KDYA

KDYA (1190 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Vallejo, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned by Baybridge Communications and broadcasts an urban gospel radio format. It is known over the air as "Gospel 1190 The Light". The radio studios and offices are on Blume Drive in Richmond, California.
KDYA is a daytimer, powered at 3,000 watts, using a directional antenna. But 1190 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A KEX Portland, Oregon, and XEWK Guadalajara. So KDYA must sign off at sunset to avoid interference. The transmitter is on Noble Road in Vallejo, on San Pablo Bay.
History.
Originally, the station signed on the air on August 1, 1947, as KGYW.
Later, as KNBA -- "Kovers North Bay Area" — the station presented a "[[middle of the road (music)|middle of the road]]" (MOR) format. With studios and transmitter on Sonoma Boulvard in Vallejo, the station was long owned by Louis J. Ripa until his death February 20, 1992.
The KNBA [[call sign]] was in use from August 22, 1958 until December 27, 1993, when the call letters changed to KXBT. It switched to its current call sign, KDYA on June 1, 1998. 1190's [[sister station]] at [[1640 AM]] is a [[Christian talk and teaching]] station [[KDIA]], also licensed to Vallejo. KDYA is Northern California's only full-time Urban Gospel station reaching San Francisco, [[Sacramento]], [[Santa Rosa, California|Santa Rosa]] and [[Stockton, California|Stockton]]. 
The station carried [[Oakland Athletics]] [[Spanish language]] [[MLB|baseball]] broadcasts in the daytime, while KDIA 1640 would broadcast night games from 2009 to the middle of the 2010 season.
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[[Category:Radio stations in the San Francisco Bay Area|DYA]]
[[Category:Radio stations established in 1947]]
[[Category:Gospel radio stations in the United States]]
[[Category:1947 establishments in California]]
[[Category:Mass media in Vallejo, California]]
[[Category:Daytime-only radio stations in California|DYA]]
[[Category:Christian radio stations in California|DYA]]