KGIM (AM)

Last updated
KGIM
Frequency 1420 kHz
BrandingFox Sports Aberdeen 1420 AM and 98.5 FM
Programming
Format Sports
Affiliations Fox Sports Radio
Minnesota Twins
Ownership
Owner
  • Hub City Radio
  • (Prairie Winds Broadcasting, Inc.)
KBFO, KGIM-FM, KNBZ, KSDN, KSDN-FM
History
First air date
 1952 (as KABR)
Former call signs
KABR (1952–1980)
KDBQ (1980–1982) [1]
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 1172
Class B
Power 1,000 watts day
232 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 45°29′12″N98°29′50″W / 45.48667°N 98.49722°W / 45.48667; -98.49722
Translator(s) 98.5 K253AB (Aberdeen)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website KGIM Online

KGIM (1420 kHz, "FOX Sports Aberdeen 1420 AM and 98.5 FM") is an AM radio station licensed to serve Aberdeen, South Dakota. [3] The station is owned by Prairie Winds Broadcasting, Inc. It airs a sports format featuring programming from Fox Sports Radio. [4]

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The station was assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on June 16, 1982. [1]

KGIM-AM is the radio home for the Aberdeen Central Golden Eagles, Aberdeen Roncalli Cavaliers, Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Twins.

Ownership, history, and programming

First KABR

The first KABR began operations in 1935 from the sixth floor of the Alonzo Ward Hotel, with a transmitter on the roof of the building. [5] [6] By the late 1940s, the station was a Mutual affiliate with 5,000 watts of power on 1420 kHz. [7] [8]

On April 1, 1949, KABR ceased operations. The Mutual affiliate transferred to 930 KSDN, which had begun operations the year before and became the only radio station in Aberdeen. [9]

Second KABR

The second KABR was licensed on March 11, 1952, to Delbert T. Hunt, who had been the chief engineer at the first KABR. [7] It broadcast during the day on 1220 kHz with 1,000 watts of power. After Delbert Hunt died in 1956, the station was sold to the Yankton Broadcasting Co., which moved the station to 1420. The station was then sold twice in the span of five years, to Frank E. Fitzsimonds in 1959 and Transmedia in 1960. The station had a Top 40 format. Among the personalities on the station was Aberdeen native Wally Wingert, who began his career as a DJ at KABR while in high school. [10]

In 1980, Dakota Broadcasting bought KABR and changed the callsign to KDBQ.

As KGIM

Dakota Broadcasting sold KDBQ to Alrox, Inc., owned by Allen and Roxanne Rau, in 1982, with the callsign changing to KGIM on June 16 of that year. Rau instituted a full-service/country music format, including regular newscasts, live radio auctions, and other informational programming.

In mid-1996, KGIM was acquired from Allen Rau by Pheasant Country Broadcasting, owned by Robert E. Ingstad. [11] For numerous years, KGIM simulcasted programming with KQKD 1380 AM in Redfield, South Dakota. This simulcast was ended in the fall of 2004 due to the purchase of the five Clear Channel stations.

In the fall of 2004, as part of a reorganization by the Ingstad family, Aberdeen Radio Ranch Inc. (Robert J. Ingstad, co-president) agreed to acquire KGIM, KGIM-FM, KNBZ, and KQKD from Robert E. Ingstad (Pheasant Country Broadcasting). The transaction price was not disclosed. Later in the year, Aberdeen Radio Ranch’s Rob & Todd Ingstad of Valley City, ND signed an agreement to acquire five Clear Channel stations: KKAA AM, KSDN AM/FM, KBFO-FM, and KQAA-FM. Of the total of nine stations, three were then divested: KQAA-FM was sold to the Educational Media Foundation, while Family Stations acquired KKAA and KQKD. The studios were relocated from the Berkshire Plaza to a newly remodeled South Highway 281 building that houses the KSDN-AM/FM transmitters. KGIM’s format was changed to News/Talk and picked up some of the syndicated programs such as Ed Schultz, Rush Limbaugh, and Coast-To-Coast AM that were once carried on KKAA. This News/Talk format was disbanded January 2006 and replaced with solely ESPN Radio programming. [12]

In May 2006, Armada Media Corporation reached an agreement to acquire KBFO, KGIM, KGIM-FM, KNBZ, KSDN, and KSDN-FM from Aberdeen Radio Ranch for a reported $9.25 million. KGIM-AM retained its ESPN Radio programming. [13]

In January 2011 KGIM began airing broadcasts of Minnesota Twins & Minnesota Vikings games which were previously found on sister station KSDN (AM).

In February 2011, Armada Media-Aberdeen, Inc purchased FM translator 107.1, K296FW from Horizon Christian Fellowship for $9,000 and began a rebroadcast of KGIM (AM). [14] On November 1, 2013, Prairie Winds Broadcasting, Inc. reached an agreement to acquire KBFO, KGIM, KGIM-FM, KNBZ, KSDN, and KSDN-FM from Armada Media for $5.3 million. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KGIM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ↑ Bahr, Jeff (2006-01-26). "Changes coming to Aberdeen radio dial: More local shows, ESPN added; less political gabbers". Aberdeen American News.
  4. ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on 2010-03-01.
  5. ↑ Zemlicka, Mae (June 17, 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Alonzo Ward Hotel" (PDF). National Park Service. p. 3.
  6. ↑ Artz, Don (1991). The Town in the Frog Pond: Stories of Builders, Buildings and Business in Aberdeen's Commercial Historic District (PDF). Memories, Inc. p. 22.
  7. 1 2 Broadcasting Yearbook (PDF) (1949 ed.). Washington, D.C.: Broadcasting Publications. p. 238.
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  12. ↑ 2
  13. ↑ Bahr, Jeff (2006-05-13). "$9.25 million paid for six Aberdeen radio stations". Aberdeen American News.
  14. ↑ "FCC Application for Transfer of Control of a Corporate Licensee or Permittee, or for Assignment of License or Permit of TV or FM Translator Station or Low Power Television Station". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  15. ↑ "FCC Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
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