KLVS (107.3 FM) is a

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broadcasting a Christian Contemporary format from K-Love, licensed to

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, United States. The station is owned by San Joaquin Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the Educational Media Foundation.

History

The station signed on the air in 1962 as KSTN-FM Stockton, carrying a full-time

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format. The following year, it added some

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Music and by 1965, it dropped

entirely and expanded the Spanish programming with some simulcast of the

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music of KSTN (1420 AM). KSTN-FM transmitted

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audio from its inception in 1962 until 1996 when it switched to

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. Just after 12:01AM on February 20, 2010, the 'La Poderosa' Regional Mexican era ended as KSTN-FM abruptly went dark. Two days later the station returned with an English-language

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format distributed via satellite from K-LOVE. The station call letters changed in March 2010 to KLVS and transmitter license was reassigned in August 2012"License to cover", FCC file BLED-20120628AAI to Livermore, within reach of both the Central Valley and

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