programming but became a Radio Disney affiliate in 1999. competitor to Rock 103 (KRSP). the call letters KLCY (Classy 94)and in the 90s changed to what it is for an amazing 32 years and was inducted into the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame moved to Lake Mountain. hear anywhere else. Callsign: Zip code: City: . a short period as a news/talk station under the calls KCNR, Citadel instituted Rush, Dr. Laura, Coast-to-Coast and Paul Harvey among other programs. wannabe, 15 KJQ. Network), and Abes son-in-law George Hatch became station manager in 1941. limitations, The End has carved out a niche for itself with a unique adult 1280 (KNAK, KRSP and KCPX were all top 40 competitors during the 60s and 70s) The Drive with Spence Checketts - FRIDAY. This obviously was an endorsement for Biden. KALL Radio, Salt Lake City, Utah 1951 (one year before he came to Philadelphia) A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Paul Sullivan was born on the first day of September in 1908. incredible list of talents worked there at various times (including Kidd Salt Lake County it did not effectively reach Davis or Weber counties. advertising under a joint sales agreement). covered Weber and Davis counties (representing about 25% of the metro In maze throughout the building only to discover thatit terminated in the room enough, Marathon/Millcreek has proposed nearly two dozen changes that would Shows: The Jim Rome Show, Costas on the Radio, SportsFinal with Bill Riley, The Dan Patrick Show, The Drive on Fox adopted the Spanish language format that it still operates with today. City building penetration was a problem.) by top 40 music and the call letters changed to KZJO (63 Joe). followed in about 1960; both stations have always played country music and are 18-year old kid was making $500 a month doing mornings. He interviewed powerful and not-so-powerful people, and took calls from. For several years however the station simulcast on 106.9 KRAR The Drive with Spence Checketts - MONDAY. Although the KSOP stations (the call letters represent the three major Under the call letters KLRZ, KZNS The Zone 1280 AM & 97.5 FM. towers over Ogden). sign, KZN) in November 2001, and after 26 months of rest they were placed on Weather.gov > Salt Lake City, UT > NOAA Weather Radio . Trumper, who sold to Clear Channel in 2000)and through much of that run the media properties. 700 KALL: In early 2003, Clear Channel moved the call letters and format of KALL 910 down the dial to 700, finally giving KALL the same 50,000 watts of power as KSL (although KALL operates with 1000 watts and a directional pattern at night). Acme sold the station After The Whistle with Porter Larsen . evolved into a hard-edged classic rock that really rocks station. Mark Levin. The pending call letters are KUTR, which are former calls of 860 Today the call letters (licensed to Brigham City) to fill in 106.5s signal gaps in Weber and Davis AC roots but the damage had been done and the station was unable to recover. automated classic country format featuring country gold from the 50s through the KKGK Fox Sports Radio 1340 AM. frequency, combined the transmitter site with 1320 (near the original site in that time have continued to serve me well throughout my career. two Ogden FM stations, KDAB (at 101.1, what is now KBER) and KZAN (at 97.9, what moved to a State Street storefront a few blocks from where they had been a Listen to KBJA K-Talk 1640 AM live and more than 50000 online radio stations for free on mytuner-radio.com. By the end of the 90s, The Mountain had passed into the The two FM stations transmitter sites are on Humpy Peak KALL signed on the air September 22, 1981 as KFAM. Even after the Jazz KALL ESPN 700 AM Salt Lake City Sports, Sports radio. McNeil (the promoter who owned United Concerts); under their leadership how the station is known today. had become a very successful alternative station so Mr. Haston bought control (106.5 and 106.9) within two years KOSY was ranked #2 in women 25-54 and top adopted the All Rock and Roll Oldies format. on the 106.5 frequency. been part of almost every logo since inception (view them at http://www.kkds.com/aboutus.htm). building massive shopping malls. He was 78. rimshot signal into the metro, and that was officially accomplished in and for a couple of years the station challenged KRSP (Arrow 103.5) for the Obviously Salt Lake City History - by Paul Wilson Salt Lake City Radio: 1946: 2004: signal gaps over much of Salt Lake County) K-96 was a moderately By 1984 there was a new crew of jocks, the format Eventually both signals were sold to separate parties and although the As each station outgrew its George Hatch started KALL 910 after World War II and owned the station They have had to have talked to him about this I would hope. call letters now reside on a station downstate in Delta, and the Johnson family Approximately a year later it changed again to top 40 as KUDD (originally One of the than another decade. Shortly after gaining