Owned by Lotus Communications,[2] KRLV airs a sports radio format focused on the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League.

[5] KORK was owned by the Vegas Valley Broadcasting Company, located in the Hotel Thunderbird, and it was powered at only 250 watts.

In 1955, it was bought by the Southwestern Broadcasting Company, which put Channel 3, KORK-TV (later KVBC, now KSNV) on the air in that same year.

Its lineup included well-known disc jockeys, such as Red McIlvaine, Walt Reno and Ron Murphy.

During the latter part of the decade, the newsroom was led by news director Bill Buckmaster (later a talk show host at KWFM in Tucson) and included reporters Jackie Glass (now a District Court Judge in Las Vegas) and Steven L. Herman, (currently a Voice of America correspondent in Asia).

By the early 1980s, KORK became an adult standards station, airing NBC Radio News at the beginning of each hour.

KBAD aired The Jim Rome Show until its move to CBS Sports Radio, whose Las Vegas affiliate is KXST.