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KCKN was one of the oldest commercial radio stations in the United States and played a significant role in the development of the broadcasting industry. KCKN 1340 AM and KCKN-FM 94.1 were on the air from 1925 until 2000. It was the third radio station to go on the air in Kansas in November 1925. KCKN was one of the first five radio stations to serve the metropolitan Kansas City (MO/KS) media market.〔 Jack Lester's reference 1 to Trade Publication, "Broadcasting Yearbook"〕 (KCKN 1020 AM, Roswell, NM, now uses the call letters, but has no connection to the original Kansas station.) ==History== Entrepreneur and businessman Everett L. Dillard is the individual credited with putting KCKN-AM on the air. The first call letters were WLBF. Dillard began broadcasting from his personal residence. The station's first studio/office location was on the 11th floor of the elegant Elks Lodge Building (905 North 7th Street) in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The building was last known as the Huron Building and was demolished in 1999. Dillard went bankrupt in the Great Depression. A Wyandotte County District Court Judge granted ownership of the radio station to Alexander Mainland and Herbert Hollister in 1930.〔Clipping file, "Kansas Room", Kansas City, Kansas Public Library.〕 On November 13, 1935, the station was sold to Kansas U.S. Senator Arthur A. Capper who also owned the daily newspaper, ''The Kansas City Kansan.'' Capper's other related properties were the ''Topeka Daily Capital'', the ''Topeka State Journal'' and WIBW Radio, all in Topeka. Capper purchased the radio station to promote the ''Kansan'' and to give him a piece of the growing Greater Kansas City advertising market. When Capper acquired the property, it operated at 1420 Kilocycles.〔Clipping file, "Kansas Room", Kansas City, Kansas (66101) Public Library〕 The Capper organization moved the station one block west into the offices of ''The Kansas City Kansan'' at 901 North 8th Street. A new, self-supporting 186-foot box-tower was erected atop the three-story building. On Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1936, the call letters were officially changed to ''KCKN'', which were derived from the letters in the name of the newspaper and the initials of its city of license.〔 It was moved from 1420 kilocycles on the AM band to 1310 kilocycles, non-directional, with a power of 250 watts. It was on the air daily between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. The newspaper reported the station could be heard up to 300 miles away from Kansas City, Kansas with the new broadcast equipment and a higher tower. In 1941, under the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement, KCKN Radio was moved to 1340 AM kilocycles, a frequency that is assigned to Kansas City, Kansas, to this day. (Now KDTD.)〔 from the clipping file in "Kansas Room" of Kansas City, Kansas Public Library (Jack Lester's reference 1 to Microfilms/KCKansan newspaper)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KCKN (defunct)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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