KEIB

KEIB
City of license Los Angeles, California
Broadcast area Los Angeles, California
Branding The Patriot
Slogan True American Values
"You can't tread on this - Patriot 1150 AM"
Frequency 1150 kHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date January 1927 (as KMIC)
Format Talk
Power 50,000 watts daytime
44,000 watts nighttime
Class B (regional)
Facility ID 19219
Callsign meaning K Excellence In Broadcasting
(slogan of KEIB program host Rush Limbaugh)
Former callsigns KMIC (1927-1930)
KMCS (1930-1932)
KRKD (1932-1970)
KIIS-AM (1970-1980; 1984-1997)
KPRZ (1980-1984)
KXTA (1997-2005)
KTLK (2005-2014)
Affiliations Fox News Radio
Premiere Radio Networks
TheBlaze Radio Network
Mercury Radio Arts
NBC Sports Radio
Owner iHeartMedia, Inc.
(Citicasters Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations KBIG, KFI, KRRL, KIIS, KLAC, KOST, KYSR
Webcast Listen Live (via iHeartRadio)
Website patriot.la

KEIB (1150 AM) is a radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, and serving Greater Los Angeles. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014) and licensed to its Citicasters Licenses, the station brands itself as The Patriot, and currently broadcasts a conservative talk format. The station's studios are located in Burbank and its transmitter is located in the City of Industry.

Programming

The weekday schedule on "The Patriot" features Clark Howard, Armstrong and Getty, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity (Noon-3pm), Glenn Beck, Dave Ramsey and Meghan McCain. Weekends feature former KNBC newsman and KFI news reader David Cruz hosting a two-hour program that deals with local issues.[1][2]

Sports

The station was the flagship outlet of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League and the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer until 2014. Currently, the station airs games of the UCLA Bruins, and Anaheim Ducks, in case of conflicts with their regular radio stations. It has also aired National Football League games from Westwood One. During the KTLK era the station was the former radio home of the Los Angeles Clippers (traded to KSPN in exchange for Kings' rights, now on KLAC), the Los Angeles Sparks (contract not renewed after 2008), and the Los Angeles Avengers (team folded in 2009).

On April 2, 2012, the station broadcast the NCAA men's basketball championship game in which Kentucky defeated Kansas. The tourney had been carried locally on KLAC, but that station had a programming conflict due to also being the flagship radio station of the Los Angeles Dodgers that season. As a result KLAC's coverage of the Dodgers' spring training game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim preempted their broadcast of the Wildcats-Jayhawks game which was then accommodated on KTLK.

History

Early years

KMIC, Inglewood, signed on in 1927. The call letters changed to KMCS in 1930. In 1932, new owners moved what was KRKD to the Spring Arcade building[3] at 541 S. Spring Street in Los Angeles, and the two towers, with "a long-wire flattop transmitting antenna", had the KRKD letters on the side.

From 1928 to 1961, KFSG 1150 (1120 before 1941) shared the KRKD transmitter. The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel bought KRKD to keep from having to share time, airing mostly secular programming. From 6 P.M. to midnight, KRKD aired services from Angelus Temple.

KRKD-FM aired the same programming as the AM station before 1966. After that, the two stations aired the same adult standards programming after 2 in the afternoon and were known as "Your Album Stations of Southern California". On its own KRKD-FM aired theatrical performances, light classical music and opera. At one point, the AM aired college football while the FM kept the album format, and when the games ended, the AM continued the album format and the FM aired theater and opera. Jack Nemo hosted a rock and roll from 10 p.m. to midnight on weekdays.

KIIS Radio 1150 (1970–1975)

The Foursquare Church sold KRKD-AM in 1970 (and changed KRKD-FM to KFSG). In 1970, the KRKD-AM call letters were then changed to KIIS to identify it with its AM frequency (1150=IIS). The new owners changed the format to soft rock with jingles performed by Richard and Karen Carpenter. It was known as "the Kiss of California."

