KBLA (1580 AM) is a broadcast radio station in the United States. Licensed to Santa Monica, California, KBLA serves the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by Multicultural Broadcasting, through licensee Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC, and operated by pending owner Tavis Smiley with an urban/progressive talk format.
For much of its early history, the station had music formats and was aimed towards a black audience. The station was founded in 1947 as KOWL and played middle of the road music; Gene Autry was an early investor in the station. From 1956 to 1991, the station had call sign KDAY and had top 40, rock, and R&B formats through the early 1980s. In 1983, KDAY became the first station in Los Angeles to play hip hop music; as a result, KDAY became the most popular station among black listeners in the area.
KDAY went through multiple ownership and format changes in the 1990s, beginning with a purchase by Fred Sands in 1990. A year later, KDAY changed its call sign to KBLA and its format to business news. The business format lasted just one year, as KBLA changed to a Korean format afterwards. Keymarket Communications purchased KBLA in 1993; subsequent mergers of its parent company landed KBLA under the ownership of River City Broadcasting in 1995 and Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1996. KBLA was sold in 1998 to Radio Unica, which added KBLA to its national Spanish radio network. Multicultural Broadcasting bought KBLA in 2003 and converted KBLA to a Spanish Christian format. Tavis Smiley bought KBLA in 2020 and launched a progressive talk format on the station.
KBLA (1580 AM) is a broadcast radio station in the United States. Licensed to Santa Monica, California, KBLA serves the Greater Los Angeles area. The station...
June 2021 he has served as Chief Visionary Officer for his radio station, KBLA Talk 1580. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, the son of Joyce Marie...
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the Crowd" and "Beautiful Struggle" on KPFK and "This Is Not a Drill" on KBLA. On April 10, 2024, independent 2024 presidential candidate Cornel West announced...
California Civic Auditorium. In 1963, Tremaine went into the radio stations KBLA and KRLA, and later television, and became the host of the syndicated nationwide...
Radio, moving soon afterwards to KBLA in Burbank, to KFWB in '67, and then in 1968 to KFRC in San Francisco. At KBLA and KFRC, his show "The Diamond Mine"...
Station Years owned Current ownership status Santa Monica–Los Angeles, CA KBLA 1580 1996–1998 Multicultural Broadcasting New Orleans, LA WWL 870 1996–1999...
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new book Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations". KBLA (Podcast). "People". University of California, Berkeley. 24 June 2022. Retrieved...
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"airport voice" be put in its place. Don Elliot, a program director for KBLA Radio, was brought in to record the voice on a Neumann microphone. The melodies...
"Disciple invites fans to "Promise to Live" with impactful new single". KBLA. "Disciple releases new song "Bad Words" alongside preorder of upcoming album...
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28, 1991, at 1 p.m., KDAY switched to a business format with call letters KBLA.: 294 KDAY was resurrected on 93.5 FM on September 20, 2004, offering a...
He founded the Bronzeville Comedy Showcase in 2007. "The Babylon Beat | KBLA". Retrieved 2021-11-08. "The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling". The...
Herald-Examiner. In early 1965 Duggan was hired to do the morning drive show on KBLA-Burbank (1500 AM) as part of the station's new top 40 format, but lasted...
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