KMUS is a Spanish-language radio station

Radio station

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 which serves the Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...

 market. KMUS broadcasts on 1380 kHz under ownership of Radio Las Americas LLC. Although the station can heard through much of the Tulsa area during the daytime

Daytime (astronomy)

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 hours, its night

Night

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time signal is limited to just 250 watt

Watt

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s, offering much weaker reception.

History

KMUS began broadcasting in Muskogee, Oklahoma

Muskogee, Oklahoma

Muskogee is a city in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the county seat of Muskogee County, and home to Bacone College. The population was 38,310 at the 2000 census, making it the eleventh-largest city in Oklahoma....

 in 1948. It changed to KLUE on July 25, 1987 with a format of crossover country

Country pop

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. Three years later, the call sign reverted to KMUS and the station aired an adult standards

Adult standards

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 format before Reunion Broadcasting, LLC sold it to The Walt Disney Company

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 in 2004. Its transmitter site and city of license was relocated to Sperry, Oklahoma

Sperry, Oklahoma

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, and the format changed to the company's Radio Disney

Radio Disney

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 offering.

Disney took KMUS, and five other stations slated to be sold, off the air on January 22, 2010. 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. Radio Las Americas 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).