KVSS (FM)

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KVSS
Broadcast area Omaha - Lincoln, Nebraska
Frequency 102.7 MHz
BrandingSpirit Catholic Radio Network
Programming
Format Catholic
Affiliations EWTN Radio
Ownership
OwnerVSS Catholic Communications
KETT
History
Former call signs
KBZR, KFRX, KFOR, KWHG
Call sign meaning
Veni, Sancte Spiritus ("Come, Holy Spirit" in Latin) [1]
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 34435
Class C1
ERP 46,100 watts
HAAT 409.3 meters (1,343 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 41°4′15.9″N96°13′32.3″W / 41.071083°N 96.225639°W / 41.071083; -96.225639
Translator(s) 89.3 K207BY (Chadron) 99.3 K257FK (Columbus)
Repeater(s) 88.1 KEJS (Sargent)
88.3 KOLB (Hartington)
90.1 KFJS (North Platte)
90.5 KETW (Ogallala)
91.5 KJWM (Grand Island)
91.9 KVEJ (Valentine)
99.5 KETT (Mitchell)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website spiritcatholicradio.com

KVSS (102.7 MHz) is a non-commercial FM radio station airing a Catholic radio format. [3] Licensed to Papillion, Nebraska, the station serves the Omaha and Lincoln areas. Some weekday shows are locally produced with EWTN Radio Network programs airing nights and weekends. The station is listener-supported, holding periodic on-the-air fundraisers and seeking donations on its website. It is owned by VSS Catholic Communications. KVSS's studios are on West A Street in Omaha (with auxiliary studios located in Lincoln and Grand Island).

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KVSS has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 46,100 watts. The transmitter is on Pflug Road near South 204th Street in Gretna, Nebraska. [4] Programming is also heard on two FM translators, K207BY on 89.3 MHz in Chadron and K257FK on 99.3 MHz in Columbus. [5] [6]

History

KVSS

In January 1999, VSS Catholic Communications, Inc. started radio station KNOS, a 500-watt signal at 88.9 MHz. The station was headed by Bill Thompson. It began broadcasting a mix of Contemporary Christian music and Catholic talk and teaching programms from the EWTN Radio Network. Additional programming followed from St. Joseph Communications, Catholic Answers, Ave Maria and Starboard Communications. After broadcasting for 10 years on a small signal, VSS partnered with Kolbe Media, a group of people committed to Catholic Radio in the Lincoln, Nebraska, community.

On January 29, 2009, Spirit Catholic Radio purchased a new 50,000-watt signal on 102.7 FM. The signal was able to reach both the Omaha and Lincoln communities, as well as over 1 million potential listeners throughout eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. [7] Its former frequency was sold to the Bible Broadcasting Network and is now KYFG.

102.7 history

Beginning in early 1980, the frequency was home to Lincoln's KFRX, which initially aired album rock before shifting to a long running Top 40 format in July 1983. In 2007, after Clear Channel sold its Lincoln stations to Three Eagles Communications. Three Eagles spun off 102.7 FM and KRKR to Chapin Communications in order to meet ownership limits. This arrangement was only temporary, as Chapin was the intermediate buyer while a permanent buyer was being sought. [8]

On September 18, 2007, KFRX moved its format to sister station 106.3 FM, while 102.7 FM began stunting with a continuously repeating message directing listeners to the new frequency. A week later, 102.7 FM (now under the KLMY call letters, which later changed to KBZR) flipped to a Soft AC format, branded as "102.7 The Breeze." [9] As part of the changes, the station was granted a construction permit to change its city of license from Lincoln to Papillion, and its transmitter site from Lincoln to Gretna, in order to move into the Omaha radio market.

After a successful fundraiser needed to purchase KBZR, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the sale of the station from Chapin to KVSS in late December 2008. The station went on air with its new signal on January 29, 2009, and then moved to the Gretna tower and began broadcasting at that site on June 9.

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References

  1. ↑ "Our Mother of Perpetual Help". kvss.com. August 6, 2011. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KVSS". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ↑ "Expand Broadcast Reach". Archived from the original on 2009-03-10. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  4. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KVSS
  5. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/K207BY
  6. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/K257FK
  7. ↑ "HOME".
  8. ↑ Jeff Korbelik, "Three Eagles Communications in the midst of changes," The Lincoln Journal Star, May 7, 2007.
  9. ↑ Jeff Korbelik, "Three Eagles, Chapin decide to change 95 Rock's format to talk radio," The Lincoln Journal Star, October 15, 2007.
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