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KBRT (740 AM), known on air as "KBRT AM 740", is a Christian radio station. It airs Christian talk radio programming for Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The station broadcasts at 10,000 Watts sunrise to sunset and 113 Watts from sunset to sunrise at 740 kHz from the hill above Avalon on Catalina Island. The studio and business offices are located in Costa Mesa. The nighttime broadcasts cannot generally be heard very far inland, local signal strength not even reaching all of Long Beach. As a result, most of the Los Angeles and San Diego area hear KCBS from San Francisco on 740 kHz after sunset. The evening and early morning programming consists of same-day rebroadcasts and a "Best of KBRT" program. They also broadcast in HD Radio and on the web.
Contractors cutting a steel antenna cable with a gas-powered circular saw caused the wildfire that began on May 10, 2007. KBRT had to shut down the transmitter, which was not damaged. Until the transmitter was repaired, the station aired only on KBRT740.com.
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In 1980, the station switched to the Talk/Christian format after being purchased by Donald Crawford of Crawford Broadcasting when the assets of the original Crawford Broadcasting was split up among the heirs of its founder, evangelist Dr. Percy B. Crawford. Previously, KBRT was known as KBIG, airing Easy Listening music.
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