KCXL
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Affiliations | GCN Radio Sputnik TruNews |
Ownership | |
Owner | Pete Schartel (Alpine Broadcasting) |
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History | |
First air date | February 12, 1967 |
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Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 1162 |
Class | D |
Power |
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Transmitter coordinates | 39°14′17″N 94°24′0″W / 39.23806°N 94.40000°W |
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Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live Alternative Live Stream |
Website | kcxl.com |
KCXL (1140
By day, KCXL is powered at 4,000
History
Early years
On September 7, 1966, Clay Broadcasters, Inc., a consortium of six local businessmen, obtained a
S & M proposed to the FCC that 106.5 MHz be inserted at Liberty with changes to the frequencies of three other stations in the region. Construction of the FM took place in 1978. Simultaneously with the launch of the FM station, KBIL and the unbuilt FM were sold to Strauss Broadcasting Corporation for $1.28 million, with the stations becoming KFIX and KFIX-FM.[8] Joe Abernathy, the general manager who ran the KFIX stations (and hired Rush Limbaugh under the name "Jeff Christie" as a late-night host on the FM side), was blamed by Strauss for financial mismanagement of the pair. Morning host Mike Murphy could not join for five months due to contractual obligations, and early issues with the FM signal kept listeners away.[9]
The stations were then sold to Southwest Radio Enterprises, a division of Southwest Florida Enterprises; it was the firm's first broadcasting purchase. Southwest named Dean Goodman, later the owner of GoodRadio.TV, as CEO.[10] The FM was renamed KSAS;[11] the next year, it was the AM's turn for a revamp, becoming oldies under the call sign KLDY.[12] The call letters were changed to KKCI in 1982 when Golden East Broadcasting purchased KLDY and KSAS and converted both stations to a simulcast.[13]
Urban Contemporary format
Golden East put the AM station on the market and found a buyer in 1984: Elbert Anderson, the black owner of a local
However, because the signal was limited to the suburban Northland, it eventually fell short competing with longtime FM urban station KPRS. The station subsisted on the sale of air time to churches and on selling advertising around their programs. A dip in advertising revenue would prove to be too much for the station to bear. It went silent on March 4, 1992.[15] KCXL was then sued by the Small Business Administration (SBA) for defaulting on a 1984 loan it had received to finance the purchase. No payments had been made since 1989.[16]
Schartel ownership
The SBA took possession of KCXL's assets and put them up for sale. Two years later, the SBA had a buyer: Pete Schartel, a resident of nearby Independence, Missouri. He returned the station to the air.[17][18] On November 21, 1994, the station signed on with an oldies format.[19]
Since Schartel took over, the station has aired a myriad of programs under its talk format, most of them on a leased basis. For a time, sports station WHB leased KCXL at night for overflow sports programming. KCXL also had an overnight dance music format brokered to Surge Radio between 2016 and 2017. KCXL's general mix of programming was described by a 2020 article in The New York Times as "a cast of far-right conspiracy theorists, evangelical pastors and anti-Semites", including the radio program from far-right conspiracy theory outlet TruNews and far-right nationalist Alex Jones.[20]
Broadcast of Radio Sputnik
My wife and I really did discuss whether we should pull this programming. If I did, we'd be doing exactly what we're - the primary thing that we criticize - well, the old Soviet Union for sure, and other communist regimes of doing, where they don't allow free speech.
In a
In the wake of the
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KCXL". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/KCXL
- ^ FCC History Cards for KCXL
- ^ Clemings, Russell (August 4, 1977). "Area Signs Traced: Ez-ID With Catchy Call Letters". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. p. 2 North. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Wagner, Joyce (February 26, 1967). "New Liberty Radio Station Features Mod Country Sound". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. p. 4G. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Liberty Radio Station Sale O. K." The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. March 12, 1971. p. 3. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Wagner, Joyce (January 26, 1972). "Country Music Tycoon To Appear On KBIL". The Kansas City Times. Kansas City, Missouri. p. 29. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Nicely, Steve (February 26, 1978). "City's Last New FM". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. p. 4E. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Jordan, Gerald B. (May 24, 1979). "Troubles at KFIX Culminate in Sale". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. p. 36. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Nicely, Steve (September 11, 1979). "New Owners Plan to 'FIX' Station's Image". The Kansas City Times. Kansas City, Missouri. p. 2C. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Nicely, Steve (October 25, 1979). "New Owners With New Ideas Take Over at KFIX Next Week". The Kansas City Times. Kansas City, Missouri. p. 8J. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Nicely, Steve (October 5, 1981). "They're taking the country out of KCKN". The Kansas City Times. Kansas City, Missouri. p. A-12. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Garron, Barry (March 12, 1984). "Radio station to change its appeal". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. p. 2B. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Garron, Barry (June 2, 1989). "Miss that first pitch? Tell umps, Royals say". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. p. 15B. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "KCXL signs off for last time; poor advertising revenues cited". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. March 10, 1992. p. E-8. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Lawsuit alleges loan default". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. April 10, 1992. p. B-2. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ McTavish, Brian (September 23, 1994). "He's all grown up, with a radio tower of his own". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. p. E-5. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ McTavish, Brian (September 30, 1994). "Listeners have some new stops in the middle of the road". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. p. E-5. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bacon, Su (April 20, 1997). "Earned success". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. p. F-18, F-21. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- from the original on February 4, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ Mansouri, Kavahn (March 22, 2022). "A radio station in Missouri continues broadcasting Kremlin-funded Radio Sputnik". NPR.
- ^ Vockrodt, Steve (January 17, 2020). "Kansas City radio station agrees to broadcast Russian-owned 'propaganda' program". The Kansas City Star. The Kansas City Star. Archived from the original on January 17, 2020. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
- ^ "Meet The Man Who Brought Russian State Radio To Kansas City". KCUR 89.3 - NPR in Kansas City. Local news, entertainment and podcasts. February 6, 2020. Archived from the original on February 28, 2022. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
- ^ "Russia's Radio Sputnik, funded by the Kremlin, airing in Kansas City". CBS News. Archived from the original on February 28, 2022. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
- ^ a b Patrick, Craig (April 29, 2021). "Russia paying Florida businessman for right to broadcast Radio Sputnik over US airwaves". FOX 13 News. Archived from the original on February 28, 2022. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
- ^ "Broadcasters Have No Plans To Silence 'Radio Sputnik,' Despite NAB Criticism". Inside Radio. March 2, 2022. Archived from the original on March 7, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ Stafford, Margaret (March 26, 2022). "Missouri station offering Russian state radio to listeners". Associated Press. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
- ^ "Report: RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem". United States Department of State. Archived from the original on February 28, 2022. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
- ^ Flener, Matt (March 4, 2022). "National Association of Broadcasters call to stop airing Russian radio, pressures Liberty radio station". KMBC-TV. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ Kansas City Star Editorial Board (March 4, 2022). "Why are Kansas City's airwaves filled with pro-Putin 'Radio Sputnik' propaganda?". The Kansas City Star. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
External links
- KCXL official website
- KCXL in the FCC AM station database
- KCXL in Nielsen Audio's AM station database