KKDV (92.1
MHz
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) is a
commercial
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FM radio station
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licensed
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to
Walnut Creek, California
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, and serving central
Contra Costa County. It is owned by
Alpha Media
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and it
simulcast
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s the
country music
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radio format
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of
sister station 94.5
KBAY
KBAY (94.5 FM, "Bay Country 94.5") is a commercial radio station licensed to Gilroy, California, serving San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area, broadcasting a Country Music radio format. KBAY is owned by Alpha Media, along with sister sta ...
. KKDV targets listeners in the
Diablo Valley who cannot get good reception from KBAY's transmitter in the
South Bay. KBAY and KKDV carry ''
The Bobby Bones Show
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'' in morning
drive time
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,
syndicated from
Nashville.
KKDV shares studios and offices with co-owned
KKIQ
KKIQ (101.7 FM) is a commercial adult contemporary radio station located in Pleasanton, California, broadcasting to the East Bay area with a main focus on Southern Alameda County. Their slogan is "Your Hometown Station!"
KKIQ is owned by Alpha ...
101.7 FM in
Pleasanton. KKDV's primary
transmitter
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site is on Dunsyre Drive in
Lafayette
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. It utilizes a 253-watt
booster station
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in
Martinez, KKDV-3-FM also on 92.1 MHz.
History
KWME and KDFM
The station
signed on the air on . Its original
call sign
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was KWME. It was owned by Walnut Creek Broadcasters with studios on
Mount Diablo
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Boulevard.
Its call letters switched to KDFM in 1964. It played
automated
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beautiful music
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, with quarter hour sweeps of soft instrumentals with limited talk and commercials.
KINQ, KKIS-FM and KZWC
In 1983, the station changed its call letters to KINQ and switched its former
easy listening
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format to
adult contemporary
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. In 1986, the
playlist stepped up the tempo, becoming
Hot AC
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, right after it switched its call sign to KKIS-FM to match its sister station, KKIS 990 AM (now
KATD
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). During the fall of 1991, the station's Hot AC format eased back to a mainstream adult contemporary sound, and its sister station KKIS 990 AM began simulcasting KKIS-FM.
On October 31, 1994, KKIS-AM-FM dropped the AC format. Both stations flipped to
Spanish-language Talk
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* Communication, the encoding and decoding of exchanged messages between people
* Conversation, interactive communication between two or more people
* Lecture, an oral presentation intended to inform or instruct
...
, as part of The "Z Spanish Network." Its call letters changed to KZWC.
KFJO, KABL-FM and KKDV
Between 1998 and 2004, 92.1 was KFJO, simulcasting 92.3 FM KSJO San Jose, as 92 KSJO, along with 92.7 FM KXJO in San Francisco and 92.7 FM KMJO in Santa Cruz. It briefly spent time as KABL-FM. It simulcast KABL 960 (now
KNEW), which was a long-time
adult standards station in the Bay Area.
It switched its call letters to KKDV in 2005. 92.1 flipped to
country music
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on April 6, 2022, as "Bay Country" KKDV. It is a simulcast of
KBAY
KBAY (94.5 FM, "Bay Country 94.5") is a commercial radio station licensed to Gilroy, California, serving San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area, broadcasting a Country Music radio format. KBAY is owned by Alpha Media, along with sister sta ...
94.5, which is based in the
South Bay.
See also
*
KGMZ-FM
KGMZ-FM (95.7 MHz, "95.7 The Game") is a sports radio station licensed to San Francisco, California, and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc., and broadcasts from studios on Battery Street (shared with CBS ...
KKDV call letters history
References
External links
{{Alpha Media
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Radio stations established in 1959
Alpha Media radio stations
Country radio stations in the United States