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KEIB (1150 AM) is a
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in
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. Owned by
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, the station brands itself as ''The Patriot'', and broadcasts a
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. The station's studios are on West Olive Avenue in
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. By day, KEIB is powered at 50,000
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s, the maximum for commercial AM stations in the U.S. At night, to minimize interference to other stations on 1150 AM, it reduces power to 44,000 watts. The
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uses a
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with a four-
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, located in the
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.


Programming

The weekday schedule on "The Patriot" features all nationally syndicated talk programs: ''
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,
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, The Ramsey Show with
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, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb, The Jesse Kelly Show'' and '' The Michael Berry Show''. The station carries
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,
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and
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games in case of conflicts with their regular radio stations. Weekends feature repeats of weekday shows and two local hosts: Mark Moss and Joe Escalante, along with syndicated programs '' The Weekend with Michael Brown'' and '' The Jesus Christ Show with Neil Saavedra''. On weekends, some hours are paid
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. Most hours begin with an update from
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.


History


Early years

KEIB is one of the oldest stations in Southern California. It originally signed on as KMIC, licensed to Inglewood, in January 1927. The
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changed to KMCS in 1930. In 1932, new owners moved the station to the Spring Arcade Building at 541 S. Spring Street in Los Angeles, and adopted what would be its longest-lived callsign, KRKD, a reference to the word "arcade". Two
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s on the roof, with "a long-wire flattop transmitting antenna", had the KRKD letters on the side. From 1928 until its deletion in 1961,
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1150 (1120 before 1941) shared the KRKD frequency and transmitter. The
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bought KRKD to keep from having to share time, airing mostly secular programming. From 6 P.M. to midnight, KRKD aired services from
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. KRKD-FM aired the same programming as the AM station before 1966. After that, the two stations aired the same
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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
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. 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.


KIIS

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

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
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KPRZ ("K-Praise"). KPRZ implemented
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during this time. And then switched to the
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system. But soon thereafter, KMPC unexpectedly dropped its adult standards format and fired its DJs. Dick Whittinghill,
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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
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music on KIIS-FM could even be heard in the background on the AM station. Today, the
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calls are assigned to a
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station serving the San Diego metropolitan area.


KIIS

KMPC returned to standards a few years later, which hurt KPRZ. The station ended its standards format on New Year's Eve 1984, and became KIIS AM again. KIIS carried a virtual
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of KIIS-FM's programming, although with different DJs during middays and afternoons and programming being delayed by up to 3 minutes, to avoid FCC restrictions on simulcasting. Around 1988, this would transition to a full-time simulcast when the FCC relaxed the rules on major market stations simulcasting each other.The AM Stereo MP3 Page
via
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KXTA

On March 10, 1997, KIIS became
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KXTA, the flagship station of the
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. 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
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station, was falling off in the ratings and had lost the Dodgers to
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. KXTA flipped back to XTRA Sports, this time on both 1150 AM and 690 AM, the successful XTRA in
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. The KXTA call letters are now assigned to a
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station serving
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.


KTLK

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
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. It had the slogan ''XTRA Sports 570'', but is now known as just ''AM 570''. AM 690 took on KLAC's previous format, an
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station called ''The Fabulous 570'' and redubbed ''The Fabulous 690''. 1150, meanwhile, would adopt a
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format. 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
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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. The station removed its award-winning and popular weeknight sho
"Harrison on the Edge,"
hosted by Cary Harrison and produced by Linda Blake on February 27, 2007 after an 18-month run. During this time nationally syndicated hosts were
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who was also simulcast on
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from 2012 to 2013 from the KTLK studios,
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, Norman Goldman,
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, Mike Malloy, Phil Hendrie, and Bill Press. Miller is distributed by
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, Rhodes, Howard, and Hendrie by
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(which had the same parent company as the station), Goldman by
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, 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
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, Sam Seder and Janeane Garafalo's "Majority Report," and Lionel, who all left the schedule when Air America Media folded. Other past offerings were loca
Cary Harrison
and national show
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, who was picked up after comedian
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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
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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.
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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.
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had already planned a transition to an online-only show and encouraged her fans to continue listening by downloading the
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application for their
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s and
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s. 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

On January 2, 2014, KEIB began airing a conservative talk format, branded as "The Patriot," featuring radio icons such as
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, and
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, 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 — ''
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'', '' The Rush Limbaugh Show'', and ''
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''. In particular, ''Hannity'' was picked up from KABC after that station's owner,
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, 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."Clear Channel moving Rush Limbaugh from KFI to revamped KTLK,"
from ''Los Angeles Times'', 12/5/2013
The station aired ''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' at the time of Limbaugh's death in 2021, and it currently airs '' The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'', Premiere's designated replacement for Limbaugh's program. With the launch of "The Patriot" on AM 1150, a new
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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
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/ 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
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in August 2011 when the stations swapped programming. (The KTLK calls, until 2002, were assigned to what is now KDFD in
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, an 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
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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; the duo replaced ''The Glenn Beck Program''. Armstrong & Getty moved their show to KABC in 2019. On March 16, 2016, it was announced that sister station
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will be the new flagship for the
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. In case of a scheduling conflict with the
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(also on KLAC), the Clippers will be heard on KEIB.


Sports

The station was the flagship outlet of the
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of the
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and the
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of
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until 2014. Currently, the station airs games of the
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, and
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, in case of conflicts with their regular radio stations. It has also aired
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games from
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. During the KTLK era the station was the former radio home of the
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(traded to KSPN in exchange for Kings' rights, now on
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), the
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(contract not renewed after
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), and the Los Angeles Avengers (team folded in 2009). The Kings returned to KEIB for one season, and since 2019, the team has no terrestrial radio flagship station, as its games are now exclusively streamed on the iHeartRadio network. On April 2, 2012, the station broadcast the NCAA men's basketball championship game in which
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defeated
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. 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
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that season. As a result, KLAC's coverage of the Dodgers'
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game against the
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preempted their broadcast of the Wildcats-Jayhawks game which was then accommodated on KTLK.


On-air lineup

* '' The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'' * ''
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'' * ''
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'' * '' The Ramsey Show with
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'' * '' The Jesse Kelly Show'' * '' Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb'' * '' The Michael Berry Show''


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External links


FCC History Cards for KEIB
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