KSMM (AM)

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| city = Liberal, Kansas

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| frequency = {{Frequency|1470|kHz}}

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| airdate = September 15, 1960 (as KLIB)

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| power = 1,000 watts day
170 watts night

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| facility_id = 36752

| coordinates = {{coord|37|03|55|N|100|51|59|W}}

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| former_callsigns = KLIB (1960–1985)
KILS (1985–1988)
KYUU (1988–2008)

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| owner = MyTown Media

| licensee = My Town Media Inc

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KSMM (1470 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to serve the community of Liberal, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by My Town Media.{{cite web |work=Arbitron |url=https://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?surveyID=SU19&band=am&callLetter=KSMM |title=Station Information Profile}} The transmitter, tower, and studio are just south of Highway 54 on the east side of town.

History

The station was assigned the call sign KLIB by the Federal Communications Commission on July 20, 1960. The station changed the call sign to KILS on March 1, 1985, then to KYUU on October 4, 1988,{{cite web |title=Call Sign History |url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=36752&Callsign=KSMM36752 |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database}} when it was part of the "LS Network" of Kansas radio entrepreneur Larry Steckline.Harris News Service: [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/512049/ "Radio station to expand coverage,"] December 16, 1988, Salina Journal, retrieved from Newspapers.com OCR text, July 26, 2020.

The format in 1984/1985 was adult contemporary, and personalities on the air at that time included Paul Maldanado, Tim Malone, and John Jenkinson. Who really cares, because this was one two-year period of a station that's been broadcasting for 64 years. Max Libby was the General Manager at one point (?).

The call sign changed to KSMM on February 13, 2008.

As part of owner Rocking M Media's bankruptcy reorganization, in which 12 stations in Kansas would be auctioned off to new owners, it was announced on October 31, 2022, that Pittsburg-based MyTown Media was the winning bidder for KSMM for $20,000. The sale to MyTown Media was approved by the FCC on March 29, 2023, and was consummated on May 12 of that year.https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/public/consummationDraftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff388029daa01882499e9c30118&id=25076ff388029daa01882499e9c30118&goBack=N {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}

References

External links

[http://www.swksradio.com/superhits/ Official website]
[https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/am-profile/ksmm FCC Public Inspection File for KSMM]
[https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=42133 FCC History Card for KSMM]
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SMM (AM)

Category:Radio stations established in 1960

Category:1960 establishments in Kansas

Category:Oldies radio stations in the United States

Category:Seward County, Kansas