KSL-FM

Radio station in Utah, United States
40°39′34″N 112°12′5″W / 40.65944°N 112.20139°W / 40.65944; -112.20139Repeater(s)1160 AM KSL (Salt Lake City)Links
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KSL-FM (102.7 FM), branded "KSL Newsradio", is a commercial radio station licensed to Midvale, Utah and serving the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The station is owned by Bonneville International, a broadcasting subsidiary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

KSL-FM shares studios with KSL (AM) and sister television station KSL-TV in the Broadcast House building at the Triad Center in downtown Salt Lake City. The KSL-FM transmitter site is located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City.

Programming

KSL-FM broadcasts a format of all-news during key hours on weekdays and talk programming the rest of the time. Its progamming is simulcast on AM 1160 by KSL. KSL-FM also carries the Latter-day Saints Channel over its HD3 subchannel.[2]

Weekdays

Once a month during non-election cycles (usually on the last Thursday of the month), the Governor of Utah has airtime on the station for a "Let Me Speak to the Governor" segment, where calls are taken from constituents, with the governor answering questions and concerns.

Weekends

Programming airing on weekends includes KSL Outdoors, The KSL Greenhouse Show, Cougar Sports Saturday, The Movie Show Matinee, Best of The Doug Wright Show, Meet The Press, Ric Edelman as well as numerous LDS religious shows and paid programming.

KSL was the flagship station of Brigham Young University's football and men's basketball teams until BYU Radio took over the duties in 2017. KSL remains an affiliate for those teams though. Commentary for football games is provided by Greg Wrubell, the "Voice of the Cougars".

Due to its affiliation with the LDS Church, KSL-FM, along with its television counterparts and other LDS-affiliated outlets in Utah, airs simulcasts of the General Conferences, held twice a year during April and October.

On Sunday mornings, the station airs its longest-running show, Music and the Spoken Word, a weekly broadcast of The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square which is also syndicated nationwide via CBS Radio and television. Continuously airing since 1929, originally over KSL, it is one of the longest-running radio programs in the world, and one of only two radio shows to be inaugurated into the National Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame, along with the Grand Ole Opry.[3]

On Sunday mornings and evenings for 22 years, the station has broadcast "Religion Today" with host Martin Tanner, which focuses on Christian and Jewish history and doctrine.

History

KSL Radio studios are located in the Triad Center in Salt Lake City.

KSL-FM was first licensed, as KQMB, in 1985. The call letters referenced its ownership by "Quarry Mountain Broadcasting". In 1998, the station was sold to Simmons Family Inc. for $3,425,000.[4]

In September 2005, the station began simulcasting KSL,[5] and changed its call letters to KSL-FM.[6] The joint operation was branded as "KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM & 1160 AM", though at this time the AM signal was considered the main station. KQMB's former branding, call sign, and hot adult contemporary format were picked up by an unrelated company as 96.7 FM in Levan, Utah..

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References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KSL-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "HD Radio Stations".
  3. ^ NAB Radio Hall of Fame Inductees, National Association of Broadcasters. Retrieved March 28, 2007.
  4. ^ "Transaction Digest" by Jack Messmer and Dave Seyler, Radio Business Report, January 19, 1998, page 19
  5. ^ "KSL NewsRadio to Be Heard on FM", September 2, 2005 (KSL.com)
  6. ^ "Call Sign History" (Facility ID #54156) (FCC.gov)
  • Official website
  • Facility details for Facility ID 54156 (KSL-FM) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
  • KSL-FM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
  • FCC History Cards for KFSI (was KSL-FM from 1943 to 1978)
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