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KCMO (AM)
KCMO (710 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri. Owned by Cumulus Media, the station airs a talk radio format. The studios and offices are on Indian Creek Parkway in Overland Park, Kansas. KCMO is also heard on KCHZ (95.7 FM) in Ottawa, Kansas and on the second HD Radio channel of co-owned KCFX (101.1) in Harrisonville, Missouri.
The AM transmitter is off North Eastern Road, near Interstate 435, on Kansas City's Northeast side. KCMO broadcasts with 10,000 watts by day and 5,000 watts at night, using a directional antenna at all times. The station is heard around the Kansas City metropolitan area, in sections of Missouri and Kansas. With a good radio, the signal can also be heard in parts of Iowa, Oklahoma, Illinois, Arkansas and Nebraska. Due to KCMO's low transmitting frequency, plus Kansas's flat terrain and excellent ground conductivity, the station has an unusually large daytime coverage area, reaching a population area of nearly 12 million people.
Weekdays begin with a local news and information show hosted by Pete Mundo, followed by a local talk show with Kevin Keitzman. Nationally syndicated conservative talk shows make up the rest of the weekday schedule. Hosts include Vince Coglianese, Guy Benson, Mark Levin, Will Cain, Bill O'Reilly, Dave Ramsey and Red Eye Radio. Weekends feature shows on money, health, religion, cooking, travel and the outdoors, some of which are brokered programming. Syndicated weekend hosts include Rich Valdes and Chris Plante.
At various times in its history, KCMO has carried hourly newscasts from either CBS Radio News or Fox News Radio. At the beginning of 2015, KCMO and most Cumulus talk stations switched to Westwood One News, a Cumulus network. When that service ended in 2020, KCMO returned to hourly updates from Fox.
The station started in 1925 by Wilson Duncan Broadcasting as KWKC on AM 1370. In 1936, it changed its call letters to KCMO (Kansas City, Missouri). In 1939, it moved to 1450 AM and then 1480 AM in 1941. In November 1947, KCMO moved to 810 AM, where it stayed for more than half a century. During much of that time, KCMO was affiliated with the CBS Radio Network, carrying its line up of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio".
Walter Cronkite was a sports announcer at the station in 1936 with the on air name of "Walter Wilcox". While at KCMO, Cronkite met his wife, Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, and later left to become a reporter for United Press International, before becoming a long-time TV anchor for CBS News.
In 1953, television station KCMO-TV (now KCTV) was launched. The Meredith Corporation acquired both the radio and television stations in October 1953, less than a month after the television station went on the air. Meredith later acquired what became KCMO-FM (94.9). In 1955, it switched network affiliations to CBS Radio, swapping network affiliations with KMBC, as part of a group deal that Meredith saw a radio and TV affiliation deal with CBS in three cities for five stations
In 1978 Meredith built a new facility for its broadcasting stations in Fairway, Kansas. The radio stations were spun off from the television station in 1983, and the TV station changed its call letters to KCTV. (Meredith continued to own KCTV until 2021, when its television stations were acquired by Gray Television.) That year, Richard Fairbanks bought both KCMO and KCMO-FM.
KCMO (AM)
KCMO (710 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri. Owned by Cumulus Media, the station airs a talk radio format. The studios and offices are on Indian Creek Parkway in Overland Park, Kansas. KCMO is also heard on KCHZ (95.7 FM) in Ottawa, Kansas and on the second HD Radio channel of co-owned KCFX (101.1) in Harrisonville, Missouri.
The AM transmitter is off North Eastern Road, near Interstate 435, on Kansas City's Northeast side. KCMO broadcasts with 10,000 watts by day and 5,000 watts at night, using a directional antenna at all times. The station is heard around the Kansas City metropolitan area, in sections of Missouri and Kansas. With a good radio, the signal can also be heard in parts of Iowa, Oklahoma, Illinois, Arkansas and Nebraska. Due to KCMO's low transmitting frequency, plus Kansas's flat terrain and excellent ground conductivity, the station has an unusually large daytime coverage area, reaching a population area of nearly 12 million people.
Weekdays begin with a local news and information show hosted by Pete Mundo, followed by a local talk show with Kevin Keitzman. Nationally syndicated conservative talk shows make up the rest of the weekday schedule. Hosts include Vince Coglianese, Guy Benson, Mark Levin, Will Cain, Bill O'Reilly, Dave Ramsey and Red Eye Radio. Weekends feature shows on money, health, religion, cooking, travel and the outdoors, some of which are brokered programming. Syndicated weekend hosts include Rich Valdes and Chris Plante.
At various times in its history, KCMO has carried hourly newscasts from either CBS Radio News or Fox News Radio. At the beginning of 2015, KCMO and most Cumulus talk stations switched to Westwood One News, a Cumulus network. When that service ended in 2020, KCMO returned to hourly updates from Fox.
The station started in 1925 by Wilson Duncan Broadcasting as KWKC on AM 1370. In 1936, it changed its call letters to KCMO (Kansas City, Missouri). In 1939, it moved to 1450 AM and then 1480 AM in 1941. In November 1947, KCMO moved to 810 AM, where it stayed for more than half a century. During much of that time, KCMO was affiliated with the CBS Radio Network, carrying its line up of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio".
Walter Cronkite was a sports announcer at the station in 1936 with the on air name of "Walter Wilcox". While at KCMO, Cronkite met his wife, Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, and later left to become a reporter for United Press International, before becoming a long-time TV anchor for CBS News.
In 1953, television station KCMO-TV (now KCTV) was launched. The Meredith Corporation acquired both the radio and television stations in October 1953, less than a month after the television station went on the air. Meredith later acquired what became KCMO-FM (94.9). In 1955, it switched network affiliations to CBS Radio, swapping network affiliations with KMBC, as part of a group deal that Meredith saw a radio and TV affiliation deal with CBS in three cities for five stations
In 1978 Meredith built a new facility for its broadcasting stations in Fairway, Kansas. The radio stations were spun off from the television station in 1983, and the TV station changed its call letters to KCTV. (Meredith continued to own KCTV until 2021, when its television stations were acquired by Gray Television.) That year, Richard Fairbanks bought both KCMO and KCMO-FM.