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KESQ (AM)
KESQ (1400 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish music format licensed to Indio, California, United States. The station is currently simulcast of KUNA-FM 96.7 since 2011. KESQ was owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company and formerly rented by a Spanish religious radio network by ''La Iglesia Alfa Y Omega'' (the Alpha and Omega church) - (now on 1450 AM), and briefly played Spanish-language Religious music (now "Radio Cristiana" on FM dial 100.1). History The radio station itself began broadcasting in 1946 under the call letters "KREO", then changed to "KRCQ" in 1976 and again in 1984 when it reverted to Spanish language music as "KUNA". The radio station was purchased by KESQ-TV in 1992 and changed formats to news/talk, but the station returned to KUNA-FM and the Spanish language music format in 1998, but switched formats in late 2004. Back to being under KUNA-FM but on the AM frequency, before KJOK (KINI-AM named for an earlier radio station in the California Desert ...
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KUNA-FM
KUNA-FM is a commercial regional Mexican music radio station in La Quinta, California La Quinta ( Spanish for "The Fifth") is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States. Located between Indian Wells and Indio, it is one of the nine cities of the Coachella Valley. The population was 37,467 at the 2010 c ..., broadcasting to the Palm Springs, California, area on 96.7 FM. It is simulcast full-time on KESQ AM 1400. History KBZT-FM "K-Best" signed on the air in August 1987 with a syndicated adult standards format. The call letters had been scooped up on October 2, 1986, from the Los Angeles station that dropped them to become KLSX just days before. On February 17, 1992, KBZT-FM flipped to country music, citing the high popularity of country nationwide and the lack of a local country station on FM. The country music came to an end on October 1, 1993, when the station became a simulcast with 1400 AM as KUNA-FM. The flip came about even though KBZT out ...
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Imperial Valley
, photo = Salton Sea from Space.jpg , photo_caption = The Imperial Valley below the Salton Sea. The US-Mexican border runs diagonally across the lower left of the image. , map_image = Newriverwatershed-1-.jpg , map_caption = Map of Imperial Valley , coordinates = , location = California, United States , direction = Northwest-Southeast , length = , towns = Brawley, Calexico, El Centro, Imperial , traversed = Interstate 8, State Route 78, State Route 86, State Route 111 The Imperial Valley ( es, Valle de Imperial or ''Valle Imperial'') of Southern California lies in Imperial and Riverside counties, with an urban area centered on the city of El Centro. The Valley is bordered by the Colorado River to the east and, in part, the Salton Sea to the west. Farther west lies the San Diego and Imperial County border. To the north is the Coachella Valley region of Riverside County, which together with Imperial Valley form the Salton Trough, or the Cahuilla Basin, also the ...
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Spanish-language Radio Stations In California
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent city of the ...
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Radio Stations In California
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of California, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * KCOD * KDHS-FM * KDN * KDND * KFHM * KFI-FM * KFRJ * KGB (San Francisco) * KHBG-LP * KJJ * KJQ * KLSN-LP * KLYD * KMSJ-LP * KNCR * KOAD-LP * KPRO * KQQH * KSFH * KSKD * KTHO * KUMI * KVEN * KVQ * KVVC * KWTM * KYJ * KYY * KZKC * KZM * KZPE * KZPO * KZQT * KZY References {{Navboxes , title = California radio station regional navigation boxes , list = {{Bakersfield Radio {{Bishop Radio {{Calexico Radio {{Chico Radio {{Crescent City Radio {{Eureka Radio {{Fort Bragg-Ukiah Radio {{Fresno Radio {{IE Radio {{Lancaster-Palmdale Radio {{Laughlin-Needles-Lake Havasu City Radio {{Los Angeles Radio {{Merced Radio {{Modesto Radio {{Santa Cruz Radio {{Ventura County Radio {{Palm Springs Radio {{Red Bluff Radio {{Redding Radio {{Sacram ...
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KSIQ
KYDO (96.1 FM, "Air 1") is a radio station licensed to Campo, California, and broadcasting to the San Diego radio market. The station has a main transmitter site near Lake Morena, just west of Campo. The station also uses KYDO-FM1, a 700 watt booster transmitter on Mount San Miguel, and licensed to Santee. KYDO is owned by the Educational Media Foundation, based in Rocklin, California. KYDO airs an internet-based Worship music format, and is the Air 1 network affiliate for the southern San Diego area. No local programming originates here as the station broadcasts complete wall-to-wall syndication. KYDO is considered a "move in" station, because it started in Brawley in California's Imperial Valley before moving closer to San Diego. History KSIQ in Brawley, California (1981-2009) This station's history began on February 12, 1981, when a construction permit was issued, calling for a 50 kW station at 96.1 FM, licensed to Brawley. The station was assigned the KSIQ ca ...
