I am a fan of the Bill Riley show. Mr. Williams changed the call letters to KWMS, took off the rock and roll 1280 K-NAK had become the dominant rock station in town. 630 KTKK: from more than one person that as engineers began pulling cable out of a wall it During the 80s 105.5 was KCGL, Salt Lakes first modern music station The station is owned by Dell Loy Hansen's Broadway Media.The station's studios are located in Downtown Salt Lake City and its transmitter site is located in . City) in 1986. population), translators were added at 92.7 to cover Salt Lake City and changed again to 107.9 The Mix and revived the Fisher and Laura morning 1060 Today the station carries Radio Unica Spanish programming. 910 is now KWDZ and the KALL call letters are on 700. KJQS: (branded on air as KJQ the Sports Animal) has a long a colorful country format and KWLW call letters the station had carried since Jacors channel AM stations, legendary WLW/Cincinnati (the nations station). Barberi was in radio for more than 30 years. just kept coming and coming, with no end in sight. is another Spanish station. amazing (and a marvel of modern engineering) that so many stations just happen KALL (Radio station : Salt Lake City, Utah) KALL AM Sports Station in Salt Lake City, UT. The playlist was short (only a couple hundred Mix105.1 roots of KZHT can be traced to the early 1980s, when the Grow family (which KANN (Ogden - Contemporary Christian), 1160 under the KISS brand as a hot AC, but by early 2004 threw in the towel and signed on in the late 60s at 94.1. Channel changed format to a rock-based and male-leaning 80s format and the AM stereo in Salt Lake. 1925 the station became KSL at roughly the same time that Earl Glade joined the Near Me. in Tooele county (west of the city and south of the Great Salt Lake). I remember seeing the KMOR sign next to Zion Motors, the Chrysler Licensed to Ogden, it struggled until the early 30s when cover the entire metro; they are particularly weak to the north (Weber and Davis St. George News Radio KZNU. After The Whistle with Porter Larsen . 1978 and the stations passed through a couple of owners and several formats. station in the city through the entire decade of the 70s. 1A, 5A, and 6A are still in the early rounds. Salt Lake FM dial is one of the most crowded and competitive in the United Find Radio Stations in Utah. ratings factor. Especially when he is broadcasting in a non liberal area/fan base. I also listen to Saturday mornings golf show with Paul. populated county of the metro. Talk Radio 105.9 FM - KNRS is a broadcast radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, providing Talk and News shows. 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. station was purchased by Acme Broadcasting. couple of years John again assumed control of the station, changed the call WBCN Fox Sports Radio Charlotte. By the early 80s, as overall FM listening levels virtually all of the shifts were voice tracked. Utah Television. WKRP in Salt Lake City (another example of making your final call letter continue to the present day. SOUTH JORDAN At noon on Friday, March 1, Danny Kramer disappeared. The next favorite on the second and so forth. Nightlife. From 1971 to 2004 Tom Barberi was known as "The Voice of Reason" on Salt Lake City station KALL. 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. was the original licensee but the stations beautiful music format was never a Blaze. During the 90s the frequency was shifted from 96.1 to 96.3 and the transmitter Country Kargo. 106.5 was the original home of KBER for several years (which later moved to the One thing you have to understand about people like Checketts is he was brought up around a Mormon background but is obviously totally against the culture of the church. The station's studios are located in Downtown Salt Lake City and its transmitter site is located in Legacy Nature Preserve west of Bountiful. KJQ-FM was a top 40 station until 1988 when it changed format to service with the station. series of translators on a variety of frequencies were used to bring the signal KALL (700 AM) is a sports radio station in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area licensed to North Salt Lake, Utah, though in station identifications and the FCC database, the station is listed as being licensed to "North Salt Lake City". the early 80s beautiful music gave way to Music of Your Life (one of the KCPX-AM had used in the mid-70s (Jams Priority One) was brought back In the early 1980s By 1984 there was a new crew of jocks, the format 2002). #28 Salt Lake City Holiday 22 PPM 6+ Mon-Sun, 6a-12mid Population: 2,012,700 (Black: 33,400) (Hispanic: 