KCLV (1240 AM) is a

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licensed to

Clovis, New Mexico Clovis is a city in and the county seat of Curry County, New Mexico. The city had a population of 37,775 as of the 2010 census, and a 2019 estimated population of 38,319. Clovis is located in the New Mexico portion of the Llano Estacado, in the ...

, United States, airing a talk format. The station is currently owned by Zia Radio Group LLC.

History

New-Tex Broadcasting, a partnership of Wallace Simpson and H. S. Boles, filed with the

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on February 8, 1950, for a new 100-watt radio station to serve Clovis on 1240 kHz. After going into comparative hearing, the application was approved on August 29, 1951, and subsequently modified to specify 250 watts. KCLV began broadcasting on February 27, 1952. Just months after the station got on air, Simpson and Boles dissolved their partnership, with Simpson buying out his partner. The next year, Odis L. Echols and Odis L. Echols, Jr., former residents of Clovis, purchased the station from Simpson and returned to the city. The elder Echols purchased full ownership three years later. During this time, a new Methodist church in Clovis held its children's Sunday school classes in the KCLV transmitter building while permanent facilities were built. In September 1961, the station increased power from 250 to 1,000 watts during daylight hours, relocating its transmitter site in 1965. The Echols sold the station in 1971 to Zia Broadcasting Company—owned by Lonnie Allsup, the owner of

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convenience stores—for $230,000. In 1981, Zia acquired KKQQ, an FM radio station in Clovis, and relaunched it as country music

KCLV-FM KCLV-FM (99.1 FM, "Country 99") is a radio station licensed to serve Clovis, New Mexico. The station is owned by Rick Lee Keefer and David Lansford, through licensee Zia Radio Group LLC. It airs a country music format. History 99.1 went on a ...

. KCLV AM switched from classic country to sports using

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in 2001. The sports format remained until 2011, when it began broadcasting a talk format. Lonnie Allsup died in 2018. In 2022, the Allsup family sold the Zia Radio Group to Rick Keefer, who had been the general manager, and David Lansford, marking the first change in ownership of KCLV in more than 50 years. The five stations—KCLV AM and FM,

KWKA KWKA (680 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Clovis, New Mexico. The station is owned by Zia Broadcasting. It broadcasts a sports format. The station was assigned the KWKA call letters by the Federal Communications Commission. This radio ...

, KTQM-FM, and KQTY-FM in

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—sold for $200,000.

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