KYCA
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| Frequency | 1490kHz |
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| Branding | KYCA News Talk Radio |
| Programming | |
| Format | Talk radio |
| Affiliations | CBS News Radio Fox News Radio Compass Media Networks Premiere Networks Westwood One |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KAHM | |
| History | |
First air date | October 1, 1940 |
Former frequencies | 1500 kHz (1940–41) |
Call signmeaning | YavapaiCountyArizona. |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 61433 |
| Class | C |
| Power | 1,000wattsunlimited |
Transmitter coordinates | 34°33′03″N112°27′45″W/ 34.55083°N 112.46250°W |
| Translator(s) | 103.5 K278CN (Prescott) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
KYCA(1490AM"The News 1490" ) is aradio stationbroadcasting atalk radioformatinPrescott, Arizona.It is owned by Jason Zinzileta and Janice Derks, through licensee Prescott Broadcasting, LLC.
KYCA is powered at 1,000wattsusing anon-directional antenna.It is also heard onFM translatorK278CNat 103.5MHz.
Programming
[edit]Weekdays carries local news and information program from 6 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. The rest of the schedule is made up ofnationally syndicatedshows includingSean Hannity,Dan Bongino,Chris Plante,Charlie Kirk,John Batchelor,"This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal"and"America in the Morning."Weekend syndicated shows includeLars Larson,"Jill on Money,"Kim Komando,"The Pet Show with Warren Eckstein,"Jim Bohannonand repeats of weekday shows. World and national news comes fromFox News Radio.
Local shows include: "KYCA AM," "KYCA Talks", "KYCA PM", "Tri-City Sports Round-Up," & "Healthline".
History
[edit]On October 1, 1940,the stationsigned onthe air. KYCA has been serving Prescott, providing news and other programming to the rapidly growing area. An early slogan of KYCA was, "At 1490 since 1940". The station was originally part of the Arizona Radio Network and was owned byKTARradio inPhoenixbeginning in 1944.
The station was acquired by the Silverstein family in 1970.[2]It was sold in 2017, after the death of Lou Silverstein, to Phoenix Radio Broadcasting.[3]
KYCA became anetwork affiliateof theFox News RadioNetwork andWestwood One,also carrying local news, sports, and other information. The station first began its transition to full-time news-talk radio with the premiere ofThe Rush Limbaugh Showin 1988 and The Dr.Dean EdellShow a few years later. The station has carried syndicated programs from Limbaugh,Laura Ingraham,Michael Savage,andLars Larson.
KYCA has anFM translatorat 103.5MHz,which formerly broadcast on 97.1 MHz in Winslow.
Effective January 12, 2018, Southwest Broadcasting sold KYCA (as well as translator K278CN andsister station102.1KAHMand its translator K269EE) to Phoenix Radio Broadcasting, a holding company for theCesar ChavezFoundation's Farmworker Educational Radio Network.[4]
Effective May 19, 2021, Phoenix Radio Broadcasting sold KYCA and translator K278CN to Jason Zinzileta and Janice Derks' Prescott Broadcasting, LLC for $1.03 million.
References
[edit]- ^"Facility Technical Data for KYCA".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^"KYCA Facility Record".United StatesFederal Communications Commission,audio division.
- ^"KYCA, KAHM radio stations sold, no change for listeners".The Daily Courier.Prescott, Arizona. October 1, 2017.Retrieved1 October2017.
- ^"Station Sales Week Of 9/30: KAHM Goes To La Campesina - RadioInsight".RadioInsight.2017-09-29.Retrieved2017-09-30.
External links
[edit]- Facility details for Facility ID 61433 (KYCA)in theFCCLicensing and Management System
- KYCAinNielsen Audio's AM station database
- Facility details for Facility ID 150097 (K278CN)in theFCCLicensing and Management System