KCEO

KCEO
City Vista, California
Broadcast area Western San Diego,County, California
Branding Immaculate Heart Radio
Slogan Sharing the Heart of the Christian Faith
Frequency 1000 (kHz)
First air date March 13, 1968
Format Catholic talk
Power 10,000 watts daytime
900 watts nighttime
Class B
Facility ID 67666
Callsign meaning K Chief Executive Officer (the person most likely to listen to the station's former business talk format)
Former callsigns KMLU
Owner Immaculate Heart Radio
(IHR Educational Broadcasting)
Webcast Listen Live!
Website KCEO website

KCEO AM 1000, is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Vista, California. KCEO broadcasts with a power of 10,000 watts directional day, and 900 watts directional at night. The transmitter is located near State Route 76, north of the city of license of Vista and is east of Oceanside. Studios are located in Carlsbad, California. This station is an affiliate of Immaculate Heart Radio.

This station first went on the air on March 13, 1968 using the call letters KMLU. At that time they had a power of 1,000 watts and were a day time only station. In 1976 The FCC granted a construction permit to increase the power to 5,000 watts day (directional) and 1,000 watts night (directional) [1]

Prior to switching its programming to religious (catholic) KCEO broadcast a business news format. From August 2005 to August 2007, KCEO had competition with Tecate, Baja California, based business talk station, Cash 1700. On August 1, 2007, Cash 1700 became San Diego 1700 and began airing a regular talk radio format, while still retaining Ray Lucia and a few small, one-hour business talk shows.

KCEO was one of the first stations to carry Rush Limbaugh. KCEO was the former flagship of Ray Lucia; he can now be heard on former competitor San Diego 1700.

KCEO was San Diego's original business talk station.[2]

Effective March 7, 2012, KCEO began airing Catholic programming full-time from Immaculate Heart Radio.[3]

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Coordinates: 33°13′58″N 117°16′11″W / 33.23278°N 117.26972°W / 33.23278; -117.26972


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