KFI (radio station)

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KFI (radio station)
Radio station
Program type Talk radio
reception Medium wave terrestrial & web radio
Reception area Los Angeles , California United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Start of transmission March 31, 1922
Broadcaster iHeartMedia
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KFI is an American radio broadcaster based in Los Angeles , California . The Clear Channel -Station went on March 31, 1922 on mission and supplied with its 50-k W transmitter in La Mirada the entire west coast of the United States . It broadcasts a talk radio format and belongs to the largest US radio company iHeartMedia , Inc.

The studios were built in Burbank between Warner Bros. Studios and Burbank Studios .

history

KFI was the first high-performance "clear channel" station in the USA.

In the film "Talk Radio" by Eric Bogosian and Oliver Stone , the on-air production of Tom Leykis ' talk show on KFI served as a model. Bogosian took a look at the production and processes at KFI. The film is based on the story of the Jewish-born talk host Alan Berg from Denver . After repeatedly speaking out against racism and making fun of neo-Nazis, he was murdered by White Supremacists (racist neo-Nazis) in 1984 .

program

The US-wide syndicated talk show "Steve & Ken" runs on KFI. In 2016, the moderators ranked 13th among the "Heavy Hundreds" US talk hosts. The Bill Handel Show is also produced by KFI (11th place).

KFI Los Angeles, like KEX Portland , WABC New York , WJR Deroit , KOA Denver and WLS Chicago, is one of the influential Clear Channel Stations whose conservative talk programs have an enormous reach. These stations, which are mostly steeped in tradition, almost all belong to iHeartMedia and get their programs from its Premiere Networks .

See also

literature

  • David Foster Wallace : Moderator, in: ders .: The fun of it. All essays. Cologne 2018. pp. 691–760.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Stone: Talk Radio. January 13, 1989. Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ http://www.talkers.com/heavy-hundred/
  3. ^ Bill Mann: Here's Why the Right Wing Dominates Talk Radio Today. In: Huffington Post. June 21, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2017 (American English).