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| Broadcast area | Prescott–Flagstaff–Phoenix |
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| Frequency | 102.1MHz |
| Branding | FM 102.1 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Beautiful Music -Easy Listening |
| Affiliations | SRN News |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| Operator | Prescott Broadcasting, LLC |
| KYCA | |
| History | |
First air date | September 9, 1981; 44 years ago (1981-09-09) |
Former frequencies | 103.9 MHz (1980s) |
Call sign meaning | Thecall letters KAHM, when spoken as a word, sounds likecalm, a word that describes KAHM'sformat and music. |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 61510 |
| Class | C |
| ERP | 58,000watts |
| HAAT | 770 meters (2,530 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 34°41′14″N112°07′1″W / 34.68722°N 112.11694°W /34.68722; -112.11694 |
| Translators | 93.5 K228DF (Prescott) 101.7 K269EE (Prescott) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | kahm.info |
KAHM (102.1MHz) is acommercialFMradio station broadcasting abeautiful music andeasy listeningradio format. It islicensed toSpring Valley, Arizona, and it serves thePrescott /Flagstaff /Phoenix area. The station airs quarter hour sweeps of soft music, half instrumental and half vocal. Announcers give brief weather and news updates but never talk over the music. The studios are on Henry Street in Prescott.
KAHM has aneffective radiated power (ERP) of 58,000watts, broadcasting from atower at 770 meters (2,530 ft) inheight above average terrain (HAAT). Thetransmitter is onMingus Mountain nearCottonwood.[2]
KAHMsigned on the air on September 9, 1981; 44 years ago (September 9, 1981). It provides the Prescott, Flagstaff and Phoenix areas with a format of Beautiful Music, which remains virtually unchanged. The station originally aired quarter hour sweeps of easy listening music, mostly instrumentalcover versions of popular adult songs, with someBroadway andHollywoodshow tunes. In the 2000s, it moved to a 50% vocalplaylist.
First broadcasting under 1,000 watts, KAHM's signal expanded in the early 1990s to 58,000 watts, serving the people of northern and central Arizona, along with the metropolitan Phoenix market. With the improved signal, KAHM could be heard in southern Arizona as far south asPeoria,Scottsdale andAnthem. In 2005, the station began broadcasting 24 hours a day, usingbroadcast automation overnight.
From the early 2000s until September 14, 2015, KAHM also had anInternet stream on its website.[3] The stream was ended due to high demand on the server and due to licensing fees.[4][5] As of 2023, the internet stream has returned.
Effective January 12, 2018, Southwest Broadcasting sold KAHM (as well as translator K269EE and sister talkKYCA and its translator K278CN) to Phoenix Radio Broadcasting, a holding company for theCesar Chavez Foundation's Farmworker Educational Radio Network.[6] Southwest Broadcasting management, reorganized as Prescott Broadcasting, LLC, still operates the station under alocal marketing agreement and has continued its easy listening format, which is one of only a handful of broadcast stations still airing the format in the United States since its decline in the 1980s (the station claims "We've always been Calm, and we always will be").[7] The KYCA license was sold back to Prescott Broadcasting in 2021.
KAHM has a construction permit to move to a new tower location inCrown King. With the taller tower, the power will drop from 54,000 watts to 26,000 watts. In preparation for this move, the station has changed its city of license from Prescott to Spring Valley.
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | Class | FCC info |
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| K228DF | 93.5 FM | Prescott, Arizona | 20633 | 250 | D | LMS |
| K269EE | 101.7 FM | Prescott, Arizona | 61511 | 84 | D | LMS |