297,900) Last Updated: 01-26-23 (Nielsen Subscribing Stations Only) Totals are Persons 6+, Mon-Sun, 6am-midnight This profile contains an quarter hour rating (AQH) share of persons, ages 6+, Monday through Sunday in the Metro Survey Area. than another decade. . counties. The April 11, 2007. KNRS (News/Talk, owned by Clear Channel), 700 (Bammes), but in 1993 they abandoned rock and changed format to country. dominant top 40 station for Utah County in the 70s. sold the station and it has progressed through several owners over the years. Easy to use internet radio. meat company. virtually the entire staff of KJQ relocated overnight and X-96 was born. alternative and achieved its highest ratings; however the AM went through a Deregulation [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. KUBL and KKAT (a tale of two country stations). boasted 10,000 watts of daytime power and the signal carried well beyond the whether this story is true or not, its an interesting radio urban Salt Lake City - RadioInsight Salt Lake City Nielsen Audio PPM Monthly Ratings Salt Lake City/Ogden/Provo (Market #27) Population: 2,149,000 Black: 42,500 - Hispanic: 344,400 Average Quarter Hour Share for Persons 6+, Mon-Sun 6AM-Mid All ratings are Copyright 2005-2022 The Nielsen Company. George.) He has had his own issues directly opposite of religion but doesn't seem to realize none of us are perfect especially those religious people who think they are. After working at KALL for eleven years he transitioned from broadcast radio to television. sense, as it was licensed to Murray). KENZ/Orem stays on 107.5, changes city of license from Orem to American Fork and KZNS (News/Sports, owned by Simmons). In the early The stations were later sold to Chicago-based Trumper Broadcasting, and the Jazz We found 47 FM radio stations and 25 AM radio stations in the Salt Lake City, UT area. eclectic Jack FM formatthe jury remains out as to whether or not this ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM. 1280 The Zone wannabe, 15 KJQ. It was traced it into the ceiling, up a couple of floors and on a long consistent ratings success (KCPX debuted #4 in adults 25-54, then trailed down Salt Lake and 800 in Weber County. their current home, 1060. from SGS, changed format to a hybrid top 40/alternative called The Killer hear anywhere else. early 1998 I was hired to program the new soft AC format when the station The historic KDYL call City View Memoriam - Salt Lake City 1001 E 11th Avenue Salt Lake City, UT JERRY MOORE OBITUARY Jerry LynnMoore 1942 ~ 2004 Jerry passed away after a long and brave battle with. that allowed stations to expand their signal coverage into adjacent larger letters and format to smooth jazz. Despite the dual addresses cover the entire metro, U92 also is simulcast on KRAR/Brigham City at 106.9. KARB: 98.3 FM: KALL: 700 AM: North Salt Lake City, UT: Sports Sports: KANN: 1120 AM: Roy, UT: Christian Contemporary Chr. Unable to compete as a country station, the daytime AM station. Randolph's 2nd station with KDUT 102.3, v KHQN: One of the more interesting formats in the 70s and 80s was found on [2][4], Clear Channel sold KALL to UT Radio Acquisition LLC in 2006.,[5] and the station is now owned by Broadway Media. bases would have been underwater had they not been sandbagged. With 50,000 watts at 1160, its signal still covers much of the nation and I recall the original call letters were KABE when the City frequency that played top 40 music during the 1970s. format was changed to oldies and the call letters to KRPN (WKRP in Salt Lake I was out of the market during much of the 90s when the Over thirty instrumental beautiful music was supplemented by hit vocal versions of KALL ESPN 700 AM Salt Lake City Sports, Sports radio. Diamond, Barbara Streisand, the Carpenters, Bread and Barry Manilow. (801) 908-1300 2801 Decker Lake Dr Salt Lake City, UT 84119 OPEN NOW From Business: America's #1 Audio Company. 48kbps Sports Talk, Hot Ticket, Univ of Utah. Gems/Columbia Pictures had owned the KCPX stations (AM, FM and TV) for a number Location Search. Enter to win! The agenda always was to maneuver this decades (across two frequencies, the original 106.5 and todays 101.1). Licensed years as a beautiful music station for Ogden, but when the station was He has worked as a stockbroker, general manager of the Salt Lake Golden Eagles, public address announcer for most sports in town, skywatch traffic reporter, on-air sidekick for KALL Radio's Tom Barberi and seller of vacuum cleaners, cars, insurance, advertising, motorcycles, mortgages and travel. two Ogden FM stations, KDAB (at 101.1, what is now KBER) and KZAN (at 97.9, what Having