KIMI (107.7 FM) is a

Worship Music Contemporary worship music (CWM), also known as praise and worship music, is a defined genre of Christian music used in contemporary worship. It has developed over the past 60 years and is stylistically similar to pop music. The songs are fr ...

radio station and is licensed to

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, United States, serving the

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metropolitan area. The station is owned by the

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and broadcasts the Air1 radio network.

Construction permit

This frequency (107.7 MHz) was supposed to be the planned

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(CP) for station KGGG, but the application was cancelled and deleted in 2010, over issues with the Federal Aviation Administration over its transmitter location. KIMI's owners have long tried to move its transmitter closer to Omaha, but have been continually rebuffed by the FCC and FAA, due to the 107.7 frequency causing interference to the nearby aircraft band utilized by

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and

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, Omaha's civil commercial airport. On June 15, 2012, KIMI filed an application to modify the existing U.S.

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(FCC) CP. It had been planned to be 6,000 watts at 107.9 MHz. The station moved to 107.7 MHz, changed the city of license to

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, moved to a new transmitter site, increased ERP to 50,000 watts, and increased HAAT to 124 meters. 107.7 KIMI signed on around February 9, 2013

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with

classic rock Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, primar ...

music. In late April 2016, it was announced that 107.7 KIMI was being sold to the Educational Media Foundation and slated as a satellite of 92.7 KYRA FM in Thousand Oaks, California to service the Omaha, NE Metro area with

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from the nationally syndicated

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network. As of October 2016, the station was granted a special authority to operate with reduced power of 110 watts. It had been broadcasting a commercial-free classic rock format since October 14, 2016.http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=68306 The sale of KIMI by Kona Coast Radio to EMF, at a price of $100,000, was consummated on October 11, 2017.

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