KIEV 870 In February 1933, the station signed on the air as KIEV. It originally broadcast on 850
kHz as a result of the
North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA). For most of its early years, KIEV was a
daytimer, required to go off the air at sunset. The station had various formats, including
Top 40,
country music,
big bands and
adult standards. Programs included ''Tomorrow's Heroes
with Andrea Speyer, Talk Back with
George Putnam, The Swingin' Years'' with host
Chuck Cecil, Grace to You with
John MacArthur,
horse racing from
Santa Anita Park and
Hollywood Park Racetrack, and
University of Nebraska football. Salem Communications bought KIEV in 1998 for $33.4 million.
KRLA talk (2001–present) On January 1, 2001, 870 AM adopted the KRLA
call letters.
KWVE 1110 AM, had used those call letters for several decades, beginning in 1959, broadcasting an
oldies format. Weekends on KRLA feature shows on law, pet care and financial advice, as well as
brokered programming. On June 14, 2010, KRLA added
Glenn Beck's radio show to the weekday lineup, but the show was discontinued several years later. The KRLA-produced
Terry Anderson Show aired on Sundays at 9 p.m., until Anderson died on July 7, 2010. In 2014, rival talk radio station
KABC, owned by
Cumulus Media, discontinued the Mark Levin and
Larry Elder shows. In 2015 Salem Communications added both hosts to its line-up. By June 2015 KRLA's Los Angeles ratings pulled ahead of rival KABC. Salem Communications owns two other talk radio stations in Southern California, 590
KTIE, serving the
Inland Empire (
Riverside County and
San Bernardino County) and 1170
KCBQ serving
San Diego. == Programming ==