KCLZ (95.5 FM) is a

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broadcasting a

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music format, simulcasting

KCLB 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 L ...

93.7 FM Coachella, California. Licensed to

Twentynine Palms, California Twentynine Palms (also known as 29 Palms) is a city in San Bernardino County, California. Twentynine Palms serves as one of the entry points to Joshua Tree National Park. History Twentynine Palms was named for the palm trees found there in ...

, United States, the station is currently owned by

Alpha Media LLC Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , whic ...

, through licensee

Alpha Media Licensee LLC Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , whi ...

. On September 22, 2016, KCLZ was granted a

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to increase the

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to 6,000 watts.

History

The

issued a

for the station to Desert Willow Broadcasters on February 5, 1993. The station was assigned the

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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 July 6, 2004, to Copper Mountain Broadcasting. The price for the transaction, which included the license for sister station KKJT, was $350,000. The station changed its call sign to the current KCLZ on January 3, 2014. On October 20, 2011, KQCM and its CHR format moved from 92.1 FM Joshua Tree, CA (now KKCM, simulcasting country-formatted

KXCM KXCM 96.3 FM is a radio station licensed to Joshua Tree, California. The station broadcasts a country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United Stat ...

96.3 FM Twentynine Palms, CA) to 95.5 FM Twentynine Palms, CA (new frequency that just signed on the air). On January 1, 2014, KQCM and its CHR format moved to 105.3 FM Twentynine Palms, CA (formerly talk-formatted KRSX-FM), while the 95.5 FM frequency became a simulcast of mainstream rock-formatted

93.7 FM Coachella, CA, under new calls, KCLZ. On May 21, 2015,

Morris Communications Morris Communications, headquartered in Augusta, Georgia, is a privately held media company with diversified holdings that include magazine publishing, outdoor advertising, book publishing and distribution, visitor publications, and online serv ...

' MCC Radio, LLC closed on its acquisition of KCLZ in exchange for KFSQ. Morris Communications sold KCLZ and thirty-two other stations to

effective September 1, 2015, at a purchase price of $38.25 million.

References

External links

* CLZ Radio stations established in 1996 Alpha Media radio stations {{California-radio-station-stub