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<\/p>\nThe City of Angels\u2019 most listened-to radio stations reflect decades of dominance, industry awards and, most important, listener loyalty.<\/p>\n
At the top of Inside Radio\u2019s TOP 10 stations in L.A. \u2014 based on weekly cume delivery of persons 6+ during Nielsen\u2019s Q2 2026 wave (April-to-June three-month average) \u2014 is the market\u2019s foremost adult contemporary station since 1982, iHeartMedia\u2019s KOST (103.5), leading with a 2.5 million cume. Waking up Angelenos on KOST is 36-year market veteran Ellen K, one of this year\u2019s NAB Marconi Radio Awards finalists for Major Market Personality of the Year.<\/p>\n
Ranked second at 2.2 million is Audacy classic hits \u201cK-Earth 101\u201d KRTH, which began as a pioneer of the oldies format in 1972. A Marconi Legendary Station of the Year winner, KRTH has been home to current morning drive host Gary Bryan since 2002.<\/p>\n
Coming in third with a 2.0 million cume is a 2026 Marconi AC Station of the Year finalist, iHeartMedia hot AC \u201c104.3 MyFM\u201d KBIG, flagship of the syndicated \u201cValentine in the Morning\u201d since the station\u2019s start in 2007.<\/p>\n
Together, iHeartMedia and Audacy claim eight of L.A.\u2019s top 10, with four stations each. Audacy\u2019s urban AC \u201c94.7 The Wave\u201d KTWV and adult hits \u201c93.1 Jack FM\u201d KCBS-FM place fourth and fifth, with 1.8 and 1.7 million respectively.<\/p>\n
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iHeartMedia\u2019s longtime CHR KIIS-FM (102.7), ranking sixth with a 1.6 million cume, is the flagship of Premiere-syndicated \u201cOn Air with Ryan Seacrest,\u201d a 2026 Marconi finalist for Network\/Syndicated Personality of the Year. Two legendary L.A. rock stations \u2014 Audacy modern\/alternative rocker KROQ (106.7), and Meruelo Media classic rock KLOS (95.5) \u2014 take seventh and eighth, both at the 1.2-million mark.<\/p>\n
The market\u2019s other modern\/alternative rock station, iHeartMedia\u2019s \u201cAlt 98.7\u201d KYSR, flagship of the syndicated \u201cThe Woody Show,\u201d comes in ninth at 1.1 million, followed by Univision Spanish AC \u201cK-Love 107.5\u201d KLVE, L.A. first Spanish FM station and a three-time Marconi winner for Spanish Station of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Angels\u2019 most listened-to radio stations reflect decades of dominance, industry awards and, most important, listener…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,7056,216,3],"class_list":["post-869249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}