KYMS

106.3 FM KYMS was on the air from 1964 to 1996 and licensed to Santa Ana, California south of Los Angeles.  Their early years were spent as an Easy Listening station broadcasting from studios in the Saddleback Inn hotel.  They were also given permission from the FCC to rebroadcast news from the BBC World Service received via shortwave.  By the early 1970s they were playing Progressive Rock.  KYMS is most remembered as being the first major-market Contemporary Christian (CCM) station which commenced in 1975.  In the mid-80s they became the flagship station of what was probably the first satellite-fed network of CCM outlets joining AM stations in Denver and Phoenix.  Shortly after 106.3 FM changed their call letters to KALI and flipped to an Asian format, someone bought the entire KYMS music library from a thrift store and made an 11 hour YouTube channel of music from CCM's early years 1975-1981.