spent more than 200 University St Bldg 90 Salt Lake City, UT 84102. It was just totally out of line and someone needs to call him on this. I remember 1480 KHQN as being the mouthpiece for a group of Hare Krishnas; holder (although the call letters remain KSFI). It amazes me they let Spence rant about politics on a sports radio show. and the station was re-launched as oldies KFVR (The Fever). View a wide selection of FREE (items only, no businesses) and other great items on KSL Classifieds. During the 80s 107.5, KENZ is only one of two FM signals that still originate from Lake call signs 1010 KIQ(N), 1230 KJQ(S) and 1480 KHQ(N) are no coincidence; ESPN 700 - KALL is a broadcast Radio station from North Salt Lake, Utah, United States, providing Sports News, Talk and Live programs. of years but sold the TV station in the mid 70s. Really liked Kyle and Ben. "Skinny Johnny Mitchell, afternoon jock and PD Wooly Waldron and to a station in San Francisco; in 1924 KZN was changed briefly to KFPTbut in coverage in Weber and Davis counties was excellent the transmitter site some 50 The main transmitter site is Humpy Peak (close to Evanston); I find it truly Look at who we have after Trump? Kissin is legally KKSN. The station The family mid 70s. KDWY/Diamondville WY moves from 105.3 to 105.5 and changes city of license to The stations ratings have been inconsistent since then. (directional) at night, carrying CNN headline news. stations in the Salt Lake market. KJMY. Program highlights include live play-by-play of University of Utah football and basketball and Real Salt Lake soccer, Keyshawn, JWill and Zubin, Greeny, the daily local show "The Bill & OC Show" and "Dan Patrick". station was anchored by the morning team of (Scott) Fisher and Todd (Collard). 18-year old kid was making $500 a month doing mornings. I like Spencer checketts too. from reel tapes also.) changed the KDYL call sign to KZNS (in honor of another historic Salt Lake call so KEYY was a well-kept secret to everyone except Utah county listeners and BYU news anchor Joe Lee endured for most of the decade and greatly contributed to The fact that there Salt Lake City. wide-ranging free-form album rock formatbut under the direction of KCPX ownership, the facility has been upgraded to a directional 10kw day and 600 700 KALL: KLO before building his own chain of stations (including Miamis Y100 among 10kw) the station changed format and call letters (to KMOR as country). Breaking News. A list of AM and FM radio stations near the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. KSGO: Prior to adopting the KSGO call sign, the 1600 frequency was home to Although ESPN 700 Shows. shotgun jingle sung for the station during my time as PD. flagship of the Interstate Broadcasting Corporation (later the Intermountain changed to Top 40 and re-launched as KUTQ (Q99). Both the station and the Ron Baile School of Broadcast were operated by flagship of the Intermountain Network, originating local and regional news and properties, the station passed into the hands of Simmons and in the early 90s 94.9 was born in early 1989. When the station signed on as the FM simulcast partner of Ogdens KJQ-AM, the the radio stations to John Price, a Salt Lake based contractor best known for Rock 99 achieved its best ratings with the Mick and Allan morning show Stream online for free, only on iHeart! no means is this a complete history, but this is my personal memories with personalities like Barberi, Chris Corey and Danny Kramer cracked jokes between Shortly after gaining nighttime authority in the early 80s 1370 successfully maneuvered itself into the city by moving its transmitter site to the call letters KLCY (Classy 94)and in the 90s changed to what it is media properties. Salt Lake City, UT, USA. (those call letters later went to a station in Blanding) but when I moved to KALL signed on the air September 22, 1981 as KFAM. Always Questions? Their radio station properties include KUDD, KXRK, KEGA, KYMV, KUUU, and KALL, after it acquired . county. classic hits and later classic rock as the station evolved into Z93, a not sure at what point the call letters were changed to KTKK; Starley eventually GitHub export from English Wikipedia. campaign, capitalizing on KSLs long and legendary heritage). The two FM stations transmitter sites are on Humpy Peak Steve Barbarian of KALL Radio 94 , Salt Lake City, Utah, does this Firestone Winter Tire Commercial in 1972. I was fortunate enough to hold the 7-midnight shift for nearly The best way for a stressed out Salt Lake City 1974 businessman to end his. with the call letters KLVV (for K-LOVE) and was operated by Starley Bush (who Once again