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(main AM antenna) (auxiliary AM antenna) (FM) }} KSL NewsRadio is a pair of radio stations located in Salt Lake City, Utah, which includes the original AM station KSL (1160 kHz at 50,000 watts) and the FM station KSL-FM (102.7 MHz, licensed to Midvale). Owned by Bonneville International (a broadcasting company ultimately owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), the stations share studios with sister television station KSL-TV in the Broadcast House building at the Triad Center in downtown Salt Lake City. KSL's AM signal reaches most of the western US at night, as well as some areas in western Canada. The KSL AM transmitter is located west of Salt Lake City International Airport, while the KSL-FM transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City. Both KSL's AM and FM feeds broadcast in HD Radio; KSL-FM carries the Mormon Channel over its HD2 subchannel.〔http://www.hdradio.com/stations〕 ==History== KSL is Utah's oldest radio station and was originally designated with the call letters KZN. KSL/KZN began life as the radio arm of the ''Deseret News'', a Salt Lake City newspaper also owned by the LDS Church. The station's first broadcast aired on May 6, 1922 in the form of a talk by then-LDS Church president Heber J. Grant. In 1924 the station was sold to John Cope and his father, F.W. Cope, who formed the Radio Service Corporation of Utah. Earl J. Glade (later a four-term mayor of Salt Lake City) joined the station in 1925 and guided KSL's operations for the next fourteen years. John F. Fitzpatrick, publisher of ''The Salt Lake Tribune'' (owned by the Kearns Corporation) acquired a quarter interest of KSL for a modest price, and did the LDS Church. This was the Tribune's first business partnership with the LDS Church, though the Church later acquired full interest in the station.〔O. N. Malmquist, ''The First 100 Years: A History of the Salt Lake Tribune'', Utah State Historical Society, 1971, pp 388〕 In 1924, it changed its call letters to KFPT for one year and then adopted its current call letters in 1925 after they became available, with the "S" and "L" standing for "Salt Lake." (Until that time the KSL call sign had been used by a radio station in Alaska.) A series of power boosts over the next decade brought the station to its current 50,000 watts (daytime broadcast power) in 1932, with a 50,000-watt transmitter being dedicated October 22 of that year. It spent time at several frequencies over the years before settling at 1160 kHz in 1941. Currently, KSL's AM signal can be heard across nearly all of Utah during the day, and in much of the western part of North America at night. Soon after becoming a clear-channel station, KSL joined the CBS Radio Network. It remained with CBS until 2005, when it switched to ABC News Radio. The station would also gain a television counterpart in 1949, the CBS affiliate KSL-TV Channel 5. (KSL-TV switched to NBC in 1995 after KUTV Channel 2 came under the ownership of CBS, following its acquisition by Westinghouse). The station's owners made their initial foray into FM broadcasting in 1947 when they started the original KSL-FM on the then sparsely-populated FM band at 100.3. After simulcasting KSL for a number of years, the FM station switched to a ''beautiful music'' format, a contrast to the then-current KSL format of news and commentary interspersed with middle of the road music. The FM station was sold to a private owner in the mid-1970s due to FCC regulations on multiple station ownership, since greatly relaxed. The station, now the Adult Contemporary KSFI, was bought back by Bonneville Communications in 2003, along with classic rock station KRSP-FM (103.5) and then-Hot AC KQMB-FM (102.7). In the mid-1980s KSL adopted an all-talk format, completely dropping music programming, aside from its Sunday broadcasts of the Tabernacle Choir. On September 3, 2005, KQMB was converted to a simulcast of KSL, with the call sign changed to KSL-FM. The station's former branding, call sign, and Hot AC format were later picked up an unrelated station licensed to Levan on 96.7 FM. 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「KSL (radio)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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