KCKY

Infobox Radio station
name = KCKY


city = Coolidge, Arizona
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frequency = 1150 (kHz)
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format = Christian
power = 5,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night)
class = B
facility_id = 48814
coordinates = coord|33|0|27.00|N|111|32|54.00|W|region:GB_type:city
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owner = Cortaro Broadcasting Corporation
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KCKY (1150 AM) is a radio station in Pinal County, Arizona. The station is licensed to the city of Coolidge and is owned by the Cortaro Broadcasting Corporation.

KCKY airs mostly Spanish-language Christian programming, simulcasting with KASA in Phoenix much of the time through a local marketing agreement with that station's owner.

It is also used for an NDB-Approach into Coolidge Airfield.

In KCKY's earlier history, it was an English-language country music station. Singers Lee Hazelwood and Waylon Jennings worked at KCKY briefly in the 1950s. Hazelwood hosted a weekly Saturday night show on the station which featured guitarist Duane Eddy and a house band. [http://www.doney.net/aroundaz/celebrity/eddy_duane.htm]

KCKY also served as the longtime Arizona play-by-play affiliate of the Chicago Cubs radio network, and the station's daytime signal could reach the southern and eastern edges of the Phoenix metropolitan area where many Cub fans lived.

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