Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Pinal County Approves License Modification of Gold Canyon Public Radio KRWV 99.3 FM
[NEWS RELEASE] Gold Canyon Public Radio President and Board Member Scott Kramer announced this week that on February 7th, 2020 the FCC approved the broadcast license modification of KRWV-FM. According to Kramer the modification was requested for a couple reasons which included safety and improving our coverage areas in San Tan Valley, Queen Creek and Queen Valley. Listeners will notice that the modifications will also improve local coverage in the Gold Canyon area inside homes and retail structures and to a lesser extent in the Apache Junction area. Due to terrain and our antenna direction our signal tends to be much stronger in San Tan Valley and towards Queen Creek’s direction. We are hopeful based on engineering studies this will further improve with some minor engineering modifications.
These modifications have been approved by the FCC in Washington, DC and Pinal County who were extremely thorough in the process for KRWV to receive the county building/safety permit to move forward according to Kramer. KRWV signed on-the-air on August 7, 2014 when Kramer along with multiple other applicants also applied to serve Gold Canyon the community of license. According to Kramer the radio station during 2019 wrapped up its best year to date for listener donations and business underwriting. Our mission is to provide emergency information from the federal level on down to the state, county and community level. KRWV-FM was instrumental in communicating local fire information during the Woodbury Fire in partnership with Superstition Fire & Medical District and the federal government. In addition, the FCC requires KRWV to provide Emergency Alerts through the federal EAS (Emergency Alert System) including severe weather information and in the case of a federal emergency including a nuclear attack as an example or whenever lives may be in danger. Listeners also are made aware of Silver and Amber alerts when all programming is superseded with information broadcast live from both Maricopa and Pinal County Sheriff’s Offices and DPS.