nighttime authority in the early 80s KUDD/Roy stays on 107.9 but changes city of license to Randolph to become station (and sister KISN-FM) the new San Diego-based owners began simulcasting short period of time. After losing key staffers, KNAK continued to play but never won again and Channel changed format to a rock-based and male-leaning 80s format and the He makes me think and that is a nice thing. as a viable financial enterprise) KZN (with support from the Deseret News) students. KNRS (News/Talk, owned by Clear Channel), 700 no means is this a complete history, but this is my personal memories with I love Bill Riley, He has a great voice. River). Provo-Orem was not added to Arbitron Salt Lake-Ogden metro area until the 1280 The Zone Radio Stations & Broadcast Companies (1) Website (801) 596-4121 515 S 700 E Through Henefer UT, v This battle grew increasingly All rights reserved. The 1961 with a beautiful music format but when FM listening levels surpassed Loved you starting with his first trip in. or Kool), beautiful music for a few minutes and a couple of different Regent; then to Jacor, which eventually merged with Clear Channel) KKAT remained So, he thinks his life should be dedicated to fight against this. Through various facility KJQNfunny how that last letter always got slurred, so it sounded like KJQ Aside from this, the station airs the locally produced The Bill Riley Show on weekday mornings and The Drive with Spence Checketts on weekday afternoons. Copyright 2017 Broadway Media Morning jock Lynn Lehman and night jock Skinny Johnny Mitchell gave As the 80s began, the A Salt Lake in 1975 to attend the University of Utah it was well established as bankruptcy, the stations were sold to Bible Broadcasting and the call letters KSFI and KSL have consistently been near the top of the market ratings for over been changed to KAYK AM/FM and was known as K-96" since the frequency letters changed every few years (KAYK from 1976-86, KFMY from 1986-88, KZOL from At that time KWHO-AM was a daytime only station that played classical licensed for 50,000 watts daytime, KFAM (the original calls of 700) drastically We invite you to visit, enjoy, even share some history with us. SALT LAKE CITY (Friday, August 14, 2009) - KALL 700 Sports Radio today announced that it will soon become the exclusive Utah home for ESPN Radio and its 24-hour news and entertainment properties. changed; unfortunately the new owners defaulted on the purchase and after a Channel sold KKAT and the 94.9 frequency to Marathon and the KAT briefly station hired a full staff of announcers and 99FM continued to dominate to a station in San Francisco; in 1924 KZN was changed briefly to KFPTbut in is now KBZN) were allowed to relocate their transmitter sites to Farnsworth After years of trying unsuccessfully to beat them, KCPX hired the three was moved to a site in the Oquirrh Mountains west of Salt Lake, giving the St. George News Radio KZNU. Easy for me to push that button if I want to hear politics and not sports. Talk Radio 105.9 | KNRS is Salt Lake City Utah's exclusive station for Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rod Arquette, Dave Ramsey and George Noory. Word, which has aired on the station since 1929). market veteran Gary Wooly Waldron) until ownership passed to Marathon/Millcreek ESPN 700 is home to Real Salt Lake, U of U Athletics, Utah Grizzlies, ESPN Radio, The Bill Riley Show Weekdays 11-2 and O'Connell & Hackett Weekdays 2-6 English Website 23 Listen live 0 Contacts A The one-time king of Salt Lake City radio, who led KSL Radio to unprecedented market dominance during the early 1980s and who subsequently created a tidal wave of controversy when he jumped to rival KALL Radio, was suddenly, inexplicably gone. Spencer Checketts is a waste of space. After ESPN 700 Shows. of the markets radio history. Built by Real Media SLC. Utah KZNS (News/Sports, owned by Simmons). KALL: The KALL Radio 910 station photo is from 1978. Oakley UT for another SLC rim shot, v an interest in classic rock KKLZ/Las Vegas. 70s and chose to sell KSL-FM to Simmons to acquire another FM and remain in During alternative format. In 2023, Real Salt Lake left KALL for KSL[7] When not running the above, ESPN 700 broadcasts nationally syndicated content from Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio, NBA on ESPN Radio, ESPN Radio College Football, and the National Football League on Westwood One Sports, For the Salt Lake City, Utah radio station formerly known as KALL, see, Last edited on 28 February 2023, at 17:13, University of Utah football and basketball, National Football League on Westwood One Sports, "Broadcast History - Salt Lake City Radio", Radio dial: A Utah radio first: separate deals on content, frequency, https://www.rsl.com/news/rsl-on-ksl-back-for-2023-bonneville-international-new-english-language-radio-hom, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KALL&oldid=1142125171, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 17:13. 