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{{Infobox radio station
| name             = KYAA
| logo             =
| city             = [[Soquel, California]]
| area             = [[Monterey Bay]]-[[San Jose, California|San Jose]]-[[Santa Cruz, California|Santa Cruz]]
| branding         = [[Relevant Radio]]
| frequency        = 1200 [[kHz]]
| airdate          = {{start date|2001}}
| format           = [[Christian talk and teaching|Catholic talk and teaching]]
| power            = 25,000 [[watt]]s day<br />10,000 watts night
| class            = B
| facility_id      = 60852
| coordinates      = {{nowrap|{{coord|36|39|38|N|121|32|29|W|region:US-CA_type:landmark}}}}
| callsign_meaning =
| former_callsigns =
| affiliations     = [[Relevant Radio]]
| owner            = [[Relevant Radio|Relevant Radio, Inc.]]
| licensee         =
| sister_stations  =
| webcast          = [https://relevantradio.com/wp-content/media/player.html Listen Live]
| website          = [https://relevantradio.com relevantradio.com]
| licensing_authority= [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
}}
'''KYAA''' (1200 [[AM broadcasting|AM]]) is a [[radio station]] broadcasting a [[Christian radio|Catholic radio]] [[radio format|format]]. It is [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Soquel, California]], and serves the [[Monterey Bay]], [[Santa Cruz, California|Santa Cruz]] and [[San Jose, California|San Jose]] areas. The station is owned by [[Relevant Radio|Relevant Radio, Inc.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?call=KYAA |title=KYAA Facility Record |work=United States [[Federal Communications Commission]], audio division |access-date=2010-07-19}}</ref>
By day, KYAA is powered at 25,000 [[watt]]s [[omnidirectional antenna|non-directional]].  But [[1200 AM]] is a [[clear channel station|clear channel frequency]] reserved for [[List of North American broadcast station classes|Class A]] [[WOAI (AM)|WOAI]] [[San Antonio]].  So to avoid interference, KYAA reduces power at night to 10,000 watts and uses a [[directional antenna]].<ref>[https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KYAA&service=AM&h=D Radio-Locator.com/KYAA]</ref>
==History==
Between 2001 and early 2013, the station played a wide variety of [[oldies]] music from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and was the only oldies station in that time period in the Monterey Bay Area.
Former Los Angeles [[KHJ (AM)|KHJ]] boss jock Don Murray (Carlson) began the station along with radio veteran Denis 'Catfish' Miller . The station branded as KYA, minus the additional 'A', as a tribute to the noted [[Top 40]] station in [[San Francisco]] in the 1960s and 1970s with the same call letters (now [[KSFB]]). Murray and Miller used the old KYA [[jingle]] package, and the station sounded similar to the way it had before. Local radio veteran David Mars also worked on the station for a time. The station was simulcast on FM and AM and reached its peak of success in 2004.
It was sold back to Salinas' Wolfhouse broadcasting after a failed LMA{{clarify|date=May 2015}} by People's Radio, and the format was dropped in favor of a more [[urban contemporary]] and [[hip hop music]] format, ending KYA and its Top 40 roots.  Later, AM 1200 adopted the "[[Music of Your Life]]" [[radio syndication|syndicated]] format.
People's Radio, Inc. tried to sell the station for quite some time without success. It donated KYAA to [[IHR Educational Broadcasting]], which aired its [[Immaculate Heart Radio]] Roman Catholic religion format. The license to cover to IHR was granted by the [[U.S. Federal Communications Commission]] on July 29, 2013. KYAA flipped to the [[Relevant Radio]] branding when IHR Educational Broadcasting and Starboard Media Foundation completed their merger on July 3, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/relevant-radio-and-immaculate-heart-radio-complete-merger-300483030.html|title=Relevant Radio® and Immaculate Heart Radio Complete Merger|work=[[PR Newswire]]|date=July 5, 2017|access-date=January 13, 2024}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
{{AM station data|60852|KYAA}}
{{Santa Cruz Radio}}
{{Religious Radio Stations in California}}
{{Relevant Radio}}
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