KCEE is a commercial radio station located in Tucson, Arizona, broadcasting on 690 AM. KCEE airs a Christian format and is owned by Calvary Chapel of Tucson, Inc. KCEE's programming is also heard on KAIC (88.9 FM), a station nominally licensed to Tucson but serving San Manuel, and on a translator at 106.7 FM in Tucson itself, relaying an HD Radio subchannel of KLPX (96.1 FM). History KEVT On April 15, 1953, the Federal Communications Commission granted a construction permit to Tucson Radio, Incorporated, for a new daytime-only radio station to broadcast on 690 kHz in Tucson. The company consisted of two former employees of KOPO and an Ohio transplant. The station announced plans for studios and a transmitter site on Shawnee Avenue east of St. Mary's Hospital, but it soon found itself needing to buy additional land to ensure a buffer to surrounding properties. The new station took the call letters KEVT and began broadcasting September 23, 1953, as Tucson's sixth radio station and its first all-Spanish-language outlet, serving an estimated audience of 40,000 Spanish speakers in the area. KEVT broadcast from a tower—Tucson's second-tallest at the time. Future governor Raúl Héctor Castro served as the station's attorney; daily broadcasts included English lessons from a University of Arizona professor, radio dramas and newscasts. In 1956, the station attempted to gain full-time broadcasting capabilities by moving to 1600 kHz; the move was dismissed a year later. For a time, KEVT operated from a streetside studio at the corner of Congress Street and Church Avenue, which opened in 1957; a year later, after a burglary, a fire caused extensive damage and destroyed the station's phonograph collection and many business records. KEVT was affected when a full-time competitor, KXEW, started on 1600 kHz in 1963. In January 1966, Peter Trowbridge, one of the founding members of Tucson Radio, resigned, and the company publicly announced its interest in a Spanish-language TV station and an English-language FM outlet. A bigger change was on the horizon when Alvin Korngold acquired the station, a transaction filed in February and approved in May. During the transaction, four announcers charged that Korngold had dismissed them and discriminated against them as Mexican Americans; three of the four were promptly rehired. Korngold had abandoned his antitrust law practice on Long Island to move to Tucson and run KEVT, which became one of the first U.S. stations to carry Spanish-language news