KAHM

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KAHM
KAHM FM102.1 logo.png
Broadcast area Prescott–Flagstaff–Phoenix
Frequency 102.1 MHz
BrandingFM 102.1
Programming
Format Beautiful Music - Easy Listening
Ownership
Owner
  • Farmworker Educational Radio Network (Cesar Chavez Foundation)
  • (Phoenix Radio Broadcasting, LLC)
KYCA
History
First air date
September 9, 1981;42 years ago (1981-09-09)
Former frequencies
103.9 MHz (1980s)
Call sign meaning
The call letters KAHM, when spoken as a word, sounds like calm, a word that describes KAHM's format and music.
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 61510
Class C
ERP 26,000 watts
HAAT 829 meters (2,720 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 34°41′14″N112°07′1″W / 34.68722°N 112.11694°W / 34.68722; -112.11694
Translator(s) 93.5 K228DF (Prescott)
101.7 K269EE (Prescott)
Links
Public license information
Website kahm.info

KAHM (102.1 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting a beautiful music and easy listening radio format. It is licensed to Spring Valley, Arizona, and it serves the Prescott / Flagstaff / Phoenix area. The station airs quarter hour sweeps of soft music, half instrumental and half vocal. Announcers give brief weather and news updates but never talk over the music. The studios are on Henry Street in Prescott.

Contents

KAHM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 26,000 watts, broadcasting from a tower at 829 meters (2,720 ft) in height above average terrain (HAAT). The transmitter is on Tower Mountain Road in Crown King. [2]

History

KAHM signed on the air on September 9, 1981;42 years ago. It provides the Prescott, Flagstaff and Phoenix areas with a format of Beautiful Music, which remains virtually unchanged. The station originally aired quarter hour sweeps of easy listening music, mostly instrumental cover versions of popular adult songs, with some Broadway and Hollywood show tunes. In the 2000s, it moved to a 50% vocal playlist.

First broadcasting under 1,000 watts, KAHM's signal expanded in the early 1990s to 58,000 watts, serving the people of northern and central Arizona, along with the metropolitan Phoenix market. With the improved signal, KAHM could be heard in southern Arizona as far south as Peoria, Scottsdale and Anthem. In 2005, the station began broadcasting 24 hours a day, using broadcast automation overnight.

From the early 2000s until September 14, 2015, KAHM also had an Internet stream on its website. [3] The stream was ended due to high demand on the server and due to licensing fees. [4] [5] As of 2023, the internet stream has returned.

Effective January 12, 2018, Southwest Broadcasting sold KAHM (as well as translator K269EE and sister talk KYCA and its translator K278CN) to Phoenix Radio Broadcasting, a holding company for the Cesar Chavez Foundation's Farmworker Educational Radio Network. [6] Under the new ownership, the station has continued its easy listening format.

In 2023, KAHM moved to a new tower location in Crown King. It also changed its city of license to Spring Valley. It previously broadcast from Cottonwood, and was licensed to Prescott. With the taller tower, the power was dropped from 54,000 watts to 26,000 watts. But it still has a similar coverage pattern over much of Arizona due to its height above average terrain. [7]

Translators

Broadcast translators for KAHM
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
K228DF93.5 FM Prescott, Arizona 20633250D LMS
K269EE101.7 FM Prescott, Arizona 6151184D LMS

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KAHM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KAHM
  3. ↑ "An Important Message to our streaming listeners". Archived from the original on 2015-09-11.
  4. ↑ "KAHM 102.1 FM". Archived from the original on 2015-09-12.
  5. ↑ "Channel Update FAQs". Sirius XM . Retrieved 2015-09-11.
  6. ↑ "Station Sales Week Of 9/30: KAHM Goes To La Campesina - RadioInsight". RadioInsight. 2017-09-29. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  7. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KAHM
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