City | Los Angeles, California |
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Broadcast area | Greater Los Angeles |
Branding | 102.7 KIIS FM |
Slogan | LA's #1 Hit Music Station |
Frequency | 102.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) 102.7 HD-2: Evolution (Dance) Sirius XM ch. 11 |
Repeater(s) |
KVVS Rosamond 105.5 MHz K274CJ Santa Barbara 102.7 MHz |
First air date | 1948 |
Format | Top 40 (CHR) |
Audience share | 4.5 (January 2017, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
ERP | 8,000 watts |
HAAT | 902.0 meters (2,959.3 ft) |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 19218 |
Transmitter coordinates | 34°13′36.00″N 118°03′57.00″W / 34.2266667°N 118.0658333°W |
Callsign meaning | "IIS" resembles "115" |
Former callsigns | KLAC-FM (1948–67) KRHM (1967–71) KKDJ (1971–1975) |
Owner | iHeartMedia, Inc. |
Sister stations | KBIG, KFI, KRRL, KLAC, KOST, KEIB, KYSR |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | kiisfm |
KIIS-FM (pronounced "Kiss FM") (102.7 FM) – branded 102.7 KIIS FM – is a commercial Top 40 (CHR) radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., KIIS-FM is the origin of the KISS-FM brand, and currently serves as the flagship station for On Air with Ryan Seacrest. The KIIS-FM studios are located in Burbank, while the station transmitter resides on Mount Wilson.
Besides a standard analog transmission, KIIS-FM broadcasts over two HD Radio channels including "Evolution" on its HD-2 subchannel, and features an all-dance music format.; streams online via iHeartRadio; and extends its on-air signal by using a single full-power repeater – KVVS (105.5 FM) in Rosamond. The station also simulcasts over channel 11 on Sirius XM satellite radio. KIIS-FM has consistently been rated the #1 radio station in all of the Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura County markets, averaging nearly 1 million listeners.
102.7 FM started as KLAC-FM, a sister station to KLAC, in 1948. The station was a simulcast of the AM station, until the late 1960s, when the Federal Communications Commission banned continuous AM/FM simulcasts for over half of the broadcast day. The FM started its own programming, which was a middle of the road format, in 1967, and changed call letters to KRHM which it remained for four years before becoming top 40 KKDJ on April 15, 1971.