KLAA (AM)

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KLAA-AM is a general talk radio station licensed to the city of Orange, California, and broadcasting at 830 AM. It is owned by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball team.

Currently, hosts on KLAA include Glenn Beck and Dr. Roy Masters. Much of the station's air time also consists of time-brokered programs that could eventually house other talk shows. The station carries hourly news from NBC Radio, a division of Westwood One.

In 2006-07, it assumed the broadcast rights for the Anaheim Ducks, a National Hockey League team.[1] On September 16, 2006, it aired an Angels game in English when KSPN, the actual flagship of the Angels, instead broadcast a football game between the University of Southern California and the University of Nebraska. The Angels' broadcast could eventually lead to a full-time relationship carrying the team's broadcasts, as speculated by the Los Angeles Times in early 2006. However, the Angels' contract with KSPN is good through the 2007 season.

KLAA also carries "Thoroughbred L.A.," a weekly show about horse racing, every Saturday and Sunday morning.[2]

[edit] Brief history

Until late summer 2006, this was a Spanish-language station that operated as KMXE. It had broadcast in Spanish since 2004 and was the Angels' flagship station in that language. (In fact, the team continues to broadcast Angels games in Spanish to fulfill contractual obligations.) Its slogan was "¡Así Se Habla!"

Before KMXE, the station was KPLS, a conservative talk station which featured Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage. KPLS had close ties to the Orange County community and was the flagship station of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim hockey team. It also carried Catholic talk shows for a time.

Before it was a talk station, KPLS was "Beat Radio," which carried electronic dance music (aka techno) 24 hours a day. Before that, it was "Radio AAHS" and was part of the first nationwide network of radio programs for children. The downfall of Radio AAHS came when the Walt Disney Company established a competitor, Radio Disney.

[edit] External links

Official station site

Query the FCC's AM station database for KLAA