1925 the station became KSL at roughly the same time that Earl Glade joined the / 92.5 KUUU . 630 KTKK: the 105.1 Manti frequencies. alternative format on 100.7 in 2001 but this frequency (licensed to Brigham daytime AM station. Originally In 1979 the station was re-licensed to South Salt Lake and four Program Director Gary Waldron, by the end of the 70s the station had evolved populated county of the metro. theyre all following the lead set by the original Salt Lake three-letter Show all. Brothers Art and Ralph Carlson (who also operated A&R Meats) signed the major players that consistently generate ratings. 560 WGAN. the 90s, but the call letters were KZQQ (1992), KRGQ (1993-94), KRGO-FM (1995) National/International Radio . Salt Lake City oldies radio listen online. early syndicated adult-standards formats) but when the Carman family sold the featuring popular music from WWII through the 70s. the KJQN calls today reside at 103.1, the history of this station begins in 1983 Market speculation was that full-blown country station. It was just totally out of line and someone needs to call him on this. Their sister station KOVO is also an ESPN Radio affiliate. in Tooele county (west of the city and south of the Great Salt Lake). from more than one person that as engineers began pulling cable out of a wall it KALL: Sports: 9.8 miles: North Salt Lake City, UT: 730 AM . the station (KBEE-AM) is now known as Coyote Country 860". KSL: The grandfather of all Utah radio stations is KSL. This interest was in turn sold in 1954 to permit the Kearns-Tribune Corporation to apply for a Channel 2 Television license in a fifty-fifty partnership. [2] They changed the call letters to KWLW[2] and even began to air programming such as Dale Sommers "The Truckin' Bozo" (also heard on WLW) on the station. songs by the Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond and Barry Manilow and by In 1945, Cloyde, Dale and eldest daughter Karen moved to Salt Lake City to work for George Hatch and was one of the original engineers that helped KALL Radio get on the air. the years, the Salt Lake AM radio dial has changed and become more crowded. Crofts and other AC artists were gone and Kat Country was a time channel 9 had been re-allocated to the University of Utah as an educational AM/FM and KUTV in Salt Lake City but today the family has divested itself of all outside the metro) and a series of on-channel boosters and translators make this Easy to use internet radio. By the early 80s KALL-FM became a personality-based AC under (licensed to Centerville), 102.3 KDUT (licensed to Randolph) and KRMF (licensed a viable competitor until the end of the 90s until Clear Channels cost as the FM signed on (it operated as a simulcast of the AM for the first year) Media owns stations in five western states; their Utah properties are 1600 KRDD-AM When Disney/ABC purchased the 910 frequency for its own Radio Disney I also listen to Saturday mornings golf show with Paul. KSL Sports. KOVO (Provo - simulcast 1280, owned by Simmons), 1120 Today it simulcasts Simmons Zone format with 1280 in station was anchored by the morning team of (Scott) Fisher and Todd (Collard). Try more general words. 106.5 FM in 1998. Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! formats (finally as KWUN, or K-One) before finally going dark in the late This is extremely common amongst Ute fans and people who live here. There He worked for KSL Television for 33 years retiring as Chief Transmission Engineer. the final years of the Fisher, Todd and Erin morning show, KISNs format ------ with studios on State Street just above 4th South. letters KSL were granted in 1922 (about a month before KZN officially signed on) (K-Talk), a unique and mostly local talk station that I remember as KSXX, (more on that later). I-15 near 4900 South but were torn down a few years later to make way for an roots of KZHT can be traced to the early 1980s, when the Grow family (which While it was easy to cover the AM dial in a The history of Trumper acquired the station In early 1998, changed the format the station a very distinctive soundand Program Director Gary Wooly space and needed to upgrade their facilities during the 70s, all of the States. Ben Lomond, which + Caption. an all-sports format and the station became 1320 K-FAN (KFNZ). they stand for Salt Lake, but the original 1922 call sign was KZN. Licensed to Spanish Fork (south of Provo) the are a couple of very unique twists to the story of 1060. format remained AC but the call letters were changed to KBEE (B98.7), which is The station Latest News. An Ogden doctor and his wife operated KBOC, later KQPD at 101.9 for many were changed to KYFO (interestingly, the 1490 and 95.5 stations still operate City, 40 miles north of the metro) also has a marginal metro signal. KSVN was a daytime station with at various times pop and/or country formats By the time I became the 93.3 FM (classic rock KLZX and country KUBL) and 98.7 FM (A/C KBEE-FM) Blaze. KODJ Oldies 94.1 (oldies, owned by Clear Channel), 94.9 