KCBQ
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| Broadcast area | San Diego |
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| Branding | News Talk 1170 KCBQ |
| Slogan | "Where Your Opinion Counts" |
| Frequency | 1170 (KHz) |
| Format | Conservative talk radio |
| ERP | 50,000 watts daytime, 2,900 watts nighttime |
| Class | B |
| Owner | Salem Communications |
| Website | http://www.kcbq.com |
News Talk 1170 KCBQ, is owned by Salem Communications and offers Conservative talk such as Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager and Michael Medved. It was formerly a country music powerhouse. For years before that it was one of the two leading AM top 40 stations in San Diego.
KCBQ featured a 50,000 watt transmitter (limited to 5000 watts at night, and later, reduced to 1500 watts nighttime). The antenna was originally a six-element directional array in the then-undeveloped area just west of the city of Santee, an area known as "Mast Park," northeast of downtown San Diego and north of the city of El Cajon. Mast Park was recently lost to suburban sprawl (it became a strip mall featuring a Lowe's, Kohl's, etc.), and the station is currently broadcasting at reduced power from a temporary longwire antenna on a tower shared by KGB-FM and KLSD. According to the FCC, KCBQ's daytime power on the long wire is 5,000 watts, while power is reduced after sunset to 675 watts (non-directional, both day and night). The shared transmiiter site is somewhat ironic: KLSD is the former KGB-AM, KCBQ's longtime rival during the heyday of AM Top 40; and today, KCBQ's conservative talk format competes directly with KLSD's liberal talk.
KCBQ has received a construction permit for a new five-tower array in the area north of Lakeside, not far from the old Mast Park site, and to increase power to 50,000 watts daytime, 2900 watts nighttime. KCBQ is now sharing antennas with KECR 910, another former AM top 40 competitor of KCBQ's in the first half of the 1960's; KECR 910 was known as Radio KDEO in the 1960's.
[edit] External links
- News Talk 1170 KCBQ
- San Diego, California antenna sites 2001
- San Diego, California antenna sites 2005
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KCBQ
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