KBRT

KBRT

City of license	Costa Mesa, California
Broadcast area	Los Angeles
Slogan	K-Brite
Frequency	740 kHz(also on HD Radio)
Format	Christian radio
Power	50,000 watts day 190 Watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	34588
Transmitter coordinates	33°49′44″N 117°38′18″W / 33.82889°N 117.63833°W / 33.82889; -117.63833Coordinates: 33°49′44″N 117°38′18″W / 33.82889°N 117.63833°W / 33.82889; -117.63833
Former callsigns	KBIG (1952-1979)
Owner	Kiertron, Inc.
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	kbrt740.com

KBRT (740 AM, known on-air as KBRITE) is a Southern Californian Christian radio station. It airs Christian talk radio programming from Costa Mesa, California to Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire, San Diego, and Santa Barbara. The station broadcast at 10,000 Watts sunrise to sunset at 740 kHz. On 28 February 2013, when KBRT moved to a new transmitter site near Corona, California; started broadcasting at 50,000 watts sunrise to sunset; and had the city of license changed to Costa Mesa. The studio and business offices remain located in Costa Mesa. KBRT is a Class D station broadcasting on the Canadian clear-channel frequency of 740 AM. CFZM in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is the dominant North-American station on 740 AM.

KBRT is licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to broadcast in the HD (hybrid) format.^[1]^[2]

History

The station went on air in 1952. It was founded by entrepreneur John H. Poole as KBIG. Poole had worked at KEZY Anaheim, California, and was founder of channel 22 KBIC-TV (now KWHY-TV) in Los Angeles. Later he would own KBIG-FM.

Studios were located at the transmitter site on Avalon, later on the mainland coast.

From the beginning there were contentious disagreements with co-channel KCBS San Francisco over interference between the stations. Much of the path between stations' wavefronts was over highly conductive seawater.

According to Billboard Magazine (July 28, 1979), Bonneville Communications owned KBRT prior to the sale to Crawford Broadcasting. Bonneville, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), has dabbled on and off in the Los Angeles radio market. Bonneville owns KSWD, "The Sound" at 100.3 FM. After changing call signs from KBIG, KBRT was a mixture of secular and Christian music, with all programming taped, and all song "intros and outros" recorded by professional announcers; there was no live, "on-air" talent until after changing over to a completely Christian music format.

1980s

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 were split up among the heirs of its founder, evangelist Percy Crawford. Just prior to the switch, KBRT played Contemporary Christian Music from sunrise to sunset. The daily sign-on began with a recording of a man's voice: "Good morning. This is K-B-R-T Avalon, and we now begin another day of broadcasting over Southern California. K-B-R-T radio broadcasts on an assigned frequency of 740 kilohertz with a power output of 10,000 watts by authority of the Federal Communications Commission. K-B-R-T's transmitter was, at the time, located on Santa Catalina Island, and was operated by Kiertron, Incorporated." (Note: Disc jockeys made multiple mentions of "Transmitter Tom," who lived on Catalina Island, and oversaw the station's transmitter.)

Air personalities have included Clark Race, Johnny Magnus, Paul McGuire, Rich Buhler, Dave Sebastian Williams and Program Director, Mike Trout. Magnus featured his trademark "Weather With a Beat," where he would list U.S. and world city temperatures to an upbeat instrumental background. A typical background music track for "Weather With a Beat" was Count Basie's version of Neal Hefti's tune, "Cute", featuring Frank Wess on flute. Previously, KBRT was known as KBIG, airing Easy Listening music.

2000s

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.

Starting on 19 September 2011, KBRT featured David Housholder, Orange County author and pastor, and Roger Marsh in the 3pm-5pm drive-home slot, with "The Bottom Line", a current events show with features in legal, educational, health, and finance segments, replacing "Talk from the Heart" with Rich Buhler, previously hosted by Paul McGuire. "The Bottom Line" reaches most AM radios in California, since it is syndicated on KCBC 770 AM in the Sacramento/Bay Area region. By late April 2013 Housholder had exited the program.

References

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KBRT

Radio-Locator Information on KBRT

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KBRT

Radio stations in the Los Angeles, California market

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NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 162.450 162.525 162.550

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Defunct	KACD/KBCD KACE KEDG KFAC KIBB KIIS KIQQ KJLH KKBT KKDJ KKHR KMET KMJR/KNJR KMPC KNAC KNHS KNOB KNX-FM KODJ KPPC KQLZ KRBV KSKQ KSKQ-FM KUTE KWST-FM KFSG KZAB/KZBA KZLA-FM KIEV KPOL KTZN KXED KXMG KYMS

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 222 Sirius Channel 150 Nearby radio markets Bakersfield High Desert/Eastern Sierra Oxnard–Ventura Riverside/San Bernardino San Diego Santa Barbara Victor Valley See also List of radio stations in California ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (KSFV-CA/Religious) ² Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage.

Radio stations in the San Diego, California market

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NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 162.425

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Defunct	KJQY KKJD-LP KPLN KMJC KHHS-LP

Nearby radio markets Imperial Valley Los Angeles Palm Springs Riverside/San Bernardino Tijuana See also List of radio stations in California

Crawford Broadcasting

AM Radio Stations	KBRT KCBC KLDC KLTT KLVZ KLZ KSTL KKPZ WDCD WDCX WEXL WRDT WXJC WYDE

FM Radio Stations	WDAC WDCD-FM WDCX-FM WDJC-FM WLGZ-FM WMUZ WPWX WSRB WXJC-FM WYCA WYDE-FM WYRB

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