KRRL

KRRL (92.3 FM, Real 92.3) is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, with an Urban Contemporary format. It is owned by iHeartMedia (Clear Channel Communications until September 2014). Its studios are located in Burbank between the Warner Bros. Studios and The Burbank Studios, and it has a transmitter site on Mount Wilson with most other television and FM radio stations serving Los Angeles.

History

KFAC

92.3 FM signed on in 1952 as KFAC - a commercial classical music radio station in Los Angeles, broadcasting for most of its life on 1330 AM. It later broadcast as a simulcast and then with separate programming on 92.3 FM. According to a quote from a 1989 New York Times article, "only 41 of nearly 9,000 commercial radio stations in the United States play classical music, and KFAC was considered one of the best".

For more, see KFAC (defunct).

KKBT 92.3 The Beat

In the late Summer of 1989, Evergreen Media purchased KFAC. On September 20, at 2 PM, after a simulcast with KUSC and a farewell luncheon outside the KFAC studios, the station began stunting with a heartbeat sound effect and brief clips of music. The following day at Noon, the station changed its callsign to KKBT, "The New Beat FM 92". The first song under the new format was "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed. The station offered a blend of adult rock, dance music, and adult contemporary, with the slogan "Rock with a Beat". The format failed miserably, and by March 1990, the adult rock cuts were gone, and the station was renamed "92.3 The Beat". The station then moved toward a rhythmic AC format playing a blend of disco, soft pop hits, current R&B and oldies. The station still did not do well, and by the summer of that year, it evolved to a strictly urban AC format. By 1991, rap and hip-hop were being mixed in, and the station evolved to an Urban Contemporary format.