Talk:KNWZ

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Local radio history[edit]

The article mentioned KNWZ (then KCHV) 970 AM is the oldest radio station in the Coachella Valley (since 1946), then in 1967, there were 7 and then 1978, 11/12 radio stations in the Coachella Valley. In 1967, there was KCHV, KCMJ, KDES, KGUY, KPAL/KPLM, KPSI, KREO and KWXY, they tend to change dials often (they are 920, 970, 1010, 1140, 1270, 1340 and 1400). By 1978, 4 additional stations went on-air: KECY/KVIM, KLUB, KROP/KCPS and KWST/KBST, variably on dials 1030/1040 (Imperial valley transmitter), 1200 (1690-gone), 1300/1360 (same thing), 1430/1450 and 1610 (now 1690). Interestingly, the oldest overall station in the CA Desert (Imperial Valley) is KXO 1230 also serving Yuma, AZ and Mexicali, Mexico since 1927. And 5/6 of them had FM dials in the 1970s: KCMJ (92.7-also 103.1 at the time), KCHV (KCLB 93.7), KWXY (98.5-now 107.3), KPSI 101.1 (now 100.5), KDES 104.7 (defunct) and KPLM 106.1. 67.49.89.214 (talk) 02:39, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

KNWH was KDHI founded in 1961. It's one of two radio stations not in the Coachella Valley broadcast its signal in the geographical area. KDHI of Joshua Tree, California represents Twentynine Palms and Yucca Valley, and KPSF of Desert Center, California can reach Blythe, California and Parker, Arizona. In the 1980s, KECY-TV co-owned KECY-FM (later KCMJ, now KKUU) 92.7 in Indio, California and KECY (was KJMB) 1200 in Blythe, California which is no longer on the air. It's interesting KYMA and KSWT (first KBLU and later KYEL) were both TV and radio stations (KYMA 1400-now KJOK and KBLU still on the air) as its signals can reach Indio through the Salton Sea from the Imperial valley. 67.49.85.100 (talk) 07:00, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]