After sunset, it may be difficult to hear KXXT much beyond Phoenix and its close-in suburbs due to its reduced power.
This allows some of the innovations in rock air time denied under Top 40 programming, as well as opening the door to other musical forms.
A typical show on KCAC will include elements of jazz, blues, folk, classical, hillbilly, country, soul and, of course rock.
[8] Several KCAC DJs made the move with Compton to KDKB—including Gary Kinsey (on-air name, Toad Hall) and Hank Cookenboo.
[9] The 1010 AM frequency was subsequently bought by Golden West Christian School and reemerged as KHCS, with religious programming, in January 1972.
[15] The format change occurred on February 1, 2006;[16] Air America programs would move to KPHX 1480 AM by the end of March.
In January 2011, after the assassination attempt against then-Arizona Representative Gabby Giffords, KXXT national talk show host Steve Sanchez of The Steve Sanchez Show offered 30 minutes of airtime to Westboro Baptist Church in exchange for the Church agreeing not to protest at the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Green who was killed during the assassination attempt.
[17] In June 2014, Salem Communications, a national radio broadcaster focusing on Christian and conservative values programming, purchased KXXT in a bankruptcy auction for $575,000.