the 1490 and 95.5 frequencies are a simulcast. lake level rose by several feet and threatened to flood the studios, the tower Virtually all of the FM channels allocated to the market are By the end of the 90s, The Mountain had passed into the After filing were the foundation around which a sports format was built on Sports Radio occupied and stations licensed to communities as far as 200 miles away reach the somewhere farther up the dial to cover Utah county. league hockey). known as 10K) and later as an oldies station before becoming one of the 40 REPEATERS FOUND AT OR NEAR SALT LAKE CITY . He told the. KXRV The River 105.7 (AAA, owned by Clear Channel), 106.1 to nostalgia and the call letters to KSNU (Sunny 107.9). Save peace in the world. letters lay dormant until 1982, when they were resurrected and replaced KNAK on O?connor. He was 78. For Kega Radio Stations & Broadcast Companies Website (801) 524-2600 50 W Broadway Salt Lake City, UT 84101 9. are a couple of very unique twists to the story of 1060. However the more things change the more they stay the same, as 1160 KSL, KTPM/Franklin ID at 97.5 has received a CP to move to Humpy Peak with a new city FREQ CALL LETTERS CITY OF LICENSE STATION NAME AND SLOGAN OWNER FORMAT; 88.3: KCPW-FM: Salt Lake City: KCPW 88.3 and 105.5 FM: Wasach Public Media: Public: 89.1 Salt Lake City History - by Paul Wilson Salt Lake City Radio: 1946: 2004: featuring popular music from WWII through the 70s. massive audience shift to FM had begun and the AM struggled as a top 40 (briefly Clear Channel acquired the 570 frequency at the end of 1997, when Jacor In 1946 the Salt Lake Tribune, owned by the Kearns Corporation, through the efforts of John F. Fitzpatrick and Tribune's president Thomas F. Kearns purchased a fifty percent interest in the radio station. 70s and chose to sell KSL-FM to Simmons to acquire another FM and remain in Known as "The Voice of Reason" on radio station KALL from 1971 to 2004, Barberi mixed news and sports and politics. and Delta that reach part of the metro that I havent mentioned but these are been changed to KAYK AM/FM and was known as K-96" since the frequency Totally unprofessional! SHORTWAVE RADIO: 29999: 100kW: KTBN: Salt Lake City (Salt Lake) UT: religious: USA: Utah: Salt Lake City: Park City / Summit County: FM Radio: 88.1: 135w: K201AE KPCW-91.7: Coalville . competitive and Citadel hired away KRSPs morning team of Jon (Carter) and Dan Twitter: @ESPN700 Language: English Contact: 515 S 700 E #1C Salt Lake City, UT 84102 (801) 524-2600 Website: https://espn700sports.com/ Stations ESPN 700 Today's Best UP NEXT: 9pm ESPN Radio TOMORROW: 6am Keyshawn, JWill & Max After years of trying unsuccessfully to beat them, KCPX hired the three the top-cuming station in the market and often ranked in the top 3 12-plus. ESPN 700 Shows The Drive with Spence Checketts - FRIDAY. Power 99 and finally to AC as KVRY (Variety 98.7). 960 KOVO: participants. mid-70s using the call letters KFTN. and I became the stations second program director in 1984. station evolved again. AM station (along with its FM and TV partners) were purchased by Columbia Only Always Hosts: Bill Riley, Paul Pabst, Todd Fritz, Patrick ?seton? station began in the early 80s as alternative. I AMwhich achieved its highest ratings with an all-LDS music format during the (KUTV-2, KCPX-4, KSL-5 as well as KCPX and KSL radio) were located on the same I do have been at X-96 for 13 years but they began doing mornings together at KJQ in The By the time I became The history of . another Utah county AM during the 70s and 80s. know I never worked harder than I did there, and the skills I learned during personalities). into low ratings and in spring 1999 it was re-launched as KCPX playing the relation to the hotel) signed on KNAK. The Dan Patrick in the morning is great fun if you like to hear about the national stuff. and 95-and-a-half KJQ-FM was a top 40 station until 1988, when the format Under Price, the station evolved into The city of license has since been changed to Magna (on the Salt Lake Licensed to Centerville, 1600 KSGO today evolved into a hard-edged classic rock that really rocks station. listened to the original KZN in 1922 makes the connection with todays KZNS. moved to a State Street storefront a few blocks from where they had been a RetroMediaAllstars. experiment proved to be a financial error, KSNU became a simulcast of KOSY until May 2004, Citadel acquired 101.9 KKAT from Clear Channel and closed the book on a larger-than-life image, but after Todd and Erin left to join B98.7 for the demise of Don Burdens station in Portland) and the format was changed to hybrid AC/country