1997. To more closely associate the station's branding with its K-LOVE Radio Network-provided contemporary Christian music programming, the EMF applied to the FCC for a new call sign and were granted KLVP on February 10, 1997. The call sign was changed again to KSKD on October 20, 1997, before returning to KLVP on December 22, 1997, where it would remain until the station was sold in 2006. The KXPD era On April 30, 2006, the Educational Media Foundation reached an agreement to sell this station to Churchill Communications, LLC, for a reported total price of $1.8 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on July 24, 2006, and the transaction was consummated on July 31, 2006. The new owners had the FCC assign the station new call sign KXPD on July 31, 2006. On the same day, the FCC authorized the station to resume operations as a commercial radio station and licensed KXPD to operate through at least February 1, 2014. In 2007 and 2008, the station aired select Oregon State Beavers football and baseball games in Spanish. In 2008, KXPD broadcast the home games of the Portland Timbers, a professional soccer team in the USL First Division. The broadcasts included a 25-minute pre-game show and play-by-play by Fernando Sobrevilla. Silent On December 30, 2009, KXPD went off the air citing "substantial decreases in its revenue flow" over the past three years. In its application to the FCC for special temporary authority to remain silent, the station's license holder claimed that "losses have reached the point that the station no longer generates sufficient funds to pay operating expenses" and that the company is seeking to either sell the station or refinance and return to operation. The FCC granted the station authority to remain silent on March 4, 2010. This temporary authorization was scheduled to expire on September 4, 2010. The FCC granted an extension of this authority until December 30, 2010, after which the station would have been off the air for a full year and the station's license subject to involuntary forfeiture. KXPD returned to the air full-time on December 29, 2010, broadcasting full-time "classic radio" or "old time radio" content featuring comedy, mystery, and adventure programs from the 1930s through 1960s. Between some episodes, KXPD broadcast a brief, pre-recorded station identification message. On January 31, 2011, KXPD went silent again. KXPD returned to the air again on