The move also allowed for a split in programming nature among iHeartMedia's LA talk stations, as KFI
KFI (640 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. It began operations in 1922 and became one of the first high-powered, clear-channel station, clear-channel List of ...
(''Limbaugh's'' former home) began adopting an emphasis on local hosts and subjects.["Clear Channel moving Rush Limbaugh from KFI to revamped KTLK,"]
from ''Los Angeles Times'', 12/5/2013 The station aired ''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' at the time of Limbaugh's death in 2021, and it currently airs ''The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
''The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'' is an American radio program hosted by former Fox Sports Radio personality Clay Travis and former '' America Now/The Buck Sexton Show'' host Buck Sexton. It is broadcast on over 400 talk radio station ...
'', Premiere's designated replacement for Limbaugh's program.
With the launch of "The Patriot" on AM 1150, a new call sign
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was assigned to the station, with KTLK becoming KEIB, a play on Limbaugh's "Excellence in Broadcasting" slogan. iHeartMedia applied for the KEIB call letters to ease the move of his show in the LA market from its longtime home at higher-rated KFI to become a magnet for the new 1150. The KTLK call letters in turn moved to iHeartMedia-owned KTCN (AM 1130) in the Minneapolis
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/St. Paul
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market; KTCN's programming (which includes ''Limbaugh'' and ''Hannity'') had been previously heard on KTLK-FM (100.3 FM), which became the sports oriented KFXN-FM
KFXN-FM (100.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, broadcasting a sports talk format. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, and serves the Twin Cities market. KFXN-FM's transmitter is located in the suburb ...
in August 2011 when the stations swapped programming. (The KTLK calls, until 2002, were assigned to what is now KDFD
KDFD (760 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Thornton, Colorado, and serving the Denver-Boulder metropolitan area. Owned by iHeartMedia, it broadcasts a conservative talk radio format. Its studios and offices are in Southeast Denv ...
in Denver
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, an iHeartMedia-owned progressive talk station. Before that, the calls were applied to another Denver station, which was one of the first full-time talk stations in the nation; that station is currently the Regional Mexican
Regional Mexican is a Latin music radio format encompassing the musical genres from the different parts of rural Mexico and the Southwestern United States. Genres include banda, country en español, Duranguense, grupero, mariachi, New Mexico ...
music station KBNO.) On October 15, 2015, Armstrong & Getty announced on-air that their 'Voice of the West' morning drive time show would be joining the KEIB line-up on November 2, 2015; the duo replaced ''The Glenn Beck Program''. Armstrong & Getty moved their show to KABC in 2019.
On March 16, 2016, it was announced that sister station KLAC
KLAC (570 AM) is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, serving Greater Los Angeles and much of surrounding Southern California. Owned by a joint venture between iHeartMedia, Inc. and the Los Angeles Dodgers bas ...
will be the new flagship for the Los Angeles Clippers
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. In case of a scheduling conflict with the Los Angeles Dodgers
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(also on KLAC), the Clippers will be heard on KEIB.
Sports
The station was the flagship outlet of the Los Angeles Kings
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of the National Hockey League
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and the Los Angeles Galaxy
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of Major League Soccer
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until 2014. Currently, the station airs games of the UCLA Bruins
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, and Anaheim Ducks, in case of conflicts with their regular radio stations. It has also aired National Football League
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games from Westwood One
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. During the KTLK era the station was the former radio home of the Los Angeles Clippers
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(traded to KSPN in exchange for Kings' rights, now on KLAC
KLAC (570 AM) is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, serving Greater Los Angeles and much of surrounding Southern California. Owned by a joint venture between iHeartMedia, Inc. and the Los Angeles Dodgers bas ...
), the Los Angeles Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks (LA Sparks) are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Sparks compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference. The team was foun ...
(contract not renewed after 2008
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), and the Los Angeles Avengers
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History
The Los Angeles Avengers played their home games at the Staples Center, which is also th ...
(team folded in 2009). The Kings returned to KEIB for one season, and since 2019, the team has no terrestrial radio flagship station, as its games are now exclusively streamed on the iHeartRadio network.
On April 2, 2012, the station broadcast the NCAA men's basketball championship game in which Kentucky
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defeated Kansas
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. The tourney had been carried locally on KLAC, but that station had a programming conflict due to also being the flagship radio station of the Los Angeles Dodgers
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that season. As a result, KLAC's coverage of the Dodgers' spring training
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game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
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preempted their broadcast of the Wildcats-Jayhawks game which was then accommodated on KTLK.
On-air lineup
* ''The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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* ''The Sean Hannity Show
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* ''The Glenn Beck Radio Program
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''
* ''The Ramsey Show
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with Dave Ramsey
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''
* ''The Jesse Kelly Show
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''
* '' Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb''
* '' The Michael Berry Show''
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KEIB
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Talk radio stations in the United States
EIB
Radio stations established in 1927
1927 establishments in California
IHeartMedia radio stations