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KRLV (920
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) is a commercial AM radio station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, serving the Las Vegas area. Owned by Lotus Communications, KRLV airs a sports radio format focused on the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League. The station's studios and offices are located in the unincorporated community of Spring Valley in Clark County. A secondary studio is located at the Raiders headquarters and practice facility in
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. The transmitter is located off Wild Jan Drive, northwest of downtown Las Vegas.


History


Early years as KORK

In 1951, the station first
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as KORK at 1340 kilocycles. KORK was owned by the Vegas Valley Broadcasting Company, located in the Hotel Thunderbird, and it was powered at only 250 watts. KORK was an NBC Red Network
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, broadcasting NBC's schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, game shows, soap operas and big band remotes. In 1955, it was bought by the Southwestern Broadcasting Company, which put Channel 3, KORK-TV (later KVBC, now KSNV) on the air in that same year. In 1961 KORK got an FM counterpart, 97.1 KORK-FM (now KXPT).


Move to AM 920

In 1968, KORK, airing a
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Middle of The Road format, moved to 920 on the AM dial. Going to the 920 spot allowed KORK to increase its daytime power to 5,000 watts and slightly boost its nighttime power to 500 watts. The 920 facility was first licensed in 1948 as KRAM; that call sign concurrently moved to the 1340 license. During its heyday under the ownership of Donrey Media, KORK was among the most popular stations in Las Vegas for adults. Its lineup included well-known disc jockeys, such as Red McIlvaine, Walt Reno and Ron Murphy. The simulcast morning drive time newscasts of KORK/KORK-FM in the 1970s kept both stations high in the ratings. During the latter part of the decade, the newsroom was led by news director Bill Buckmaster (later a talk show host at
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in Tucson) and included reporters
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(now a District Court Judge in Las Vegas) and
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, (currently a Voice of America correspondent in Asia). The trio was frequently heard on NBC radio network newscasts. By the early 1980s, KORK became an adult standards station, airing NBC Radio News at the beginning of each hour.


Sports KBAD

KORK changed its call sign to KBAD on April 4, 1997 and began airing an all-sports format. It was known briefly as "K-BAD AM 920." KBAD was an
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affiliate until March 3, 2008, when that programming was transferred to
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. It then picked up
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programming from KENO, which in turn affiliated with ESPN Deportes Radio. KBAD aired '' The Jim Rome Show'' until its move to
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, whose Las Vegas affiliate is KXST. On July 1, 2013, KBAD switched affiliations to NBC Sports Radio and rebranded as ''920 The Game"'' On August 5, 2019, KBAD became one of the first terrestrial radio stations in the country dedicated entirely to sports betting, as the station became an affiliate of The BetR Network.


As KRLV

The call sign was changed to KRLV on March 20, 2020; the call sign was transferred from its sister station on 1340, now KKGK. On July 27, 2020, Lotus Communications announced that KRLV and KOMP would become the new flagship stations of the Las Vegas Raiders of the
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after the team moved, and that KRLV would relaunch with a new on-air lineup as ''Raider Nation Radio''. The new lineup and branding launched on August 3, 2020 including a morning show co-hosted by Clay Baker and
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, a show hosted by the Raiders lead
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at the
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and
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, a show hosted by
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, and a weekly show hosted by the team's head coach. The former "The Game" programming moved to KLAV. On January 11, 2021, the station added
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after dropping Mike Greenberg's show Greeny after it moved to a new timeslot. The second and third hours of the show are carried. The station otherwise features programming from SportsMap when not airing Raiders content.


Programming

Alongside the Raiders, the station is also the flagship station of the Las Vegas Aviators radio network and carries select games from the Sports USA Radio Network. In the 2019–20 season, KRLV (then KBAD) broadcast UNLV Rebels baseball and UNLV Lady Rebels basketball games. The station was previously an affiliate for the
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and was the flagship station of the former Arena Football League's Las Vegas Gladiators before they moved to
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. Boxing analyst
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once had a weekday show on KBAD.


References


External links

{{Sports Radio Stations in Nevada Sports radio stations in the United States RLV (AM) Radio stations established in 1948 1948 establishments in Nevada Lotus Communications stations