KMLE
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| City of license | Chandler, Arizona |
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| Broadcast area | Phoenix, Arizona |
| Branding | "KMLE Country 108" |
| Frequency | 107.9 (MHz) (Also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1979 |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 96,000 watts |
| HAAT | 529 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 59965 |
| Owner | CBS Radio |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.kmle108.com |
KMLE, "KMLE Country 108", is a Country music outlet serving the Phoenix area. The CBS Radio station operates at 107.9MHz with an ERP of 96 kw and is licensed to Chandler, Arizona. Its facility ID number is 59965.
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[edit] History
KMLE's first owners got a permit in 1979, under the KLRG call sign. It was never used, and it eventually acquired the KMLE call letters on 18 June of that year. KMLE is one of two Country music outlets in the Phoenix market, since it is locked into a long time battle with Clear Channel-owned KNIX-FM, which began in 1988. The battle could be ground down to the conglomerates that own the two stations: Clear Channel (KNIX) and CBS Radio (KMLE).
[edit] Misc.
Though the station's ID may sound like "Camel Country", it is spelled with the station's call letters. The same goes for the KMLE in KMLE Nation.
[edit] KMLE Nation
The station runs a major listening club known as the KMLE Nation. It has its own website, [1]. This program not only is the front-end for such promotions as a concert rewards shirt, "KMLEflage" and as a front-end for station miscellaneous items and community support, it is used frequently on air, so much that one of the big programs has Nation in its title: Jeff West's weekday nighttime show, the Nighttime Nation.
[edit] Station programming schedule
[edit] Weekday
12am-5am Doc Holiday ("The Doc Holiday Radio Extravaganza")
5am-9am Dave Pratt and Stacey Brooks (morning show)
10am-1pm Gwen Foster
1pm-2pm Doc Holiday ("The Doc Holiday Radio Hour")
2pm-7pm Stu Evans ("Big Shoe" Stu) and Dena Fox
7pm-12am Jeff West (show is known as the Nighttime Nation on air: this derives from the big station listener club (KMLE Nation))
[edit] Saturday
12am-6am "Cactus Jack"
6am-10am Slim Jim
10am-2pm Beth Fox
2pm-7pm Ralph Davis
7pm-12am Jeff West
[edit] Sunday
12am-6am "Cactus Jack"
6am-7am KMLE Views (program info unknown)
7am-10:03am (program runs late three or so minutes) Country Countdown USA
10:03am-2pm Beth Fox
2pm-7pm Ralph Davis
7pm-12am James Patrick (this slot is sometimes syndicated)
[edit] KMLE HD2
On May 1, 2006, CBS Radio announced that once KMLE's HD Radio equipment is placed on the air later in the year, they will program a Country Variety format called "Willie" (named in homage to Willie Nelson) on its HD2 subchannel. [2]. As of June 2007, the HD equipment is on the air, but the subchannel is still a work in progress.
[edit] External links
- KMLE Country 108's website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KMLE
- Radio Locator information on KMLE
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KMLE
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