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The AM Dial in Tuscon - 690, 1110, 1210 and 1330

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Gregg.

There are four AM stations in Tuscon that don't seem to have websites, or if they do, you can't Google them.

690 KCEE - A longtime Adult Standards station that was bought by a religious broadcaster last fall. If you go to 690kcee.com, you see the old website with the statement "Dear Friends of Pop Classics 690 KCEE, if you’re looking for your favorite hits of the 50’s 60’s 70’s – please note – the station has changed ownership and has changed formats." But there's no link to a new website and no other website shows up when you Google "KCEE Radio."

Radio-Locator.com says KCEE has two translators, K237FX 95.3 Casas Adobes, and K275CN 102.9 Oro Valley, both communities just north of Tuscon. But now I see Calvary Chapel of Tucson owns a translator called "Reach Radio Tuscon" on 106.7, fed by the HD4 signal of KLPX. Is that simulcast on 690? There's no mention of an AM station on the website or the other two translators.

1110 KRKR Tucson Estates - This had been on the air with 2,500 watts fulltime. I guess it went dark about five years ago. Is it gone forever, the towers torn down?

1210 KEVT Sahuprita - I guess this is now a fulltime simulcast of 97.1 KYWD Green Valley, airing Classic Country. But you'd have to do a lot of digging to figure this out. The KYWD website doesn't mention the AM station. And Googling KEVT doesn't bring you to KYWD's website. KEVT used to have its own talk format. The daytime signal is 10,000 watts non-directional, so that's pretty good. But at night, it goes down to 1,000 watts directional.

1330 KWFM South Tuscon - The "FM" call letters tell us it used to be an FM Oldies station. The owners wanted to put a younger format on the FM, so the Oldies format and KWFM call sign moved to AM 1330. Then it was Progressive Talk for a while, running CBS News on the hour. But what is it now? Googling "KWFM Radio" brings you to this on-line rock station, http://www.kwfm.net/. But I don't think it has anything to do with the real radio station. KWFM has an odd signal. 2,000 watts non-directional by day, but 5,000 watts directional at night.


Yes, I know AM radio is in a bad state these days. But geez, if you are TRYING to do something on the AM dial, don't you think you'd have a website people can find? Especially a religion station like KCEE where you want people to know how to send money to the preachers you run?

And if you are simulcasting an FM station on your AM station, wouldn't you put that SOMEWHERE on the FM station's website? You're paying the property tax bill and the electric bill for the AM transmitter. Even if you don't think it's bringing in much revenue, at least mention the AM station somewhere on the FM's website.
 
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I've lived in the Tucson area for 14 years and never heard KRKR or anything else on 1110.

KEVT is now Mexican music and never did simulcast KYWD which is country but not classic. However, just prior to the current Mexican music format, KEVT did simulcast KAVV (Cave FM) from Benson AZ which is mostly classic country.

I don't recall KWFM being anything but music. However, KEVT was progressive talk (with CBS news) for a short time prior to going silent and subsequently simulcasting KAVV. Two talk formats were attempted on KEVT over the past several years. Jim Parisi's Powertalk 1210 ran for about two years, followed by John C Scott's progressive talk format which lasted just months.
 
"Tuscon" is a sure way to spot the out-of-state drop-in poster here! Not me, though, but that's probably only because I have a longtime friend in Tucson and am something of a geography nerd.
 
Looks like KRKR was a construction permit granted in 1987. The CP expired in 1991 and was re-granted (you could do that then!), but was then deleted in December 1991. I can't find any evidence it was ever actually built.
 
Wow....where to begin?

690 KCEE - Interesting history on this station...but the current religious format with the current owner? Hey, doubt many listeners at all hear the station - day or night - on the AM band.

1110 KRKR - Nope, never happened - and I've lived in this community over 40 years.

1210 KEVT - A couple of earlier threads here in the Tucson forum about this station...one of the last, if not the last AM to go on the air in southern Arizona.

1330 KWFM. Old-timers recognize this as KHYT 1330 - and before *that*? Several other threads here with the commentary and demise of this station. The signal strength? Licensed to the City of South Tucson, the 5000 watts aimed right at the one square mile community (from the tower location across town...) ensured it was adequately covered - and protected Mexican station(s) hundreds of miles away.

Thus, no real need to promote *any* station on AM if there's no audience - and vice versa.

I'm sure my response is incomplete, but it's better than no response.
 
When I lived in Tucson in the late 90's-early 2000s, 1330 was KJLL. Mostly talk programming with some music sprinkled here and there.

It was one of my favorite AM listens...oddball syndicated shows (Tom Leykis, Phil Hendrie, Bill Handel of KFI handing out "marginal legal advice") and at one time a local afternoon show featuring Don Imus's brother Fred.

The night signal was not that great out in my neighborhood in the Casas Adobes area. And I understand there was plenty of behind-the-scenes intrigue and commotion at the station at that time.
 
Gregg. said:
And if you are simulcasting an FM station on your AM station, wouldn't you put that SOMEWHERE on the FM station's website? You're paying the property tax bill and the electric bill for the AM transmitter. Even if you don't think it's bringing in much revenue, at least mention the AM station somewhere on the FM's website.
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The AM is obviously just there to allow them to have FM translators. Better not to mention it.
 
1330 the Jolt

awsherrill said:
When I lived in Tucson in the late 90's-early 2000s, 1330 was KJLL. Mostly talk programming with some music sprinkled here and there.

It was one of my favorite AM listens...oddball syndicated shows (Tom Leykis, Phil Hendrie, Bill Handel of KFI handing out "marginal legal advice") and at one time a local afternoon show featuring Don Imus's brother Fred.

The night signal was not that great out in my neighborhood in the Casas Adobes area. And I understand there was plenty of behind-the-scenes intrigue and commotion at the station at that time.
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One of my favorite AM listens too back in the 2000's. A couple other notable air staffers were Nicole Cox and Doc Phillips. Believe they also had John C. Scott at the time. Too bad they had a relatively poor signal and goofy owner.
 
RadioBill said:
Too bad they had a relatively poor signal and goofy owner.
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...and yet, here we are without that signal on the air....because the owner doesn't seem to want to.
 
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