KIXA

KIXA (106.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Lucerne Valley, California, and broadcasting to the Victor Valley area. KIXA is owned by El Dorado Broadcasters and airs a classic rock format branded as "106.5 The Fox". It carries two syndicated shows: Steve Gorman Rocks! on weeknights and The House of Hair with Dee Snider on weekends.

KIXA

Lucerne Valley, California United States
Broadcast area	Victorville-Hesperia, California
Frequency	106.5 MHz
Branding	106.5 The Fox
Programming
Format	Classic rock
Affiliations	United Stations Radio Networks Westwood One
Ownership
Owner	El Dorado Broadcasters, LLC (EDB VV License LLC)
Sister stations	KATJ-FM KIXW KXVV KZXY-FM
History
First air date	November 1992; 32 years ago (1992-11)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	55181
Class	A
ERP	560 watts
HAAT	325 meters (1,066 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	34°23′9″N 117°3′27.1″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.thefox1065.com

KIXA is a Class A FM station with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 560 watts. The transmitter is on Grapevine Canyon Road in Lucerne Valley.^[2] The studios are on Hesperia Road in Hesperia.

History

The station signed on the air in November 1992.^[3] It was operated as "KIX 106", a country music station, for six years.

In 1998, KIXA flipped to "Rock 106", where the station played a mix of classic rock from the 1960s and 1970s along with alternative rock from the 1980s and 1990s. The station was simulcast on KIXW-FM and KIXF-FM to cover the Victor Valley, Barstow and Baker. When the rock format ended on 106.5 in 2002, Clear Channel Communications sold off the Barstow and Baker stations to Westwood One, which later sold them to Heftel Broadcasting. KIXA was relaunched as a full-time classic rock station.

Since 2002, KIXA has been branded as "The Fox". The focus has been rock songs from the 1970s and 1980s with a few 1960s titles. After Clear Channel sold the station to El Dorado Broadcasters in 2006, KIXA updated its classic rock presentation to include music from the 1960s to the early 1990s, while mostly excluding alternative rock.