KMCQ
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| KMCQ | |
| City of license | The Dalles, Oregon (Relocating to Covington, Washington) |
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| Broadcast area | North central Oregon (Will target the Seattle metropolitan area after move-in) |
| Branding | Mix 104.5 |
| Slogan | "Sound of the Gorge" |
| Frequency | 104.5 MHz |
| First air date | June 20, 1984 |
| Format | Adult Contemporary |
| ERP | 100,000 watts (to go to 25,000 watts after move-in) |
| HAAT | 609 meters (to go to 97 meters after move-in) |
| Class | C (to go to C3 after move-in) |
| Facility ID | 41861 |
| Callsign meaning | Mix (C(Q)olumbia River) |
| Owner | First Broadcasting |
| Website | none |
KMCQ (104.5 FM), known as "Mix 104.5", is a adult contemporary radio station based in The Dalles, Oregon but will move into the Seattle metropolitan area. The First Broadcasting outlet broadcasts at 104.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 100 kW, which will be reduced to 25kW after the move-in.
[edit] History
KMCQ, who signed on the air on June 20, 1984, has been serving the The Dalles/Hood River area since its sign on, mostly as a Hot AC until March 30, 2007. Adult contemporary is there current format. In 2005 a realignment of FM frequencies in the Pacific Northwest area resulted in several stations moving to new locations.
KMCQ would end up being one of the stations relocating in the shuffle as the 104.5 signal changed its city of license to Covington, Washington, a suburb of Seattle in southeastern King County. As a result of this move, KMIH, a class-D FM station licensed to Mercer Island, Washington, will vacate the 104.5 signal to make room for KMCQ and move to 88.9 after the changes are made. Already another station at this same frequency, KCFL-LP, has since relocated to Ocean Shores, Washington at 89.5.
Currently KMCQ is testing its signal and has allowed KMIH to remain at their current frequency, but has requested that they sign-off their 104.5 transmission occasionally at night in order to do the testing. The testing has however been done most of time with programing provided by KMIH, possibly to lower the number of listener complaints. At the same time there are several issues holding up the move-in as they also have to wait on KAFE-FM/Bellingham, Washington's planned move from 104.3 to 104.1 which is currently being delayed by the coordination process with Canada as the stations are all in the Canadian border zone.
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KMCQ
- Radio Locator information on KMCQ
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KMCQ
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