Pilgrim Radio is a network of

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s broadcasting a

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format. Pilgrim Radio's programming includes interviews with Christian leaders, discussion of current events/issues, news, a book-reading program, and teaching messages, along with

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music. Pilgrim Radio is listener-supported and commercial-free. The network is owned and operated by Western Inspirational Broadcasters, Inc., a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organization.

History

Western Inspirational Broadcasters was incorporated in 1962 to construct a new religious radio station. In 1969, land was acquired on McClelland Peak near

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, for the construction of a tower. KNIS—"Nevada's Inspirational Station"—made its first broadcast on 94.7 MHz on November 25, 1970. The original studios were in a trailer. In 1988, Western Inspirational obtained a construction permit for the non-commercial 91.3 MHz frequency in Carson City. It sold the existing 94.7 facility, which could be converted to commercial authorization, to Sapphire Broadcasting of

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, The KNIS call letters moved to 91.3 when the frequency change occurred in October 1989; the 94.7 frequency returned as a commercial station, KRWR, in June 1990. After previously growing with the installation of translators, the network added a new high-power station with KCSP-FM 106.9 in

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, in 1990. Like in Carson City, Western Inspirational sold the commercial station and moved to a non-commercial frequency at 90.3 MHz in order to feed more translators.

Stations

In addition to streaming its programming at pilgrimradio.com, the signal is broadcast over-the-air on KNIS in

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; KNVQ in Elko, Nevada; KDOX in

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; KCSP-FM in

; KDNR in

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; KTME in Reliance, Wyoming; KPMD in Evanston, Wyoming; KMJB in Lander–Riverton, Wyoming; and KLMT in

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. Its signal is also extended by a network of 28 FM translators in

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, and

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References

External links

Pilgrim Radio's website

Pilgrim Radio's webcast
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