KLAC

Broadcast area	Los Angeles, California
Branding	"XTRA Sports 570"
First air date	March, 1924 (as KFPG)
Frequency	570 (kHz)
Format	Sports Talk
ERP	5,000 watts
Class	B
Callsign meaning	K Los Angeles County (or California)
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Website	www.xtrasportsradio.com

KLAC AM 570 is a radio station serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Branding itself as XTRA Sports 570, it is the radio flagship of the Los Angeles Lakers, the Jim Rome show, and the Phil Hendrie show, and is also the Los Angeles home of shock jock Erich "Mancow" Muller. It also carries the Oakland Raiders, UCLA Bruins football and men's basketball, and Los Angeles Avengers arena football. It broadcasts nondirectionally and because of its low spot on the dial can be heard in most of Southern California, including the San Diego area, day and night. Image File history File links Klaclogo. ... Nickname: City of Angels Official website: http://www. ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sine waves of various frequencies; the lower waves have higher frequencies than those above. ... A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ... In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ... The watt (symbol: W) is the SI derived unit of power. ... This is the list of broadcast station classes. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... Clear Channel Communications (NYSE: CCU) is a media company based in the United States of America. ... This page as shown in the aol 9. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. ... James Jim Rome (born October 14, 1964 in Tarzana, California) is an American sports radio talk show host syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, the programming subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications. ... Phil Hendrie Philip Stephen Hendrie (born September 1, 1952, Arcadia, California) is the host of The Phil Hendrie Show, a comedy talk radio program syndicated throughout North America on Premiere Radio Networks and on XM Satellite Radio. ... A shock jock is a slang term used to describe a type of radio broadcaster (sometimes a disk jockey) who attracts attention using humor that a significant portion of the listening audience may find offensive. ... Mancows 2003 book, on sale at amazon. ... City Oakland, California Team colors Silver and Black Head Coach Art Shell Owner Al Davis General manager Al Davis Local radio Flagship stations: KSFO (560 AM)-English and KZSF (1370 AM)-Spanish Announcers: George Atkinson, Tom Flores, Greg Papa, and Jim Plunkett (English) and Erwin Higueros and Ambrosio Rico (Spanish... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... Conference American Division Western Year founded 2000 Home arena Staples Center City, State Los Angeles, California Wild card titles 3: 2002, 2003, 2004 Division titles 1: 2005 Conference titles none ArenaBowl championships none The Los Angeles Avengers is an Arena Football League (AFL) team based in Los Angeles, California. ... Arena football is a sport invented by Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. ... Southern California Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Vintage Disneyland Southern California, sometimes abbreviated SoCal or colloquially, the Southland, is an informal name for the megalopolis and nearby desert that occupies the southern-most quarter of the state of California. ... San Diego County in the Southwest corner of California. ...

The name XTRA Sports derives from the previous association with XETRA AM 690. On February 4, 2005, Clear Channel Communications conducted a far-reaching format swap of three radio stations in the area. XTRA Sports, previously a simulcast at AM 690 for San Diego and 1150 for Los Angeles, went to one station at 570 for both Los Angeles and San Diego. AM 690 took on KLAC's previous format, a beautiful music station called The Fabulous 570 and redubbed The Fabulous 690. AM 1150 went to a liberal talk radio format featuring selected portions of the Air America Radio lineup and independently syndicated shows like Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz, called KTLK. The KLAC calls are only announced at the top of an hour by themselves with no other note paid attention to them. In February 2006, the station has phased out the use of the XTRA calls and is simply referred to on air as AM 570. XETRA are the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico, with additional studio facilities in Burbank, California. ... February 4, 2005 New observations from the Arecibo radio telescope confirm that asteroid 2004 MN4 (later named 99942 Apophis in July 2005), once briefly considered an impact risk, will pass Earth on April 13, 2029 at a distance of 36,350 km (22,600 mi) and will reach magnitude 3. ... Clear Channel Communications (NYSE: CCU) is a media company based in the United States of America. ... Beautiful Music was a mostly-instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the 1960s through the 1980s. ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ... Logo of Air America Radio, a U.S. radio network and program syndication sevice with a liberal point of view. ... Stephanie Miller Stephanie Miller (born September 29, 1961) is the host of The Stephanie Miller Show which is produced in Los Angeles. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... KTLK AM 1150 is a radio station serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area. ... February 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → 1 February 2006 (Wednesday) Governor of West Virginia Joe Manchin asks for a halt in coal mining following two more coal mining deaths in the state that saw fourteen people die in coal mining disasters in...

