Branding Radio Punjab Audience share 0.4, #27 (Fa'07, R&R) City of license Oildale Owner Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa | First air date July 4, 1987 Frequency 660 kHz Format Christianity Area Bakersfield | |
Broadcast area Bakersfield metropolitan area Translator(s) 102.5 K273CB (Bakersfield) Call sign meaning K WaVE (station's moniker) | ||
KGSV (660 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Oildale, California, and serving the Bakersfield metropolitan area. The station is owned by XL Media, Inc., and airs a South Asian radio format known as "Radio Punjab." Affiliated stations carry the same programming in San Francisco, Sacramento and other West Coast cities.
KGSV's transmitter is located off Round Mountain Road in Bakersfield. The station's programming is also heard on FM translator K273CB, on 102.5 MHz.
History
The station went on the air as KGDP on Independence Day 1987. On October 15, 1989, the station changed its call sign to KSMI and on January 22, 1990 back to KGDP.
KGDP and its sister station, 90.5 KGDP-FM in Santa Maria, California, were originally owned by a local Christian group, People of Action, through licensee Radio Representatives, Inc. In August 2008, People of Action declared bankruptcy, leading KGDP and KGDP-FM to cease all operations on August 31, 2008.
In November 2009, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa acquired the station, switching it to a simulcast of its San Clemente station, 107.9 KWVE-FM. KGDP-AM changed its call sign to KWVE. Its sister station, KGDP-FM, was sold that same year to Family Life Radio.
In 2016, the station was sold to XL Media. On September 30, 2016, its call sign was switched to KGSV and it began airing programming from "Radio Punjab."