KMPS (910

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) was a

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AM radio station licensed to

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, and broadcast to the

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area. It was owned by El Dorado Broadcasters and

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with KXVV (103.1 FM). KMPS's offices and studios were on Hesperia Road in Hesperia. KMPS was powered at 700 watts by day and 500 watts at night. It used a

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with a four-

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. The

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was near Mesa Linda Street in Oak Hills. The station went on the air in 1990 as KVVQ, a middle of the road music and talk.

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renamed the station KRAK in 2001; it would feature

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until 2011. From then until 2019, it was a

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station, carrying

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until the launch of CBS Sports Radio in 2013; it became KMPS after CBS Radio was acquired by

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in 2017. Following El Dorado Broadcasters' acquisition of the station in 2019, KMPS went silent for a year, resumed operations as a KXVV simulcast in 2020, and was closed down in 2024.

History

The station signed on the air on February 1, 1990, as KVVQ. Initially, it broadcast middle of the road music and talk programming. On February 19, 2001, then-owner

changed the call letters to KRAK. That call sign was formerly used by a well-known 50,000 watt

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station in

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, which is now KHTK. On July 31, 2008, CBS Radio announced plans to sell its mid-size and small market stations (including KRAK) to focus more on major market clusters. However, such a sale was never consummated. On November 15, 2011, KRAK changed its format from

, branded "Stardust 910", to all-sports, branded as "910 ESPN". The previous

affiliate in the region, KVFG, began stunting with

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, then switched to a classic hits format. In September 2012, KRAK began a transition to CBS Sports Radio with hourly updates. The station dropped ESPN Radio and began 24-hour broadcasts of CBS Sports Radio on January 2, 2013. KMPS carried

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baseball games until 2019. On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with

. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17. On December 11, 2017, the station took on the KMPS call sign. Those call letters had been transferred from

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sister station KSWD. On May 6, 2019, Entercom sold KMPS and KVFG to El Dorado Broadcasters for $1 million. The sale was completed on August 15. Afterwards, KMPS went silent due to financial reasons. Around August 2020, KMPS returned to the air with a simulcast of the

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format of KXVV (the former KVFG). El Dorado Broadcasting surrendered the KMPS license in August 2024. The

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would cancel it on August 15, 2024.

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