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| Broadcast area | Greater Los Angeles |
| Frequency | 1150kHz |
| Branding | The Patriot AM 1150 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Conservative talk |
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| History | |
First air date | January 1927; 98 years ago (1927-01) |
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Call sign meaning | derived from former hostRush Limbaugh's "Excellence In Broadcasting" slogan |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 19219 |
| Class | B (regional) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 34°2′0″N117°59′3.2″W / 34.03333°N 117.984222°W /34.03333; -117.984222 |
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| Webcast | Listen live (viaiHeartRadio) |
| Website | patriotla |
KEIB (1150AM) is acommercial radio station inLos Angeles, California. Owned byiHeartMedia, the station brands itself asThe Patriot, and broadcasts aconservative talk radio format. The station's studios are on West Olive Avenue inBurbank.
By day, KEIB is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for commercial AM stations in the U.S. At night, to minimize interference to other stations on1150 AM, it reduces power to 44,000 watts. The station'stransmitter uses adirectional antenna with a four-tower array, located in theCity of Industry.
The weekday schedule on "The Patriot" features allnationally syndicated talk programs:The Sean Hannity Show,The Glenn Beck Program,The Ramsey Show withDave Ramsey,The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb,The Jesse Kelly Show andThe Michael Berry Show.
The station carriesLos Angeles Clippers andAnaheim Ducks 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 programsThe Weekend with Michael Brown andThe Jesus Christ Show with Neil Saavedra. On weekends, some hours are paidbrokered programming. Most hours begin with an update fromFox News Radio.
KEIB is one of the oldest stations in Southern California. It originally signed on as KMIC, licensed toInglewood, in January 1927. Thecall sign changed to KMCS in 1930. In 1932, new owners moved the station to theSpring 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".[2][3] Twobroadcast towers on the roof, with "a long-wire flattop transmitting antenna", had the KRKD letters on the side.
From 1928 until its deletion in 1961,KFSG 1150 (1120 before 1941) shared the KRKD frequency and transmitter. TheInternational 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 fromAngelus Temple.
KRKD-FM aired the same programming as the AM station before 1966. After that, the two stations aired the sameadult standards programming after 2 in the afternoon and were known as "Your Album Stations of Southern California". On its own KRKD-FM airedtheatrical 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.
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 tosoft rock with jingles created byPAMS 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 onCharlie Tuna's KKDJ morning show. KKDJ then became known asKIIS-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.
In late 1979, as KIIS-FM went to an all-disco format, KIIS AM briefly changed its format to religious talk and the station becameChristian radio KPRZ ("K-Praise"). KPRZ implementedC-QUAMAM stereo during this time.[4] And then switched to theMotorola system.
But soon thereafter,KMPC unexpectedly dropped its adult standards format and fired its DJs.Dick Whittinghill,Gary Owens,Johnny Magnus andPete 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, theTop 40 music on KIIS-FM could even be heard in the background on the AM station.
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.[5] KIIS carried a virtualsimulcast 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.[6]
On March 10, 1997, KIIS becamesports radio KXTA, the flagship station of theLos Angeles Dodgers.[5][7]The KIIS call letters would later resurface inSanta Clarita in 1998, with another simulcast of KIIS-FM (that station is now known asKHTS, having changed its call letters in 2003).
XTRA Sports 1150 flipped toFox Sports 1150 for a time.[citation needed]
In 2003, KXTA, by this time aClear Channel Communications station, was falling off in the ratings and had lost the Dodgers toKFWB. KXTA flipped back to XTRA Sports, this time on both 1150 AM and 690 AM, the successfulXTRA inSan Diego.[8]
On February 4, 2005, Clear Channel conducted a far-reaching format swap of three radio stations in the area. TheXTRA Sports format moved to AM 570, where it retains its call letters ofKLAC. It had the sloganXTRA Sports 570, but is now known as justAM 570. AM 690 took on KLAC's previous format, anadult standards station calledThe Fabulous 570 and redubbedThe Fabulous 690. 1150, meanwhile, would adopt aprogressive talk 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 byRachel 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.[9] The station removed its award-winning and popular weeknight show "Harrison on the Edge", hosted by Cary Harrison[10] and produced by Linda Blake[11] on February 27, 2007, after an 18-month run.
