KCDX (103.1
FM) is a
radio station
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broadcasting from
Globe, Arizona
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to the east of
Phoenix since March 2002 with a commercial-free
rock music
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format. The station is licensed to
Florence
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Florence ...
,
Arizona
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. The KCDX listening area is primarily the eastern half of the Phoenix metropolitan region. The KCDX signal can also be picked up in the northern suburbs of
Tucson
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.
Format
The station
format
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is late–1960s to late–1980s album rock. It is fully automated, has no
DJs and does not play any commercial announcements other than its own
station identification
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and local political ads as required by
Federal Election Commission
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rules.
History
KCDX was powered-on by Ted Tucker, a former hospital pharmacist and broadcast-radio engineer, who owns several radio stations in Arizona. He used the signal as a 2.7-
kW personal
MP3
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player, broadcasting to central and eastern Arizona.
The station now has a website with a live Internet feed and a rolling
playlist
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. The station's website has advertising.
On 08/10/2000, Tucker filed a Minor Change to a Licensed Facility Application with the FCC to move the main transmitter to a mountain NW of Oracle, AZ. while increasing power to 95 kW. Three engineering amendments were filed in 2003 and 2004.
If approved, the signal upgrade would include new areas of Mesa, Apache Junction and N Tucson in the coverage area. Source: FCC Engineering ('FMQ') Database.
Tucker has remained quiet about the ultimate fate of the station, and seems to have a history of "
flipping
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" properties,
November 2004 article
in Arizona Daily Star
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History 1877–1925
L. C. Hughes was the ...
so it has been suggested that he may simply be creating value to promote its sale. The growth of KCDX's popularity induced him to duplicate the signal on the 36-kilowatt
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transmitter of 95.1 KFMR northwest of Phoenix in order to maintain its broadcast license while a sale of that station was pending. The KFMR simulcast lasted from October 2004 until March 2005, when KFMR's license was passed from Tucker to its new owners.
See also
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Notes
External links
KCDX website, playlist and Internet stream
{{Classic Rock Radio Stations in Arizona
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