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KEIB (1150 AM broadcasting) is a commercial radio radio station in Los Angeles. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station brands itself as The Patriot, and broadcasts a conservative talk radio format. The station's studios are on West Olive Avenue in Burbank.
By day, KEIB is powered at 50,000 , the maximum for commercial AM stations in the U.S. At night, to minimize interference to other stations on 1150 AM, it reduces power to 44,000 watts. The transmitter uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array, located in the City of Industry. Radio-Locator.com/KEIB
The station carries UCLA Bruins, Los Angeles Clippers and Anaheim Ducks games in case of conflicts with their regular radio stations. Weekends feature repeats of weekday shows and two local hosts: Mark Moss and Joe Escalante, along with syndicated programs The Weekend with Michael Brown and The Jesus Christ Show with Neil Saavedra. On weekends, some hours are paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio.
From 1928 until its deletion in 1961, KFSG 1150 (1120 before 1941) shared the KRKD frequency and transmitter. The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel bought KRKD to keep from having to share time, airing mostly secular programming. From 6 P.M. to midnight, KRKD aired services from Angelus Temple.
KXOL-FM aired the same programming as the AM station before 1966. After that, the two stations aired the same adult standards programming after 2 in the afternoon and were known as "Your Album Stations of Southern California". On its own KRKD-FM aired theatrical performances, light classical music and opera. At one point, the AM aired college football while the FM kept the album format, and when the games ended, the AM continued the album format and the FM aired theater and opera.
But soon thereafter, KMPC unexpectedly dropped its adult standards format and fired its DJs. Dick Whittinghill, Gary Owens, Johnny Magnus and Pete Smith all moved over to KPRZ, which took over the KMPC music and called it "The Music of Your Life". Whttinghill would complain about "all that noise down the hall at sister station KIIS-FM". If the door to the KPRZ studios was open, the Top 40 music on KIIS-FM could even be heard in the background on the AM station.
Today, the KPRZ calls are assigned to a Christian radio station serving the San Diego metropolitan area.
XTRA Sports 1150 flipped to Fox Sports 1150 for a time.
In 2003, KXTA, by this time a iHeartMedia station, was falling off in the ratings and had lost the Dodgers to KFWB. KXTA flipped back to XTRA Sports, this time on both 1150 AM and 690 AM, the successful XEWW-AM in San Diego.
The KXTA-FM call letters are now assigned to a regional Mexican station serving Twin Falls, Idaho.
On February 4, 2008, KTLK altered several of its time slots. Marc Germain, also known as "Mr. K," was removed from the lineup and replaced by Rachel Maddow from 3 to 6 p.m. Mike Malloy's show was returned to the station. Finally, Phil Hendrie's show was returned to the lineup, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Ed Schultz was dropped.LA-Radio.com The station removed its award-winning and popular weeknight show "Harrison on the Edge," hosted by Cary Harrison Cary Harrison and produced by Linda Blake on February 27, 2007 after an 18-month run.
During this time nationally syndicated hosts were Stephanie Miller who was also simulcast on Current TV from 2012 to 2013 from the KTLK studios, Randi Rhodes, Norman Goldman, Clark Howard, Mike Malloy, Phil Hendrie, and Bill Press. Miller is distributed by Dial Global, Rhodes, Howard, and Hendrie by Premiere Radio Networks (which had the same parent company as the station), Goldman by Compass Media Networks, and Malloy is self-syndicated.
Two local shows were in the weekday lineup: Diverse L.A., which promotes itself on the station's webpage as follows: "We as Angelenos don’t look, think or even vote alike…so why should we sound alike?", and an afternoon drivetime show hosted by David Cruz.
Former programs include those of Ron Reagan, Sam Seder and Janeane Garafalo's "Majority Report," and Lionel, who all left the schedule when Air America Media folded. Other past offerings were local Cary Harrison and national show Thom Hartmann, who was picked up after comedian Al Franken ended his early 9 a.m.-noon show over Air America in order to prepare for his eventual successful run for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota. In turn, Hartmann was taken off the schedule when Dial Global moved his show to the exact noon-3 p.m. time slot as Rhodes' show.
On weekends, the station featured local hosts including Johnny Wendell (a.k.a. Johnny Angel), the comedy duo Frangela of Angela V. Shelton and Frances Callier, and Mario Solis-Marich. The syndicated StarTalk Radio hosted by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson aired on Sunday afternoons.
In these years of Air America affiliation and, later, as an independent station, KTLK used in turn the promo slogans "L.A.'s Progressive Talk," "The Voice of Reason" and finally "Your Voice". Another line heard often in station IDs that referenced the station hosts' political take was "From Minority to Majority".
On January 8, 2014, KTLK changed call letters to KEIB and became "The Patriot", converting from progressive talk format to one that emphasizes a conservative viewpoint.
Randi Rhodes had already planned a transition to an online-only show and encouraged her fans to continue listening by downloading the iHeartRadio application for their and . However, only months after the launch of her online model, Rhodes announced that she was ending her show, citing her frustration with the media in general.
With the launch of "The Patriot" on AM 1150, a new call sign was assigned to the station, with KTLK becoming KEIB, a play on Limbaugh's "Excellence in Broadcasting" slogan. iHeartMedia applied for the KEIB call letters to ease the move of his show in the LA market from its longtime home at higher-rated KFI to become a magnet for the new 1150. The KTLK call letters in turn moved to iHeartMedia-owned KTCN (AM 1130) in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market; KTCN's programming (which includes Limbaugh and Hannity) had been previously heard on KTLK-FM (100.3 FM), which became the sports oriented KFXN-FM in August 2011 when the stations swapped programming. Source: RadioInsight on Twitter (posted 12/28/2013) (The KTLK calls, until 2002, were assigned to what is now KDFD in Denver, an iHeartMedia-owned progressive talk station. Before that, the calls were applied to another Denver station, which was one of the first full-time talk stations in the nation; that station is currently the Regional Mexican music station KBNO.) On October 15, 2015, Armstrong & Getty announced on-air that their 'Voice of the West' morning drive time show would be joining the KEIB line-up on November 2, 2015; the duo replaced The Glenn Beck Program. Armstrong & Getty moved their show to KABC in 2019.
On March 16, 2016, it was announced that sister station KLAC will be the new flagship for the Los Angeles Clippers. In case of a scheduling conflict with the Los Angeles Dodgers (also on KLAC), the Clippers will be heard on KEIB. The LA Clippers and iHeartMedia are joining forces to broadcast Clippers games live! KFI - March 16, 2016
On April 2, 2012, the station broadcast the NCAA men's basketball championship game in which Kentucky defeated Kansas. The tourney had been carried locally on KLAC, but that station had a programming conflict due to also being the flagship radio station of the Los Angeles Dodgers that season. As a result, KLAC's coverage of the Dodgers' spring training game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim preempted their broadcast of the Wildcats-Jayhawks game which was then accommodated on KTLK.
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