KAUS (AM)

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KAUS AM

City of license	Austin, Minnesota
Broadcast area	Mower County, Minnesota
Slogan	Voice of Mower County
Frequency	1480 kHz
Format
Power	1000 Watts
Class	B
Facility ID	50677
Transmitter Coordinates	43°37′20″N 92°59′26″W / 43.62222, -92.99056
Former callsigns	KAAL
Owner	Three Eagles Communications (Three Eagles of Luverne, Inc.)
Sister stations	KAUS-FM
Website	www.kaus.com

KAUS (1480 AM "Voice of Mower County") is a radio station that broadcasts a news and information format. Licensed to Austin, Minnesota, U.S., the station serves the Mower County area. The station is currently owned by Three Eagles Communications.

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KAUS' transmitter site is adjacent to its studios south of Austin. It originally began broadcasting with the call letters of KAAL and housed the earliest incarnation of the television station known today as KAAL-TV (formerly KAUS-TV) in its rural Austin studios.

The radio station's notable personality is "Champagne" Duane Germaine whose tenure at the station has has surpassed all others. The station formerly broadcast a full-service format focusing exclusively on the rural area surrounding Austin and providing timely weather and crop market updates as well as local sports coverage but under the ownership of Three Eagles Communications, programming after the 2 PM hour is mainly syndicated fare including Bill O'Reilly's Radio Factor and Jim Bohannon.