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KOKC (1520 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is locally owned by the Tyler Media Group and airs a talk radio format. The studios and offices are located on East Britton Road in Northeast Oklahoma City. It is central Oklahoma's primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System.
The transmitter site is off Southwest 4th Street in Moore, Oklahoma. KOKC is a Class A clear channel station, broadcasting at the maximum U.S. AM station power of 50,000 watts. By day, the signal is non-directional. But at night, to protect WWKB Buffalo, New York, the other Class A station on AM 1520, KOKC must use a directional antenna. With a good radio, KOKC can be heard across much of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states at night.
KOKC is also heard on a 250-watt FM translator K237GE at 95.3 MHz, which covers Oklahoma City and adjacent communities. KOKC programming can also be heard on sister station 92.5 KOMA-FM's HD4 digital subchannel.
KOKC has one local weekday show hosted by Oklahoma political commentator Chad Alexander, heard in afternoon drive time. The rest of the schedule is mostly nationally syndicated conservative talk programs. Including Chad Benson and Guy Benson (not related), Markely, Van Camp and Robbins, Chris Plante, America in the Morning and Red Eye Radio heard overnight.
On weekends, KOKC features shows on health, money, technology, the outdoors and pets. Syndicated shows on weekends include Kim Komando and Brian Kilmeade, as well as repeats of weekday shows. Some local news and weather is supplied by KWTV channel 9, the CBS Network affiliate in Oklahoma City. Most hours on KOKC begin with world and national news from CBS News Radio.
The station's first license, with the sequentially assigned call letters of KFJF, was issued in July 1923. The station was owned by the National Radio Manufacturing Company in Oklahoma City, using a transmitter power of 20 watts on 1190 kHz. The station made its first broadcasts in early July. In early August, station founder Dudley Shaw and partner George H. Gabus announced that KFJF had begun a regular daily schedule of news and music each afternoon at 3:00.
In late 1924 KFJF was licensed for 225 watts on 1150 kHz, with the station claiming to have over 100,000 listeners. Power was increased to 500 watts in late 1925. In June 1927 its frequency was changed to 1100 kHz. On November 11, 1928, as a result of the FRC's General Order 40, KFJF changed to 1470 kHz, a "high power regional" frequency, and raised its power to 5,000 watts. In early 1930 KFJF, along with WKBW in Buffalo, New York, was reassigned to 1480 kHz, another "high power regional" frequency.
In 1932, the station changed its call letters to KOMA, and moved its studios to the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City. The station was purchased in 1938 by J.T. Griffin, who also owned the Griffin Grocery Company, which made condiments and baking products for distribution around the region.
KOKC (AM)
KOKC (1520 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is locally owned by the Tyler Media Group and airs a talk radio format. The studios and offices are located on East Britton Road in Northeast Oklahoma City. It is central Oklahoma's primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System.
The transmitter site is off Southwest 4th Street in Moore, Oklahoma. KOKC is a Class A clear channel station, broadcasting at the maximum U.S. AM station power of 50,000 watts. By day, the signal is non-directional. But at night, to protect WWKB Buffalo, New York, the other Class A station on AM 1520, KOKC must use a directional antenna. With a good radio, KOKC can be heard across much of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states at night.
KOKC is also heard on a 250-watt FM translator K237GE at 95.3 MHz, which covers Oklahoma City and adjacent communities. KOKC programming can also be heard on sister station 92.5 KOMA-FM's HD4 digital subchannel.
KOKC has one local weekday show hosted by Oklahoma political commentator Chad Alexander, heard in afternoon drive time. The rest of the schedule is mostly nationally syndicated conservative talk programs. Including Chad Benson and Guy Benson (not related), Markely, Van Camp and Robbins, Chris Plante, America in the Morning and Red Eye Radio heard overnight.
On weekends, KOKC features shows on health, money, technology, the outdoors and pets. Syndicated shows on weekends include Kim Komando and Brian Kilmeade, as well as repeats of weekday shows. Some local news and weather is supplied by KWTV channel 9, the CBS Network affiliate in Oklahoma City. Most hours on KOKC begin with world and national news from CBS News Radio.
The station's first license, with the sequentially assigned call letters of KFJF, was issued in July 1923. The station was owned by the National Radio Manufacturing Company in Oklahoma City, using a transmitter power of 20 watts on 1190 kHz. The station made its first broadcasts in early July. In early August, station founder Dudley Shaw and partner George H. Gabus announced that KFJF had begun a regular daily schedule of news and music each afternoon at 3:00.
In late 1924 KFJF was licensed for 225 watts on 1150 kHz, with the station claiming to have over 100,000 listeners. Power was increased to 500 watts in late 1925. In June 1927 its frequency was changed to 1100 kHz. On November 11, 1928, as a result of the FRC's General Order 40, KFJF changed to 1470 kHz, a "high power regional" frequency, and raised its power to 5,000 watts. In early 1930 KFJF, along with WKBW in Buffalo, New York, was reassigned to 1480 kHz, another "high power regional" frequency.
In 1932, the station changed its call letters to KOMA, and moved its studios to the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City. The station was purchased in 1938 by J.T. Griffin, who also owned the Griffin Grocery Company, which made condiments and baking products for distribution around the region.