KSRR 1400 AM

AM broadcasting

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 is a radio station

Radio station

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 licensed to Provo, Utah

Provo, Utah

Provo is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the county seat of Utah County and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south...

. The station originates from a studio located in Orem, Utah

Orem, Utah

Orem is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, in the north-central part of the state. It is adjacent to Provo, Lindon, and Vineyard and is about south of Salt Lake City. Orem is one of the principal cities of the Provo-Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Utah and...

. Their format is primarily oldies

Oldies

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, but the station has also hosted some talk shows in the past and was the home of the BYU

BYU

-Education:* Brigham Young University, a university located in Provo, Utah, USA administered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.**BYU Salt Lake Center, a satellite center in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA...

 baseball broadcasts once they began conference play until KOVO

KOVO

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 920 AM and KBLQ 92.9 FM for the 2010 baseball season. In 2011 they began broadcasting sports for Utah Valley University for men's and women's basketball. KSRR also has a sister station on 96.7 FM

FM broadcasting

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 known as KQMB

KQMB

KQMB is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Levan, Utah, USA, the station serves the Provo/Salt Lake City area. The station is currently owned by Zeta Holdings, LLC....

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History

This station originally signed on as KCSU in 1947 and was owned and operated by Frank and Harold VanWagenen. The call sign changed to KIXX in the late 1950s. The VanWagenens operated the station until 1971 when it was sold, at which time it became a country music

Country music

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In 1976, the station was sold again, this time to country music singer and songwriter Whispering Bill Anderson of Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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. The call letters were changed to KFTN, which emphasized the dial position of 1400 ("FTN" was fourteen, abbreviated). While the station was owned by Bill Anderson, the official title of ownership was "Whisper Communications of Nashville, a division of Stallion Music." Stallion Music was Bill Anderson's music publishing company.

The station again sold in 1981, still playing country, and changed its calls to KXYC on 1985-03-01. From May 1, 1985, to January 1, 1995, the station played nonstop LDS music. After January of 1995, the station played show tune

Show tune

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s, and then settled on adult contemporary music

Adult contemporary music

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The station went to its present owner in 1986, while the station was still known as KXYC. Unfortunately, many listeners heard the call letters as KXYZ, so in 1987, the calls became the current KSRR. This last change took effect on 1987-10-01.

The call sign KSRR was previously used by an FM rock music

Rock music

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 station operating at 96.5 MHz in Houston, Texas, up until October 15, 1986. That station is currently known as KHMX-FM.

Signal

The station's signal reaches throughout Utah County and into southern Salt Lake County. It broadcasts 1,000 watt

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s in a non-directional pattern from a tower located in Provo, Utah

Provo, Utah

Provo is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the county seat of Utah County and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south...

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