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KKUU
KKUU (92.7 FM) is a commercial radio station in Indio, California, broadcasting to the Palm Springs, California, area. KKUU airs a Rhythmic Top 40 (CHR) music format branded as "U 92.7". History KKUU has aired five different programming formats since signing on in 1984. The station first signed on airing a Country format as KECY-FM, and was a sister station to KECY-TV. Later, KECY-FM changed call letters to KCMJ-FM and flipped to a Hot AC format as "KC92.7 FM". Later, the station shifted to soft AC as "Classy 92", which would later shift to All-80s Hits under the affiliation of CBS Radio. For a brief time in the 1990s, the station was branded as "Sunny 92.7". KCMJ-FM aired a classic hits format branded as "Arrow 92.7" prior to flipping to the current rhythmic format as KKUU in May 1998. KKUU has played hits outside the rhythmic contemporary structure, such as '' Not Over You'' by Gavin DeGraw, but is a Mediabase rhythmic contemporary reporter while it also reports to the Niel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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KKUU (92.7 FM) is a commercial radio station in Indio, California, broadcasting to the Palm Springs, California, area. KKUU airs a Rhythmic Top 40 (CHR) music format branded as "U 92.7". History KKUU has aired five different programming formats since signing on in 1984. The station first signed on airing a Country format as KECY-FM, and was a sister station to KECY-TV. Later, KECY-FM changed call letters to KCMJ-FM and flipped to a Hot AC format as "KC92.7 FM". Later, the station shifted to soft AC as "Classy 92", which would later shift to All-80s Hits under the affiliation of CBS Radio. For a brief time in the 1990s, the station was branded as "Sunny 92.7". KCMJ-FM aired a classic hits format branded as "Arrow 92.7" prior to flipping to the current rhythmic format as KKUU in May 1998. KKUU has played hits outside the rhythmic contemporary structure, such as '' Not Over You'' by Gavin DeGraw, but is a Mediabase rhythmic contemporary reporter while it also reports to the Niel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCLB-FM
KCLB-FM (93.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Coachella, California, broadcasting to the Palm Springs, California, radio market. It airs a mainstream rock radio format. KCLB is owned by Alpha Media LLC, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC Debtor in Possession. Programming is simulcast on sister station 95.5 KCLZ in Twentynine Palms Base, about 30 miles to the north of Coachella. KCLB's studio and offices are on North Gene Autry Trail in Palm Springs. The transmitter is located in Indio Hills, California. Its signal reaches as far west as Beaumont and far east as Desert Center and as far south as the Imperial Valley. History Early years On September 1, 1960, the station signed on the air as KCHV-FM. It was owned by the Coachella Valley Broadcasting Company and it simulcast co-owned AM 970 KCHV (now KNWZ). The two stations mixed middle of the road music, news and talk. By the late 1960s, KCHV-FM was separately programmed with an automated country music format ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KDES-FM
KDES-FM (98.5 MHz) is a radio station in the Palm Springs area and the Coachella Valley of Southern California. KDES-FM began in 1957 on the AM dial at 920 kHz and was affiliated with ABC Radio. KDES-FM (then called KGEC) went on-air in 1963, then adopted the top 40/pop music format in 1975. It switched to an oldies format in 1988. The AM station dropped oldies in 1995, replacing them with news/talk KPSI. KDES-FM's studio headquarters are in Palm Springs. In the 2000s, KDES-FM's signal covers a radius area, from Beaumont to the Morongo Basin to the Imperial Valley. Around September–November 2005, KDES-FM shifted from conventional oldies (1950s–1960s) to more of a "Classic Hits" leaning oldies format by expanding its playlist to include more 1970s hits before ultimately excluding 1950s hits in January 2006. In January 2010, KDES-FM announced plans to move its oldies format to KWXY-FM's former frequency. At the same time, the station would incorporate 1980s hits into thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPSI-FM
KPSI-FM is a commercial radio station located in Palm Springs, California, broadcasting on 100.5 FM. KPSI-FM airs a hot adult contemporary music format branded as "Mix 100.5". It is owned by Alpha Media, through Alpha Media Licensee LLC. History KPSI-FM signed on June 13, 1980, originally broadcasting on 100.9 FM. At the time, the station aired a top 40/contemporary hit radio format branded as "KPSI-101" and later "Power 101." In November 1991, the frequency was changed to 100.5. On March 19, 2002, KPSI-FM dropped the top 40 format in favor of its current hot adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet ... music format and "Mix 100.5" branding. External links * * PSI-FM Hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States Radio stations esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KDGL
