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KMUS

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KMUS (1380 AM) is a Spanish-language radio station licensed to Sperry, Oklahoma, and serving the Tulsa metropolitan area. It is owned by Radio Las Américas, LLC. KMUS airs a mix of Spanish language hits and talk shows, some of which are paid brokered programming.

KMUS
Broadcast areaTulsa metropolitan area
Frequency1380 kHz (HD Radio)
Branding1380 AM Radio Las Américas
Programming
Format
Ownership
Owner
  • Grupo Teletul
  • (Radio Las Américas, LLC)
History
First air date
July 3, 1948; 76 years ago (1948-07-03)
Former call signs
KLUE (1987–1990)
Call sign meaning
Muskogee (former city of license)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID25129
ClassB
Power
  • 7,000 watts (day)
  • 250 watts (night)
Translator(s)102.7 K274CX (Tulsa)
Repeater(s)1490 KBIX (Muskogee)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen live
Websitewww.lasamericas1380am.com

By day, KMUS is powered at 7,000 watts. To protect other stations on 1380 AM from interference, it uses a directional antenna with a six-tower array.[2] At night, it reduces power to only 250 watts. Programming is heard around the clock on low-power FM translator K274CX at 102.7 MHz in Tulsa.[3]

History

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KMUS began broadcasting in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on July 3, 1948.[4] It changed to KLUE on July 25, 1987, with a format of crossover country. Three years later, the call sign reverted to KMUS and the station aired an adult standards format.

Sometime in the 1990s, the station began airing programming from the "Children's Satellite Network", which was dropped in March 1998.[5] Reunion Broadcasting, LLC sold KMUS to The Walt Disney Company on March 10, 2004. Its transmitter site and city of license was relocated to Sperry, Oklahoma, and the format changed to another children's radio network, Radio Disney.

Disney took KMUS, and five other stations slated to be sold, off the air on January 22, 2010.[6][7] After the first attempt to sell the station fell through, a deal to sell KMUS to Radio Las Americas LLC was announced in February 2011.[8]

Radio Las Américas returned the station to the air on April 29 with a Spanish-language popular music format, along with two newscasts a day (which are audio-only versions of the newscasts on sister television station KXAP-LD).[9][10][11]

Translator

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Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class FCC info
K274CX 102.7 MHz FM Tulsa, Oklahoma 140408 99 54 m (177 ft) D LMS

References

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  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KMUS". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Radio-Locator.com/KMUS
  3. ^ Radio-Locator.com/W274CX
  4. ^ "KMUS in Muskogee Underway with 1 KW" (PDF). Broadcasting. July 19, 1949. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  5. ^ Format Changes & Updates", The M-Street Journal. Vol. 15 No. 9. March 4, 1998. p. 1. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
  6. ^ "Radio Disney Takes Six Stations Silent". All Access. January 28, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
  7. ^ Zucker, John W (January 26, 2010). "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
  8. ^ "Radio Disney continues its selloff of medium-market stations: Tulsa's KMUS/1380". Radio-Info.com. February 18, 2011. Archived from the original on February 23, 2011. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
  9. ^ Arnold, Kyle (April 26, 2011). "Tulsa to get fourth Spanish-language radio station". Tulsa World. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
  10. ^ Arnold, Kyle (April 30, 2011). "Radio Las Americas latest Spanish-language station". Tulsa World. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
  11. ^ Grinter, Jeff (April 29, 2011). "New Hispanic Radio Station On The Air". KTUL.com. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
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