KDEE

Infobox Radio Station
name = KDEE
airdate = October 24, 2004
frequency = 97.7 MHz
city = Rancho Cordova, California
area = Sacramento, California
format = Urban Adult Contemporary, Community Radio
owner = California Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation [http://www.sacblackchamber.org/homepage.html]
erp = 100 watts (FCC claims it is 48 watts)
haat = 43 meters
branding = Radio For Grown Folks
slogan = "Sacramento's #1 Community Radio Station"
callsign_meaning = K Dedicated to Economic Empowerment
class = L1
website = [http://www.kdeefm.org/ www.kdeefm.org]

KDEE (97.7 FM) is a community radio station based in Sacramento, California.

History

KDEE was launched in 2004 by the Californian Black Chamber of Commerce. It is a community oriented commercial-free radio station serving the Greater Sacramento area with public affairs information, news for small business entrepreneurs, and youth programming.

Format

KDEE provides a mix of music under the Urban Adult Contemporary format: MoTown, Soul, Neo-Soul, today's R&B, Jazz, Urban Gospel, new music from rising and established artists, and news. The station offers commercial-free programming and talk shows to provide information specific to the Sacramento community. KDEE has a more expanded playlist typical of most non-commercial stations averaging 3,000 songs, and avoiding hip hop/rap music altogether. This makes it a community counterpart to commercial stations KBMB, KSFM, KSSJ and KHYL.

Programming

Air talent include Tristen Mays, Azizza Goines, and Tara Lynn, along with several Sacramento community leaders and guests.

Talk shows include "Real Talk Live", "Free Talk Live", "Health Matters", and "Mid-Day Connect".

Programming includes "Gospel Soul Sunday", "Sunday Jazz Cafe", "New Music Mondays", "Hot Lunch Special", and "Friday Night Dance Party".

Coverage

While KDEE is meant to serve the area, its current drawback is that it is a low [powered station, thus it can only be heard in the eastern part of Sacramento County at the most; it is not heard over the air too well in Sacramento proper, especially the African American community. However, this situation has been somewhat remedied: they have since launched a webcast.

External links

* [http://www.kdeefm.org KDEE official website]
*FMQ|KDEE
*FML|KDEE
*FMARB|KDEE