KDGL (106.9 FM, "The Eagle") is a classic Hits /classic rock station serving the Coachella Valley and Morongo Basin markets of inland Southern California. Artists featured on the station include Aerosmith, The Beatles, Boston (band), Jim Croce, The Eagles, Foreigner, Billy Joel, Elton John, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Fleetwood Mac, Styx, The Steve Miller Band, and many others. KDGL's studios are located at 1321 North Gene Autry Trail in Palm Springs, California. KDGL's main transmitter is located on the southeast corner of Yucca Valley, California, just north of Joshua Tree National Park Joshua Tree National Park is an American national park in southeastern California, east of San Bernardino and Los Angeles and north of Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs. It is named after the Joshua trees (''Yucca brevifolia'') native to t .... External linksKDGL Website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCLZ
KCLZ (95.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a mainstream rock music format, simulcasting KCLB 93.7 FM Coachella, California. Licensed to Twentynine Palms, California, United States, the station is currently owned by Alpha Media LLC, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. On September 22, 2016, KCLZ was granted a Federal Communications Commission construction permit to increase the effective radiated power to 6,000 watts. History The Federal Communications Commission issued a construction permit for the station to Desert Willow Broadcasters on February 5, 1993. The station was assigned the call sign KHWX on March 12, 1993, and changed its call sign to KKJT on July 22, 1994. The station received its license to cover on October 21, 1996. On October 6, 1997, the station's license was assigned by Desert Willow to Three D Radio, Inc. On January 26, 1999, the station changed its call sign to KDHI. Following a bankruptcy filing by Three D, the station's license was assigned on Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KNWZ
KNWZ (970 AM) is a news/talk station owned and operated by Alpha Media LLC in Coachella, California. It is part of a simulcast with KNWQ AM 1140 in Palm Springs and KNWH AM 1250 in Yucca Valley, California. The stations combine to serve the Coachella Valley and Yucca Valley area, and surrounding desert cities. In October 2009, K-News began to operate an FM radio translator on 94.3 MHz from Desert Hot Springs covering the entire Coachella Valley. In 2016, KNWZ began to be heard on 103.7 in the Twentynine Palms area. In 2018, it added a translator on 104.7 FM for the Palm Springs area, in addition to 94.3 FM from Coachella. Programs KNWZ/KNWQ/KNWH carries such programs as Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin Show, Savage Nation with Michael Savage and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory as well as the locally-produced “Bulldog” Bill Feingold show in the morning and Hot Talk with Rich and Paul in afternoon drive. History The station began broadcasting in 1954, holding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft AC
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence. Adult contemporary is generally a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music. Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure. The format is heavy on romantic sentimental ballads which mostly use acoustic instruments (though bass guitar is usually used) such as acoustic gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s In Music
: ''For music from a year in the 1980s, go to 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89'' This article includes an overview of the famous events and trends in popular music in the 1980s. The 1980s saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. As disco fell out of fashion in the decade's early years, genres such as post-disco, Italo disco, Euro disco, and dance-pop became more popular. Rock music continued to enjoy a wide audience. Soft rock, glam metal, thrash metal, shred guitar characterized by heavy distortion, pinch harmonics, and whammy bar abuse became very popular. Adult contemporary, quiet storm, and smooth jazz gained popularity. In the late 1980s, glam metal became the largest, most commercially successful brand of music worldwide. The 1980s are commonly remembered for a great increase in the use of digital recording, associated with the usage of synthesizers, with synth-pop music and other electroni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KECY-TV
KECY-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to El Centro, California, United States, serving the Yuma, Arizona–El Centro, California market as an affiliate of Fox, MyNetworkTV, ABC and The CW Plus. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate KESE-LD (channel 35); NPG also provides certain services to Yuma-licensed dual CBS/NBC affiliate KYMA-DT (channel 13) through a shared services agreement (SSA) with Imagicomm Communications. The three stations share studios on South 4th Avenue in downtown Yuma, with an advertising sales office on West Main Street in El Centro; KECY-TV's transmitter is located in the Chocolate Mountains. History On April 18, 1962, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) signed an agreement with Mexico, effective September 4, allowing the allocation of channels 7 and 9 to El Centro and giving the Imperial Valley its first opportunity for local VHF television. Before the channels were added to the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
