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KYAL-FM is a radio station

Radio station

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licensed

City of license

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to serve 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....

. The station is owned by KMMY, Inc. It airs a Sports radio

Sports radio

Sports radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A popular format with an almost exclusively male demographic in most areas, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both hosts and...

format.
As KMMY, this station was known as "Y97, Today's Hot New Country" and aired a country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

format. Notable on-air personalities included disk jockey Gary Walker and weather forecaster Don Woods

Don Woods (meteorologist)

Don Woods was an American meteorologist, and became Oklahoma's first television weatherman with a degree in meteorology. He started his Oklahoma career in 1954 on Tulsa's ABC affiliate television station, KTUL...

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The station was assigned the KYAL-FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

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on April 3, 2006

2006 in radio

The year 2006 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.-Events:*January 3 - The BJ Shea Morning Experience switches to KISW in Seattle, Washington, from the former FM Talk station KKWF....

. The station flipped from country music to all-sports on 2006-04-17 when the "Sports Animal" format moved from KYAL (AM)

KYAL (AM)

KYAL is a Sports radio formatted radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and licensed to serve Sapulpa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Michael Perry Stephens.-History:...

to KYAL-FM.