KTLK
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- For the FM talk station in Minneapolis (also owned by CCC), see KTLK-FM
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| Broadcast area | Los Angeles, California |
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| Branding | "Progressive Talk AM 1150" |
| First air date | January, 1927 (as KMIC) |
| Frequency | 1150 (kHz) |
| Format | Talk radio |
| ERP | 50,000 watts daytime, 44,000 watts nighttime |
| Callsign meaning | K TaLK |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications |
| Website | www.ktlk.com |
KTLK AM 1150 is a radio station serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Branding itself as Progressive Talk AM 1150, AM 1150 broadcasts a progressive talk format featuring selected portions of the Air America Radio lineup and programs from the Jones Radio Network. The lineup features liberal hosts Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, Randi Rhodes, as well as Jones Radio Network hosts Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller. Stephanie Miller's show originates from Los Angeles, so there is close cooperation between Miller and KTLK. Notably absent from the KTLK schedule on the Air America lineup is Jerry Springer, as his show conflicts with Stephanie Miller's show. KTLK also airs local shows such as Johnny Wendell (a.k.a Johnny Angel), Carey Harrison, Joe McDonnell and Mario Solis-Marich.
In addition to the usual talk lineup, KTLK airs an increasing number of sports events. In early 2006, it inherited weeknight broadcasts of the basketball program at UCLA, as well as all games of the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association. Both the Bruins and Sparks were heard on XETRA-AM before that station became Spanish language "W Radio." And on July 28, 2006, it was announced that the station will take over the radio broadcasts of the National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings, starting with the 2006-07 season. KTLK had been the flagship station of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association, but a month after the Kings deal was signed, it lost the radio rights to all-sports KSPN.
[edit] History
On February 4, 2005, Clear Channel Communications conducted a far-reaching format swap of three radio stations in the area. The previous format on AM 1150, XTRA Sports, moved to AM 570, where it retains its call letters of KLAC but is referred to on air as simply XTRA Sports 570. AM 690 took on KLAC's previous format, a beautiful music station called The Fabulous 570 and redubbed The Fabulous 690.
Prior to the KTLK calls, AM 1150 was KXTA, or XTRA Sports 1150, which broadcasted sports talk, which flipped to Fox Sports 1150 for a time before flipping back to XTRA Sports on both 1150 AM and 690 AM. Prior to that, 1150 AM broadcasted contemporary hit music as KIIS, and in the mid 80s, it was transmitting its programming in AM stereo, complete with an AM version of the "Hot Hits" jingle package which had been produced for its sister FM station, which carried a virtual simulcast of its programming, although with different DJs [1]. The call letters would later resurface in Santa Clarita in 1998, with another simulcast of KIIS-FM (that station is now known as KHTS-AM, having changed its call letters in 2003).
Billboards for KTLK give the slogan "We Prefer The Left," in which only the left side of the billboard is occupied and the rest shows fake wood.
[edit] Trivia
Despite sharing call letters and owner with KTLK-FM in Minneapolis, the two stations air opposing political viewpoints, as the Minneapolis station's schedule includes shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other right-leaning hosts
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