More recently, XTRA Sports 570 has placed less emphasis on sports and more emphasis on male-oriented programming to compete with KLSX, the local home of Adam Carolla and Tom Leykis. Local hosts have been instructed to not limit themselves to sports, but also include politics, celebrities, relationships, and current events. [1] The switch also means that legendary San Diego sports icon "Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton" has been changed from the host of an afternoon talk show host to providing commentary and analysis throughout the week, and also a three hour show on the weekends. KLSX 97. ... Adam Carolla Adam Carolla (b. ... Tom Leykis Tom Leykis (born August 1, 1956 in New York, New York) is a radio talk show host, syndicated nationally and internationally (USA and formerly in Canada) by Westwood One. ...

Many that live in the San Diego area has complained that they are unable to get the 570 signal. This has fueled the complaint that Xtra Sports 570 has "Los Angeles-ized", no longer catering to San Diego's sports teams and listeners. This has also gotten the attention of Premeire Radio Networks, Jim Rome's syndicater; Mighty Double-X, a rival radio station that broadcasts in San Diego and parts of Orange County and Los Angeles (and ran by John Lynch, who owned XTRA Sports Radio in San Diego from the mid 80s to it's merger with 1150 in 2002), picked up The Jim Rome Show in September 2005. XEPRS is the an American sports talk radio station in San Diego. ... Orange County is the name of several counties in the United States of America: Orange County, California: probably named for the city of Orange, California, which in turn may have been named after the orange groves that used to exist there. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... Look up September in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

History

KLAC was owned by Metromedia for many years. They ran a Pop music format from the '50s into the '60s similar to other AM Metromedia stations. In the '60s the station was a MOR station playing music from the '40s and early '50s along with soft rock and non rock hits of the '50s and '60s. By 1971 KLAC evolved to more of an Adult Contemporay format focusing on soft rock hits from 1964 to the then present.

About a year after KMPC 710 dropped Country for Big band and Standards KLAC dropped Adult Contemporary for Country music around 1978. In 1979 KZLA AM and FM joined the Country music competition and in 1980 KHJ joined. KHJ was back to AC by 1983. KZLA-AM-FM and KLAC competed through the 1980s. In 1986 Metromedia sold their TV stations to Fox and restructured into Metropolitan Broadcasting in 1987. In 1988 Mertopolitan eventually sold KTWV 94.7 a Smooth Jazz station to Westinghouse but sold KLAC to Malrite which owned KZLA-AM-FM. KZLA AM was sold to an ethnic broadcaster. KLAC moved to Classic Country from the '50s to the '70s. KZLA 93.9 FM kept playing Country hits from 1965 to the then present.

In 1993 KLAC dropped Classic Country for Westwood One's Standards format focusing on artists like Nat King Cole, Neil Diamond, Peggy Lee, Petula Clark, Dean Martin, Barbara Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Johnny mathis, Carpenters, Elvis Presley, Ames Brothers, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow, and others. The format stayed away from Big Bands as well as too many AC cuts. The station ran various pro sports over the years and some evening talk shows at various points. The station stayed with this format in some form until 2001. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

KLAC was owned by Malrite until 1993 when the station was sold to Shamrock in a group deal along with KZLA. In 1995 the station was absorbed by Chancellor Media and KZLA was swapped to Bonneville in the late '90s. Chancellor Media would form AMFM inc when it merged with capstar in 1999. In 2000 AMFM inc would merge with Clear Channel making KLAC a Clear Channel station.

In 2001 KLAC became a standard talk radio station, hosting the likes of Don Imus, Clark Howard, Dr. Dean Edell, and Michael Jackson. Then on September 12, 2002, KLAC operated as the Fabulous 570, an adult standards format. The station played strictly artists like Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, McGuire Sisters, Al Martino, Sammmy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, and many others. They also mixed in artists like Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Harry Connick Jr, Rod Stewart, Michael Buble, and others but only the material where they sang old pop standards and not "baby boomer" pop. They did not play any Elvis or Beatles or Carpenters for example. Though they played artists like Kenny Rogers and Barry Manilow singing Big Band Classics. This format ended on February 4, 2005. Don Imus John Donald Imus, Jr. ... Clark Howard is a U.S. talk radio host of the nationally syndicated consumer advocate program The Clark Howard Show. The show, mainly dealing in consumer matters, airs from WSB-AM in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Doctor Dean Edell is an American physician and broadcaster in the United States who hosts , a syndicated radio talk show. ... Michael Jackson was a popular radio talk show host on KABC in Los Angeles. ... Adult Standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM stations. ...

External links

• XTRA Sports 570
• Query the FCC's AM station database for KLAC