KAHM
KAHM (102.1 FM, "Beautiful Music") is a radio station broadcasting the Beautiful music format. The station is licensed to Prescott, Arizona & serves the Prescott/Flagstaff/Phoenix area. It first began broadcasting on September 9, 1981.
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| City | Prescott, Arizona |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Prescott / Flagstaff, Arizona / Phoenix, Arizona |
| Frequency | 102.1 MHz |
| Branding | FM 102.1 |
| Slogan | "Music Beautiful as Prescott" |
| Programming | |
| Format | Beautiful Music/Easy Listening |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Farmworker Educational Radio Network (Cesar Chavez Foundation) (Phoenix Radio Broadcasting, LLC) |
| KYCA | |
| History | |
First air date | September 9, 1981 |
Former frequencies | 103.9 MHz (1980s) |
Call sign meaning | The call letters KAHM, when spoken as a word, sounds like calm, a word that describes KAHM's format and music. |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 61510 |
| Class | C |
| ERP | 58,000 watts |
| HAAT | 770 meters (2,530 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 34°41′14.00″N 112°07′1.00″W |
| Translator(s) | 93.5 K228DF (Prescott) 101.7 K269EE (Prescott) |
| Links | |
| Website | kahm.info |
History
KAHM went on the air on September 9, 1981, providing the Prescott area with a format of "Beautiful Music" which remains virtually unchanged..
First broadcasting under 1,000 watts, KAHM's signal expanded in the early 1990s to 58,000 watts, serving the people of northern & central Arizona, along with the metropolitan Phoenix market.
KAHM broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and could easily be heard in southern Arizona as far south as Peoria, Scottsdale and Anthem.
Until September 14, 2015, KAHM also had an Internet stream.[1] The stream was ended due to high demand on the server from the spike in listeners following the cancellation of the similarly-formatted Sirius XM Escape channel on conventional receivers.[2][3] On February 1, 2016, KAHM began streaming again, this time under a $20 per month subscription model.
Effective January 12, 2018, Southwest Broadcasting sold KAHM (as well as translator K269EE and sister talk KYCA and its translator K278CN) to Phoenix Radio Broadcasting, a holding company for the Cesar Chavez Foundation's Farmworker Educational Radio Network.[4]
Translators
| Call sign | Frequency (MHz) | City of license | ERP (W) | Class | FCC info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K228DF | 93.5 | Prescott, Arizona | 250 | D | FCC |
| K269EE | 101.7 | Prescott, Arizona | 84 | D | FCC |
2007 Photo of translator K269EE 101.7FM
2008 Photo of Transmitter site 102.1FM
References
- "An Important Message to our streaming listeners". Archived from the original on 2015-09-10.
- "KAHM 102.1 FM". Archived from the original on 2015-09-10.
- "Channel Update FAQs". Sirius XM. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
- "Station Sales Week Of 9/30: KAHM Goes To La Campesina - RadioInsight". RadioInsight. 2017-09-29. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
External links
- KAHM in the FCC's FM station database
- KAHM on Radio-Locator
- KAHM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database