KRLA
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| KRLA | |
| City of license | Glendale, California |
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| Broadcast area | Southern California |
| Branding | NewsTalk 870 |
| Slogan | Intelligent. Conservative. Talk Radio. |
| Frequency | 870 kHz |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 50,000 watts (Daytime) 3,000 watts (Nighttime) |
| Class | B |
| Owner | Salem Communications (New Inspiration Broadcasting Company) |
| Website | www.krla870.com |
KRLA is the call sign that has belonged to two different AM radio stations broadcasting in Los Angeles County, California.
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[edit] History
[edit] 1933–1942
The station went on the air as KIEV in February, 1933 broadcasting at 870 kHz. The station had various formats, including top 40, big bands/standards, and talk. Programs included Talk Back with George Putnam, Swinging Decades with host Chuck Cecil, horse racing from Santa Anita Park and Hollywood Park Racetrack and University of Nebraska football
[edit] 1942–2000
The station changed callsigns to KPAS featuring a popular music and moved to 1110 AM, with 50,000 watts days, and 10,000 watts, directional mostly west, at night, from its El Monte transmitter site, near Santa Anita Ave and the Pomona, or "60" Freeway, in the vicinity of the Peck Road exit. The transmitter building still stands as a shell. The entire inside is burned out, however there are still clues to its' historic past. There are numerous ducts to keep the equipment cool and an underground channel to divert the cooling water for the transmitters. A well nearby supplied the water. Still visible is the wooden archway where the transmission cables gently bent toward underground conduits running to the transmission towers in the nearby field. All that remains of these towers are the 4 concrete bases, still lined in a perfect row.
KRLA, The Big 11-10, featured local DJs like Dave Hull (The Hullabalooer), Dick "Huggy Boy" Hugg, Emperor Bob Hudson, Ted Quillin, Bill Ballance, Reb Foster, Casey Kasem, Bob Eubanks, Dick Biondi, Johnny Hayes. The Credibility Gap and the Pop Chronicles originated on KRLA. During the 1960s, the KRLA studio was just off the parking lot of the old Huntington Sheraton Hotel on Paso Robles in Pasadena, making it possible to drop by and watch the on-air DJ do his show. When the station switched to oldies, KRLA was noted for its prominence in Southern California Chicano culture.
The station maintained the same format until 1984, when it became an oldies station. In 1998 it changed to a talk radio format. During the 1990s, KRLA was authorized to increase nighttime power from 10,000 to 20,000 watts. When the power increase went into effect, KRLA started broadcasting from a new transmitter site in Irwindale. This is a few miles north of the old El Monte site. It changed its call letters to KSPN in December 2000 and became KDIS in January 2003.
KPAS carried over to El Paso, Texas after the switch to KRLA.
[edit] 2001–present
The KRLA call letters are now used by former station KIEV at 870 AM, based in Glendale, California, and has a conservative talk radio format. This station is owned by Salem Communications and airs Mike Gallagher, Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Miller and Kevin James.
Michael Savage had appeared on the station until March 2007, when his syndicator decided to terminate the deal he had with KRLA and sign a new deal with KLAA. The change was over a dispute in his on-air shift: when Miller arrived, KRLA reportedly wanted to delay Savage's show by three hours and reduce one hour from his broadcast time.
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KRLA
- Radio Locator Information on KRLA
- KRLA section of the Broadcast History Archive
- Pictorial Tour of KRLA 1110AM
- L.A. Radio Station Listings
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