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KQCV (AM)

KQCV is a radio station on 800 kHz in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is part of the Bott Radio Network of Christian radio stations and was the second station acquired by the network.^[3] Prior to that, it operated as a secular radio station from 1948 to 1976.

KQCV's transmitter is located off of County Line Road on the southwest edge of Oklahoma City; Bott Radio Network also maintains Oklahoma City offices at 1919 N. Broadway.

History[edit]

KTOW began broadcasting in 1948.^[4] It was owned by the Sooner Broadcasting Company; while KTOW itself was a daytime-only AM outlet, plans called for an FM station—the authorization for which would be surrendered because of the lack of sets in the area^[5]—and Sooner pursued television as well.^[6] An attempt to move to 1400 kHz, which would have allowed nighttime broadcasts, was denied in 1950.^[7] Sooner sold KTOW to Citizens Broadcasting Company of Oklahoma for $50,000 in 1955.^[8] Citizens moved KTOW to a newly converted building at the corner of NW 5th and Robinson streets in 1956; that facility stood until it was torn down in 1974 to build the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building,^[9] being the last structure demolished to make way.^[10]

KTOW was sold to KTOW, Inc., in January 1959; the new owners suffered an immediate blow when the Mutual Broadcasting System, the network with which the station was affiliated, jumped from KTOW to KTOK, which boasted a 5,000-watt signal compared to KTOW's 250 watts.^[11] On March 1, 1960,^[7] KTOW became KJEM, promoting itself as broadcasting "the JEMs of Adult Music".^[12] April 9, 1961, brought KJEM-FM, a partial simulcast of the AM station's programming.^[4]

In 1964, the owners of KJEM bought KTOK for $625,000, selling KJEM-AM-FM for $315,000 to Radio Oklahoma, headed by the Globe Life and Accident Insurance Corporation.^[13] A 1966 blaze at the transmitter site briefly forced the station off the air;^[14] months after returning, it made an early move to an all-talk format, branded "Audience Involvement Radio".^[15]

Another sale, in 1972, would separate KJEM AM and FM. The buyer for 800 AM was a local electrical firm, Carroll Boyington and Son Electric, who paid $297,000;^[16] the call letters were changed to KLEC on September 19.^[7] KLEC aired a beautiful music format in its time with the call letters and had relocated to 1919 N. Broadway.^[17]

Carroll Boyington and Son Electric sold the station to Bott Broadcasting, Inc., of Kansas City for $284,000 in December 1975.^[1] New KQCV call letters, for "Quality Christian Voice",^[1] were instituted on January 19, 1976.^[7] KQCV was the second Bott station after KCCV in Kansas City.^[3]

Bott expanded in Oklahoma City when it acquired contemporary Christian outlet KNTL in 1994;^[3] Bott sold that station in 1997^[18] and started noncommercial KQCV-FM.

FM translators[edit]

KQCV AM's programming is available on two FM translators in and near Oklahoma City and a third in El Reno.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• KQCV AM page on the Bott Radio Network website
• FCC History Cards for KQCV
• Facility details for Facility ID 6487 (KQCV) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KQCVinNielsen Audio's AM station database

FM translators

• Facility details for Facility ID 140427 (K239BT) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• K239BT at FCCdata.org
• Facility details for Facility ID 140428 (K272FD) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• K272FD at FCCdata.org
• Facility details for Facility ID 142753 (K296HC) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• K296HC at FCCdata.org