During this time nationally syndicated hosts wereStephanie Miller who was also simulcast onCurrent TV from 2012 to 2013 from the KTLK studios,Randi Rhodes,Norman Goldman,Clark Howard,Mike Malloy,Phil Hendrie, andBill Press. Miller is distributed byDial Global, Rhodes, Howard, and Hendrie byPremiere Radio Networks (which had the same parent company as the station), Goldman byCompass 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 ofRon Reagan,Sam Seder andJaneane Garafalo's "Majority Report", andLionel, who all left the schedule when Air America Media folded. Other past offerings were local Cary Harrison and national showThom Hartmann, who was picked up after comedianAl Franken ended his early 9 a.m.-noon show over Air America to prepare for his eventual successful run for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota. In turn, Hartmann was taken off the schedule whenDial 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 duoFrangela ofAngela V. Shelton andFrances Callier, andMario Solis-Marich. The syndicatedStarTalk 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 fromprogressive-leaning format to one that emphasizes aconservative viewpoint.
Randi Rhodes had already planned a transition to an online-only show and encouraged her fans to continue listening by downloading theiHeartRadio application for theirsmart phones andtablet 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.
On January 2, 2014, KEIB began airing a conservative talk format, branded as "The Patriot", featuringRush Limbaugh,Glenn Beck, andSean Hannity, all three of whom are nationally distributed throughiHeartMedia'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, andThe Sean Hannity Show. In particular,Hannity was picked up fromKABC after that station's owner,Cumulus Media, purgedHannity 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, asKFI (Limbaugh's former home) began adopting an emphasis on local hosts and subjects.[12] The station airedThe Rush Limbaugh Show at the time of Limbaugh's death in 2021, and it currently airsThe Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Premiere's designated replacement for Limbaugh's program.
With the launch of "The Patriot" on AM 1150, a newcall 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-ownedKTCN (AM 1130) in theMinneapolis/St. Paul market; KTCN's programming (which includesLimbaugh andHannity) had been previously heard on KTLK-FM (100.3 FM), which became the sports orientedKFXN-FM in August 2011 when the stations swapped programming.[13] (The KTLK calls, until 2002, were assigned to what is nowKDFD inDenver, 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 theRegional Mexican music stationKBNO.) 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 replacedThe Glenn Beck Program. Armstrong & Getty moved their show to KABC in 2019.
On March 16, 2016, it was announced that sister stationKLAC would be the new flagship for theLos Angeles Clippers. In case of a scheduling conflict with theLos Angeles Dodgers (also on KLAC), the Clippers would be heard on KEIB.[14]
The station was the flagship outlet of theLos Angeles Kings of theNational Hockey League and theLos Angeles Galaxy ofMajor League Soccer until 2014. Currently, the station airs games of theUCLA Bruins, andAnaheim Ducks, in case of conflicts with their regular radio stations. It has also airedNational Football League games fromWestwood One. During the KTLK era the station was the former radio home of theLos Angeles Clippers (traded toKSPN in exchange for Kings' rights, now onKLAC), theLos Angeles Sparks (contract not renewed after2008), and theLos 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.[15]
On April 2, 2012, the station broadcast theNCAA men's basketball championship game in whichKentucky defeatedKansas. The tourney had been carried locally on KLAC, but that station had a programming conflict due to also being the flagship radio station of theLos Angeles Dodgersthat season. As a result, KLAC's coverage of the Dodgers'spring training game against theLos Angeles Angels of Anaheim preempted their broadcast of the Wildcats-Jayhawks game which was then accommodated on KTLK.