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KSPD (790 AM) is a
radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...
broadcasting a Christian talk and teaching format, licensed to
Boise, Idaho Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown ar ...
, United States. The station is owned by Inspirational Family Radio.


History

The station began broadcasting April 27, 1961, and originally held the call sign KEST. In 1970, the station's call sign was changed to KSPD, and the station adopted a
progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. In ...
format. By 1975, the station had adopted an all news format, which it continued to air into the 1980s.
Broadcasting Yearbook 1975
',
Broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting beg ...
, 1975. p. C-52. Retrieved October 14, 2018.

Broadcasting/Cablecasting Yearbook 1988
', Broadcasting/Cablecasting, 1988. p. B-80. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
By 1989, the station had adopted a religious format.Unmacht, Robert (1989).
The M Street Radio Directory
'. RadioPhiles, Inc. p. S-90. Retrieved October 14, 2018.


References


External links


KSPD's official website
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FCC History Cards for KSPD
{{Religious Radio Stations in Idaho
SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been t ...
SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been t ...
Radio stations established in 1961 1961 establishments in Idaho