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KABC (790 AM) is a Los Angeles radio station, and a West Coast flagship station for the Citadel Broadcasting company. A pioneer of the talk radio format, the station went "all-talk" in 1960 and was one of the first stations to do so. KABC is owned by Citadel Broadcasting, but despite different owners, 790 KABC, KABC-TV and 710 ESPN maintains a strong partnership (as KABC-TV is the local ABC owned-and-operated station).
KABC first went on the air on April 14, 1925 as KVFV. On November 15, 1929, the station was sold to Earle C. Anthony, a local car dealer who already owned KFI-AM 640. Anthony changed KVFV's call letters to reflect his initials, KECA. In the early 1940s, new FCC rules prohibited any entity from owning more than one radio station. ABC bought the station in 1944, changing the call letters to KABC in 1954.
KABC has been the base of operation for many influential radio hosts, including early talk polemicists Joe Pyne and Louis Lomax, Ira Fistel, Michael Jackson, whose talk show attracted celebrities, politicians, and newsmakers of all types, pioneering radio psychologists Dr. Toni Grant and David Viscott, and more recent syndicated hosts including Dennis Prager (now with NewsTalk 870 KRLA and the Salem Radio Network), John and Ken (on KFI before their stint on KABC and currently back on KFI) and Larry Elder (now back on KABC as a local show). In the 1980s, Jackson, Grant and Viscott were also syndicated nationwide on ABC Radio's talk radio network.
From 1974-97, it was also the station of the Los Angeles Dodgers and their hall-of-fame broadcaster Vin Scully. In 2008, the Dodgers Radio Network returned to KABC.
Though a prominent Los Angeles signal, KABC declined in the ratings following the station's takeover by Disney in December 1996.
Disney replaced longtime management personnel (including 16-year General Manager George Green, who started as a KABC Salesman in 1959) with Disney corporate selections. The station has consistently lagged behind KFI, the other major talk station in Los Angeles. The station, which was owned by The Walt Disney Company's ABC Radio came under ownership of Citadel Broadcasting when the companies merged in 2006. The station remains an ABC affiliate.
In April 2007, administrators at Academia Semillas del Pueblo (ASDP) in the El Sereno district of Los Angeles filed a defamation lawsuit against KABC and then-morning host Doug McIntyre, claiming McIntyre "targeted the school for destruction because the children were Latino, the teachers were Latino, the principal director was Latino" The lawsuit alleged school employees received death threats and that the school was the target of a bomb threat because of McIntyre's extensive on-air criticism of the school, in which he accused ASDP of espousing a racist and separatist Anti-American philosophy. The suit was dismissed in January, 2008.
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KABC (790 AM) is a Los Angeles radio station, and a West Coast flagship station for the Citadel Broadcasting company. A pioneer of the talk radio format, the station went "all-talk" in 1960 and was one of the first stations to do so. KABC is owned by Citadel Broadcasting, but despite different owners, 790 KABC, KABC-TV and 710 ESPN maintains a strong partnership (as KABC-TV is the local ABC owned-and-operated station).
KABC first went on the air on April 14, 1925 as KVFV. On November 15, 1929, the station was sold to Earle C. Anthony, a local car dealer who already owned KFI-AM 640. Anthony changed KVFV's call letters to reflect his initials, KECA. In the early 1940s, new FCC rules prohibited any entity from owning more than one radio station. ABC bought the station in 1944, changing the call letters to KABC in 1954.
KABC has been the base of operation for many influential radio hosts, including early talk polemicists Joe Pyne and Louis Lomax, Ira Fistel, Michael Jackson, whose talk show attracted celebrities, politicians, and newsmakers of all types, pioneering radio psychologists Dr. Toni Grant and David Viscott, and more recent syndicated hosts including Dennis Prager (now with NewsTalk 870 KRLA and the Salem Radio Network), John and Ken (on KFI before their stint on KABC and currently back on KFI) and Larry Elder (now back on KABC as a local show). In the 1980s, Jackson, Grant and Viscott were also syndicated nationwide on ABC Radio's talk radio network.
From 1974-97, it was also the station of the Los Angeles Dodgers and their hall-of-fame broadcaster Vin Scully. In 2008, the Dodgers Radio Network returned to KABC.
Though a prominent Los Angeles signal, KABC declined in the ratings following the station's takeover by Disney in December 1996.
Disney replaced longtime management personnel (including 16-year General Manager George Green, who started as a KABC Salesman in 1959) with Disney corporate selections. The station has consistently lagged behind KFI, the other major talk station in Los Angeles. The station, which was owned by The Walt Disney Company's ABC Radio came under ownership of Citadel Broadcasting when the companies merged in 2006. The station remains an ABC affiliate.
In April 2007, administrators at Academia Semillas del Pueblo (ASDP) in the El Sereno district of Los Angeles filed a defamation lawsuit against KABC and then-morning host Doug McIntyre, claiming McIntyre "targeted the school for destruction because the children were Latino, the teachers were Latino, the principal director was Latino" The lawsuit alleged school employees received death threats and that the school was the target of a bomb threat because of McIntyre's extensive on-air criticism of the school, in which he accused ASDP of espousing a racist and separatist Anti-American philosophy. The suit was dismissed in January, 2008.
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