20 Facts About KLAC

KLAC is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, serving Greater Los Angeles and much of surrounding Southern California.

KLAC studios are located in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank, while the station transmitter resides in Los Angeles' Lincoln Heights neighborhood.

KLAC added a TV station, KLAC-TV at channel 13, on September 17,1948.

KLAC-TV was sold to the Copley Press in 1953, with the call letters changed to the current KCOP-TV.

KLAC moved to classic country, playing country and western hits from the 1950s to the 1970s.

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KLAC was owned by Malrite until 1993, when the station was sold to Shamrock Communications in a group deal along with KZLA.

In 2001, KLAC became a talk radio station, airing syndicated programs from Don Imus, Clark Howard, Dr Dean Edell, The Truckin' Bozo show, and local host Michael Jackson.

KLAC switched formats to sports radio; adopted the "XTRA Sports 570"; with programming drawn from both XETRA and KXTA .

All on- and off-air personnel were reassigned between the three stations; with KLAC retaining Steve Hartman, Lee Hamilton and Vic "The Brick" Jacobs from both XETRA and KXTA, along with the local rights to The Jim Rome Show.

KLAC initially marketed itself as serving both the Los Angeles and San Diego markets with the switch.

In February 2006, KLAC phased out the use of the XTRA Sports nickname as part of a re-orientation to the Los Angeles market, and was simply referred to on air as "AM 570".

Local hosts on KLAC were instructed to not limit themselves to sports, but include celebrities, relationships, politics and current events.

The KLAC call letters were initially only announced during station identification at the beginning of each hour, but would soon be used more often under the "AM 570 KLAC" brand, starting when the station celebrated its 30th anniversary as the Laker radio flagship.

Into The Night with Tony Bruno, which KLAC co-produced with The Content Factory, replaced McDonnell in September 2008.

On September 23,2011, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that KLAC would become the flagship for the team's radio network beginning in the 2012 season.

Shemon and Washington's morning slot was replaced by Dan Patrick, while Chris Myers' FSR show and Hartman's KLAC show were combined into Myers and Hartman; Myers effectively replaced Mychal Thompson, and Vic "The Brick" Jacobs was reassigned to delivering brief sports updates.

KLAC initially dropped Into The Night with Tony Bruno to clear JT The Brick's existing FSR show, while Ben Maller's overnight show, The Third Shift, was canceled and replaced by a clip show entitled Fox Sports Soup.

On March 15,2015, KLAC announced that it would drop its branding connected with Fox Sports Radio, changing to "AM 570 LA Sports, " with a greater emphasis on Dodgers coverage, including a weeknight "Dodgers Talk" show all year round.

Nevertheless, KLAC continued to carry some of the Fox Sports lineup such as Dan Patrick's morning show and Jay Mohr's midday show.

KLAC took over as the flagship station of the Los Angeles Clippers on March 16,2016, following previous flagship KFWB's sale and conversion to foreign-language programming mid-season.