KPEN-FM

Radio station in Soldotna, Alaska

Soldotna, Alaska

Broadcast areaKenai, AlaskaFrequency101.7 (MHz)BrandingFM 101.7 True CountryProgrammingFormatCountryOwnershipOwnerPeninsula Communications, Inc.Technical informationFacility ID52149ClassC3ERP25,000 wattsHAAT73 meters (240 ft)Translator(s)K257DB (99.3 MHz, Anchor Point, etc.)
K257ER (99.3 MHz, Kenai)
K265EX (100.9 MHz, Soldotna)
K270CH (101.9 MHz, Homer)
K271BF (102.1 MHz, Unalaska)
K274AB (102.7 MHz, Kodiak)
K274BO (102.7 MHz, Kachemak City
K287CD (105.3 MHz, Seward-Woodrow

KPEN-FM is a commercial radio station in Soldotna, Alaska, broadcasting to the Kenai, Alaska, area on 101.7 FM.

KPEN-FM airs a country music format.

KPEN-FM was originally a San Francisco radio station which began broadcasting on October 27, 1957. Following a series of tests, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized KPEN to become the first station west of the Mississippi River to transmit in multiplex stereo, August 10, 1961. The station was later sold and became known as KIOI.^[1]

Another SF Bay Area station, originally known as KPGM, adopted the KPEN call letters in December 1969, one month after they became available. That station, located in Los Altos, CA, broadcasting on 97.7 FM, was not related to the San Francisco station. It had broadcast studios at the San Antonio center with transmitters west of El Monte avenue in Santa Clara county California in 1975 they moved out of the San Antonio center to the (now defunct) Old Mill Mall in Mountain View, CA.^[2]

References

^ KPEN 101.3 FM - Atherton/San Francisco
^ KPEN 97.7 FM

External links

KPEN in the FCC FM station database
KPEN in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

Radio stations in Kenai, Alaska (Kenai Peninsula Borough)

By AM frequency

By FM frequency

Translators	99.3 100.1 100.9 102.3 102.7 104.9 K285DU K285EF 105.9 106.1

Digital radio
by frequency & subchannel

890
91.9-1

By call sign

Defunct

Radio stations in Southcentral Alaska: Anchorage; Kenai
Elsewhere in region: Southcentral Alaska

Other Alaska regions: Alaska Panhandle; The Bush; Fairbanks; Interior Alaska; Juneau

See also: List of radio stations in Alaska

v t e Country radio stations in the state of Alaska
Stations	KASH – Anchorage KAYO – Wasilla KBRJ – Anchorage KDJF – Ester KGTW – Ketchikan KIAK-FM – Fairbanks KLAM – Cordova KPEN-FM – Soldotna KRUP – Dillingham KTKU – Juneau KVAK – Valdez KVOK-HD2 - Kodiak KWDD – Fairbanks KWHQ-FM – Kenai KXLW – Houston
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