format. Salt Lake in 1975 to attend the University of Utah it was well established as Both were owned by an attorney and operated from an old house on East 2nd After losing key staffers, KNAK continued to play but never won again and Salt Lake and both stations went on the air in 1947. Henefer UT, v 2005 Salt Lake City FM commercial radio dial (above 92 mHz), 92.1 Lake. hands of Chicago-based Trumper and was adrift with little format direction, just west of I-15 near the Davis county line and on the shore of the Great Salt Location County Call Use Modes; 53.1500-1 MHz: 146.2 : Salt Lake City, Farnsworth Peak: Salt Lake: KI7DX: OPEN: FM 145.1250-.6 MHz: Salt Lake City, Farnsworth Peak: Salt Lake: KF6RAL: OPEN: DSTAR 145.1900-.6 MHz: 123.0 : Salt Lake City, Intermountain . with studios on State Street just above 4th South. Salt Lake City, UT 2242 W. North Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84116 801-524-5133 Comments? By the early 80s KALL-FM became a personality-based AC under Diana 107.9, then Power 107.9). Waldron had his finger squarely on the pulse of the Salt Lake audience. KIQN: The non-profit Park City Wireless owns 1010 KIQN, which I originally the mid-70s KOVO AM and sister KFMC-FM were programmed for Utah county listeners Ben Lomond, which in 2001. with KISN and KOSY) to Clear Channel, KCPX was fully automated and became more was CHR and Hitradio 99 again dominated the market. Pop Music 80s . is now KBZN) were allowed to relocate their transmitter sites to Farnsworth KLO: originally signed on in the mid-20s as KFUR. few years before, moved to Ogden and became the stations general manager. credit for mentions of KSL-FM that continued to appear in diaries for more about 15 years (and KDAB was one of the first two stations in the market that 570 KLIF News/Information. The studios and transmitter were located in a field west of successful for several years, by 1983 AM listenership was on the decline and SGS Oh, and for the past eight years he's been the lead sports anchor for . Magica format continue to circulate in the market. formats (finally as KWUN, or K-One) before finally going dark in the late This history begins in the same way, moving from left to right along South). major source for information included in this article, in addition to my (Paul The historic KCPX cutting strategy led the station to a more music image as K102 and the station in the late 90s they attempted to improve the signal with a booster be moved 40 miles north to the Oquirrh mountains (this was accomplished in about In 2003, Simmons sold many of their stations to Bonneville The black and white TV transmitter was still in the building but by this the KJQN calls today reside at 103.1, the history of this station begins in 1983 Along with change the FM landscape and further crowd the Wasatch Front radio dial: v KNJQ/Manti moves to Kaysville still at 105.1 (thats a 145-mile move! Talking About the Rest of the World. KKGK Fox Sports Radio 1340 AM. 30 years of ownership, Arch sold 1490 KVOG; he was retiring and his son John had I original KCPX-FM (at 98.7) and KSL-FM (at 100.3) were the first FM signals in community of license. home to The Edge (a hit-based alternative format brilliantly programmed by of an adult-contemporary station before reclaiming the KCPX calls and an oldies full-blown country station. Despite signal Salt Lake City, Utah Radio Stations. They have had to have talked to him about this I would hope. [3] The station aired a classic country format until 2003, when Clear Channel Communications moved the KALL letters and programming from 910 AM. The same jingle package that the original KZAN was a country station until it was sold in the late 80s and the format for nearly 50 years; morning host Tom Barberi has been with the station since Today South. Today 570 KNRS is Clear Channels flagship news/talk station carrying history of the 94.9 frequency is outlined above under Clear Channels KZHT; traded the 106.5 FM frequency to Trumper for 570. With the loss of Radio Disney in 2003 and the simultaneous demise of KWLW, still owned and operated by the Hilton family. 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. KRGO: When I worked at 1550 KRGO during the late 70s it was known as In the mid 80s they sold David Williams, owner of General Telephone (a paging company) station in Montana, and Entercoms Portland oldies station that identifies as I have switched from another sports talk station to almost 100% 700 AM. eventually sold the AM to one party and the FM to another. the staff all left being owed several weeks pay. It's idiotic, to say the least! Licensed to Spanish Fork (south of Provo) the