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KPHX
KPHX (1480 AM) is a commercial radio station in Phoenix, Arizona. It is owned by Jacob Garcia, through licensee La Hermosa Radio LLC. KPHX carries a Spanish language Christian talk and teaching radio format. It is also heard on FM translator 92.9 K225CT in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Using a directional antenna, KPHX broadcasts with 1,000 watts by day and 33 watts at night.
The station at 1480 AM signed on the air on June 10, 1958, as a daytime-only country music station called KHAT. This format stayed in place until 1972, when it switched to an all-news radio format as KPHX, which only lasted about a year. The format and call sign changes accompanied a 1972 sale to Phoenix Broadcasting Co. This period saw additional changes, including a power increase from 500 to 1,000 watts.
Around 1974, with its sale to the Riverside Amusement Park Company, KPHX became a Spanish language station playing Regional Mexican music. By 1982, KPHX had started operating at night, using two transmitter sites to provide the daytime and nighttime service.
Starting in 2004, KPHX aired a syndicated all-comedy format, which remained for nearly two years. KPHX flipped to an adult standards format in 2006, featuring the "Music of Your Life" radio network.
After KXXT (1010 kHz AM), the Phoenix affiliate of Air America Radio since the fall of 2004, was sold to a station group known as Communicom in January 2006, and as a result changed to a Christian radio format by March 2006, the progressive talk format disappeared from the Phoenix radio airwaves. In late March 2006, the owners of KPHX entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sheldon Drobny's Nova M Radio, bringing the Air America progressive/liberal talk format to KPHX.
On January 1, 2009, KPHX switched to an adult standards format as "The Lounge Sound". Brad "Martini" Chambers, the man behind KPHX's new format, succeeded in getting the format back on the air after running a similar format on AM 690 XETRA in Tijuana, also serving San Diego and Los Angeles. Chambers, who had the morning show, "Martini In The Morning", continued The Lounge Sound format on the internet from his studios in Studio City, California.
On July 6, 2009, KPHX discontinued the Lounge Sound and switched back to the progressive talk format. Mike Newcomb hosted an afternoon drive program; the nationally broadcast programs of Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann, Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, Mike Malloy and Ed Schultz also returned to the KPHX lineup.
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KPHX
KPHX (1480 AM) is a commercial radio station in Phoenix, Arizona. It is owned by Jacob Garcia, through licensee La Hermosa Radio LLC. KPHX carries a Spanish language Christian talk and teaching radio format. It is also heard on FM translator 92.9 K225CT in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Using a directional antenna, KPHX broadcasts with 1,000 watts by day and 33 watts at night.
The station at 1480 AM signed on the air on June 10, 1958, as a daytime-only country music station called KHAT. This format stayed in place until 1972, when it switched to an all-news radio format as KPHX, which only lasted about a year. The format and call sign changes accompanied a 1972 sale to Phoenix Broadcasting Co. This period saw additional changes, including a power increase from 500 to 1,000 watts.
Around 1974, with its sale to the Riverside Amusement Park Company, KPHX became a Spanish language station playing Regional Mexican music. By 1982, KPHX had started operating at night, using two transmitter sites to provide the daytime and nighttime service.
Starting in 2004, KPHX aired a syndicated all-comedy format, which remained for nearly two years. KPHX flipped to an adult standards format in 2006, featuring the "Music of Your Life" radio network.
After KXXT (1010 kHz AM), the Phoenix affiliate of Air America Radio since the fall of 2004, was sold to a station group known as Communicom in January 2006, and as a result changed to a Christian radio format by March 2006, the progressive talk format disappeared from the Phoenix radio airwaves. In late March 2006, the owners of KPHX entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sheldon Drobny's Nova M Radio, bringing the Air America progressive/liberal talk format to KPHX.
On January 1, 2009, KPHX switched to an adult standards format as "The Lounge Sound". Brad "Martini" Chambers, the man behind KPHX's new format, succeeded in getting the format back on the air after running a similar format on AM 690 XETRA in Tijuana, also serving San Diego and Los Angeles. Chambers, who had the morning show, "Martini In The Morning", continued The Lounge Sound format on the internet from his studios in Studio City, California.
On July 6, 2009, KPHX discontinued the Lounge Sound and switched back to the progressive talk format. Mike Newcomb hosted an afternoon drive program; the nationally broadcast programs of Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann, Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, Mike Malloy and Ed Schultz also returned to the KPHX lineup.