The station (as KJJZ), one of the first smooth jazz stations in the country, aired in 1996. The frequency was allocated less than three years before to KLCX Palm Desert, the area's first classic rock station. Though KLCX began as one of the most ambitious broadcasting projects to come to the Coachella Valley in years, the station soon fell on hard times. Financial troubles forced the sale of KLCX, its license and equipment to RM Broadcasting, owners of KPLM Palm Springs and KAJRIndian Wells. The studio equipment was moved to KPLM's Palm Springs studios.
RM Broadcasting hired smooth jazz morning show hosts Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald (1996-2015) and Jeff Michaels (1996-2015).
As of November 2006, both KJJZ and KPLM stream real-time audio via the internet.
On February 27, 2015, KJJZ flipped its format from smooth jazz to classic rock, branded as "Q102.3". On March 3, 2015, KJJZ changed their call letters to KRHQ.
Indio is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region. It lies 23 miles (37 km) east of Palm Springs, 75 miles (121 km) east of Riverside, 127 miles (204 km) east of Los Angeles, 148 miles (238 km) northeast of San Diego, and 250 miles (402 km) west of Phoenix.
KPCC – branded 89.3 KPCC – is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Pasadena, California, primarily serving Greater Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. KPCC also reaches much of Santa Barbara, Ventura County, Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, and extends throughout Southern California with five low-power broadcast relay stations and three full-power repeaters. Owned by Pasadena City College and operated by the American Public Media Group via Southern California Public Radio, KPCC broadcasts a mix of public radio and news, and is an owned-and-operated station for American Public Media; in addition to serving as an affiliate for NPR and Public Radio International; and is the radio home for Sandra Tsing Loh and Larry Mantle. Besides a standard analog transmission, KPCC broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online. The KPCC studios are located in Pasadena, while the station transmitter is on Mount Wilson.
The Coachella Valley is an arid rift valley in the Colorado Desert of Southern California's Riverside County. The valley extends approximately 45 mi (72 km) southeast from the San Gorgonio Pass to the northern shore of the Salton Sea and the neighboring Imperial Valley, and is approximately 15 mi (24 km) wide along most of its length. It is bounded on the northeast by the San Bernardino and Little San Bernardino Mountains, and on the southwest by the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mountains.
KXSN is a commercial FM radio station in San Diego, California, branded as Sunny 98.1. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station airs a classic hits radio format. The studios and offices are located in San Diego's Stonecrest area, off Granite Ridge Drive, across the street from rival station KMYI. The transmitter is off La Jolla Scenic Drive South in La Jolla, amid towers for several other San Diego FM and TV stations.
KPLM (106.1 MHz) is one of four Class B FM radio stations serving the Palm Springs, California, area and one of only two 50 kW stations. The others are country formatted 42 kW KDES Palm Springs at 98.5 MHz; contemporary album-oriented rock-formatted 26.5 kW KCLB Coachella at 93.7 MHz and beautiful music 50 kW KWXY-FM Cathedral City at 92.3 MHz.
KWXY is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Cathedral City, California, and serving the Palm Springs radio market in the Coachella Valley. The station was founded in 1964 and is owned by Louie Comella, through licensee IVox Radio LLC. Studios, offices and the transmitter are on Dinah Shore Drive.
KQPS is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Palm Desert, California, United States and serves the Palm Springs—Coachella Valley radio market. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. KQPS's transmitter is off Varner Road in Cathedral City, amid other Palm Springs-area FM and TV towers.
WZZR, known on-air as "Real Radio 92.1", is a hot talk radio station licensed to serve West Palm Beach, Florida, where its studios and transmitter tower are separately located. It is owned by iHeartMedia, and broadcasts on 92.1 FM. The station is simulcast in Vero Beach on WCZR.
KLXB is a non-commercial radio station that is licensed to Bermuda Dunes, California and broadcasts to the Palm Springs radio market in the Coachella Valley. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation and airs that company's contemporary Christian radio format known as "K-Love". KLXB is also heard on a translator station, K247CL (97.3 MHz) in Indio, California.
KKUU is a commercial radio station in Indio, California, broadcasting to the Palm Springs, California, area on 92.7 FM. KKUU airs a Rhythmic Top 40 (CHR) music format branded as "U 92.7".
KDES-FM 98.5 is a radio station in the Palm Springs area and the Coachella Valley of Southern California.
KMRJ is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Rancho Mirage, California, and serving the Palm Springs radio market. The signal covers the Coachella Valley and parts of the Morongo Basin and Palo Verde Valley. It is owned by Marker Broadcasting. KMRJ uses the slogan "The Coachella Valley's Old School."
KRCK-FM is a Christian radio radio station licensed to serve Mecca, California, broadcasting to the Coachella Valley area on 97.7 FM. The station's studios are in Palm Desert, while the transmitter is in a mountain range north of Bermuda Dunes. The station is currently run under a local marketing agreement by VCY America, with W. Lawrence Patrick, the debtor in possession of the station, as its licensee. The station currently holds a commercial license.
KCLB-FM is a commercial radio station in Coachella, California, broadcasting to the Palm Springs, California, radio market. It airs a mainstream rock radio format. KCLB is owned by Alpha Media LLC, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Programming is simulcast on sister station 95.5 KCLZ in Twentynine Palms Base, about 30 miles to the north of Coachella.
KESQ is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish music format licensed to Indio, California, United States. The station is currently simulcast of KUNA-FM 96.7 since 2011. KESQ was owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company and formerly rented by a Spanish religious radio network by La Iglesia Alfa Y Omega -, and briefly played Spanish-language Religious music.
KGAY is an AM radio station broadcasting to LGBT community with a talk and EDM radio format. Licensed to Thousand Palms, California, United States, it serves the Coachella Valley area. The station is owned by Sunnylands Broadcasting, L.L.C. and is operated by Qchella Media Corporation. Programming is simulcast on FM translator station 106.5 K293CL, also in Thousand Palms.
KJJZ is a radio station licensed to Indian Wells, California and broadcasting to the greater Coachella Valley and the Morongo Basin of California. Owned by Marker Broadcasting, it broadcasts a top 40 (CHR) format.
KDCZ is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. KDCZ is licensed to St. Charles, Minnesota, and serves the Rochester, Minnesota metropolitan area. The station is owned by Townsquare Media.
KPSC is a radio station licensed to serve Palm Springs, California. The station is owned by the University of Southern California, and is a repeater of KUSC and their classical music format.
RM Broadcasting is a United States radio company based in Jupiter, Florida owned and operated by Arnold Ferolito. The company engages in time brokerage agreements, and is primarily known for platforming Russian government programming Radio Sputnik and a legal battle over initially refusing to register as a foreign agent. The company has received much press over selling time to Rossiya Segodnya and playing a part in disseminating pro-Russian propaganda in the United States. Ferolito is an amateur radio broadcaster with the call sign K2PEV.
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