KRLA

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KRLA is the call sign that has belonged to two different AM radio stations broadcasting in Los Angeles County, California.

[edit] KRLA 1110 AM, 1942-2000

KRLA began in 1942 as KPAS, a popular music station located in Pasadena, California broadcasting at frequency 1110 AM, with 50,000 watts days, and 10,000 watts, directional mostly west, at night, from its El Monte transmitter site, near Peck Road and the Pomona, or "60" Freeway. KRLA, The Big 11-10, featured local d.j.'s like Dave Hull (The Hullabalooer), Dick "Huggy Boy" Hugg, Emperor Bob Hudson, Reb Foster, Casey Kasem, Bob Eubanks, Dick Biondi, Johnny Hayes. The Credibility Gap and the Pop Chronicles originated on KRLA. When the station switched to oldies, KRLA was noted for its prominence in Southern California Chicano culture.

The station maintained the same format until 1984, when it became an oldies station. In 1998 it changed to a talk radio format. During the 1990s, KRLA was authorized to increase nighttime power from 10,000 to 20,000 watts. When the power increase went into effect, KRLA started broadcasting from a new transmitter site in Irwindale. This is a few miles north of the old El Monte site. It changed its call letters to KSPN in December 2000 and became KDIS in January 2003.

KPAS carried over to El Paso, Texas after the switch to KRLA.

[edit] KRLA 870 AM, 2001-present

KRLA
City of license	Los Angeles, California
Broadcast area	Southern California
Branding	NewsTalk 870
Frequency	870 (KHZ)
Format	Talk
Owner	Salem Communications of Los Angeles
Website	www.krla870.com

The KRLA call letters are now used by former station KIEV at 870AM, based in Glendale, California, and has a conservative talk radio format. This station is owned by Salem Communications and airs Mike Gallagher, Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Miller.

In March 2007, the owner of the station decide to no longer carry the Michael Savage show. This move deprived for a short time, many KRLA listeners of the nation's number 3 rated political talk show host. He was able to find another radio station in the Los Angeles area KLAA 830AM for his devoted listeners.

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