Pilgrim Radio
Christian radio network in Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, and California
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Pilgrim Radio is a network of radio stations broadcasting a Christian radio format. Pilgrim Radio's programming includes interviews with Christian leaders, discussion of current events/issues, news, a book-reading program, and teaching messages, along with Christian contemporary music. Pilgrim Radio is listener-supported and commercial-free.
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| Type | Radio network |
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| Country | |
Broadcast area | Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, California |
| Headquarters | Carson City, Nevada |
| Branding | Pilgrim Radio |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Western Inspirational Broadcasters, Inc. |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www |
The network is owned and operated by Western Inspirational Broadcasters, Inc., a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organization.
History
Western Inspirational Broadcasters was incorporated in 1962 to construct a new religious radio station. In 1969, land was acquired on McClelland Peak near Virginia City, Nevada, for the construction of a tower.[1] KNIS—"Nevada's Inspirational Station"[2]—made its first broadcast on 94.7 MHz on November 25, 1970.[3] The original studios were in a trailer.[4]
In 1988, Western Inspirational obtained a construction permit for the non-commercial 91.3 MHz frequency in Carson City. It sold the existing 94.7 facility, which could be converted to commercial authorization, to Sapphire Broadcasting of Washington, D.C.,[5] The KNIS call letters moved to 91.3 when the frequency change occurred in October 1989;[6] the 94.7 frequency returned as a commercial station, KRWR, in June 1990.[7][a]
After previously growing with the installation of translators,[3] the network added a new high-power station with KCSP-FM 106.9 in Casper, Wyoming, in 1990. Like in Carson City, Western Inspirational sold the commercial station and moved to a non-commercial frequency at 90.3 MHz in order to feed more translators.[10]
Stations
In addition to streaming its programming at pilgrimradio.com, the signal is broadcast over-the-air on KNIS in Carson City, Nevada; KNVQ in Elko, Nevada; KDOX in Big Pine, California; KCSP-FM in Casper, Wyoming; KDNR in Cheyenne, Wyoming; KTME in Reliance, Wyoming; KPMD in Evanston, Wyoming; KMJB in Lander–Riverton, Wyoming; and KLMT in Billings, Montana. Its signal is also extended by a network of 28 FM translators in Nevada, California, and Wyoming.[11]
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | State | First air date | Facility ID | Class | ERP (W) |
Height (m (ft)) |
Transmitter coordinates | FCC info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDOX | 91.3 FM | Big Pine | California | 2012 | 173521 | B | 660 V 165 H | 925.7 m (3,037 ft) | 37°24′41.7″N 118°11′10.3″W | FCC (KDOX) |
| KLMT | 89.3 FM | Billings | Montana | December 18, 2002[12]: D-337 | 89849 | A | 980 V 350 H | 161 m (528 ft) | 45°45′49.3″N 108°27′20.4″W | FCC (KLMT) |
| KNIS[b] | 91.3 FM | Carson City | Nevada | October 15, 1989[12]: D-351 | 71818 | C0 | 67,000 | 660 m (2,170 ft) | 39°15′30.9″N 119°42′37.1″W | FCC (KNIS) |
| KNVQ | 90.7 FM | Spring Creek | Nevada | 2010 | 173285 | A | 500 | 287 m (942 ft) | 40°48′47.4″N 115°41′59.6″W | FCC (KNVQ) |
| KCSP-FM | 90.3 FM | Casper | Wyoming | 1992[12]: D-607 | 71810 | C | 100,000 | 593 m (1,946 ft) | 42°44′25.9″N 106°18′26″W | FCC (KCSP-FM) |
| KPMD[c] | 91.9 FM | Evanston | Wyoming | 2005 | 94097 | A | 215 | 457 m (1,499 ft) | 41°21′9.8″N 110°54′31.6″W | FCC (KPMD) |
| KMJB | 89.1 FM | Hudson | Wyoming | 2011 | 173291 | C2 | 3,000 | 406 m (1,332 ft) | 42°34′41.8″N 108°42′48.4″W | FCC (KMJB) |
| KTME | 89.5 FM | Reliance | Wyoming | 2010 | 176985 | A | 350 | 342.4 m (1,123 ft) | 41°29′46.9″N 109°20′43.9″W | FCC (KTME) |
| KDNR | 88.7 FM | South Greeley | Wyoming | December 23, 2003[12]: D-613 | 84104 | A | 500 | 129 m (423 ft) | 41°6′2″N 105°1′30″W | FCC (KDNR) |
Notes:
- This frequency is no longer in the Reno market. In 1990, its new owner filed to move it into Sacramento, California,[8] a process completed on January 1, 1998.[9]
- Previously KCWW and rebroadcast KPCW of Park City, Utah.[13]