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KCMO (710 AM) is a Kansas City area conservative talk radio station. Owned by Cumulus Media, the station's studios are located in Mission, Kansas, and the transmitter is in the city's Northeast side. It airs mostly syndicated talk shows as those hosted by (Ramsey )], Michael Savage, and [he station's live morning show features an evangelical preacher named Greg Knapp who regularly quotes scripture. It was formerly affiliated with the CBS Radio Network, but then switched to Fox News Radio. KCMO originally 810 AM, but switched frequencies wi WHB in October 1998. There are many opinions about how the switch from CBS to FOX hurt the station. Some opinions include suggestions fr for management, the move aimed to reduce commercial placements. The station started in 1925 by Wilson Duncan Broadcasting on 1370 AM as KWKC. In 1936 it changed its call sign to KCMO (Kansas City Missouri). In 1939 it moved to 1450 AM and then 1480 AM. In September 1947 it moved to 810 AM.〔http://www.fybush.com/sites/2005/site-051202.html Kansas City's KCMO, WHB and KCXL〕 Walter Cronkite was a sports announcer at the station in 1936 with the on air name of "Walter Wilcox".〔''The Duh Awards: In This Stupid World, We Take the Prize'' By Bob Fenster p. 176 Andrews McMeel Publishing (April 1, 2005) ISBN 0-7407-5021-6〕 He met his wife, Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, there and left to become a reporter for United Press International. In 1953 the television station KCMO-TV was launched. 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 FM. In 1978 Meredith build a new facility for its broadcasting stations in Fairway, Kansas. The radio stations were spun off from the television station in 1983. Later, the TV station changed its call letters to KCTV. (Meredith continues to own KCTV to this day.) That year, Richard Fairbanks (a one-time owner of what is today WXIA-TV in Atlanta, Georgia) bought both of the KCMO radio stations. The stations were then sold to the Summit Communications Group in 1985, then to the Gannett Company in 1986. Bonneville International, the then-owner of KMBZ and KLTH (now KZPT), acquired both KCMO stations in 1993. Four years later, Bonneville sold its entire Kansas City cluster plus three radio stations in Seattle, Washington to Entercom Communications. On October 3, 1998, shortly after Entercom assumed control of the KCMO stations, KCMO-AM swapped frequencies with WHB, with KCMO assuming its present-day 710 AM position. Due to the way the switch was structured, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) considers KCMO to be legally the same station as the old WHB. In 2000, Entercom was forced to sell both KCMO stations to Susquehanna Radio after its purchase of Sinclair Broadcasting's Kansas City properties (KQRC-FM, KXTR-FM and KCIY) left it two stations over the FCC's single-market ownership limit. Cumulus Media acquired the stations in 2006 with its acquisition of Susquehanna. When Cumulus assumed control of the station in mid-2006, local morning host Van Patrick quit on air, apparently upset over the firing of his producer as well as many others in the building and during a national purge of Cumulus employees. On September 12, the station began a new morning show, hosted by Chris Stigall. Stigall has since left the station and Greg Knapp is now the morning host. The morning show can be heard from 5am-9am Monday through Friday. On April 30, 2012 KCMO-AM began simulcasting on FM translator K279BI 103.7 FM via KCFX-HD2. That simulcast ended January 2, 2013. ==Former hosts== * Don Harrison * Rusty Humphries * Rick Roberts * Chris Baker * Claudia Lamb * Scott Mayman * Kevin Harlan * Conrad Dobler * Wayne Larrivee * Harold Ensley 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「KCMO (AM)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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