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| Broadcast area | Grand Junction |
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| Frequency | 90.3MHz |
| Branding | K-Love |
| Programming | |
| Format | Contemporary Christian |
| Network | K-Love |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Educational Media Foundation |
| History | |
First air date | December 25, 1981 (as KJOL) |
Former call signs | KJOL (1981–2000) |
Call sign meaning | "K-Love" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 12341 |
| Class | C2 |
| ERP | 3,000watts |
| HAAT | 399 meters |
| Translators | K223BR (92.5 MHz,Montrose) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | klove.com |
KLFV (90.3FM) is aradio station inGrand Junction, Colorado. The station broadcasts acontemporary Christian format from theK-Love radio network; the station and network are owned by theEducational Media Foundation.
90.3 FM began broadcasting as KJOL ("Joy of the Lord") on April 24, 1982,[2] after missing a planned Christmas 1981 launch. It was the second religious radio station in the Grand Junction area, afterKCIC, which had signed on in 1979; however, KJOL broadcast with more power than KCIC. KJOL was owned by the Columbus Evangelical Free Church and broadcast from its facilities; operations were managed by an interdenominational alliance of local churches, the Western Slope Church Ministries Association.[3] From the start, KJOL adopted a more contemporary gospel sound than the traditionally oriented KCIC; the programmer, Stan Bruning, had come fromKWBI-FM inDenver.[3]
The mid-1980s saw a major ownership transition for the young religious station. In 1984, Columbus Evangelical sold it for $24,000 to Western Bible College, owners of KWBI-FM; the church sought to ensure KJOL's continued financial stability with the sale.[4] After the sale closed in 1985,[4] KJOL, which had previously been a major conservative voice and drove protests at abortion clinics and grocery stores that sold pornographic materials,[5] toned down its rhetoric and slightly increased the proportion of music in its broadcast day.[4] The changes and Western Bible College-developed format took hold in February, after the station was silent for a week;[6] the former general manager who had spearheaded the protest activities exited in June.[7]
After a couple of mergers, Western Bible College becameColorado Christian University by 1989,[8] and later expanded its educational offerings to the Western Slope and opened a center in Grand Junction in 1991.[9] The university sold its entire regional radio network to EMF in 2000; local operations were shuttered that October in favor of rebroadcasting EMF's K-Love programming as KLFV, and the religious talk and teaching programming disappeared altogether.[10] Former KJOL station manager Ken Andrews began efforts to bring a new local Christian station to Grand Junction;[11] those efforts succeeded when he reached an agreement to broker out620 AM and relaunch it as the new KJOL effective July 1, 2001.[12]
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