KPCN-LP (95.9 FM, "Radio Movimiento") was a

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to serve

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, United States. The station, launched in 2006, was last owned by Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste ("Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United"). KPCN-LP station aired a

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radio format. The station targets its programming at the special interests of

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s. The station shared its program hours with KPVN-LP, a similar station owned by the Centro de Servicios para Campesinos ("Farmworkers' Service Center"). That station surrendered its license in a letter dated December 20, 2019, a month after KPCN-LP ceased operations.

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on May 17,

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. The new station was assigned the KPCN-LP

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by the FCC on June 13, 2005. KPCN-LP received its license to cover from the FCC on November 28, 2006. On April 1, 2008, the station applied to the FCC for authorization to move from their licensed broadcast frequency of 96.3

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to 95.9 MHz. On the same day, they applied for

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to broadcast on the lower frequency. While , the Commission has only accepted the authorization request for filing, they granted KPCN-LP the special temporary authority they sought on August 25, 2008, with a scheduled expiration date of February 25, 2009. On that expiration date, the station filed for an extension of their special temporary authority but , the Commission has only accepted this extension request for filing. It made its final broadcast on November 20, 2019, and its license was canceled on August 21, 2020, having been supplanted by the higher-power KTUP (98.3 FM).

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External links

KPCN-LP official website
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