KIRN
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| City of license | Simi Valley, California |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Los Angeles |
| Branding | Radio Iran |
| Frequency | 670 (kHz) |
| First air date | 1984 |
| Format | Ethnic Iranian |
| Power | 5,000 watts (Day) 3,000 watts (Night) |
| Class | B |
| Owner | Lotus Communications |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.670amkirn.com |
KIRN is a commercial radio station licensed to Simi Valley, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on 670 AM. KIRN airs ethnic Iranian programming.
KIRN's studios are located at the Fallbrook Mall in West Hills.
[edit] History
AM670 came on the air as KWNK in the late 1980s. The launch was made possible when KBOI, a clear channel station in Boise, Idaho at the same frequency, agreed to lower its nighttime effective radiated power.
KWNK carried standards music in its early years, then became a sports talk station in the mid-1990s, first carrying One-on-One Sports (now Sporting News Radio), then simulcasting the signal of "XTRA Sports 690" of the Tijuana-San Diego area. In 2001, AM690 ended the simulcast and KWNK then aired brokered-time programs for a brief period before it became "Radio Iran."
