KLAC (AM)
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| City | Los Angeles, California |
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| Broadcast area | Los Angeles, California |
| Branding | AM 570 LA Sports |
| Frequency | 570 kHz (also on HD Radio) can also be heard on KYSR HD2. |
| First air date | March 1924 (as KFPG) |
| Format | Sports Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 59958 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°04′11″N 118°11′36″W / 34.06972°N 118.19333°WCoordinates: 34°04′11″N 118°11′36″W / 34.06972°N 118.19333°W |
| Callsign meaning | K "Los Angeles, California" |
| Former callsigns | 1924-1925: KFPG 1925-1946: KMTR |
| Affiliations |
Fox Sports Radio NBC Sports Radio |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia Los Angeles Dodgers (Los Angeles Broadcasting Partners, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KBIG, KFI, KRRL, KIIS-FM, KOST, KEIB, KYSR |
| Webcast | Listen Live (via iHeartRadio) |
| Website | am570lasports.com |
KLAC AM 570 is a radio station serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area. KLAC is one of eight Los Angeles radio stations in which San Antonio-based iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014) has an ownership interest. The station is co-located with its sister stations in suburban Burbank, and its transmitter is located on a site in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, east of downtown.
Since January 2009, the station has been the flagship of Fox Sports Radio and now originates most of the networks' programming, The Petros and Money Show, and Jay Mohr Sports. In 2015, the station was partly acquired by the Los Angeles Dodgers and re-branded as AM 570 LA Sports.
KLAC can be heard in HD on 570 AM and also on KYSR HD2.
KLAC began as KFPG in 1924. In 1925 it became KMTR after new owner K.M. Turner, a radio dealer. In 1946, Dorothy Schiff, publisher of the New York Post, bought the station and renamed it KLAC. During the 1940s Douglas Adamson worked as a disc-jockey and was voted one of Billboards top ten DJ's in America. Douglas' brother "Harold Campbell Adamson" was a noteworthy songwriter during this period with four Oscar nominations, having written Frank Sinatra's first Oscar nomination for film Higher and Higher. At Harold's funeral his nephew met Louis Nye. The station was purchased by Metromedia in 1963. They ran a pop music format from the 1950s into the 1960s, similar to other AM Metromedia stations. KLAC at different times featured the talents of Les Crane, Louis Nye, and Lohman and Barkley.
In the mid-1960s KLAC had a talk format known as "two-way radio" including Joe Pyne, then became a middle of the road station playing music from the 1940s and early 1950s along with soft rock and non-rock hits of the 1950s and 1960s. By early 1970, KLAC evolved to more of an adult contemporary format focusing on soft rock hits from 1964 up to that time.
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