KLVS (107.3 FM) is a

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broadcasting a Christian Contemporary format from K-Love, licensed to

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, United States. The station is owned by San Joaquin Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the

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History

107.3 FM signed on the air in 1962 as KSTN-FM, carrying a full-time

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format. The following year, it added some

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Music and by 1965, they dropped

entirely and expanded the Spanish programming with some simulcast of the

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music of its AM sister station at 1420. KSTN-FM transmitted

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audio from its inception in 1962 until 1996 when it switched to

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. On February 22, 2010, KSTN-FM dropped its Regional Mexican format in favor of an English-language

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format, via satellite from K-LOVE.The Record (Stockton): "KSTN signing off", February 19, 2010.
/ref> The station changed its calls to KLVS in March 2010.

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