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KYCR (AM)
KYCR (1440 kHz) is an AM radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It is owned by Salem Media Group, and is carrying a business radio format.
KYCR's studios are located in Eagan, while its transmitter is located in Golden Valley.
The original call letters were KEYD and the station played country music for many years. The station was launched in May 1948 by former management and advertisers of WDGY, who had become disenchanted with the owners of that station over the discontinuance of religious programming. Family Broadcasting basically started the station as a new home for the spurned WDGY programming. KEYD got a sister TV station in 1955, KEYD-TV (now KMSP-TV), and the two stations were co-owned by Family Broadcasting until mid-1956. The original KEYD radio studios were located in downtown Minneapolis on 9th Street off of Hennepin Avenue adjacent to the Orpheum Theatre. According to the 1955 Broadcasting Yearbook, both the AM and TV stations were co-located in the Foshay Tower.
The call sign was changed to KEVE in June 1956, and the studios moved to the station's transmitter and antenna site at 917 Lilac Drive in Golden Valley. During that time, the station played country music. KEVE-FM (92.5 FM) signed on September 1, 1962, and by October 1963, it was given the call letters KADM to match its AM sister as the pair became known as "Adam and Eve in the Valley"; the city of license for the two stations is the suburb of Golden Valley. A gradual shift from country music to a mix of classical music, show tunes and adult standards began in 1960, and was completed on both stations by March 1963. On December 1, 1964, the call letters for both stations became KQRS for "Quality Radio Stations".
In 1967, the stations began experimenting with freeform rock music from midnight to 5 am every night via the "Night Watch" program, playing R&B, jazz and psychedelic rock. The foray proved successful, and by the end of 1968, it became the full-time format.
The two KQs were a simulcast until 1982, when the AM briefly switched to an oldies format as KGLD before returning to the simulcast. The KGLD calls became effective November 22, 1982, with the KQRS calls returning on March 28, 1984.
In 1985, ABC Radio Network, then a division of the original ABC, Inc. bought the station and its FM counterpart with it from Hudson Communications Corporation, a radio broadcasting company owned by Washington D.C. lawyer Joe McKenna, which owned the station from 1956 to 1985. Along with its FM sister, the acquisition was ABC's first foray into Minnesota broadcasting.
The station again broke away from the simulcast on November 18, 1996, at 4 am, this time permanently, when it became one of the first four affiliates of the new Radio Disney with a children's/contemporary hit radio format that competed with WWTC, then the flagship station of "Radio AAHS", which had its own children's format. The station's call letters changed to KDIZ on November 15.
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KYCR (AM)
KYCR (1440 kHz) is an AM radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It is owned by Salem Media Group, and is carrying a business radio format.
KYCR's studios are located in Eagan, while its transmitter is located in Golden Valley.
The original call letters were KEYD and the station played country music for many years. The station was launched in May 1948 by former management and advertisers of WDGY, who had become disenchanted with the owners of that station over the discontinuance of religious programming. Family Broadcasting basically started the station as a new home for the spurned WDGY programming. KEYD got a sister TV station in 1955, KEYD-TV (now KMSP-TV), and the two stations were co-owned by Family Broadcasting until mid-1956. The original KEYD radio studios were located in downtown Minneapolis on 9th Street off of Hennepin Avenue adjacent to the Orpheum Theatre. According to the 1955 Broadcasting Yearbook, both the AM and TV stations were co-located in the Foshay Tower.
The call sign was changed to KEVE in June 1956, and the studios moved to the station's transmitter and antenna site at 917 Lilac Drive in Golden Valley. During that time, the station played country music. KEVE-FM (92.5 FM) signed on September 1, 1962, and by October 1963, it was given the call letters KADM to match its AM sister as the pair became known as "Adam and Eve in the Valley"; the city of license for the two stations is the suburb of Golden Valley. A gradual shift from country music to a mix of classical music, show tunes and adult standards began in 1960, and was completed on both stations by March 1963. On December 1, 1964, the call letters for both stations became KQRS for "Quality Radio Stations".
In 1967, the stations began experimenting with freeform rock music from midnight to 5 am every night via the "Night Watch" program, playing R&B, jazz and psychedelic rock. The foray proved successful, and by the end of 1968, it became the full-time format.
The two KQs were a simulcast until 1982, when the AM briefly switched to an oldies format as KGLD before returning to the simulcast. The KGLD calls became effective November 22, 1982, with the KQRS calls returning on March 28, 1984.
In 1985, ABC Radio Network, then a division of the original ABC, Inc. bought the station and its FM counterpart with it from Hudson Communications Corporation, a radio broadcasting company owned by Washington D.C. lawyer Joe McKenna, which owned the station from 1956 to 1985. Along with its FM sister, the acquisition was ABC's first foray into Minnesota broadcasting.
The station again broke away from the simulcast on November 18, 1996, at 4 am, this time permanently, when it became one of the first four affiliates of the new Radio Disney with a children's/contemporary hit radio format that competed with WWTC, then the flagship station of "Radio AAHS", which had its own children's format. The station's call letters changed to KDIZ on November 15.
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