KCEE
adult standards radio station in Tucson, Arizona, United States
KCEE is a commercial radio station located in Tucson, Arizona, broadcasting on 690 AM. KCEE airs a Christian format and is owned by Calvary Chapel of Tucson, Inc.
By day, KCEE is powered at 250 watts; as 690 AM is a clear channel frequency assigned to Mexico and Canada, the station reduces power at night to 3 watts. It uses a non-directional antenna, with the transmitter located on North Los Altos Avenue near East Jacinto Street in Tucson. KCEE's programming is also heard on KAIC (88.9 FM), a station nominally licensed to Tucson but serving San Manuel, and on a translator (K294CR) at 106.7 FM in Tucson itself, relaying an HD Radio subchannel of KLPX (96.1 FM).
History
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On April 15, 1953, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to Tucson Radio, Incorporated, for a new daytime-only radio station to broadcast on 690 kHz in Tucson. The company consisted of two former employees of KOPO and an Ohio transplant. The station announced plans for studios and a transmitter site on Shawnee Avenue east of St. Mary's Hospital, but it soon found itself needing to buy additional land to ensure a buffer to surrounding properties.
The new station took the call letters KEVT and began broadcasting September 23, 1953, as Tucson's sixth radio station and its first all-Spanish-language outlet, serving an estimated audience of 40,000 Spanish speakers in the area. KEVT broadcast from a 280 ft (85 m) tower—Tucson's second-tallest at the time.
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