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KZIS
KZIS (107.9 MHz) is a radio station in Sacramento, California, United States. It is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, broadcasting from the iHeartMedia studio center in North Sacramento and a tower north of the city near Elverta, also used by KXPR and KQEI-FM. The station is broadcasting a hot AC format focusing on hits of the 1990s and 2000s as "Kiss 107.9". KZIS began broadcasting on May 4, 2022, under the call sign KSTE-FM. The frequency had been vacant in Sacramento after KDND, its original user, was taken off the air by owner Entercom in February 2017, with its intellectual property moved to sister station KUDL. The license renewal of KDND had been subject to an FCC hearing over the 2007 death of a contestant in a contest held by the station. Prior use of 107.9 MHz in Sacramento The original radio station on 107.9 MHz in Sacramento was built as KXOA-FM in 1947. After originally simulcasting KXOA (1470 AM), the station tried several formats, including country music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KDND
KDND (107.9 MHz) was an FM radio station licensed to Sacramento, California, United States. The station first signed on in 1947 as KXOA-FM, an FM simulcast of AM station KXOA, before separating itself with distinct programming, including most prominently soft rock, adult contemporary, and classic hits formats. In July 1998, two years after the sale of the station to Entercom (now Audacy, Inc.), the station switched to its final KDND call letters and Top 40/CHR format branded as ''107.9 The End''. At the time of the station's closing, KDND's studios were located in North Highlands (though with a Sacramento address), while its transmitter was located just north of the Sacramento city limits near Elverta. In January 2007, KDND's morning show controversially held an on-air contest in which contestants were challenged to drink as much water as they could without urinating, in order to win a Nintendo Wii video game console. A 28-year-old participant in the contest died of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSTE
KSTE (650 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. Licensed to Rancho Cordova, California, the station serves the Sacramento metropolitan area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and features shows from Westwood One, Radio America, Compass Media Networks, and Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia. The studios and offices are in North Sacramento near the Arden Fair Mall. KSTE transmits with 21,400 watts by day, but because 650 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A WSM in Nashville, KSTE must reduce power at night to 920 watts to avoid interfering with WSM and other stations on its frequency. It uses a directional antenna at all times with a two-tower array in the daytime and a three-tower array at night. The transmitter is southeast of the city in Vineyard, California. Programming Schedule KSTE is programmed as a "second tier" talk station, secondary to its more dominant sister stations, 1530 KFBK and 93.1 KFBK-FM. While ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBEB
KBEB (92.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Sacramento, California, calling itself "92.5 The Breeze." It is owned by iHeartMedia and airs a soft adult contemporary format. KBEB carries the syndicated "Delilah" call-in and request show in the evening. The studios are in North Sacramento near Arden Fair Mall. KBEB has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts. The transmitter is off West Delano Street in Elverta. KBEB broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The HD2 digital subchannel is a simulcast of sister stations KFBK-AM- FM's news/talk format. History KFBK-FM and KAER In , the station signed on as KFBK-FM on 96.9 MHz. It was originally owned by McClatchy Newspapers, parent company of ''The Sacramento Bee''. On January 9, 1958, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted KFBK-FM's request to move the station to 92.5 MHz. For its first two decades, it largely simulcast co-owned KFBK. In the 1960s, it began playing classical music for som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KYRV
KYRV (93.7 FM) is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Roseville, California and broadcasts to the Sacramento metropolitan area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and airs a classic rock radio format. The KYRV studios are located in North Sacramento near Arden Fair Mall, and its transmitter is in Granite Bay. KYRV broadcasts in HD Radio. Its HD2 signal carries country music, also heard on translator K296GB at 107.1 FM. History Early years In June 1970, the owners of KPOP (1110 AM), founded by Don Reeves, started a 3,000-watt station on 93.5 MHz in Roseville, California. The station debuted as KPIP and simulcast KPOP's middle of the road (MOR) music during the day while airing soul music at night. In the mid-1970s, KPIP dropped the daytime MOR music and replaced it with Spanish-language programming from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. At 5 p.m., the station would flip over to R&B and disco music. As time progressed, KPIP acquired the nickname of "The Disco Express". In May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHYL
KHYL (101.1 FM) is a commercial radio station, licensed to Auburn, California, and serving the Sacramento metropolitan area. It broadcasts a classic hip hop radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are on River Park Drive, off the Capital City Freeway in North Sacramento near the Arden Fair Mall. KHYL has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 37,000 watts. The transmitter is on Catecroft Lane in Pilot Hill, California. KHYL broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format; the HD-2 subchannel plays classic hits music. History KAFI On December 21, 1961, the station first signed on with the call letters KAFI. It largely simulcasted sister station KAHI (950 AM) in Auburn. KAFI and KAHI were owned by Donnelly C. Reeves. KAFI only broadcast at 3,200 watts, with a short antenna, so it could only be heard in and around Auburn. KAFI got a signal upgrade in 1977 to target the Sacramento metropolitan area. In addition, the call letters were changed to KHYL. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFBK-FM
