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Music radio station in Prescott, Arizona
KAHM
Broadcast areaPrescottFlagstaffPhoenix
Frequency102.1 MHz
BrandingFM 102.1
Programming
FormatBeautiful Music - Easy Listening
AffiliationsSRN News
Ownership
Owner
  • Farmworker Educational Radio Network (Cesar Chavez Foundation)
  • (Phoenix Radio Broadcasting, LLC)
OperatorPrescott Broadcasting, LLC
Sister stationsKYCA
History
First air dateSeptember 9, 1981; 43 years ago (1981-09-09)
Former frequencies103.9 MHz (1980s)
Call sign meaningThe call letters KAHM, when spoken as a word, sounds like calm, a word that describes KAHM's format and music.
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID61510
ClassC
ERP58,000 watts
HAAT770 meters (2,530 ft)
Transmitter coordinates34°41′14″N 112°07′1″W / 34.68722°N 112.11694°W / 34.68722; -112.11694
Translator(s)93.5 K228DF (Prescott)
101.7 K269EE (Prescott)
Links
Public license information
Websitekahm.info

KAHM (102.1 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting a beautiful music and easy listening radio format. It is licensed to Spring Valley, Arizona, and it serves the Prescott / 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 an effective radiated power (ERP) of 58,000 watts, broadcasting from a tower at 770 meters (2,530 ft) in height above average terrain (HAAT). The transmitter is on Mingus Mountain near Cottonwood.

History

KAHM signed on the air on September 9, 1981; 43 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 instrumental cover versions of popular adult songs, with some Broadway and Hollywood show tunes. In the 2000s, it moved to a 50% vocal playlist.

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 as Peoria, Scottsdale and Anthem. In 2005, the station began broadcasting 24 hours a day, using broadcast automation overnight.

From the early 2000s until September 14, 2015, KAHM also had an Internet stream on its website. The stream was ended due to high demand on the server and due to licensing fees. As of 2023, the internet stream has returned.

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. Southwest Broadcasting management, reorganized as Prescott Broadcasting, LLC, still operates the station under a local marketing agreement and has continued its easy listening format, which is one of a 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"). The KYCA license was sold back to Prescott Broadcasting in 2021.

KAHM has a construction permit to move to a new tower location in Crown 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.

Translators

Broadcast translators for KAHM
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
K228DF 93.5 FM Prescott, Arizona 20633 250 D LMS
K269EE 101.7 FM Prescott, Arizona 61511 84 D LMS
  • 2007 Photo of translator K269EE 101.7FM 2007 Photo of translator K269EE 101.7FM
  • 2008 Photo of Transmitter site 102.1FM 2008 Photo of Transmitter site 102.1FM

References

  1. "Facility Technical Data for KAHM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. Radio-Locator.com/KAHM
  3. "An Important Message to our streaming listeners". Archived from the original on 2015-09-11.
  4. "KAHM 102.1 FM". Archived from the original on 2015-09-12.
  5. "Channel Update FAQs". Sirius XM. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
  6. "Station Sales Week Of 9/30: KAHM Goes To La Campesina - RadioInsight". RadioInsight. 2017-09-29. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  7. "KAHM 102.1 FM". Retrieved 2024-12-29.

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