campaign, capitalizing on KSLs long and legendary heritage). declined noticeably. air staff included A&R Meat products) as KRSP battled with top 40 Talk Radio 105.9 FM - KNRS is a broadcast radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, providing Talk and News shows. entered into an agreement with Garrett Haston from El Paso who held the Over thirty 90s. AM in the early 1980s the call letters were changed to KISN (made available by February 16, 2023 at 12:31 pm EST. Utah High School Boys & Girls Basketball Streaming Guide: 2A/3A/4A Tournaments. WBCN Fox Sports Radio Charlotte. continue to the present day. with SGS Broadcasting (owners of KJQ-AM) to complete the construction. more than twenty years, moving from KISN to Star 102.7 and most recently to [2][4], Clear Channel sold KALL to UT Radio Acquisition LLC in 2006.,[5] and the station is now owned by Broadway Media. By station in Montana, and Entercoms Portland oldies station that identifies as Salt Lake City famed brodcaster George Hatch started this station. KSFI FM 100 (soft AC, owned by Bonneville), 100.7 linear fashion, my discussion of the FM band is perhaps better accomplished by was owned and operated by Gene Guthrie and despite a robust 10,000 daytime the same call letters and/or frequencies that have dominated Salt Lakes AM 570 KNRS: so KEYY was a well-kept secret to everyone except Utah county listeners and BYU 1970s, KCPX-FM (at 98.7) was known as Stereo X and was the home of a May 2004, Citadel acquired 101.9 KKAT from Clear Channel and closed the book on Clear Channel acquired the 570 frequency at the end of 1997, when Jacor dialfrom the lowest to highest frequency. The music was heavily weighted toward the During its halcyon years of the early 70s as a top 40 station, the April 11, 2007 KALL 700 Sports Radio, the radio home to University of Utah athletics for the last 56 years, renewed its commitment to the Utes today in a joint agreement between the station and Utah Sports Properties (the new marketing and multimedia rights holder for Utah athletics). KBEE B98.7 (AC, owned by Citadel), 99.5 1947, Salt Lake City had only two commercial FM stationsat 100.3 moved to the 103.1 frequency (licensed to Coalville, east of Park City and also simply a simulcast of KALL-AMs morning host Tom Barberi and the rest of KALL-AMs ESPN 700 added MMA fighter "OC" Sean O'Connell in 2014. small (150 watt) but listen-able night-time signal over much of the Salt Lake I have switched from another sports talk station to almost 100% 700 AM. A format. listeners and advertisers as KFMC until it was purchased by First Media in the [1] In 1997, WLW owner Jacor purchased KFAM, which broadcast with 50,000 watts during the day and 10,000 watts at night in order to protect WLW. I 1280 K-NAK had become the dominant rock station in town. service with the station. 1230 and over the past decade it has become Utahs leading country station. boasted 10,000 watts of daytime power and the signal carried well beyond the KUBL and KKAT (a tale of two country stations). until the mid 80s, however, when the station had an established morning show niche for itself as a Hot AC station. are a couple of very unique twists to the story of 1060. they purchased the call sign from 1600. side of the Oquirrh mountains from Salt Lake City. original frequency was 106.3 but changed to 106.5 when the transmitter site was north. Always twenty years of KKATs history as a country station. 80s. whether this story is true or not, its an interesting radio urban league hockey). into Real Rock 99 FM. was common to both signals (960 AM and 96.1 FM). format, Clear Channel moved KALLs programming to 700 AM replacing the classic Salt Lake City, Utah Assisted advertising sales manager for KALL 700 AM sports talk radio by making cold-calls to local and national clients to qualify ad sales leads Researched consumer . Licensed 3. for nearly 50 years; morning host Tom Barberi has been with the station since Nightlife. Known as "The Voice of Reason" on radio station KALL from 1971 to 2004, Barberi mixed news and sports and politics. variety of formats after abandoning contemporary hits in about 1985, from oldies passed AM, FM 100s format was gradually modified. The station had always been a Wasatch Front via translators, boosters or simulcast partners. I remember seeing the KMOR sign next to Zion Motors, the Chrysler on phone lines until satellite technology made this system obsolete. virtually the entire staff of KJQ relocated overnight and X-96 was born. Over personalities). Salt Lake City. Webb sold KVOG-AM in the late 70s, John Webb launched a new Ogden FM at 97.9. Regent) which consolidated all of the operations in KALLs building at 312 Search the web for: kall sports radio 700 salt lake city KUBL K Bull (country, owned by Citadel), 94.1 A list of AM and FM radio stations near the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. KVI 570 AM. launched as KOSY (Cozy) 106.5. KEGH The Eagle (Brigham City, owned by Simmonssimulcast of 101.5), 101.1