KLOA-LP,

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channel 6, was a low powered

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licensed to

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. Because the allocation of channel 6 in

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approximately within the lower fringes of the

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, KLOA-LP took advantage of the station's audio carrier, broadcasting on 87.75

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, and marketed itself as a

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. It aired a Classic

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under the

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"87.7 Country Gold". According to the

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, television stations must operate both the audio and video carriers; however, the carriers are not required to "accompany" each other, meaning that the audio and video can operate independently of one another. This meant that KLOA-LP needed not broadcast any particular image, as long as they broadcast a video signal.

History

KLOA-LP was originally K61AJ, a translator station on channel 61 owned by the Indian Wells Valley TV Booster, providing over-the-air reception of

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. On January 17, 2005, the station was sold to Roy William Mayhugh, who then moved the station to channel 6, under the call sign K06AJ. It is unknown what the station broadcast, or what the station's plans were during this time. On July 30, 2007, Roy William Mayhugh sold the station to

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area broadcaster Robert D. Adelman. Soon after, the station converted operations to a

and flipped to a Spanish

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format. The call letters were changed to KLOA-LP on April 11, 2012. After the FCC mandated the shutdown of all analog low-power television stations, which also included franken-FM stations, KLOA-LP signed off nearing the mandated deadline of July 13, 2021, with the website announcing its closure and announcing listers to tune to sister station KGIL 98.5 FM in Johannesburg, California.FCC Public Notice: "The incentive auction task force and media bureau announce procedures for low power television, television translator and replacement translator stations during the post-incentive auction transition", May 17, 2017
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Adelman Broadcasting
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