| Broadcast area | Pittsburg, Kansas |
|---|---|
| Branding | 860 AM KKOW |
| Slogan | Classic Country! |
| Frequency | 860 kHz |
| First air date | October 11, 1937 |
| Format | Farm/Classic Country |
| Power | 10,000 watts daytime 5,000 watts nighttime |
| Class | B |
| Former callsigns | KOAM (1937-1981) |
| Owner | American Media Investments |
| Website | www.kkowradio.com |
KKOW is a radio station in Pittsburg, Kansas. It broadcasts classic country music.
It began on October 11, 1937 as KOAM, owned by E. Victor Baxter and Lester L. Cox on 790 kHz. It later moved to 810 kHz. It traded off 810 kHz with KCMO (AM) in Kansas City, Missouri (now on 710 kHz) for its current location on 860 kHz.
KOAM originally was an NBC affiliate, carrying programming from both the Red and Blue networks. Cox and Baxter also founded KOAM-TV in 1953, an NBC affiliate carrying secondary affiliations with CBS, ABC, and DuMont.
By the end of the 1970s, KOAM adopted a country music format.
It was sold to American Media Investments on May 11, 1981 . Due to the ownership split of KOAM AM-FM from KOAM-TV, its callsign changed from KOAM to KKOW on May 18, 1981.
KKOW is the flagship station for Pittsburg State University football and basketball games. Those broadcasts also air on sister station KBZI.
Programming heard on KKOW includes Coast to Coast AM, America in the Morning with Jim Bohannon, Orion Samuelson's National Farm Report, Mornings with Dalton, Trading Post, Agritalk with Mike Adams and The Sports Drive with Eddie Lomshek. Farm reports and classic country music are broadcast throughout the day.
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||