KHCS
Broadcast areaPalm Springs, California
Frequency91.7 MHz
Branding"Air1"
Programming
FormatContemporary worship music
AffiliationsAir1
Ownership
OwnerEducational Media Foundation
KLXB
History
First air date
January 1993 (1993-01)
Former call signs
KYRH (1990)
Technical information
Facility ID77680
ClassA
ERP960 watts
HAAT151.4 meters (496.7 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
33°52′0.1″N 116°26′3″W / 33.866694°N 116.43417°W / 33.866694; -116.43417
Links
Websiteair1.com

KHCS (91.7 MHz) is a non-commercial educational FM radio station broadcasting a contemporary worship music format. Licensed to Palm Desert, California, United States, the station serves the Palm Springs area and can be heard from Banning to North Shore, over most of the Coachella Valley. KHCS airs the nationally syndicated Air1 worship music network around the clock.

Prior to the station's sale to Educational Media Foundation in April 2018, KHCS was a contemporary inspirational-formatted station known as "Joy92". It was owned by Prairie Avenue Gospel Center and carried a variety of locally produced Christian programming as well as inspirational music.

History

The station initially was assigned the call letters KYRH on February 7, 1990, by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission; on April 1, the station changed its call sign to KHCS.[1] However, the station would not make its on-air debut until January 1993, three years later.[2]

From its inception, KHCS was owned by Prairie Avenue Gospel Center, a church based in Long Beach, California,[3] and carried a contemporary inspirational format. Branded "Joy92" and positioning itself as "the Desert's Christian Radio", the station aired a variety of music, talk and teaching programming, much of it produced locally in Southern California.

On April 5, 2018, KHCS entered into an affiliation agreement with Educational Media Foundation to carry the latter's Christian contemporary hit radio network Air1; the Joy92 programming was dropped.[3] On April 20, EMF purchased KHCS from Prairie Avenue Gospel Center for $450,000;[4][5] the purchase was consummated on June 27, 2018.

References

  1. ^ "Call Sign History: KHCS". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. ^ "Directory of Radio Stations in the U.S." (PDF). Broadcasting Yearbook. 1997. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "EMF's Joyous Coachella Valley Addition". Radio and Television Business Report. April 20, 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  4. ^ Venta, Lance (April 20, 2018). "Station Sales Week Of 4/20: EMF Expands In Palm Springs". Radio Insight. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  5. ^ "EMF Buys KHCS/Palm Desert, CA". AllAccess.com. All Access Music Group. April 20, 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2018.

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Radio stations in the Palm Springs, California area (Coachella Valley and Morongo Basin)
Air1 member stations
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