KCLB
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| City | Coachella, California |
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| Broadcast area | Palm Springs, California |
| Branding | 93.7 KCLB |
| Slogan | KCLB Rocks!!! |
| Frequency | 93.7 MHz |
| Repeater(s) | 95.5 KCLZ |
| First air date | June 1960 (as KCHV) |
| Format | Mainstream rock |
| ERP | 26,500 watts |
| HAAT | 197 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 12131 |
| Former callsigns | KCHV (1960–1988) KRCK (2/1988–6/1988) KCHV (1988–1991) |
| Owner |
Alpha Media LLC (Alpha Media Licensee LLC) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 937kclb.com |
KCLB-FM is a commercial Mainstream rock radio station in Coachella, California, broadcasting to the Palm Springs, California, area on 93.7 FM.
KCLB's studio headquarters are in Palm Springs, California. KCLB's signal reaches as far west as Beaumont and far east as Blythe.
KCLB is owned by Alpha Media LLC, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC.
KCLB-FM first went on the air as KCHV in June 1960. In 1974, KCHV (970 AM) had a loosely regulated combination format that was news/talk in the morning, contemporary soft rock in the afternoons and evenings, and 100% album rock from 10pm to 6am, during which time KCHV simulcasted with sister station KVIM-FM. Scott Roberts (later with KCNR, KPAM and KKRZ (Z-100) worked the late night shift at KCHV/KVIM and was the first disc jockey to play a free form Album Rock format in the Coachella Valley. However, Roberts did not receive Radio & Records reporting status during that period and thereby not officially noted as the first in this market to present the AOR format. Roberts left KCHV/KVIM in 1976.
The station began playing a more structured Album Rock format in 1985, the first in the Coachella Valley market to do so, under the guidance of Cyrene Jagger as Program Director. Jagger achieved Radio & Records and FMQB reporting status later that year, developed the entire music library and began coordinating live concerts and special on air guests. Jagger remained as Program Director until 1989.
KCHV had a very brief call letter change to KRCK in 1988, but there was an FCC error as they failed to recognize those call letters were already owned by someone else so the station returned to the call letters KCHV.
KCLB is the oldest radio station in the Palm Springs area. Their original call signs were KCMJ first went on the air in 1946 on 970 kHz based in Coachella but announced its location was in "Palm Springs" and was under several different music genre formats. It was an affiliate of CBS Radio from then to the late 1960s and became an affiliate of NBC Radio until the late 1980s.
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