KAHI
{{short description|Radio station in Auburn, California}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name = KAHI
| logo = KAHI 104.5-950 logo.jpg
| city = Auburn, California | country = US
| area = Sacramento, California
| branding = FM 104.5 AM 950 KAHI
| frequency = 950 kHz
| translator = {{Radio Relay|102.9|K275BJ|Placerville}}
{{Radio Relay|104.5|K283CM|Auburn}}
| repeater =
| airdate = 1957
| power = 5,000 watts
| class = B
| facility_id = 48341
| coordinates = {{nowrap|{{coord|38|51|28|N|121|1|39|W|region:US-CA_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}}}
| callsign_meaning =
| former_callsigns =
| affiliations = Sacramento Kings
| owner = Relevant Radio, Inc.
| licensee =
| operator = KAHI Corporation
| sister_stations =
| webcast = {{listenlive|url=http://lightningstream.surfernetwork.com/Media/player/view/KAHI-AM_gsl.asp?StreamingServerName=nick11&OnDemandServerName=nick10&targetWidth=1000&targetHeight=800&call=KAHI-AM}}
| website = {{URL|http://www.kahi.com}}
| licensing_authority = FCC
}}
KAHI (950 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format. Licensed to Auburn, California, United States, the station serves the Auburn area. The station is owned by Relevant Radio;{{cite web |url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?call=KAHI |title=KAHI Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division |access-date=2010-10-13}} the KAHI Corporation programs the station under a time brokerage agreement.{{cite web |last1=Goodwin Crump |first1=Anne |title=Comments of KAHI Corporation |url=https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/60001542293.pdf |access-date=December 11, 2020 |date=March 21, 2016}} KAHI is paired with expanded band station KSMH (1620 AM), which serves as Relevant Radio's Sacramento station.
Programming
The station broadcasts locally produced programming, San Francisco Giants baseball, Sacramento Kings basketball, San Jose Sharks hockey, Sierra College and local high school football. When not carrying live broadcasts, KAHI carries nationally syndicated talk radio shows.
{{as of|2015|10}}, the station produced several local programs that aired weekdays, including news blocks during drive time and in the noon hour, along with an evening talk show hosted by Mary Jane Popp.Advertisement, "Placer Sentinel," October 23, 2015, p. 9. The station's moniker then was "The Voice of the Foothills".
KAHI carried Oakland Athletics baseball as an affiliate of the Oakland Athletics Radio Network for 57 years through 2024. Concurrent with the temporary move of the Athletics (A's) to West Sacramento as part of their relocation to Las Vegas, and the move of the team's Sacramento radio broadcasts from KHTK to KSTE, KAHI announced that it would no longer carry A's baseball.{{cite news |last1=Biderman |first1=Chris |title=A’s announce new flagship radio station in Sacramento. Here’s what is not changing |url=https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article300334119.html |access-date=February 15, 2025 |work=The Sacramento Bee |date=February 14, 2025}} On March 12, 2025, KAHI reached a deal with the San Francisco Giants and flagship station KNBR/KNBR-FM to carry that team's games.{{cite news |last1=Rubin |first1=Joe |title=Auburn radio station KAHI to broadcast San Francisco Giants games after losing A’s |url=https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article302014704.html |access-date=March 15, 2025 |work=The Sacramento Bee |date=March 14, 2025}}
History
KAHI began broadcasting in 1957, originally licensed to Placer Broadcasters for 500 watts on 950 kHz, daytime-only.
=Expanded Band assignment=
On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that 88 stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, from 1610 to 1700 kHz. KAHI was authorized to move to 1620 kHz,[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x004848309&view=1up&seq=276 "FCC Public Notice: Mass Media Bureau Announces Revised AM Expanded Band Allotment Plan and Filing Window for Eligible Stations"] (FCC DA 97-537), March 17, 1997. and in 1998 the expanded band station began broadcasting as KSMH.
The FCC's initial plan provided that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could optionally operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency. However, this deadline has been extended numerous times, and both KAHI and KSMH have remained authorized. One restriction is that the FCC has generally required paired original and expanded band stations to remain under common ownership.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32437121992750;view=1up;seq=264 "In re: WHLY(AM), South Bend, Indiana"] (FCC DA 13-600, released April 3, 2013)[https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=21066 "Re: WDDD (AM) Application for Consent to Assignment of AM Broadcast Station License"] (August 23, 2010 correspondence from Peter H. Doyle, Chief, FCC Audio Division, Media Bureau. Reference Number 1800B3-TSN)
References
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External links
{{AM station data|48341|KAHI}}
- {{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=44511 |title= History Cards for KAHI|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} (Guide to reading History Cards) (covering 1957–1980)
{{Sacramento Radio}}
{{News/Talk Radio Stations in California}}
Category:News and talk radio stations in the United States
Category:Companies based in Placer County, California
Category:Relevant Radio stations
Category:Radio stations established in 1957
Category:1957 establishments in California
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