KLXY (90.5 FM) is an American

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licensed to serve the

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of Woodlake in

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. The station is owned and operated by the

Educational Media Foundation Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry based in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. EMF is the parent company of K-LOVE and Air1—the world's largest ...

, and is an affiliate of the

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network K-Love. As KUFW, KLXY previously broadcast a

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music and educational programming

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branded as "La Campesina 90.5 FM" to the farmworkers of the

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as part of the Radio Campesina Network. (" Campesina" is a

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word meaning "peasant" or "farmworker".) Anthony Chavez, president of Farmworker Educational Radio Network, Inc., is the youngest son of American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist

César Chávez Cesar Chavez (born Cesario Estrada Chavez ; ; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged ...

History

In July 1980, the

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union, working through a subsidiary named Farmworkers Communications, Inc., applied to the

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(FCC) for a

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for a new broadcast radio station. The FCC granted this permit on August 31, 1981, with a scheduled expiration date of August 31, 1982. The new station was assigned

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KUFW on November 30, 1981. After multiple extensions, construction and testing were completed in May 1983 and KUFW began broadcasting under

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. KUFW became the first radio station in the United States "dedicated to the needs of farmworkers". The station was granted its

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on June 28, 1984. The station was taken temporarily off the air in mid-April 1990 by a fire that gutted the interior of the broadcast facility and destroyed the station's control room. While repairs were being made, broadcasting resumed from one of the station's remote broadcast vans parked at the site of the fire-ravaged facility. In August 1995, Farmworkers Communications, Inc., filed an application with the FCC to transfer the KUFW broadcast license to National Farm Workers Service Center, Inc. The FCC approved the move on December 13, 1995, and the transaction was formally consummated on December 14, 1995. On September 2, 2011, lawyers representing radio stations KUFW and KNAI (

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) notified the FCC that license holder National Farm Workers Service Center, Inc., had legally changed its name to the "César Chávez Foundation" on June 30, 2010. Effective August 20, 2019, the Cesar Chavez Foundation traded KUFW to Educational Media Foundation, in exchange for 106.3 KVPW, to consummate a deal that had been announced three years earlier. KUFW became an affiliate of K-Love,La Campesina Returns To Fresno Following Long Pending Sale Closing
, ''RadioInsight''. August 21, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2019. and changed its call sign to KLXY.

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* {{Authority control LXY (FM) Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States K-Love radio stations Educational Media Foundation radio stations Radio stations established in 1984 1984 establishments in California Tulare County, California LXY (FM)