KMRI

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KMRI

City of license	West Valley City, Utah
Broadcast area	Salt Lake City
Slogan	Exitos 1550
Frequency	1550 kHz
Format	Regional Mexican
Power	10,000 watts day 340 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	25405
Transmitter coordinates	40°43′16.00″N 112°2′29.00″W / 40.7211111°N 112.0413889°W / 40.7211111; -112.0413889
Former callsigns	KWIC KRGO (1970s to early 1980s) KRPN KRGO (1986 to 1988 KZQQ (1988-1992) KRGQ (1992-1997 KRGO (1997-1998)
Owner	Alpha and Omega Communications, LLC
Website	exitos1550.com

KMRI's tower (left) near Magna, Utah. The tower on the right is used by KIHU.

KMRI (1550 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format. Licensed to West Valley City, Utah, USA, the station serves the Salt Lake City area. The station is currently owned by Alpha and Omega Communications, LLC, who obtained it from KMRI Radio, LLC. Both organizations have common principals.^[1]

History

The station was originally built on 1570 kHz with a power of 500 Watts and the transmitter located in the 'Sugarhouse' area of Salt Lake City in the 1950s. It operated Daytime Hours only. In the 1960s, the frequency was changed to 1550 kHz, the power was increased to 10,000 watts, the transmitting tower was moved to 5265 West 2100 South in what is now West Valley City, Utah, and the call sign was later changed from KWIC to KRGO. Nighttime operation at "500 watts" was later added. The station changed call signs back to KRGO on 1986-09-19, a call which it had previously held in the 1970s.^[2] On 1988-01-01, the station changed its call sign to KZQQ. On 1992-07-31 to KRGQ. On 1997-03-10 to KRGO. On 1998-01-16 to the current KMRI.^[3]

In the 1990s, because of bankruptcy, the station was dismantled, and in 1997 was rebuilt at its current transmitter location of 6211 West 2100 South, West Valley City, Utah. In 2003-2004 the station made arrangements with the then owner of KCPW (AM) (now KIHU), Community Wireless of Park City, to share its single tower as "Tower 2" of the other stations two tower directional array.

In one of the most famous and creative forms of station identification, this station (and its one time FM sister station) once held the call sign KRPN in the 1980s, and identified itself as WKRP N Salt Lake City (or Roy, in the case of its sister FM station at the time).^[4] Because the KRP, N (as a homophone for "in"), and city of license were said in the proper order, it was a legal station ID despite the extra W.

References

↑ "FCC 314". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ US FCC 'Official List of Notified Assignments' December 31, 1975
↑ "KMRI Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "KUDD Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KMRI

Radio-Locator Information on KMRI

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KMRI

v t e Radio stations in the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo, Utah market

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NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

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v t e Spanish-language Radio Stations in the state of Utah

Stations	KBJA - Sandy KDUT - Randolph KFUR-LP - Saint George KMRI - West Valley City KSVN - Ogden KTUB - Centerville KXOL - Brigham City

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