KBIG (104.3 FM, 104.3 MYfm) is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, and serving the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts a hot adult contemporary radio format focusing on music from the 1990s to the present.

KBIG AM 740 broadcast from Avalon (Catalina Island). At one time, they broadcast from a ship called the S.S. Catalina. It would broadcast sailing into the Avalon Harbor. The chief host was a gentleman by the name of Carl "Mr. Big" Baily. KBIG went on the air around June 1952 and was basically a middle of the road station.

KBIG has remained the call letters at 104.3 FM for many years, but it originally appeared at 740 AM. The call letters were named after a station DJ who went by Carl "Mr. Big" Bailey. The original KBIG was based on Catalina Island and launched in 1952 by by John H. Poole. This signal covered Southern California from Santa Barbara to San Diego.

KBIG (104.3 FM, 104.3 MYfm) is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, and serving the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts a hot adult contemporary radio format focusing on music from the 1990s to the present.

KBRT (740 AM, known on-air as K-BRITE) is a Southern Californian radio station. It airs a Christian talk and teaching radio format and is owned by Crawford Media Group. It is licensed to Costa Mesa, California, and serves Los Angeles and Orange counties and can be heard in The Inland Empire and north San Diego County.

KBRT shares the 740 kHz frequency with San Francisco's 50,000-watt Newsradio KCBS, which booms down to LA as the sun goes down. Therefore, KBRT is only licensed to operate during daylight hours. There are 3 towers that direct the 10,000-watt signal towards Los Angeles.

740 AM dropped the legendary KBIG calls in the early 1970s replacing them with "KBRT."

One local radio station currently has a transmitter on the Island, KBRT 740 AM. Once upon a time as a youngster growing up in Southern California I remember the afternoon broadcasts aboard the Great White Steamship with Carl Bailey on deck with the whistle that could be heard for miles as the ship went back and forth the 26 miles.

2023年5月17日 · I took a tour of 740 in 1973, and I'm pretty sure the call letters were KBIG at that time. I too recall their jingles, which I believe were from Pepper Tanner. "KBIG, radio Catalina, 26 miles across the sea."

KBIG 740 Khz. Radio Station Des Moines Inc. was the recipient of a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on November 13, 1947, to build and operate a new 250 watt AM broadcast station in Des Moines, Iowa.