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| Broadcast area | Las Vegas metropolitan area |
| Frequency | 920kHz |
| Branding | Raider Nation Radio 920 AM |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports |
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| History | |
First air date | 1948; 77 years ago (1948) (as KRAM) |
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Call sign meaning | Raiders Las Vegas |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 38448 |
| Class | B |
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Transmitter coordinates | 36°11′24.9″N115°10′38″W / 36.190250°N 115.17722°W /36.190250; -115.17722 |
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| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www |
KRLV (920kHz) is a commercialAM radio station inLas Vegas, Nevada, United States, serving theLas Vegas area. Owned byLotus Communications,[2] KRLV airs asportsradio format focused on theLas Vegas Raiders of theNational Football League. The station's studios and offices are located in the unincorporated community ofSpring Valley inClark County. A secondary studio is located at the Raiders headquarters and practice facility inHenderson.[3] Thetransmitter is located off Wild Jan Drive, northwest of downtown Las Vegas.[4]
In 1951, the station firstsigned on as KORK at 1340 kHz.[5] KORK was owned by the Vegas Valley Broadcasting Company, located in the Hotel Thunderbird, and it was powered at 250 watts.
KORK was anNBC Red Networkaffiliate, broadcasting NBC's schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, game shows, soap operas andbig band remotes. In 1955, it was bought by the Southwestern Broadcasting Company, which put Channel 3, KORK-TV (later KVBC, nowKSNV) on the air in that same year. In 1961 KORK got an FM counterpart, 97.1 KORK-FM (nowKXPT).[6]
In 1968, KORK, airing afull serviceMiddle of The Road format, moved to 920 on the AM dial. Going to the 920 spot allowed KORK to increase its daytime power to 5,000 watts and slightly boost its nighttime power to 500 watts.[7] The 920 facility was first licensed in 1948 as KRAM;[8] that call sign concurrently moved to the 1340 license.[9]
During its heyday under the ownership ofDonrey Media, KORK was among the most popular stations in Las Vegas for adults. Its lineup included well-known disc jockeys, such as Red McIlvaine, Walt Reno and Ron Murphy.
The simulcast morningdrive time newscasts of KORK/KORK-FM in the 1970s kept both stations high in the ratings. During the latter part of the decade, the newsroom was led by news director Bill Buckmaster (later a talk show host atKWFM in Tucson) and included reportersJackie Glass (now a District Court Judge in Las Vegas) andSteven L. Herman, (currently aVoice of America correspondent in Asia). The trio was frequently heard onNBC radio network newscasts. By the early 1980s, KORK became anadult standards station, airingNBC Radio News at the beginning of each hour.
KORK changed its call sign to KBAD on April 4, 1997 and began airing anall-sports format. It was known briefly as "K-BAD AM 920".
KBAD was anESPN Radio affiliate until March 3, 2008, when that programming was transferred toKWWN. It then picked upFox Sports Radio programming fromKENO, which in turn affiliated withESPN Deportes Radio. KBAD airedThe Jim Rome Show until its move toCBS Sports Radio, whose Las Vegas affiliate isKXST.
On July 1, 2013, KBAD switched affiliations toNBC Sports Radio and rebranded as920 The Game"[10] On August 5, 2019, KBAD became one of the first terrestrial radio stations in the country dedicated entirely to sports betting, as the station became an affiliate of The BetR Network.[11]
The call sign was changed to KRLV on March 20, 2020;[12] the call sign was transferred from its sister station on 1340, nowKKGK.
On July 27, 2020, Lotus Communications announced that KRLV andKOMP would become the new flagship stations of theLas Vegas Raiders of theNFL after the team moved, and that KRLV would relaunch with a new on-air lineup asRaider Nation Radio. The new lineup and branding launched on August 3, 2020 including a morning show co-hosted by Clay Baker andMike Pritchard, a show hosted by the Raiders leadbeat writer at theLas Vegas Review-Journal andLincoln Kennedy, a show hosted byJ. T. the Brick, and a weekly show hosted by the team's head coach.[13] The former "The Game" programming moved toKLAV. On January 11, 2021, the station addedThe Rich Eisen Show after droppingMike Greenberg's show Greeny after it moved to a new timeslot. The second and third hours of the show are carried. Alongside the Raiders, the station is also the flagship station of theLas Vegas Aviators radio network and carries select games from theSports USA Radio Network. The station otherwise features programming fromSportsMap and theVegas Stats & Information Network.
In the 2019–20 season, KRLV (then KBAD) broadcastUNLV Rebels baseball andUNLV Lady Rebels basketball games.[14][15] The station was previously an affiliate for theSan Diego Chargers and was the flagship station of the formerArena Football League'sLas Vegas Gladiators before they moved toCleveland, Ohio. KRLV also carriedVegas VipersXFL games. Boxing analystAl Bernstein once had a weekday show on KBAD.
The BetR Network will launch on Lotus Broadcasting's 920 KBAD Las Vegas and Longport Media's 1490 WBSS Pleasantville/Atlantic City NJ.