- KGRB (defunct)
KGRB (900 AM) was a 500-watt
radio station inWest Covina, California . The station featured Big Band music &Swing music from the original78 rpm recordings. Among the notabledisc jockey s over the years were Lyman Jay, Bob Stone, and Tom Murphy.The station was put on the air by former
KTLA -Channel 5 engineer Robert Burdette and his wife Gloria onSeptember 25 1963 . Indeed, the station's call letters are derived from her full name, "Gloria R. Burdette." In 1957 Burdette bought an FM station in West Covina and named it KBOB after himself. It was a sister station to KGRB.In 1994, after Burdette suffered a stroke and went into a coma, both stations were put into a conservatorship. Steve Ray (who had worked at KIST, KLIT,
KMPC , andKRCI ) was brought in to manage the stations. He made KGRB anNBC affiliate, renaming it "AM 90 NBC", and was in the process of acquiring the KNBC-AM call letters when the conservators bowed to the demands of Burdette's daughter and sold KGRB to a Hispanic broadcast group. In 1995 KGRB began simulcastingKMQA (the former KBOB). Today it is owned by Multicultural Broadcasting and is known as KALI, "Radio Zion."cite news |work=Daily Breeze |title=Radio AM to FM: June 13, 2003 |url=http://members.cox.net/rwagoner/columns/2003/jun1303.html |date=2003-06-13 |first=Richard |last=Wagoner]References
External links
* [http://www.socalradiohistory.com/kgrb.html Steven M. Ray's history of KGRB]
* [http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=KGRB+West+Covina KGRB at Google News]
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