| City of license | Oak Harbor, Washington |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Whidbey Island Greater Vancouver |
| Frequency | 1110 kHz |
| Format | Punjabi / South Asian |
| Power | 500 watts daytime only |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 49918 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 48°17′27.00″N 122°42′28.00″W / 48.29083°N 122.70778°W |
| Callsign meaning | Radio Punjabi Asian |
| Former callsigns | KEUE (to 1984) KISD (1984-1987) KJTT (1987-2000) KWDB (2000-2012) |
| Owner | Satnam Media Group, Inc. |
| Website | krparadio.com |
KRPA (1110 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Punjabi / South Asian format. Licensed to Oak Harbor, Washington, USA, the station is owned by the Satnam Media Group, with studios based in Mount Vernon.[1]
The station broadcasts during daytime hours only, to protect clear channel stations KFAB in Omaha, Nebraska and WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina.
KRPA is focused on the South Asian community of Greater Vancouver as a rimshotter, although reception in most areas of Greater Vancouver is quite poor. The station's prime coverage area is Whidbey Island and the San Juan Islands, though the signal reaches its target area of Vancouver, as well as Victoria and Seattle.[2]
History [link]
The station went on the air as KEUE, later becoming KISD on 1984-07-01. On 1987-06-30, the station changed its call sign to KJTT, on 2000-01-21 to KWDB and 2012-3-14 to the current KRPA.[3]
As KWDB, the station carried a conservative talk radio format until March 2012, when the station flipped its format to an ethnic format focused on Vancouver's South Asian community, following Satnam's acquisition of the station from Action Pages, LLC (formerly Impact Directories of Northwest Washington, LLC) in November 2011.[4][5][6]
References [link]
- ^ "KRPA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. https://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?call=KRPA.
- ^ Radio-Locator coverage map for KRPA
- ^ "KRPA Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=49918&Callsign=KRPA.
- ^ Canadian Radio News at Facebook, March 14, 2012.
- ^ FCC Broadcast Applications, November 23, 2011.
- ^ All Access: "Sold: Ohio Translator, Florida Noncomm", March 5, 2012.
External links [link]
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KRPA
- Radio-Locator Information on KRPA
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for KRPA
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