KWRN (Radio Lazer 99.5 & 1550 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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and Spanish format. Licensed to

Apple Valley, California Apple Valley is an incorporated town in the Victor Valley of San Bernardino County, in the U.S. state of California. It was incorporated on November 14, 1988, and is one of the 22 incorporated municipalities in California that use "town" in thei ...

, United States, it serves the Victor Valley area. The station is currently owned by Lazer Broadcasting.

History

KWRN went on the air by 1991 as KAPL after several years of construction permit extensions. The callsign changed to KWRN in 1994, coinciding with Major Market's acquisition of the station. In November 2016,

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94.3 K232EW in Ventura was purchased from Southern California Public Radio for $40,000. On November 15, 2016, the

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granted a

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to move K232EW from Ventura to Apple Valley and change the frequency to 99.5 MHz with an accompanying change of call letters to K258DE.

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