KFBK-FM (93.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Pollock Pines, California and serving the Sacramento metropolitan area. It simulcasts KFBK 1530 kHz. KFBK-AM-FM air a news-talk radio format and are owned by iHeartMedia. The studios and offices are on River Park Drive in North Sacramento, near the Arden Fair Mall. KFBK-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 20,500 watts. The transmitter is on Grizzly Flat Road at Mehwald Lane in Sweeneys Crossing, an unincorporated community in El Dorado County. KFBK-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. The HD2 subchannel carries the Smooth Jazz service from iHeartRadio. Programming iHeart owns three talk stations in the Sacramento metropolitan area, KFBK-AM-FM, which air mostly local shows and news blocks on weekdays, and KSTE 650 AM which carries mostly syndicated conservative talk shows. Weekdays on KFBK-AM-FM begin with "The KFBK Morning News" with Cristina Mendonsa and Sam Shane, followed by "The Rush Limbaug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KISS-FM (brand)
KISS-FM is the brand name of a Top 40 music format heard on FM radio stations in many cities in the United States and overseas. iHeartMedia claims ownership of the KISS-FM brand in the United States and operates most KISS-FM formatted stations there, though not KISS-FM in San Antonio, Texas, or KISS-FM America on TuneIn. Origin and history In the late 1970s, many US radio stations began calling themselves "Kiss". Among these was KIIS-FM in Los Angeles, which adopted that call sign in 1975 when it became a sister station to KIIS (AM) — whose call sign comes not from the word "Kiss" but rather its dial position at 1150, with the letters "I" and "S" being the letters most closely resembling 1 and 5, respectively. Gannett, which owned the station, filed a federal trademark registration for "KIIS" in 1986, which has passed on to subsequent owners of the station. In 1997, Country Club Communications registered the only current federal trademark for "KISS FM" (which has since also b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFBK (AM)
KFBK (1530 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Sacramento, California. It is simulcast on KFBK-FM 93.1 MHz. KFBK-AM-FM air a news-talk radio format and are owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are on River Park Drive in North Sacramento, near the Arden Fair Mall. KFBK 1530 is a Class A radio station. Its 50,000-watt transmitter is on Pleasant Grove Road at Catlett Road in Pleasant Grove. Because KFBK shares AM 1530 with another Class A station, WCKY Cincinnati, KFBK uses a directional antenna, which operates with separate day and night parameters and has the highest field strength of any AM station in the United States. The daytime signal covers much of the Northern California, from the northern Sacramento Valley to the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Valley. At night, it reaches much of the Western United States and Western Canada. Programming iHeart owns three talk stations in the Sacramento metropolitan area, KFBK-AM-FM, which air mostly l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacramento, California
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Entercom
Audacy, Inc. is an American broadcasting company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1968 as Entercom Communications Corporation, it is the second largest radio company in the United States, owning 235 radio stations across 48 media markets. In November 2017, the company merged with CBS Radio. The transaction was structured as an exchange offer whereby owners of CBS Corporation common shares (i.e., not the multiple-voting shares held by National Amusements) at the time of the merger could elect to exchange their shares for Entercom shares corresponding to a 72% stake in the combined company. It is not clear how many CBS shareholders retained these Audacy shares, and the present-day Paramount Global has never held any ownership in the company. History Final logo used under the Entercom brand Joseph M. Field founded the company as Entertainment Communications (which would later be shortened to Entercom) on October 21, 1968, on the conviction that FM broadcasting, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KUDL
KUDL (106.5 FM) is a radio station in Sacramento, California. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts a Top 40 (CHR) format branded as ''106.5 The End''. Its studios are located in Foothill Farms (with a Sacramento address) and its transmitter is in Folsom. History KJML Origin The 106.5 frequency in Sacramento signed on in 1957 with the call letters KJML, which adopted a number of format changes before settling with the beautiful music format, commonly identified as "instrumental elevator music." In 1967, KJML featured a brokered, block-programmed format. KJML featured the first "Underground/Progressive Rock" programming in Sacramento commercial radio. beginning in late 1967. Carey Nosler had a 9PM to Midnight shift each weekday evening from 9:00 PM until Midnight, where he played freeform Rock-based music on his "Fantasy Machine" program. Nosler continued with the program until he joined KZAP in November 1968, which became Sacramento's first full-time Progressive Rock station. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KQED-FM
KQED-FM (88.5 MHz) is a NPR-member radio station in San Francisco, California. Its parent organization is KQED Inc., which also owns its television partners, both of which are PBS member outlets: KQED (channel 9) and KQEH (channel 54). Studio operations for all three are located on Mariposa Drive in the Mission District of San Francisco, while its transmitter is located atop San Bruno Mountain. History KXKX The San Francisco Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian group, began broadcasting with station KXKX in April 1963. The new 110,000-watt station signed on two years after the seminary received a construction permit in August 1961. In addition to Christian programming, the station's subcarrier broadcast theology courses to receivers at 44 Bay Area churches. When agencies of the Presbyterian Church (USA) could no longer support the station, KXKX signed off at midnight on the evening of June 29, 1967. KQED-FM In July 1968, the San Francisco Theological Seminary filed to sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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