KORN (AM)

KORN
City of license Mitchell, South Dakota
Slogan "The Talk of the Town"
Frequency 1490 kHz
First air date 1947
Format News/Sports/Talk
Power 1,000 watts (unlimited)
Class C
Facility ID 35420
Transmitter coordinates 43°42′14″N 97°59′57″W / 43.70389°N 97.99917°W
Affiliations ABC Radio Network, ESPN Radio
Owner Riverfront Broadcasting LLC
Sister stations KQRN
Website http://www.1490korn.com/

KORN (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Mitchell, South Dakota. The station is owned by Riverfront Broadcasting LLC. It airs a News/Sports/Talk radio format.[1] The station offers a mix of local and syndicated programming including shows hosted by Dennis Miller, Sean Hannity, Ray Lucia, Jim Bohannon, and "Coast to Coast AM" with George Noory.

The station was assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission.[2]

History

The station was originally given the call sign KMHK, and went on the air between August and October 1947. For a few months in late 1950, the station used the call sign KORM.[3] In 1950, after the call letters KORN had been given up by a station in Fremont, Nebraska that had recently become KFGT (and has subsequently become KHUB), the call sign KORN became available and was taken by the former KORM.

Gary Owens, of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In fame, started his radio career at KORN in 1952, where he served as News Director.

Ownership

In February 2008, Riverfront Broadcasting LLC reached an agreement with NRG Media to purchase this station as part of a six station deal.[4]

Honors and awards

In May 2006, KORN received two first place plaques in the commercial radio division of the South Dakota Associated Press Broadcasters Association news contest.[5] The contest was for the 2005 calendar year.

References

  1. ↑ "Winter 2008 Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  2. ↑ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  3. ↑ Charles DeWitt White (1950). White's Radio Log (Bronxville, New York: C. DeWitt White Co.) 27 (4): 4 http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Whites/Whites%20Vol%2027%20No%204%201950%20Fall.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Johnson, Nathan (2008-02-22). "Yankton Firm Purchases Local Radio Stations". Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan.
  5. ↑ "SDPB, Yankton Stations Lauded". Yankton Press & Dakotan. 2006-05-08.

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