KLAV
| City of license | Las Vegas, Nevada |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Las Vegas metropolitan area |
| Branding | La Caliente 1230 |
| Frequency | 1230 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 98.9 K255CT (Henderson) |
| First air date | 1948 |
| Format | Regional Mexican |
| Power | 1,000 watts |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 70690 |
| Callsign meaning | LAs Vegas |
| Former callsigns | KLAS (1948-1964) |
| Owner | Lotus Broadcasting Corp. |
| Sister stations | KRLV |
KLAV is a commercial radio station located in Las Vegas, Nevada, broadcasting on 1230 AM.[1] It is owned by Lotus Broadcasting Corp.[2] Its studios are in the unincorporated community of Spring Valley in Clark County and its transmitter is in North Las Vegas.
History
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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 into a Top 40 format in the early 1980 under then program director Ted Ziegenbusch. It played a lot of R&B/Urban music that key rival Top 40 station, 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 West Sahara Avenue location.
On April 20, 2015, after 28 years in the format, and over a year after being sold to Lotus Broadcasting, KLAV without warning began stunting with construction sounds.
Sports Rights
KLAV currently has sports rights to the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
References
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- FCC History Cards for KLAV
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KLAV
- Radio-Locator Information on KLAV
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KLAV
- Query the FCC's FM station database for K255CT
- Radio-Locator information on K255CT
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- ↑ Arbitron station information
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