KSL (radio)
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| City of license | AM: Salt Lake City, Utah FM: Midvale, Utah |
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| Broadcast area | Salt Lake City and Vicinity |
| Branding | KSL Newsradio |
| Frequency | AM: 1160 kHz (Also on HD Radio) FM: 102.7 MHz FM: 102.7 HD-2 for Global Unsigned Bands |
| First air date | May 6, 1922 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| ERP | AM: 50,000 watts FM: 25,000 watts |
| HAAT | FM: 1140 meters |
| Class | AM: A (Clear channel) FM: C |
| Facility ID | AM: 6375 FM: 54156 |
| Callsign meaning | Salt Lake City |
| Former callsigns | KZN (1922-1924) KFPT (1924-1925) |
| Affiliations | ABC News |
| Owner | Bonneville International (Bonneville Holding Company) |
| Sister stations | KRSP, KSFI, KUTR Also part of the Bonneville Cluster: TV Station KSL-TV |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | ksl.com |
KSL Newsradio is a radio programming service based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is broadcast simultaneously on AM station KSL (1160 kHz at 50,000 watts) and FM station KSL-FM (102.7 MHz, Midvale). Both stations are owned by Bonneville International Corporation, which is in turn owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). KSL's AM signal reaches most of the western US at night, as well as some areas in western Canada.
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[edit] History
Originally designated with the call letters KZN, KSL began life as the radio arm of the Deseret News, a Salt Lake City newspaper also owned by the LDS Church. The station's first broadcast came on May 6, 1922 in the form of a talk by then-LDS Church president Heber J. Grant.
In 1924, it changed its calls to KFPT, and then adopted its current call letters, with their association to Salt Lake, in 1925 after they became available (they had previously been used by an early radio station in Alaska). A series of power boosts over the next decade brought the station to its current 50,000 watts in 1932. It spent time at several frequencies over the years before settling at 1160 in 1941. It can be heard across much of the country west of the Mississippi River at night.
Soon after becoming a clear-channel station, it joined the CBS Radio Network. It remained with CBS until 2005, when it switched to ABC.
The station also spawned KSL-TV in 1949, which was also affiliated with CBS. KSL-TV switched affiliation to NBC in 1995.
Its most famous program -- Music and the Spoken Word with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (the oldest series in nationwide network broadcasting), continues to be distributed by CBS Radio to this day. It airs each Sunday at 9:30 a.m. local time (11:30 a.m on the East Coast).
Another notable program was Herb Jepko's Nitecaps, which began in the 1960s and was one of the first U.S. radio stations to be syndicated nationally.
On September 3, 2005 KSL began simulcasting at 102.7 MHz FM, replacing KQMB (STAR 102.7, also owned by Bonneville), an adult contemporary station. Bonneville says this was done to make it easier for people to listen to the station inside office buildings, and because STAR 102.7 had been losing market share since the first of the year (although, according to ratings it was still one of the top stations in its market segment.)[citation needed] The Sean Hannity Show airs on KSL during the week from 1-4 PM.
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[edit] External links
- KSL Newsradio site
- Story about the new FM signal
- KSL's tower along with other signals in the area
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KSL
- Radio Locator Information on KSL
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for KSL
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KSL-FM
- Radio Locator information on KSL
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KSL
- KSL (radio) is at coordinates Coordinates:
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