KYAA

KYAA (1200 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Licensed to Soquel, California, it serves the Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay, and San Jose area. The station is owned by IHR Educational Broadcasting^[1] Between 2001 and early 2013, the station played a wide variety of oldies music from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and was the only oldies station in that time period in the Monterey Bay Area. Former Los Angeles KHJ boss jock Don Murray (Carlson) began the station along with radio veteran Denis 'Catfish' Miller . The station used the call letters KYA, minus the additional 'A', as a tribute to the top 40 station in San Francisco in the 60s and 70s with those same call letters. Murray and Miller were able to get their hands on the old KYA jingle package, and the station sounded just as it did back in the good old days. Local radio veteran David Mars also worked on the station for a time...The station was simulcast on both FM and AM reached its peak of success in 2004, sold back to Salinas' Wolfhouse broadcasting after a failed LMA by Peoples radio, and the format quickly dropped in favor of a more urban hip hop format, ending KYA and it's rock and roll roots, forever. The AM part, 1200local Monterey Radio veteran Jim Vossen, who went back even farther for the 'music of your life' format, and ultimately was shelved by Joe Rosa, owner of Peoples Radio.

People's Radio, Inc. tried to sell the station for quite some time without success. It donated KYAA to IHR Educational Broadcasting, which airs its Immaculate Heart Radio Roman Catholic religion format. The license to cover to IHR was granted by the FCC on July 29, 2013.

Former On Air Staff

• Sean O'Callaghan, Monday–Friday, 6-9 AM
• John Cardieniro, Saturday, 8 AM-12 noon
• Don Murray, Denis Catfish Miller, David Marzetti

References

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for KYAA
• Radio-Locator Information on KYAA
• Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KYAA