KHCS (91.7

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) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station serves the

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area and can be heard from Banning to North Shore, over most of the

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. KHCS airs the nationally syndicated

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worship music network around the clock. Prior to the station's sale to

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in April 2018, KHCS was a

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-formatted station known as "Joy92". It was owned by Prairie Avenue Gospel Center and carried a variety of locally produced Christian programming as well as inspirational music.

History

The station initially was assigned the call letters KYRH on February 7, 1990, by the U.S.

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; on April 1, the station changed its call sign to KHCS. However, the station would not make its on-air debut until January 1993, three years later. From its inception, KHCS was owned by Prairie Avenue Gospel Center, a church based in

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, and carried a

format. Branded "Joy92" and positioning itself as "the Desert's Christian Radio", the station aired a variety of music, talk and teaching programming, much of it produced locally in Southern California. On April 5, 2018, KHCS entered into an affiliation agreement with

to carry the latter's

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network

; the Joy92 programming was dropped. On April 20, EMF purchased KHCS from Prairie Avenue Gospel Center for $450,000; the purchase was consummated on June 27, 2018.

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