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. KCEO broadcasts with a power of 10,000 watts directional day, and 900 watts directional at night. The transmitter is located near State Route 76, north of the

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and is east of Oceanside. Studios are located in Carlsbad, California. This station is an owned-and-operated station of

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History

This station first went on the air on March 13, 1968, as KMLO. It was a 1,000-watt, daytime-only station owned by the North County Broadcasting Company. In 1976, the FCC granted a construction permit to increase the power to 5,000 watts day directional and 1,000 watts night directional. Tri-Cities Broadcasting, owner of KKOS FM in Carlsbad, bought KMLO in 1985 and relaunched it as KKOS in January 1986. The call letters changed to KVSD "The Voice of San Diego" in April. Prior to switching its programming to religious (Catholic), KCEO broadcast a business news format. From August 2005 to August 2007, KCEO had competition with Tecate, Baja California, based business talk station, Cash 1700. On August 1, 2007, Cash 1700 became San Diego 1700 and began airing a regular

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format, while still retaining Ray Lucia and a few small, one-hour business talk shows. KCEO was one of the first stations to carry

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. KCEO was the former flagship of Ray Lucia; he can now be heard on former

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San Diego 1700. KCEO was

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's original business talk station Effective March 7, 2012, KCEO began airing Catholic programming full-time from Immaculate Heart Radio. The station switched to the

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References

External links

FCC History Cards for KCEOAM 1000 KCEO official websiteSDRadio.net
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