a time the station had to broadcast at reduced power from a temporary longwire antenna on long time competitor's tower 1360 KGB/KLSD and 101.5 KGB-FM, as well as the former FM side of competitor 910 radio KDEO/KECR (now Channel 933 KHTS-FM). According to the FCC, KCBQ's daytime power on the long wire was 5,000 watts, with power reduced after sunset to 675 watts (non-directional, both day and night). KCBQ received a construction permit for a five-tower array in the area north of Lakeside, not far from the old site, and to increase power to 50,000 watts daytime, 2,900 watts nighttime. The station returned to 50,000 watts on Monday, June 4, 2007. KCBQ is now sharing antennas with 910 KECR, another former AM top 40 competitor of KCBQ's in the first half of the 1960s. In October 2016, Salem Communications purchased K260CG, an FM translator station in Mohave Valley, Arizona. K260CG was then relocated to San Diego. It relays AM 1170 onto 96.1 FM. As a consequence, the serial callsign became K241CT, and went on the air in August 2018. The FM transmitter's power is 0.25 kilowatts directional, and is only received in the North County area, in order to avoid co-channel interference with KYDO, which has used the 96.1 frequency since 2013. In fiction The KCBQ studio at 7th Avenue and Ash Street in San Diego, California, appeared in a street scene from an episode of the American television series "Perry Mason" ("The Case of the Cowardly Lion," Season 4, Episode 22 (1961)). References External links 1170 The Answer San Diego, California antenna sites 2001 San Diego, California antenna sites 2005 KCBQ Monument Roadside Historical Marker Database KCBQ Monument Dedication CBQ News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1946 1946 establishments in California Salem Media Group properties Conservative talk radio