KIHU

KIHU
City of license	Tooele, Utah
Frequency	1010 kHz
First air date	July 3, 1956^[1]
Format	Catholic radio
Power	50,000 watts day 42,000 watts critical hours 194 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	35687
Transmitter coordinates	40°45′50″N 112°0′50″W / 40.76389°N 112.01389°W / 40.76389; -112.01389Coordinates: 40°45′50″N 112°0′50″W / 40.76389°N 112.01389°W / 40.76389; -112.01389
Callsign meaning	K Immaculate Heart Utah
Former callsigns	KTUT (late 1950s) KDYL (1960s to 1982) KTLE (1982-1992) KTUR (1992-1998) KIQN (1998-2004) KCPW (2004-2009) KPCW (2009-2009)
Affiliations	Immaculate Heart Radio
Owner	IHR Educational Broadcasting
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	KIHU website

KIHU's tower (right) near Magna, Utah. The tower on the left is used by KMRI.

KIHU (1010 AM) is a Catholic radio formatted radio station licensed to Tooele, Utah, USA. The station is owned by IHR Educational Broadcasting. The station has a construction permit from the FCC for a power increase to 50,000 watts Daytime, 42,000 watts Critical Hours (within two hours after sunrise or before sunset) and 194 watts night. The facilities authorized by the Construction Permit were built in 2004 and the station is operating under "Program Test Authority" with those facilities. Not only does the station have a construction permit to change its power, it also has an application to move its city of license to Magna, near where its current transmitter lies.^[2]^[3]^[4] The change in city of license will make possible the upgrading of the station from Class "D" to Class "B."^[5]

History

The station was built to operate on 990 kHz with a 1000 watt transmitter in the town of Tooele. It was officially launched on July 3, 1956. The original call letters were KTUT, and were changed to KDYL in the early 1960s when that call was released from the 1320 station in Salt Lake City when that station was renamed "KCPX." Simmons paid the then owner, Thomas W. Mathis, to release the "KDYL" call so that they could use those call letters on the 1280 Salt Lake City Station, whereupon the station was assigned the call letters KTLE, beginning on 1982-05-19. KTLE stood for Tooele, the station's city of license and former location of its transmitter. In 1982, Mr. Mathis applied to change the frequency to 1010 from 990 kHz and increase the power to 50,000 watts Daytime and 2500 watts Critical Hours at the original transmitter site in Tooele. The change in frequency and power increase was finally built by the subsequent owner in 1992. In 1994, the station applied to move the transmitter to the Salt Lake Valley, at a site that was too close to the Salt Lake International Airport to allow a reasonable tower height (tower was only 142 feet).

On October 30, 1992, the station changed its call sign to KTUR by the then owner, Robert Turley, and on September 18, 1998 to KIQN by the subsequent owner, Intelliquest Media. Intelliquest went bankrupt in 2003, and Community Wireless purchased the License from the Bankruptcy Trustee. Community Wireless then rebuilt the station at its current transmitter site. In January 2004, the station applied to change its city of license to Magna, of which the application is still pending before the FCC. On August 1, 2004, the station became KCPW, and on March 20, 2009, the station became KPCW.^[6]^[7]

In August 2009, the station was assigned the call KIHU, reflecting an ownership change, as it had been sold to IHR Educational Foundation. The station now broadcasts Catholic religious programming, which began August 22, 2009. ^[8]

References

↑ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/2010/D4-2010-BC-YB-7.pdf
↑ "KIHU Application Search Details". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "KIHU Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "KIHU Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
↑ http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=35687
↑ "Broadcast History - Salt Lake City Radio". Paul Wilson.
↑ "Call Sign History". FCC.
↑ KIHU 1010

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KIHU

Radio-Locator Information on KIHU

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KIHU

Radio stations in the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo, Utah market

by AM frequency	570 610 630 700 730 820 860 910 960 1010 1060 1120 1160 1230 1280 1320 1370 1400 1430 1450 1490 1510 1550 1600 1640

by FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.7 89.1 90.1 90.9 91.5 91.7 91.7 ♦92.1 ♦92.5 92.9 93.3 93.7 94.1 94.9 95.5 95.9 95.9 96.3 96.7 96.7 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.1 99.5 100.3 100.7 101.1 101.5 101.7 101.9 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 103.9 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.3 106.7 107.1 107.5 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.55

by callsign	KAAZ-FM KALL KANN KAUU KBEE KBER KBJA KBLQ-FM KBMG KBYU-FM KBZN KCPW-FM KDUT KDWY KDYL KEC78 KEGA KEGH KENZ KEYY KFNZ KGNT KHTB KIHU KJMY KKAT KKEX KKLV KLLB KLZX KMRI KLO KMGR KNIV KNKL KNRS KNRS-FM KODJ KOGN KOHS KOVO KPGR KQMB KRCL KRSP-FM KRUZ KSFI KSL AM and FM KSOP KSOP-FM KSQN KSRR KSVN KTCE KTKK KTUB KUBL-FM KUDD KUDE KUER-FM KUFR KUSU-FM KUTC KUTR KUUU KVFX KVNU KWCR-FM KWDZ KXRK KXUT-LP KYFO KYMV KZHT KZNS KZNS-FM

Transmitter sites	Ensign Peak Farnsworth Peak Lake Mountain

Defunct	KWCR (88.1) (now online only) KSOS (800) KNFL (1470) KXOL (1660)

Note	♦: KUUU will move to 92.3; KTCE to relocate to new fequency

Nearby radio markets Central Utah Pocatello Southwestern Wyoming See also List of radio stations in Utah

Religious radio stations in the state of Utah

Stations	KAAJ – Monticello KAER – St. George KANN – Roy KBJF – Nephi KCHG – Cedar City KEYP – Price KEYR – Richfield KEYV – Vernal KEYY – Provo KEZB – Beaver KIHU – Tooele KKLV – Kaysville KLLB – West Jordan KNKL – North Ogden KUFR – Salt Lake City KUTR – Taylorsville KYFO – Ogden

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Utah See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other

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