KNIM

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KNIM and its affiliated KNIM-FM are radio stations in Maryville, Missouri and serves a four-state region.

Its call letters stand the region Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri.

It went on the air on April 8, 1953 and was owned by the Maryville Radio and Television Corporation. It still operates out of the modified house where it was founded on Business 71 on the south edge of town. It was a 250 watt station broadcasting only during daylight until the 1970s when the FM station opened. It was Maryville's only broadcast station until KXCV at Northwest Missouri State University opened in 1971.

It is now owned by the Nodaway Broadcasting Corporation.

The AM is still on its original 1580 location and is the news station while the FM is called "The Vill" and plays rock. It is on 97.1.

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  • "Formal Opening - Maryville's New Radio Station", Maryville Daily Forum, April 17, 1953

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