KIIS 102.7-1150 (1975–1979)

In 1975, its owners, Combined Communications, "married" KIIS 1150 AM to their FM station, KKDJ 102.7 FM, in an on air wedding on Charlie Tuna's KKDJ morning show. KKDJ then became known as KIIS FM. The AM and FM stations ("AM and FM, K-Double I S") did simulcasts during the day and reverted to two stations in the evening hours (with this, the AM aired their own version of the jingle package which had been produced for its sister FM station). The combined stations had many popular jocks including Humble Harve, Jay Stevens, Charlie Tuna from KKDJ.

KPRZ (1980–1984)

In late 1979, as KIIS FM went to an all disco format, KIIS AM briefly changed its format to religious talk and the station became Christian radio KPRZ ("K-Praise"). KPRZ implemented AM stereo during this time.

But soon thereafter, KMPC unexpectedly dropped its adult standards format and fired its DJs. Dick Whittinghill, Gary Owens, Johnny Magnus and Pete Smith all moved over to KPRZ, which took over the KMPC music and called it "The Music of Your Life". Whttinghill would complain about "all that noise down the hall at sister station KIIS-FM". If the door to the KPRZ studios was open, the Top 40 music on KIIS could even be heard in the background on the AM station.

KIIS-AM returns (1984–1997)

KMPC returned to standards a few years later, which hurt KPRZ. The station ended its standards format New Year's Eve, 1984, and became KIIS-AM again.[4] KIIS carried a virtual simulcast of its programming, although with different DJs, to avoid FCC restrictions on simulcasting.[5]

KXTA (1997–2005)

On March 10, 1997, KIIS-AM became sports radio KXTA, the flagship station of the Los Angeles Dodgers.[4][6] The KIIS call letters would later resurface in Santa Clarita in 1998, with another simulcast of KIIS-FM (that station is now known as KHTS, having changed its call letters in 2003).

XTRA Sports 1150 flipped to Fox Sports 1150 for a time.

In 2003, KXTA, by this time a Clear Channel Communications station, was falling off in the ratings and had lost the Dodgers to KFWB. KXTA flipped back to XTRA Sports, this time on both 1150 AM and 690 AM, the successful XTRA in San Diego.[7]

KTLK (2005–2014)

K-Talk AM 1150

The station carried nationally syndicated programming as well as local radio shows and also broadcast four traffic reports every hour, 24 hours a day.

On February 4, 2005, Clear Channel conducted a far-reaching format swap of three radio stations in the area. The XTRA Sports format moved to AM 570, where it retains its call letters of KLAC. It had the slogan XTRA Sports 570, but is now known as just AM 570. AM 690 took on KLAC's previous format, an adult standards station called The Fabulous 570 and redubbed The Fabulous 690.

On February 4, 2008, KTLK altered several of its time slots. Marc Germain, also known as "Mr. K," was removed from the lineup and replaced by Rachel Maddow from 3 to 6 p.m. Mike Malloy's show was returned to the station. Finally, Phil Hendrie's show was returned to the lineup, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Ed Schultz was dropped.[8] The station removed its award-winning and popular weeknight show "Harrison on the Edge," hosted by Cary Harrison[9] and produced by Linda Blake[10] on February 27, 2007 after an 18-month run.

KTLK's previous logo used until early 2014.

During this time nationally syndicated hosts were Stephanie Miller who was also simulcasted on Current TV from 2012 to 2013 from the KTLK studios, Randi Rhodes, Norman Goldman, Clark Howard, Mike Malloy, Phil Hendrie, and Bill Press. Miller is distributed by Dial Global, Rhodes, Howard, and Hendrie by Premiere Radio Networks (which had the same parent company as the station), Goldman by Compass Media Networks, and Malloy is self-syndicated.

Two local shows were in the weekday lineup: Diverse L.A., which promotes itself on the station's webpage as follows: "We as Angelenos don’t look, think or even vote alike…so why should we sound alike?", and an afternoon drivetime show hosted by David Cruz.