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KRHQ
KRHQ is a 2,600 watt Class A commercial classic rock radio station licensed to Indio, California, with studios in Palm Springs and which serves the greater Coachella Valley on 102.3 FM. The transmitter site is on a peak of the Indio Hills. The station (as KJJZ), one of the first smooth jazz stations in the country, aired in 1996. The frequency was allocated less than three years before to KLCX Palm Desert, the area's first classic rock station. Though KLCX began as one of the most ambitious broadcasting projects to come to the Coachella Valley in years, the station soon fell on hard times. Financial troubles forced the sale of KLCX, its license and equipment to RM Broadcasting, owners of KPLM Palm Springs and KAJR Indian Wells. The studio equipment was moved to KPLM's Palm Springs studios. RM Broadcasting hired smooth jazz morning show hosts Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald (1996-2015) and Jeff Michaels (1996-2015). As of November 2006, both KJJZ and KPLM stream real-time audio via ...
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Inland Empire, California
The Inland Empire (IE) is a metropolitan area and region inland of and adjacent to coastal Southern California, centering around the cities of San Bernardino and Riverside, and bordering Los Angeles County to the west. It includes the cities of western Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County, and is considered to include the desert communities of the Coachella and Victor Valleys, respectively on the other sides of the San Gorgonio Pass and San Bernardino Mountains from the Santa Ana River watershed that forms the bulk of the Inland Empire; a much broader definition includes all of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The combined land area of the counties of the Inland Empire is larger than ten U.S. states—West Virginia, Maryland, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island—and slightly smaller than the combined area of the five smallest U.S. states (New Hampshire through Rhode Island). The U.S. ...
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Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs (Cahuilla: ''Séc-he'') is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley. The city covers approximately , making it the largest city in Riverside County by land area. With multiple plots in checkerboard pattern, more than 10% of the city is part of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians reservation land and is the administrative capital of the most populated reservation in California. The population of Palm Springs was 44,575 as of the 2020 census, but because Palm Springs is a retirement location and a winter snowbird destination, the city's population triples between November and March. The city is noted for its mid-century modern architecture, design elements, arts and cultural scene, and recreational activities. History Founding Pre-colonial history The first humans to settle in the area were the Cahuilla people, who arrived 2,000 years ago.Baker, Christopher P. (2008). ''E ...
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Morongo Basin
The Morongo Basin is an endorheic basin and valley region located in eastern San Bernardino County, in Southern California. The Morongo basin is part of the Inland Empire region, and is considered to be the easternmost portion of the Greater Los Angeles Area, the 2nd largest metropolitan region in the United States. Geography The drainage basin stretches approximately from the Little San Bernardino Mountains north of Interstate 10 in the south, to the Interstate 40 area in the north. Lying within the Mojave Desert, the Morongo Basin is east of the city of San Bernardino and San Bernardino Mountains, and north of the Coachella Valley and Colorado Desert. The Morongo Basin is located within the Mojave Desert and in the High Desert region of Southern California. The area's elevation can range from in Twentynine Palms, to in Yucca Valley. The higher sections of Joshua Tree National Park are within the basin. The terrain in the area is a desert landscape of hills and alluv ...
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Mexicali
Mexicali (; ) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California. The city, seat of the Mexicali Municipality, has a population of 689,775, according to the 2010 census, while the Calexico–Mexicali metropolitan area is home to 1,000,000 inhabitants on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. Mexicali is a regional economic and cultural hub for the border region of The Californias. Mexicali was founded at the turn of the 20th century, when the region's agricultural economy experienced a period of boom. The city rapidly expanded throughout the 20th century, owing to the proliferation of maquiladoras in the city, making the Mexicali economy more interconnected with businesses from across the border. Today, Mexicali is a major manufacturing center and an emerging tourist destination. History The Spaniards arrived in the area after crossing the Sonoran Desert's " Camino del Diablo" or Devil's Road. This led to the evangelization of the area by Catholic missionar ...
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Yuma, Arizona
Yuma ( coc, Yuum) is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 93,064 at the 2010 census, up from the 2000 census population of 77,515. Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Yuma County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the 2020 estimated population of the Yuma MSA is 203,247. According to Guinness World Records, Yuma is the "Sunniest City on Earth," promising "sunshine and warm weather at least 91% of the year." Anywhere from 70,000 to over 85,000 out-of-state visitors make Yuma their winter residence. Yuma's weather also makes it an agricultural powerhouse, growing over 175 types of crops, the largest of which is lettuce. Yuma County provides 90% of all leafy vegetables grown from November to March in the United States. Yuma is also known for its large military population due to several military bases, including the Marine Corps Air Station. Yum ...
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Indio, California
Indio (Spanish language, Spanish for "Indian") is a city in Riverside County, California, Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region. It lies east of Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs, east of Riverside, California, Riverside, east of Los Angeles, 148 miles (238 km) northeast of San Diego, and 250 miles (402 km) west of Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix. The population was 89,137 in the 2020 United States Census, up from 76,036 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, an increase of 17%. Indio is the most populous city in the Coachella Valley, and was formerly referred to as the Hub of the Valley after a Chamber of Commerce slogan used in the 1970s. It was later nicknamed the City of Festivals, a reference to the numerous cultural events held in the city, most notably the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. History Indio was originally inhabited by the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla ...
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