KMLE

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KMLE, "KMLE Country 108", is a Country music outlet serving the Phoenix area. The CBS Radio station operates at 107.9MHz with an ERP of 96kW and is licensed to Chandler, Arizona. Its facility ID number is 59965.

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[edit] History

KMLE's first owners got a permit in 1979, under the KLRG call sign. It was never used, and eventually, it acquired the KMLE call letters on 18 June of that year. KMLE is one of two Country music outlets in the Phoenix market, since it is locked into a long time battle with Clear Channel-owned KNIX, which began in 1988. The battle could be ground down to the conglomerates that own the two stations: Clear Channel (KNIX) and CBS Radio (KMLE).

[edit] Misc.

Though the station's ID may sound like "Camel Country", it is spelled with the station's call letters. The same goes for the KMLE in KMLE Nation.

[edit] KMLE Nation

The station runs a major listening club known as the KMLE Nation. It has its own website, [1]. This program not only is the front-end for such promotions as a concert rewards shirt, "KMLEflage" and as a front-end for station miscellaneous items and community support, it is used frequently on air: so much that one of the big programs has Nation in its title: Jeff West's weekday nighttime show, the Nighttime Nation.

[edit] Station programming schedule

[edit] Weekday

12am-5am Doc Holliday
5am-9am Dave Pratt and Stacey Brooks (morning show)
9am-2pm Lisa Malay
2pm-7pm Stu Evans ("Big Shoes" Stu) and Dena Foxx 7pm-12am Jeff West (show is known as the Nighttime Nation on air: this derives from the big station listener club (KMLE Nation))

[edit] Saturday

12am-6am "Cactus Jack"
6am-10am Russ "The Hump Man" Knight
10am-2pm Beth Fox
2pm-7pm "Duelly"
7pm-12am Jim West

[edit] Sunday

12am-6am "Cactus Jack"
6am-7am KMLE Views (program info unknown)
7am-10:03am (program runs late three or so minutes) Country Countdown USA
10:03am-2pm Beth Fox
2pm-7pm "Duelly"
7pm-12am "Shappy" (this slot is sometimes syndicated)

[edit] KMLE HD2

On May 1, 2006, CBS Radio announced that once KMLE's HD Radio equipment is placed on the air later in the year, they will program a Country Variety format called "Willie" (named in homage to Willie Nelson) on its HD2 subchannel. [2]

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