KROP

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KROP
Simulcasts KGBA-FM Holtville
Broadcast area Imperial Valley
Frequency 1300 kHz
Programming
Format Christian radio
Affiliations SRN News
Ownership
OwnerThe Voice of International Christian Evangelism, Inc.
KGBA, KGBA-FM
History
First air date
November 1946;78 years ago (1946-11)
Former call signs
KROP (1946–1998)
KKSC (1998–2001)
Call sign meaning
Crop (The Imperial Valley is an agricultural region.)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 63470
Class B
Power 1,000 watts day
500 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 33°0′40″N115°31′16″W / 33.01111°N 115.52111°W / 33.01111; -115.52111
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website kgba.org

KROP (1300 AM) is a commercial radio station in Brawley, California, and serving the Imperial Valley. It broadcasts a Christian radio format simulcast with sister station KGBA-FM 100.1. It airs a mix of Christian Contemporary music along with Christian Talk and Teaching shows. It and is owned by The Voice of International Christian Evangelism, Inc. The studios and offices are on West State Street in El Centro.

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By day, the station is powered at 1,000 watts. But to protect other stations on 1300 AM from interference, at night it reduces power to 500 watts. It uses a non-directional antenna. [2]

History

The station first signed on the air in November 1946;78 years ago. [3] It got the call sign KROP because the Imperial Valley is an agricultural region. The station was a CBS Radio Network affiliate, although in the 1960s, it switched to the Mutual Broadcasting System. [4]

KROP had several music formats from the 1950s to the early 1980s, when it switched to a Talk radio format. In 1995, it flipped to country music. This lasted until 1998, when the station became KKSC, "ESPN 1300", a sports radio station affiliated with ESPN Radio. Though the station's audience grew with the sports format, KKSC had trouble selling the format to advertisers, rendering the station dependent on the profits of sister station 96.1 KSIQ.

Commonwealth Communications purchased the station from Stodelle Broadcasting in 1999. Two years later, the station changed back to KROP and began playing a classic country format provided by Westwood One's "Real Country" service. Cherry Creek Radio bought the station in 2003. In 2010, LarDog Communications, LLC. purchased KROP, installed new state of the art broadcasting equipment and changed the format back to talk radio.

After KSIQ was moved into the San Diego radio market, Cherry Creek Radio shut down KROP in April 2010, as the lack of an FM sister station made it difficult for the station to compete in the Imperial Valley radio market. The station was sold, and returned on the air when the sale was completed in August 2010. Brawley High School Wildcat Football was broadcast via the World Wide Web. [5]

On August 1, 2014, KROP returned to classic country, citing low advertising revenues for the talk radio format. [6]

It was reported on January 1, 2018, that KROP went off the air. The phone numbers for both KROP and its owner, LarDog, have been disconnected. [7] The website is also not available. After briefly resuming operations in August, a lightning strike put the station off the air on August 27.

On June 11, 2019, LarDog filed to donate KROP to The Voice of International Christian Evangelism, which owns KGBA-AM-FM in Holtville. [8] The donation was consummated on August 12, 2019.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KROP". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KROP
  3. ↑ Broadcasting/Cablecasting Yearbook 1989 (PDF). 1989. p. B-27. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 10, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
  4. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1968 page B-15, Broadcasting & Cable
  5. ↑ Ruth, Brooke (April 3, 2010). "KROP AM 1300 off air, may be sold". Imperial Valley Press . Retrieved April 5, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Limbaugh: KROP Dusted". Daily Kos . August 1, 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  7. ↑ "KROP 1300 is off air". Imperial Valley Press . January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  8. ↑ Venta, Lance (June 14, 2019). "Station Sales Week Of 6/14". RadioInsight. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
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