KMUS

{{Infobox radio station

| name = KMUS

| logo =

| city = Sperry, Oklahoma

| area = Tulsa metropolitan area

| branding = 1380 AM Radio Las Américas

| airdate = {{Start date and age|1948|7|3}}

| frequency = 1380 kHz {{HD Radio}}

| format = {{ubl|Spanish popular music, news|Brokered programming}}

| power = {{ubl|7,000 watts (day)|250 watts (night)}}

| class = B

| licensing_authority = FCC

| facility_id = 25129

| callsign_meaning = Muskogee (former city of license)

| former_callsigns = KLUE (1987–1990)

| owner = Grupo Teletul

| licensee = Radio Las Américas, LLC

| translator = {{Radio Relay|102.7|K274CX|Tulsa}}

| repeater = {{Radio Relay|1490|KBIX|Muskogee}}

| webcast = {{listenlive|http://lasamericas1380am.com/en-vivo/}}

| website = {{URL|http://www.lasamericas1380am.com}}

| affiliations =

}}

KMUS (1380 AM) is a Spanish-language radio station licensed to Sperry, Oklahoma, and serving the Tulsa metropolitan area. It is owned by Radio Las Américas, LLC. KMUS airs a mix of Spanish language hits and talk shows, some of which are paid brokered programming.

By day, KMUS is powered at 7,000 watts. To protect other stations on 1380 AM from interference, it uses a directional antenna with a six-tower array.[https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=kmus&x=0&y=0&sr=Y&s=C Radio-Locator.com/KMUS] At night, it reduces power to only 250 watts. Programming is heard around the clock on low-power FM translator K274CX at 102.7 MHz in Tulsa.[https://radio-locator.com/info/K274CX-FX Radio-Locator.com/W274CX]

History

KMUS began broadcasting in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on July 3, 1948.{{cite news|title=KMUS in Muskogee Underway with 1 KW|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1948/1948-07-19-BC.pdf|accessdate=December 26, 2014|agency=Broadcasting|date=July 19, 1949}} It changed to KLUE on July 25, 1987, with a format of crossover country. Three years later, the call sign reverted to KMUS and the station aired an adult standards format.

Sometime in the 1990s, the station began airing programming from the "Children's Satellite Network", which was dropped in March 1998.[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-M-Street/M-Street-Journal/M-Street-1998-03.pdf Format Changes & Updates]", The M-Street Journal. Vol. 15 No. 9. March 4, 1998. p. 1. Retrieved December 17, 2023. Reunion Broadcasting, LLC sold KMUS to The Walt Disney Company on March 10, 2004. Its transmitter site and city of license was relocated to Sperry, Oklahoma, and the format changed to another children's radio network, Radio Disney.

Disney took KMUS, and five other stations slated to be sold, off the air on January 22, 2010.{{cite news|url=http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/69932/radio-disney-takes-six-stations-silent|title=Radio Disney Takes Six Stations Silent|date=January 28, 2010|work=All Access|accessdate=January 29, 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1354772&Service=AM&Form_id=910&Facility_id=25129|title=Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA|last=Zucker|first=John W|date=January 26, 2010|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|accessdate=January 29, 2010}} After the first attempt to sell the station fell through, a deal to sell KMUS to Radio Las Americas LLC was announced in February 2011.{{cite news|title=Radio Disney continues its selloff of medium-market stations: Tulsa's KMUS/1380|url=http://www.radio-info.com/news/radio-disney-continues-its-selloff-of-medium-market-stations-tulsas-kmus138|accessdate=February 19, 2011|newspaper=Radio-Info.com|date=February 18, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223174945/http://www.radio-info.com/news/radio-disney-continues-its-selloff-of-medium-market-stations-tulsas-kmus138|archive-date=February 23, 2011|url-status=dead}}

Radio Las Américas returned the station to the air on April 29 with a Spanish-language popular music format, along with two newscasts a day (which are audio-only versions of the newscasts on sister television station KXAP-LD).{{cite news|last=Arnold|first=Kyle|title=Tulsa to get fourth Spanish-language radio station|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=46&articleid=20110426_46_E1_Locala905526|accessdate=May 1, 2011|newspaper=Tulsa World|date=April 26, 2011}}{{cite news|last=Arnold|first=Kyle|title=Radio Las Americas latest Spanish-language station|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=46&articleid=20110426_46_E1_Locala905526|accessdate=May 1, 2011|newspaper=Tulsa World|date=April 30, 2011}}{{cite news|last=Grinter|first=Jeff|title=New Hispanic Radio Station On The Air|url=http://www.ktul.com/story/14543796/new-hispanic-radio-station-on-the-air|accessdate=May 1, 2011|newspaper=KTUL.com|date=April 29, 2011}}