Former programs include those of Ron Reagan, Sam Seder and Janeane Garafalo's "Majority Report," and Lionel, who all left the schedule when Air America Media folded. Other past offerings were local Cary Harrison and national show Thom Hartmann, who was picked up after comedian Al Franken ended his early 9 a.m.-noon show over Air America in order to prepare for his eventual successful run for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota. In turn, Hartmann was taken off the schedule when Dial Global moved his show to the exact noon-3 p.m. time slot as Rhodes' show.

On weekends, the station featured local hosts including Johnny Wendell (a.k.a. Johnny Angel), the comedy duo Frangela of Angela V. Shelton and Frances Callier, and Mario Solis-Marich. The syndicated StarTalk Radio Show hosted by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson aired on Sunday afternoons.

In these years of Air America affiliation and, later, as an independent station, KTLK used in turn the promo slogans "L.A.'s Progressive Talk," "The Voice of Reason" and finally "Your Voice." Another line heard often in station IDs that referenced the station hosts' political take was "From Minority to Majority."

On January 8, 2014, KTLK changed call letters to KEIB and became "The Patriot", converting from progressive-leaning format to one that emphasizes a conservative viewpoint.

Randi Rhodes had already planned a transition to an online-only show and encouraged her fans to continue listening by downloading the iHeartRadio application for their smart phones and tablet computers. However, only months after the launch of her online model, Rhodes announced that she was ending her show, citing her frustration with the media in general.

KEIB (2014–present)

The Patriot

On January 2, 2014, KEIB began airing a conservative talk format, branded as "The Patriot," featuring conservative radio icons such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity, all three of whom are nationally distributed through iHeartMedia's syndication arm, Premiere Networks. Aside from the change in the station's programming viewpoint (from progressive to conservative), the programming move ensured continued clearance in Los Angeles of 3 of Premiere's most popular programs — The Glenn Beck Program, The Rush Limbaugh Show, and The Sean Hannity Show. In particular, Hannity was picked up from KABC after that station's owner, Cumulus Media, purged Hannity from its talk-formatted stations on or before the end of 2013. The move also allowed for a split in programming nature among iHeartMedia's LA talk stations, as KFI (Limbaugh's former home) began adopting an emphasis on local hosts and subjects.[2]

With the launch of "The Patriot" on AM 1150, a new call sign was assigned to the station, with KTLK becoming KEIB, a play on Limbaugh's "Excellence in Broadcasting" slogan. iHeartMedia applied for the KEIB call letters to ease the move of his show in the LA market from its longtime home at higher-rated KFI to become a magnet for the new 1150. The KTLK call letters in turn moved to iHeartMedia-owned KTCN (AM 1130) in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market; KTCN's programming (which includes Limbaugh and Hannity) had been previously heard on KTLK-FM (100.3 FM), which became the sports oriented KFXN-FM in August 2011 when the stations swapped programming.[11] (The KTLK calls, until 2002, were assigned to what is now KDSP in Denver, a iHeartMedia-owned progressive talk station. Before that, the calls were applied to another Denver station, which was one of the first full-time talk stations in the nation; that station is currently the Regional Mexican music station KBNO.) On October 15, 2015, Armstrong & Getty announced on-air that their 'Voice of the West' morning drive time show would be joining the KEIB line-up on November 2, 2015.

On-air lineup

References

  1. ↑ "Rush Limbaugh to Switch Stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco". Hollywood Reporter. 5 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Clear Channel moving Rush Limbaugh from KFI to revamped KTLK," from Los Angeles Times, 12/5/2013
  3. ↑ "KMCS Now KRKD" (PDF). Broadcasting. February 15, 1932. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  4. 1 2 http://www.socalradiohistory.com/krkd.html, Retrieved on 2009/07/21.
  5. ↑ The AM Stereo MP3 Page, via The Internet Archive
  6. ↑ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1997/RR-1997-03-14.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.haleisner.com/buzz/lance_jan03.htm, Retrieved on 2009/07/21.
  8. ↑ LA-Radio.com
  9. ↑ Cary Harrison
  10. ↑ Linda Blake
  11. ↑ Source: RadioInsight on Twitter (posted 12/28/2013)

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Coordinates: 34°02′00″N 117°59′00″W / 34.03333°N 117.98333°W / 34.03333; -117.98333

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