KECR or Family Radio

Family Radio

Family Radio, also known by its licensee name Family Stations Inc., is a Christian radio network based in Oakland, California, USA, founded by Lloyd Lindquist, Richard H. Palmquist and Harold Camping...

is the San Diego Family Radio

Family Radio

Family Radio, also known by its licensee name Family Stations Inc., is a Christian radio network based in Oakland, California, USA, founded by Lloyd Lindquist, Richard H. Palmquist and Harold Camping...

 affiliate. It has been on the AM band since the mid-1990s, at 910 KHz. It previously broadcast on 93.3 FM (now KHTS-FM

KHTS-FM

KHTS-FM, also known as "Channel 933" or simply "nine-three-three", is a Contemporary Hit Radio station in San Diego, California, broadcasting in analog and digital HD Radio...

). The studio and the transmitter site is near Moreno Avenue, north of Lakeside, California

Lakeside, California

Lakeside is a Census Designated Place in San Diego County, California. The population was 20,648 at the 2010 census, up from 19,560 as of the 2000 census.- History :...

 by Highway 67

California State Route 67

State Route 67 runs from Interstate 8 in El Cajon to Lakeside as the San Vicente Freeway. It then becomes a smaller roadway through Poway and becomes Main Street in Ramona before ending into State Route 78....

.

The transmitter site is also the broadcast home of KCBQ

KCBQ

KCBQ is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format and is owned by Salem Communications. The station offers Conservative talk programming such as Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager and Michael Medved...

-AM 1170. They share the seven-tower site.

During the October 2003 Cedar Fire

Cedar Fire

The Cedar Fire was a human-caused wildfire that burned out of control through a large area of San Diego County, in Southern California, in October 2003...

s, part of KECR's rural transmitter site was destroyed by flames. Only one antenna (out of a total of seven) and an 'electrical doghouse' were completely destroyed. The station has been fully upgraded and repaired.

In the 1960s the station was a Top 40 rocker known as KDEO, with the moniker "Radio Kay-dee-oh". The station was also the first in the world to broadcast the countdown program American Top 40

American Top 40

American Top 40 is an internationally syndicated, independent radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs. Originally a production of Watermark Inc...

, on July 3, 1970.

In the mid 1970s the station was KMJC, Magic 91, still playing Top 40. In 1980 KMJC flipped to Christian programming and changed their call's meaning to "King and Master, Jesus Christ". In 1995, KECR-FM and KMJC began simulcasting. This ended in 1996, when Jacor

Clear Channel Communications

Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...

took control of the FM station.