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KKMS (980 AM) is a Salem Communications-owned radio station licensed to Richfield, Minnesota, United States and serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Studios are located in Eagan, Minnesota. They are co-owned with WWTC and KYCR. The station programs a Christian-based religious format primarily featuring ministry personnel and preachers such as John MacArthur, Alistair Begg, James Dobson, J. Vernon McGee and Tom Shrader. Other individuals may also lease air time on the station. Other hosts such as Hank Hanegraaff and Janet Parshall provide more interactive programming. The station produces its own afternoon show, The Word of Truth which is hosted by Pastor Brad Brandon. This show has replaced "KKMS Live! with Jeff and Lee." Several other shows are locally produced, such as ''Understanding the Times'' with Jan Markell and ''The Christian World View with David Wheaton. ==History== After two years of wrangling and obtaining start-up funds, WPBC officially signed on the air on October 18, 1949. The station was owned by the People's Broadcasting Company, founded by former WCCO announcer Bill Stewart and his wife Becky Ann. In contrast to WCCO and KSTP, WPBC carried no network programming, and were live and local all day. The station in the early years played a variety of middle of the road pop music and standards, and was even considered an innovator in the concept of singing jingles. As they were limited by their then-daytime only license at 980 AM, they started up WPBC-FM at 101.3 MHz in August 1959, simulcasting the AM station. The Stewarts sold the station in 1972 to Fairchild Industries for $1.5 million. Fairchild subsequently dismissed the entire staff and overhauled both stations. On November 3, 1972, the AM station was relaunched as WYOO, picking up an oldies format (with rock and roll included).〔http://books.google.com/books?id=NQ8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA48&dq=WPBC&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=WPBC&f=false〕 A few days later, WPBC-FM became WRAH and programmed an automated album oriented rock format. When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. Fairchild contemplated selling the station. The general manager and program director, both hired from established Top 40 station KDWB, felt a major change needed to be made. 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「KKMS」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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