KPRZ (1210

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and serving the

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. It is owned by the

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and broadcasts a Christian talk and teaching

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. National religious leaders heard on KPRZ include

David Jeremiah David Jeremiah is an American evangelical Christian author, founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, California, a suburb of San D ...

, Jim Daly,

Chuck Swindoll Charles Rozell Swindoll (born October 18, 1934) is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher. He founded ''Insight for Living'', headquartered in Frisco, Texas, which airs a radio program of the same name on more t ...

and

Charles Stanley Charles Frazier Stanley (born 1932) is Pastor Emeritus of First Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, after serving as senior pastor for 49 years. He is the founder and president of In Touch Ministries, which widely broadcasts his sermons through te ...

. Secular

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hosts include

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, Charlie Kirk and

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. The

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s and offices are on Towne Centre Drive in San Diego. By day, KPRZ is powered at 20,000

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s. But 1210 AM is a clear channel frequency, so to reduce interference at night to other stations, KPRZ cuts its power to 10,000 watts. KPRZ has a directional signal using a three-

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. The

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site is on Canyon de Oro Drive near the

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. Programming is also heard on a 250 watt

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, K291CR at 106.1

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, in

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History

This station received a

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on May 8, 1984. On September 12, the station was assigned the

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KNEF, only to change to the current KPRZ call letters on December 18. KPRZ signed on in the summer of 1986 with a Christian radio format. In late 2005, the station was put up for sale. On December 16 that year, it was announced that the

(through licensee New Inspiration), would acquire the station. It was approved on December 22, and the sale was consummated on February 23, 2006. In August 2018, KPRZ received a translator, using the call sign K291CR. K291CR rebroadcasts KPRZ's programming to the North County area on 106.1 FM at 250 watts, the maximum power rating allowed for a translator.

References

External links

1210 KPRZ official website
PRZ News and talk radio stations in the United States PRZ Radio stations established in 1984 San Marcos, California Salem Media Group properties {{Christian-radio-station-stub