KIVA (AM)
| City of license | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Albuquerque metropolitan area |
| Branding | KIVA 1550 |
| Slogan | "More Positive Talk Radio" |
| Frequency | 1550 kHz |
| Format | Talk |
| Power | 10,000 watts (day) 20 watts (night) |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 4705 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°06′02″N 106°40′34″W / 35.10056°N 106.67611°WCoordinates: 35°06′02″N 106°40′34″W / 35.10056°N 106.67611°W |
| Former callsigns | KAMX (?-1994) KDZZ (1994-1996) KHTZ (1996-1999) KSYU (1999-1999) KQEO (1999-2000) KYJY (2000-2000) KKJY (2000-2008) KQNM (2008-2009) |
| Affiliations | CBS News Radio |
| Owner | Vanguard Media LLC |
| Sister stations | KRKE |
| Webcast | Listen Live URL (No Player) |
| Website | [1] |
KIVA (1550 AM) is an American radio station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is locally owned by Vanguard Media LLC and broadcasts a talk radio format[1] featuring national talk show hosts, Doug Stephan, Dr. Joy Browne, Clark Howard, Michael Smerconish, and Dennis Miller. A variety of live, local programming is broadcast on weekends.
[edit] History
For many years, the station broadcast on the 1520 AM frequency. It mostly carried programming that was broadcast on the 107.9 FM frequency. However, the station could only be heard during daytime hours due to night time interference from KOMA (now KOKC) out of Oklahoma City. In 1995, it broke off from 107.9 simulcasting and began to run children's programming from Radio AAHS as KDZZ, but it would return to simulcasting after less than two years.
In 2000, it was sold to Vanguard and moved to the 1550 frequency, which allowed for KIVA to increase its daytime power and initiate nighttime operation. It began broadcasting an adult standards format to fill a void left after KIVA 1310 AM had dropped the format for talk. It picked up the KKJY call sign that had once belonged locally to 100.3 FM, which had a long running easy listening format until 1994. It was branded as "Joy AM".
In 2006 the station's format shifted to soft AC. On July 25, 2008, it again changed its call sign to KQNM and called itself "Soft Favorites 1550". On May 18, 2009, it changed to KIVA[2] while moving the KQNM call sign to 1100 kHz in Milan, New Mexico. The KIVA format was changed to talk radio June 15, 2009.
[edit] References
- ^ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. http://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/station_information.htm. Retrieved June 21, 2009.
- ^ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database. http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=4705&Callsign=KIVA. Retrieved August 4, 2009.
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KIVA
- Radio-Locator Information on KIVA
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for KIVA
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