ERP 46,100 watts Class C1 Frequency 102.7 MHz Format Christian radio | HAAT 409.3 meters Facility ID 34435 City of license Papillion Area Omaha, Lincoln | |
Broadcast area Omaha/Lincoln, Nebraska Callsign meaning Veni, Sancte Spiritus ("Come, Holy Spirit" in Latin) Owner VSS Catholic Communications Call sign meaning Veni, Sancte Spiritus ("Come, Holy Spirit" in Latin) | ||
KVSS (102.7 FM) is a radio station which rebroadcasts the Catholic format of KVSS (FM). Licensed to Papillion, Nebraska, United States, the station serves the Omaha area. KVSS's studios are located on West A Street in Omaha (with auxiliary studios located in Lincoln and Grand Island), while its transmitter is located just south of Gretna, Nebraska.
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KVSS
In January 1999, VSS Catholic Communications, Inc. purchased KNOS, a 500-watt signal from Bill Thompson, and immediately began broadcasting a mix of contemporary Christian music and Catholic programming from the EWTN Radio Network on the 88.9 FM frequency. Additional programming followed from St. Joseph Communications, Catholic Answers, Ave Maria and Starboard Communications. After broadcasting for 10 years on a small signal, VSS partnered with Kolbe Media, a group of people committed to Catholic Radio in the Lincoln, Nebraska, community. On January 29, 2009, Spirit Catholic Radio purchased a new 50,000-watt signal on 102.7 FM and expanded to reach both the Omaha and Lincoln communities, as well as over 1 million potential listeners throughout eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. Its former frequency was sold to the Bible Broadcasting Network.
KVSS is a non-profit, listener-supported radio station.
102.7 history
Beginning in early 1980, the frequency was home to KFRX, serving as Lincoln's Top 40 station. In 2007, after Clear Channel sold their Lincoln stations to Three Eagles Communications, Three Eagles spun off 102.7 FM and KRKR to Chapin Communications in order to meet ownership limits. This arrangement was only temporary, as Chapin was the intermediate buyer while a permanent buyer was being sought. On September 18, 2007, KFRX moved their format to sister station 106.3 FM, while 102.7 FM began stunting with a loop directing listeners to the new frequency. A week later, 102.7 FM (now under the KLMY call letters, which later changed to KBZR) flipped to a soft AC format, branded as "102.7 The Breeze." As part of the changes, the station was granted a construction permit to change city of license from Lincoln to Papillion, and transmitter site from Lincoln to Gretna, in order to move into the Omaha market. After a successful fund raiser needed in order to purchase KBZR, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the sale of the station from Chapin to KVSS in late December 2008, and the station went on air with its new signal on January 29, 2009, and then moved to the Gretna tower and began broadcasting at that site on June 9.