KNWZ
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KNWZ-970 and KNWQ-1140 is a simulcast news/talk station owned by Morris Multimedia under the name Morris Desert Media. It has an affiliation with Fox News Radio. The stations combine to serve the Coachella Valley area of Palm Springs, California.
| KNWZ/KNWQ | |
| Frequency | 970/1140 (kHz) |
|---|---|
| Format | News/Talk |
| Owner | Morris Communications |
KNWQ's transmitter is in Palm Springs (for the Western Coachella Valley and Banning area), while KNWZ is in Coachella 25 miles to the east (for the Eastern Coachella, and Imperial Valleys. Both transmitters are low-powered and can reach a 30-mile radius.
"K-News" and Morris Desert Media operates a second news/talk format station, KFUT 1270 "K-News 2" and its' transmitter in Palm Desert broadcast over a 30-mile radius from Coachella to Desert Hot Springs. However, "K-News 2" will go off-air by February 2007.
"K-News" also owns and operates KNWH 1250 in the town of Twentynine Palms serving the sparsely populated Morongo Basin area in a 30-mile radius.
[edit] Programs
KNWZ/KNWQ is the home radio station for local talk and call-in opinion programs, like the Marshall and Stone Show on weekdays, and the Bill "the Bulldog" Feingold Show on Saturdays.
KNWZ/KNWQ carries such programs as Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, and Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell and George Noory. It also carried the Phil Hendrie show until Hendrie retired in June 2006.
KNWT "K-News 2," which programs separately, is the local outlet for Dr. Laura Schlessinger. It also once had the simulcast of Larry King Live from CNN, but it lost the broadcast rights to KPSI in 2006.
[edit] History
KNWZ debuted at 1270AM in 1988, but the station went dark in 1994. R&R Radio Corporation then purchased the license and restarted the station on KCMJ 1010AM in 1995; it was then rebranded "News 1010." That station then became KNWZ again in 1998, when Morris Desert Media bought it, and KNWZ was upgraded from "small town" ownership to "standard" talk radio status.
R&R also simulcast "K-News" on three FM stations (94.3, 103.9 and 106.9) from April 1995 to October 1998, when Morris purchased the stations; it then converted all three of the FM stations to music formats. There are no plans to return to the FM dial, because of the superior sound quality, but news radio programming prefers the AM dial.
Morris then moved KNWZ to 970/1140AM on January 1, 2001. It then bought KCMJ, which had moved to 1270AM, in August 2004 and made it KNWT, "K-News 2." AM1010 is now all-sports station KXPS, with different ownership. In 2007, "K-News 2" will switch to Spanish Sports talk under new call letters KFUT 1270AM, "Futbol y Deportes".
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