KCPL (90.5 FM) is a

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to serve

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, United States. The station is owned by Growing Christian Foundation, and carries programming from

Walla Walla University Walla Walla University is a private Adventist university in College Place, Washington. The university has five campuses throughout the Pacific Northwest. It was founded in 1892 and is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The ...

's Positive Life Radio Network, based at

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(91.3) in Walla Walla.

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on August 7,

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. The new station was assigned the call letters KORM by the FCC on August 29, 2003. KORM received its license to cover from the FCC on November 2, 2006. In December 2008, World Radio Network, Inc., agreed to sell KORM to Carlos Arana Ministries for a reported total sale price of $45,000. The deal was approved by the FCC on February 10, 2009, and consummated on April 9, 2009. The new owners had the

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changed to KGIO on April 16, 2009. On November 9, 2012, the sale of KGIO and translator K211ET to Centro Familiar Cristiano was consummated at a purchase price of $45,000. Effective July 1, 2022, Centro Familiar Cristiano sold KGIO to Growing Christian Foundation for $80,000. The new owners changed the station's call sign to KCPL on July 12, 2022, and it began to relay

on that day.

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* * {{Religious Radio Stations in Oregon CPL (FM) Radio stations established in 2006 Clatsop County, Oregon 2006 establishments in Oregon