KCNW

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KCNW is a religious radio station that broadcasts in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Its 2500-watt daytime and 29-watt nighttime signal airs at 1380 kHz from its tower in Fairway, Kansas.

In the 1960s, 1380 AM was home to a Top-40 station, KUDL. In 1973, the Top-40 format jumped to FM and eventually became a soft adult contemporary station, while 1380 housed Oldies for two years. The KCNW letters (Kansas City's News) were adopted shortly after a news format debuted. Although following the lead of other AM stations dumping music for talk (notable KQV in Pittsburgh the same year), the news format didn't last long in Kansas City.

In 1978, KCNW started broadcasting religious programming, yielding the acronym Kansas City's New Way. Today it is a satellite station owned by Wilkins Communication Network of Spartanburg, South Carolina, which specializes in syndicating programs devised by individual churches and airs national shows such as Sid Roth, Irvin Baxter Jr. and Noah Hutchings.

[edit] Other Stations owned by Wilkins Communications

• KLNG AM 1560 - Omaha, NE
• KXKS-AM 1190 - Albuquerque, NM
• WBXR-AM 1140 - Huntsville, AL
• WELP-AM 1360 - Greenville, SC
• WFAM-AM 1050 - Augusta, GA
• WLMR-AM 1450 - Chattanooga, TN
• WFAM-AM 1230 - Asheville, NC
• WWNL-AM 1080 - Pittsburgh, PA
• WYYC-AM 1250 - York, PA

• Web site of KCNW's owner, Wilkins Communication Network
• Brief History of KCNW and KUDL
• Query the FCC's AM station database for KCNW