In 1992, K-LOVE began using satellite technology to expand to locations further away than just northern California. K-Love expanded its reach during the 1990s by purchasing small stations and translators, and repeating its signal. By 1989, KLVR had expanded further to include translators covering Santa Cruz, San Jose, and Los Gatos. The new location improved signal strength, and listeners reported they could now hear the station as far as 125 miles (201 km) away. After the fire, the transmitter was relocated to 4,000-foot (1,200 m) Mount Saint Helena. A month and a half later, on September 12, its wooden transmitter building on Geyser Peak was burned to the ground by a brush fire believed to have been set by an arsonist. On August 1, 1988, KCLB changed its call letters to KLVR and adopted its present K-LOVE moniker. KCLB expanded in 1987 with new translators at San Rafael and Salinas. KCLB signed on Octothe first song played on the station was "Praise the Lord" by the Imperials, which was a hit on the Christian music charts in 1979. Charles Colson assisted in fundraising efforts for KCLB in the San Francisco area.
Bob Anthony Fogel, a former DJ at KFRC, founded EMF, which in its early years was also known as Christian Media Ministries. In 1982, after several attempts to purchase a station in San Francisco, the Educational Media Foundation purchased KCLB for $65,760. Later in 1980, under new management, the church hoped to raise the funds to put the nearly fully equipped station on the air as a contemporary Christian music radio station. The church, however, was being affected by a major scandal involving its trust fund, which had forced it into bankruptcy two years prior and had required the church to abandon its plans for the time being. In 1980, the Christian Life Center First Assembly of God of Santa Rosa, California, received a construction permit to operate a new noncommercial radio station in that city, KCLB on 91.9 MHz. As of 2018, K-Love and its sister network Air1 reportedly had a weekly cumulative audience of about 20 million listeners. states, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. K-Love (stylized as K-LOVE) is a contemporary Christian music radio network owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), a non-profit Christian ministry.Īs of June 2019, the network's programming is aired over 520 FM stations and translators in 48 U.S.
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