KBRT

KBRT (740 AM, known on-air as KBRITE) is a Southern Californian Christian radio station. It airs Christian talk radio programming from Costa Mesa, California to Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire, San Diego, and Santa Barbara. The station broadcast at 10,000 Watts sunrise to sunset at 740 kHz. On 28 February 2013, when KBRT moved to a new transmitter site near Corona, California; started broadcasting at 50,000 watts sunrise to sunset; and had the city of license changed to Costa Mesa. The studio and business offices remain located in Costa Mesa. KBRT is a Class D station broadcasting on the Canadian clear-channel frequency of 740 AM. CFZM in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is the dominant North-American station on 740 AM.

KBRT is licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to broadcast in the HD (hybrid) format.

History

The station went on air in 1952. It was founded by entrepreneur John H. Poole as KBIG. Poole had worked at KEZY Anaheim, California, and was founder of channel 22 KBIC-TV (now KWHY-TV) in Los Angeles. Later he would own KBIG-FM.