KCDX

Infobox Radio station
name = KCDX


city = Florence, Arizona
area =
branding =
slogan =
airdate =
frequency = 103.1 MHz
format = Classic rock
power =
erp = 95,000 watts
haat = 614 meters
class = C
facility_id = 16764
coordinates = coord|32|46|44.00|N|110|57|46.00|W|region:GB_type:city
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = KCDX-FM (1993-present)
owner = Desert West Air Ranchers Corporation
licensee =
sister_stations =
webcast = [http://www.kcdx.com/listenOnline.php Listen Live]
website = [http://www.kcdx.com www.kcdx.com]
affiliations = Jones Radio Network

KCDX (103.1 MHz, licensed in Florence, Arizona) is a radio station broadcasting from Globe, Arizona to the east of Phoenix since March 2002 with a commercial-free rock music format. The KCDX listening area is primarily the eastern half of the Phoenix metropolitan region. The KCDX signal can also be picked up in the northern suburbs of Tucson. [ [http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2003-09-18/feature.html September 2003 article] in Phoenix New Times ]

Format

The station format is late–1960s to late–1980s album rock. It is fully automated, has no DJs and does not play any commercial announcements other than its own station identification.

History

KCDX was powered-on by Ted Tucker, a former hospital pharmacist and broadcast-radio engineer, who owns several radio stations in Arizona. He used the signal as a 2.7-kW personal MP3 player, broadcasting to central and eastern Arizona.

The station now has a website with a live Internet feed and a rolling playlist.

On 08/10/2000, Tucker filed a Minor Change to a Licensed Facility Application with the FCC to move the main transmitter to a mountain NW of Oracle, AZ. while increasing power to 95 kW. Three engineering amendments were filed in 2003 and 2004. If approved, the signal upgrade would include new areas of Mesa, Apache Junction and N Tucson in the coverage area. Source: FCC Engineering ('FMQ') Database.

Tucker has remained quiet about the ultimate fate of the station, and seems to have a history of "flipping" properties, [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20050205001555/http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/relatedarticles/46830.php November 2004 article] in Arizona Daily Star ] so it has been suggested that he may simply be creating value to promote its sale. The growth of KCDX's popularity induced him to duplicate the signal on the 36-kilowatt transmitter of 95.1 KFMR northwest of Phoenix in order to maintain its broadcast license while a sale of that station was pending. The KFMR simulcast lasted from October 2004 until March 2005, when KFMR's license was passed from Tucker to its new owners.

ee also

*List of radio stations in Arizona

Notes

External links

* [http://www.kcdx.com/ KCDX website] – playlist and Internet stream available in MP3 and WMA formats
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