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KFLX

Chino Valley, Arizona
Broadcast area	Prescott, Arizona
Frequency	92.5 MHz
Branding	Rewind 92.5 & 104.1
Programming
Format	80's hits
Affiliations	Compass Media Networks
Ownership
Owner	Stone Canyon Media Group (Stone Canyon of Flagstaff, LLC)
Sister stations	KBTK, KSED, KWMX
History
First air date	1989 (at 105.1) July 2010 (at 92.5)
Former call signs	KBTK (2010)
Former frequencies	105.1 MHz (1989–2010)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	171022
Class	A
ERP	1,500 watts
HAAT	174 meters (571 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	34°42′53.00″N 112°31′33.00″W / 34.7147222°N 112.5258333°W / 34.7147222; -112.5258333
Translator(s)	104.1 K281BE (Flagstaff)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	rewindmymusic.com

KFLX (92.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a 80's hits format. Licensed to Chino Valley, Arizona, United States, it serves the Prescott area. The station is currently owned by Stone Canyon Media Group.

History

KFLX started as a construction permit granted to Ted Tucker and his Desert West Air Ranchers Corporation for a new station on 105.1 kHz in Winslow with the call letters KTDX. Tucker was able to shoehorn KTDX into the more populous Flagstaff market (city of license: Kachina Village) and changed the call letters to KFLX. The construction permit changed hands to D.B. Broadcasting in 1994, then to Red Rock Communications a year later. Red Rock signed the station on with an Adult album alternative format named "The Eagle". Toward the end of the 1990s and early 2000s, KFLX morphed into an adult alternative/Modern AC hybrid similar to that of Phoenix's KZON.

Red Rock continued to own the station until it and sisters KWMX-FM and KSED-FM were sold in 2007 to Grenax Broadcasting II, LLC who also owned WCFX in Mount Pleasant, MI. Grenax completely transformed the station into a pure Hot AC station as "105.1 The Canyon".

In January 2009 105.1 The Canyon, along with sister stations 96.7 The WOLF and 107.5 KOLT Country, moved into state of the art studios on 4th Street in Flagstaff.

In July 2010 KFLX moved to 92.5 FM licensed to Chino Valley, AZ. Sister station KBTK took the 105.1 frequency licensed to Kachina Village as 105.1 The Big Talker.

In January 2012, 92.5/104.1 began promoting that they were "pressing the big red button on the 20th" and to tune in at 9:25 a.m. that morning to find out what the stations were up to (along with that, several songs in that span were played in reverse). On that day at that time, KFLX began stunting with sound clips of songs, commercials, and television shows from the 1980s, and introduced an 80's hits format on the stations, branded as "Rewind 92.5 & 104.1". The last 2 songs on The Canyon were It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by R.E.M, and the first 90 seconds of A Change Would Do You Good by Sheryl Crow. The first 2 songs on Rewind were The Go-Go's We Got The Beat and Michael Jackson's Billie Jean.

On September 24, 2018, Grenax Broadcasting II, LLC, announced the sale of KFLX and sister stations KBTK, KSED and KWMX to Stone Canyon Media Group. the purchase was completed in December.

References

1. "Facility Technical Data for KFLX". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. "Flagstaff Going in Rewind".
3. "New Group Of Radio Vets Acquires Flagstaff Cluster". RadioInsight. 2018-09-25. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
4. "EMF Buys KMJR/Corpus Christi; Perry Broadcasting Sells In SW Oklahoma". All Access. Retrieved 2019-01-11.

External links

• Facility details for Facility ID 743535 (KFLX) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KFLX in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
• Facility details for Facility ID 64686 (K281BE) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• K281BE at FCCdata.org

• Radio stations in Arizona