Broadcast area Coachella Valley First air date 1954 (as KPAL) Power 960 watts unlimited | Frequency 1450 kHz Format Silent | |
City Palm Springs, California | ||
KCOD (1450 AM) is a radio station licensed to Palm Springs, California, United States. It serves the Coachella Valley area. The station is owned by College of the Desert.
The station was previously owned by R & R Radio as progressive talk station KPTR, a format and call sign transferred from 1340 AM (which became KWXY) on February 2, 2010; prior to then, 1450 AM was KGAM, which carried conservative talk shows and ESPN Radio. R & R donated KPTR to College of the Desert on November 1, 2016. The college intends to operate the station as a noncommercial station; in preparation for the change, R & R took KPTR silent on July 10, 2016. The progressive talk format was relocated to KWXY; that station would go silent as well one month later. KPTR changed its call letters to KCOD on January 8, 2017; in a December 2016 filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), College of the Desert said that it would return the station to the air by April.
The transmitter and broadcast tower are located between Palm Springs and Cathedral City on Dinah Shore Drive. According to the Antenna Structure Registration database, the tower is 52 m (171 ft) tall.