KXOK-LP (California)

KXOK-LP was a community-aimed urban contemporary LPFM radio station serving Modesto, California, broadcasting on 107.9 FM.

For the Enid, Oklahoma television station that held the call sign KXOK-LP on channel 31 from 2007 to 2009, see KXOK-LD.
KXOK-LP
Frequency107.9 (MHz)
Programming
FormatDefunct (was Community-based urban contemporary)
Ownership
OwnerWestside Project Community Center
History
First air date
2005
Former call signs
KPSR-LP (2005–2015)
Call sign meaning
People's station radio
Technical information
ClassL1
ERP100 watts
HAAT25 meters

Originally licensed as KPSR-LP, it was Modesto's only true urban formatted radio station playing hip hop, R&B, old school, classic soul, and gospel music, catering to the mainstream and adult audiences in the relatively demographically small African American community. (KHTN also plays hip hop and R&B, but it carries a rhythmic format.) In addition, it carried community affairs programs and had planned to air local church services.

KPSR-LP filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 7, 2014, for a special temporary authorization allowing it to go off the air due to difficulty with the landlord of their studio in Modesto.[1] A subsequent attempt by several local business people to revive the station as KXOK-LP, playing oldies-but-goodies music (as part of Modesto's annual "Graffiti Festival" program) was rejected by the FCC.[2]

The station's call letters were removed from the FCC database on January 11, 2015, after the station was unable to provide proof that they had not been off-air for over a year. A subsequent request to reverse the call-letter removal (and license cancellation) was rejected by the FCC on June 30, 2016.[3]

References
  1. See FCC application BLSTA-20140207AAO, granted May 2, 2014.
  2. See FCC application BPL-20160113ABT, dismissed February 18, 2016.
  3. "FCC Denial of Petition of Reconsideration" (PDF). June 30, 2016.

37.633°N 120.997°W / 37.633; -120.997


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