KWVE-FM

The station is owned by Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, with its studios in the church-owned KWAVE Building on West MacArthur Boulevard in Santa Ana.

Hosts include Jim Daly, Rick Warren, David Jeremiah, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Greg Laurie, Alistair Begg, J. Vernon McGee, Joni Eareckson Tada, James Dobson and Chuck Swindoll.

[7] Radio Apex bought KAPX in November 1977 and changed its call sign to KWVE, becoming a beautiful music station known as K-Wave.

It was getting poor ratings, except in the evening drive slot when it played cutting-edge punk rock and new wave music which pulled high Arbitron numbers.

KWVE-FM is sometimes confused with a similarly named secular smooth adult contemporary radio station in Los Angeles, KTWV 94.7 FM.

Then-owner Metromedia converted rock-formatted KMET to KTWV and "The Wave" on February 14, 1987, nearly two years after the launch of KWVE-FM's current Christian format.

KWVE-FM keeps on hand in its broadcast booth KTWV's request line and business numbers as a courtesy to listeners mistakenly calling into the wrong station.

On April 15 and 16, 2010, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa celebrated the 25th anniversary of its purchase of KWVE-FM and the station's Christian talk and music format with two evening concerts in the church sanctuary.

The concerts featured Love Song, a Christian rock band founded at Calvary Chapel and popular during the Jesus Movement of the early 1970s, and messages from senior pastor Chuck Smith.

All radio stations and cable systems in the area must relay emergency information and required monthly tests from KWVE-FM, when activated.

[12] On November 13, 2009, the FCC rescinded its fine against KWVE-FM, but had still admonished the station for broadcasting an unauthorized RMT, as well as omitting the code to end the test.