KSOS
contemporary Christian music radio station in Las Vegas
KSOS (90.5 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, serving the Las Vegas Valley. It broadcasts a Christian contemporary music format branded "SOS Radio" and is the flagship station for the Sounds of the Spirit Radio network. Owned by Faith Communications, KSOS's studios are on South 6th Street off East Sahara Avenue.
The transmitter is on Mountain Tower Road in Henderson. Programming is simulcast on a chain of rebroadcasting stations and FM translators.
History
The station signed on the air on July 18, 1972. The original call sign was KILA and the station broadcast on 95.5 FM. Its city of license was Henderson. It has always had a Christian radio format. It was a non-commercial station but it broadcast on a commercial frequency.
KILA switched frequencies on August 8, 1985, going from the commercial section of the FM dial to the section reserved for non-commercial stations.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “KSOS” is contemporary Christian music radio station in Las Vegas. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through KSOS, contemporary and Christian, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6338058. Authority coordinates are 36.008, -115.006. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972 and 1985.
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This entry incorporates text from “KSOS” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.