KGB (AM)

KGB (760 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to San Diego, California. It is owned by iHeartMedia and airs a sports radio format. KGB has local sports talk shows along with play-by-play coverage of San Diego State University football and basketball, Los Angeles Lakers basketball, San Diego Gulls hockey, and national programming from Fox Sports Radio. The studios are in the Serra Mesa neighborhood in northeastern San Diego.

For the AM radio station in San Diego that held the KGB call sign from 1928 to 1982, see KLSD. For the San Francisco radio station that operated from 1921 to 1922, see KGB (San Francisco).
KGB
  • San Diego, California
Broadcast areaSan Diego–Tijuana
Frequency760 kHz
BrandingSan Diego Sports 760
Programming
FormatSports radio
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
Sister stations
KGB-FM, KHTS-FM, KIOZ, KLSD, KMYI, KOGO, KSSX
History
First air date
August 19, 1941 (1941-08-19)
Former call signs
KFMB (1941–2020)
Former frequencies
  • 1450 kHz (1941–1948)
  • 550 kHz (1948–1954)
  • 540 kHz (1954–1965)
Call sign meaning
George Bowles (station manager of KGB, 1928–1931)
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID42120
ClassB
Power
  • 5,000 watts (day)
  • 50,000 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
32°50′33″N 117°1′30″W
Repeater(s)101.5-2 KGB-HD2 (San Diego)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen Live
Websitesportssd.iheart.com

By day, KGB broadcasts at 5,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. But at night, in an unusual move for an AM radio station, power increases to the maximum 50,000 watts, using a directional antenna. The transmitter towers are along the San Clemente Canyon Freeway (California State Route 52) in Santee.

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