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KLAA-AM is a general talk radio station licensed to the city of Orange, California, and broadcasting at 830 AM. It is owned by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball team.

Currently, hosts on KLAA include Glenn Beck, Michael Reagan, Dr. Roy Masters and Michael Savage. KLAA also carries a substantial amount of brokered programming. The station carries hourly news from NBC Radio, a division of Westwood One.

KLAA broadcasts as a full-power 50,000 watt AM radio station during the daytime. However, at nighttime it drops to 20,000 watts and switches to a directional antenna which projects most of the signal to the west. This is done to protect "clear channel" WCCO in Minneapolis, MN.

830 AM first came on air on January 9, 1986 as KSRT.

In 1991, the station became KPLS "Radio AAHS" and was part of the first nationwide network of radio programs for children. The downfall of Radio AAHS came when the Walt Disney Company established a competitor, Radio Disney. After the sign off of Radio AAHS, the parent company, Children's Broadcasting Company, needed programming for the network of station until they could find buyers. KPLS and the rest of the former Radio AAHS stations flipped to "Beat Radio", which carried electronic dance music (aka techno) 24 hours a day. Later that year, KPLS was sold and flipped to Catholic talk. During this period, the station was owned by John Lynch, father of the veteran National Football League cornerback of the same name.

KPLS was later sold again, at which time it flipped to a conservative talk station as "HotTalk 830 - LA's Conservative Voice" which featured Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage. KPLS had close ties to the Orange County community and was the flagship station of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim hockey team.

In 2004, it flipped to a Spanish-language station that operated as KMXE. It was the Angels' flagship station in that language. Its slogan was "¡Así Se Habla!".

The current format began in the summer of 2006. The station's website was not renewed and taken over by cybersquatters on February 22, 2007; however, a new website (see below) has been recently launched to replace it.

• 6 a.m. - Glenn Beck
• 9 a.m. - Michael Reagan
• noon - RO/EX (brokered programming)
• 1 p.m. - Jerry Doyle
• 3 p.m. - Michael Savage
• 7 p.m. - Live sports or brokered programming
• midnight - Rusty Humphries

In 2006-07, it assumed the broadcast rights for the Anaheim Ducks, a National Hockey League team.^[1] That team went on to win the Stanley Cup in June 2007.

In October 2007, the Angels announced that KLAA would carry Angels games in English starting with the 2008 season.^[2] Some Angels games had already been aired in English, the first of which was on September 16, 2006. They aired the team's Saturday games during September and October when KSPN, the flagship from 2003 to 2007, carried USC Trojans football. Before that, it aired Angels games in Spanish, as well as some games of the pro soccer team the Los Angeles Galaxy, to fulfill contractual obligations to both teams. KLAA was believed to be the only station in the U.S. to broadcast play-by-play of sports events in two languages. (In 2008, Angels and Galaxy games in Spanish will move to KWKW, and the Dodgers relocate from KWKW to KHJ.)

On September 10, 2007, KLAA began carrying games of the NFL on Westwood One on Monday nights.^[3] However, it does not carry the full schedule because of some conflicts with the Ducks.

• Official station website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for KLAA
• Radio Locator Information on KLAA