City | Moapa, Nevada |
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Broadcast area |
Las Vegas Valley St. George, Utah |
Branding | 94.5 Exa FM |
Frequency | 94.5 MHz |
Repeater(s) | Sunrise Manor, Nevada (KXLI-FM1) |
First air date | December 13, 2006 |
Format | CHR |
Language(s) | Spanish |
ERP | 93,000 watts |
HAAT | 637 meters |
Class | C |
Facility ID | 164097 |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°38′7.00″N 114°07′18.00″W / 36.6352778°N 114.1216667°W |
Callsign meaning | K X JelLI (previous format) |
Former callsigns | KMOA (12/13/06-5/06/08) KVBE (5/06/08-6/23/11) |
Affiliations | MVS Radio |
Owner |
Radio Activo Broadcasting, LLC (Radio Activo Broadcasting License, LLC) |
Website | exafm.com/lasvegas/ |
KXLI (94.5 FM) is a radio station serving the Moapa Valley, St. George, Utah and Las Vegas areas, but focused on Las Vegas as a rimshot station. Licensed to Moapa, Nevada, the station operates at 94.5 MHz with an ERP of 93 kW and broadcasts from a transmitter site near the Arizona border south of Bunkerville. The station also operates a co-channel booster, KXLI-FM1 in Sunrise Manor, Nevada, closer to Las Vegas.
This station is currently (as of October 2008) operating without live disc jockeys. KXLI had been broadcasting a Dance format as "Vibe 94.5" until June 2011, when the station launched a new interactive rock radio format known as Jelli until July 1, 2012, when it flipped to Spanish Top 40 and adopted the EXA brand from Mexican radio company MVS Radio.
94.5 signed on as KMOA under the branding Rehab Radio on May 2, 2008. Rehab Radio was a stunt format that aired while the station was testing the transmitter, playing Dance music. The call letters changed to KVBE on May 6, 2008 and the identity as 94.5 The Vibe was born on May 8, 2008. The launch was co-consulted by Dance radio veterans Trevor Simpson from the now defunct KNGY-Energy 92.7 in San Francisco, California, Joel Salkowitz from the now defunct WNYZ-Pulse 87.7 in New York City, New York, and Mark "Tic Tak" Allen of KUPL-98.7 FM in Portland, Oregon. The Vibe was programmed by industry veteran Rob Walker as a Dance Hits format, with imaging done by Mitch Craig. In November 2009, KVBE's signal repeater added crucial coverage within the Las Vegas area, since the primary coverage area does not clearly reach the city of Las Vegas in most places.