KCLU (1340 AM) is a United States Non-commercial educational radio station licensed to and serving Santa Barbara, California.

Under the ownership of Joseph Patterson "Patt" Wardlaw, Jr., who purchased Western States Radio in 1960,[5] KIST not only played the popular music of the day but also claimed one of the finest news broadcasting teams in the Santa Barbara area.

The station won awards from the Southern California Broadcasters Association for its coverage of the Sycamore Fire in 1977.

Each on-air disc jockey and many of the support staff carried two-way mobile radios in their vehicles; these enabled instant on-scene news reporting.

On-air personalities included morning drive host Baron Ron Herron, reporter Ed Foley, and disc jockeys scotty johnson PD & C. Engineer, Tom Payne, Jack Kinney, Mike Hennie, Jim Cordes (aka Jim Evans), Frank Catalano, and Steve Dezormo (since deceased).

One of the station's on-air hosts was Jim Rome, a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

On January 11, 2007, Clear Channel sold all of its radio stations in Santa Barbara, including KIST, to Rincon Broadcasting, headed by John Hearne, for $17.3 million.