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KLAV City of license Las Vegas, Nevada Broadcast area Las Vegas metropolitan area Branding KLAV Slogan The Talk of Las Vegas Frequency 1230 (kHz) First air date 1947 Format Brokered programming/Talk radio Power 1,000 watts Class C Callsign meaning LAs Vegas Owner Hemisphere Media, LLC Webcast Listen live Website www.klav1230am.com KLAV is a commercial radio station located in Las Vegas, Nevada, broadcasting 1230 AM. KLAV airs talk and brokered programming; the community can purchase broadcast airtime on the station.[1] It is owned by Hemisphere Media, LLC.[2]
History
KLAV ran a middle-of-the-road (MOR) format until the late 1970s. In early 1979, at the peak of the disco craze, the station endeared itself "Disco 1-2-3 KLAV". KLAV evolved to a Top 40 format in the early 1980. It played a lot of R&B/Urban music that rival Top 40, 98.5 KLUC, would not play at the time. KLAV was the first commercial station to play rap/hip-hop music in Las Vegas. In 1985 the station briefly switched to an easy-listening format and changed its call letters to KEZD but returned to its traditional KLAV name and time-brokered format by 1987.
KLAV previously broadcast from atop the former Bob Stupak's Vegas World Hotel & Casino until its closure in 2000. The station broadcast in a few locations around the Las Vegas Valley but eventually settled down at its current East Desert Inn Road location.
KLAV currently has sports rights to the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Oakland Raiders.
References
- ^ Arbitron station information
- ^ "KLAV Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=KLAV. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
External links
- KLAV Official Website
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KLAV
- Radio-Locator Information on KLAV
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for KLAV
Radio stations in the Las Vegas, Nevada market By FM frequency By AM frequency NOAA Weather Radio frequency 162.550By call sign KBAD · KBET · KCEP · KCNV · KCYE · KDWN · KEKL · KENO · KFRH · KHYZ · KISF · KJUL · KKLZ · KKVV · KLAV · KLSQ · KLUC · KMXB · KMZQ · KNPR · KNUU · KOAS · KOMP · KPKK · KPLV · KQLL · KQRT · KRGT · KRLV · KRRN · KSHP · KSNE · KSOS · KUNV · KVEG · KVGQ · KVGS · KVKL · KWID · KWNR · KWWN · KXLI · KXNT · KXNT-FM · KXPT · KXTE · KYDZ · KYLI · WXL36
Major Nevada radio markets: Las Vegas • Reno
Other Nevada radio markets: Battle Mountain • Elko • Ely • Fallon • Hawthorne • Laughlin • Lovelock • Lund • Pahrump • Panaca • Pioche • Tonopah • WinnemuccaCategories:- Talk radio stations in the United States
- Radio stations in the Las Vegas metropolitan area
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