KGBN

KGBN is a Korean, brokered time AM radio station licensed to Anaheim, California, and broadcasting at a frequency of 1190 kHz. From 1997 to 2010 it was owned by Salem Communications as a sister station to KFSH and KRLA. In August 2010 the station was sold to Korean Gospel Broadcasting Network.

It is one of four radio stations - the others are KYPA, KMPC, and KFOX - that broadcast in Korean around the clock in the greater Los Angeles area. However, this is the only religious station among them; the others have secular programming.

History

This station began as KEZY, an easy-listening station known as "K-Easy." The station later became an Orange County top 40 powerhouse featuring such personalities as Mark Denis, Mike Wagner and other disc jockeys. The station's address at the time was the same as its assigned frequency: 1190 East Ball Road. The original call letters during construction and prior to its on-air debut were KDOG. The station debuted on air as KEZY on May 18, 1959, with studios at the Disneyland Hotel.