KPLY

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KPLY
KPLY FoxSportsReno logo.jpg
Broadcast area Reno metropolitan area
Frequency 630 kHz
BrandingFox Sports 630
Programming
Format Sports
Affiliations Fox Sports Radio
Reno Aces
San Francisco 49ers
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
September 13, 1928;96 years ago (1928-09-13) (as KOH)
Former call signs
KOH (1928–1994)
KRCV (1994–1995)
KNRC (1995–1996)
KHIT (1996–1998)
KPTT (1998–2005)
Call sign meaning
K PLaY
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 50304
Class B
Power 5,000 watts day
1,000 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 39°34′25″N119°50′48″W / 39.57361°N 119.84667°W / 39.57361; -119.84667
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website sportsreno.com

KPLY (630 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Reno, Nevada. It is owned by Lotus Communications and features a sports radio format. [2] Its studios are on Plumb Lane in South Reno.

Contents

By day, KPLY is powered at 5,000 watts non-directional. But to protect other stations on 630 AM from interference, at night it reduces power to 1,000 watts and uses a directional antenna with a two-tower array. The transmitter is off Hoge Road in Northeast Reno. [3]

Programming

KPLY mostly carries programs from Fox Sports Radio, including The Dan Patrick Show, The Herd with Colin Cowherd and The Doug Gottlieb Show .

KPLY is the radio home for the Reno Aces Pacific Coast League baseball team. It also carries San Francisco 49ers NFL broadcasts.

History

The station signed on the air on September 13, 1928;96 years ago. [4] Its original call sign was KOH, the oldest radio station in Nevada. It was the last "new station" in the United States to receive a three-letter call sign. [5] In the 1930s, KOH was powered at 500 watts and it broadcast on 1380 kilocycles. It was owned by a company called "The Bee, Incorporated." The offices and studios were at 440 North Virginia Avenue. KOH was an affiliate of the CBS Radio Network. It carried CBS dramas, comedies, news and sports during the "Golden Age of Radio."

The station continued to use the KOH call letters until March 10, 1994 (March 18, 1994, according to FCC records). In 1994, as part of a complex realignment of stations in the Reno area, the KOH intellectual unit moved to 780 AM under the call letters KKOH, while 630 AM changed its call sign to KRCV. The 780 station couldn't use KOH's three-letter call sign because it wasn't KOH's original owner. So an extra K was added at the beginning but is only said during the hourly station identification.

On March 16, 2005, the station switched to the current KPLY. [6] The call letters stand for the word "play" as in playing sports.


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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KPLY". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "KPLY Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KPLY
  4. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1935 page 42. Retrieved Aug. 28, 2024
  5. ↑ Archive of KKOH station history page
  6. ↑ "KPLY Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.


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