KYLA
Air 1 radio station in Fountain Valley, California, United States
KYLA is a non-commercial FM radio station that is licensed to Fountain Valley and serves Orange County on the 92.7 MHz frequency. KYLA is owned by Educational Media Foundation and broadcasts the national Radio Nueva Vida Spanish Christian radio network.
From 1997 to 2025, KYLA was a trimulcast with KYRA and KYZA, both also on 92.7 FM. The trimulcast went through many formats until 2013 when the stations adopted the Air1 format. In February 2025, the trimulcast was split, with KYLA switching to Radio Nueva Vida and the other two stations continuing with Air1.
History
Early years
KYLA signed on in 1993 with the call letters KRCI and originally broadcast from Catalina Island at 3,000 watts. Founding owner Lewis Sher's Catalina Radio sold the nostalgia station to Joseph Amaturo's Amaturo Group for $600,000 in 1995. In 1997, KRCI changed its call sign to KLIT, and began a trimulcast with KMLT in Thousand Oaks and a third Amaturo-owned station, KXEZ (later KELT) in Riverside. The goal of the Amaturos was to cover all of Los Angeles and Orange counties with three stations on one frequency, 92.7 FM. Initially, the trimulcast aired a beautiful music format that evolved to a soft AC music format branded as "Lite 92.7". During the early 2000s, the Lite 92.7 trimulcast aired the nationally syndicated request-and-dedication program Delilah.
KLIT was moved to Fountain Valley, California, with a change of transmitter location, broadcasting from a mountain southeast of Newport Beach, California, at 690 watts.
“KYLA” enters the record as air 1 radio station in Fountain Valley, California, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what KYLA, radio and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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