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KKSU was a radio station in Manhattan, Kansas from 1924 to 2002. It broadcast on the AM dial at 580 kHz. The station owned by Kansas State University and operated by (K-State Research and Extension ), with studios and transmitter on KSU's campus in Manhattan. At the time it signed off for good, it was part of one of the last shared-time frequencies in the United States. ==History== KKSU signed on for the first time on December 1, 1924 as KSAC. The call letters came from Kansas State's name at the time, Kansas State Agricultural College. It originally broadcast at 500 watts at 880 kHz. The station was one of the first of several AM stations signed on by Midwestern land-grant colleges in the early days of broadcasting, among them Iowa State's WOI, Iowa's WSUI, Michigan State's WKAR and North Dakota's KUND. The school's extension agents saw radio as a natural extension of the school's agricultural services. In 1928, it moved to 580 kHz. A year later, Senator Arthur Capper, publisher of Topeka's daily newspaper, the ''Topeka Daily Capital,'' asked Kansas State to share the 580 frequency with his new station, WIBW. Kansas State agreed, realizing that it could not afford to stay on the air for 24 hours a day. In 1948, KSAC boosted its broadcasting power to 5,000 watts, matching its commercial partner. Due to its location on the lower end of the AM dial, this gave it coverage of most of the state. KSAC wanted to change its calls to KKSU in 1984--almost 30 years after gaining university status. However, a mothballed Merchant Marine ship owned those calls and wasn't willing to give them up. As a stopgap, the station changed its calls to KEXT (Kansas EXTension) on July 26, but continued efforts to get its preferred calls. Finally, it was able to get the KKSU calls on July 30. By the mid-1990s, KKSU was on the air from 12:30 pm to 5:30 pm Central Time every weekday, airing livestock reports, agricultural updates, and news programming. 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「KKSU (defunct)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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