The company said the firm, which also owned KREO in Indio, California, was "heavily in debt" for unpaid taxes and other liabilities.
[8] On June 1, 1965, entertainer Dick Clark purchased the "San Bernardino-Riverside" station from Foster Broadcasting for $435,000.
The owners, Milton Klein and Shayle Ray, were trying to negotiate a sale of KPRO and its sisters, KPRD-AM and KZNS-FM of Barstow, California.
[11][12][13][14] KZNS and KPRD left the airwaves in early March after more than 30 years of broadcasting, but KPRO was saved at the last minute by an unidentified San Bernardino businessman who bought into the partnership with enough cash to pay the employees and stay on the air.
[16] It continued to broadcast California Angels baseball and Los Angeles Lakers basketball games to fulfill contractual obligations, and it went back on the air with other programing in mid-June, then in February again went on a sports-only schedule,[11][17] with Pat Hasland hosting a call-in show, "Pro SportsTalk.
[2] The Federal Communications Commission cancelled KPRO's license on November 5, 2019, due to it having been silent for more than twelve months.
[24] In 1945 KPRO's programs included Philco Hall of Fame, America's Town Meeting, Counterspy, Gangbusters, This Is Your F.B.I., Walter Winchell, Drew Pearson, Tom Breneman, The Breakfast Club, Glamour Manor, Ladies Be Seated, John B. Kennedy, Baukhage Talking, Ethel and Albert, Guy Lombardo, The Metropolitan Opera, Cavalcade of Sports and The Ford Sunday Evening Hour.
Still in high school, Duran interviewed and played up coming bands like Blink 182, No Doubt, Papa Roach and AFI who would eventually go on to become multi platinum artists.