KSAL (AM)
kHz) | |
| Branding | NewsRadio 1150 KSAL |
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| Programming | |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Affiliations | Premiere Networks Westwood One Fox News Radio |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KSAL-FM, KYEZ | |
| History | |
First air date | June 1937 |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 28471 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°53′03″N 97°31′05″W / 38.88417°N 97.51806°W |
| Translator(s) | 106.7 K294DI (Salina) |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.ksal.com |
KSAL (1150
KSAL is powered at 5,000
On weekdays, KSAL begins with "The KSAL Morning News." Before sunrise, it also carries two news magazines, "
History
Early years
The station went on the air in June 1937. It was Salinas' first radio station, originally powered at only 250 watts by day and 100 watts at night, broadcasting at 1500
KSAL became an
Personalities
One of KSAL's first personalities was Ken Jennison. He started his professional radio career (after 4 years at Kansas State University) in 1949. He began as a copywriter, putting together daily "logbooks" that tracked each day's broadcast from the moment the station went on the air at 6 a.m. to when it signed off with the "Star-Spangled Banner" at midnight.
"Everything was written down -- programs, commercials, introductions, music selection -- everything was in that book," Jennison said. "It would be given to the announcer, and he would follow it exactly. If you had a news break at 3 p.m., you had to time it out right."
In the early 1960s, tape was introduced. Announcements and commercials would be prerecorded on cassette tapes, Jennison said, and that took some of the pressure off disc jockeys.
Live music also was a staple in the early days of radio. A popular program of the 1960s was the Sonny Slater show, which featured musicians playing live at the studio at noon on Saturdays. Live music programs didn't last long on local radio. "It was difficult to fill up a program with live music all the time," Jennison said.
Adding an FM station
In May 1974, KSAL added an FM station at 93.7 MHz. Its call letters were KYEZ, with the EZ standing for
In the 1980s, KSAL was the only radio station in the area that had its own color weather radar that could help predict when thunderstorms were entering a certain area.
Switch to news-talk
As music listening moved to the FM dial in the 1980s and 90s, KSAL began airing more talk programming, in addition to music. In April 1996, music programming on KSAL ended and the station format was changed into news-talk.
KSAL also concentrates on local high school and regional sports. In addition to area
Former hosts
- Jim Rose, Ken Jennison, Rick Mach, Greg Martin, George Pyle, Dan Robins, Bob Sheldon, Bob Davis, Brian Collins, Tom Mulligan, Jeff Comfort, Sonny Slater, Larry Mohlenbrink, J. Steven Smethers, Phil (Grossardt) Ross, Jim Robertson, Bruce Steinbrock, Don (Schwartz) Bradley, Steve Kohl and Clarke Sanders.[4]
Despite rumors to the contrary,[according to whom?] ABC news commentator Paul Harvey was never employed by KSAL. He was station manager for KFBI, which had remote studios on the second floor of the Fox-Watson Theatre in Salina in the mid-late 1930s.
References
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/KSAL-AM
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1939 page 114, Broadcasting & Cable
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1974 page B-82, Broadcasting & Cable
- The Salina Journal. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
External links
- KSAL in the FCC AM station database
- KSAL in Nielsen Audio's AM station database